I found my way to the flower shop almost late and panted, catching my breath.

"Ah . . . Jayna-ssi? Is this [Y/N]-ssi?" A man with brown-pink hair said, holding small, potted plants in both his hands. He was about to go inside of the shop.

"Yeah," Jayna got out of the store, opening the door for the other to go in. "Come inside, Hyun-ssi. I need to talk with [Y/N] for a bit!"

"Hyun" nodded and got inside the store.

"So? How was it?" Jayna instantly said when the door closed, holding both my hands and taking the duffel bag. "Woah, where'd you get this? And who gave you those clothes?!"

"For both of those things, I got it from the Sebongies," I said, flustered. "Mingyu gave me the sweater, The8 gave me the pants, and Woozi gave me both the duffel bag and the tank top I'm wearing."

"Stylish~" Jayna said as she walked inside, me following suit. "Anyways, I'll introduce you to the two workers that came in today. Aki-ssi! Hyun-ssi!"

Two unfamiliar faces then appeared where we were.

"[Y/N], this is Nakajima Akio, or just Aki, and the one that you saw earlier is Park Baehyun," Jayna said, gesturing to the respective people.

Aki had features similar to DK; they were quite sharp. But what I noticed most were the beauty marks I could see all around his face, neck and collarbone. His brown eyes blinked in a rhythmic pattern as they looked at me. What I also noticed: he looked like a cute coconut head.

Baehyun also looked like a coconut, if coconuts had cute, pink streaks in them. His brown eyes looked through gold, circular glasses that were perfectly perched on his nose. He was still holding the small plants that I saw him holding outside.

"Nice to meet you!" Baehyun smiled. "I'd shake your hand, but I'm afraid mine are a bit full right now."

I laughed and waved my hand. "No worries."

Aki smiled at me. "Nice to meet you, [Y/N]-ssi." His Korean sounded a bit rusty.

"Nice to meet you too," I shook his hand and turned to Jayna. "So? How was the orientation?"

"It went really well! They both know their stuff," Jayna replied.

When I looked back at them, they were both working on their individual stuff.

Baehyun was tending to the new plants that just arrived, specifically the spring batch of plants. He was watering them with care, careful not to over-water the small pot.

Aki was cleaning up the summer plants, and fixing the pots the succulents and cacti were in. But he was also "socializing" with [ cat's name ].

I walked into the employee's room and dumped my bag onto one of the bags.

I stretched and got my green apron, hearing the store's door rapidly open and a bunch of heavy footsteps.

Confused, I opened the door of the employees' room and saw Jeonghan with seemingly newly-dyed hair and my jacket.

"Jeonghan-hyung?" I said, and he looked at me with his lips parted slightly. "Wh—"

He stood up straight and fixed his hair and smiled sheepishly. "Jihoon forgot to give this back to you, so I had to run after you."

"A-ah, okay," I glanced at him. His breathing was still unsteady. "Here, take a seat in the employee's room and rest for a bit."

He waved his hand and handed me back my jacket. "No need, I have to get back with them as soon as possible—"

"Han-ah?" Baehyun looked curiously at the currently sunset-haired idol.

"Ah, hyung, what are you doing here?" Jeonghan turned around and pat the quite shorter male on the head.

"I work here, dummy," Baehyun smiled and Jeonghan laughed. "Cheol texted me and 'warned' me that you would be coming."

"Wait, you know each other?" I asked and walked closer towards them.

Baehyun nodded. "Cheol is my childhood friend! So obviously he'd introduce me to the rest of Seventeen."

"That's so cool!" I exclaimed, my eyes probably sparkling.

Jeonghan laughed and pat my head in a loving way, causing me to blush.

"Anyways, I have to leave for a fansign. Bye!" He waved as he left the store.

I let out a sigh and looked at his retreating form.

Baehyun and I snorted when he almost tripped.

"I think that's the last of the spring batch," I said, wiping the sweat off my forehead as I helped Baehyun and Aki with the tulips, which came in so many colors, which is why there was a lot.

They both placed them on some low-hanging shelves, nearby the potted aloe veras that hung from the ceiling by a few strings. We didn't bother cleaning up those.

"I guess we should have lunch now," I hummed and they both nodded, as if they had been waiting for me to say those words. I laughed.

We all walked into the employees' room and saw that Jayna had left us a bunch of things from the convenience store she was at before leaving.

As we were sitting down by the table, Baehyun's phone buzzed and he looked at it.

"Who is it?" Out of curiosity, I asked him.

"Hmm, just Seungcheol," He hummed, opening his bottle of cola and sipping from it. "He's asking for a picture of Aki because Seokmin is asking for a picture."

Aki blushed. "Why would he ask a picture of me? Of all things?"

Baehyun shrugged. "I dunno."

"Just . . . take a nice picture?" Aki pleaded

"I'll do it!" I beamed and Aki blushed even more.

"Wh-what? Hyung, I—"

"Nope, I'm doing it!" I took Baehyun's phone and started taking pictures of Aki, at every possible angle.

"H-hyung!!"

IM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATED SCHOOL HAS JUST BEEN A BITCH SKXJSJXJ

plus writer's block bc ive been thinking on a lot of book's plots??

also ive been dragged into the world of apply fics so if u're interested check my apply fics pls ty

published 020718.
7:45 p.m. PH time