Make breakfast

With the blankets down (keep one, just in case Yoongi gets cold) the coffee aroma filling the room, it's the perfect time to prepare breakfast.

Tip #1: Yoongi doesn't eat a lot in the morning since he's bogged down with sleep.

Leftover food from last night is the key. Yoongis usually have their fridge filled with high-quality plastic boxes, filled with tofu and rice from the previous night.

Once you are done, come back to the room and open the curtains. You are almost there, keep going!

Ever looked at a person and seen some imaginary question marks floating around them?

That's exactly what Yoongi saw when he looked at Sorah for the first time at the cafe. Why does she have her hair up in a bun when it is hardly an inch below the shoulder? Why does she like only strawberry yoghurt? Why does she wear bluish contact lenses? So many questions but none answered.

Not even a phone number to have them answered.

After the story of Yoongi's not so a necessarily cool encounter with a stranger was told to the rest of the members, Taehyung was visibly happy that he had not been there to see it. He's grossed out at the idea of his hyung using primitive methods of flirting in 2021.

Anyway, Yoongi sulked the whole day. He decided he would go back to the cafe the next day as well, just in case.

Hoseok didn't fail to mention that he's talking as if he doesn't go there every day to buy his coffee. So, like every day, Yoongi went to the coffee shop but with another motive than getting his coffee.

On the next day he showed up, he pestered the barista about everything so that he could squeeze out the slightest information he knew about her. He would bring him the most random things he found in his studio, it's not a bribe just some gifts for the hardworking barista.

One day he got him a few eye drops, wishing it would help the younger to keep his eyes safe after all those hours of gaming. . . .And his coffee was suspiciously a little too cold that day.

Even on busy days when their manager insisted on getting their coffees instead, he never let him.

However, sometimes he can't help but skip his morning coffee.

And fate decides to be the biggest bitch then.

It was when he went to film a music video early in the morning when the sun wasn't even up. He was entirely focused on today's schedule but somewhere at the back of his mind, the thought of Sorah floated.

He went on with the day, came back home tired and promised himself to wake up early to go to the cafe around the same time in the morning.

When he enters the cafe, the barista hands him his coffee but for the first time he actually looks up at him, "That girl had come yesterday," he says, "For her yoghurt,"

Yoongi stills.

Oh.

"W-why are you telling me?" He sips his coffee, calmly. However, he was exploding inside. Out of all days she had to come to the cafe when he wasn't there and somehow this barista knew about his little crush on her. Just very great.

The barista shrugs and gets back to his phone.

So Yoongi's method of coping with heartbreaks and betrayal is listening to sad songs. Mainly, truth untold for some reason.

Jin and Jungkook argue whether he's just contributing to the streams or he's getting in the mood of writing a song. Yoongi spends the whole day listening to a sad playlist, then he sleeps with fake tears aka tears after eating very spicy noodles.

He wakes up and goes to the cafe with half a heart. He's just inside when he almost slips at the sight of the yoghurt lover.

The barista shakes his head. Yoongi smiles unwillingly. He's not sure how to approach the situation when she has seen him, in his 'I am heartbroken without being in love' state.

"Hi," he blurts out. Sorah looks at him, confused. "Hi," she replies back.

Her voice is so deep and warm, holy—

"Yoongi . . ." he brings his hand out for a handshake. Sorah glances down at his hand before squinting her eyes, " I know, I would be a fool not to,"

Yoongi doesn't want to sound arrogant but when she does know who he is— why is she so calm? Does she not like our music? Has she heard some songs? She surely would like one song at the least?

"Well, are you free in the evening today?"

"No . . ." she replies. Yoongi sighs, "Tomorrow?"

"No..." she replies once again. Yoongi is sure that if he gets rejected once again, he'll dig up the cement and hide in that hole. "When can you. . .''

"30th of February,''

Yoongi sighs again.

" How about lunch?'' He says, " Today? Tomorrow? After 30th of February?''

She shakes her head. She's not a fool. An idol's life is different from hers, he is different from her. She is not sure if she is ready to face the problems that arise if she is to get involved with him in any way.

Feeling a little bad, she excuses herself and walks out of the cafe.

Yoongi looked a little taken aback, he didn't know why she made her rejection so clear, she wasn't even surprised, she didn't even hesitate once to say no. . . . as if she expected this, practised her reactions.

What is he supposed to think of the situation? Let go of her, will that be the best option? He doesn't live a normal life— he is an idol after all. He can't promise her only rainbows, because to see those . . . they would have to get rained on first.

"Simply ask her for a breakfast date," all of a sudden, the barista says, " She only stops by during that time. Her university is far away, she comes home late,"

Yoongi squints his eyes at the younger one. How does he know that?

The barista senses two curious eyes looking at him and looks up, "Why are you standing there and looking at me? Do you want to ask me for a date instead?"

Yoongi blinks at his eyes, eyebrows furrowing and looks out of the glass window. When he sees her retreating figure, he immediately walks out of the shop towards her.

He isn't leaving without something from her. Something that isn't a rejection.

But he was too late and lost her at the turn. Going beyond without proper security would be risky, so he steps back, disappointed.

But then a tap behind his shoulder causes him to turn around and he's surprised to see her standing with a box in her hands. "Will I get hurt?"

Yoongi isn't sure. He wants to say he would try his best to not let her get hurt, but he doesn't know her, he doesn't know what hurts her.

"By you, will I get hurt by you?" she says.

He doesn't know. He doesn't give false assurances.

He knows the slightest things can hurt when coming from someone special. If he does become her special one, he isn't sure what could hurt her. How can he say he won't hurt her?

When having her just beside him can hurt her?

"Yes you will," he ends up saying, "But I will make it worth it, I will. If I don't, if you ever felt unhappy, you are free to walk out without even saying a goodbye,"

So the promised breakfast date becomes a daily home for the strangers who grow their feelings of love and warmth, with a taste of coffee and eye rolls of the barista.

"Not really a love cafe, but I might be the lucky charm for your love,"
—That Hot Barista who is always on his phone,
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Ps: Just found my soon to be boyfriend's sister a boyfriend, does that earn me some brownie points?