Coffee

Twelve ☕

Renjun's POV

"I was thinking of getting a part-time job," I stated to my roommate as I analysed my wardrobe for what I could wear.

"You'd be fired within a week, I'm calling it," the boy sprawled across his bed retorted without looking up from his ps4. No surprise there.

"How would you know? I could be really talented in it."

"In what? You already have a job in mind?"
Donghyuck finally threw his ps4 aside and got up to get ready.

"Yeah."

"Where, then?"

"Uh.. I don't know."

Oh I knew.
I knew exactly where I wanted to work.

But, was I going to admit it to this blabbermouth?

"You're going to try for the coffee shop, aren't you?"

There was a long pause as I stared at him, scared and impressed by his guessing skills.

"Maybe.. How did you know, though?"

"How obvious can you get?"
Donghyuck threw a white T-shirt along with his jacket onto the bed before turning back to his wardrobe.

"You know what, it's a bad idea."
I took the clothes I had picked out and walked into the shower before peeking out to hush the boy into silence.
"We never had this conversation."

Donghyuck looked unfazed as my indecisiveness and just shrugged before picking out some jeans and plopping back down to wait for his turn to shower.

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"Hey, have you seen my phone?"
I looked under my bedsheets, my desk and basically any other surface that it could have been misplaced on.
"I can't find it."

"Why do you keep losing your stuff? First your willpower, then your heart and now--"

"I'm sorry I even asked a simple yes or no question," I interrupted, rolling my eyes at his annoyance with my own annoyance.

Donghyuck still helped me look for it but soon got tired of it and went on to unlock the door for us to leave.
"We have to go now but, it must be somewhere around here, we can find it when we come back."

Although I didn't want to leave the house without the one thing in life that actually mattered, yeah, yeah, after the friends and family bullshit, I still had to leave without it since we already told the rest that we'd be meeting them at 5p.m. sharp.

We were all just going to the mall to hang out like normal teenagers for once instead of spending our days cooped up in our respective dorms or at the local coffee shop to be coffee addicts.

While we walked down the stairs to the bike stand as Donghyuck picked up Jaemin's call, I started to crave coffee.

"Hey, Donghyuck," I called out to him after he ended the call and was walking ahead of me.
"Can we get coffee on the way?"

"No."
He didn't even turn to look at me before giving his answer.
"We're not going to that coffee shop."

"I'll pay for your coffee."

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I stopped my bike outside the coffee shop and in front of Donghyuck from him to keep an eye on it. No matter how nervous I felt, I still pushed open the heavy glass doors instead of just turning back around to leave.

The second I stepped into the coffee shop, I felt a pair of eyes scanning me from the counter and started feeling jittery since it was the same guy I was having a major crush on.

I wanted to ask if they were hiring so that if I'd ever consider back my idea of working part-time, I'd actually know a space was available for me.

Instead, I just ordered my coffee along with Donghyuck's and left because of how fast my heart was beating just from his eyes meeting mine.

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