Most who got to know him expected his job to be something boring, like a librarian or begrudged retail clerk, not a barista at the hole in the wall eclectic café with the ironic thingamabobs and doohickeys decorating the walls, acquired street art paintings, and inside-jokes scrawled across the bathroom stalls that always seemed to allude to Shakespeare or another dead writer.
Post-humorous humor aside, Sehun reveled in the unique peculiarity of his work place; he liked how the scarf he gave his boss was hanging from the wall instead of wrapped around her neck, and that there was always a different flower beside the cash register every day (there was a prize for properly identifying each flower for a week). However the slightly off tune piano wedged into the corner held a special place in his heart, and his coworkers, that were comfortable with him, were always nudging him to play during the lulls in the afternoons.
On this particularly dreary day, Sehun was stuck on a shift by himself. Rain softly tapping at the window panes, as if asking to come inside and warm up. Finding himself grazing his fingertips over the keys, he pressed down lightly and smiled softly at the solitary note hanging in the air. Lithe touches filled the cozy café with a playful, albeit lonely, melody and Sehun hummed the non-piano parts to himself as he played. Lost in the music, he didn’t hear the soft chime of the bell above the door nor the shuffle of footfalls.