CHOI BEOMGYU

“Daddy! Da! Da!”

I looked back and my lips just automatically form a smile when I saw this little girl in pink dress coming to me as she enters my café. I lowered myself and widely open my arms to welcome her.

“Baby! Where’s my hug?” I exclaimed and she hugged me.

“Daddy! Hi!” she greeted me. “Hi uncle Jiwoo!”

“Hi baby Ayen!” Jiwoo greeted her back while he’s wiping some tools.

“Don’t you have school today?” I asked and carry her.

She cutely shook her head. “No! It’s… It’s no school day,” she replied thinking hardly about her answer.

“Then shouldn’t be at home because it’s no school day?” I asked her again.

“I’m here to buy something,” she answered. “Uncle Jiwoo! I-I will order,” she said.

“Yes ma’am! What’s your order?” Jiwoo acted like she’s a customer.

“S-sh…Chu— shuberry shake!” she answered with her pouting lips because of finding hard to pronounce.

“Ma’am do you have money?” Jiwoo asked.

“No!”

“Then you can’t order here,” Jiwoo acted with his serious tone.

“D-daddy will pay it,” she answered.

“Why me?” I asked her.

“You love me.”

“How about my business then?”

“Business or me?”

We all laugh because of how she countered it. “Okay! I love you baby! But your mom will really scold me if she found out that I gave you one,” I stated.

“It’s okay, she loves me too. I’ll be waiting uncle Woo!” she replied lively. “Daddy, I’ll seat in there!”

“Okay, ma’am!”

I made her seat on her usual table and I sit beside her. “Where’s your mom?” I asked her and fix some of the strands of her hair.

“Outside,” she just replied and started playing with the display on the table.

She really looks like her.

“Here’s your order, ma’am! Enjoy!” Jiwoo exclaimed as he put Ayen’s strawberry shake on the table.

“Thank you uncle Jiwoo!”

She started sipping on the straw and she’s really enjoying it. I take a picture of her because I really find it cute. Maybe if we didn’t lose our baby before, Ayen has someone who can call unnie now.

“Ayen! You’re drinking shake again?”

“Hi mom!”

I looked at her and I kissed her cheek. “Leave her, she likes drinking it—“

“You! You’re really tolerating it! If she’ll catch cold again because of drinking that I’ll really hit you, Choi Beomgyu,” Aera threatens me.

“You fighting?” Ayen asked us that made us stop.

“No baby! We’re just talking,” I reasoned.

Ayen just nods and continued eating then her mother’s glaring at me again like he’s going to kill me any minute so I just pursed my lips.

“Daddy Bin! Daddy Bin!”

Ayen suddenly rise both of her hands and even claps. We look at where she’s looking and that’s when I saw Soobin hyung coming to us.

“Baby Ayen! I have something for you!” Soobin started and give the kid a bag of candies.

“You!” Aera slapped Soobin’s arm. “I told you not to bring her any candies anymore,” she scolded her cousin.

“Why not!?” he countered. “When our baby girl here likes it so much! Right? Who’s our baby again!?”

“Ayen! Ayen! Ayen!”

We couldn’t help but laugh and giggles when she shouted her name and clapping then proceed on eating again. She’s so adorable to the point that I want to put her inside my pocket.

“Where’s her dad?” Soobin hyung asked Aera.

“He’s out for seminar in London, he’ll come home next week,” she replied. “Ayen Chloe Anderson! Watch how you eat please, you’re going to stain your dress,” she called out her kid.

“Sorry mom!” Ayen apologized and smiles.

“By the way Choi Beomgyu,” Soobin called me. “Are you coming to the event?” he asked.

“Do I have any reasons to come there?” I asked him and started walking away from them to pick up the customer’s trash on the table.

“Yeah? Like I’m in there?” he replied.

“And so? I always see you, hyung. It’s still the same,” I reasoned out. “Jill, can you clean this out, please? Thank you,” I instructed one of my employees. “And also, I need to be in Itaewon next week, there’s this mini concert that will happen in there and it’s near from the café,” I added.

“Can’t you stop thinking about work for now?” he countered. “Like, KTH CO. personally invited you and you’re not gonna come at all?”

I looked at him. “Then what should I think aside from work, hyung? I’m busy, okay?” I insisted and went back to the counter and wash my hands.

“Just come if ever you changed your mind, okay?” he stated. “I have a photoshoot later so see you all when I see you. Bye! Bye Ayen!” he bid his goodbye.

Soobin hyung is now a model, ambassador of KTH Brand and Clothing Co. alongside with his boyfriend. The two also made their relationship public and people love them both.

Aera got his man, the one he deserve and Ayen is the fruit. She’s already married and we stayed friends. I meet his husband and he totally understands our situation.

Spring Café will have its fourth branch now in two different cities. I hired and trained baristas that can be as good as how I make coffees and drinks.

We have come so far and so much happen already and yet, Taehyun’s still not here.

I close the door of my office as I turned off the lights then went outside to check again everything then I heard the bell chimes. I looked at the door and someone’s standing in there that I never really expect to see.

Why is he in here?

“We’re already close, please don’t ever come back in here,” I stated and close the lights.

“Choi Beomgyu,” he called me.
“What?”

“Can I talk to you?” he asked.

“About what?” I asked him and walk towards him.

Hueningkai looked away first before looking back at me. “I’m here for an apology,” he stated in a low voice.

“You shouldn’t say sorry to me,” I replied.

“Y-yeah and I already say sorry to him. We already talk things out and I’m now here to say sorry to you too. I made so much lies when we meet. It wasn’t Taehyun’s fault. I’m the one who made him like that, I turned him into something evil, I’m really sorry,” he apologized.

“Why did you do that to him? He loved you so much, Kai,” I asked.

“Yeah, I’m so stupid. I made fun of his feelings when it was all true. I’m so stupid for discrediting it. It w-was all my fault,” he blames himself.

“Of course it was you. I hope that when you fall in love again, you will appreciate their sincere feelings towards you. Remember that you can’t love others if you never felt being loved. I hope you realize that it’s not funny at all to trash someone’s feelings,” I stated.

“I k-know. I learned so much from you guys and Taehyun the most. He’s really a strong person. I’m so sorry, Beomgyu,” he apologized again.

I sighed and tap his shoulders. “You’re forgiven. Make sure to love someone, seriously.”

“Thank you. I will go now and won’t disturb you again. I do regret everything that happened before. Please take care of Taehyun and love him a lot.”

He left after that short conversation. It made me feel heavy and light at the same time. Yeonjun told me about what happened to them and I know it’s his fault but I thank him now for asking an apology.

I hope he’ll find his way back again after such a long time of being lost on track.

I went straight home and I am surprised when I saw Soobin hyung watching TV. “Why are you here?” I asked him.

“Ahh the photoshoot got cancelled,” he replied. “Beomgyu, I need to tell you something,” he said.

“What’s that?” I asked and get bottled water from the fridge before sitting down beside him.

“Remember when I told you that Yeonjun has a nephew?” he started and I nods. “I just realized that, that kid looks actually like him,” he continued.

“Huh? Well, they are family so, it’s natural, right?”

“No, like the kid’s face, overall figure, habits and mannerism, they are all the same,” he observed.

“So like are you implying that he’s Yeonjun’s son?” I asked him, feeling so confuse.

“Yeah? But he’s eight years old now and the more he grows, the more I can see Yeonjun’s face on him. I have this childhood photo of him and it really looks the same,” he concluded.

“What’s the kid’s name?”

“Nyel, Choi Je Nyel.”

“Well, it actually sounds Daniel, the English name of Yeonjun,” I added.

“Right! It’s really suspicious! And I haven’t met his mother yet.”

“What are you going to do if he’s really your boyfriend’s kid?” I asked.

He sighs. “I don’t know, I can accept it.”

“Aigoo! My Soobin hyung grown well now that he’s almost on his 30s HAHAHAH! Fighting hyung! And you’re now a dad! HAHAHA!” I teased him and he hit me with the throw pillow.

“Shut up and come to the event already!” he snapped.

I sigh, “Fine, I’ll come.”