Chapter 3: Pink

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‘prangg’

Seungwan sighed for the nth time and went to the kitchen

“Great, you managed to break another cup. Thrice in half of one hour”

Joohyun lowered her head, feeling ashamed.

“These cups are not expensive but we’ll go bankrupt soon if you keep scaring our customer with the sound of cup breaking”

Seungwan rubbed her forehead “I’m not sure whether I need to cut Seulgi's salary for this or not”

The younger girl instantly looked at her “Please don’t! I’ll be careful”

“Fine, but if you broke something again. Then I have no choice, now clean the broken pieces”

Joohyun took the broom nearby and began to clean up, after she was done, she resumed her work with seungwan standing beside her

“Umm...why are you still here, unnie?” Joohyun couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable with the older girl near her

“I need to know why you keep breaking the cups, I assumed you handled it wrongly” seungwan pursed her lips “Go ahead”

Joohyun did her best but seungwan here just made her more nervous and another cup almost slipped again

“You should avoid holding the cup in that particular area” Seungwan took the dirty cup from Joohyun’s hand “Because it’ll be more slippery once you apply the soap”

“But your number one mistake is you didn't use the washing glove, why is that?”

“I don't like to use it”

“There is a reason why these gloves are here, it helps you to work better” seungwan frowned “You can’t ignore it just because you don’t like it. That's just plainly unprofessional”

“S...sorry”

“If you’re sorry, then do your job properly. Use the tools that we’ve prepared here”

“Yes, seungwan unnie”

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Three days have passed since then, Joohyun is now an expert...in washing dishes.

“Hyun-ah. Stop working okay? Unnie can manage our finances very well” Seulgi said, trying to persuade her niece

Joohyun shook her head “I want to work unnie, i want to earn my own money”

“You can work but not now, not at this age. You should enjoy your life more”

“I enjoy my life”

“But...”

“AHEM” Seungwan coughed “The break is over”

Seulgi approached seungwan “Fire her”

“Seulgi unnie!”

Seulgi looked at Seungwan, pleading with her eyes “She needs to study and have fun, not working, on top of that she is still a minor!”

Seungwan put down the boxes in her hand then motioned for Joohyun to follow her.

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At seungwan’s small office

“It has been 3 days, you can stop working now”

Joohyun shook her head “Can I keep working here? I want to earn my own money”

“Go to a top university, be a doctor or something. Don’t waste your time her