17 Seventeen: The Restaurant

ANOTHER LONG CHAPTERRR!!!!

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"We've been expecting you."

Mr. Lee says with a smile towards Haneul and Mr. Parks points to a chair in front of them where she'll sit. Haneul closes the door behind her, walks to her seat and sees papers on the table in front of her. She sits down on her seat and looks at the two CEOs' of big entertainments.

"These are the papers for your contract. We wanted you to see first before we make the final one. This is just a draft because we want to know what you think and what you want change or add to the contract." Mr. Park says which Mr. Lee nods at what he said.

Haneul grabs the contract papers and read through them all. There were some she agreed and some she tells the CEOs to change and some were added. After all that, Haneul puts down the papers and looks at the CEOs who looked at the contract then at Haneul. "That's all." Haneul says. "Are you sure?" Both the CEOs asks Haneul.

The contract was simple. Haneul gets to create her own youtube channel for her music videos, behind the scenes, tv shows that she'll be creating and hosting and such as the earnings are split by how Haneul wanted it to be split. For each music video, behind the scenes videos, tv shows, both the Entertainment gets their shares 20% each, 40:60, 20 for SM Ent and 60 for Haneul and the same goes with JYP Ent. Also those who approach either one of the two CEOs, either Mr. Lee or Mr. Park will be the ones getting the split of the earnings by 40/60.

For example, a fashion company wanted to do a photoshoot with Haneul wearing their design and they approached SM Ent. for it, SM Ent will get the 40% shares from the earnings of the shoot while JYP Ent won't have any. It can be vice versa. For concerts in Korea and in other countries, both SM Ent and JYP Ent will get their shares 30% each concert. 30:70, 30 for JYP and 70 for Haneul. Same goes for SM Ent.

For appearances in TV shows, Haneul gets to have 70% of the earnings while both SM Ent and JYP Ent gets their 30% of the earnings. It's up to them though how they want to split the 30% of the earnings. Promotions will be taken care of by the two Entertainments.

It wasn't a problem for Haneul to put a hand to her chin to think since both the CEOs agreed to it with no hesitation which shocked Haneul. There were also the things written down to what Haneul said before as her conditions. They really have written my conditions down on the contract. Haneul thinks to herself and after thinking to herself, she nods her head.

"Yeah, everything's good. Also the conditions I said before, it still stands and it shocks me that it's also written on the contract." Haneul says which Mr. Lee and Mr. Park smiles at Haneul. "We put it in the contract so we can show you that we're serious." Mr. Park and Mr. Lee says at the same time.

Haneul nods her head and smiles at the two CEOs. "By the time the contract comes, please take care of me and thank you for the opportunity." Haneul stands and bows her head. The CEOs stand up and bow their heads, too.

"Thank you for choosing us and agreeing with our co-partnership to handle your career." They both said and they all straighten up. "Don't forget about tomorrow. I'll send you the address of the dorms tomorrow before 7 am and I'll be expecting you to arrive by 7am for you to settle in at your dorm room." Mr. Park says which Haneul nods her head.

"You may go now." Mr. Lee says and Haneul nods her head. Haneul walks out of the office and walks to the elevator. She took the elevator down and got out. She exits the building and walks to her car. She gets in her car and turns on the car's engine. She drove back to the dorms and saw that it was just about to be 10pm.

She gets out of the car and sat on the front of her car. Laying down on the windshield looking at the stars as the cold breeze hits her face. People passing by the dorms going to and from work and their homes saw Haneul on her car and didn't mind her as they pass by seeing that she's just watching the stars.

She was just laying on her car for a minute or two before getting down her car, walking to the dorm building going inside, and up to their dorm floor. She walks to their dorm room and puts her key card in, thinking the others weren't home because they're either practicing or has a schedule.

Haneul enters their dorm room and closes the door behind her. The room was completely dark and she was walking towards the living room but the moment she arrived at the living room, the lights turned on and she sees everyone in the living room. EXO, SUJU, SHINEe, SNSD, F(x), Knights and Dream Girls gathered in the living room.

"Welcome home Haneul-ah!" They greeted her and Haneul was just in shock, not knowing what to do. The next thing Haneul did was fall on the ground as if she fainted but it's just part of her little prank that she just thought of. Everyone was shocked the moment she fell. "Haneul-ah!" They yell for her. Everyone gathers around Haneul as Chanyeol held her trying to wake her up.

"Haneul-ah!" Everybody yells her name in panic. "Yah! Who's idea was it to do this? We must have shocked her to the point she fainted." One of them yell as everyone starts to panic. Everyone was pointing at each other but then they heard laughter under them.

They look down and saw Haneul laughing. "I got you guys good." Haneul laughs it out and everyone has their jaws down, realizing that Haneul just pranked them. Haneul stops laughing when she saw them all glaring at her.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She yells as they began to tickle her. I mean who wouldn't laugh when more than 30 people are trying to tickle her. "Yah! Don't do that again." Everyone yells at Haneul as she got up with her hands up. "Alright, alright. Sheesh." Haneul says as everyone calms down and dispersed everywhere in the living room.

"By the way we brought food for everyone to eat." Rey says and everyone has different kinds of food in their hands, after picking them up. Haneul's eyes look at all the different food and nods her head while giving everyone a thumbs up. "I'll change first, be right out." Haneul says before walking towards her bedroom and opens her door, getting in and closing the door behind her.

She lays down the suitcase with her clothes inside and opens it up. She picks out a hoodie and sweatshorts and changes into them while the used clothes are put in a plastic bag and into the suitcase. She gets out of her bedroom once everything was packed and walks outside to the living room where everyone else are in.

Everyone began to eat the food they have and making the moments they have right now memorable and fun since Haneul's leaving. After eating, they cleaned the place and used the remaining time having fun and talking to each other. After that, it was getting late and everyone starts to get up, to leave and to see the ones leaving out the door.

One by one, the idol groups and soon to be idol groups got out of the dorm room after saying goodbye and goodnight to Haneul and the rest inside the dorm room, giving them each hugs as well. Haneul closes the door and walks back to the living room, looking at the ones left inside, EXO members and Rey.

Sitting on the couch watching a tv show on the tv, having fun and laughing their ass off. Haneul watches them like a mom would and felt calm and happy to have amazing friends and people she has right now. Appreciating the things happening to her no matter how little it is, she always appreciates it.

Haneul looks at the clock and sees it was 11:58pm which is almost midnight. Haneul quickly goes into both instagram and twitter to ready the edited video which she needs to post so as to make the people be both intrigued and confused. Haneul waits and when it strikes 12 am, she immediately presses the post button which then and there, the edited video have been posted on both instagram and twitter.

Haneul then sees the time 12:04am in the early morning which she needs to sleep now so she can wake up early to prepare again. "Hey guys, I need to go to bed. I have to leave early tomorrow." Haneul says leaning on a wall, watching the boys and Rey who was looking at the tv and are now looking at her.

"Okay. I guess we should go to bed as well so we can see her out in the morning before she goes." Suho says sadly but with a smile towards Haneul to show her that they'll be fine when she's not around. "Let's have a sleepover in the living room."' Haneul suggests which everyone nods their head, agreeing.

"That would be cool. Come on let's get the cushions." The boys one by one stood up and walks to the bedrooms to get cushions for them to sleep on and with. Haneul and Rey did the same. Once they got everything they need, they sprawled on the floor finding their spot. The spot for the two couches were dealt with rock paper scissors which Sehun and Suho won.

It was kinda funny cause they took the game too seriously. Haneul and Rey laughs at the boys while they were playing as they were laying beside each other. Everyone was now laying on their spot. Haneul and Rey next to each other, D.O next to Rey and Chanyeol next to Haneul.

"Good night everyone!" Haneul bids good night and everyone was smiling in the dark, thinking that they'll miss Haneul's cooking and her voice and her bubbliness. "Good night, Haneul-ah!"

Meanwhile...

After posting the video, everyone who was still awake at that time was notified by a new video of _Miracle7_ and were shocked when they saw the video. People becoming more and more intrigued and curious to see who the person really is.

"Yah! Hyungs! _Miracle7_ just posted a new video!" Yugyeom, who's a big fan of _Miracle7_, yells to everyone in the living room which they were in. "Really?!" The rest of the sevens immediately went to Yugyeom's side to watch. They watch the video and the part where Haneul was about to remove the mask, it went pitch black and the word 'SOON' came out and the video ended there. The sevens were all shocked and intrigued and curious.

"So she'll be revealing herself soon. I can't wait!" Yugyeom and BamBam says at the same time to which they look at each other and smiled. "EEEEAAASSSYYYY!" They say at the same time again while high fiving each other. The rest of the boys went to their phones and look at the video again.

"'SOON', huh?" One of the sevens says to himself.

The morning of the same day ..... January 15, 2017 ... A Sunday .....

Haneul wakes up before her alarm could even go off. Haneul checks her phone and turns off her alarm before it can go off so as to not wake up the others who were still sleeping. She checks the time and sees that it's 5:30am.

She grabs the cushion with her without making a noise and walks to her room. Folding the cushions on her bed and walks to her closet where the outfit she's going to wear is in. She opens and grabs the clothes and a towel then headed to the bathroom to take a shower.

She got in the bathroom and did her business. She wore the clothes which are undies, hoodie, and sweatpants while the denim jacket and coat in on her arm, hanging. She got out of the shower with her hair up in her towel and walks to the living room to leave the coat and denim jacket.

She sees that every one of them are waking up and the saw Haneul already getting ready. "Why didn't you wake us up, Haneul-ah?" Luhan asks while rubbing his eyes. "You guys were sleeping so soundly, I couldn't bear to wake you guys up. Plus, it's fine if you guys don't see me out." Haneul says which the boys and Rey shake their heads.

"No, we will see you out even if we're still in our pjs." Kris says speaking on behalf of everyone where most of them are half asleep, but they manage to nod their heads agreeing to what Kris just said. "Okay, I'm sorry for not waking you guys up." Haneul says with her head down, feeling sad.

"It's fine. We're awake now, right?" Chanyeol stands up and walks to Haneul. He lifts his hand to go under Haneul's chin to push her head up. "Go get ready." Chanyeol looks at Haneul in the eyes and softly flicks Haneul's forehead, walking to the bedrooms right after. Haneul looks at everyone before she can continue and they nod their heads.

Haneul got ready while everyone else is trying to stay awake. Haneul got her suitcases out and near the dorm room door. Once Haneul was done getting ready, she wore the denim jacket first then the coat, then the cross-bag then the socks and grabs hold of two suitcases and Rey with the last one. Everyone was trailing behind her when she got out of the dorm room, wearing their coats in their pjs.

Haneul and everyone got in the elevator and then out of the elevator. They all walk out of the dorm building and watches Haneul and Rey walk to the car to put the suitcases in. After putting them inside, Haneul and Rey went back to everyone by the dorm building doors. She hugs them all including Rey. Haneul didn't forget to remind Rey to cook them breakfast which earned Haneul a punch to the arm.

Haneul laughs as she bids them goodbye and walks back to her car, getting in after one last wave of goodbye. She turns her engine on just as a text came. She checks the phone seeing it was 6:45am and saw it was a text from JYP CEO which shows the address of the dorm building where GOT7 is at which she already knows where it is.

She looks at the boys and Rey one last time before driving off towards the JYP dorm building. The boys and Rey watches the car leave and then disappear. They were sad to see Haneul go but it was needed. They went back inside and got ready for the day.

Haneul drives to the JYP dorm building and sees Mr. Park already standing outside waiting for her with a guy beside him which Haneul can't see clearly since he was wearing a hood, face mask and a cap. Haneul hurriedly parks her car in front of the dorm building and got out wearing a face mask, too. Taecyeon was shocked on the inside when he saw the car and the girl who got out of the passenger seat.

She walks to Mr. Park first and shakes his hand, "Good morning, Mr. Park." Haneul greets Mr. Park with enthusiasm as she shakes his hand and bows her head. "Good morning, Ms. Seon. Oh, by the way, this is Taecyeon of 2pm. I asked for his help since he was the only one free. Taecyeon-ah, this is our new trainee who'll be living in the dorm with you guys."

Mr. Park says and carefully says his words because he knew Haneul was going to appear in the ICSYV later that Mr. Lee told him which made Mr. Park choose his words carefully when it comes to her name. Haneul's eyes widen when she heard the name Taecyeon. "Go-good mor-morning, Mr. Taecyeon! I'm a huge fan of 2pm!" Haneul says with shock and bows her head.

Tacyeon didn't expect her to bow so he quickly stops her from bowing even further by stepping forward and held her shoulders, pushing her up gently. "No need for that. Good morning to you, too." Taecyeon says in his deep voice which Haneul's ears perk up as she was pushed up gently.

"Okay, now that we got to know each other a bit, why not we head to your dorm room, Ms. Seon? Let's get your luggage." Mr. Park says which Haneul nods her head and walks to her car. Taecyeon walks with her thinking she has a lot of suitcases but saw three. Haneul took two and Taecyeon took the last one but he felt weird that he only has one and Haneul has two.

Taecyeon gently takes the other suitcase from Haneul's hand which shocked Haneul when she felt a tug on her suitcase. She looks to her side and saw Taecyeon grabbing the handle of the suitcase in her right hand. Haneul could see that Taecyeon wanted to be a gentleman so she let go of the suitcase in her right hand and let Taecyeon handle two suitcases.

Haneul and Taecyeon walk back to Mr. Park who was smiling at them and leads the way inside. They head into an elevator and Haneul could see Mr. Park pressing the floor number where GOT7 is staying in. "Your room floor would be where GOT7 and 2pm are staying in. Your dorm room is next to GOT7 and 2pm room is in front of GOT7's room."

Mr. Park says which Haneul was shocked to hear. Didn't think I'll be staying near the sevens. "There's a laundry room right next to your room so you can use that when you need to do laundry. If you're wondering why I put you in the floor of GOT7 and 2pm instead of being in the trainee floors, well the reason being that you're special and you're going to debut soon."

Mr. Park says answering the question Haneul had in her mind. Taecyeon was stunned when he saw how Mr. Park treated Haneul and was even more stunned that she's living in their floor but he didn't mind it that much since she looks cool and chill in his eyes.

"Oh, thank you, Mr. Park." Haneul thanks him and smiles happily, her eyes squinting into eye-smiles. Taecyeon saw this and found it cute so he smiles as well. The elevator dings and out they go. Mr. Park leads them to the room next to where GOT7 is staying at. "How old are you by the way, Ms..."

Taecyeon trails off since he doesn't know her name yet. "I'm 18 and you can call me H for now. There's things I need to do before telling you my name." Haneul says while being apologetic which Taecyeon understands but was stunned to know her age which is pretty young.

"Here we are. This is your dorm room and keys." Mr. Park says as he opens the dorm room door and they head in. He gave Haneul 2 keys which the other one is a duplicate if ever she loses the other. "Your dorm room is good for 7 people. Two bathrooms and 4 bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen."

Mr. Park says which Haneul was amazed since her last dorm room in SM Ent was like that as well but less bedrooms and bathrooms. Haneul knew that GOT7's room was the same with hers since she's been in their dorm room for how many times now.

"I'll be going, now. Enjoy your stay and work hard." Mr. Park says and waves goodbye before leaving the dorm room, where Haneul and Taecyeon was left inside. Taecyeon clears his throat while Haneul rubs her neck in awkward silence. "Uhm, I'm going to pick my room. You can leave the suitcase here and you can go if you're busy and need to go."

Haneul says politely which Taecyeon shakes his head. "I don't have anything going on today, so might as well help you and get to know the soon to be artist." Taecyeon says which a nervous chuckle and Haneul smiles at him. "We can go out for coffee or get something to eat after this if you want. I'll pay."

Haneul suggests which Taecyeon nods his head, thinking it's a good idea. "We can get to know each other along the way, too." Taecyeon says and Haneul nods. Haneul walks to the living room and leaves her suitcase there which Taecyeon followed. Haneul then walks to the bedrooms to check them and see which one she'll be taking.

After looking at the four bedrooms, she chooses the first room on the right which is all black and blue. Haneul walks back to the living room, grabbing a suitcase while Taecyeon takes the other two and helped with putting the suitcases inside the bedroom Haneul chose. "We can leave them there. I'll unpack later when we come back."

Haneul says as she closes her bedroom door and Taecyeon nods his head, looking down at the girl whose height is 173cm since he's obviously taller than her. Haneul walks to the kitchen first before they head out to see if there's utensils or food so if there aren't any, she could go shopping for them.

She sees the fridge empty and cabinets empty, she plans to buy utensils and food. "Let's go, Mr. Taecyeon." Haneul says as she walks to the dorm room door with Taecyeon trailing behind her. "Taecyeon. You can just call me Taecyeon or oppa." Taecyeon says and Haneul stops to stare at Taecyeon.

"Okay, Taecyeon.... oppa!" Haneul says in a cute way which Taecyeon could only chuckle at her. They walk out of the dorm room and walk towards the elevator. Haneul checks the sevens' dorm room and didn't hear anything and figured they were out. Taecyeon noticed Haneul was looking at GOT7's room as they passed by it.

"You're an ahgase/IGOT7?" Taecyeon asks and Haneul nods at him as they got in the elevator. "Always have been a fan since their trainee days and now that I see they're becoming the men they are today makes me very happy." Haneul says with a motherly love in her eyes. Taecyeon could see the motherly love in her eyes.

"Have you met them? You seem to let out motherly love or something?" Taecyeon asks which Haneul nods her head. "I've met them a couple of times. I just have this mother thing. I take care of my friends like a mother even though I'm the youngest. I want them to feel that they're taken care of and loved by a mother even though I'm not their mom, you get what I'm saying?"

Haneul explains in fluent english all of a sudden which stunned Taecyeon as they got out of the elevator. "You can speak english?" Taecyeon asks in english, his voice laced with shock. "Yep, I can speak a lot of languages but mostly Korean, English, Chinese, and Thai." Haneul says in english as they got out of the dorm building, heading to the car.

"Cool." Taecyeon says in english and sees Haneul walking to the driver's side door and opens in. "Hop in." Haneul says and got in her car as did Taecyeon. "The car's awesome." Taecyeon says as he marveled at the car. "I know, right? She's a beauty." Haneul says as she turns her engine on.

"Do you have a place in mind? I know a place where we can be alone where no one can disturb us." Haneul suggests and Taecyeon nods his head. Fans would always try to catch their idol's attention, take pictures and stuff which kind of disturbs the idol but they can't do anything because one wrong move can destroy his/her career.

That's why there are times where they just want to chill and relax but would fall short because there'll be fans tryna disturb or paparazzies be in their business. Haneul then drives off towards a little restaurant which she goes with Rey often.

They arrive after 10-ish minutes and park the car. Haneul and Taecyeon got out of the car and head towards the little restaurant. As Haneul got inside, the door made a bell ringing sound which alerted the workers who looks at the door.

They knew who the girl was since she's often eating here. "Miss! It's good to see you again!" A female worker smiles as she walks towards Haneul without saying her name. Haneul gave her eye smiles and walks towards the female worker, too. They hug each other halfway and lets go.

"You haven't come here for a while. We were worried and missed you." The female worker says as she held Haneul's hand gently. "I've been quite busy, eonnie. But here I am, aren't I?" Haneul says which the female worker slaps Haneul's arm jokingly.

"Are you here to eat? We have your booth available. We never let anyone else use your booth." The female worker says and Haneul nods her head. "Is this man with you?" The female worker says as she leads the way to the booth. "Yes, he's a friend. I happen to tell him about this place and he said he wanted to try eating here."

Haneul says which the female worker smiles at Haneul. "That's good, Miss! We've been having a problem these days since we have less customers now. Youngsters in your age don't know about this place plus we need to renovate a bit of the place." The female worker says which Haneul understands.

"I'll try to find a way to let people know about this place. About the renovation, any problems with that?" Haneul says as they arrive at the booth, the female worker opens the door of the booth and they head inside. "Since we don't have that much customers, the budget for the renovation halted. We're trying to come up with the money for the renovation."

The female worker says, sadly. The female worker has been in the restaurant ever since it was built and opened, 8 years and counting. Haneul could see the sadness in her eyes. She knew the people who works in the restaurant loves the restaurant and treat each other as family. It would be a waste for them to lose the restaurant.

"I'll help come up the money for your guys' budget." Haneul says which the female worker shakes her head, no. "It's fine. I've been eating here for the last four years. It would be a waste to lose the restaurant now. I'll help, okay?" Haneul says as she takes the female worker's hands in hers, reassuring her.

"Th-thank you. I'll be right with you in a moment. Take your time in choosing your food." The female worker says and got out in a hurry but Haneul could see the tears coming out of her eyes as she went out. "You're very kind." Taecyeon says as he witnessed the whole thing and sat down.

"It would be a waste if this place goes down. Plus their food and service are awesome. After this, you'll definitely want to come back." Haneul says and Taecyeon chuckles at her words. After a little while, Haneul and Taecyeon have chosen their food and the female worker came back with a notepad in her hand to take their orders.

Haneul and Taecyeon says their orders and the female worker wrote them down. "I'll be right back with your orders. By the way, after you guys are done eating, the owner wants to see you, miss." The female worker says as she heads out and Haneul nods her head. Haneul and Taecyeon talk to each other until the food came.

Taecyeon found Haneul easy-going, cool, chill, kind, and a hard working person. Haneul and Taecyeon sees the food being laid out in front of them on the table and their tummies churned in hunger seeing the delicious looking food.

"Here's your orders and a pitcher of iced tea for you both on the house." The female worker says as she lays the pitcher of iced tea in front of them. "You didn't have to since we didn't order this." Haneul says talking about the pitcher but the female worker shakes her head. "The owner's orders and he knows you like the iced tea here."

Haneul could only smile under the mask and thanks the female worker before she head out. "Let's dig in." Haneul says as she moves to remove her mask. Taecyeon was also wondering what she looked like under the mask and this was the moment he could finally see. The moment the mask was off of Haneul's face, Haneul looks at Taecyeon with a smile.

Taecyeon, who is in shock, looks at Haneul with wide eyes. Stunned by her raw beauty since she's not wearing any makeup and how simple she looks but he has the feeling that there's nothing ordinary nor simple about the girl in front of him.

Taecyeon removes his mask and cap, putting them beside him. Haneul watches him do so and sees the same, or maybe even more, handsome face she always sees in tv shows, music videos, pictures and others. Taecyeon combs his hair back to fix it and sees that Haneul was watching him, waiting for him.

"Let's eat." Taecyeon smiles at Haneul and made a gesture for her to start to eat. Haneul immediately starts to fill up her plate and begins to eat. Taecyeon gets his fill and eats as well. He sees her plate filled and full which amazes him because he mostly sees girls eat salads or eats less to watch what they're eating.

But the girl in front of him eats a lot with no hesitation. He chuckles at how cute Haneul was eating, her cheeks full and round. "Slow down, you might choke from your food." Taecyeon says as he was having a little laugh as Haneul continues to chow down her food, having no care bout her image.

Haneul nods her head to Taecyeon and takes a gulp of iced tea to clean her mouth. She and Taecyeon continues to eat while talking throughout the whole duration until they were done eating. They wear their face masks and cap after they were done. They got up and walk out of the booth.

They walk to the reception/cashier registers' area and sees the workers there. Haneul sees the female worker in front of the cashier register and walks towards her. She pulls out her wallet as she lines up behind the cashier register.

"Miss! The total would be 84,000 won please!" The female worker says after checking the costs of their orders in the cashier register getting the total of what they're going to pay. "But since you're a regular here you'll get a discount of 20%. So that'll be 67,200 won." The female worker says after putting the discount in.

"Here you go." Haneul pulls out the exact amount and was about to give it to the female worker but she saw a hand with money already in front of the female worker to take. Haneul trails the hand back to the owner and sees it was Taecyeon.

"Oppa, I told you that I'd payyy." Haneul tells Taecyeon as she whines cutely. "This is our first time eating together and our first time meeting so I'll pay." Taecyeon says leaving no space for an argument. "Fine, but I'll pay for the next one." Haneul says as she puts her money back in her wallet and then back in her cross-bag.

"There's a next time?" Taecyeon says after the money was taken from his hand. "Of course, this will not be the only time we'll be meeting and seeing each other." Haneul says as she looks at Taecyeon, who was also looking at her, and gives her eye smiles.

Taecyeon felt his heart beating more than usual and he felt weird as to why it did. "Thank you for dining here! Here's your receipt." The female worker says and gave the receipt to Taecyeon. "Thank you for the good service and food. This place will surely get much attention if someone posts about it in instagram or twitter."

Taecyeon says as if he's giving a hint. Haneul looks at him and then back at the female worker. "I hope so. Oh, the owner is waiting for you in his office. I'll lead you guys there." The female worker says, walking towards Haneul and taking her by the arm with her own.

She tells the other worker to be the cashier for the time being as she takes Haneul and Taecyeon to the owner. They walk to the office and the female worker knock on the door. "Come in." The three heard a male's voice say and as they were told, the three of them went inside.

Haneul sees the man she sees every time her and Rey eat here. "Hey, ahjussi!" Haneul greets cheerfully and the owner who has his head in his hands looking down at the paper work in his desk. He looks up hearing the familiar voice and he immediately smiles at the little girl in front of him.

"Ah, Ha-" The owner didn't continue to say her name cause he saw Haneul putting a finger to her lips, he then noticed the guy next to her. "Ha- Aha! Miss! It's so good to see you!" The owner saves himself, stands and walks towards Haneul to hug her. Haneul hugs back the early 40s man when he hugs her.

"It's good to see you, too! How are you? How's the mrs.? How's oppa and eonnie?" Haneul begins to ask the owner after letting go of each other from the hug. "Me and the mrs. are doing well. Those two are also doing well, they're making good careers for themselves."

The owner says and gives a genuine smile. "Oh, ahjussi, this is a friend of mine. I introduced this place to him because it was our first time meeting each other." Haneul says as she introduces Taecyeon to the owner. "Oh, it's good to meet you, sir!" The owner held his hand out and Taecyeon takes it and they shake their hands.

"It's good to meet you too, sir! The food and service here is very good. I don't know why this place isn't getting a lot of customers." Taecyeon says as they shake their hands and they let go of the shake after Taecyoen says his words.

"Thank you for the words. It warms my heart knowing we make a customer satisfied." The owner says with a smile and Taecyeon could see the happiness yet sadness hidden. "About the customers, I don't know too. We were doing so well but it's like people forget about the place since there's a lot of other restaurants here in the neighborhood."

The owner says sadly but with a smile. "I guess the restaurant isn't good as it used to be. Time's changing and there's many new things being created. I guess I need to follow and change some things in the restaurant like changing the way it looks. That's why I'm trying to find the money to renovate this place but we're low on funds and sponsors."

The owner says and both Haneul and Taecyeon felt sad as they hear him explain. "Don't worry about the funds, I'll help in any way I can. I'll also try to find a way to help get this place become known to the public." Haneul says taking the owner's hands in hers, reassuring him that she'll help.

"Thank you so much, miss but I don't want the restaurant's problems be a burden to yo-" The owner didn't get to finish as he saw Haneul shaking her head. "I've been eating here for a long time and I've met good people here. Of course the restaurant's problems are my own, too." Haneul says which the owner felt grateful and thankful to Haneul.

Taecyeon watches the scene in front of him and wants to be a part of it as well. "About the being known in public, I could help with that." Taecyeon says without knowing what he just said. He blurted the words out with no hesitation which stunned him. He's usually calculative and careful with his words but he blurts out the words.

"Really? Thank you!" Haneul says, excitement and happiness in her voice since if Taecyeon is going to help, it would be a big help. Haneul lets go of the owner's hands gently and hugs Taecyeon out of excitement. Taecyeon was caught off guard from the sudden hug but he felt weirdly happy and warm when she did.

Haneul lets go and eye smiles at Taecyeon then looks to the owner. "It'll help a lot if he helps. He's kind of famous." Haneul says pointing at Taecyeon and Taecyeon just stood there with his hands in front, shaking his hands. "Not really that famous." Taecyeon says and Haneul chuckles at him.

The owner watches the two and he was reminded of his own children. He smiles at the two. "Thank you both. It would mean a lot to us." The owner bows to the two, being thankful and grateful to them.

"Ahjussi, it's no problem. Please stand straight." Haneul says as she stops the owner from bowing any further. "May I know your name, kind sir? I would want to know who the person helping our restaurant is." The owner asks, looking at Taecyeon with kind eyes.

"Oh, uhm.." Taecyeon doesn't know what to do so he looks at Haneul who nods her head to him. "Don't worry, both the restaurant and it's people are good at keeping secrets." Haneul tells Taecyeon with a reassuring smile.

"Okay. Uhm...." Taecyeon trails off and starts to remove his cap and face mask. Both the female worker and the owner was shocked to see who it was.

"Ok Taecyeon-imnida of the Kpop group, 2pm."

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-Aki