deceit • Han Seojun x Kang Soojin

39. studying blues

39. studying blues

Han Seojun was exhausted after studying for two days straight. Kang Soojin was not going to let him breathe in peace since the last two days and every time he begged for a break, she did not budge once.

Seojun groaned in irritation as he leaned on the table when a customer asked him for their order. He was covering a shift of a fellow worker who needed to head home on medical reasons and even though Seojun did not work shifts on school days, he could make an exception.

Only to get a break from studying.

"Oppa, why you look like you are dying?"

Seojun lifted his gaze from the glass table at I-seul's chirpy voice, he was glad to see her and at the same time, tired to reply.

"Because I am dying, I-seul-ah." He wrote the orders of the customers on the paper which was then stuck to the rotating wheel. "Why are you here on a school night?"

"I am here to study with my friends," She pointed to the lot of teens in the farthest corner of the cafe, "should you not be studying too?"

"Do you want me to disown you?" Seojun's straight face was the cue of this not being a funny remark and I-seul shook her head, "because if anyone mentions studying one more time, I am going to beat-"

"Aah," I-seul chuckled, leaning on the table and looking at him with a goofy grin. "You have the blues!"

"The what now?" Seojun tilted his head, these english words would be the death of him. "Blue? Is that not a color?"

"Blues," I-seul corrected Seojun, who seemed least bothered to learn new words. "It means being depressed or sad. You got the studying blues."

"Ya I-seul," Seojun passed the drinks to the customer ahead of her and eyed the cheerful girl, "I have the studying blues, green, red, black everything!" That made I-seul to grin even wider, "how are you so happy to study?"

"Well, because I may not like studying, but I do like studying with friends." She took her coffee mug, "plus, its not that bad considering this is your last term and soon you will be graduating, Oppa. Trust me you will miss studying..." She bowed and left to sit with her friends as Seojun shook his head.

There is no way he is going to miss studying.

"Ya Han Seojun."

Seojun groaned louder, because he'd rather study than face the person who called out to him.

"Should have been with us," The old nemesis of Seojun, Lee Sung-yong, walked towards the counter mocking him, "then maybe you would not have to work odd jobs as these."

"What do you want?" Han Seojun had gotten a warning for the last time he had a dispute with these goons and he did not want to lose his job. "If its not coffee, you better leave."

The guy was without the gang, just him and his duo, laughing at each other. "What else would I be here for?"

He ordered two cappuccinos to go while Seojun wondered why he had not asked for the money like he always did. Seojun also realised how they had not bothered him since a long time. He did not encounter them in the familiar places where they often crossed paths. Nor did they bother him at work, nor at home.

"Two cappuccinos," Seojun wrote their names, handing them their go-to cups.

They were ready to leave when the other one turned, "say hi to your girlfriend from us."

Seojun frowned, "girlfriend?"

They must be really high to be joking around this late in the evening, "what girlfriend?"