"Come again next time, Hyunjinnie. Bye."
Felix waved at a 5-year-old kid with sandy brown hair from behind the counter as the small boy's father pulled one of the glass doors for him. The kid turned around for the last time and waved back eagerly, which made Felix giggled at his cute antic. Hyunjin and his father, Myungsoo, had become his costumer for a long time, so that was why he could act casually to them as if they were his related family. Surely the bakery shop where Felix worked had a bunch of costumers from time to time since the shop was established. Fifteen years were not a short period, so it wasn't even unexpected to have a number of regular costumers.
The bakery shop where Felix worked was not as infamous as some French bakery shop in downtown Seoul. However, The Seo's bakery shop had never experienced losing its costumers. This shop had captured people's heart including Felix due to its excellent service besides the appetizing foodstuffs. That was why he chose to apply to be a part-timer there as the counter keeper to get some wonderful experiences from serving costumers.
When the first time he entered the shop as a waiter, the previous owner had just bequeathed the business to the heir of Seo family who had just finished his study as a pâtissier in France. He still obviously remembered his first reaction when Mr. Seo brought in his son, Seo Changbin, in front of his employees. He wasn't as dumbfounded as some of his fellow girls, but he couldn't understand the reason behind his fluctuating heartbeat and lopsided feeling on his stomach as their glances collided. For those long ten seconds, Felix had instinctively held his breath by seeing the man smiled at him.
Later, he found out that the first reason for him to work there had been altered from the sake of experiencing to Seo Changbin.
The new owner was just older than Felix by a year. Yet it didn't make him lose his authority to instruct the workers to do these and those jobs. Just like his usual self, Changbin would love to scold Felix every time he was caught red-handed waving too long to their regular costumer—especially kids like Hyunjin and the old lady from the flower shop—and made the older male stunned. This time, Felix almost fell down from his seat when the older without warning sneaked behind him and cleared his throat in annoying manner.
"M-May I help you, Changbin-ssi?" Felix stuttered, rubbing his elbow which had hit the corner of the table just then. He was always amazed by the way Changbin's short but strong built fascinated him even more each day, alongside with his charming face, flawless raven hair and masculine scent. Not to mention a pair of charcoal eyes which had always made Felix's knee became weak every time they gazed at his brown ones.
Changbin raised his left eyebrow, "Daydreaming again, aren't we?" Felix shook his head rapidly, squeaking a 'no' in between.
"So, could you please explain me what happened here for these two whole minutes—," he crossed his arms in bossy manner, "—when these costumers still queued?" Felix gasped, hurriedly jumping from his site and bowed repeatedly to the waiting costumers. His face flushed as Changbin slightly flicked his forehead in front of their costumers and told him not to daydream again. Surely, he had been embarrassing himself in front of Changbin for countless time and he didn't even pick up the way to stop himself from being a mess.
"Why you look so sad?"
That was this kid, Jeongin, who always recognized his uneasiness on the aftermath when everyone had left for lunch break. Felix had regarded Jeongin as his own nephew albeit he only had family relationship with Changbin. His boss had frequently asked him to pick the fox-eyed kid at school whenever he couldn't make it by himself. It explained the reason behind Felix's closeness to Jeongin as Changbin did.
Jeongin still cupped his cheeks with two cute hands and pouted when Felix didn't answer.
"Uncle Lixie," he whined, made Felix chuckled at his antic.
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Hayran KurguFelix had never thought that Changbin would be marrying someone soon, and he had to deal with this broken feelings. [ alternate universe ; seo changbin/lee felix ]