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♡ Morning Shifts ♡

Heyy guys! Long time no see. I've had this idea a long time back and made a draft on this. Finally after like 2 years, I am finally publishing this lol. I hope you guys like this, make sure to leave some feedback;)

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Sykkuno hated  his morning shifts. Although Sykkuno was sure that as much as he  hated it, Rae and Poki probably hated it even more. Felix was off on a vacation at Italy, Charlie had called in sick yesterday and Dave had just quit last week so Scarra needed three people to fill in on the morning shift with Jack.

Don't get him wrong, he loves his job, working with a small crew of employees who were his friends was really fun but the thing is, he just didn't like getting up early.

It was so early in fact, that the sun wasn't even up yet when he parked his car outside the back door of the shop.

MIRA was a small tea shop sitting just on the outskirts of L.A. It was a cozy and homey place and he actually liked his boss. Scarra was a nice guy and a fair manager even if he was the one who reassigned him to the morning shift which was incredibly last minute.

God, he was so  tired this morning. Honestly, Sykkuno felt like he was ready to fall asleep standing up. Maybe staying up past 3 am last night playing Minecraft was a bad idea.

Sykkuno sighed and hung up his jacket in the back room, reaching over to plug in the coffeemaker sitting on a small table. He may work in a tea shop but sometimes a nice cup of coffee really hits the spot. Thankfully, Jack had set up his own mini coffee station in the back room a few years ago and it was really coming in handy today.

He finished pouring out the coffee into three cups just when Rae and Poki were slipping in through the back door.

As anticipated, they looked just as tired as he was so he gestured them at the two extra cups on the table.

"Thanks Sykkuno.", Poki said, draining half the cup of near-boiling hot coffee in one gulp and handing the other to Rae.

Rae made a muffled noise of agreement and Sykkuno gave them a nod and stepped out to the front where Jack was already setting up the register.

It was way too early for this, he could have handled the rush hour flow of customers only if he hadn't hadthis slow, tired crawling pace. He should have asked Scarra to find someone else but then he didn't want to be rude so he kept quiet.

"Oh, he's a bit late today.", Jack said, interrupting Sykkuno's internal lamenting over his life.

"Wow.", thought Sykkuno, taking another drink of his coffee. "This accent sure is stronger in the morning."

Then he registered what his friend was actually saying and turned to look where Jack was staring. "What? Who?"

"Corpse Husband.", Jack declared, squinting at a dark hooded figure approaching the cafe doors.

"Corpse Husband?", Rae asked, coming over to them to look out at the door as well.

Poki tilted her head in thought, "I think Dave talked about someone with that name before."

Jack nodded, "It's how Felix, Charlie and I met him. He's been coming to MIRA almost every week since forever, even way before Dave started working here. And since none of you really did morning shift before, you wouldn't have met him."

"He always comes in the morning then?", asked Sykkuno, taking another sip of his coffee.

"Right when the shop opens.", Jack confirmed.

"That's honestly impressive.", said Poki, picking up a stack of cups and moving them to the front of the counter. "I hate getting up this early. Props to him."