lilacs || Minsung

Second Chance 1 | a little favor

"Han Jisung, you sexy ass bitch!"

He stops mid movement, freezes right into place with his cheeks flushed in embarrassment at his friend's sudden comment, called out far too loudly to not be absolutely embarrassing when handing a to-go cup of coffee and a paper box with cake to a customer. At least the customer seems to find it quite funny, chuckles, thanks Jisung and leaves the change on the counter as a little tip. Chan laughs loudly from where he is standing next to the younger, currently working on preparing someone's cappuccino.

"Hey! Don't laugh...", Jisung weakly says, too embarrassed to get too loud and potentially disturb his customers more than Felix has already done. He is quick to turn to the side and grab the bottle of warmed milk he had prepared before the customer from just now came in, takes it and puts it right in front of Taeyang, who is currently munching on a peanut butter sandwich. "It's your fault he is so shameless whenever he drops by."

"Yeah? How come it's my fault now? Lix just really loves you, Jisung. Look how happy he is right now.", Chan tells him, both of them now looking at the far too happy young man who comes walking right up to the counter, taking a seat on the other side of it. He usually always sits down in that particular one, likes to look at Taeyang and talk to the toddler as best as possible, considering he is not necessarily too interesting of a human just yet. Neither is he really fluent in his speech. He has not been two years old for too long now, so of course he would not have too much to say yet, still needs some time.

"Okay, okay, before I say anything else, I just want to make it very clear that I am absolutely incredible and the best friend in the whole wide world. Never forget that. It's important that you really remember that.", Felix says, earning a chuckle from Jisung and an endeared smile from Chan, who is quick to place the young man's hot chocolate on front of him, along with a slice of banana bread. His usual.

"Why? What did you do to earn that position?", Jisung asks and takes a seat right next to Taeyang, watches the little man eat while wearing the warmest of smiles on his handsome face. Nothing makes him happier than this tiny little human.

"Well, I'm cute, for one, so there's that.", he says, never not getting a positive reaction out of Jisung in return whenever he says that, "But I also kind of had this talk with Channie the other day when we were editing one of my baking videos and things came up."

"Things? What things?"

"I mentioned that Taeyang is always here because you cannot get a daycare spot for him. Didn't actually expect Felix to immediately jump and get all excited about it though.", Chan says, making use of the rather quiet moment in their cafe, to stand with his two friends and Taeyang as well, letting his hand run through the little man's hair when he talks about him. Jisung knows how much his friends love his son and he is very happy about that. Especially because he always has to take him to work with him because finding a reliable babysitter is not easy and daycare spots seem to be absolutely impossible to get as well. It sucks to be a parent in this day and age. Especially one who owns a cafe and has to have his two year old in there with him the majority of the time. He is lucky to have a son as sweet and calm as Taeyang though because this would all be a lot harder otherwise.

"And?", Jisung asks, eyes tearing off his son to look between his two friends instead.

"And I might or might not have secured a spot for you!", Felix excitedly tells him, his stunning smile back as well and so bright that Jisung feels like this might as well just be some sort of prank. But Felix seems to read his thoughts because he just laughs a little and shakes his head, sees how stunned Jisung is with just a quick look at his face. "Don't look so shocked. I mean it."

"But-", he stops himself, looks at the still very amused Chan for just a second, as if looking for validation, before his eyes find Felix's once again. "How? He's been on god knows how many waiting lists and- which one? Did you... did you sleep with someone to get us in?"