To some extent you cant deny Tea.

Steep 0:
Lucy's eyes started around the small tea shop that bordered alphabet city. "Where is the music. This place needs music"
"What is a tea pet? What is it for?"
"What tea is good for health? I want to be healthy"
"This is kinda boring"

A Hou Kui was ordered and the first brew poured.

Steep 1:
"I dont like toasted teas" She said pausing after her first cup. "They taste like urine to me. Im sorry is that rude?" I laughed and said no not at all, trying to ignore the fact my tea now kinda reminded me of urine.
"You know what this reminds me of?" She said pausing to think, searching through her memory bank. I prayed she wouldn't say urine.
"It reminds me of home" She proceeded to tell me a story of her time in Korea whens she went to a tea farm and tried teas whose nuttyness reminded her of pee.

Steep 2:
"It's so weird that this made me think of home. I haven't thought about home in a long time" She was silent for a moment thinking about her past, as if looking at an old photo she had kept on the dusty mantle in her mind.

Steep 3:
"It's like I never get time to think about that sort of stuff anymore. Everything is rush, rush, rush."
"It's important to slow down. Nobody does that any more."

Steep 4:
"This place is so nice and quite. I want to take my girlfriends here. We go to starbucks but its always so rushed, and there is music playing and it's very impersonal."
"Oh my god look at the tea it's such a beautiful neon green."
"Aren't you glad there isn't any music playing" I said
"Yea I love it here."