The Blossom's Last Season | Xiumin | One-shot

1.

She ran as fast as she could knowing there was less than three minutes to get to the bus stop. Soon Ri's normal routine had to be scrapped for today since she took too long picking out the right coffee for her coworkers. She carefully dashed past street vendors, slowing down when it was necessary, and passed with care. A stop awaited her ahead, as the cross-light slowly counted down "3....2...."

She sprinted - making it half way across until a horn interrupted her focus.

"Oh my god," Soon Ri said to herself.

With a small wave of apology to the car - she kept running. Except this time, she lost the courtesy from before. The minutes were counting down as the sweat and panic culminated in her mind. She could see the bus stop. She was almost there.

"Just keep running Soon Ri. Just kee---"

She fell to the ground, and spilled the coffee everywhere.

"What the hell are you doing? You're going to get yourself or someone else killed," replied the medium height, but strong statured man holding his chest that was just struck.

She gathered herself after colliding with him, took two deep breaths, and turned up to him to apologize.

"...Wow," she gasped to herself without making it too obvious, "He's beautiful and so familiar."

"Well, get up. I really have to go. But I guess I can treat you to a quick drink since I may have hurt you a little bit," replied the handsome man.

"I really--Well I can't. You see I really have no time and my boss-"

"He can wait," he replied as he grabbed her arm and started to pull her behind him.

Soon Ri was filled with conflicting emotions about this man.

"Who the hell does he think HE is? I have to go to work, and he's pulling me around without respecting my schedule," she thought to herself.

She crumpled up her receipt and threw it at the back of his head.

*thwack*

"Do you really think throwing a crumpled paper at me is going to do anything?" smirked the man as he opened the door to a small coffee shop and pulled her in.

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He started to order his coffee as Soon Ri gazed at him in thought.

"How do I know this guy? He seems so familiar to me," she conversed in her head, "Maybe I don't recognize him because of how stressed I've been lately with my situation. I can hardly think about what I'm going to do today rather than who I may of run into before."

"Hello?" waved the man as he grabbed Soon Ri's arm and slowly waved it around.

She jerked her hand back and gave him a dirty look, "Get me whatever you want. I don't really care."

He smirked and proceeded to order her an americano mocha. They both walked to the wait-counter after ordering. He looked at her and smiled while handing her the receipt. Soon Ri rolled her eyes and snatched the receipt.

"Minseok," read the name at the bottom.

Soon Ri's head started to hurt as she recognized this name. She glanced back at him to study his features once more--but still couldn't come up with an answer. All she knew was that he was gorgeous in every way, to the point of her hating it.

"Annoying slob," she thought to herself.

"I've been really stressed out running from my problems lately. The sesaeng were bad, but at least I could handle them," said Minseok as he turned back to Soon Ri, "It's really difficult you know. Trying to overcome this life while keeping a smile on your face."