Chapter 5

A/N: the girls’ and guys’ outfits.

Haneul

Olivia

So Min

Se Kyeong

So It's pretty much safe to say they had everyones attention in the cafe :)

Ravi

Key

Mark

Tao

(OK obviously its not him this is just what he was wearing)

Here is how the seating is at the table:

time for the chapter!!!! :D

*Narrator*

“Good morning! My name is Ah Kum, and I will be your waitress this morning.” A pretty girl with long brown hair attends to the girls’ and boys’ table.

It was nice for the girls to see how the guys did not spare a second glance.

And that is basically pissed off their waitress very much.

“If you would like, I can take your orders now.” She gives them a fake smile that said, hurry up because I have better things to do than wait on you losers.

“I got this.” Ravi says, winking towards me. “We will all have 8 parfaits, 4 brownies and 4 ice cream waffles.”

“Yah!” Haneul whispers fiercely to Se Kyeong. “You told me there was bubble tea here.”

Se Kyeong smiles evilly. “Oh… about that…. I lied.”

Haneul gasps and backs away, hurt. “You traitor. I thought I taught you better.”

Se Kyeong giggles. “Sorry Hana, but an old dog cannot be taught new tricks.”

Haneul grumbles something about honesty and trust - and Se Kyeong swears she heard something about a fire breathing dragon – and bangs her head down onto the table.

Mark chuckles. “I did not get a morning person did I?”

So Min puts her hand on top of his and gives him a sympathetic look. “I feel so sorry for you.”

Pretty soon the parfaits and brownies arrive and everyone begins their own conversations.

“So, did you ever find out what happened to your parents after that night?” Key stares at the girl across from him.

So Min looks up from her brownie, confused. “When did I tell you-“

“Last night. At the bar. You were pretty drunk, I’m not exactly surprised you don’t remem-“

So Min snaps her fingers. “Ah-ha! I remember that! Yeah, no we never found out what happened.” So Min hesitates on the next part. “The building that the girls and I live in used to be an apartment building, and our parents had rented it out. We found out later on that our parents bought the place just before they left, and left it to us.”

By now, So Min had the whole table’s attention.

“Anyways, after they said good-bye, they never came back.” So Min finishes quietly.

“Lucky for us, our Minnie was taught how to cook before her mom left so we weren’t completely out of options.” Olivia smiles at the person sitting next to her.

“Were you guys put into the system?” Tao asks.

“No. No one ever found out. Our parents’ home schooled all of us since we were little up until we were around the ages of- well Olivia and I were 8, Haneul was 7 and So Min was 10. We had the educations of basically 12 year olds at the time so we were pretty set for another 2 years when So Min decided that we had to go back to school so we went, and I posed as the parent. We eventually graduated without anyone figuring what was going on.” Se Kyeong explained.

“What about bills and food?” Mark demanded.

“Every two weeks, someone dropped a few bags of food off at our door. We never found out who it was even when we would do a stake out.” Haneul smiles at the memory. “For bills, we never really had any. We found a huge stash of cash in Olivia’s parent’s closet so that helped with things like toiletries. Our building had a solar power thingy attached to the roof so that covered electricity. We had a heater installed that basically took heat from the center of the Earth, which was a one-time payment. What else are we missing?” Haneul answers for him.

“Building payments? Plumbing?” Ravi gives.

“Oh! Right, well, like So Min said, our parents bought the building in advance I guess, and covered it all. And the plumbing we did have to pay for; there was no getting around that.”

“How much was found in the closet?” Key leans forward.

The girls smile at each other. “Over $20,000 dollars. And that’s not including all of the money we found in other hiding places,” Se Kyeong answers.

The guys gawk at them. “How much was the heater?”

“Around $5,000.”

“Jesus. Never the less, I am impressed with how you guys supported each other.” Ravi smiles at them.

“Thank you.” They reply, and once again, everyone returns to their own conversations.

So Min squirms uneasily in her seat. “Se Kyeong, can I talk to you?” She whispers.

“Sure, hold on.” The two girls excuse themselves from the table and head to the women’s room.

“What’s up?” Se Kyeong asks the squeamish girl.

So Min clears and begins to explain the nightmare she had that previous night.

“And then he told me, ‘struggling will only make it worse.’ And then this woman walked in and Key was pissed and guess what? She took those magic spells off of me and I think put another one on because after she did, she told me this: ‘So Min. You will tell no one of what just happened and you will forget all of what had just happened in this room. You will gather your friends, tell them you are not feeling well, and leave.’ And I did exactly what she said; only I woke up just as I had left the room. Isn’t that extremely weird? Like she told me what to do in the dream, and I did just that in real life at the club!”

“That… is one hell of a dream.” Se Kyeong sighs. “And extremely peculiar.”

“And the worst part is it didn’t feel like a dream… It felt like a memory. Like it actually happened and I am so freaking scared to be around Key right now I want to cry. I just want to curl up in a ball and cry. Because what if what I saw really was a memory? What if that crazy woman actually took my memory of that night away? I remember going into that room, and then I remember coming out of it and not remembering what happened inside of it, and that is when I lost Key. Doesn’t that make just a little too much sense?” So Min stops pacing the bathroom and stares at Se Kyeong who was watching her friend with worried eyes.

“So Min. You need to listen to me.” Se Kyeong grabs So Min’s shoulders and faces her. “You need to calm down or you’re going to give yourself a heart attack. Do you understand?”

So Min nods.

“There is no way that dream can be true. Magic does not exist. Am I clear?”

So Min nods and relaxes a little at the small confirmation.

“You were seriously drunk last night, and I think your head was imagining the worse off of that. That is what makes the most sense, right?”

So Min smiles a little and nods. “Yeah. Yeah, you’re probably right.”

“Not probably, I am. There is no way Key can do magic. Now, we are going to go back out there, and we are going to have a ton of fun with these guys because they are super hot and they seem super cool and I really really really want to get to know them.” Se Kyeong grabs her best friend’s hand and leads her out of the bathroom.

“I still don’t understand why we told them basically our life story.” So Min comments.

“You know what? Me neither. But for some reason, I feel like we can trust them.” Se Kyeong smiles.

“I agree.” The girls make it back to the table just in time for the ice cream waffles to arrive.

“So do you remember your parents well?” Ravi asks just before he shovels a fork full of ice cream into his mouth.

“Oh, not really. I mean we have pictures but the only thing I really remember is that they were part of like a really weird club that was just between themselves.” Se Kyeong shrugs it off and eats a bite of the waffle.

“Really? What was is called?”