The Stunner and the Stunned

the one with the glasses

a/n: unbetaed, so please excuse any mistakes.

Baekhyun had never liked hotels. They always reminded him of when he was a kid and his family would all share one tiny room on their summer vacations because his dad was too cheap to spring for a separate room for the kids. Unfortunately for him, working at Kim Publishing has had required him to go on at least one business trip a month. Sometimes to meet up with authors, other times for some convention where everyone usually just got drunk to distract themselves from the dreariness of it all.

Usually he'd at least get his own room, but not this time. No, this time he was stuck sharing a room with one of the other editors. It could've been worse, Baekhyun thought as he unpacked his suitcase. He could've had to bunk up with Chanyeol from marketing, who had always been known in the company as quite the talker. He was glad that out of all his coworkers, Sehun was the one he was with. He and Sehun were hired around the same time, so they've been friends ever since. Well, work friends, as close as two people could get without actually spending any time together outside of their dull grey office.

"You'd think that with all the money the company makes, they'd at least be able to get us each our own rooms."

Sehun made a sound that vaguely resembled a chuckle under his breath and pushed his silver framed glasses up with his index finger. He did this often, Baekhyun's noticed. Usually when he was nervous. Or when he was thinking. Or anytime, really. Once when Baekhyun was bored, he discreetly counted the number of times the other adjusted his frames within thirty minutes. Their desks were right across from each other, so it wasn't that difficult. Baekhyun had stopped counting after the twenty ninth time. On the thirtieth time, Sehun caught him staring and quickly looked away like he was the one who was creepily watching his coworker. Baekhyun found it extremely amusing.

"Yeah, but at least it's a nice hotel," Sehun said.

Baekhyun nodded, it was a pretty nice hotel, the nicest one they've stayed at so far. The walls were a lovely shade of ivory, the carpet an elegant, deep forest green, which matched the drapes and bedding on both of the queen beds on either sides of the room. Their view from the giant window was of the city of Tokyo, which looked absolutely beautiful at night with all the lights of the neon signs.

"Do you wanna shower first, Sehun? I'm gonna lie down for a little first, I'm exhausted from the flight."

"Yeah, okay. Thanks."

Sehun's responses were always quick and concise. He had always been quite quiet, even when they met on their first day together. Baekhyun was almost positive the other didn't like him at first because of how little he spoke to him, but then he realized that he was just shy. It made him a pretty good listener. Sometimes Baekhyun would catch him on his lunch break and go on and on about some book he'd been reading all weekend. Usually his coworker wouldn't say a word; sometimes Baekhyun wasn't even sure the other was listening until he'd finally hear the occasional hum of acknowledgement. He would've stopped if he thought he was bothering him, but Sehun never really seemed to mind.

Ten minutes later, Sehun stepped out of the bathroom now dressed in a simple black t-shirt and grey sweatpants. His glasses were all fogged up from the steam. Baekhyun had never seen his coworker in casual clothes before. It was a nice change from his usual button up shirt and sweater vest.

"Your glasses are all foggy," he said, even though Sehun was probably well aware of that fact.

The other's lips pulled into a tight line as he reached up to pull the frames off his face. The moment they were off, Baekhyun almost fell off the bed in shock.Holy shit, was Sehun actually...hot? Sure, Baekhyun had always thought he was cute, in a dorky and adorably awkward kind of way. But Sehun without his glasses was a sight he never knew he needed until now. Without the frames in the way, his strong brows and sharp, dark brown eyes were on full display for the world to see. And boy, were they a sight to behold. Who knew the awkward, sweater -vest-wearing editor in the desk across from him was such a total babe?

Sehun wiped his lenses with the hem of his t-shirt and noticed the eyes on him. He narrowed his eyes, squinting at Baekhyun before asking, "What?"

Said star-strucked dummy picked his jaw up from the floor and shook his head. He felt a heat bloom across his cheeks as Sehun stared at him. "Nothing. This is the first time I've seen you without your glasses. You look different."

How could a simple pair of glasses change one's appearance that much? His coworker went from a nice, sweet guy you'd bring home to your parents to a bad boy you'd bring home from the bar to completely wreck you. And in that moment, Baekhyun would be fine letting Sehun wreck him. In fact, it would be perfectly wonderful. A pleasure, even. Especially in that black t-shirt that fit him oh-so-nicely.

His blind infatuation was short-lived as soon as Sehun tripped over his own bag and fell onto the floor in a mess of long limbs. He awkwardly fumbled around on his knees, his arms stretched out wide in front of him feeling around the carpet for his glasses like Velma in Scooby Doo . He was squinting even harder than before, brows furrowed and lips pursed in concentration. Baekhyun had never seen someone have such bad eyesight in real life before. It was rather adorable. There was the cute and dorky Sehun he knew.

Baekhyun promptly got onto the floor to assist his visually imparied coworker find his glasses. "You know, you should really consider contacts."

"I don't really like them. I feel weird putting something in my eye. Do you think I look better without glasses?"

The lost glasses somehow wound up underneath the bed skirt. Baekhyun felt them in his hands and pulled them out victoriously before turning to the other and gently slipping them on, careful not to poke him in the eyes with temples. He slowly nudged them until they were sitting perfectly on the bridge of his nose. It was then when the two of them realized they were sitting on the floor, their faces merely a couple inches apart. They both flew back with wide eyes, falling on their bottoms like a couple of flustered teenagers, both blushing furiously. Baekhyun could hear his heart beat so loud, it sounded as if his heart was in his ears.

Sehun adjusted his frames with his finger again. The tips of his ears were so red, it looked like he had a fever. "T-Thanks."

"Y-Yeah, no problem."

Baekhyun got up and grabbed his change of clothes. He was about to step into the bathroom to shower, but not before turning around and saying, "You don't need contacts. I like you perfectly fine with your glasses."

The last thing he saw before shutting the bathroom door was Sehun sitting atop his bed with rosy cheeks and surprised eyes. Sehun without glasses was great, but Sehun with glasses was possibly even better, Baekhyun decided with a delighted smile.

a/n: inspired by a prompt requested by an anon on curious cat ♡

originally posted on AFF and AO3 and just started posting all my stories on here so none of my stories have covers bc i am lazy. SOME OF THESE STORIES ARE OLDER AND MY WRITING HAS IMPROVED/CHANGED SO PLS DON'T JUDGE ME TOO HARD ASKJFHDSK (not all of my stories are posted on here bc i don't wanna look at my old ones so check out my ao3/aff/lj for the rest of them if you'd like)