jungkook

9:34 am

he grabbed the last of his belongings from the top of his wooden desk in the classroom, shoving them into his old beat up backpack, the color was dull and the straps were slowly coming unsewn, but despite this, he picked up the bag that even sported a few small rips and holes and flipped it onto his back.

bidding farewell to his professor, he left the classroom and made his way out of the building. the second he stepped outside, he regretted shoving his jacket into his bag alongside his phone because it was a bit chilly outside.

nevertheless, he made his way to the usual spot where you'd find him after his first class on these days, the little coffee shop near the university's library.

despite the competition from the numerous places around campus, this one was always bustling and busy and always seemingly shorthanded when it came to staff.

you'd think that by now they might remember his face as a regular but there has been so many different employees each time from people constantly quitting.

he overheard a conversation one day that mentioned how low paying it was but it was better than nothing he thought to himself.

shrugging his shoulders to himself, he continued his walk to the shop.

opening the door he caught a whiff of coffee beans and made his way to the surprisingly short line for ordering.

giving into the temptation of his phone, his slid his backpack off and grabbed the device from his it while he also pulled out his wallet from his pocket.

slinging the bag back into position, it was his turn to order. he looked up as the barista who was, as usual, no one he has ever seen here before and gave them his order.

“i’ll just have an iced coffee with extra sugar please.”

“sure. that will be right up.” she send him a forced and fake smile and turned around so that her long ponytail flipped aggressively.

he clocked an eyebrow but figured she just probably doesn't like working and made his wait to the waiting area.

pulling out his phone to text his friend, he couldn't help but eavesdrop on conversations he was hearing.

one guy was talking about how he failed a calculus test, there was a girl who was on the phone with who jungkook assumed was her boyfriend based on the tone of her voice and then there was a woman who looked older that was behind the counter showing a new employee how to use one of the machines.

the girl who he assumed was a new employee in training turned around and made eye contact with him accidentally.

it lasted longer than normal but this would probably make sense being that the two knew each other and were shocked to see one another.