Accidental Friends | A BTSxReader friendship fic

Chapter 39: Surprise!

Monday morning goes quite uneventfully other than the embarrassing videocall from my parents in which dad proceeded to sing congratulations with all the wrong words and mom hushing him so that he doesn't wake the neighbours – apparently, the house next door just had a baby. That and Hunnie who was clinging on my legs when I was about to go to work, claiming that I'm a monster for willingly be productive on my birthday. Aside from that, it's a normal morning with frequent yawns from the customer and an occasional formal-suit-attire walking in for caffeine armour before an intense battle at work. And I thought, this calmness is the typical cliched 'calm before the storm', a day of nothing, no surprises, no memorable happenings, all simply because of the insanity I'm sure Hunnie is going to release afterwards. The customers are getting fewer by the second and the shop is getting quieter. That is until the door swings casually open at twelve-thirty and a Kim Seokjin and a Min Suga walk in together.

"Chinggu!" Jin smiles excitedly and waves his hand as I look up from a random pattern on the wooden counter I've been gazing in boredom. And just like that, my boredom is obliterated. Something interesting is always going to happen whenever Jin and Suga-ssi pops up together, mainly because of their banter. I mirror his grin, starting to feel myself become excited too.

"Jin! Suga-ssi! Welcome back."

Without missing a beat, Jin turns to Suga-ssi and smirks. "You hear that Yoongi-chi? I'm Jin and you're a mister." I nod happily inside. I knew things are going to get interesting, and it's already starting.

Suga-ssi merely shrugs. "Y/n-ssi can call me whatever is comfortable for them."

"What do you want to be called as?"

"Anything. Doesn't really matter. Suga, Min Suga, Yoongi, Suga-ssi, Yoongi-ssi, Mr. Regular, genius, minstradamus, anything really."

"How about all of the above?"

"Great."

"You can refer to me as anything too, I don't really care all that much."

Jin shakes his head. "You people." I flash an innocent smile and remember what I was going to ask.

"So, Jin and Genius Regular-ssi—"

"It's actually either genius or Mr. Regular," Jin comments.

"Ignore Jin Hyung," he says straight-faced. I laugh.

"What's the occasion? Caffeine pump? Casual drink?"

"We actually got a couple of days off."

"What a miracle." Suga-ssi nods. "I'm not ready for drinks yet. Maybe a light snack? Yoongi would probably get coffee. Where's the snack option?" He searches around the menu on the counter and on the overhead board. I point to the board on the very left.

"That one." Oh, now that I look at it, is that a chip on the board? We need to repaint that.

"What's that, cake pop?"

Suga-ssi narrows his eyes. "Hyung, you don't know what cake pop is?"

"It's when kpop laughs, right? Keukeukeu—" He laughs brightly. "I know what a cake pop is, just want to make su—" Suga-ssi lets out a big sigh and gives him the saddest look of disappointment I've ever seen. "Yoong— Yoongi-ah, don't look at me like that. I'm sorry." Y/n, control your face. Control— My body starts trembling, dragging the chuckles out. Yeah. It's not happening. Please. No one can expect me not to laugh at this golden interaction. Jin looks so sad and desperate and Yoong— Yoongi-ssi? Yoongi-ssi shakes his head before turning to me.

"I'll just get a one-shot today."

"And I'll get the chocolate cake pop."

Jin pays for the two with his card this time.