"...café girl..?"

"Huh what did you say?" Jeonghan asked.

"N-nothing..."

Both of us turned towards the front in unison as we heard Mrs Hwang's voice.

"This is the second time being late during this month, right Haeyoon?"

"...no ma'am, it's the third time."

The voice of the girl was quiet yet nonchalant even though she could be seen panting visibly hard and her eyes still stuck on the ground.

"Great. One more late arrival notice and I can send you to the detention room." the teacher spat with the rudest tone of sarcasm.

The girl didn't utter a word more as she walked quietly towards her seat that was not very far from mine.

"Okay class, back to our lesson..."

...

For some reason I couldn't help but occasionally glance at her.

While she was mindlessly sitting on her chair with airpods plugged in. It didn't even seem like she was paying 100% percent to the class like me either.

"Don't stare at her. She is a killer." Jeonghan whispered quietly as he continued scribbling down the notes.

"She is what-!?" I whisper shouted to him.

"A killer. Just a heads up from me. Now shut up if you don't have the intention of visiting the detention room on your first day." He replied quietly.

I couldn't help but take a last glance at her before turning back to the front.

The flight of a thousand questions has taken off in my mind.

'...how is that even possible? She was smiling brightly in the morning. But not gonna lie, she does give a very different aura than what I saw in her in the morning. Is this her twin or something like that ..?

I guess I need to wait for the right time to figure it out myself.

...

TIME SKIP~LUNCH TIME

The class rushed out with the sound of the bell.

I was surfing through the pages of a book waiting for the perfect time to talk to her.

Geez..since when did I start being so social? Ew. I hate it.

But then again, I love solving mystery. Or so, I considered this as one.

"...Excuse me?" I called out to the female who was sleeping with her head on the desk.

"...Hello? Can you hear me?"

No response.

Getting impatient I slowly poked her arm.

Finally a response. But ouch.

"What the fuck do yo-" she finally lifted her eyes at me and instantly covered her mouth, realizing the word she uttered just now.

I couldn't help but let out a cheeky grin seeing her reaction.

"...uhm hi..uhm-" she said scrapping her nape.

"...Hi. We meet again...café girl."

"Uhm yeah you're- wait what? What did you just call me by?" her eyes turned rounder and maybe there was a hint of anger inside her voice maybe?

"...uhm café girl? Since I don't know your name so I thought-"

"Haeyoon. Park Haeyoon. I do not condone being called by any other name."

Her voice suddenly turned cold. Damn.

'...café girl was a cute name afterall right?' I shrugged off my thoughts as I introduced myself likewise.

"That's a pretty name. I'm Joshua Hong."

"Oh thanks...you too...you have a nice name too." Her voice became normal.

Thankfully.

"Aren't you gonna join others for lunch?"

"Oh uh...I'm actually full! I'm not hungry enough to go for a lunch."

"Really?"

"Yeah really! I had a hearty breakfast today." she laughed away, kind of awkwardly.

I don't know what was so funny about it, but, nevermind.

"Oh I see. Might take me around the school then?" I said tilting my head a bit.

"Uhm..I mean... I'm kinda busy right now, maybe some other time? If you don't mind?"

I didn't see any point of disagreeing with her so had to agree with her.

"Alright I'll get going then. You sure you don't wanna join?"

"Nah I'm good. Thanks for asking though."

"Alright, bye." I already stepped out of the classroom and walked towards the canteen.

Spotting an empty table, I placed my tray.

As I was about to sit my butt down, I felt two strong arms grabbing me by my collar.

"You punk! How dare you sit on our table?!"

"Jeonghan, calm your ass down. It's alright he is a newbie and he can sit." another guy of the same height as Jeonghan but with short black hair said as he pulled him away from me.

"Hey man, sorry about that. Do you wanna sit with us perhaps? I'm Jun by the way." he lent his hand out for a handshake.

Honestly I didn't wanna sit with them after the encounter with Jeonghan but seeing no other empty tables I gave up on my will and chose to sit with them.

They are a very large group. 12 of them excluding me. Though I can take in their jokes and humour easily. We might make a big gang-

God, Joshua you need to work on your intrusive thoughts for real...

Everyone of them were friendly to me. Except Jeonghan.

No idea why that boy is picking on me from the start geez.

Lunch break ended signalling all of us to go back to our classrooms.

...

TIME SKIP~SCHOOL DISMISSAL

Everyone was jumping and hopping their ways out to a bunch of expensive cars that were parked outside the school gate.

Their parents came to pick them up.

Until a noticed another figure walking towards the gate lifelessly as me.

She was mindlessly kicking a stone too.

"Haeyoon!" she turned her gaze towards me as soon as she heard her name.

I felt a lot more gazes fall on me too though but nevermind.

"Oh it's you again!" she smiled approaching me.

"So...what are your plans now?"

"Hmm? Sorry? I didn't get you."

"Oh I mean, are you gonna go to the café or head back home?"

"Oh I'll be heading home now but I'll come to the café later on."

"At what time?"

"My shift is at 5 pm. So 2 hours from now."

"Alright, see you at the café then I guess."

"Hah seriously! You're gonna come?"

"Yeah why not? The cappuccino was delicious. It killed my headache instantly."

"Haha! That's good to know!"

We were so engrossed in chatting that we didn't even realize when the gate came in front of us.

"You're going home alone?"

"Yeah. Are you too?"

"Yeah but my house is in the opposite direction."

"Oh that's bad. Anyways, bye. Hope to see you again."

"Yeah sure. You too, bye." I said as we parted our ways.

Let's discover the recipe of cappuccino.