espresso and palette | vsoo

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If life had taught Taehyung one thing in the meager twenty three years he have been alive, it was that working in a 24 hours café wasn't hard, but it was tedious, and on thursday night with friday morning shift was akin to hell. Behalf of that the cold night breeze entering through the opened windows was freezing him to the end.

Only 15 minutes left until his shift was over. But who understands, the poor boy was already so tired to even turn around and deliver the honeybee cortado he was now holding.

The day has been tiring, from a small cup of cappuccino to latté, americano, ristretto, machhiato, mocha and the list goes on. Did he ever got a minute to sit down and sigh? God knows.

"Enjoy." But he still forced out an overly joyful grin, one that was undoubtedly fake and just fake. It was a smile nonetheless. The customer returning it sweetly as he bows before walking away with his drink.

"Can I order an americano?" Taehyung gazes up to the raspy voicer as he smiled a little.

"Yeah, sure." He says before turning around to walk near the sink. He groaned internally, eyes clenched shut, his grip tightening around the handles of the dish crate. After his two minutes, semi-silent outburst taehyung exhaled sharply. He opened his eyes and stared down at the espresso machine to brew a double shot of espresso. And pouring it into the mug of two parts of hot water he turns back.

With that same fake grin he put up in his boss's presence, and feigning politeness taehyung passed the male his order. "Did someone ever told you, how handsome you are?" The ravenet chuckled lowly, Taehyung's eyes traveling to the stranger's in a quick pace.

"Pardon?" His voice low and kind of taken aback by the sudden complement.

"It's so sad that I'm not gay and i can't hit on you." Taehyung's mouth went wide open as he was sure flustered by the wink the male just now caused. "And most importantly i already have a girlfriend."

Taehyung didn't know what he should do, or how to react. And the raven's dimble smile was kind of his liking, Taehyung isn't gonna lie.

He took a sip from his own cup, "Thanks for the drink. Hope to see you again." he again winked which cought Taehyung off-guard.

But stumbling around words he still managed to stutter out a small "e-enjoy"

And like that he walked away, Taehyung watched as the raven head travelled out from the café, then slowly fading into the pitch black darkness of the night. His mouth still wide open expressing his emotions in one brief sentence. It's not like it was his first time encounter with a flirty customer. Not at all, if we started to count we can't make it. That's how much countless times Taehyung had received complements for his high quality looks.

But it was his first time a male actually tried something like this on him. He cringed at the thought of the couple of minutes. His face heating up just by thinking about it, as he slapped his hand on that lightly rosed cheeks for few times wanting to erase the memory already.

"Are you stand sleeping?"

Taehyung grabbed his chest, biting on his lower lip hardly he avoided letting out a manly scream. He was met with an idiotic smile face of his bestfriend. He'd noticed that he'd been seeing that exact expression too often for his own liking lately.

Taehyung was enraged, his hands curled up into fists, ready to punch the latter in the nose. "The fuck, Jimin!"

The shorter male produced a dramatic gasp as he clutched his chest. "Is that how you treat your best friend? How nice of you buddy." Jimin says his face dripping sarcasm as he stared at the latter.