Read a book today, would not recommend. I have fallen to the "just one more chapter" curse. It is now 5 am.

jaehyun x reader

librarian! au

genre: fluff

words: 1.7k

warnings: realistic portrayals of college life lol

ive said before that im being self indulgent with posts

but this is really it

im really out here writing this

lets get into this mess

so youre studying right

and you yourself do not have a laptop of your own

bc welcome to being a broke college kid im calling myself out

so you decide that youre gonna go to the library on campus bc sis,, cash in on the tuition money ok

so you go and youre like wow hahahaha i dont have a library card better sign up for one

so you go to the desk and theres no one there

just your luck really

you decide to wander around a little to see if theres anyone who can help you

and low and behold you stumble across someone

this young man knelt down by a shelf with a book rack next to him just humming softly and organizing books

and you catch his attention by clearing your throat slightly

he looks up and his eyes are big over the rims of his wire framed glasses that are clinging to the tip of his round button nose

and his hair is a little mussed from being bent down

but holy hell

youve read enough novels to know that this must be exactly what the characters are talking about when they say things like ‘love at first sight’

“sorry” he says as he standcs and brushes himself off “can i help you with anything?”

starstruck really

you manage to stutter out something about needing to register for a library card and he smiles so kindly it makes u want to melt

“sure!’ he says, motioning for you to follow him back up to the desk

is this what a trance feels like???

he asks you a few basic questions, like your name, your age, and what building your dorm is in so he can put it all on your new nifty library card

and then he turns around this lil webcam on top of his computer and asks you to stand in front of it and smile

and you do, awkwardly

and as hes looking down at the computer counting “3, 2, 1” he has this smile on his face like hes trying to hide it

and if that didnt make ur heart jump you dont know what ever would holy

so he prints off your card as youre still trying to recover from being in the presence of an angel

and he hands it to you and smiles

“library hours are 8 am to 12 am every day, but on the weekends i’m the one that closes. which means if you ever need some extra time to finish that essay you pushed off,,, i wont tell anyone”

aND HE W I NK S

and not lot a hot wink

but a cute?? wink??? if thats possible

like you have a secret with him now and its safe

you wonder absently as you stare down at the black and white picture of yourself on the back of your new card if he tells everyone about him closing on the weekends

and if he doesnt does that make you special???/

you smile and thank him again, maybe a little more confidently than before and head for the door

you realise as youre halfway out that you came here to study on the computers but you really need some time to sit down and process the fact that you just say an actual angel

you can do your math homework on your phone for one more night if it means you can turn down your body heat from screaming blushing mess to slightly embarrassed rosy cheeks

the next time you get a chance to run by the library on campus, it just so happens to be sunday

you catch yourself wondering if dream boy meant friday and saturday or saturday and sunday when he said weekends

thats not important right now

what is important is that you have actual business to do in the library today

and that business is to pick up hamlet for your english class

you check in and someone else is at the front desk

you try not to let yourself feel disappointed

i mean you met him once for christs sake

the guy at the front is equally as attractive as dream boy from the previous week, but a little more relaxed to talk to since he isnt giving you any flirty subtones

the kid is all business really

he tells you that his name is doyoung if you need anything else

you ask how he got the job there, out of curiousity

because really, both of the librarians youve encountered seem pretty young for the standard librarian stereotype

doyoung explains that its a work-study job, so nearly all the people that work there are students at the university and work in between classes or on their off days to make some extra cash or pay off some tuition

and you can get behind that!!

so doyoung is cool and you decide you can go to him to ask questions instead

because while dream boy is a dream boy with pretty cheekbones and nice lips and a smooth voice and a good sense of style and a great height without insoles and looks great with glasses and has the most captivating eyes

hes a lil distracting lol

anyway you find yourself in the shakespearean section

and you grab a hamlet off the shelf and head back up to the front to have doyoung check the book out to you

and as hes handing you the book back you get a classroom notification saying that, despite common belief, the book rental wasnt due by tomorrow, but the whole book reading is due by tomorrow

you wonder how the fuck professors get away with shit like this and then you remember that you didnt bother to read the syllabus so you cant really get too mad at anyone but yourself

so you find a table that looks like it has the comfiest chairs and cozy up for a long evening of reading and annotating

(depending on who you are you either love or hate hamlet, either way it is exhausting to annotate anything from that man so bear with me ok)

five hours later and ⅔ of the annotations later it is 11:56pm

and you havent noticed

you hadnt noticed much of anything happening in the real world after you popped in a headphone and started reading about guards seeing a ghost

that is until someone plops down in the seat in front of you and asks

“so what are you studying”

and you look up, a little delayed because youre finishing a notation

only to find that its dream boy

and your brain blanks for a sec bc wow every time you see him its kinda like?? ouch???? my heart bro

so you just kind of shake your head and mutter some “im not really sure anymore”

and theres some truth to that!! first there were ghosts and now theres dead girlfriends dads and dead girlfriends and talking about a skull in a graveyard

that play is really a wild ride brother

and dream boy sits there and laughs, wholesomely

you could die happy

“yeah i get that” he says, rubbing the back of his neck

theres a pause that carries on a bit too long

“wanna hear a dumb joke?” he asks suddenly

you smile then, partially out of exhaustion and partially because wow?? cutie

“sure” you say

“okay. what do you call a nervous javelin thrower?”

you pause for a sec bc wtf

“dunno. what do you call them?”

he flashes this cute fucking grin that you know is supposed to be slick but just comes off as wholesome and says

“shakespeare”

and you shouldve seen that coming wow

and its so dumb that you actually??? giggle????? and that turns into a laugh??

youre probably just exhausted from annotations but maybe that was actually funny

and his smile softens like hes made progress on something

“y/n, right? i dont think i ever actually introduced myself. i’m jaehyun”

he smiles and reaches across the tabe and you take his hand

its warm and strong and you try not to think about it too hard

“well, y/n, library loses here in another two minutes or so.”

he sees the look on your face fall

“but never fear!” he leans forward and lowers his voice

you hold your breath

“i told ya you could stay, didnt i?”

his smile is closed lipped and cute and genuine

before you can say anything hes up and ushering the last few people out of the library, telling them good night and good luck with their classes tomorrow

youre kind of caught in a brain dead daze after finally being pulled from your studying to watching this cute librarian named jaehyun bustle around and lock doors and turn off lights

and when he finally gets back to you he clicks on the lamp on the table youre working at and sets a cup of coffee in front of you

he mustve made it as you were falling asleep with your eyes open

you thank him copiously before asking

“i thought you let everyone stay after hours when you closed”

he looks up over the rim of his mug with a surprised look in his eyes

he shakes his head as swallows the clearly too hot coffee

“not at all. most of the time i kick them out and study by myself.”

he blushes like its a confession and it makes you feel,,,, something

but you dont want to press

so you just reach out and offer your other headphone to him because if you dont know what to say then you can both enjoy some good study music

so he pulls out his homework for the night and the two of you sit there and study

you sip off your coffee occasionally and both of you nod your heads to the music playing in your ears

he hums along to the ones he knows and a thought skips across your mind

you could get used to this

(theres a 100000% chance there will be a part two to this)

> Suddenly be friends now.

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flippinoptimist long story short, the furthest ring exists.  in it, there are univverses, and places called mediums.  a bunch of shit happens in a medium, and it sends some dudes into a universe.  they livve normal livves, until The Game (tm) kidnaps them into the Medium. in the Medium, they do shit that makes another universe pop out of the medium, and into the furthest ring.  bam, new universe. doubleddiscontent ok, iim followwin flippinoptimist in the process you get magic powers, but also the universe you grew up in gets destroyed. so its bad news if youre not a misanthropist doubleddiscontent good riiddance flippinoptimist lol its also incredibly dangerous an theres a p high chance of dyin if you fuck up or if your friends fuck up or if things just dont go well thats why theres an entire player dedicated to nothing but managing the savve system.  they travel back an forth in time and "tune" shit until they get it just right and the group wins doubleddiscontent fuck man flippinoptimist but 90+% of the timelines out there are from ones that a time player decided werent good enough, and fixed something, then left to go hang out in the fixed vversion doubleddiscontent wwaiit wwhat kiinda cool powwer2 am ii gonna get?? 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flippinoptimist yeah doubleddiscontent >>:[ ii dont thiink roxzee ha2 iit iin her twwo hurt anyone but iif iit happen2 iill mee22age you flippinoptimist roxzee...  same logic; bard of vvoid or -maybe- rogue of rage i think her title means "passivvely invvites the destruction of nothing" wwhich is fuckin what the fuck evven is with vvoid titles doubleddiscontent huh... wwhat about arquii2? arquii2 zahhal flippinoptimist idk, half his name makes sense but naut the other half flippinoptimist equius zahhak is the heir of vvoid, who "inherits nothin" so im guessin (Again, if that logic holds, wwhich it might naut) hed be heir of somethin i dont know what doubleddiscontent can there be twwo a the 2me kiinda player? flippinoptimist not unless somethin is super fucky no overlaps doubleddiscontent ok thii2 ii2 vvaluable iinfo thank2 dude flippinoptimist ...unless you import extra players from other univverses doubleddiscontent >>:/ flippinoptimist wwhich you can do, they just might get locked into the session for the duration?? idk i only saww that once doubleddiscontent the multiivver2e ii2 fuckiin 2trange flippinoptimist anyway the normal dudes who are Supposed to be there, therell be 12 or less (barrin non-standard titles) and there wont be overlaps yeah its weird as shit anyway i dig helpin out doubleddiscontent ii havve 2evven clo2e friiend2 flippinoptimist the sprite thing i mentioned?  i kind of havve like, about 1% tutorial NPC kind of hangin out in the back of my pan so i like explainin doubleddiscontent (read: contact2 on trolliian) flippinoptimist yea thats about right plot spoiler : figure out who is the space player (guessing:  kan*** ***yam?), keep them safe.  they havve a quest that makes the plot go.  they need to breed the perfect frog usin weird machines. flippinoptimist do naut let them die or get distracted from that quest doubleddiscontent ii havvent mentiioned karaya, jakane, tavrii2 or fefeta flippinoptimist your session sounds like its gonna be a trip doubleddiscontent twwo evveryone but me, my uniivver2e ii2 a triip flippinoptimist im naut 100% convinced on which title is which rn, but ask sprites and time players ASAP to find out your ~magic destiny~ doubleddiscontent 2ound2 fun flippinoptimist depends on which one you get mine translates as "destroyer of choices/minds" or "god of madness" or "destructivve choices" doubleddiscontent that2... 2omethiin flippinoptimist yeah im kinda tryin to spin it in a good way i like to think of convversations like this as prunin timelines off a you -- all the ones that come outta reel shitty destructivve decisions doubleddiscontent iit 2ound2 hella that2 probably wwhat araezii 2howwed up for flippinoptimist yeah her job if shes a time player is to make sure that the game happens, and then that you guys win somehow she can go back and forth in time at wwill as much as she wants to make that happen doubleddiscontent that2 the wwort thiin iivve evver heard uck flippinoptimist i ran into a thief of time once flippinoptimist he stole time out of my universe until time started breakin down, and slowin down into infinity doubleddiscontent that 2ound2 terriible flippinoptimist i almost got caught in it before somebody rescued me an pulled me out doubleddiscontent jeez flippinoptimist thats the title dont wwear it out doubleddiscontent wwiink? flippinoptimist an fingerguns! speakin a fingerguns, pchoo! > He sendificates some stuffed peppers. doubleddiscontent > Oh fuck yes. doubleddiscontent > If Vel wants to peek at the viewfinder he gets to see Erisol chowing down. thank2 man the2e are deliiciiou2 flippinoptimist ivve been practicin cookin! it makes me happy doubleddiscontent you 2hould come game wwiith me 2ometiime. not The Game, ju2t liike raciing or 2omethiin. flippinoptimist sure maybe, could be fun doubleddiscontent ii wwent wwiithout iin per22on 2ociialiizin pretty much my wwhole liife and ii ju2t got iintroduced ta actually hangiin out, 2orry flippinoptimist haha, same hat ivve had longer to get used to it but i know the feel doubleddiscontent howw old are you? you dont gotta an2wwer flippinoptimist my sense a times been p fucked up for a wwhile now but i think im around 10ish somewwhere betwwen 9 and 11 doubleddiscontent iim niine, clo2e twwo ten almo2t twwo adult pupatiion, flippinoptimist yeah... if the game falls through and you need other shit to do wif yourself, ask around online.  theres places to go that suck less. doubleddiscontent ok flippinoptimist hell in ringleaders wworld youd be a highblood w/o documentation isnt that shit a trip? 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