They decided to give Eunji a break for a while. She went out of the backdoor and headed to the garden. The garden was not so big, with some homegrown herbs and vegetables planted and some other flowers. There was also a gate there that leads to the road. Eunji sat on a bench near the flowers and sighed.

“Why am I so stupid?” She said to herself and wiped her tears

“Don’t say that” Eunji looked up and saw Junmyeon in front of her “You’re not stupid, just a bit clumsy. And don’t worry; it’s an accident it already happened before. Smile okay” he comforted her

“Yeah, thank Junmyeon-shi” she nodded and smiled,

“Oh about that, just call me Junmyeon oppa, since you’re calling Chorong unni”

“Okay” Eunji smiled again. Suddenly Chorong came.

“Hey Eunji, are you alright now?” she asked and rushed beside Eunji

“I’m fine unni” She assured

“Well, don’t worry about it okay. Just don’t mind Baekhyun, I don’t know what’s with him, maybe just in a bad mood” Chorong said

“Hey, why don’t you let Eunji help in the kitchen?” Junmyeon suggested

“But I don’t know how to cook”

“It’s okay Eunji, you can be my assistant for a while, and you can learn by it and I will teach you too so don’t worry. For now, we’ll focus on cooking and later I’ll teach you to bake” Chorong beamed

“Okay, thank you unni” Eunji said

“Let’s go?”

“Okay”

Eunji and Chorong already went inside the café but Chorong turned her head to Junmyeon and mouthed a thank you to him before they completely entered. The two girls went to the kitchen and saw Kyungsoo busy making the soup. Eunji was bit relieved, this was not really hard, all she would do was to give Chorong what she needed, watch and remember it. But her eyes went wide open when she saw a fish on the table

“Omo, what’s that?” she asked and pointed to it

“A fish?” Kyungsoo answered with the it’s-obvious-duh face

“It…it’s dead?” Eunji asked, horrified by the sight

“Of course it is, how can we cook it if it’s alive?” Kungsoo looked at her weirdly

“Cook? What? Cook the fish…” she said and then lowered her voice “cooking is associated with eating, humans eat fish. Omo I forgot that” she mumbled to herself

“Is there anything wrong?”

“Don’t you pity them? They have lives too” She said and turned to the other side and saw a bunch of crabs on a big bowl. She was too horrified with the scene; other kinds of fishes are there too. Since the café restaurant is located at a beach, the main dishes are seafood and Eunji didn’t prepare herself to see her friends there, dead and waiting to be cook and to be stuffed inside humans’ tummy. She was so shocked that she stepped back without looking and bumped into Sehun, who just entered the kitchen carrying a bowl of clams soaked in water. The contents of the bowl spilled all over Sehun and on the floor and Sehun sat on the floor.

“Omo!” Chorong gasped and Kyungsoo looked at Eunji thinking ‘not again’

“Omo I’m sorry” Eunji repeated again and again and bowed nonstop to Sehun

Sehun just nodded at her but he’s a little bit annoyed inside. He was now all wet and smells fishy. There were a lot of cleaning to do and also his hurt over the fall.

“What happened here?” Baekhyun rushed over as he heard the noise. No one answered him at first and just stared at him. Then Eunji faced him and bowed

“I’m sorry” she said

“What is it this time?” he asked, annoyed that she had done something wrong again

“I was just too shock to see the dead fishes, I didn’t mean to bumped into Sehun” She explained and Baekhyun gave her the are-you-serious face

“Who in the planet would be shock to sea dead fishes in the kitchen?! This is the kitchen; don’t you know what kind of place this is?”

“I’m really sorry, I’ll clean it” She said and was about to get the mop

“No, don’t. Just get out here and go back to your room. I don’t want you to cause any more trouble” He said and held Eunji’s arm and signaled her to go out of the kitchen

“I’m sorry” She said and ran up to her room, crying, again.

“Baekhyun, why did you say that?” Chorong said

“Noona, I really think that she can’t do well here. I mean, look at her, we barely know her. We don’t know her identity. We are not even sure about her name. When I saw her I think she comes from a rich family, she acts so calm and like a princess, even if she can’t remember, her body will still act the way it is used to. She’s so clumsy too. How can a girl like her work at a busy café like this?” He explained

“Maybe you have a point, but you shouldn’t be like that to her. What’s wrong with you? You’re judging her so easily, you’re not normally like that” Chorong said

“Actually, I… I am actually not really comfortable with her around. I’m sorry for acting like that” He said, lowering his head

“Give her a chance Baek, I really feel that she is a good girl” Chorong said as she patted Baekhyun’s shoulder before helping Sehun on cleaning the floor.

When Eunji came to her room, she immediately lay on the bed and cried on her pillow. After she cried, she sat up on the bed and look out at the sea. She thought of Baekhyun, and why was he like that. She thought of the fishes and other sea animals she saw in the kitchen.

“I think I will never be able to enter the kitchen again. I can’t bear to see my friends being cooked” She sighed and leaned on the window frame, staring at the wide sea in the view.

“Is my decision right? I know father is angry with me. I wonder what’s happening there at the palace. Is it right for me to be here? Should I just move away?”

She asked those questions to herself, but still she doesn’t know the answer. She went to the table and fetched the notebook that Chorong gave. She opened the next page and started to write.

“It’s just my fourth day, and it’s not so good. I thought working in a café is easy; I always watch them everyday and thought that their job is easy. Well, I did well at first, but something happened, maybe because I’m just unlucky or I’m just really clumsy. And oh seeing my friends, their horrible condition, that image I can’t take off my mind. I wish the others are doing well at the sea.

Baekhyun, he’s mad at me. I know I’m at fault but he looks so mad, too much. I think he doesn’t like me here…”

 After writing, she put the notebook back on the drawer. She folded her arms on the table and laid her head on top of it. A teardrop falls from her eye and slowly, without realizing, she eventually falls asleep.

When Eunji woke up, it’s already dark outside. She sat on the bed and stretched her body.

“How did I get here?” She asked herself, she remembered that she fell asleep at the table, but now she woke up in her bed. She turned her head to the table to check the time and it was already 11:00 PM, she also noticed a tray of food there. She didn’t know who put it there but it was obviously for her so she stood up and went to the table to eat since she’s already hungry.

After eating, she sat back on the bed. She knew that the café is already closed. She didn’t know if the others were still awake but she didn’t want to go out. Being bored alone she just decided to practice serving. She went to the drawers to find something that she can use, but there was nothing, it was just full of old clothes, that she was using, and other stuffs that she didn’t know.

She then get her notebook and tore a page at the end. She then drew a face on it. It was just a random face that she’s drawing but somehow when she finished, it kind of look like Baekhyun. Using a tape that she found at the table drawer, she taped her drawing on the chair and smiled before walking away. Then, she went near the drawing and asked for its order

“Hello sir, may I take your order?” She said, of course the drawing didn’t answer.

“Is that all?” she said again

“Coming right up!” she said and went away

She went back to it again, holding an imaginary cup of coffee on her hand and slowly put it on the table

“Slowly and carefully” she said to herself and smiled

She repeated what she was doing again and again when suddenly she heard a chuckle. She turned around and saw Baekhyun leaning on the door frame. She gasped but didn’t say a word.

“That’s not the way of practicing” he said and entered the room but Eunji still didn’t talk. He then gets the drawing on the chair before looking at her

“Let’s go down and do the real practice” He said

“Eh?” she said widening her eyes. She was wondering why Baekhyun was in her room, and why was he talking to her, wasn’t he mad at her?

“I said; let’s practice, with real people and real coffee. Not with a drawing and imaginary coffee” He said and she blushed in embarrassment. “Don’t be shy, it’s actually cute. Is this me?”

“Ah no” she shook her head and tried to get the drawing from Baekhyun, but Baekhyun turned around and held it away from her

“Maybe you’re angry at me and drew me like this” he said, looking at the drawing, but somehow Eunji noticed that his voice was kind of sad.

“No, it’s not you I promise”

“But it looks like me. Can I keep it?’ he turned to her

“Huh? Ah… okay” she said and he smiled.

They get out of the room and headed downstairs. Baekhyun was walking ahead and on the stairs, he stopped.

“By the way, I’m sorry”