His feet was sore from all the running but he knew he couldn't stop. He tore a glance behind and saw that the two men were slowly closing up to him. They're fast.

He jumped over a fence before running towards a metal door, praying that it wasn't locked. He tried turning the knob. Locked.

"We got you now, boy," His body turned to face the two men, quickly positioning himself into a fighting stance. One hand gestured for the men to come forward, challenging him to a fight. The two looked at each other, the chubby and the muscular. The chubby raised one brow at his colleague and the muscular signalled him forward. Shrugging his shoulders, he took a step forward towards Chanyeol. 

"You'll regret this," Chanyeol proceeded with making weird fighting stances. "As you can see, I've mastered quite a number of marti-"

Before he could finish his sentence, he felt a force on his left cheeks, causing him to fly upwards and hit the wall. His head began to spin.

"Good. Now load him in the truck," Eyelids drooping, the last thing he heard before blacking out was. "Time to take him back to Mr Park,"

All I wanted to do was get some milk from the convenient store for Jinri..

"Jinri, come inside, you'll catch a cold sitting outside in this weather," Jinri was standing outside, her hands in her pockets to keep herself warm from the cold winter weather as she waited and waited for Chanyeol to return. She exhaled once and smoke came out from . She took out her hands to rub them together, hoping the friction would keep her warm. Her eyes glanced at her watch once more. It had been more than an hour ago that Chanyeol left the cafe to buy some milk for supper. She was beginning to worry since the convenient store wasn't at all far from where they were, a fifteen minutes trip to and fro tops. 

"Jinri," This time it was Kyungsoo who peeked out the door, his tone evident of worry. Jinri bit her lips once and finally gave in and decided to step into the cafe. She took off the gloves, as she quickly made her way to seat near to the heater as possible. Feeling that her body was warm enough, she flipped out her phone and began dialling his number.

The person you have dialled is currently unavailable..

She dialled his number over and over again, each time failing to reach him. She felt a hand on her shoulder. 

"Jinri-ah," Luna held out a cup of hot chocolate for her. "You must still be cold, drink this," She accepted the hot mug of hot cocoa as Luna sat in the chair opposite her.

"I'm sure he's fine," Luna began, her mind carefully forming sentences. "He probably had some sudden business to attend to and forgot to call," She gave Jinri a hopeful smile, taking her hand into hers, gently rubbing her fingers on her palm to calm her down. Jinri turned her head towards her and pursed her lips. 

"I hope so," 

A month passed and yet, no news ever came from Chanyeol. It was unlike him, even if he was away on some urgent business, to not inform them of anything. Jinri even tried contacting Baekhyun but he, too, was unreachable. Kyungsoo struggled daily in the kitchen, since he was used to having Chanyeol ordering him around, but still managed with the help of Sehun. He had to come early everyday, just to prepare the batches of cake for the day, which used to be Chanyeol's doing. 

Jinri slumped in her chair, and her eyes trailed to the office desk beside hers. A name plate with his name was placed on it and she couldn't help but wonder, where the hell is he? 

She stood up and made her way to his desk, thinking maybe she could find some clues to his whereabouts. She checked through his drawers, the shelves and flipped through every book he read, hoping she'd find something. But alas, she could not find any. She slumped into the sofa of their office and she was reminded of the scene that day he disappeared. A hand went up to her lips, the taste of his lips on hers still lingered there and she could remembered it as if it was yesterday he had first kissed her. There wasn't even a chance for him to explain the reason for his sudden cold act towards her the past months. 

Jinri heaved out a loud sigh and stood up, smoothening her blouse and fixing her hair. No matter what, the cafe must go on. There was still a long way before her dreams were to be realized. She couldn't give up now, not when she was so close to it. She couldn't give up just because there was a possibility of him bailing on her. No, this was her dream after all. 

She checked her reflection in the mirror once more and stepped out of the room.

Months passed and nearly a year passed since Chanyeol disappeared. Jinri had to hire another chef since Kyungsoo kept dozing off in the kitchen due to tiredness and Sehun wasn't much of a cook. Kris took over baking after letting out his secret hobby of baking. The cafe's business began blooming once more and progressed further to the point where tons of food magazines wanted to do an interview with them.

"It's decided," Jinri said one winter evening. "Kris and Kyungsoo are going for the interview with L magazine since they want to hear from the chefs. Luna and Amber, W magazine, Sehun and Tao, another model company's interested in you guys, again." She handed them both a business card. The two accepted it with a mock disgusted expression and she couldn't help but chuckle. "I'll be handling the interview with F magazine. All right gang, remember the goal is to sound as persuasive as possible. We're aiming for more customers, okay?" She looked around at their eager faces, excited that they were about to be interviewed and smile formed on her lips

"La Cha Ta, fighting!"

"Fighting!"

Jinri made her way out of the store once she was done with inventory check for her interview date with the journalist from F magazine. Her path was crossed with a small magazine stand that sold the magazine and she decided to read it, hoping she might catch up on the types of question she would be asked. As she neared the stand, her eyes zoned in on one particular magazine. 

M magazine was a popular internationa business magazine. They interviewed all the top entrepeneurs, bussinessman and succesful entertainers. It was her dream to get a picture of her cafe on one of the covers of M magazine. But right then she wasn't thinking of how amazing it would be to have a photo of La Cha Ta plastered on millions of M magazine copies, but it was the cover photo itself that made her heart churn. It was the photo of Park Chanyeol.

He was in a suit, and although his smile seemed genuine, it was too genuine. She knew it was all fake. He was, afterall, in that picture, standing next to two of his life's biggest traitor. President Park and Byun Baekhyun. 

Anger filling within her, she snatched a copy of the magazine and flipped it open to the page of their interview, ignoring the man behind the stand who was telling her to pay up first before reading. 

The son of corporate world's most successful man has returned to his US home after going away for further education purposes.

Bull

President Park has registered Park Chanyeol's name as the next heir to inherit his business, making Chanyeol the youngest..

She threw the magazine on the ground, the anger withing her boiling once more, she threw the money at the stallman and began walking away only to stop at a red light of a pedestrian crossing. 

Park Chanyeol, you despicable traitor

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