jungkook

12:46am

the boy was incapable of wiping the grin from his face as he spoke to the girl on the other side of the counter.

seunghee, was her name, he remembered. the gold leaf that had blanketed his heart when he first saw her enjoying the playlist had remained in its position as they spoke.

they both individually recognized the bags beneath each others eyes, both secretly wanting to send each other home to sleep and take care of themselves, both exhausted by the struggle of university and work.

“i saw you recently at the the cafe on campus, i didn’t know you worked there as well,” he commented, a flash of sympathy flashing over his eyes as he thought of how busy she must have been with classes and two jobs.

“ah, yes. i just started working there actually. my other job sort of let me go.” she replied.

“sort of?” he regretted what he said immediately after for fear of sounding rude to ask her why she was fired from her job, “I'm sorry, i didn't mean to be rude. you don't need to answer that.” he blushed in embarrassment.

“no, that's alright,” she smiled reassuringly and tried hard to not let out a coo at how cute and bashful he was, “my boss just thought i wasn't getting enough time to myself to sleep and such. she didn't fire me but she doesn't want me working for a little while which is why she doesn't know i started working at the cafe.” she answered.

“oh, i'm sorry.” he said.

“what for?” she chuckled.

“i don’t know, i just feel bad for you.” he said sympathetically.

“i’ll be fine.” she smiled.

“well, if you ever need someone to talk to, I will listen.” he offered cautiously, trying not to sound weird in that this was the first conversation that they'd ever had.

“thank you, jungkook.”

a/n
they're so awkward together... lol