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Lussi's mouth hung slightly open, the chewed up straw dangling limply against her bottom lip, as Abb took his anger out on a nearby chair. The mood was heightened by his rage influenced loud music, but the melody brought other meaning to Lussi’s ears, even as she strained to drown out the thumping bass. Outside she could still see the lost looking blur of Josh, as melting into the pavement he trudged about on his break. She shook her head in disbelief that he had preferred to take a break in the rain rather than subdue the noise rape inside. The chair screamed as it was thrown, but barely loud enough to be heard over the music. Lussi plugged her ears and shouted to Abb, but her voice, let alone inaudible to those in the café, was barely a muffled vibration in her own ears. She spat out the chewed and twisted straw and marched over to Abb.
In a moment of sheer desperation she threw her arms around him, taking him prisoner and holding him firmly by the sides of his arms. For a second, during which if you blinked you would have missed it, a different expression surrendered behind Lussi irises as she found herself face to face, almost entirely inside Abb’s bubble. Lussi briskly regained control of her facial expressions and hands still holding him firm she stepped back into her own comfortable space before, with a roll of her dark eyes gestured that the ear burning music was not such a good idea. Then she leant over to his left ear, pressing her breath against his skin, her lips almost so close that his skin would imagine their touch, her chin lightly resting on his shoulder for a brief moment.

"ARE YOU FUCKING DEAF?!"

Lussi screamed deeply and painfully against the side of his face before releasing him. Lussi turned away and walked lazily off towards the back room as if nothing had just happened. She was hoping the sound wouldn’t be as ear piercing at the back in the Tatoo parlor. Thought the flimsy poster pasted walls that separated it from the café area didn’t look to be very convincing sound filters. Before she disappeared through the curtained door way she turned and winked at Abb, hoping that experiencing close deafness wouldn't blind him from her true feelings for him, a bubbling sensation of success shimmering over her, how she loved to tease and pick on him. She chuckled and clicked her fingers, swinging her wrist to the music, glancing over to Aaron as he played along to the song with the cashier bells and noises.

Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me

"Destiny is calling me…" She sang the line aloud, throwing her arms dramatically as if praising the parlor’s entrance and gradually healing from her earlier spat, a new fire of creativity building in her bones. As she moved further from the stereo the music did drop a little in volume, but not enough, she wandered for a moment how low the Dulcet cafe would fall, and whether the next customer of the day would be the pigs.