Our Summer

Chapter 9

Jungkook raises his eyebrows in surprise when he sees Taehyung walking into his cafe, with a paper bowl in his hand and a plastic filled with bottled drinks in his other hand. Despite the thousands of questions popping in his head, wondering why on earth his friend who despises the smell of coffee is at his cafe so early in the morning and so unlike him to actually be this early, he waits patiently till Taehyung walks up to the cashier.

"Did you hit your head somewhere?", Jungkook crosses his arm, his biceps flexing underneath the white cotton shirt. "It's eight in the morning"

"Shut up"

Taehyung places the porridge on the table and looks up at the menu over Jungkook's head.

"What are you doing?"

"Looking at the menu", Taehyung replies dryly.

"Seriously, what are you doing?", Jungkook looks at him with a confused face. "You don't drink coffee"

"I did not say it is for me"

Jungkook blinks at the answer, his mouth opens and closes as he tries to process his reply. Then he looks at the porridge on the table, then at the drinks in the plastic on which he could spot a small glass bottle of energy drink and a big bottle of something that looks like vitamin water.

"Is this for Seori?"

Taehyung's heart leaps, and he gulps nervously, losing his composure as Jungkook eyes him closely.

"It is", Jungkook then points at the porridge bowl. "Is this for her too?"

"It was not me who got this for. Her students. I cannot remember their names", he speaks nonchalantly.

Jungkook eyes him closely, thinking to himself as lets out a long 'hmmm'. Then he shrugs his shoulders and reaches for a medium sized paper cup.

"Seori drinks hot caramel latte in the morning - oh also! The oatmilk you helped me order arrived a few days ago", Jungkook says as he taps on the flatscreen in front of him, keying in the order. "She loves it"

Taehyung unconsciously smiles to himself but then quickly snaps out of it, faking a cough to cover it. "Good"

Jungkook then takes out a piece of muffin from the hot cabinet and packs it in a small paper bag before pushing it to Taehyung. "She likes the butter muffin here. On the house"

Taehyung takes the paper bag in slow motion and then he looks at the muffins neatly arranged in the hot cabinet at the side. There are cream puffs, chocolate rolls, assortment of muffins, cheese breads and some other pastries he has no idea what their names are. Then he points to the muffin.

"Get another five of those. One muffin will not be enough"

Jungkook inches backward in complete surprise, blinking at Taehyung repeatedly. "Five?"

"Get them", Taehyung refuses to say anything else as he takes out his phone. "Quick, Jungkook, I have work to do"

With an amused smile, Jungkook surrenders with a slight raise of his palms before reaching for a bigger paper bag and takes out another five pieces of butter muffins. He packs them all up and reaches for the coffee that has been prepared by his barista and puts everything in a proper bag to make it easier for Taehyung to carry.

"Here", Taehyung hands out a gold card to him.

"On the house, Taehyung. Now please take all of these to her", Jungkook smiles sheepishly, earning a glare from his friend. "Don't be rude, Taehyung. Be nice"