DREAMING || YOONMIN [COMPLETE]

40: Evening Shift

Time passed on, and as it so happened, Jimin didn't experience any issues. Not with the certain boy he had been avoiding, not with Jeongguk, not with Taehyung, who had visited a few times to say the occasional hello.

Especially not since he had gotten a new job during this time.

It wasn't the highest paying job in the world, but he did have to say that it was better than nothing at all. Though it crowded into his breaktime, and now when he went back to university all of his homework and things to do, he wasn't regretting the decision that he had made on a whim. Ryujin certainly wasn't either, since she had been able to take more breaks, having Jimin fill in for her missed shifts.

Jimin's favorite thing to do at the register was guess the orders that someone might fill in, or guess what the first thing they were going to say was. He was often wrong, but it didn't matter.

Sometimes, Jeongguk came to visit him on his breaks, and he'd seen a few people he'd known, which was nice to know their orders and get to interact with more students that he hadn't talked to before. Most of them he didn't have to talk to more than once a week.

A lot of them were also extremely friendly and kind.

It hadn't crossed his mind that something else might happen in his new job, something concerning a boy who had just decided that he wanted coffee and had expected to see the familiar blue-haired girl that was normally there closing up.

But it was Jimin, and he was finishing cleaning up his space for the extra shift that he had taken that evening when he caught sight of him, standing outside the doorway before opening the door. The bell chimes made a soft chiming noise amongst the silence that surrounded the area.

It was quite surprising because he had thought that business was done for today.

He had to do a double take to make sure that he had seen the right person, because that boy with the fluffy brown hair who had been the very cause of his anxiety and sometimes the cause that he couldn't sleep at night was definitely not walking in at their closing hours.

But no, that was him. That was Min Yoongi.

How did they always have a habit of bumping into each other?

Jimin ducked his head low and waved him in, not wanting to take his order, and kept brushing off the imaginary pieces of trash that he wished were there to save him from dealing with this customer. Alas, he still had to deal with Min Yoongi as he tapped the bell on the counter several times and he cleared his throat.

"Hi," Yoongi breathed out, and Jimin almost choked because he hadn't heard his voice in so long. "You dyed your hair again?"

Jimin nodded at him.

"So, I'll—" Yoongi started, but Jimin tuned out.

To be completely honest, he had forgotten all about apologizing like he should've, since he was so focused on other things. It was a wonder that they were all alone in the quiet, but he guessed it would've been more awkward to try and talk to him if they had more company.

Thankfully, this was not a night that Yoongi would end up bumping into Jeongguk, so he had no reason to hurry himself along. Jimin could deal with the bombardment of questions from the younger boy later in the evening.

"—did you get that?"

Jimin stared at him like a deer in the headlights, wanting to lie that he had, indeed, received his order, but only because he didn't want to get into a conversation about what happened even when he knew that it was unavoidable. Yoongi was here again, and he was going to have to explain what happened.