It was just one of those rare days in the coffee shop when customers don't even show up. We had a few customers earlier but after that, it's only me and Marian at the shop, we've advertised but no one's passing by at the street, everyone must be busy today. I sighed and I bent my arms on the table so that my head can have something to lie down on.

"I'm gonna go advertise again" Marian got up and exited the shop. Something's bothering me lately and having no customers at all isn't helping, if there were customers, I could have forgotten about it but I just started to overthink about it and it makes me worried and anxious about the future.

Liam and I recently unexpectedly got along with each other, though he's an idiot, I'm still worried if he is still curious as to my appearance on the police station because I couldn't have been there if I didn't had a reason to go there and the fact that his uncle is the one handling my case is really dangerous. I'm thinking about what happens if Liam asks his uncle about me, naming me as "Victoria" but since I had a folder on the police station with all my fake information on it yet I have a picture on it, Liam might actually get curious if he sees the folder with my picture and a different information. Of course an argument would be a possible outcome, with his uncle saying that my name is Ianna and on Liam's side, he'd be saying that it's Victoria. Liam would be curious and confused because he doesn't know which name is the real name and that would lead him to ask the people here.

I don't even know what to do anymore, I don't need to stay away from Liam, what I need him to do is to stay away from his uncle and the precinct, but he's probably visiting him everyday or I don't know. I just need to prevent Liam to know about anything because if he'll know about it, he'll definitely gonna share it to everyone, once he shares that, everyone would feel something suspicious going on and might even find out my real purpose here in Ireland. Not only that would happen, I may also put Sheryl and Mr. Minami in danger and trouble because of my recklessness, if there's something suspicious then it'll probably be investigated. Once Liam senses the suspiciousness, he'll immediately report that to his uncle and considering the fact that they're trying to track the person behind the cheque, no doubt everything will be revealed, I would take the blame for the imprisonment of Mr. Minami, Sheryl, the other clients and the assassins, I might also take blame for the taking down of Mr. Minami's business, I would be the cause of every single downfall and in the end, everyone will be jailed and I won't get to set my parents free and have a happy life with them again just for once, I'd be rotting in jail even though I still have a lot of things I want to accomplish in my life.

And I couldn't believe I was thinking about this, but the worst part of my prediction is the thought of Niall. How would he react once he knew who I really am? Our friendship would be lost and forgotten because why would you still remain friends with someone who's about to murder? Who would actually like to be friends with someone who works for money to kill people? I bet Niall would regret everything he said the other night, about how he'll miss me and and all, he wouldn't miss me at all, he'd be disgusted and ashamed of himself for taking in a murderer on his flat, he wouldn't even want to be friends with me anymore. Now that I grew some admiration for him, I can't believe how much I value our relationship now even if we're still friends, if we can't be together, at least I want to have him as my friend but once he knows about me, he'll decline my offer for a friendship, he'll forget about me and be disappointed at himself and for me, he'll probably regret everything good he has ever done to me only to find out what I'm supposed to do in Ireland.

I couldn't afford to disappoint Niall and to lose our friendship, but I need to remember whom I'm doing all of this for, it's for my parents, and they are valuable to me. But Niall became valuable to me too, but I'd be disappointing not only my parents, but also Sheryl and Mr. Minami if I didn't do my job. It's making me stressed just by thinking of the different outcomes of any of my possible options but nothing negative would happen if I won't let Liam know anything about me, I'm preventing him to know anything the most because he has more access to know about it, I don't need to worry about anyone on the shop since no one even knows that I go to the precinct and I have already reported the robbery. But then I also thought that maybe Marian suspects me of something suspicious, I'm also scared of her and I have to be careful when I'm around her, it's not gonna be long until she smells something fishy if I act recklessly and clumsily while handling this complication.

It was a really boring day at the cafe, no one came around and all I did was wander my eyes around the shop with the dark colours of the walls and the different paintings of coffee and coffee beans and some desserts that were hung on the wall. I also may have become an addict because I can't smell anything other than the aroma of the coffee and everything that I sense revolves around coffee which also makes me crave for coffee. Luckily, Alice went out of the kitchen with a tray on her hands and placed it in the table I'm sitting at.

"Hey, let's have some snack, Harry gave us free snacks, treat yourself, Victoria." the black haired, jolly girl told me, she sat on the opposite chair of the table I'm sitting on then grabbed a platter of black forest cake and took a whole lot of it in her mouth. Alice is really nice, she's not a girlish girl which is why we can get along well, she has black hair and amber eyes and because of those simple and common features she possess, she tend to stand out more on some Asian customers as I observed. She started to ask me how the book was and I replied a lot of things to her which made our conversation go on and on, she's a geek and a bookworm, she's really weird and because of her weirdness, you can tell her something and she'll tell you a lot of things about it, she's also a walking encyclopaedia, she never seem to stop talking once you open a topic with her. What makes her different from typical girls that I known is that she's also not obsess with make up and girly things, but that's all, she's just simple but interesting.

I grabbed a platter with my favourite mango cake and started to eat as well while Alice and I chat about different books. I'd admit that I'm not much of a bookworm like her but I do love to read, so most of the books she tells are unknown to me. Awhile later, Marian approached us and sighed loudly.

"You guys, didn't even called for me." she said and pouted, I chuckled because of the fact that Alice and I are drowned with out conversation forgetting the fact that there's another maid.

"Sorry about that, take a seat now that you're here." I pulled her a seat and she sat on it, she grabbed a plate of pudding then started to eat along with us.

"So, what's the commotion about?"

"Nothing, we're just chatting about books." Alice replied. I reached my hand for the cup of coffee that is still placed on the tray so I can drink it.

"Oh, I love romantic books." as I was halfway drinking the coffee, I choked on my drink that caused me too cough repeatedly and continuously, I even held my neck for dear life. If Alice isn't that much of a girly, Marian on the other hand is 99.9% girly, she's addicted to girl stuffs, romantic shits and acts really girly, I don't even know how I managed to be with this girl in the first place. I hated her back then and I still hate her because of her obsession with typical girl stuffs but it's really unbelievable that I managed to even talk to her up to now in spite of all the contrasts we have.

"Here, go back and advertise outside." I handed Marian the flyers.

"Victoria and I are allergic to romance." Alice whined and reached her hand on the cup of cocoa sitting on the tray where my cup of coffee was earlier.

"Aww, it's alright for you, Alice, because at least you experienced the wonderful and magical feeling of being in love." Marian didn't even reached for the flyers on my hand and instead she clapped her hands and closed her eyes as if she's relieving something so romantic in her life. "Unlike someone." I stuttered but I didn't mean to say anything, Marian's amber eyes, similar to Alice's were on mine and because of her stare, it caused Alice to look at me too.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Oh, it's nothing, it's just the fact that I remembered that time when a certain someone told me how you didn't even had a boyfriend before." I stood up in utter shock and banged my fists on the table.

"Who the fuck dared to tell you that? That was supposed to be a secret!" I exclaimed, my eyes were probably wide and I can feel my legs shake. There's something about this topic that makes me feel embarrassed, it's the fact that I can't even attract any guy and it's a shame because possibly every girl can attract even one guy at least once in her life, but me? I seem to only attract negativity in my life.

"Louis told me that Niall said you told him."

"Oh... So Victoria does have a secret." I heard a familiar deep masculine voice speak from behind me and I turned around to see Harry smirking while leaning his elbows on the counter, I only realised until now that he has a dimple.

"Shut up and go back to work, stop eavesdropping here!" I was not only annoyed because he was listening, it was also because someone made that horrible pun about my name again. I know it's not formal for an employee to talk to his boss that way but as time flies, Harry is nothing but a not so close friend, he's nice and he doesn't get bothered if his employees make fun of him, evidence is that time when Alice was calling him a frog, which I don't know the reason why. The brunet man just walked away, still with a smirk on his face and then headed back to his kitchen. I was startled by Alice's giggle and so I sat down and drank my coffee again.

"That's something new I learned about Victoria. Oh, Marian, you can't help but shut your mouth sometimes, do ya?"

"Is it my fault for being too knowledgable about the people around me? Don't you also have something embarrassing to share just like how you're afraid of the da-"

"Okay! So I'll cut your sentence right there, how about we talk about you having a little thing with..." Alice cut Marian's sentence and she pointed her lips behind me, I looked back to see no one but as I remember, Harry was just there awhile ago. I looked back at the two girls and I saw Marian with a red face and she seem to be biting the insides of her mouth, she was looking down at the ground and she suddenly stopped talking and acted really weirder than usual. Alice just laughed at her and I turned to look at her with a confusing look until something popped into my mind.

"No way! Are they a thing?" I questioned Alice as if our subjects aren't in the same place as us.

"Sshh... Not yet, but I know they will."

"Alice!" Marian called her but she just smiled and asked me to go near her and so I leaned and she placed her mouth just a little centimetre away from my ear.

"Marian fancies Harry, but the boy is too dumb to notice." I put my head away from her now and covered my mouth with my two hands trying to not erupt my laughter but I couldn't take it so I laughed loudly. It's not that I think they wouldn't be a cute couple just like what Liam did to Niall and I yesterday, it's just that I think they would be so cute together and it's really cute for Marian to fancy Harry. Now I get it where those lyrics came from.

"Stop it, guys, I can't read your actions when I'm like this." I laughed even louder and Alice is smiling along while Marian was covering her ears. "Stop it Victoria, as if you don't feel the same for Niall." my laughing ceased right there on the spot, my face seem to have became blank and I just stared in between Marian and Alice.

"Shots fired! I knew that you feel something for Niall just by the way the two of you look at each other yesterday." Alice smirked and drank her cocoa, I mimicked her actions and I sighed deeply.

"No, I don't. In all honesty, I don't know" I told them and the atmosphere became serious and heavy unlike earlier, I put down my cup and fiddled with my fingers. "Like what Marian said, I didn't had a boyfriend before so I don't have any experiences and I don't know how I can tell it if I really do fancy him" I stirred the little spoon that I grabbed on the tray on my coffee and didn't looked at the both of them. "I mean... It's only been a month since we met, we barely knew each other so maybe it's just a phase, I'm trying to not take it seriously"

"Psychology says that if 6 months pass, either you fall in or out of love with the person you're fancying, so maybe after a little time pass, you'll be able to know if it's a phase or not."

"You're no psychologist, let me handle the situation." Marian butted in after Alice said a fact, she possibly may have read somewhere. "How do you feel?" Marian asked me.

"Well, I just kind of realised this yesterday and nothing much really happened, I just kind of noticed that I seem to like... Always... Look at him and then I notice all those beautiful features he have and then I start to think about his beautiful attitude as well until I get overwhelmed with it and I start to feel weird. Maybe I just came to that conclusion and maybe it's just nothing." I smiled at them but then it disappeared. "But you know... I have no idea why it kind of hurts when I think about something that can affect our relationship now" I spoke truthfully pertaining to what I was thinking earlier before Alice engaged me to a conversation. I felt a pair of hands touch mine that caused me to stop fiddling with my fingers.

"I felt the same way back then, I was also unsure of how I felt even if I have mastered human behaviour. Why not try to get to know him more? But this time, know all of his flaws." I looked at Marian with an unknown expression written on my face, it's like she's speaking metaphorically again. "You said earlier how you appreciate everything beautiful about him so maybe if you'll know his ugly and flaws and still appreciate him nonetheless, then you can make up your mind." My eyes widen at her words, why does she always enlighten me in a way? "The only way to end the hurting inside your chest is to confirm your feelings for him, for now, I'll say it's a phase but if you start to know him better, maybe I won't be able to say if it's a phase or not, it's up to you to decide hoe you feel." It was true, I was left speechless with all those words she blurted. Maybe it's really a phase but just knowing all the beautiful things about him, my admiration for him will never go away and I'll just keep on hurting everyday but if I try to know him more, maybe it'll be an effective way to grow out my feeling for him. I smiled and nodded at Marian, I looked at Alice with a smile on her face as well.

"Hey! I feel guilty for breaking our light and happy vibe, let's go back to laughing our bums off, how about you Alice, do you have a thing for Louis?!"

"What are you even talking about? Guys are lame" her look was stern and she started to drink her cocoa again.

"Oh, maybe you aren't informed that she's into girls" I was shocked and I questioned them again and again to confirm and it was indeed true that Alice is lesbian. Our conversation kept going until our shift ends and even though we had a fun conversation, I was still thinking about what Marian said, somehow, I'm willing to know more about Niall to either put an end to this or develop what I feel now, but I should keep in mind that it's still a phase so I won't gonna take it that serious.

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A/N hello everyone, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR the 215 reads and 52 votes 😭😭😭😭😭 thank you so much, I want to say a lot of things but I can't seem to say it 🤐 (well yeah because I'm typing it) (I'm sorry, I'm bad at puns) thank you again for everything. I promise to do my very best onwards, please wait for the day that I'll be able to satisfy everyone of you with my chapters, thank you for everything. I hope everyone is enjoying their day just like how Niall is enjoying playing golf, and wjdkwdowndoe Harry's hair is shown 😍😍 who knows if he still has long or short hair in this story? He's wearing a baker hat, so no one knows as well 😂 Liam is nowhere to be seen 😭 (I miss my baby, but I hope he's having a fun time while on break) and Louis is just casually going and hanging around with different people, I hope he's enjoying somehow. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, thank you again for everything, have a nice day 😊. Votes and Comments would really be appreciated 😊.

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