Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Twenty-six

Hyungwon

I didn't know that she knew how to cook, I thought that she was the only heiress to the Minatozaki empire and she is supposed to have her maids and butlers tend to her every need, there is no need for her to learn how to cook because they will be there to do it for her and her only job is to look pretty as a doll the whole time. But it is good that she knows how to cook so that she is able to live anywhere without any worry that she wouldn't be able to make her own food, if I have known that she could cook, I would have made her cook our meals from the very first day that I took her in.

I glanced over to Minatozaki Sana and she was looking at herself in the mirror, smiling at her reflection as she stared at herself. She must be so happy that we ate her food, it tasted quite delicious although it is not considered to be restaurant quality it will reach there if she receives training from a professional chef.

"Chae Hyungwon, why are you standing here and smiling like an idiot?" Yoo Kihyun asked me and I touched my own face, I can't believe that I am actually smiling after staring at Minatozaki Sana. What is really with me these days?

"I wasn't doing that smiling thing at all, you must have seen it wrongly," I told him, walking with him to the kitchen where I packed my lunchbox for work later.

"Really? If I could remember correctly, you were indeed smiling and you were doing that while looking at our beloved tenant. Is there something that I don't know about? Something about love that is between you and Yiwon ssi?"

My eyes doubled in size and I glared at her. "There is nothing like that, you are talking nonsense. We have to leave for work or customers would be waiting for us to open the restaurant, Boss." I looked over at Minatozaki Sana. "Woo Yiwon, stop looking at yourself in the mirror like an idiot and get ready for work!"

Yes, I don't like Minatozaki Sana, there is nothing between the two of us. I am sure of it now, I could even yell at her like it is nothing and it doesn't hurt me a single bit. Minatozaki Sana is nothing to me but someone who is deeply linked to me because of her wish to have her own freedom, she is nothing important to me after all and I don't need to care too much about her.

She will definitely leave this place after she is done sorting out her stuff, about her new identity as Woo Yiwon, she doesn't have a reason to stay on after she is done being the new person that she wishes to be. There is no reason why she would want to stay with us, we are too poor and pathetic for her to live with us and we are not able to provide her with what she wants.

I glanced over at her whenever she makes her way into the kitchen to take the orders to bring to the customers, she is always so happy as if she is a robot of happiness. It is as if she is the only waitress who is actually happy to be working as a waitress, waitressing is something that people chose to do to earn some money, not because they want to meet people all the time and be happy serving those customers.

It could be because she is the only heiress of the Minatozaki empire and she is used to having people going to her and waiting on her so that she wants to experience it for herself but it has been almost 2 weeks since she has done waitressing and I still see the same look on her face. She is for real when she said that she loved waitressing and she didn't want to become a chef when Yoo Kihyun asked her earlier this morning.

She is weird, Minatozaki Sana is a really weird human being and I don't know what to do with her. I told her that I want nothing to do with her but I can't help looking into her direction every time she comes into my view, although she doesn't always look at me, I wished for her to look at her all the time.

I sighed deeply, I must be crazy to think about her that way. I am a nobody to her, I am just some guy who rescued her from the ocean and left her in the hospital for almost 6 months, I am nothing important to her and she is using me to get to her goals to live her life as Woo Yiwon.

"I don't know why you have been so down for but you can tell me anything, I will be willing to listen to you." Lee Minhyuk said to me when he came to take the order from me.

"No thanks, I will rather be sad and upset than to talk to you," I told him frankly, I really don't like him because he can be a very nosy person sometimes and he will tell other people about what secret he has heard about, he is someone who I don't trust out of everyone who works here in this restaurant.

"Oh really? Then good luck to you trying to make yourself happy, Mr Chae." He turned around and looks at Woo Yiwon who came into the kitchen at this moment. "Oh, Yiwon ssi... You are not working tomorrow right?"

She nodded. "Yes, but why?"

"I have something to tell you, come to the back alley after you are done serving the customers." He then walked out of the kitchen, Woo Yiwon looked at me with confusion and I passed her the plate of food that is meant for the customer that she is serving.

As soon as she gets out of the kitchen, I put everything down and informed them that I am going on a tiny break but I wasn't going on a break at all, I walked to the back alley and I saw Lee Minhyuk and Woo Yiwon talking to each other. It is quite soft but I could still hear that clearly, Lee Minhyuk was saying something about him taking a day off and he had nothing to do at home. "Do you want to go out with me tomorrow? I like you, Woo Yiwon. I really do and I want you to accept me to be your boyfriend."

"I... I... Minhyuk ssi, I..." I got annoyed at her response and I walked in between them, revealing myself in front of them. "Woo Yiwon doesn't have a day off tomorrow, I was just informed by Kihyun ssi that she will have to work an extra day tomorrow. So sorry about that but I am not a bit sorry about that."