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Minho isn’t into coffee that much; It just wasn’t his thing. So when he got off work one day and his brother decided to take him to a small coffee shop he was confused to say the least. They arrived and it didn’t look too special or fancy. He would die if he had to show up to a fancy coffee house in his dance clothes.
The outside is painted beige with some of those tall windows that go up to the ceiling. Their logo is painted a shade of green that he couldn’t pinpoint.
As they enter he sees a lot of people, most of them are in suits so he imagines its office workers getting off their shifts or something. While getting in line Minho observes the decor, the inside is made of brick giving it a cosy feeling, they have wooden floors and tables. There also seems to be fake orange leaves hung up; most likely for Autumn.
After what feels like forever they finally get to order. Jeongin beams at the guy in front of them. “Seungmin hyung! Its been a while; how are you?” The guy looks up and Minho can see the clear annoyance on his face. “Would be better if you could hurry up and order so I could end my shift please and thank you.” Minho snickers and Seungmin looks at him. “Oh! I forgot! This is my brother, Minho!” Jeongin says hurriedly.
Minho observes the guy’s features, he has round eyes and a small nose, it looks like he has braces too. He looks kind of like a puppy.
“Hi.” Minho says pretty akwardly. “Oh, hey.” Seungmin replies. “Ok so I want a large, medium roast iced coffee with whole milk.” His brother announces breaking the tension. “Ok and Minho?” “Uhh.. Can I get a medium iced, dark roast with a pump of caramel?” “Got it, your order will be ready in a few minutes.”
After ordering Jeongin dragged him to what looked like a giant whiteboard. “Ok so they erase this thing every week but we still have time to leave our mark before tomorrow when it’ll all be gone.” “What?” Minho understood none of that. Jeongin sighed and picked up an ‘EXPO’ marker and drew a baguette. “Your turn.” Oh that made sense. Minho grabbed the marked and drew a little smiley face and signed it ‘Lee Know’. “Oh thats a good idea!” Jeongin said before snatching the marker back and signing his drawing ‘I.N’.
“Lee Minho and Yang Jeongin?!” Minho watched as Jeongin ran to the counter, giving a thanks and a wink to Seungmin who looked very annoyed at this point.
When Jeongin came back and handed him his coffee Minho asked “Did you just flirt with the Seungmin guy?” “You do what you gotta do.” Minho didn’t understand that but decided to let it go. As they walked to the bus stop Minho decided to try out his coffee; it was good, better than he expected in fact. Maybe he’d come here again, who knows?
As they arrived at the bus stop both of them had finished their drinks so they threw the empty plastic cups in a nearby trash can. Sitting down on the bench and scrolling through his phone Minho found a Instagram account seemingly belonging to the guy at the coffee shop. He clicked on the account ‘@m1nn1e’. The bio read ‘Seungmin in the buildinggg’ in english. Minho smiled a bit at the cute pictures, most of them depicted Seungmin with his lips pressed into a line and his eyes wide open.
He scrolled a bit, pressing like on some of the selfies. One he thought was really cute was with Seungmin having the same expression as most of his photos but with his hands holding his hair in a way that formed a heart shape.
They soon arrived at their stop and Minho put his phone away so they could walk the rest of the way home without getting hit by a car or something.
The walk home from the bus stop was about six minutes; with his little brother constantly bothering him it felt a lot longer. It was getting dark so Minho told his brother to “shut up and walk faster.” So they could make it home on time
they arrived home at around seven and it had gotten pretty dark by now. Jeongin sat on the couch watching the newest music show episode starring ‘Twice’. “Are you ok with instant ramen for dinner?” Minho asked. “Yeah.” Replied the younger.
Ramen was pretty much all they had for dinner these days; especially since Jeongin somehow managed to burn some instant coffee and make a mess of like half of their stove. He didn’t even bother cleaning it, either.
Living with his brother could be a pain sometimes but it was nice having someone accompany him. Besides he doubts Jeongin could handle living alone.
A few minutes later while the ramen was being heated Jeongin spoke up “Hey you know Seungmin from the coffee shop?” “Yeah?” “Well it’s his birthday soon, so can you come and buy him a gift with me tomorrow?” His brother asked. “Sure.” “Kay”
Their conversation was ended with the beeping of the microwave. Jeongin rushed to the table while Minho got the ramen cups and took them to the table, grabbing some chopsticks on the way.
They started chowing down, a good meal is exactly what they need after a long day at the studio teaching kids how to sing or dance.
After finishing they decided to film something to post. After a bit of searching they decided to do a Blackpink song. They recorded the audio of them singing ‘Kill this love’ and Minho looked up the choreography.
Minho is understandably good at learning and memorizing choreography; it’s what happens when you work at a performance arts studio. He taught the chorus to Jeongin who got it in about an hour.
Jeongin fixed the lighting and the they started recording. They breezed through it and got the perfect shot in a couple of tries.
Jeongin usually takes care of editing and posting their uploads. This time is no different. He uploads the audio and video to his laptop and goes to his room to work on it.
Minho decides to scroll through his phone a bit before he has to go to bed. He notices a notification from Instagram and clicks on it ‘@m1nn1e’ Started following you back!’ And a few more notifications of liked posts by Seungmin.
Minho puts his phone aside and decides to go to bed. Laying there for a few minutes before finally falling asleep.
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The next day nothing much happens. It’s a Saturday so no school or work. But they do have to go shopping for a gift. They end up going to the mall. Wandering a bit before going into a small shop where Jeongin saw a coat he thought Seungmin would like.
While Jeongin is looking at clothes, Minho looks at some of the shelves. He sees a shelf with mugs. “This guy works at a coffee shop right?” “Yeah?” Jeongin replies. “So he likes coffee?” Minho asks. “Well duh.” His brother replies. “Then get him a mug or something.”
Jeongin looks at him for a second before smiling. “Good idea!” He beams. Minho smiles, his brother may be annoying but he is still his little bro and completely adorable in every way. Jeongin runs over to the self and chooses a simple purple cup with a smile on it.
They walk to the counter to checkout and Minho can’t help but notice a necklace with a charm similar to the puppy emoji. He picks it up and contemplates getting it for Seungmin. I mean he barely even knows Seungmin so why get him a gift? But still, it’s a nice thing to do and according to most of his friends he needs to act nicer so why not try now? Yeah, he’ll buy this for Seungmin to try and be nice.
They quickly pay for their stuff and head out. “By the way hyung, who’s the necklace for? It doesn’t seem like something you’d wear.” “It’s for Seungmin, just thought it’d look nice on him.” Jeongin looked surprised for a second before smiling. “Ok”
“So when is his birthday anyway?” Minho questioned. “It’s five days from now, on Thursday. We’ll go the coffee shop then to order something and give home the gifts.” “How do you even know if he’ll be there on Thursday?” Minho asked. “Just a hopeful guess.” This kid and his damn guesses.
“By the way, you want to go the shop today? It’s not too far from here and they don’t close until eight, it’s only six right now.” Jeongin questions. “Why not, let’s go.”
They walk to the shop and enter just in time to see Seungmin leaving. Jeongin drags Minho to say hi to him. “Minnie hyung!” Seungmins looks over. “Oh hey, Jeongin and Minho hyung?” Minho nods as he says “Hey.”
Seungmin looks down to Minhos hand. “What’s in the bag?” He asks. “Nothing” Jeongin replies quickly. Could he be more obvious? “Oh, ok.” Seungmin nods at them. “Well I better get going before I miss the bus home, bye!” He says starting to walk away “Bye.” The siblings say in sync before looking at each other and laughing.
Jeongin walks them over to a table and they sit down. “Aren’t we supposed to order at the counter?” Minho asks clearly confused. “No that’s only for to-go orders, if you want to drink it at the cafe then you sit down and wait until someone comes over and asks for you order.” “Oh, that makes sense.”
Just then someone walks over. “Hi I’m Chris I’ll be taking you order if you’re ready?” The man says in a familiar tired voice “Chan?” Minho asks. “Oh! Uh hi Minho.” He looks next to Minho at Jeongin “This your brother?” He asks Minho. “Yeah, that’s Jeongin” Jeongin smiles and waves, and Chan waves back. “We know each other, Jeongin comes here pretty often.” “Oh” Since when?
“Alright then, what can I get for you?” Chan asks. Minho is about to order just iced latte when Jeongin inturups him. “Two iced coffees with a pump of Carmel, whipped cream, and three shots of espresso!” Minho whips his head around faster than sonic ever could. “Trust me.” His brother replies.
and when Chan walks off Jeongin turns to his brother. “You have friends?” He asks stupidly. Minho contemplates hitting him before just nodding and saying “He’s from my college, we have a class together.” “Oh.” “yeah.”
“What about you? Since when do you come here often?” Minho asked. Jeongin being a coffee addict was new information to him, not unexpected but just new. “Eh. I just come here when I have free time or after school to get a break from life.” He says with a sad expression “Oh.” Was something bothering his brother? He knows he can talk to Minho about anything right?
They get their drinks in a couple of minutes and decide to finish their homework while drinking them. “Did you post the video?” Minho asks randomly. “Hm? Oh, yeah I did.” Jeongin replies lazily. Minho nods and they spend the rest of the hour in silence only being interrupted by the occasional ring of the bell when the door opens.
As they finish and walk to the bus stop Minho thinks about the gifts again. What if Seungmin doesn’t like it? Or what if he’s weirded out by it or something?
When they get home neither of them are hungry so they decide to just sit on a couch for a moment. Both of them are on their phones.
Minho sees a DM from Seungmin on instagram. ‘Hi :)’ Minho smiles a bit for no apparent reason and texts back ‘Hey’ before deciding he’s not so tired after all.
Minnie
How ya doing?
Lee Know
I’m fine. Hbu?
Minnie
I’m good lol
Got yelled at by a random customer today
Lee Know
Bruh
That sucks
Minnie
Yeah it really does
It was funny though
What about you
Anything interesting happen?
Lee Know
Nothing too interesting
I did end up meeting a friend at the cafe.
Minnie
Really? What’s their name?
Lee Know
His name is Christopher
Most people call him
Chan though
Minnie
You know Chan?
He’s been working at the cafe for the longest and is the substitute manager.
Lee Know
Wait really?
He never told me
Minnie
Oh, wonder why.
I have to go now sorry
We could talk tomorrow?
Lee Know
It’s fine
See you soon
Goodnight
Minnie
Goodnight
Deciding that he too was getting tired Minho got up and started walking to his room. He opened the door and said goodnight to his brother before walking in and closing the door behind him.
With a sigh he plopped into the bed and put his phone on charge before slowly drifting asleep.