Prologue

Prologue

"Where is she?" SooYoung Choi sighed. She had finished wiping the counter and now she was leaning over it, "she's an hour late. Again."

Jessica Jung went to the cash register to print out a few receipts, "Yeah - we need her now. I'm serving 6 tables at once! Where's Sunny? She said she'd be two minutes!"

SooYoung got up, wiped her hands on her pants then grabbed the two serving plates waiting in the kitchen, "I'll do it."

"Thank you," Jessica said with sigh of relief. She pulled out her phone and began to dial. "Come on TaeYeon, pick up... TaeYeo-"

It went right to voice message. Jessica groaned then leaned against the cash register. She felt so tired. Without an extra set of arms, she felt like a wreck. Wait a minute. She looked out the window to her left. There she is! And she's with Eeteuk oppa. No wonder she didn't answer the phone.

SooYoung came back and slammed the trays down into the giant sink. "Is she bac - oh, nevermind." Sunny came rushing to their side, tying up the back of her apron, then taking another table's order.

Jessica shook her head as she saw Eeteuk lean down to kiss TaeYeon.

In SooYoung's mind, barf.

TaeYeon came into the cafe with a smile on her face after Eeteuk had left.

"Why are you smiling for? You're late," SooYoung shot at her.

TaeYeon hung up her coat then put on her apron, "I'm in love, sue me." She held up her hands like it was no big deal.

SooYoung rolled her eyes then left for the kitchen. But then she repeated to herself what TaeYeon had said. "What?" In love?

"This isn't like you. When we and the other girls decided to open this cafe, we were all committed to it," Jessica had a melodramatic look on her face, "What happened to our sweet TaeYeon unnie?"

TaeYeon sighed, then checked the number of orders that were placed, "I'm sorry. This whole thing was my idea - I should've known."

Jessica slowly smiled, glad, "Just don't be late again. Who knows what'll happen here."

TaeYeon half-smiled, "Yeah." Who knows, really.

The phone rang and she picked it up, "Hello, this is the Vanilla Bean cafe. TaeYeon speaking.. No Yuri's not working right now, would you like to leave a message? .. Okay then, goodbye."

Once she hang up, she paused. That was voice sounded awfully familiar.

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