Customers came in and out, but considering that it was a Sunday morning, business was pretty good. Once the clock struck 1:00pm you already turned the open sign into a big bold CLOSED.

“Ah~~~~” You flopped over a chair “Half a day gone…” You sighed. Rin came out from behind the bar, having changed back into her pink blouse and casual blue pants. 

“I wonder what Han Ji-Eun has planned for the next four hours~” She sung with a slight tone of sarcasm in her voice. You rolled her eyes at her. Rin raised both her hands in defence “Okay~ Okay~ Don’t shoot!” You both chuckled. “Well there’s no point in me going out anywhere either, I might just chill here for a couple of hours before the next shift…what ‘bout you?”

“Ah!” You snapped your fingers and whipped your head to Rin “Supermarket…” you suddenly shot up out of your seat and to Rin’s surprise, dashed towards the stairs located at the back of the bakery café.

“Supermarket?!” She gawked. “After working for 5 hours you still want to go to the super market?!” She questioned as you came back down, holding your tattered navy green backpack and doraemon purse in your hands.

“I need to fill up on food and buy some things for school tomorrow” You reached for your coat from behind the bar and slipped your arms through, swinging on your backpack afterwards as you head towards the exit- Rin’s eyes still wide in amazement

“Well- yeah but you-“

“I’ll find something to eat there!” you reassured before making your way out and ramming into an advertisement stand in the process. ”Ow” you quickly yelped- regaining your balance and dashing off again.

The supermarket was only at a close distance- so there was no need for your bike. You arrived at your neighbourhood’s supermarket, where food and accessories stores would be open from noon to evening and you cautiously swung a heavy glass door open to a 7eleven and entered the air conditioned market franchise. It was vacant- no surprise since it was a Sunday. “No one’s here…” You mumbled, noticing that not even the shop assistant was in sight. Maybe they had to go to the bathroom…You wondered, closing the door behind you and feasting your eyes over the colourful food and drinks displayed along the aisle. You held a shopping basket between your arms and grabbed a ramen packet. These are new, I haven’t seen them before…You thought that you would leave the ramen picking for last, and tossed a few drinks and snacks as a treat for yourself. Once that was done, you came back to the ramen aisle, not noticing the two men lurking outside the store, their backs facing the glass walls.

“Yes sir, I’ve found your daughter” A man in a black and white business suit and sunglasses spoke into a mobile phone in a deep voice.

“[Is she alone?]”

“Yes sir”

“[Accompany her to headquarters…there’s something I need to discuss with her]” a familiar voice replied through the phone.

“Understood” He replied, putting down the phone and nodding his head to his identical college before entering the store- about to approach you when…

“Hello there little miss- would you like any help?”

The two men flinched; suddenly attempting to look intrigued in the magazine aisle when someone approached you. You slightly jolt from surprise since he came from nowhere- but turned your head to see an handsome boy in big fake specs shining you a gentle smile.

“O-Oh! No, I was just looking at…” You paused, your eyes narrowing to him. He was gorgeous…but there was something…peculiar about him. Through his big glasses, you noticed a silver and black shadow above and slightly below his brown eyes…make-up? It must be right? But above all else, his hair caught your attention- Its chocolate brown, swiftly styled and blow dried to perfection and you swear you could see glimpses of glitter his hair. You wouldn’t have thought that he worked here if it wasn’t for the 7eleven apron he wore. The boy blinked at you. “Yes?” He spoke in an angelic voice.

“Er…The ramen packets…which is best” your uttered some words out. He picks up a few of the packets and you noticed his silver fingerless glove and weird bracelet; it somehow wrapped around his hands in four chains with an incredibly large symbol of what seems to look like a star.

You didn’t notice him slyly peer at the two men wondering around the store, his charismatic eyes turning into slits. One-Nil he smirked and turned to you- holding up a random packet of ramen in front of your face.

“I think these ones are good…”

“These ones?” you carefully grabbed the familiar packet and a little grin appeared on your face. You’ve had them before and you had to admit they weren’t bad. “Oh yeah, they were nice- Thanks! ^^” You thanked him with a grin, tossing in a few packets then noticing another peculiar aspect; a device was attached into his ear, a black earpiece that looked rather high-tech, but you ignored it- assuming that it was probably some sort of shop assistance accessory that you don’t know about and went to the counter to pay, the same boy seemingly following you behind the cash register.

“…Only you today?” You asked, placing the basket down and waiting for him to scan it all. The boy shrugged his shoulders.

“Business is slow- one person is enough” He said before putting out a flat palm in front of you. “1000 munny please”

Your eyebrow raised to the ceiling. Not only did he not scan it, but you genuinely couldn’t understand him.

“Excuse me?”

“1000 won…why?”

“Oh- sorry I didn’t think I heard you right…Why so cheap?” You asked, getting out the change for 1000 won in your purse and handing it to him.

“There’s a discount for those under 7 items”

You kept your eyebrows raised, glancing at the items in your basket that you counted up as 9 items.

“7 items?” You repeated.

“10 items” He seemed to have corrected- looking at you as if you were stupid. You blinked at him holding your head.

“Oh, right sorry, I must be going death or something” you scoffed at yourself and he gripped the change in his hands- about to put it into the pocket in his apron. “…Shouldn’t you put that in the cash register?” You gestured to the register with a smile, not wanting to seem rude.

“Oh yeah” He urged, when suddenly the register springs open and he throws in the change…without even touching it.

“H-How did you do that? 0_o”

“Do what?” he closed the cash register and ripped open a plastic bag to start packing your things into it. …I think I’ve lost my mind…

“Nothing...Sorry, I’ve had kind of a long day- just ignore me”

“It’s kind of hard to…” he murmured.

“What?”

“Here you go” He handed you the white plastic bag.

“Oh, thanks er-“ You looked for a name tag but didn’t see one so you looked up at him about to ask for his name when you notice him staring at you gracefully and you had to admit, your heart fluttered. You cleared your throat; nodding politely to him before exiting the store- only to have the two men follow behind you. The boy scoffed at them in amusement. How subtle…

You walked along the supermarket, jumping your eyes from side to side wondering which store you needed to go to and completely oblivious to the two identical men tracking behind you as you made your way down the streets. You passed a little coffee shop and paused; the two men behind you suddenly doing the same as you stepped back to the front door. I did tell Rin that I’d find something to eat…You sighed, wondering whether or not you should go in. You already have a café of your own- you could eat there and it wouldn’t cost you a dime- technically. looking for inspiration wouldn’t hurt! You shrugged before entering the old fashioned café, however seeing as how long the queue was you decided to take a seat near the front so that you should look at the listed food; and of course, the two men had to sit behind you, unsubtly hiding their faces behind a little menu leaflet.

“We can’t get her alone in this place…” One of them whispered to the other.
“It isn’t necessary; as long as no one can hear the conversation we should be fine” The other replied, the two about to stand when…

“Here you go miss! A hot mocha with extra cream~” Someone slides their way next to you, making them shoot back down onto their seats. You look at the steaming cardboard cup in wonder. “But I didn’t order…” You turned to the figure in front of you and flinched at the sight. A boy wearing a dark green ‘café’ cap that covered most of his dark brown hair was smiling cheerfully at you beautifully.

“It’s on the house” He winked at you and again your heart fluttered. 

“Oh…Er, thanks” You saw sparkles around his eyes and averted your eyes towards his hands; noticing a ring - it was different to the guy from before, but somehow very similar. It was a weird water droplet symbol of some sort and you couldn’t help but raise another foolish eyebrow. “Can I ask- Do you happen to know someone from the 7elven store opposite?” You gestured towards the shop, putting on a friendly smile. The boy knitted his eyebrows and slightly chuckled. She’s sharp…“Excuse me?” he spoke as if he had no clue what you just said and from that response you waved your hands.

“Doesn’t matter~ Thank you~” you took the cup and got up from your seat. The guy watched you dash out of the café in enjoyment and once the two men followed you, he instantly snatched the green cap off his head. What a weird thing to wear…

Once you left the café, you begun shaking your head, thinking that maybe it’ll knock in a few brain cells. The men behind you speeded up to get to you but once again…

BASH!

“Ah-!” 

“Oh, Sorry I didn’t see you there- are you alright?”

“Oh-No its fi-” Once again you had your eyes widened. A sweet and gentle looking boy with straight copper coloured hair peered at you; another one of those black earpieces around his ear and sparkling white jacket along with black harem trousers that was held up by a black leather belt with a symbol in the middle. The sweet boy slightly nodded to you before strolling down the other direction. Either there’s some sort of convention today or I’m just going crazy you thought. You were about to enter your last visit before going home- there was just a few more things that you needed, then you could go home and get some rest. You entered another local store which sold a few extra luxuries than the other. Alright Ji-Eun, you get in and you get out, I have a strange feeling about today…You peered along the rather empty aisles of frozen meat and fishes stored in freezers whilst sipping you hot mocha. Maybe I’ll come back tomorrow…they don’t seem to have much in stock today. You sighed whilst scratching your head.

“We need to hurry-“

“I know…” The two men at a decent distance behind you were starting to get frustrated and dashed towards you before any other distraction could interfere.

“Miss. Han-“

“Hiya there Miss!~” A tall figure slid in front of them and tapped you on the shoulder. You turned around to quite a shock. A tall boy with a big grin on his face stood in front of you but once again, this boy was beautiful. He had orange hair but with a blonde tint; crimped and styled with little shards of glitter over it and a pair of big fake round specs over his eyes. He wore a regular workers T-shirt over something that seemed to have looked like a jacket and sparkling silver harem trousers. You had to admit- the bumps under his workers shirt from his jacket was a little funny, but you bit your bottom lip from laughing.

“Hello there~” You greeted back.

“There’s a discount on the other side of the shop! Here- lemme show you!”

“E-Eh-?“The boy turned you around and pushed you forward by the shoulders to the other side of the store- where true; there was a discount…on a bottle of water.

“…This is the discount side?”

“Yeah!” He nodded rapidly with a smile. “Look, see?” He pointed to the small sign below the bottle water saying DISCOUNT- buy one get one half-price, but instead you noticed the ring on his finger, a silver symbol of somesort of bird. “It says here discount!”

“I already have plenty water but thank you anyway” You gestured to the white plastic bag filled with drinks and ramen. You were about to turn away and head out when you someone suddenly runs up to you. It was another boy with dark hair gelled ups with small gemstones attached on somehow, fair skin and a necklace dangling around his neck with yet another weird diamond encrusted symbol as well as the same workers shirt as the boy beside you.

“Hi- er, I think you dropped this just then…” He handed you an unfamiliar brown wallet.

“Er~ that’s not mine…” He does know that wallets are for men right? You wondered.

“Oh right. Must be someone else’s then, sorry” He pulled a suspicious grin.

Yep! There must be some sort of party convention or something here. You were pretty sure now, seeing the similarities in the gorgeous boys you seemingly met in fewer than 2 hours. One of the two hiding men searched his pockets.

“What’s wrong?” The other twin asked.

“I think I lost my wallet…”

“Now is not the time for that!”

“Erm~ you two friends?” You asked the two guys, stood between them looking back and forth at the similar dress code of a black workers shirt and weird harem trousers as well as the glitter and gems on their faces.

“Yes” “No” The two yelled in opposite unison; the tall boy yelling no and the other boy yelling yes. You raised an eyebrow as the two glared at each other.

“Pardon?”

“ER! Both! We-We- er we know each other but w-we aren’t close” The tall boy explained with a jitter. The other nodded in agreement and you chuckled lightly. “Okay~” you walked away to exit the store and even passing the two formally dressed twins each with food items in their hands that they were going to ‘buy’.  Once you left the store, the men put back the food and tried to follow, only to have the door blocked by the two handsome boys.

“You touch it, you buy it” The boy with dark hair smirked whilst the tall one bared out his hands; waiting for the money to be placed in his hands. The two twins looked at each other with a sigh- frustrated and tired.

Well at least that clears things… You thought, assuming that it was perhaps a convention for something which was why amazingly hot boys wore sparkling outfits and weird symbol accessories suddenly talked to you. You started walking back towards Latte Café- again still oblivious to the persistent men who were tracking behind you at a far distance after being stalled by the two boys in the local store. They started speed walking, not wanting to seem suspicious or anything (as if they weren’t already) and stated to catch up with you when suddenly-

Crash!

“Whoa! Sorry there fellas!”

You turn around and noticed the two men- their formal suits now drenched in coffee.

“Gah!” One of the twins yelled in frustration. “Look what you did!”

“Sorry! I didn’t see you there…” a boy in an eye-catching blue sparkly jacket and silver harem pants shrugged his shoulders, a triangle ring on his finger and his hair styled up and blow dried to perfection. And you could vaguely see gemstones at the end of his eyes. There’s another one... You walked to them.

“Is something wrong?” you turned to the boy and both your eyes made contact- you were awestruck. Wow he’s hot. O///O. His skin had a slightly darker tone than the others that you'd seen and there was something about him that screamed charisma. He glared at you passionately for a second before you turned to the two men. “Are you okay?”

“Er…” The men were stuck on what to say. Should they go through with the mission…but the boy was still there- he’d hear them...”No…let’s go” one of the twins sighed, the two started to walk away in the opposite direction.

Looks like we won this round the boy thought with a smirk, which still didn't disappear even though you were glaring at him suspiciously. He turned to you. "What's wrong beautiful?" he asked you with an eyebrow raised and you couldn't help but flinch at that last word.

'Beautiful'? Is this guy hitting on me or something?

"...Erm...Do i have something on my face?" He sniggered, but somehow you felt as though he was teasing you. 

Yeah- gemstones…You wanted to say.

“Doesn’t matter” You huffed, frustrated at yourself before going on your way again.

This is so odd...i wonder who they are....

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omg~! so sorry it took so long!~ >_< I was busy on camp and i was having a bit of trouble with this chapter.  It's not that interesting of a chapter- but finally i get to introduce the main characters just a little bit. i really dont think that i've written all that well in this chapter...and it isnt that interesting so- Sorry~ Y_Y.