Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Thirty

Hyungwon

I glanced over at Minatozaki Sana trying on some outfits in the closet and I cleared my throat. "Don't tell me that you are really going out with Lee Minhyuk, I will not allow this to happen," I told her firmly.

She rolled her eyes and looked over at me. "How many times do you want to say this? I am not interested in Lee Minhyuk and he is just another coworker, Mr Chae Annoying won. Help me choose an outfit, I need some advice."

"I thought that you said that you weren't going anywhere else today?" I asked her.

"I wasn't going to but now I have the reason to, I am going out to celebrate the official birthday of Woo Yiwon, she is finally real and I want to show everyone the real me." She beamed in delight and I watched her looking at herself in the mirror. "So do you think that the pink tracksuit looks good or the blue one?"

"Are you going to be outside for very long?" She shrugged her shoulders. "What if you get abducted in the middle of shopping? You said that your father is very powerful and he is able to do such a thing without even lifting a finger."

"It has been almost 8 months since I have disappeared from his sight, he would probably think that I have already died or something." She said, still forcing me to make a choice between the two tracksuits. "Just choose one for me and go to work, Kihyun ssi needs you to be at the restaurant."

I still think that it is better for her not to go anywhere on her own, she might have gotten a new identity as Woo Yiwon but she still has the same face back then when she was still Minatozaki Sana, they can still track her down without any difficulty and bring her back to where she came from. She came here despite all the things that she has to sacrifice and I am not going to let an innocent shopping trip ruin all of that, I am going to tag along so that she doesn't get kidnapped by anyone.

"Don't you dare tag along while I shop, I can do that on my own and you have far more important things to do. The restaurant will fall apart very soon if you are not here and it doesn't matter if I am not there at the restaurant at all and plus, my father will not come all the way to get me." She shoved the two tracksuits in my face. "Make a choice before I will really get pissed and wear this disgusting T-shirt out to the streets and have everyone mock me for my horrible fashion sense."

"You sure about that?" I asked her for the last time and she nodded her head. "Mix the two tracksuits up, wear the pink as the top and the blue at the bottom. It will make a fashion trend for sure and if they want to know who created this, just point to my restaurant and it will help increase the sales."

She chuckled. "I will take care of myself, don't worry too much about that. Work hard at work." She said to me before closing the door and changing into her clothes.

I went into my room and took one of my spare baseball caps and hung it on her door, it is better that she wears a disguise out, it would make me feel more relieved if no one can recognize her on the streets and she will be able to shop to her heart's content.

I left for work and I arrived at work, smirking at Lee Minhyuk who had to come in for work at the last minute, I told Kihyun about him making advances towards Sana and he wasn't happy to hear about it at all, so he decided to make Lee Minhyuk work for one more day so that he would not be available when Sana is not working. He surely deserves it after what he has done to Sana, and she is smart as well to not want to go on a date with him.

Work was surprisingly smooth and there weren't any problems at all but my left eyelid kept twitching the entire day, I don't know much about superstition but the eye twitching is making me more uncomfortable as the time goes and I want it to go away. I began to massage my eyelids when I had the time but it wouldn't stop and it continued to twitch for another hour before I couldn't take it anymore and I approached one of my chefs who weren't doing any work.

"I want to ask you about something, you are superstitious right?" I asked him.

He nodded his head. "If you count avoiding a black cat and walking under a ladder, I am very superstitious. What's the matter?"

"I want to know what it means when your left eyelid is twitching nonstop, it has been twitching ever since I came to work." He didn't have a good facial expression on his face, something bad is happening and I don't know what it is. "It is a bad thing, I just know it. Can you exactly tell me what the bad thing is?"

He shook my head. "I am not a fortune teller or anything but I know that you are extremely worried about something, who are you even worried about in the first place?"

Sana, Minatozaki Sana... I have been worrying about her all morning and it has carried all the way to work, something bad might have happened to her. I immediately registered whatever that I needed to do in my mind and I took off my apron and passed it to him, telling him to take over my work for an hour and I ran off as fast as I can.

She told me that she would be shopping around the restaurant and she wouldn't spend too much time outside but I can't be sure, someone must have found out about her identity and they must have brought her to somewhere. As I was running to the shopping district, I overheard someone saying that there was a huge commotion at the back alley and they saw a girl with mismatched tracksuit, that was Minatozaki Sana for sure.

I raced to the back alley hoping to see a group of men trying to do something bad to her but I only see a group of men lying down on the floor, not being able to move and groaning in pain. Minatozaki Sana flipped over the final guy in the bunch and he landed on the floor helplessly, she let out a sigh and she looked at me, looking really surprised that I am here instead of being back at the restaurant. "Chae Hyungwon!"

"What did you just did to them? I wasn't seeing things right?" I pointed to the group of men on the floor.

"I think that I forgot to mention to you that I am skilled in judo and I have no problem handling a group of men without any weapons, I am glad that they don't have weapons so they can't harm me." She smiled and I find myself falling in love with her even more, adding my love on top of the love that I have felt for her.