[M] 3: Cafe Mishap (1/1)

“What ‘you’? Do you know each other?!” Nana cried and pointed at Chanyeol who was still surprised by the sudden appearance of the boy who kicked his crotch twice and ass once. He knew he had to take his girlfriend away from here, or else Baekhyun would be really humiliated in front of everyone. Especially when Nana discovers that the boy who just soiled her expensive uniform, is the same boy who “sexually harassed” her boyfriend (as she would call it). Her anger would just double and Chanyeol didn’t want to cause any scene at his bestfriend’s parents’ cafe.“Yes, yes, I know him. He’s a friend.” Chanyeol tried to calm Nana down by running his hands up and down her shoulder gently but it was no use when Baekhyun blurted out words otherwise to Chanyeol’s first statement.“What friends? You scammed me! How could we be friends---” Chanyeol saw Baekhyun stop midway. He was relieved that Baekhyun decided to shut up but his girlfriend already caught up with what was happening and realized who the boy was.“What the hell, Chanyeol? You aren’t going to tell me its him?” She glared at Chanyeol then at Baekhyun. “So you’re that Baekhyun who sexually harassed my boyfriend and accused him of selling fake tickets?”“Sexually... harass?” Baekhyun asked but it wasn’t for Chanyeol or Nana. It was more like a question to himself. He looked down before looking up at Chanyeol with questioning eyes. “When did I sexually harrass you?”“When you kicked him in private parts that you shouldn’t!” Nana yelled at Baekhyun and Chanyeol slowly felt embarrassed because of his girlfriend’s outburst so he held her arm gently.“Just forget it, Nana. The incident before isn’t important. Let’s not waste time here. Please? Let’s go...” He pleaded but Nana just raised an eyebrow at him. She gave him a look that told him to back off and he felt silly for feeling scared at his girlfriend when he’s the male and he should be the one leading but he still did back off.“It’s not just about you Park Chanyeol,” Chanyeol flinched when his girlfriend mentioned his name with a high pitched voice and rolled her eyes at him before turning her attention to Baekhyun. “He soiled my uniform and now I’m feeling uncomfortable! What are you going to do now? Huh?”“I’m very sorry.” Baekhyun bowed in apology and Chanyeol knew Nana’s not going to accept it. She’s going to do something and he didn’t know what it is until he saw his girlfriend take her cup of iced coffee and put it a few inches above Baekhyun’s lowered head. “I didn’t really did it on pu---”Baekhyun wasn’t able to finish his sentence when felt the cold liquid being poured on his head. He raised his gaze and saw that Nana had a mock surprised expression. Her other hand flat against her mouth forming an “o”. “Oops! Sorry! That wasn’t on purpose too!” She showed a very sweet smile and tilted her head as if thinking before looking at Chanyeol. “Chanyeol, give me water. Let’s clean him up!”Chanyeol just stood still. He was hesitant and he didn’t know what to do. He was contemplating between giving the water to his girlfriend or disobeying her and stop her from humiliating Baekhyun already. The safest words he thought of though were, “Nana, let’s just leave...”“Chanyeol, would you give it to me or not?” He looked at Nana then at Baekhyun. The eyes of the other boy hinted him not to follow his girlfriend. It was pleading and Chanyeol found himself not thinking about Nana and his most treasured relationship with her anymore. His mind was just focusing on Baekhyun’s eyes with tears threatening to fall. He looked like a puppy left by his owner and Chanyeol found him hard to resist. He was snapped out of his thoughts, though, when Nana’s voice entered his ear. “If you’re not going to give me, then I’m the one going to get it.”Nana took the glass of water and again, poured it on Baekhyun’s head. Chanyeol didn’t know if it was his imagination playing tricks on him or the single tear that rolled down Baekhyun’s cheeks were real. He knew it was because when he stared straight into the brunette’s eyes, he looked away. And Chanyeol felt guilty than ever.“You’re all cleaned up now! Aren’t I nice? You spilled coffee on me but I still cleaned you up when you got spilled with coffee too?” Another sweet smile formed on her lips. Nana was about to say something again when Kyungsoo appeared in the scene.“What the hell is happening here?” Kyungsoo moved Baekhyun away from Nana and looked at Chanyeol. “What the hell were you doing standing there?”“I...” Chanyeol didn’t know what to say. It was Nana who spoke instead. “He was on my side! He saw how incompetent your employees are! You should fire him, Kyungsoo!”“Why would I? What happened exactly?” Kyungsoo asked and wrapped an arm around Baekhyun protectively.“He spilled coffee on me! He was so clumsy! Fire him!” Nana was acting like a child and Kyungsoo shook his head at Nana’s actions.“You bullied him infront of everyone just because of that? Accidents happen, Nana. It’s not everyday that he spills coffee on a person. I’m not going to fire him.” Kyungsoo announced firmly and Nana pointed a finger at Baekhyun accusingly.“He harassed Chanyeol before!” Nana was getting desperate to fire Baekhyun.  “I don’t see that as a reason for me to fire him.” Kyungsoo reasoned and Nana stomped her foot like a brat and narrowed her eyes at the wide eyed male as she pointed at Chanyeol.“But he’s your bestfriend!”“So? I don’t see any link between my friendship with Chanyeol and my work here in the cafe. Baekhyun works well. Today’s just not his day. I’m not going to fire him.”“You’re such a loser! I hate this place! Let’s go Chanyeol!” Nana was defeated and all she could do was grab Chanyeol’s wrist and pull him out of the cafe.    “I hate that Baekhyun bitch.” Nana murmured while looking at Chanyeol who’s focused on the road. “I can’t believe Kyungie stood up for him!” She continued, but louder than the first one, and Chanyeol was just silent as he drove. “I’m sure you felt really nice because we humiliated that kid who kicked you!”Chanyeol wanted to tell Nana that she was the only one who humiliated Baekhyun but he chose to nod and agree with whatever his girlfriend was telling him, not wanting to have an argument with her. There has never been an argument with Nana that he won anyway.The whole ride to Nana’s house was full of her nagging about Baekhyun. She kept ranting about Baekhyun and how shitty she thinks he is and how she wants to bully him more at school. Chanyeol, like how he did the whole time, just agreed to Nana’s statements. He doesn’t want to upset her any more.Before Nana could get out of his car, she planted a kiss on Chanyeol’s lips and smiled. “I love you, Yeollie.”Chanyeol smiled back. His girlfriend might be a bitch but he truly loves her. “I love you too, Nana.” And when he was sure that Nana already entered her house, he drove away.    “It’s fine, Baekhyun.” Kyungsoo patted the crown of Baekhyun’s head.“I’m really sorry, Kyungsoo. I really didn’t mean to do it. I didn’t want to ruin their date or anything. I didn’t even know that scammer was there!” Baekhyun pressed his palms against his face. “Maybe you should fire me like what she said?”“I know you didn’t do it on purpose and I’m not going to fire you, Baekhyun.” Kyungsoo removed Baekhyun’s hands covering his face. “I couldn’t believe why my bestfirend didn’t stop her though.”“He hates me. I hate him. It’s normal.”Kyungsoo shook his head. “I know Chanyeol, Baekhyun. He’s been my friend ever since we were still inside our parents and I know he gets guilty immediately especially if he knows something wrong is happening and he’s not doing anything.”“Maybe he hates me more than I hate him...” Baekhyun mumbled.“I don’t think so. I think it’s his girlfriend’s bad influence. Chanyeol was never like that, even to people he never liked. He’ll do something immediately to help especially in your situation a while ago. I know Chanyeol thinks those kind of things are already too much.”“Even if he hates me?”“Even if he hates you.” Kyungsoo confirmed and added, “Ever since he dates Nana last year, he became different. I can’t believe he’s going to change his principles because of that girl. Love is really blind.”   “Look, you two, especially you Im Jin Ah---”“Call me Nana, please?” She rolled her eyes before crossing her legs and looking at her hot pink-painted nails as if she’s not interested in whatever Kyungsoo was going to say.“Okay, I’ll call you Nana then. So, Nana and Chanyeol...” Kyungsoo sighed deeply and went straight to the point “Will you please be friends with Baekhyun? Or atleast apologize to him?”“I beg your pardon?” Nana snapped.Kyungsoo breathed out to calm himself and avoid rolling his eyes at Nana and repeated what he said. When he did, he saw Nana made a face and Chanyeol looking hesitant.“Why would I do that?” Nana was stubborn and Kyungsoo wondered what Chanyeol liked about this girl. He looked at his bestfriend then at Nana who was raising one of her eyebrows.“Nothing. Look, Baekhyun was really sorry about the other day and you should be too. Because you obviously said harsh words and humiliated him.” Kyungsoo looked back at Chanyeol. “Am I right, Chanyeol?”The other boy looked at Kyungsoo then at Nana then he looked at his bestfriend again, saying through his eyes ‘why-did-you-put-me-into-this?’ and Kyungsoo just smiled. A smile that says ‘stop-being-a-coward-and-be-a-man’.“I am a man!” Chanyeol blurted out and Nana just looked at him as if he said something weird.“What the hell are you saying, Yeollie?”“Kyungsoo here said I’m not a man if I didn’t say sorry.”“I didn’t hear him say anything...” Nana was clueless to whatever Chanyeol was saying and looked at Kyungsoo. “Did you say anything?”“Ah, yes.” Kyungsoo just said yes when Chanyeol signalled him from behind Nana and she just shook her head thinking that she might be having ear problems. “So... are you going to say sorry to Baekhyun?” Kyungsoo asked again and looked at the couple across him. He looked at Chanyeol who’s still hesitant and Nana who looked... enlightened? “Okay fine.” Nana finally agreed with a smile.“Well, if Nana’s in it, then I am too.” Chanyeol also agreed and Kyungsoo invited him to the cafeteria to buy a peace offering gift for Baekhyun. He also invited Nana but she didn’t take the invitation.“I’ll talk to him later. I’ll go to the mall with my friends to buy a better gift for Baekkie.” Nana smiled brightly and it was not often that she did that kind of smile. Kyungsoo thought that maybe she isn’t that bad after all.    Chanyeol chose to buy coffee for Baekhyun as a peace offering. Who doesn’t like coffee, right?“I don’t drink coffee... you see... my system doesn’t react well with coffee.” Baekhyun apologized the moment Chanyeol walked over to him, handing a coffee he bought while saying sorry to the brunette. “But thank you anyways... and apologies accepted.” He timidly smiled at Chanyeol. The same guy he kicked days ago. “I hope your girlfriend doesn’t hate me or something though.” Baekhyun added.Chanyeol smiled at him. A smile too sincere that Baekhyun thinks maybe it’s wrong to still think that he was his scammer. “No, she isn’t. She was just really upset the other day. But it’s okay now. She even went to the mall to buy you a gift.”“Really? She shouldn’t have.” Baekhyun slightly blushed but he didn’t let Chanyeol see it. The guy might beat him up for blushing because of the thought of Nana buying a gift for him. He never really receives gifts, that’s why he’s kind of flattered.“How about let’s eat together?” Kyungsoo suddenly appeared and suggested. Baekhyun and Chanyeol didn’t have any problem with it. Chanyeol even invited the rest of his friends.It didn’t take thirty minutes for Sehun and Jongin to like Baekhyun. The youngest even announced that Baekhyun’s already part of their group and nobody objected. Not even Chanyeol. He thinks that the brunette was actually nice. He even kind of liked Baekhyun the first time they met. It was just overpowered by the thought of the smaller kicking him in the painful way possible.    Baekhyun went out of the cafeteria first. He had something to get in his locker so he really needs to head off early. He was about to enter the code in his locker’s lock when he realized it was broken and open. “Why is it opened? What happened?” Baekhyun muttered to himself and removed the lock and opened his locker despite it being suspicious.What happened next really shocked him. Books with hard covers came falling down and one even grazed his skin, leaving a cut on his face. A small folded note fell right after. Baekhyun picked the piece of glittery light pink paper and saw a neat and fancy handwriting.Do you really think I’ll say sorry to you? Over my dead body, incompetent shit. I’d rather rot in hell than say s-o-r-r-y to you, pathetic loser.