seventeen imagines

vernon - rooftop

word count : 671

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"oh, hey."

you looked down from looking at the sky and saw vernon, a guy who lived in your apartment building, walking towards you as the door behind him closed by itself. he was wearing his usual beanie with a hoodie and sweats, so he most likely had just gotten back from working if you were assume.

you smiled at him. "hey," you greeted. "how are you?"

"good. you?" he asked before sitting down next to you on the makeshift wooden bench that your landlord had put out.

"pretty good," you replied before looking at the night sky again. "there's a lot of stars out," you mentioned, "almost counted them because of how long i've been out here."

vernon chuckled, "i think you would've been here for an eternity if you did that. the sun coming up would've ruined your count," he said to you.

the two of you met like this a few months back. same bench, same nighttime sky. you would typically come out onto the roof before sundown and do work on your laptop before stargazing. because of vernon's work schedule, he would appear pretty late into the night, so sometimes you wouldn't even see him depending on the day.

you looked over at him. "did you have work today?" you asked him.

"yea, we got done filming early though, which was really nice," he answered, "and i can stay home tomorrow," he added.

"oh nice," you replied.

"do you have work or class?" he asked you.

you shook your head, "no. tomorrow i have neither," you mentioned.

"any plans?" he asked.

you shrugged your shoulders and glanced back up at the sky. "no, not really. i might go shopping if i feel like it."

"oh nice."

you looked at the time and realized that it was getting late for your standards.

"i'm gonna head back in," you said to him and stood up with your laptop in your arms.

"oh, okay. goodnight," vernon said to you, smiling.

"night," you smiled back and turned around to walk away.

"hey."

"huh?" you turned around to look at vernon.

"last time you said you watched the sunrise sometimes. i'll probably be up to watch it if you decide to come up here," he mentioned before glancing back up.

you smiled at him and turned away to start walking, "guess i'll see you in a few hours."

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"huh, you really are up here," you said to vernon while hearing the door behind you close.

"oh, i just didn't go to sleep."

"vernon! that isn't good for you," you lightly scolded him as you walked over to him. "i shouldn't even be giving you this since you didn't get sleep but here," you said and handed him one of the mugs you were holding.

vernon held the mug with both hands and looked inside as you sat down next to him.

"coffee?" he asked, looking over at you.

"i seriously shouldn't have given you something with caffeine in it," you said to him as you took a sip of your coffee. "don't tell me you've been out here the whole night? it's freezing."

"nah, i played games all night before coming back out here," vernon answered and drank some of the coffee.

"you're crazy."

"i know."

the two of you talked for awhile and the sun eventually came up. you watched vernon as he looked at the sun rise.

"that's it?" he asked as the sun came up.

"what were you expecting? fireworks?" you replied to his response.

he shrugged, "you never know," he replied, which made you roll your eyes at him. "star gazing is much more fun than sun gazing."

"you shouldn't even be sun gazing, you'll kill your retinas or whatever," you said to him and stood up.

"sun gazing, morning gazing, whatever," he said and then you heard his stomach growl.

you laughed, "want breakfast?" you asked him.

"i was gonna ask you that actually."

"you can cook?"

"no, but i got money that i can spend."

"deal."