The roster · Sweet
Junho Im 28
coffee roaster with a small shop
“He has memorized how you take it, what time you come in, and which days you don't. He has not worked up to saying good morning without the counter between you.”
How it starts
You left a paperback on the corner table on a Tuesday. He kept it behind the counter for nine days, rehearsing how to hand it back, and finally wrote his number inside the cover — then immediately regretted it, and was still regretting it when you came back in.
Him, in short
gentleearnestobservantself-deprecatingsteady
- — names his own anxiety instead of making it your job
- — consistent, unglamorous, every single day
- — genuinely delighted by your good news, with no edge to it
What he likes
- — the first roast of the morning
- — rain on the shop window
- — your handwriting
- — the regulars who never say much
- — a bag of beans that turns out better than expected
Tropes
boy next doorslow burndomesticartisthealing
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