Fin.
Coffee And Me?The sun was shining brightly over the fast paced city of Seoul, a wonderful chilly morning gracing the citizens. Saturday meant relaxation. It meant not having to set an alarm and just sleep in the whole day. It meant parties and hanging out with friends and indulging in a double vanilla cookie ice cream cake for breakfast.
It meant fun.
"Yes I understand Mrs.Lee" Baekhyun assured as he hurriedly wrote down the details on his already filled up notepad. His boss was talking at the speed of light and Baekhyun tried to keep up with her ever complicated instructions.
"Byun you better not get this wrong! Or else I'll keep on sending you away until your thick head manages to do it correctly!" The uptight woman barked at him through the phone once again.
Since Baekhyun was in public, he took a big shaky breath and counted from 1 to 10 in his head. Once all the anger slowly dissipated from his soul, he put back on his fake cheery voice and chimed
"Don't worry Mrs.Lee you can count on me!"
There was no reply.
"Hello? Mrs.Lee? Hello-
She had already hung up.
Baekhyun glared at his phone as he forcefully shoved it in his back pocket. He couldn't believe that this woke him up at freaking 6am in the morning, just to get her a cup of coffee from Starbucks.
2 long years of studying Fashion Design in Korea's top university and here he is, running around and completing errands like a servant.
If Baekhyun knew that this was the case, he would've just dropped out of university and worked as a McDonald's employee. At least he could've gotten free burger coupons.
Walking furiously for 10 minutes, Baekhyun finally managed to reach Starbucks as he sauntered through the automatic doors, strong scents of coffee beans wafting in his nose.
A scowl instantly made its way to Baekhyun's handsome face when he looked at the queue in front of him. Why did there have to be like freaking 100 people buying needlessly expensive coffee at the same time? This only annoyed Baekhyun even further.
He tentatively joined the line, slowly slipping behind a little boy and his mother. The moody scowl still remained on his face and Baekhyun could only repress his frustration deep down inside of him once again. Maybe he could at least catch a quiet break while waiting in queue?
Of course life hated him.
The little chubby child in front of him was obnoxiously shouting gibberish and crashing into everyone around him as he stuck his tongue out on them.
In the middle of his chaotic scene, the pudgy boy suddenly jumped back and literally stamped on Baekhyun's toe with all his weight force.
"OH FUC-"
Baekhyun winced and took a sharp intake of breath, raw pain shooting through his toe and his skin turning into a shade of red.
The chubby boy looked up and met Baekhyun glaring straight back at him.
Suddenly he broke out in tears.
Why the are you crying? I should be the one crying right now.
The brat's rather large mother slowly turned around as Baekhyun inwardly panicked. Picking up her monkey of a child, she threw Baekhyun a poisonous look and haughtily flipped her hair extensions as she put her attention back on her sniveling devil child.
Oh how Baekhyun wanted to rip her extensions out and hang them up in his bedroom wall. He had no problem getting his inner out and could actually stick up for himself, unlike most of his friends.
Even his best friend Xiumin quoted "Call Hollywood, we have our own Korean Godzilla."
But Baekhyun decided not to waste a single second on this creature of a woman. Pushing his light brown hair out of his eyes, he took a deep breath and decided to just stand quietly in the queue and not talk to anyone until it was his turn to order Mrs.Lee's stupid coffee.
He decided to mindlessly pass time by playing candy crush on his iPhone. Somehow, the bright flashing colours and annoying game sounds managed to take his attention off everything.
As he was swiping his screen to achieve more 'sugar points', a shrieking voice broke out and shook down the whole room of Starbucks into a silence.
"What do you mean you can't give my child his toy?! It says that the chocolate cream delight comes with a free teddy bear!"
Baekhyun realized that the voice belonged to the same despicable woman who glared at him a while ago.
"Are you new here?
Can you even open your mouth??" she patronized to the innocent
employee at the cash register.
Shifting his gaze at the till, Baekhyun's eyes met with the trembling boy who was getting shouted at by the witch.
The first thing he noticed was his height.
He was unusually tall, almost like a giant.
The next thing were his adorable ears that perked out every so slightly. Black hair swept his forehead and a dimple would make an appearance every time he nervously gnawed at his bottom lip.
It looked as if he was going to cry any second.
"I- I'm so sorry!" he stuttered and his eyes blinked rapidly.
Unfortunately that prissy woman was not satisfied and decided to create a bigger scene. Brining her hands to her hips, she walked forwards until she was all up in his personal space.
Everyone held their breaths.
She suddenly poked her finger harshly on the boy's chest.
"You can't even treat a customer correctly, why are you working here?"
Silence.
The poor boy nervously fiddled with his fingers as he looked down at the floor in shame.
"What was the owner thinking? Hiring such an incompetent person as an employee." She tutted pitifully.
Passerby's stopped outside the shop window to look in curiosity and the customers were also staring holes at the current situation in front of them.
Maybe it was the fact that the woman really infuriated him to the point of madness. Maybe it was the fact that her satanic child nearly burst his toe open. Maybe it was the fact that it was ing 7am in the morning and he could already feel the vein popping out of his forehead.
Or maybe it was the fact that this towering boy with confused eyes and reddening ears kinda pulled at his heartstrings.
But Baekhyun was about to release his inner Godzilla.
"Excuse me but can you just leave it? It's not his fault that they've run out of toys." Baekhyun interjected.
Turning around, the chubby woman's face instantly fell dark as she saw the owner of the voice. Realizing it was that kid who made her poor son cry, she rolled her eyes. As she started inspecting her fake nails with a disinterested gaze, she pointed out
"My son was promised a toy. It's highly unprofessional to not provide a customer with what they want."
She then side eyed the tall timid boy as she jeered "Seems like Starbuck's employee standards are pretty low these days."
Biting his tongue, the meek boy shut his eyes harder as he felt the hairs of his neck stand up from the stares of everyone else.
Baekhyun noticed this.
"Excuse me if I'm wrong," Baekhyun scoffed, "but isn't it 'highly unprofessional ' for a grown woman to bully a teen employee? Just for a ing toy?"
The woman spluttered as she wore an incredulous expression. It seemed as if his remark had caught her off guard. How dare this scrawny obnoxious little boy talk back to her in such a rude way? It boiled her blood.
"Yah! You little punk, did your mother never teach you to respect adults?" she barked at him harshly.
Baekhyun crooked his eyebrow.
"No. My mother only taught me to respect those who are worthy enough to receive it."
An ocean of gasps formed around them as customers covered their mouths in shock. You could hear a whole cluster of voices mutter
"Serves her right." ,
"Who does she think she is?",
and even
"Shots fired."
Baekhyun smirked,
that's what I thought.
Unable to take the embarrassment and heat from everyone's dirty looks, the woman huffed angrily as she clutched her spoilt child's hand and stomped out the automatic doors, spitting curse words towards Baekhyun underneath her breath.
As Satan and her child left the coffee shop, the matter slowly dispersed and the customers returned back to whatever the heck they were doing.
"Thank you s-so much!" a voice stammered from behind.
Baekhyun instantly turned around to be met with a full 90 degree formal bow from the shy employee.
Chuckling, he returned the bow casually.
"My pleasure" he leaned in to view the lopsided name tag , "Chanyeol."
Hearing his name, he blushed as he slowly lifted his head up from the bow.
"Y-You were really cool back then!! I'm pretty sure that mean woman won't come here ever again! You were like a superhero hehe. " Chanyeol breathed in awe.
Stop being so cute.
"But can I ask," Chanyeol continued shyly "Why did you stick up for me?"
Baekhyun paused for a second.
Hmmm, maybe because you looked like a lost 6 foot man child who was about to cry and I just happened to adore you and your weird sticky out ears that made you look like a ferret plus that woman got on my ing nerves anyways so why not just destroy her along with those cheap fake extensions she was clinging on to?
He walked a step closer.
"To be honest, I just wanted to buy coffee and get out. But then I saw a giant princess in trouble." Baekhyun chimed with a teasing smile.
Chanyeol blinked.
"Huh?"
Grinning, Baekhyun stood on his tippy toes and lightly scuffled Chanyeol's soft black hair while the latter made an adorable scrunched up face.
"Next time, giant princess will be able to stand up to others right?"
The atmosphere was warm but
Chanyeol's cheeks were even warmer as they tinged with a flushed pink.
Casting his eyes downwards, Chanyeol fidgeted nervously with his fingers as he quietly mumbled
"O-Only if short prince is protecting me along the way.."
Screw Mrs.Lee's coffee,
Baekhyun decided he was going to become a short prince.
ahhhhh yeollie's too cute <3
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