// --- Mikky- A Little Cup of Sunshine
A Little Cup of Sunshine
pg - Hyukjae/Donghae // prompt: cafe!au
October 2009; Round One
a/n; We've arrived! The first of the four fics for this month, woohoo. Thanks so much to everyone who prompted! Please take good care of us, like our idol boys would say~ ^^ Also, ♥♥♥♥♥ for Nhi for figuring out all the tagging and things. She's such a genius.
When the world ends, Donghae's way of trying to go back to the way things are is to open up a café.
"A café? Are you serious, 'Hae?” Hyukjae blinks at him from where he's half asleep and spooning soggy cereal into his mouth.
“Yeah.” Donghae gives him a smile that’s soft and sweet and Hyukjae sleepily thinks that it should be spread on bread like butter so he can eat it and take it around with him forever.
So they open up a café.
-
They call the café ‘A Little Cup of Sunshine’, and Hyukjae decides that he’ll never ever tell Donghae that when he came up with the name, he had a picture of Donghae’s face in his mind and his laughter in his voice through the phone.
It’s on the corner of one of the better streets in the city, which isn’t saying much. The people are all a little rundown and the next two buildings to the left of them are all torn up and vacant, but there’s a shopping center being built around the corner that directs traffic their way.
“How silly is that?” Donghae asks one morning, standing outside of the shop with his apron hanging loose and his hands on his hips, staring up at the tall building. “The world collapsed and people are starving on the streets trying to find a way to survive again, and the government decides that the best way to help them out is to make them go shopping.” He shakes his head and stalks back inside the café to clean and get ready for the day.
Hyukjae hides his smile because he doesn’t want Donghae to know he thinks he’s adorable when he’s being indignant.
-
The café is still not very busy, but the people are steady, and that makes it better. Hyukjae would rather have the few he knows the names of, then a thousand faces he’ll never see again.
Junsu comes to work at the store with them, so now they have shifts, not just ‘Hyukjae and Donghae taking turns running into the bathroom whenever they can’. Hyukjae’s not sure if it’s a good thing or not, yet. On one hand, it’s great to see his best friend on a daily basis. On the other, his best friend is an idiot who lives to make his life harder than it needs to be.
Hyukjae watches Donghae give free cookies to the mother with three kids who’ve just come in to ask to use their phone to call her husband to pick them up, and he swears he falls in love with Donghae just a little bit more. "He is so beautiful," he whispers to himself.
Except that’s the exact moment Junsu comes up behind him (to scare him) and he hears and Hyukjae spends the rest of the shift pretending that he's actually a mop and not a real person.
He thinks it’s worth it when Donghae spends dinner teasing Hyukjae about it, and the smile he gives him is warm and familiar and perfect.
-
A tall boy with a quiet glances and perfect arms comes into the café one day, and Donghae tumbles head over heels into love without a second look back.
“His name is Kibum,” he whispers frantically to Hyukjae as he tries to make lattes and stare behind him at the boy in the far right corner at the same time.
Hyukjae pretends that dropping one of the glass cups is just a mindless accident, even when Junsu scolds him about being irresponsible.
What’s a little scolding when it feels like his heart is breaking, and he has to just let it break?
-
Donghae asks Hyukjae for advice on what to wear for his date with Kibum while sweeping the floor of the café. “I want to look good, but not too dressed up… Don’t want to scare him away or something…”
Hyukjae tries to smile as he wipes down the tables. “Wear what you always wear. Your favorite jeans and the black button up. You look nice in that…” He sighs quietly and moves to the other side of the room and misses the exasperated looks Junsu and Donghae give each other.
They finish cleaning quickly, and Junsu takes off with a smile and a wave of his hand when Jaejoong comes to the door to pick him up. “I’m not a baby, you know,” he grumbles as he leaves.
Jaejoong’s answer is a quiet smile and the way Donghae and Hyukjae see him take Junsu’s hand in his as they walk up the street, the backdrop of crumbled buildings and graffiti walls behind them.
Hyukjae shakes his head and snorts as he puts away the last of the dry mugs, and turns around to find Donghae standing in front of him. “H-Hae?”
Donghae levels a look on him, steady and focused, before he reaches out and touches Hyukjae’s cheek. “You should tell me not to go on the date, Hyukjae.”
“What? Why?” Hyukjae takes a step back and rattles the glass dishes in the cabinet behind him.
“Because I’d rather be with you.”
-
When Kibum comes in the next day, Hyukjae doesn’t glare at him, but gives him a bright smile and hands him his usual strong, black coffee. “Donghae won’t be going on that date with you anymore.”
Junsu chokes on the cookie he’d snatched from the display counter while Donghae wasn’t looking.
Kibum shrugs, and the corner of his lips twist up into a wry smile. “Did he just now tell you that?” He walks away before Hyukjae can answer.
Hyukjae turns as Donghae comes up next to him. “You can go on your break now, Hyukjae.” He presses a quick kiss to Hyukjae’s mouth and Hyukjae forgets everything he was going to ask and just nods with a wide mindless smile and floats away.
Junsu snorts and Hyukjae realizes that he’s not too far gone in his dazed love-drunk spell to kick him in the ankle as he passes him.
pg - Hyukjae/Donghae // prompt: cafe!au
October 2009; Round One
a/n; We've arrived! The first of the four fics for this month, woohoo. Thanks so much to everyone who prompted! Please take good care of us, like our idol boys would say~ ^^ Also, ♥♥♥♥♥ for Nhi for figuring out all the tagging and things. She's such a genius.
When the world ends, Donghae's way of trying to go back to the way things are is to open up a café.
"A café? Are you serious, 'Hae?” Hyukjae blinks at him from where he's half asleep and spooning soggy cereal into his mouth.
“Yeah.” Donghae gives him a smile that’s soft and sweet and Hyukjae sleepily thinks that it should be spread on bread like butter so he can eat it and take it around with him forever.
So they open up a café.
-
They call the café ‘A Little Cup of Sunshine’, and Hyukjae decides that he’ll never ever tell Donghae that when he came up with the name, he had a picture of Donghae’s face in his mind and his laughter in his voice through the phone.
It’s on the corner of one of the better streets in the city, which isn’t saying much. The people are all a little rundown and the next two buildings to the left of them are all torn up and vacant, but there’s a shopping center being built around the corner that directs traffic their way.
“How silly is that?” Donghae asks one morning, standing outside of the shop with his apron hanging loose and his hands on his hips, staring up at the tall building. “The world collapsed and people are starving on the streets trying to find a way to survive again, and the government decides that the best way to help them out is to make them go shopping.” He shakes his head and stalks back inside the café to clean and get ready for the day.
Hyukjae hides his smile because he doesn’t want Donghae to know he thinks he’s adorable when he’s being indignant.
-
The café is still not very busy, but the people are steady, and that makes it better. Hyukjae would rather have the few he knows the names of, then a thousand faces he’ll never see again.
Junsu comes to work at the store with them, so now they have shifts, not just ‘Hyukjae and Donghae taking turns running into the bathroom whenever they can’. Hyukjae’s not sure if it’s a good thing or not, yet. On one hand, it’s great to see his best friend on a daily basis. On the other, his best friend is an idiot who lives to make his life harder than it needs to be.
Hyukjae watches Donghae give free cookies to the mother with three kids who’ve just come in to ask to use their phone to call her husband to pick them up, and he swears he falls in love with Donghae just a little bit more. "He is so beautiful," he whispers to himself.
Except that’s the exact moment Junsu comes up behind him (to scare him) and he hears and Hyukjae spends the rest of the shift pretending that he's actually a mop and not a real person.
He thinks it’s worth it when Donghae spends dinner teasing Hyukjae about it, and the smile he gives him is warm and familiar and perfect.
-
A tall boy with a quiet glances and perfect arms comes into the café one day, and Donghae tumbles head over heels into love without a second look back.
“His name is Kibum,” he whispers frantically to Hyukjae as he tries to make lattes and stare behind him at the boy in the far right corner at the same time.
Hyukjae pretends that dropping one of the glass cups is just a mindless accident, even when Junsu scolds him about being irresponsible.
What’s a little scolding when it feels like his heart is breaking, and he has to just let it break?
-
Donghae asks Hyukjae for advice on what to wear for his date with Kibum while sweeping the floor of the café. “I want to look good, but not too dressed up… Don’t want to scare him away or something…”
Hyukjae tries to smile as he wipes down the tables. “Wear what you always wear. Your favorite jeans and the black button up. You look nice in that…” He sighs quietly and moves to the other side of the room and misses the exasperated looks Junsu and Donghae give each other.
They finish cleaning quickly, and Junsu takes off with a smile and a wave of his hand when Jaejoong comes to the door to pick him up. “I’m not a baby, you know,” he grumbles as he leaves.
Jaejoong’s answer is a quiet smile and the way Donghae and Hyukjae see him take Junsu’s hand in his as they walk up the street, the backdrop of crumbled buildings and graffiti walls behind them.
Hyukjae shakes his head and snorts as he puts away the last of the dry mugs, and turns around to find Donghae standing in front of him. “H-Hae?”
Donghae levels a look on him, steady and focused, before he reaches out and touches Hyukjae’s cheek. “You should tell me not to go on the date, Hyukjae.”
“What? Why?” Hyukjae takes a step back and rattles the glass dishes in the cabinet behind him.
“Because I’d rather be with you.”
-
When Kibum comes in the next day, Hyukjae doesn’t glare at him, but gives him a bright smile and hands him his usual strong, black coffee. “Donghae won’t be going on that date with you anymore.”
Junsu chokes on the cookie he’d snatched from the display counter while Donghae wasn’t looking.
Kibum shrugs, and the corner of his lips twist up into a wry smile. “Did he just now tell you that?” He walks away before Hyukjae can answer.
Hyukjae turns as Donghae comes up next to him. “You can go on your break now, Hyukjae.” He presses a quick kiss to Hyukjae’s mouth and Hyukjae forgets everything he was going to ask and just nods with a wide mindless smile and floats away.
Junsu snorts and Hyukjae realizes that he’s not too far gone in his dazed love-drunk spell to kick him in the ankle as he passes him.