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chapter 2

After Eunbi had seemingly scared the wits out of Seungwoo after the incident, everyone had become more attentive it seemed, as their head chef was crankier than usual. Everything else rolled by fine in the kitchen with Chaeyeon trying her best to pacify Eunbi who had been sporting a murderous look all along.

"God I need a break or I'll collapse anytime now," Yuri complained from her platform.

"Don't we all?," Yujin replied, quite worn out herself.

"Eunbi seems crankier than usual." Yuri had leaned into the kitchen counter whilst taking off her now messy ponytail and re-tying it again.

"Glad we have Chaeyeon around to keep her from eating us all alive."

Recieving no reply, Yujin turned to the other girl who was now intently looking at the monitor which displayed the footage of every other camera installed inside the establishment. Her eyes were fixated on the reception, where a certain Yena was staring off into space. The said girl was visibly bored, with the restaurant's peak hour dying down and customer flow decreasing and Yena's soul had obviously left her body. Sakura sleeps with her eyes open, they said.

"I don't get why you and Yena are still not together yet," Yujin interrupted Yuri's trance.

The said girl flushed red at the sudden remark and averted her gaze away from the monitor. Yujin smirked.

"We're just friends," Yuri defended weakly.

"That's what she said."

Yujin sighed as Yuri fiddled with the sleeves if her uniform. "Look, the pining thing was cute at the begining but this has dragged on for too long and neither of you obviously have no plans to make the first move so now it's getting more frustrating than cute."

"Just tell her you like her," she said more softly.

"I can't. We've been friends for so long and it'd be so weird if I suddenly went up to her face and told her that I liked her."

"From the looks of it, Yena obviously likes you too."

"I highly doubt that."

Yujin wanted to smack the older girl. How can anyone be this dense? She didn't know. Everyone including their grandmothers knew that Yuri was whipped for Yena and vice versa. Even Hyewon's cat knew. Chaeyeon and Eunbi's unborn child would know. It was common knowledge to everyone. Except maybe themselves.

After knowing them for so long, Yujin was sure of one thing about these two dorks.

Jo Yuri was a coward.

And so was Choi Yena.

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"Good work, everyone."

Finally.

The long gruelling hours in the kitchen were finally over. Everyone scrambled to clean up their respective counters. Waiters and waitresses cleared up the tables, their usually professional and well composed demeanour slipping, faces now displaying fatigue and nothing else.

Yujin headed for the locker room once she was done with her cleaning duties and quickly changed from her sweaty uniform to her casuals. She checked the time. 7:00 pm. I could use a shower, she thought as she slipped into her Vans. And  a change of clothes, as the smell of burnt steak made its way to her nostrils from her clothes.