The Room ~Yoonmin/Yoonseok/Namgi/Namjin~

Chapter 4: The Call

"Hey Yoon." Hobie greeted the ever so sleepy Yoongi with a radiant grin,"Still sleepy?"

"Yeah." Yoongi responded in a daze to the familiar voice's question. He looked up and immediately straightened his back realizing that he had reached the street corner shop and had been gobbled up by his sleepiness again.

"I mean, I.." Yoongi tried to cover up for himself, but Hobie just giggled and got back to his work. Yoongi looked at the huge, sack-like maroon container in front of the shop's glass entrance door, next to which Hobie was currently crouching, examining the delivery labels. The summer's daylight kissed the younger's auburn hair gently, making it look brighter than the previous dark evening. His bangs fell low till his monolid, and he had turned away from Yoongi and to peer at the labels with tiny numbers and letters for a while. Yoongi had especially no problem watching the person he liked without him noticing, so he stood there, admiring the ginger head infront of him as the younger did his job.

"They messed up again!" The man of the same height sprung up, looking slightly agitated,"I told them I needed black soil, not red! We're a flower shop for god sake, not a coffee plantation."

Yoongi's eyebrows raised in surprise, observing the annoyance of the man. He chuckled, before walking up to him and patting his shoulder,"It's fine. We can still make use of it."

"How, Yoonie?" Hobie looked at him over his shoulders, his eyebrows still furrowed.

"Yo-Um," Yoongi's cheek's regained a light colour from the previous night at the nickname. Why was he acting so embarrassed? The nickname sounds a lot like his real name anyway, right?

Ugh, what's happening to me?

Filled with thoughts regarding his sudden change in behavior around his co-worker, Yoongi shook his head. "Do we have some plant waste?" Yoongi swallowed his embarrassment and asked. Hobie turned to look at the elder in confusion,"Yeah. We have a lot from last week, hyung. Why?"

"Well we could just mix it with this." Yoongi walked towards the other as he continued explaining,"It'll increase the nutrient level since it's mostly iron oxide in the soil which doesn't help." Yoongi stopped right before the maroon sack. He held one end of the bag and in one quick move, lifted it up. He swiftly swung it to put the heavy weight on his back.

Hobie stood astonished, with his lips slightly separated at the sight of his co-worker lifting up the 12kg worth soil in one go. He was almost gawking at the elder, and Yoongi noticed this. He smirked,"Now if I have your permission, can I take it inside, sir?"

Hobie's cheeks dusted a light pink, but he quickly grinned, straightening his back and lifting his head a little authoritatively to play along,"Yes, you may."

The rest of the day was a play day. Yoongi successfully made the wrongly delivered infertile soil useful. And obviously, he got a shower of compliments from his crush. Yoongi had soaked it all in, blessing his neighbors who were obsessed with their back garden and kept giving him gardening tips randomly whenever he encountered them.

After a little fooling around, Hobie showed Yoongi how to use pruning shears, and trimmed a small tree that was on the right side of the entrance as a demonstration. Yoongi was asked to try the one on the left side, but by the end of an hour that he took to do god knows what, Hobie couldn't help but laugh and point out how his baby cousin could trim trees better. Yoongi was slightly embarrassed, but it was the first time he saw Hobie laugh uncontrollably, so he felt like he had gained than lost.

By lunch time, both of them learned more about each other as they did their own decided share of work around the boutique. Hobie was 23, and had graduated from his college a year back. He had studied literature, and was hoping to become a teacher at a certain highschool but it was quite far from his apartment, and the daily travelling expenses was enough to make him go broke. So he had decided to do a semi-skilled job for a year or two and then aim for that school again.