The Assistant

~Odd Eye~

"I know, you're on the defense

I understand, of course,

how could you believe me?

It's strange, your eyes, your pupils

Don't misunderstand, I think it's attractive

In the end,

you stole all the eyes in this place,"

-SHINee Odd Eye

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Chanwoo placed the caramel latte on the table and then sat down sipping his Americano. He waved a hand in-front of my face pulling me to look at him, "you ok?" he asks and sips his drink. I shake my head, "Chanwoo...I have to tell you something," I say and he stops drinking, "whats-" he gets interrupted when someone clears there throat and we turn to them. 

"Ava.." says Minseok with a smile with his hands folded and facing my direction. I look at him and take a hold of Chanwoo's hand on the table. Chanwoo looks at me and then Minseok, "Hi.. I'm Jung Chanwoo.." he says with a smile and stands up. Minseok looked at Chanwoo and extended his hand, "Kim Minseok, CEO of X-Corporations," he says flatly. They shake hands and then Chanwoo looked at him and patted his back roughly, "thank you for hiring Ava," he says with a smile. Minseok nodded and looked at the hand rested on his shoulder, Chanwoo immediately removes it and then sits down, "why are you here?" I ask flatly and Chanwoo looks at me like I did something wrong. Minseok chuckles, "came to get an Americano," he says and then glances to his watch, "well see you, have a good weekend," he says with a smile and walks away.

"That was your boss," Chanwoo says reminding me as we walk into a clothing store. I shrug my shoulders and then he pulls me into a hug, "you where going to tell me something?" he questions and I sigh. "You have to promise to not be angry or anything!" I exclaim to him and he puts a hand on one of the clothing rails, "hmm, I cant promise that because I don't know what it is," he says eyes wide. "Please...Chanwoo, what I'm going to tell you wont be easy to take," I say and then he nods. I look around and begin to explain everything since Day 1.

After I tell Chanwoo he turns around and walks out of the clothing store. I chase after him and keep my distance because by the harsh steps he is taking I could sense his anger. As we reach a part of the street that is deserted and quite he turns around, "why Ava?!" he asks harshly. I look to my feet noticing the aging scribbles I had done my senior year of high-school, how has that managed to stay there this long? "Ava," Chanwoo says a bit more calmly and I turn from my shoes to his brown eyes. "I'm sorry," I say and he runs a hand through his hair, "why are you allowing him to do this to you!? I swear you don't have a backbone Ava!" he says and I sink my head again, "Ava..I'm your boyfriend and it's my job to protect you, you need to just quit!" and I snap my head to him, "he can hurt you! He said he wont let me leave!" and Chanwoo roll his eyes. "He is trying to manipulate you! Don't worry about me!" he says and takes my hand, "just leave..." he says but I can't leave. The first job I get and I have to leave because my boss has issues. I'm not losing. "I'll leave," I lie and he nods his head, "It's for the best! If you would have told me before I met him..he would have left the cafe in a gurney," I shake my head and squeeze his hand, "let's go, let's not talk about this anymore," I say and he agrees.

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1 week later:

"You have 2,895,238.48 ₩ in your account.."

My jaw dropped as I ended the call with my bank account. My pay check was given every Sunday, I worked Monday-Thursday and Friday-Sunday where my days off. It had been a week since I started working at X-Corporations. Luckily, the sexual harassment had stopped after the kiss me and Minseok shared, and he hardly even acknowledged me now. I told Chanwoo that I was working at another company after being asked for a transfer. As for my friends, Annalisa was working with Baekhyun by becoming his go-to photographer and even earning a bigger name for herself, Maiko was flying from Seoul to Tokyo for her company, Rosalina was teaching Kindergartners again, after the week break they had been given. I made sure to tell them about me and Chanwoo but that was it and nothing about me quitting.

"Guys I'm 2,895,238.48₩ richer," I say as the girls roll on my bed and floor. Then they all snap their heads towards me, "OK! For highlighting and napping?! Are you sure your not doing anything else for this Mr.Kim," Maiko asks and wiggles her eyebrows. I roll my eyes, "I'm with your brother! You stupid!" I say and look to Annalisa and Rosalina, "Can I have your job?" Rosalina says and then laughs. "He must really like you!" Annalisa adds and then looks as if shes trying to solve a difficult problem. "Are you still coming over to my class to help Friday?" Rosalina asks and then Annalisa points at me suddenly, "I need your help too! Baekhyun has a photo-shoot at 4am the same day and I need someone to help style the clothes we where given," suddenly Maiko jumped from the floor to my bed and smacked my bare leg, "don't forget you have files to pick up from BigHit for your company,"  I fall back on my bed and groan. "Ok, so I'm meeting Annalisa and Baek, then I'll go to Rosalina's school, and at 2pm I'll head over to BigHit and pick up the files," the girls nodded and then also fell on each other. All four of us laying there, limbs on top of one another and in silence, Maiko not even having anything to say. "Are you guys hungry we can go visit that ahjumma's restaurant?" asks Rosalina and we all pushed each other off and slipped into our shoes.

When we sat down at "our" table the ahjumma came over and asked if we wanted the usual and we all smiled and nodded. As we all talked and laughed my phone buzzed, "is it your boyfriend," Rosalina cooed and I just smiled, as I glanced to my phone it wasn't surprising to see a text from him, 

"Have a good night:)" he sent me and I replied with "You too...Chocoball," and I looked back up to my friends who where mocking me.