I wake up with a headache welcoming me first thing in the morning. I sit up and ruffle my hair in frustration. I get out of bed and make my way to the bathroom. Once I entered the bathroom, I saw myself in the mirror, I widen my eyes as I realized that I've been sleeping in look of mine. What the hell Bae, you just slept with this drool on your face and look at how messy your hair is. I quickly undress myself and get into the shower to thoroughly clean myself. Once, I'm done with showering, I gently dry myself with a towel, I then brush my teeth and get out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my body. When I got out, I walk over to my closet and pick out my outfit and undergarments. I dress myself in a fast pace, I then walk over to the vanity table to put on some light makeup. Suddenly I heard the doorbell ringing, I quickly walk downstairs to unlock the door. Upon unlocking the door, I see a person that I didn't really expect to see.

"Good morning babe. " Bogum greets me as he steps inside.

"Hi." I greet him back still surprised at his presence in front me. 

"Why do you look so surprised to see me? " He gives me a kiss on my cheek. 

"I thought you'd be back by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I didn't expect you to show up. You could've told me about it."

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you but I thought I wanted to surprise you with this." He shows me the bag he's holding and then puts them on the coffee table. "I bought you a little something when I was on the business trip and I thought you would like it so I bought it for you." I walk to the coffee table and I get out the present from the bag. I open the gift box and take the present out of the box, it's a little snow globe and it's beautiful. I inspect the globe and it says 'Singapore' on the bottom of the globe, I do like it and it was thoughtful of him to buy me something when I told him that I didn't want anything but he bought them anyways.

 "Do you like it?"

"Of course I do, it's very beautiful. Thank you."

"You're welcome, come on, I'll drop you off at work."

 I nod and grab my purse, I walk out with Bogum and I lock the front door before I get in the car with him. He opens the car door for me and I get in, he jogs to the other side and gets in as well. Bogum starts the engine and sets off to my work place. Bogum has my favorite song on the stereo and I hum along the song while looking out the window beside me. Every time Bogum drives me to places, he would always turn on my favorite song or songs on the stereo, it's nice to always hear your favorite song on the stereo but he doesn't always have to do that. Whenever I tell him him that he doesn't have to turn on my favorite songs on the stereo but he would always tell me that I look happy everytime I hear those songs and it makes him happy. 

Bogum and I have been dating for a little over a year now but we first met each other about two years ago when he was just mo customer and after that day, he would always come to the cafe where I work at just to see me or talk to me. He was a sweet guy when I first met him and his still is to this very day, before we started dating he would always buy me things that I never asked for like snacks or foods or even souvenirs from the countries or places he went to either for a business trip or trendy spots. He never came to the cafe empty-handed, he would always have these little things with him whenever he visits me at the cafe. He was fun to talk with as he would always be the first to talk or ask any questions, let it be the most random question or topic ever, he'd talked about or ask about it.

I've always thought of him as a very good friend of mine and the person who I could always talk to or lean on and it was never more than that but he thought otherwise. When he confessed his feelings towards me, my mind went blank; I had no idea that he was feeling those things towards me and it put me off guard. To me, he was never more than just a friend but to him I was more and I didn't reject him when he asked me out. I actually did wanted to decline but he was such a nice and sweet guy, I couldn't disappoint him so I said yes without even considering my own feelings. It was a dumb thing to do but at it made someone happy right?

"I wanted to give you something." His voice brings me back from my thoughts. He fishes out an opened envelope and gives it to me. 

"What is this?" I ask him. 

"Read it and you'll know." He smiles. I do as he told and read it. 

Dear Mr. Park, we would like to invite you to a fundraising event being held at the Apollo Square hotel. I furrowed my eyebrows, a fundraising event?

"So you want to take me here?" 

"Yes." He answers shortly. 

"But I'm not invited and it's business related and for your information I'm not related to any of these things. " I exclaim and  he chuckles at my words. "What are you laughing at? " 

"You're so cute babe." He laughs more. "Don't worry about it, I've already called him to ask if I could bring anyone to the event and he said of course, so don't worry my dear." He assures and I remain silent as I absorb the information he tells me. He reaches for my hand and gently squeezes it. "Hey don't worry about it, you're not going to be an outcast if that's what you're worried about." He gives my knuckle a kiss.

"I don't know Bogum-ssi it's just I'm not in that kind of thing you know business related and stuff. "

"Tell you what I'll be with you for the whole night alright? So that you wouldn't feel awkward and out of place." I smile at his assuring words.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. " He gives it another kiss before putting his hand back on the steering wheel.

"So when's the event?" 

"The event starts at 8pm so I'll pick you up and we'll go to your place first so you can get ready." He answered

"OK then." I said 

"So who's going to be there?" I ask

"I don't know actually burning think there's going to be some well-known businessmen and some other people as well I think. " He answers and I hum in response. "Why did you ask?" 

"I'm just curious about who's going to be there that's it. " I shrug. 

"I thought that you're worried about something."  

"I'm not worried." I exclaim.

"Ok then if you're not worried." 

After a few minutes later, we've arrived at the café in a short span of time.

"I'll pick you up later." 

"Alright, I'll see you later. " I say then unbuckle my seatbelt and he suddenly grabs my wrist which made me turn to him.  "Yes?" I ask and he doesn't say anything but moves closer to give me a kiss on the cheek. He leans back and caresses my cheek. 

"I'll see you later and don't work too hard alright? I love you."  

"Me too." He then lets go of my cheek and I get out of the car. I turn back and waved at him, he does back and drives off. I then turn back and walk inside the café. Upon entering the café, I'm greeted by the sight of a girl brewing the coffee beans and the smell is very welcoming. "Good morning Jieun-ah " I greet her. She lifts up her head up and smiles at me. 

"Good morning Irene unnie. " She greets back and I walk over to the back of the counter where she is. I then take an apron from the bottom cabinet and put it on. "Have you eaten unnie? "Jieun asks. 

"No, not yet, you? "  

"No, I haven't either unnie. " 

"Ok then, I'll help you set up and we'll find something to eat alright?" I propose. 

"Ok unnie " She beams and I proceed to help her with everything she needs. I help her with grinding the coffee beans and setup the tables and chairs, Jieun is currently busy baking the pasteries and decorating the cakes on our menu. I actually never dreamed of working a cafe before, never in my life but I guess you can't really predict how your life is going to turn out can't you? When I graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in fine arts, I had no idea what I wanted to do after I graduated or even what I wanted to be when I grew up and I was already a grown up when I had finished college. I guess I was the only one person who didn't have a dream or what profession I wanted to pursue when I grew older. After a couple of moments later, we've finally finished with our tasks.

"Unnie, I'm starving now. " Jieun claims. 

"Alrighty then, what shall we eat? " Jieun taps her chin as she thinks. 

"How about we whip something up?" She suggests. 

"Ok, like what? " 

"I don't know actually but let's go in the kitchen and see what we can make."  

"Ok then. " I say then she drags me into the kitchen.

I stand behind Jieun as she looks inside the refrigerator for something to cook breakfast with. Jieun then gets a handful of ingredients out and the things she took out, I don't think these can be made into a decent or edible breakfast. I give Jieun a worried expression and she mirrors my expression, I guess we could try to make this a successful breakfast despite the ingredients in front of us don't really go well together. I become the head chef while Jieun becomes my sous chef, I try to comtemplate what I could make with these ingredients then Jieun tells me her idea and it sounds very decent in my mind so we stick with her idea of our breakfast.

We finally finish cooking and the outcome doesn't seem as bad as we thought it would be, Jieun and I look at each other and I think we're telepathically communicating on who should take the first bite. I telepathically tell Jieun that I would take the first spoon and I take my spoon getting the first bite. I feel the taste of it once it hits my tongue and surprisingly it doesn't taste as bad as I thought it would and despite the weird ingredients we have, it actually works. I give Jieun a spoon and she starts to take a spoonful of whatever we both just made, she shoves the whole spoonful in and a second later her eyes widen in surprise. She gives me an approving nod and we both continue to eat standing like that. We finished our surprisingly delicious breakfast and we help each other clean and was the mess that we both made.

"Oh unnie! I'm so full." Jieun exclaims as we walk out of the kitchen to the front of the place and it makes me chuckle at her. 

"Aigoo~ of course you would be full; you stuffed yourself with that much food, I can't comprehend how couldn't be full if you'd tell me that you're not." I ruffle her hair making her pout. 

"Anyways let's get working unnie." She says cheerfully.

 Let's go, Jieun-ah." I say ruffling her hair more. 

"Unnie! " She shouts. 

"Come on kid, let's start working." She nods happily.

After we both finished our little breakfast, customers start entering one by one and Jieun and I get into our working mode. I like really our teamwork as the both of us always keep the flow going and the service going smoothly. I first met Jieun when I was in my sophomore year of college, I was running late for my class and I suddenly bumped into this person. Books were everywhere and I apologized to the person for my carelessness, the person forgave me and the person turned out to be Jieun wearing a big round glasses who was at that time a freshmen. I didn't know her name at that time but all I know was that she was adorable with those roung glasses of hers and eventually we introduced ourselves to one another. 

After that day, we became closer than ever and she was like my second little sister. We would go over to each other's dorms and have a little sleepover or sometimes Jieun comes to my dorm just to ask me to help her with her project or her studies which I was always glad to help. Whenever we have sleepovers, we would always talk about what we wanted to do after we graduated and Jieun would always tell me that she wanted a cafe of her own, she would ask what I wanted to do in life and I just told her that I didn't really have a goal. She would always come to me for advice whenever she fought with her boyfriend and I would always give her every advice I could think of, even when they broke up, Jieun would come to me crying and I would always have to comfort her. After what happened that day between the both of them, Jieun has been single to this very day. 

When I graduated from college, Jieun cried so much even more than my family did and I would always find the memory funny. After I graduated from college, I became busy with applying from jobs and all so I didn't have any time to contact Jieun or any of my friends. I wasn't happy with the work I was doing at that time, office works were boring to me and after I comtemplated hard whether I should move on or stay the same, I chose the first option. I was very stressed at that time when I was first umemployed but somehow fate played a huge role in my life as I was sitting in a cafe alone and a person tapped my shoulders and that person turned to be Jieun.

I was very happy to see her again and so was she, we sat there catching up with everything and I told her that I had quit from my job and I was umemployed. That moment, Jieun had suggested that I'd work with her in her own cafe and I was very happy for her that she had achieved her dreams of having a cafe of her own. I said yes and she surprised me by telling me that we were sitting in her cafe or actually her parents cafe but her parents had gave her the place for her graduation present. After that day, I've been working here for three years now and I absolutely love it here, more than what my first job was. Thanks to Jieun, I have a stable job now and I'm happy working for it. I serve the last customer of the hour and the shop became quiet and peaceful as rush hour has gone down. Meanwhile, I was doing the accounts on today's check and Jieun was cleaning the station. Suddenly, I heard the bells at the door clinging. I lift up my head to see a familiar figure walking in with a good amount of  bags in their hands. 

"Hey girls!" The girl excitedly greets us. 

"Hi Joy. " I greet her back. 

"Hi Joy. " Jieun greets her as well.

"Hi Jieun unnie." Joy greets her back. 

"What?!  How come you call her unnie and not me?" I angrily questioned in a playful manner.

"Because, Jieun unnie is an angel and you're the devil. " Joy exclaims and I rolled my eyes at her statement.

"Yeah right said the spawn of Satan, you and your little sidekick should respect me more you know."  

"Yeah whatever grandma." She rolls her eyes.

"What?! How dare you call me grandma?!" I'm still a young blood for your information." 

"Yea,yeah,yeah whatever Bae by the way have you both eaten?" 

"No, we're starving, it's been a hectic day and thank God it's a little over rush hour." 

"Ok that's good because I've brought your favorites." Joy then puts the bags on the table. "Here's one for the lovely Jieun unnie." Joy says making me roll my eyes again.

"Thank you Joy-ah." Jieun smiles.

"Welcome unnie." Joy smiles back. "Here's one for grandma." Joy gives me mine lunch and I glare at her.

"Thank you."

"And here's one for me." Joy claps her hands like a toddler. After Joy has given out all of our meal, I and Jieun quickly devour our meal. "Woah, calm down you tigers haven't eaten for weeks?" I shallow everything down.

"I'm starving ok and I've drained my energy by serving today so don't judge me." 

"I didn't say anything." Joy raise up both her hands in surrender.

"By the way, why are you here I mean don't you have work to do?" I ask.

"Uh, for your information "grandma" it's break time and I was being a very selfless person by buying lunch and coming here to eat with you people." Joy exclaims.

"Yeah, whatever and don't call me grandma got it?" I say pointing at her with my chopsticks.

"Yeah said the person who took a selfie in video mode and thought it was in camera mode." Joy jokes receiving a glare from me.

"That was one time let it go." 

"Whatever, grandma." Joy says causing me to reach over the table to pinch her.

"I told you not to call me that." I say stilling pinching her. Joy begs me to stop but I didn't and eventually she apologize then I let go of her. "Good." I fix my shirt and lean back into my chair.

 "You two are so cute like mother and daughter." Jieun suddenly says then giggles.

"I don't have a daughter like her." I feel the disgust in my tone and I hear Joy click her tongue.

"Like I want to have a mother like you." 

"What's wrong with a mother like me?" I question.

"Nothing." Joy mutters.

"Whatever, come on peasant and Jieun let's clean up here it's almost over break time and we have to say goodbye to this Satan here." I said then I start clearing the table with the help of Jieun and barely from Joy. Once, we're done with clearing the table and when I mean we I mean by Jieun and I, as expected from the peasant who doesn't live up to her name didn't help at all. "Ok peasant we'll see you later." I said to the peasant who didn't live up to her name at all.

"Whatever grandma." She says and I glare at her.

"See you later Joy" Jieun says.

"See you later unnie." Joy then gives Jieun a hug making me roll my eyes at the sight.

"Ok break it up lovebirds." I remark and they pull back .

"Aw don't be jealous, you can hug your man all you want ." 

"Yeah, yeah, yeah now go I don't want to see your face any longer." I say then push her body to the door.

"Yeah, right this face is a blessing." 

"Get out now." 

"Fine, I'll see you later guys later. Bye Jieun unnie and have a great day grandma, don't work too hard you know your body can't take it." Joy says and before I could get my hands on her she's already out the door. This kid.

"Unnie come on let's get working." Jieun says and I nod then follow her.

After Joy left the place, Jieun and I go back to our stations and we get ourselves busy for the customers that are about to enter in any moment. I stand behind the counter and for some reason the memory of that night, that night where I made the biggest mistake of my life. That night where I lost something that was precious to me to some guy just because the alcohol took over all the my senses and it made me end up in bed with some guy I just met like a few hours ago. Bogum doesn't know about this and I hope it stays that way because I would be doomed if that happens. I can't let it happen again; I already felt horrible for not giving myself to Bogum but then again I was never ready to do so and yet what a hypocrite I am, giving myself to someone I barely know, I should be ashamed of myself and I am. 

Kang Seulgi... what a mysterious man he is, I barely know him and yet I had slept with him, the first guy I've slept with. How shameful that the first person who I slept with isn't Bogum who is my boyfriend the person I should love but doesn't. How can I be so stupid, first I said yes to someone when I don't feel the same just because I didn't want the person to feel bad or dejected and second I drank over my limit and that landed me into my first in which I completely had no memory of. All I know the next morning was that I was completely and with some guy on the same bed as well, I was shocked to see myself and Seulgi as well. It was something I regreted so much and I blame myself for having this reckless behavior whenever I have alcohol down my system, I should stop drinking over my limits.  

I've never met someone like Seulgi before, I've had Bogum buying things for me, only little and simple things like bakeries or pasteries but never clothes or anything extravagant. Anything but those things Seulgi bought for me, those dresses, tops, bottoms and any accessories, only he would buy them for me and eventhough I told him not to he still did. I push my thoughts aside and come back to the moment. Why on the earth did I think of him? I must be going crazy. I resume my work and continue to take orders from the customers, I give the last customer of the day their orders and they give me a smile then walks away. I exhale loudly and wipe the sweat on my forehead, I lean against the counter and Jieun stands next to me.

"Tired unnie?" Jieun asks.

" A bit." I answer.

"Unnie are you going anywhere after this? " 

"Bogum is taking me to some fundraising event tonight." 

"Fundraising event?" She furrows her eyebrows. 

"Yeah, some guy invited him and he invi