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-XVII- Do You have any ice?

Seoul, Hongdae

Magpie's manager already liked her new recruit very much. Active and enthusiastic. She worked well and it was easy to communicate with her.
Bo Hwa started working straight away. She went from the customer room, through the kitchen to the cash register as if she had been doing it all her life. There were mostly families and college students and the atmosphere in the pub was very warm.
Song Bo Hwa stood by the kitchen and looked at her employee badge with a giant smile. It was as big as a business card and her name had never looked so pretty before. She felt all weird as if it was her very first job.

- Fuck, I'm tired. I shouldn't have been idling for so long... She said stretching.

She leaned against the wall.

- Bo Hwa-ssi! Interpelled Manager Jeong. Can you serve this pizza at table five?

- Yes! She answered by tying her shirt more tightly around her waist.

Manager Jeong was a very beautiful woman. She was tall and slender. Her facial features were soft and she always had a slightly mischievous smirk on her face. She had a pixie haircut with small sparkling highlights. Bo Hwa had liked her right away.

Bo Hwa grabbed the tray and smelled the pizza as if her soul was going to be impregnated by it. Then she arrived at table five where a little girl and her father were waiting. The little girl was sipping a Coke through a white straw with red stripes and the father a large glass of brown beer.

- Here's your four-cheese pizza with extra grilled chicken! She said jovially with a hint of envy.

The bell hanging at the top of the front door rang, new customers had entered. Another waitress welcomed them. She was wearing high waist leather short that only went a little below her butt with a very sequined floral off-shoulder top. Bo Hwa grimaced: everyone else was wearing the same thing. She didn't have an outfit yet because she had just arrived and she was really happy about it, it wasn't at all to her liking.
Looks like they're about to shoot a K-pop video...she thought as she headed to an empty table to sit down for a while. Manager Jeong approached with a plate in her hand and a big album under her arm.

- So, do you like it? She asked with a little smile.
Bo Hwa was a little shocked by the abrupt familiarization and took a few seconds before answering.

- Yes, very much. Even though I wish I had been a customer because it all looks really delicious... She said looking around.

- Um, I'm not talking about work, replied the manager as she shook her head. I'm talking about the waitresses' outfits.

- Oh? Uh, it's very... jolly and very leathery and very floral and very sequined.

It wasn't a compliment, but Manager Jeong jumped for joy.

- Isn't it? I was afraid there wouldn't be enough glitter and flowers. I made them myself. I've been Magpie's manager and stylist for years. You'll get a new outfit every two weeks!

- Ah really...? Bo Hwa answered, hiding that she was horrified.

She wasn't in a hurry to find out what the other uniforms would look like. Madam Jeong opened the scrapbook in front of Bo Hwa and started flipping through the pages. There were only pictures of groups of girls all dressed the same way, all smiling with their teeth.
Puffy orange dresses with white lace frills, multicolored dungarees with rhinestones, big tartan sweaters with a jean skirt and polka-dot tights... Madame Jeong's large collection left Bo Hwa perplexed. The leather shorts and floral top suddenly scared her less. She couldn't really see herself wearing a sexy black tight dress with a belt of big fuchsia pink pompoms. Yet Manager Jeong's style of dress was totally different. Quite... sober.