A Dream: Connected

Chapter Three

A full week has passed and I'm still not fully recovered from my encounter with Taehyung. Fortunately, meeting him has helped me get over Jaewook breaking up with and leaving me. Today, I'm back in the cafe, this time well rested for a change. Considering today's Wednesday, and I work afternoons on Wednesdays but Solgi works mornings, I get to hang out with the new guy.

"Good afternoon, Jisoo," Kim Seokjin flashes me that beautiful smile of his that I can't help but to return.

"Good afternoon. Did Kiku help you with the opening today?"

"No, but he did say I did a good job, so I feel pretty confident with it now. In other news," he suddenly gets a devious look on his face and I feel anxious.

"What?" I ask slowly, but this makes a grin spread on his face.

"I heard from Senri about what's been going on. I had to ask Solgi for the details, but..."

I don't like the way he just purposely trailed off. It makes sense that he asked her for the details, considering Kikuchi isn't fluent in Korean, but considering Solgi's personality...

"What did she say?"

"Youngjae is an actual person named Taehyung and you two are pretty friendly," he wiggles his eyebrows. "The condensed version. Unless you want to hear that she gave specifics on friendly."

"What exactly?"

"Like gazing into each other's eyes and casual but intimate skinship. Like the attempts at sneaky glances and the way that you seem to shake every time you leave him."

"Oh my god," I roll my eyes. We start heading to the counter.

"Apparently he came in yesterday, but you don't work Tuesdays, so Solgi told him what your schedule was. I wish you could have seen how bad he blushed."

I pause, almost causing Seokjin to run into me. "What?"

"Oh yeah!"

-Flashback, no one's POV-

"She's not here today," Solgi smirks. Taehyung's shifty eyes land back on his, their wide state giving away even more how guilty he was.

"What?"

"Jisoo, she's not here today. You were looking for her, weren't you?" Solgi didn't have to ask this, she already knew the answer, but it was too much fun to mess with other people.

Taehyung shakes his head, "Oh, no, I wasn't, I didn't-"

"It's okay."

"But I really wasn't."

"It's fine, I'm sure she'd be really happy if she knew. Your order will be ready in a few minutes. Cash or card?" She switches back to business mode, just to make sure that Taehyung can get a chance to calm down. Meanwhile, Kikuchi is in the kitchen, trying his hardest not to laugh while Seokjin looked at him in confusion.

"Jin," Solgi comes into the kitchen and hands him a napkin and a marker. "I want you to go into the backroom and write down Jisoo's schedule on this."

"Why?"

"For lover boy," she flicks her head in the direction of the window, where Taehyung can be clearly seen.

"You're trying to get them up, right?" Kikuchi looks up.

"Set them up, yeah."

"Ah," he nods at the correction and goes back to putting the drink together. "It would be really good for Jisoo."