JJBA x Reader

Joseph x Reader: DISTRACTING|THE|MAID

They both looked deep in focus, their chests rising and falling at slow but calculated intervals. A thin layer of sweat lay on Joseph's brow line, and you could tell he was struggling a bit more than Caesar was. His intense expression of focus was something you rarely saw, and it looked so adorable on his usual smug face. You found yourself smiling, heart doing somersaults in your chest.

Out of no where Joseph gasped loudly, leaning forward and trying to take in as much air as possible.

"Looks like you still need more practice," Caesar snickered.

"Yeah, whatever." Joseph rolled his eyes. They met yours for a split second, but you quickly ducked your head out of sight.

You didn't wait for Joseph to move. Running to the kitchen you buried your face in your hands, quietly screaming into them out of embarrassment. Suzie Q shot you a confused glance as you appeared.

"Are you okay, love?" She tilted her head to the side, wide eyes shimmering with childlike innocence.

"Yeah, just a little distracted is all," you answered curtly.

Distracted was a bit of an understatement. The entire time you were preparing dinner you were completely zoned out from reality. Joseph filled every inch of your mind. You could only envision his playful gaze and arched eyebrow as you measured out spices and seasonings for tonight's dinner. Occasionally the voice of Suzie Q would break through your thoughts of the tall brunet, although you were only able to offer vague responses that more often than not had no relation to what she had just asked you. Caught up in your own daydreams, you didn't realize how dangerously close the knife you were holding got to slicing your finger every time you brought it down.

"Ow, shit!" You flinched back as the sharp blade sliced through the soft flesh of your finger, bumping into someone behind you. "Oh, sorry Suzi-" You turned around to apologize to who you thought was LisaLisa's other maid, but turned out to be an unfamiliar man.

"Who the hell are you?!" You shouted, waving the knife you had just cut yourself with in front of you.

"Woah! It's me, Y/n. Do you not recognize me?" Narrowing your eyes at the man before you, your brain pictured a metallic muzzle covering the lower half of his face.

"Joseph?" You lowered your weapon, inching closer.

"The one and only." He smirked at you, framing his jaw with his hands to show it off. 

"Huh."

"Huh?"

"That's not what I was expecting your mouth to look like." You shrugged, turning back around to finish cutting the veggies. The sudden shock of seeing Joseph mask-less made you forget all about the (unintentionally) self inflicted wound from earlier. A thin but visible stream of blood ran down your finger, threatening to drip onto the food. You quickly pulled your hand away, not wanting to infect the fresh vegetables.

Joseph who, offended by your lack of compliments towards his handsome face, caught your wrist in his hand. "You're bleeding."

"Oh, this? It's nothing. Happens all the time." You tried to shoo the taller away but he wouldn't budge. "Joseph?" You craned your neck to see that he was studying your cut with an intense stare. His eyebrows were scrunched together in what looked like a mixture of confusion and concern.

"I can finish up dinner if you wanna go patch yourself up, Y/n," Suzie Q suggested with a smile.

"I'm really fine," you tried to insist, but you couldn't fight against Joseph as he pulled you out of the kitchen.

"I'll take care of her, but make sure you make my dinner taste extra good for being such a gentleman!" Joseph winked at Suzie.

You pouted at his flirtatious gesture towards someone other than you, using your free hand to try and pry his fingers from your wrist.