QUITS

Chapter 20

"You're early than your scheduled arrival." Mina continues.

"Faith and her family flew out of Seoul to Japan for a vacation. They wanted me to come but nah, next time plus I have no time."

"Right. Don't feel so pressured reporting back to work though. You have one more day, technically, so spend it well."

"I'll spend it on my couch." Mina and Jongin chuckles.

"You and me, both." Jongin replies.

"Anything I could help?"

Mina rolls her eyes. "And that's how my reminder gone to waste. Why did I even bother?

Lisa laughs. "So dramatic. I just wanna help plus you're gonna close in an hour anyway. Let's eat something after shift, my treat."

"Well, if you say so. We need you to go to the pantry and storage room to do the inventory. Call?" Jongin replies.

Lisa hums, pats the countertop. "Aye aye captain." She says before walking away.

***

"Bam, I need creamer please."

BamBam gestures a salute before making his way to the pantry. Lisa is back behind the counter and has been very busy since the start of the shift. Their shop just started accepting deliveries so she and Jongin had to divide assignments. Jongin is in charged for the in house orders while she handles the deliveries.

Fortunately for the establishment and unfortunately for Lisa, the delivery option is a hit. She had not taken a single minute or two worth of proper downtime since she clocked in, they guessed that the order must've been mostly from students around the town who either had gone back from vacation or just too lazy to visit the shop.

"Here you go." BamBam says, setting another tube of creamer he took. "You wanna switch for a while? The orders keep coming in."

"Speaking of which. We have another one." Says Jongin as he grabs the receipt from the machine, slides and pins it in front of Lisa.

"Thanks for the offer but the house needs more labor than this. Go give Mina some help. I can manage."

"You sure? We don't have much customers."

Lisa waves her hand while the other one slides the shop's receipt copy of the order she just finished into to paper bag. "I am sure."

BamBam looks at Jongin for confirmation but received a shrug. "She's in her zone and if you help her out, her rhythm will be messed up and she'll be all over the place. Go help Mina. There are two newly vacated tables."

"If you say so." And he disappears to the awaiting task.

"How many orders left?" Jongin asks, he didn't hear any response as he hands the paper bag to the delivery man before facing Lisa again. "So?"

"I am doing the last one and I'll be empty."

Jongin did not disturb her any longer as new sets of customers came in which totally grabbed his full attention. When he was done preparing the orders and called BamBam to serve them, he saw Lisa slumping and sitting herself on the floor at the far corner of the counter area which made him laugh.

"You look like you got ran over by a truck!"

Lisa grumbles. "Give me a damn break. This is my first rest of the shift and please turn off the order availability. I need a rest."

Jongin did so while chuckling. "You'll have more of these soon. It's been growing steady for the past two days and if we get good results by the end of the week, Noona might keep this option."