I had an idea hit me... and, as desperately as I want to finish Keşke, I just had to at least start this AU piece.
It's basically just flipping Can and Sanem's characters, all others the same except substituting Yigit for Polen. (So, Yigit is to...
"CAN!!" He woke with a jolt, struggling to focus on the source of his abrupt awakening, then trying to recover from the object that just bounced off his face. "Get UP! Don't think I'll allow you to make me late- I'm leaving in 10 minutes and I'm not waiting for you, pankçı (punk)!"
Leyla.
Can's head dropped back to his pillow in some relief after finally registering there wasn't an actual emergency, though only for a couple of seconds. He sat up and found the pillow she'd chucked at him. "I'm up, I'm up!" He picked it up and threw it back at her as she spun back out his door, calling over her shoulder, "Nine minutes and counting!"
Can tried to shake off the sleep and rubbed his face with both hands. He stood and stretched, threw his cover up in a rough attempt at 'making' his bed, then grabbed fresh clothes and laid them out over the comforter. He hesitated a beat to give the outfit a once over and determined it was appropriate for his first day at the publishing house, then headed to the bathroom.
He took a four-minute shower, brushed his teeth while in said shower, and finished toweling off back in his room. He got dressed, slipped on his house shoes and headed for the door. He caught himself in the mirror and paused to handle his still damp hair. It was a little longer, something his parents harped on him about in the beginning, but eventually gave up on. He had been wearing a ball cap a lot of the time to keep it out of his eyes over the last month or so...
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But now, he was able to pull half of it into an elastic without much of it coming loose, leaving the back of it just grazing where his shoulders met the base of his neck. That's what he went with this morning as he grabbed his phone, wallet and keys before rushing through the house to catch up with his sister.
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"Abla!" He ran through the dining area, babbling 'good mornings' to his parents and his neighbors. Ayhan and Osman had taken Leyla up on her invitation from the night before, and were just finishing up their meals. Can gave his dad's shoulder a squeeze then planted a hurried kiss to his mother's cheek as he snatched some cheese and olives in a whirlwind as Mevkibe and Nihat protested. He called back to them as he got to the front door, "I'll eat more after I get there Anne!" He scrambled out of his slippers as Osman & Ayhan called out their well-wishes, "Good luck Abi!" Can called back, "Thanks!" Then, to Nihat, "I'll be back this afternoon to help at the store Baba!"
