"You can call me Han Hyung." Cold air suddenly replaced the warmth after Haneul said those words, leaving Han Beom speechless with a forced smile.
The poor boy started to shiver and sweat a little, but he held back anything might expose him to the beast in front of him. He started to understand what Aera meant when he called him lunatic, the man in front of him was inches close to jump at him and strangle him, or that's what his eyes said, but he swears he had done nothing wrong yet to get on his bad side!
The cold silence made things awkward for them both but Haneul stood his grounds and kept staring at Han Beom like a beast watching its prey. Han would really appreciate it if Haneul told him to leave, he wants to leave this place as soon as possible, or god knows what will happen to him if he stays any longer in this room with this scary boss.
A day didn't even pass but he's already suffocating from all this. While Han was busy questioning his life decisions, Haneul watched his moves and expressions carefully; waiting for the wrong one to could end Han Beom's career before it even starts in a millisecond, but the polite boy broke his expectations, it seems Aera had already taught him how to deal with people like him and that had hurt his pride a bit. He has been working hard to meet Aera's expectations to could get closer to him and the kid in front of him managed to do what he tried to do in five years in only one week!
As much as he wants to get rid of him he still can't, not because the poor boy had done nothing wrong, it's because he doesn't want Aera to abandon him for real this time, so the only thing he can do for now is to help the one in front of him so he can help him with Aera.
Han looked back and forth at his shoes and Haneul's face. "Ok then" haneul mumbled, expecting Han Beom to hear him before he kept going, "I'd like to ask you a-" before he finished, Han Beom bind down and snapped back up when he heard Haneul's tune rose.
"What did you say?" Haneul's right eye twitched from irritation, preparing himself to bury the boy down where he's sitting. No one ever disrespected him this way. Whenever he wanted to say a thing the whole room would fall into a deadly silence and no one would dare to move or even cough while he talks, so this is the first time in his whole life someone disturbed him in the middle of talking, except for Aera and his twin of course.
If only he had longer arms, he'd slap Han Beom but it seems this time it won't work so meh. This time only, though... Back to the main topic, Haneul wondered how Han will help him with the matter with Aera but deep down he felt this isn't the right time for that so after what Han did, he decided to reconsider the idea of sharing such private matter with a stranger and let it slid for now and wait for a better time to talk about it.
"Do you want to work here?" He sighed before he said it, when he looked up at Han he saw the dire need in the young man's eyes, "Can I?" He asked his voice trembling slightly all because he was close to a breakdown, he then looked back at himself, remembering how he looks like, how ugly he is compared to those working here to even consider showing himself to women outside. He pierced his lip from anger, hatred and fear from himself.
"Don't worry about your looks" Haneul shrugged, "I promised Aera I'll help you with that, so we'll take care of that slowly. Until then, you'll work in the kitchen and maybe cleaning after we close..." He said before he add staring at Han in the eye "If you can", he looked at Han Beom carefully, absorbing him well before he witnessed the face that just reminded him of someone "Yea! Yea yea sure! I'll do my best!" Han Beom said excitedly before he jumped from his seat and started the waves of questions "How many hours should I work? How much will I get per day? Oh no or is it per hour? Or monthly? I'm sorry I don't know how all that work since this will be my first time working as a part timer. Have there been any troubles I need to know about to avoid & make sure they don't happen again?"
Haneul saw the need in his eyes as his need for air, food and water. He smiled at him before he crossed his arms, rolled his chair back and stared at him with a wide grin. "Can you start now?" Han stopped in the middle of his celebration and screamed with glowing eyes "YES!! Oh no wait! I need to go back home and talk to my parents and see if they-"
"Ok, ok. You can start tomorrow" Haneul stood from his place and patted his head. He walked him to the front door before giving him a push to the hall and whispered before shutting the door "congratulations, you're accepted"
Beom stood still for a second, processing what just happened, when it all made sense, he rushed to find Aera and share the amazing news with him. Aera was chatting with the receptionist & blond guy when he heard someone call him, the moment he turned, two arms were holding him and a happy voice saying "I made it! He accepted me! It's all thanks to you hyung, thank you thank you thank you!!"
Aera smiled warmly happiness blooming in his heart once again, 'this is good, this is enough for me. To have you between my arms and happily talking about the good things' he thought while holding Han tightly and patting his back following them with encouraging words.