barista + park jimin

다섯

another weekday, sunny wakes up at six to begin her usual routine. she quickly hops into a warm shower, before getting changed into her uniform and using the basic makeup skills she had got from her mother before she passed.

by the time sunny gets into the kitchen its almost 7, an hour before school. her eldest brother, daesung, gets up now to get ready. sunny prepares lunches for her siblings and puts them into little lunch boxes, along with water bottles.

"hey baby," she creeps into her brothers' room, waking up the little one, " its time to get up now." sunny helps tae get dressed before returning to the kitchen and pouring cereal for the seven year old. daesung was already washing his bowl in the sink.

"noona, have you eaten?" he asks, putting away the clean bowl. sunny nods, ruffling his hair, "of course. now we need to get to school."

all three of them go to different schools. secondary school, middle school and primary school. they all walk together to daesung's school where sunny and tae keep on to his school and then, finally, sunnys school.

it was about half an hour's walk to sunnys school, so she usually gets there just on time, but she was stopped at the primary school by her brother's teacher.

after ten minutes of chatting about how she was doing and if she needed any help, she was free to go. but she was going to be late to school.

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park jimin walked in to his english class five minutes late, "park jimin! can you please explain why you are late?" professor lee queries him as soon as he steps through the door.

"traffic?" he sheepishly replies. mr lee just rolls his eyes, "detention, after school." jimin's eyes widened.

"no! please, professor, can you let me off just this once? i won't be late again." jimin wanted to go to the coffee shop earlier , so he could be there before the shift change. " you can go at lunch, but you still have to attend for half an hour. go take your seat."

as soon as jimin is sat at his seat, the class is interrupted once again, by a girl in knee socks. shes in my class?

"ah, sunny," thats her name! sunny, mr park looks at her with sympathetic eyes, "do you have an excuse for being late?" his eyes flickered over to jimin. he wanted to let her off, but after the fuss he had caused with him it could be seen as favouritism.

sunny blushes, and whispers something to her teacher. she didn't want anyone to know how she looks after her brothers, only her teachers and closest friends were informed. although, anyone who payed attention knew through rumors and gossip. he nods, "okay sunny go sit down. let's start the lesson."

jimin was curious to why sunny was late, and why it was a valid excuse. mr park usually takes no excuses, none at all. sunny's seat was two seats to his side, and jimin almost felt like hitting himself. he didn't know how he hadn't noticed sunny before especially since she really did stand out from everyone else.

jimin wondered whether his friends had ever noticed her, and made a note to ask them at break. his not so discreet gaze was caught by their professor. "jimin, i know youre annoyed that you got detention and sunny didn't, but unlike you she had a reason. now stop staring at her like that."

sunny's head whips around and the pair both blush, jimin sliding down in his chair and looking down at his desk, sunny covering her face with her hair. "yes, sir." as soon as the class stopped paying attention, jimin once again gazed over at the girl, who was completely focused on her notes.