#all i am asking for is having seungsik as my coworker pleasse

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Summary: You show up to your first night shift but you didn’t really manage to adjust your sleep pattern.

Genre: Fluff!

It was literally your first nightshift ever.

as you assigned for it you were just a little bit worried but mostly excited.

seeing common places at strange times of the day can be really interesting

different lighting, people and an overall different feeling...

but since you did never work the night shift before you don’t quite know what is going on at your company during the night

other coworkers have warned you about it, saying the nightshift is usually busier than the day shifts

but it pays much better so you thought ‘why not give it a try?’

you arrive at your company’s building a few minutes late

checking in through the main entrance showing the security your employee badge and walking straight up to your office

which you usually didn’t share even though it has two workspaces

due to staff shortage you are used to getting everything done yourself and also keeping you busy for 8 hours straight

but today there was aöready someone there

so you carefully opened the door and entered the room, not sure if you maybe made a mistake and messed up the date of your shift or something

“Hi, ehm, today’s the 16th, right?”

The man gets. up and looks at his phone

“Yeah it’s march 16th. Oh you must be Y/N? I got told we would be on the night shift together. I’m Seungsik.”

You shook his hand and then walk past his chair to get to your desk

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know there would be someone else here. Is it really that busy at night they need to people?”

“Sometimes. But you can never really tell beforehand. Just see what happens and roll with it.”

So you roll with it

and turns out: tonight would be a chill night

for the first three hours or so the two of you would work on the emails and papers that come in and get the paperwork done which the dayshift left for you

around 1 am Seungsik gets up and stretches

“You want some coffee?”

“Yes please. I feel like I am falling asleep any second.”

He snickers.  “But it’s only 1 am. You have 5 hours ahead of you.”

“I deal with that once I get to it.” You joked and he left the office laughing, saying he would be right back

“So do you work here fulltime?”

You shake your head and take a smal sip of the steaming hot coffee and immediately regret it 

“Part time.” You answer. “I am a student but I work every shift I can. You?”

“I study part-time and work here the rest of it.”

“So you study logistics or something?”

“That sort of thing.” He leaned back in his chair

You decide it is time for a break so the two of you get comfy in your chairs

Seungsik has his legs crossed and his security badge resting in the pocket of his dress shirt

you put your scarf on your thighs like a blanked about an hour ago 

sitting like this you chat for a while about this and that until you find out you both study at the same university

“How come I’ve never seen you on campus our departments are not far from each other.” he exclaimes

“Not far? It’s the other side of the campus. Across the track fiel. How is that not far?”

“You see”, Seungsik sais. “I study logistics and not architecture. What do I know about numbers?”

You admit: “Touché.”

half an hour later you get back to work

a ton of emails did roll in while you talked

you are busy with that for the time being 

But something is different than before though

since you talked with him that much and you got along so well you wondered if it would be okay to ask him for his instagram or number maybe?

Just to see if he is wroking any other shifts or ask work related questons ofc

but that yould be so weird, right?

after all you didn’t know each other and is older than you as well

you aren’t studying in the same semester

perhaps he even has a girlfriend? You didn’t ask him about so you wouldn’t know

at 3 am you start. yawning non stop

your eyes tearing up everytime and you sniff

“You good?” Seungsik looks at you amusedly

you shake your head once more: “Yeeah, I’m good!”

He laughs “Yeah sure.”

His fingers move quickly over the keyboard, filling out forms routinately while you barely manage to answer and email without too many typos

Minutes pass and you don’t even notice how your lids slowly fell shut and your minds starts drifting away

“You can go to sleep.”

His words woke you up and you twitch awake

“What?” You look around blinking. “No, no I can do it.”

Seungsik looks at you with softly smiling eyes reassuring you it’s alright and that he means his offer.

“It’s alright, there’s not much to do. I can take care of it myself.”

“What if someone checks by?”

“That never happened to me during night shift. At htis time people are just doing the bare minimum to keep this place running until the morning. Just sleep.”

After a bit more of ‘No, I will get through this’s and ‘But you will fall asleep as well’s you finally give up and settle in your chair

“but if there is anything you need an extra hand with you wake me up??”

“Yes of course. Don’t worry.”

the clock on your computer showes 5:30 am when he wake you up

the sun is about to rise and lime-washes the buildings infront of the window in a slightly lighter shade of blue

the last half hour of your shift nothing happens so you eventually gather your things and take the elevator down to the entrance

on the entire way you guys don’t say a word to each other, now both desperately trying to stay awake

after signing out you halt at the door

“Seungsik?”

He turns around “What is it?”

“Would it be very weird if I ask you for your phone number? Just for work related things of course! If I maybe have questions or to check when or if we’re are working together again?”

“It wouldn’t be too weird. I wanted to ask you about yours as well. Just -” He pauses

“Just?”

“I wanted to get your number for personal reasons. But if you only want to be colleagues than that’s fine with me! I didn’t even ask if you have a boyfriend maybe or a girlfriend. Either way would be great for you.”

You laugh and suddenly feel that huge relief 

“You can have my number for such purposes! Working with you was a lot of fun, thank you.”

“Not that you worked much but yeah I can just give that right bak at you.”

“But you told me it was okay to sleep!”

he cackled and his laughter chimed across the street making some people turn their heads towards you

“I know I know. Now give me your number or I will miss my train.”

And just like this morning comes

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