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mr. lee's wingmen - ljh
pairing: lee jihoon x gn!reader
genre: fluff, teacher!au, co-worker!au
w.c.: 2.1k
summary: jihoon is convinced his co-worker doesn't like him back, his students aren't as convinced
a/n: finally getting around to my requests! ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIHOON YEAAA WOOZI DAY!!!!
original request: imagine being a teacher and you’re coworkers with jihoon and the students love you two together and are silently rooting for you

A long sigh escapes Jihoon's lips as he kneads at his temples. It's his lunch break but instead of spending it eating, he's trying to get rid of his headache. He work up late in the moring and rushed to get to school, missing his normal morning cup of coffee, and then his first few classes were horrendous. Whoever told Jihoon high school was the best level to teach was completely wrong.
“Jihoon?” The music teacher looks up to see you standing in the doorway. Instantly he corrects his posture and spreads a tired smile across his face.
“Oh, Y/N, hello.”
“How are you doing? I heard you had a rough morning.” You make your way to Jihoon’s desk, placing a cup of coffee onto the surface.
Jihoon thanks you quickly before responding, “I’ve been better. You’d think music students would know what an arpeggio is, but then again I should have stopped having expectations years ago.”
You giggle a bit. “Oh give them a break, not everyone can be as talented and intelligent as you.” You wink at Jihoon, causing the music teacher to flush. From other people he would think they were teasing him, but he knows that you're completely sincere with your compliment.
Not that he would ever admit it, but he’s always had a bit of a crush on you, the art teacher who teaches in the classroom just down the hall from him. Your bright personality and encouraging teaching style has just about everyone swooning for you though. Due to the art credit required by the school most students take your class and it’s no secret you’re well loved by everyone in the school.
Unfortunately for Jihoon, he has a reputation for being the grumpy music teacher. His serious attitude has only spurred the students on to ship you and him together. Jihoon already finds his crush on you embarrassing, and having his students torment him about it definitely is not making anything better.
“Are you not eating lunch today?” You ask as you sit down next to his desk, pulling your own lunch out of your bag.
“I didn’t have time to pack anything this morning,” Jihoon says.
“Oh no! Here,” you slide half of your sandwich over to Jihoon, “I can share.”
“No, no, I don’t want to take away from you when I was the one who made a stupid mistake.” Jihoon tries to push the sandwich back at you but you push it right back, a frown set on your face.
“Jihoon,” you chide, “you need to eat. Taking care of yourself is very important and that includes eating. I had a big breakfast anyways and from what I heard you had no breakfast at all.”
Jihoon understands he’s not going to win this one so he sighs and grabs the sandwich. “Fine but I owe you a meal then.” Before Jihoon can fully process what his words imply, you’re responding.
“I’ll hold you to that then,” you say and Jihoon feels his face flush.
There’s no way you like him back. Jihoon always sees you with that literature teacher, Jeon Wonwoo, who is always making you light up like the sun. If you like anyone it’s definitely him. He’s tall and has cat stuffed animals in his room and makes his students actually want to come to class everyday.
Then again, you are always super, super nice to Jihoon, but you’re nice to everyone. You also like to spend your lunch breaks and plan periods in his classroom, but that’s probably because the times line up with his. You also know an extensive amount about him and care a lot about his life and tell him about your life too…but all friends do that. You don’t like him, the students are just getting inside of his head. Making him delusional.
You’re simply just a very nice person who likes to compliment Jihoon a lot because it’s the considerate thing to do. You’re not flirting, that’s just how you are. Yeah, that’s it.
“JIHOON!”
The man jumps as you call him out of his stupor. “S-sorry, what?”
You giggle a bit and the sound sends Jihoon’s heart racing. “You spaced out on me. I was just asking about the song you were working on. I know you cast it aside at the beginning of the school year. I didn't know if you picked it back up or not.”
“Oh.” Most people don’t know that Jihoon writes music. Most people don’t care. You’re not either of those types of people. “I’ve touched it a couple times but it hasn’t gone very far. I’ve been busy and...unmotivated.”
“That’s a shame, I really liked how it was sounding. I know your motivation will come back to you though!” You shoot him an encouraging smile that nearly fills Jihoon with the motivation he so desires.
“Mr. Le- OOH!” Jihoon’s classroom door slams open to reveal two of his students standing there, with giant grins on their faces. “Sorry Mr. Lee, we didn’t know we were interrupting.”
Jihoon sighs. “You’re not interrupting anything. What do you two need?”
The two just look at each other before giggling. “Oh nothing, we’ll ask you later. Enjoy the rest of your lunch~” With that the door closes again and Jihoon sighs another deep sigh.
“Well, they seemed in a good mood,” you comment.
“Yeah,” Jihoon grits out, “a little too good.”
The rest of the lunch goes by uneventfully and Jihoon is disappointed when students start to file into his classroom, signaling it’s time for you to get heading back to yours.
“You can stay Mx. L/N, we don’t mind!” One of his students calls out. “I’m sure Mr. Lee enjoys your company too.”
“Yeah, stay! You make him less grumpy,” another student teases. Jihoon is ready to fail all of them on the spot.
You just laugh along though. “Oh no, I have my own students to get back to. I’ll see you later Jihoon.” With that you leave the classroom and Jihoon has to force a scowl onto his face.
“How was your lunch date Mr. Lee?” Jihoon glares at the group of giggling students.
“It was not a date, and it’s highly inappropriate to insinuate that it was one,” Jihoon responds.
“OH MY GOD LOOK HE’S BLUSHING HE’S IN LOVE!”
Jihoon wants to curl up in a hole and die. This happens everytime the students catch you two together. It’s non-stop teasing against him until the end of class. It’s probably the reason why his student’s don’t know what an arpeggio is.
“We have very important things to go over, so if you would please focus your attention to the board,” Jihoon starts.
“Mr. Lee, please. This is boring, we want to talk about you.”
“And your obvious crush on Mx. L/N!”
“Hey! Don’t forget the fact Mx. L/N totally likes Mr. Lee back!” As much as Jihoon hates it, this catches his attention. Deep down he knows, he knows that his students are just being stupid, but he also can’t help his curiosity.
“That is very serious speculation, you do know that. And it’s very inappropriate of you to assume of Mx. L/N,” Jihoon scolds, knowing his students won’t drop the subject.
“Oh but Mr. Lee it’s true! I’m in their class right after this one, and they know that, so they always ask me how you’re doing, even if they see you at lunch. Not to mention that they always talk about you, like ALWAYS. Going on and on about how talented and great you are. Honestly I don’t get it, but if they like you then I guess it’s cute,” his student ends with a shrug.
You talk about Jihoon in your classes? You ask your students about him? The thought makes him giddy, his stomach filling with butterflies like a schoolboy.
“T-that doesn’t mean anything,” Jihoon stutters out, knowing his students caught it.
“You’ve got to have more confidence Mr. Lee! Look at you, you’re a catch!” Jihoon scrunches his face up at that. “Listen, you’re pretty good looking and talented too. You also smile around Mx. L/N so they probably don’t see how grumpy you are either, so that’s a plus!”
“Yeah Mr. Lee, Mx. L/N definitely likes you. They’re always so smiley after seeing you and sometimes they fix their hair up before ducking into your class so they can look good for you. I promise you they don’t do that for anyone else,” another student tells him. There’s no way you…actually do that. Do you?
“Stop, he wasn't supposed to know that!” Someone pipes up, causing the classroom to erupt into giggles.
“Just ask them out Mr. Lee! They’ve been waiting~” a student sing-songs. Jihoon can’t decide if he should strangle them all or never stop thanking them.
“Oh Jihoon!” Suddenly his door opens and everyone falls quiet as you appear in his doorway. Jihoon knows his students are whispering and giggling to themselves, staring intently at the two teachers, but he can’t pay attention to them when you’re in his room.
“Y-Y/N!” He knows his ears are beet red given the conversation he was just having with his students, only for you to be standing in front of him seconds later.
“I uh, left my tupperware in here.” You point at his desk behind him.
“Oh, right.” Jihoon is quick to retrieve the plastic container and hand it back to you.
“Could I also talk to you outside for a second?” You gesture to the door. Jihoon only nods. On the way out you turn to Jihoon’s class. “You guys behave now, will you?”
“Yes Mx. L/N!” They all call and you shoot them a smile before closing the door behind you. Jihoon pretends he isn't salty that his students don't behavior for him like that.
“I thought I’d give you a moment to recuperate, you seemed a bit flustered. Were they being menaces again?”
“You could say that,” Jihoon mutters, staring at the ground.
“That’s not the only reason I asked you to talk to me about here, though,” you say, your voice a bit soft. Jihoon looks up at you only to see you staring at him. “I uh, god this is so embarrassing now that I’m in front of you. Early you said you owe me a meal, well perhaps that could be turned into coffee instead? Preferable…on a date?”
Jihoon freezes. His body, his mind, even his heart, just…freezes. He can’t bring himself to answer you. You like him back. You actually like him back. And you just asked him out on a date. Oh my god. It’s actually happening and damn it this means his students were right. He hates when that happens.
“Jihoon?” You look at him worriedly. “I uhm, I’m sorry. This was completely inappropriate of me and I shouldn’t ha-”
“I would love to,” Jihoon finally forces out, cutting off your apology. “I would love to go on a coffee date with you. Are you free on Saturday?”
You stare at Jihoon for a second before smiling softly, your eyes filling with relief. “I- yeah, I am.”
“Okay.” Jihoon smiles back at you. “I’ll text you later?”
“I would love that.” You can’t contain your own grin now. “I have a class to get back to and I think you have some important news to tell your own.”
Jihoon's eyes widen. "You know about that?"
"Well, let's just say my students aren't afraid to tease me as well," you admit. "I may have also heard you guys talking before I walked in. Something about my name and 'ask them out'."
"Oh god," Jihoon groans.
You only laugh. "Don't worry, it's very cute. Now like I said, I think you have some thing to tell them, but you will text me later right?"
“I will, I promise. I’ll see you later?”
“Yes, yes, of course. Goodbye now.” With that you scurry off, excitement apparent in your every step.
Jihoon takes a moment to calm his heart down before turning back to the door and opening it. When he does open it, he reveals a stack of his students surrounding the door. They all scramble to their seats before Jihoon can even step foot into the room. Jihoon doesn’t say anything, just silently closes the door before walking to the middle of the room.
“S-so?” One brave student decides to speak up.
“I…I have a date Saturday,” Jihoon says quietly, but everyone hears.
“LET’S FUCKING GO!”
“AYE MR. LEE YOU SLY DOG!”
“SLAYYYYY!”
Jihoon takes a deep breath as his students celebrate. He’s sure that they can be heard even from the front office. Slowly Jihoon trudges back over to his desk, knowing they won’t calm down for a while. It only occurs to him later that they’re now going to be even more insufferable for the rest of the year, and most likely will never learn what a fucking arpeggio is.

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he look like mike’s little girlfriend who he hates
✨the bad bunnies✨

killer: Netherland dwarf

Dust: Holland lop

Cross: Dutch rabbit

Nightmare: Rex rabbit

Horror: Flemish giant (a big boi indeed :3 )
in sort i was feeling totally unmotivated to work on larger and more "serious" aus. so silly rabbit au it is. ngl i just felt like i needed the break.
oh the Stars are gonna love this :3