IMMORTAL CYBORG || LEE HONGBIN

CHAPTER 2

"Okay, so one honey mango smoothie with a red velvet strawberry cake, is that all? Okay please have a seat first and we'll call your name after the order has been made. Thank you." Heeyoung bowed to the customer and asked the other workers to make the order earlier. She was in charge of the cashier that day because Eunwoo was worried that she might get too tired making and serving the orders.

"Heeyoung-ah what should I do? There's a fight between a couple at the outside and they messed the place with spilled drinks. I'm sweating now" The worker ran towards her and asked for help. Heeyoung knew that she had to be responsible because she's in lead that day. Heeyoung quickly went outside and saw a woman held an empty glass because she spilled it at the man which she believed is the boyfriend of her. Gathered all of her courage, Heeyoung slowly went towards them and bowed.

"I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs., but you are not allowed to make a mess at this place. Why don't you go to a suitable place and calmly solv-"

"YAH? Neo mwonde? (what are you??) Don't bother interfere people's business like you know the problem so well!" The man cut Heeyoung's words angrily which made her flinched and scared to look up. "And you bitch, I'm not done with you! Pretending to be nice but actually a-" He started to threw a plate to the woman where he almost swung the plate to Heeyoung but suddenly..

"Ahh" Heeyoung shut her eyes tightly since she thought the plate almost hit her but someone swung and hugged her to avoid it while the man's arm was grabbed by somebody else before it hit the woman. Heeyoung opened her eyes to see Eunwoo was hugging her and turned to see Hongbin grabbed the man's arm tightly with a fierce glare.

"Sir, if you tend to make more chaos, and hurt someone here, you might end up sleep behind the cell. The police is already on their way. Go have a comfortable talk with them." Hongbin smiled sarcastically and let go of his arm. He then asked the woman if she's alright and she nodded. "Miss, you need to give your cooperation to the police if whatever he said earlier to you was just an accuse. Please go home safely."

Heeyoung almost lost her balance but Eunwoo had already supported her since earlier. Hongbin met eyes with Eunwoo but quickly asked Heeyoung if she's fine. She faked a smile and nodded. "You're the one who stopped it earlier. I'm just fine. Thank you sunbae."

"There's nothing more to say, I'll bring you inside, come on." Eunwoo stopped their conversation and brought her inside. He let her sit and calmed down before he saw that Hongbin was staring at him from the outside and started to walk away. "jjajeungna (annoying.)"

"What?" Heeyoung asked after she took a sip of water to calm herself.

"Nothing, are you okay? Should we go home?" He asked concernedly. She chuckled before standing up in front of the cashier counter.

"I'm fine, it just a little panic attack earlier but nothing happened to me. I'm more worried about the woman even though she started to spill drink at him." Heeyoung pressed the machine to keep the money she left earlier and turned towards Eunwoo. "How can Hongbin sunbae be there at the right time huh? He looked so cool when he grabbed the man's arm earlier. Hmm I could meet him properly today if that doesn't happen."

"yah I saved you tho. If not you might get some nice sleep at the hospital bed tonight." Eunwoo squinted his eyes and flicked her forehead softly "jeongshin-charyeo (snap out of it) stop dreaming like there's a prince charming for you."

"Ehey this jerk."

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"Mr. Jang, there's another email from the Sweden company, they need your immediate response." The secretary informed Jang Hyun Wook about the business that he will be managing soon. He nodded and went inside his room.

"I've already told them that I need some time to think about it." He opened the email from his computer and read one by one from the file that he received.

To: J Tech Korea Company..

From: Sweden Machinery Company.

We, SMC would gladly want to have a contract with your company by supplying us the good quality of machines and decided to increase the amount of orders and the amount of price from USD 2 Million to USD 5 Million. If you are agree with the the final decision of us, we would gladly welcome you to Sweden to have a proper meeting for contract signing. We believe with your company ability and please do give us a feedback.

"woah, why did they increase the orders and price so sudden? I'm just worried if something happened because things like this need a lot of work." He shut his eyes and rested his head on the chair. He would like to accept it because at least he can bring his family for holiday since it has been a while he got a leave to go to holiday with them. But he also not sure about his company ability to export the products internationally.

Suddenly his phone rang. "Hello? Hyunmi-ah? Whats wrong?" He raised his eyebrows when he heard she was sobbing.

"Oppa, please come here now, father..he collapsed in the bathroom, doctor said it was a heart attack.. He has been in the hospital for hours. Now I  just got time to call you."

"What?"

Heeyoung was washing the dishes at the back of the cafe when her phone rang. Since her hands were wet, she asked Eunwoo to pick it up.

"Annyeonghaseyo eommeonim. Ye Eunwoo-ie-eyo (its Eunwoo). Oh, she's washing the dishes and told me to pick this up..ye? Ahh..I'm sorry to hear that, I will inform her and we'll go home right away. Ye.." Eunwoo ended the call and she turned to ask him.

"Wae?" Eunwoo didn't replied to that but straight away untied her apron and gave her the coat. "Yah, whats wrong? We have another hour to clo-" Her words got cut off when he hugged her.

"Your grandfather's at the hospital. Heart attack. I'll bring you home now." He knew that Heeyoung was really close with her grandpa so he can knew it right away that she's going to cry. Her eyes already blurred and she was speechless so he clasped their hands and asked the manager to go back home right away.

"I'm sorry for troubling you Eunwoo-yah despite that you guys are still working earlier." Heeyoung's mom apologized to him after they've arrived a few minutes ago. Heeyoung went to her room to change the clothes while her parents were already at the car waiting for her.

"No its okay, because we're already cleaning up to close it anyway. Heeyoung was kinda shocked but I hope she's okay and I hope that grandpa will be okay as well. I'll ask my parents to pay a visit some other time. And if anything happen, please do inform me emmeonim." She nodded and he bowed before he watched Heeyoung walked towards the car with red eyes.

"I'll call you later Eunwoo-yah" Heeyoung spoke softly because she tried not to cry again.

Eunwoo nodded and tapped her shoulder lightly. "Be strong, he's gonna be fine. Ka. (go)"

Heeyoung's family stayed at the hometown for a few days because her grandpa's condition has became worse. Its not just a heart attack but he almost likely to become paralyze because of some sort of disease. During the time, Heeyoung always make sure to sit beside her grandpa all the time and they always clasped their hands. She cant bear to see that her grandpa who's before this was always laughing and chubby is now thin and lying weakly at the bed.

"He..Heeyoung-ah.."She turned her head from looking at his hand to his face. He was trying to say something so she got closer. "you are now..a big girl..thank you..for.." He took a deep breath before continued "for.. always loving me..Take care of your parents and be a good girl okay..?" She let her tears fell and shook her head. She hugged him and he kissed at the top of her head.

"Harabeoji (grandpa). don't talk too much you nee-"

"I wish you an early Merry Christmas. I don't have any present but I prepared a last gift for you.." She waited for him to continue talking but he didn't. She released the hug and looked at him, he was already shutting his eyes, and not moving. Same goes to the machine beside him. Her inside felt narrowed, she shook her head and bit her lips before tears fell from her eyes. The first nightmare has begun.

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