Into You

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I place the lid on the coffee and hand it to the manager who comes here every morning to collect the coffee for his star.

Ravi is what they call him. He is one of the most popular rappers around.

The manager mutters a thanks and leaves with the single drink. I scratch the back of my head and go back to the coffee machine.

I grab a cup which my co-worker has written an order on and I proceed to make the coffee.

"Faster, Taekwoon. You seem to be slow today" Hakyeon whines as he places another empty cup in the air of drinks for me to make.

I glance up to see a crowd of people either lining up to order or waiting for their drinks to be made.

It's always busy here. Something would be wrong if it wasn't.

This cafe is located on the ground floor of Ghost Entertainment. The biggest entertainment company around.

All of the big stars get their drinks from here. The fans want to drink quality coffee and apparently our coffee is quality.

Of course the fact that Ravi's face is printed on the limited edition cups probably helps.

"You are the one who is slow Hakyeon" I sigh as I finish two drinks and place them on the counter to be collected, tapping the bell, signalling for a waitress to take it away.

Hakyeon just scoffs at me and goes to the next customer. I hear some girls screaming.

Looking up I see a person wearing a dark hood, holding a coffee in his hand, walking past the cafe. It's Ravi.

He waves at the fangirls as he walks past. He leaves the building and gets into a black vehicle.

Rumour has it he is filming for a new music video. Of course it is not a rumour for me. It's a truth.

I draw my attention back to making coffees and the girls screams quickly dies down as the star drives away.

"Sorry I'm late" Hongbin apologises as he rushes over to help man the machine.

We get through the drinks twice as fast with him working as well and the orders are completed more quickly.

Hakyeon manages to get to the end of all the people in the line so he goes to work on the food side of some orders.

We don't do full meals here. Our main specialty is coffee and more coffee. We just have a handful of cakes and slices. Each one has a small toothpick which has a photo of Ravi on it. There are also some sandwiches with stickers of other idols under the label stuck on the packaging.

I have never personally met any of the idols here. I just make their coffee.

I see their managers everyday and sometimes I'll see them passing through the building.

My intention when I got a job here was originally just to become a better barista.

Little did I know that Ravi would take such a big liking to my drinks and get the company to practically beg for me to stay.

They new I was planning to leave to start my own cafe and was only here to get better.

To make it up they placed me in charge of this place. It's as close to my own cafe as I'm going to get.

Besides it pays well and I need something that pays well. At home I have my sister who I have to look after.

She just managed to escape an abusive relationship. She isn't fit to go back to work just yet as she has a fractured wrist and a broken leg that has to heal.