After the scene back at the parking lot, I told Jennie to head back to their apartment since someone might see us again. She didn't complain since she knows the risk. I told her to just spend the rest of the day with Ella since it is her birthday. I head back to my own apartment and walk straight to the couch to sit down. I pulled out my phone and texted Mingyu just to check things out. Instead of replying back to me, I saw Mingyu's name pop up as he calls me instead.
"Hey " he said when I picked up the call
"What's up? How's everything?"
"Everything's just fine, don't worry about it. I don't want to assume anything but you never texted me about work at this time and it is very random. You want to talk?" He said and I don't know why but it kinda made me breathe out heavily. It's like I'm holding my breath since we're in the parking lot. "We have our last shoot tomorrow. I actually have papers here that you need to sign and I'm planning to just give it to you tomorrow, but I guess this is the right time and can also be an excuse to go there so you can talk to someone huh?"
"Aren't I butchering your plans today?" I said making him chuckle on the other line
"You know.. surprisingly I'm in my car right now and I was about to go get some food but you know what, my boss haven't bought me a meal yet so I'm actually wondering if you still want me to be your employee" I chuckle at that and stand up from the couch to go walk towards the kitchen
"You're not even my employee, you're everyone's boss too." I said since he's basically my assistant photographer
"But you're still my boss, no?"
"Alright I'll buy you a meal. What do you want?" I ask while looking at the papers that was left by deliveries from before
"I kinda don't want anything fancy or formal cause I don't want Ms. Kim to stare at me with so much furiousness like before" I laugh at the image that flashes in my mind when Jennie saw Mingyu in front of my doorstep back then "there's a korean restaurant down town.. do you like soju or makkggeoli? Oh wait I don't think Ms Kim will also appreciate a meal with alcohol involved" he said making me shake my head
"Make up your mind Mingyu" I said walking out of the kitchen
"The safest will probably be coffee like usual. Let's go get some coffee and pastries " he said. After that call I agreed to meet up with him at the café a couple of blocks away. It's not too far so I decided to just walk. Good thing it isn't raining nor is it too cold.
For around 10 minutes, I arrived the place and Mingyu is already sitting at the corner of the café. He's looking down at his phone so he didn't know that I was approaching the table already.
"I'm sorry, we're closing in a couple of minutes" I said lowering my voice
"Oh sorry about that-" he stand up and look towards me which makes him stop and glare at me. I laugh at his face and wave my hand to let him sit back down. "Now I'm thinking if you need someone to talk to or you need someone to tease" he said making me laugh even more. A lady approached our table to get our order. We shortly gave her our order to go back to our conversation.
"Did you tell Ms. Kim that you will be here?" He ask
"I don't think it is a good idea to text her right now, especially when her husband is home too" I said
"Is that something you want to talk about?" He ask putting his phone away so we can have the talk
"I mean.. we're dealing with him already. I'm planning to go to Amsterdam as soon as possible. I'm on a search to find his ex-girlfriend to get a statement to be a concrete evidence for Jennie's case" he nod his head as he look out at the huge glass window beside us
