One hand in my pocket

 

"Hey, now, don't be so blue," Rafe touched KC's shoulder as he contemplated going into the coffee shop.  "Let me buy you a coffee."

Rafe looked KC over. Usually, they kept their distance because of Ruby, but she hadn't been mad at KC for some time now. Rafe was still friends with him, in spite of the past. Even though he knew why Ruby's first love was KC, the dude was cool. He could be slumming and still master the walk of being his total self, no matter what. No matter how much trouble it was with Millie being sick with morning sickness.

"So how's it going?" He asked KC when they found a seat at the coffee bar.

"Oh, you know." KC yawned with a shrug. He looked slimmer than usual, and his hair was getting shaggy. 

"Yeah, you're still a long way from the finish line," Rafe nodded. "She's still having trouble sleeping?

"Uh-huh." KC was doing a few gigs these days. His boss was finding a way for him to have a side gig when he wasn't working at the recording studio. But the venues were close, and only on Friday nights. KC stretched then as if he'd just got out of bed, and his long fingers bumped the wood of the bar accidentally. He made a face of aggravated pain. "God, I'm getting old."

"You're not any older than me." Rafe's bright eyes glared back as he stirred his coffee with a little cream. KC drank his straight up black as if that was the only way to take it. 

"Yeah, well, these days are making me feel old. There just isn't enough time. I can't keep the place clean. I feel I'm at the grocery store all the time buying groceries. And that alone can be horrifying."

"But aren't your parents and her parents helping you guys?" Rafe looked at him as if it could be worse.

"Yeah, they do, but then she snarls her nose up about my dad's cooking or the bottled water her mother bought."

"She is sensitive. Probably just as sensitive as Ruby."

"Yeah, you got that right," KC agreed as he rubbed sleep from his eyes. "We're really into real food, you know. None of that packaged stuff." KC said it took longer to complete prepping. "But you know.."

"Never-ending is what it is."

KC chuckled at Rafe's remark.