Chapter five
It was a busy day in the café.
Kim Jae Jeoong needed to curse someone, in fact a particular girl named Lee Li Yin. However, despite the urgency to curse, he didn’t. He was too busy flying from the hall into the kitchen to curse.
It was that busy.
He really prayed that Li Yin quickly appear in front of him. He was already tired. He had been working for the past four hours and his shift was supposed to end forty minutes earlier. Li Yin was supposed to cover for her.
She had better have a good excuse.
Stephanie wasn’t very kind too today. She kept on using her tray to smack Jae Jeoong’s head and it made the whole thing worse when Jae Jeoong can’t help but to be amused with her when Stephanie does so.
Stephanie was one sexy lady.
They always said sexy lady gets away most of the time.
Sometimes, Stephanie seemed very weird to Jae Jeoong. The girls in his college had the body like Stephanie but they never had the attraction factor like Stephanie. Stephanie was tall and had a healthy tan colour on her body which totally attribute to her sexiness. She liked to wear blouse that showed off her cleavage and yet, it didn’t give the impression of come-on-fuck-me. In fact, all it did was to show her superiority. Sometimes, she wore skirts and sometimes pants. Jae Jeoong had always preferred the skirts more than pants.
Sometimes, Jae Jeoong wished that he can wear skirts too.
All the customers seemed to be fine when she had to walk slowly from the kitchen to serve the drinks. Jae Jeoong had to dash to compensate her speed instead. The skirts seemed to give her the privilege that she can walk slowly and stylishly. Jae Jeoong labeled them the skirt chasers.
Today, Stephanie was very angry with Jae Jeoong. Jae Jeoong had bought the wrong drink to the wrong table. Luckily for Jae Jeoong, the customers apparently were breaking up. None of them noticed.
Then, Jae Jeoong was caught flirting with one of the customers. Jae Jeoong could still feel the wrath on his swollen head. Needless to say, Stephanie had smacked him countless there today.
The bell chimed hurriedly.
Both Stephanie and Jae Jeoong threw their hands up in celebration.
Li Yin had arrived.
Li Yin quickly dashed to the counter and threw an apron onto her body. She quickly tied her hair into a bun to hinder any disturbance from the disobedient hair she had. Jae Jeoong waited for her and quickly whispered a few complaints.
“The whole house had been a madhouse. She is not in a good mood today,” he said.
“Sorry, I was late. A professor and some lunatic were stalling me. I will make up for it oneday ok?,” Li Yin apologised.
“Yeah and I am going off now,” Jae Jeoong threw his apron into a drawer and dashed out of the café.
Li Yin went to the kitchen and saw Stephanie struggling to put a few drinks onto her tray.
“Thank goodness you are here. I can’t stand that idiot,” Stephanie said.
Li Yin laughed and continued the work Jae Jeoong left.
After four more hours, the café was shut for the day. Li Yin still had an hour before she checked out. Both Stephanie and Li Yin were putting the chairs up on the tables.
“You were here the whole day?” Li Yin asked.
“Yeah, it was the only day that I get the whole day off from school,” Stephanie answered.
Then, they started talking despite the tiredness they felt from the day work. They had talked everything under the sun and their topics jumped randomly.
First, it was about school.
Then, it was about family.
Later on, it was about boys and relationship.
It was very much like a girls’ talk.
For Li Yin and Stephanie that had to juggle with school and work, it was actually something that came once in a blue moon and they really appreciate the blue moon.
As Li Yin heaved the last chair onto the table, her phone rang. She picked it up immediately.
“Han Geng?” she inquired softly.
It was from a friend from where she came from.
Before she left for Korea.
She started to look very lost after the phone call.
Li Yin remembered that the lunatic from school suddenly. It was past midnight. She was in her room and had just returned from her work. The maids in her house were fast asleep and she crawled up to her room, hoping that she didn’t wake her mother and father up. That is if her father was at home and not at his office, doing some paper work.
She needed privacy to think and maybe to make a call.
On her way home, she realized that her need for some fast cash had increased rapidly. She needed any job that can bring cash. Suddenly, her brain hit a nail. She remembered that lunatic that she met in the afternoon.
That lunatic who wanted her to work as his model.
Li Yin had no time to fight with sense as to why she was qualified. Her desire for money overwrote her sensibility. Luckily, she had to thank the lunatic who had left his number recorded in her phone. Now, she just needed to find his number.
She flipped her phone open and entered her phone book.
With the limited time she had, she started to have a verbal argument with her sensible side. She was bought up to not easily trust a stranger. She was bought up traditionally under her old fashioned grandmum. Her grandmum had always said that she didn’t wish that any of her grandchildren to appear wearing close to nothing on the street.
She strolled down her list. There was father there. Then, the house phone number. Her and her father’s driver number. Jae Jeoong and …….
Job opportunity’s number there.
Above Stephanie’s number and the list ended there
It wasn’t there before. It must have been the lunatic’s number.
She took a deep breath and pressed dial.
