Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Thirteen

Yiwon

I have officially declared waitressing to be one of the hardest jobs in the world, I have not really considered it when I was still part of the empire, I never knew how waiting for tables is such a tiring thing to do and it tires you out a lot just to serve one table. Memorising orders is also a tough thing to do even if you have a good memory, it wouldn't help at all if you have to memorise every single item on the menu and how they look like and which customer to serve it to.

I was a good student back in school and I scored As for every subject that I have taken just because I used my memorising skills on that, I don't need to even write notes to make me remember all the things, I simply flipped through the textbook and I would remember everything that it is in these books. It is also because of my intelligence that helped me secure a place in the company and I have done a lot of work in the company as much as possible before I decided that it is best for me to leave.

But everything changed ever since I got away from the empire, I have lost my status as the only heiress in the empire and my wealth, I have reduced myself to a regular girl who wears brightly coloured tracksuits all the time and doesn't own a smartphone unlike my old self, I have also become a little dumb, to be honest. Maybe it is because of the incident that made me like this, I am not the same person as I was 6 months ago. And that same person doesn't exist anymore, Woo Yiwon exists right now and she is the person that I aspire to be in order to change myself.

Even if it takes a while for me to get used to being Woo Yiwon, it is the only way for me to survive in this world. If I continue to be here as the old Minatozaki Sana, his people are going to get hold of it very soon and they are going to bring me back to the empire at every chance that they get, and then I am going back to my old life, that restricted and miserable life that I have been living for the past 23 years, I definitely don't want to go back there, going back there would mean that I will be going back to square one and there is no difference if I escaped or not.

I took down the order with my best attempt to not mess up anyone's orders before I send this to the kitchen to prepare their order, and I found out that my pen had run out of ink. Why must it happen at this moment? And right in front of the customers where I am supposed to be taking their orders, I searched my body for another pen and there isn't any pen that I can replace it with the pen that I am holding onto now.

"Use mine." I heard a voice and he slid a pen into my hand and he replaced it with my lousy pen, it happened in less than a second. And he walked away just like that, he did it so naturally that the customers didn't even realize that there was a delay in taking down their orders.

And thanks to him, I successfully took down an order without messing up any item in there for the first time ever. Who is he exactly?

I walked to the kitchen area to hand over my order to Hyungwon ssi who is one of the head chefs working here, he was there as well just chatting with Hyungwon ssi as if they know each other for a long time. They were even playing around so much or is it just me that that waiter is being a little too hyper and doesn't seem to run out of energy, he is waiting on tables all day long and he still has the energy to play around like that.

Nevertheless, I still went over to the two and handed my order over to Hyungwon who took it without saying a word and he got to work. The waiter, on the other hand, stared at me the entire time and then I did the same back to him since he stared at me first. "Is there something on my face?"

I shook my head. "Because you were staring at me, I naturally assumed that but I guess that you are just attracted to my good looks." He smiled. "You must be the new waitress that came in today right? What's your name?"

"Woo Yiwon," I said, still trying to practice telling people about my new name. "Yours?"

"I am Lee Minhyuk, nice to meet you!" He wanted to shake my head but I declined him. "You should have stocked up on buying better pens that last for a ridiculous amount of time rather than some liquid ink pen that dry out very easily."

I then remembered the pen that he passed it to me earlier which saved my life, I passed it back to him. "Right, thank you so much for earlier. That really saved my life, I have successfully handed a correct order to the kitchen for the first time ever."

"You don't need to hand it back to me, you know. I have tons of them in my bag because I have just graduated from university and I have bought too much, to be honest, and so I need them to distribute them around to anyone who needs them." He smiled and he suddenly turned serious. "I have a serious question for you."

I nodded. "What is it?"

"Is it true that you don't have a phone?" He asked and I nodded. "How can you not have one? I'm sure that you can afford even the cheapest phone on the market." I shook my head. "What? You're serious?"

If you got into an accident 6 months ago and you were in a coma for the same amount of time, it is definitely possible for all of your belongings to go missing.