Shade is on his way to the cafe to work when he feels someone lurking behind him. He sighs, guessing it might be one of the twins. It's not like the twins and him have a bad relationship, really. It's just that the twins like to mess with him. For some reason, they find it amusing to mock this emotionless man.

"Hey Shade!"

He turns, and is not surprised to see Rein standing before him. He noticed that she was wearing the black earrings he gave to her long ago. He also noticed that her twin—Fine—was not with her.

"Man, I knew that bu— hair was familiar." Shade gave the girl a strange look at this. "It really was you!" Rein says gleefully. Her voice dripped with fake enthusiasm. Shade raises an eyebrow at the blunette. The girl ignored this and kept blabbering on about how her day was so far. Even though it was still eight in the morning. It seems a lot has happened to her in just two hours.

Shade lifts his eyes off Rein while she was distracted, he scanned his surroundings. It was suspicious that Rein had appeared by herself. Where was she hiding? Shade saw a pile of trash cans not too far off. But it couldn't be..

Shade gives Rein a suspicious look but to Rein and the others (if ever they saw this face), it seemed like his usual poker face. Shade remembers that one time when he was on his way home, Fine had abducted him, forcing Shade to eat her poisonous cooking. She eventually got better at cooking but he still can remember that experience and it's taste. It gives Shade shivers once in a while.

Shade watched the girl in front of him who was still blabbering, and for some reason, imaginary options appeared in front of him.

Leave

Stay

Shade debated what option to take then finally he nodded at his decision.

}Leave

Stay

After all, he doesn't want to be late for work but the real reason is that he doesn't want to waste his time listening to Rein.

He continues down the road, leaving Rein behind. Well, she would notice that he was gone once she's done with her talk to no one in particular. It was more of venting her frustrations instead of a talk.

Shade is not the kind of person who would wait for a girl, open a door for a girl, etc etc. Gentleman and Shade does not match.

Though, he has a soft spot for the twins and his sister, Milky. Although, Milky and Fine were both troublesome, even more troublesome than Rein. One time, they went to a sweets festival. Fine and Milky were happy eating all the sweets. Cotton candy, crêpes, cookies, cakes... and a thinning wallet.

Shade was not happy at all.

"Welcome to Lumiére Cafe—Oh wait, it's just you." Fine drops her warm welcoming smile once seeing the customer.

"Hey!" The customer—Bibin—shouts at the girl. Fine puts on her headphone to block Bibin from the world. She continued doing her duty, carrying the pile of boxes to the storage room. Shade saw Fine carrying the boxes once he finished changing out of his uniform. He offered to help and Fine gladly accepted his helping hand.

Fine and Rein doesn't really have a bad relationship with Bibin. It's just Fine making fun of Bibin. To start off, their meeting was like this; Bibin left her notebook in the cafe and later that day she visited the cafe to bring back her notebook. When she got there, she saw Fine and Rein reading her notebook, Rein was bawling as she read the sentence "pink and yellow are great with each other!" whereas Fine was laughing at Bibin's notebook name. It was entitled "My Holy Divinity"

Bibin screamed out of embarrassment. Her shriek could be heard five blocks away. Bibin grabbed a chair that was just lying around(oh who am I kidding there were plenty of chairs inside the cafe) and then smacked the twins with it.

"There is no way I'll get along with a fashion tsundere." Fine told Bright after a few days in the hospital. Rein was all over it and was friends with Bibin since they liked the same thing. Bibin did apologized to the twins and they both forgave her for it but Fine just can't help making fun of Bibin since her reactions are amusing.

"Hi Bibin." Bright greeted the young woman. "What did you come here for?"

"I'm here for the interview." Bibin says placing her arm on her hip. A posture she always do.

Sophie giggles, interrupting their conversation—well not really. She looks at Bibin with a mischievous look. Bibin blinks at the green haired girl. "But you're also here for Fine and Rein."

"I'm not here for Fine and Rein!" She fumes. "I have an interview to attend!" Bibin says defensively.

"Sure." Sophie smiles at the girl and then went back to her post.

"An interview to attend!" Bibin screeches.

"Anyways, I'll guide you to Boss's room." Bright told Bibin. "Follow me."

Their former boss — the one who Rein was cursing at the other day — was only just a replacement for their original boss while she was on a vacation to attend her friend's funeral. Their boss — Grace — has just returned recently. Grace is a nice person and she looks out for all of her employees and always consider their opinions before making choices for the cafe compared to that stupid clingy replacement—is what Rein described the former boss.

Grace apologized to her employees about the matter of the replacement. Apparently she didn't have enough time to choose who would replace her while she was away so her friends volunteered to manage her cafe. And it turned out badly.

Bright pointed at a door, "Over there." Bibin gulps nervously and knocked on the door, she heard a soft and gentle voice saying for her to come in. Bright wished good luck for her and Bibin thanked him for it. She enters the room with a confident smile.

Several hours later, Grace called every employees to gather after the cafe closes. But before that, they had to clean the cafe first.

For some reason, a fight broke out during this with Auler running out of the cafe shouting, "I CAN BE A PLAYBOY YOU DUMB COCONUT HEAD!" He dashed off with a comical dust trail behind him.

Bright was forced to search for the poor boy who was insulted by the twins. "I am not his babysitter." Bright had said previously. Lione felt sorry for Bright and so she helped him search for Auler.

Rein collapsed into a chair in the back room, exhausted. Rein huffs, glaring at Shade as he took the seat next to hers.

Shade simply ignored this.

After a few minutes of waiting, their boss enters the room with people all of them don't recognize. Bibin was also there but she was the only one they recognized.

"These are our new coworkers." Grace announces. "I hope you all will get along!"

"Auler, you're one of the people that worked here ever since the café opened right?" Noche—one of the new coworkers— asked Auler. The boy nods, polishing the glass in his hand carefully. Besides Noche was Lemon, a new employee, eating the cheesecake their head chef(Bright) made for the two who were in break. "Why did you take this job?"

"Hey! What are you two doing?" Calore says, interrupting their conversation and settling herself on the bar's stool next to Noche. Calore grins as Bright handed her the same dessert. "Thanks!"

Noche nervously taps the bar's surface. "I—I was asking about how Auler started this job—"

"Oooh! I want to hear too!"

Auler shrinks, "It's not that interesting." He told them.

"Whatever, just do it! I'm on break and there's nothing better to do." Calore shrugs, and began eating the cake. "Ah, wait, just a sec." She grabs her smoothie. "All right, start talking."

Auler gave Calore a bothered look before talking. "Me and Sophie were looking for a job two years ago." He says, "And we just stumbled upon this poster—actually, Sophie stepped on the poster. The salary was high so I decided to give it a shot. Sophie also wanted to just because it seemed interesting."

"Uh huh."

Auler looked down, cleaning the glass with more force. He was recalling some bad memories. "I wanted to work in a music store since I like music and if possible I wanted to start a band called Originia but it seems like that won't happen—"

This will take too long.

To be continued

"Hey! You're the one who made me talk! Let me contin—"

Extra

The day Auler and Shade first met:

"I'm Shade, nice to meet you." He spoke in a gruff manner.

Auler gawks at the sight of Shade. "Oh, yes, nice to meet you." He looks scary.

"So you think I look scary." Shade says.

Auler flinched in surprise. "No! Not at all!"

"Please don't judge people by their appearance." He shoots Auler a dark look. "I'll beat you up."

Chapter 1 was so cringy oml. This is too short.