One americano, please »Verkwan« [EN]

1 ~ The one and only coffee shop

I always came to the coffee shop next to the library. Sometimes I went to the library first to borrow a book.

I just entered the coffee shop with a book I borrowed last week. Name of the shop is 'Falling for coffee'. The one who came up with that idea must've been a genius, it's perfect!

I ordered the same thing as always.

"One Americano, please," I said.
"Do you h-"
"Yes, I do." I answered with a bright smile and showed my "regular customer" card to the guy behind the counter.
"Ah, It's you." He smiled.
"Yes, me. Again." I laughed nervously.
"What was your order again?"
"One americano. Please." I said, waited for my card and went to my spot in the corner of the shop.
"As always." I heard the guy's whisper.

I sat down, opened my book and started to read.

A few minutes after that the guy went to my spot with my order. "Here it is." He smiled brightly. "Thank you." I said, also with bright smile. He went back to his spot.

I sipped my americano and begun to read again.

About two minutes later, someone went in.

"Vernon!" I heard the waiter, Mingyu, say. -He has a name tag.- I looked who came.

"Mingyu hyung!" The supposedly "Vernon" said. They hugged each other. They know each other? I was curious how that is possible. I'm the one who knows almost everyone here, but not even I know that guy. Is he new here or did I just not notice him all this time?

"I'm glad to see you."
"Me too, hyung." They said and ended the hug.
"Vernon-ah, you are here for the first time and you are already late." Mingyu said as he looked at the clock behind the counter and went also behind the counter.

"It's just eight minutes..." Vernon sounded little annoyed, but followed him.
"Just eight minutes?" Mingyu asked.
"Just eight minutes." Vernon replied with calm voice.
"You can also stay here for 'just eight minutes' after the shift." The taller one looked at the smaller one with a death glare. I personally didn't even know that he can do something like that. He was always so sweet, how is that possible?

Jihoon is also so sweet when you look at him, but he can kill you by his death glares or his guitar. At least you'll know why he always brings it with him... I giggled. Our little, cute and extremely dangerous Jihoon.

"You have that death glare from Jihoon hyung and don't tell me you don't." The younger one said. "Of course I do, he's my roommate." The older one said in an annoyed voice. He is a what?! I thought. Yeah, Jihoon told me that his roommate is "a stupid tower", but I never thought it can be Mingyu. Right, he is a tower, but stupid? Well I can say nothing, I don't know him, but he doesn't look like someone stupid.

Vernon went to dress up I was guessing and I continued to read. However, I couldn't concentrate on the words. That reminded me of my almost cold americano. I drank the rest of the cup and continued to read. Then Mingyu came. "Do you want anything else?" "Just one more americano, please." I smiled gently. "Okay." Mingyu said while writing my order and went back.

I was about to read again, but I felt someone looking at me. I looked behind the counter and it was Vernon who was looking at me. I smiled. He turned his eyes to the floor shyly. Cute. I thought and continued to read.

I heard voices.

"No, you go." One said.
"Why me?!"The other demanded an answer.
"Just go."
"But wh-"
"Just. Go." The first boy insisted.

I heard someone sigh. I looked the way I heard the voices and Vernon was coming with my americano, looking at the floor. He gave me my drink and was about to go back, but I stopped him.

"Is everything okay?" I asked the most stupid question I could.
"Everything's alright." He smiled shyly and went back.

If you say so... I thought.

"Why is he so shy?" I asked myself quietly. Maybe because he's new here, you stupid. "That's right." I answered quietly so that only I could hear myself.

When I read the book, I completely forgot about the time and also the americano. I looked at the time and it was already one hour and twenty three minutes since I came here. It, once again, reminded me of my drink. "Oh no..." I sighed.

"Is there something wrong?" I flinched. It was a shock for me. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." He quickly apologized.
"No, It's okay, Mingyu, everything's alright." I said with a sad smile. My americano...
"Are you sure?" The tall guy said and looked at the drink. I nodded. "Do you want me to make you another one?"
"No, that's fine." I smiled.

He grabbed the cup that was in front of me and walked away. After a few minutes he came back with a hot coffee.

"Thank you, but I said you don't have to-"
"You both are the same!" He snapped angrily.
"I- Im sorry... I didn't mean to-"

"What happened?" Vernon asked.
"He had there cold americano, so I asked if he wants to bring another one, he said no. When I brought him the hot beverage, he thanked me, but he said he told me not to do it!" Mingyu was angry.
"Hyung, calm down."
"Why?"
"Because I told you to! Is that normal to yell at your customers?!"
"Is that normal to fall in love with them?!"
"I didn't fall in love with anybody!"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah, really! I hope you'll fi-" I sipped from my americano, wrote that I'll pay for it tomorrow on a piece of paper I found sooner that day and went out. I couldn't listen to it. I needed some fresh air.

Wait... where is- "Holy Hong! I left my book in there..." I thought I'll kill myself. I'm not going back! That was the thing I knew for sure. I'll go there tomorrow as I always do. What else can I do... And that was the problem, I didn't want to go back there ever again...