chapter 30

The past week had been hard on me. Hard in a sense of not getting enough sleep and trying to balance my the time throughout the whole week. And with another tests coming up before Christmas break, I sure am in a deep trouble.My regular day will start by going to school where I try to learn and not sleep everytime the teacher tries to teach us. Why do I need to study geometry, or he history of Korea to be a doctor? Or what makes a sun or how cold are other planets? Bro, why?But I  guess if I want to get into the university, I need to study those...So anyways, after that, I will sneak out of the school and not attend the night school anymore. Then,  I would go to the coffee shop and and work with Minho, who is to be honest, kind to me. Yuri kept on warning me about him, but after a week of working with him in the coffee shop, I can definitely say that he is actually a nice guy." What are you thinking? " Minho says, pulling me away from my thoughts. " You look like an old granny worried about her children's marriage."I continue to wipe the counters with rag diligently. " Nothing. I'm just worried about the tests and college."" Didn't you apply already?" He asks again, counting the money from the cash register. " I did. But..." I sighed as I finished wiping. " I don't think I'll get in. I was in a rush that day, and I was way too honest about the question."" When will you find out the results?" He asks me." February, I think."" That's alright. Atleast you have a job that could distract you from those things now." He smiles at me.  " And the fact that we are working here alone helps, doesn't it?" Here we go. Mr. Flirt is awake again." Ah..." I say uncomfortably. " That's..."" I'm kidding." He chuckles and takes off his white apron. " Get changed now and I'll do closing. You can go home."I take off my apron and head to the back room where the lockers are. I push the door close as I open the locker and take my clothes. I turn around from the door and start to remove my brown t-shirt. I push my head back into my school uniform, and when I was done, I put back my school skirt as well.When I was all dressed up like I just got back from school, I take all of my things out and shut the locker close. As I turn around to face the door, I see the shadow of Minho's feet against the little space between the bottom of the door and the floor.I head towards the door, but to my surprise, the door wasn't shut. It was barely closed and it was left open.I pretty sure that I had shut this door close. I remember closing it.How can it open itself?I pulled the door open and saw Minho wiping the counters that I had already wiped.  He was obviously flustered, with a tint of pink on his cheeks." Ah! Leaving already?" He says casually, not looking at me." Were you watching me?" I ask, not being able to resist myself. " Did you open the door?"" Of course not." He gulped. " How can you try to blame me for not shutting the door?"" But I did." I spat. " I know that I'm new here and I'm very grateful for getting this job, but if I found out that you're peaking on me everytime I'm changing...."I paused panting angrily at him." What?" He challenges. " What are you gonna do, hm?"" I'll tell Yuri."" Like I'm scared of her?" He says, moving towards me.I turn around,not wanting to be near him anymore. I clutch my belongings with me as I rush outside. The bell chimes as I push the door, revealing the free streets. I walk and begin to head home with tears pouring down my eyes.I knew that he's been flirty since I first started to work there, and he had shown me nothing but kindness in the past week. But him peeking on me while I was changing my clothes...that's beyond disgusting! No one had ever seen me in lingerie before, and him looking like that at me without my consent makes me feel so disgusted over him. If it was not for Yoongi, I would have already quit this job. I do enjoy baking pastries and cakes, as well as making coffees but I don't deserve to be treated like that.I know that I don't have a solid proof of him looking at me while I was changing, but I'm damn sure he did. I could see it in his eyes. He wasn't flustered fir no reason, right? I saw his shadow near the door. And I'm pretty more sure than sure that I had closed the door shut." Umph!" I grunted as I bump into someone, making me rub both my eyes so that I could see a better view through my blurry sight. I lost the grip of my stuff from school and it scattered down on the floor, and I bend down right away to pick up." I'm sorry, I'm sorry." I whispered as I gather my things, sniffing now that I force my eyes to stop forming tears. "I didn't mean to bump into you. I'm sorry, forgive-"" Dara?" It was Yoongi's voice. I finally looked up at the person I bumped. And it was the same brown bear mascot I had bumped into before. He took off his humongous mascot head and place it on the floor, his sweaty face looking at me." I'm sorry." I say holding back my tears. " I didn't mean to bump-"" What are you doing here?" He bends down on his knees to help me pick my stuff up. " Why aren't you in the night school?"" I'm ... I'm... I wanted to take a walk." I lie as I stand back up, stretching my uniform nicely back in place." A walk?" He stands up. " Why would someone cry just by walking? You know what Dara, you're really a bad liar."How did he find out that I was crying?Was it because of my eyes? Or the way my voice changed because of the stuffy nose I got from crying?Was he paying that much attention to me that he noticed I was crying?" I saw a dog crying." I lied again, hoping he doesn't ask more questions this time. " I've got to go, I'll see you at the school."I turn away and past by his shoulder, making him budge a little. I needed to get way because I wouldn't be able to hold back these tears anymore.And if he finds out that I had this job just because of him, I'm sure that he wouldn't take that gift no matter what I say." Dara!" He calls when I was about five feet away from him.I stopped walking and turned around slowly to face him. " Yeah?"" Smiling fits you better."•••