1 Chapter 1

When it showed at 5pm. The signpost 'Close' ws installed in front of the glass door because tonight there will be an event at the cafe. All employees began to prepare all necessities after and give duties to their employees. 

Some are in charge of decorating the room, some are in charge of preparing food and there are also other preparations. There are about eight workers at the cafe, all of whom speed up the work so that it can be finished in time at 8pm tonight. Everything's been very busy.

The woman wearing the uniform with the sign "Naomi", put a sign so that guests do not get confused about the location, she put a sign on the side of the sidewalk. The boards were decorated with glittering lights. Naomi was silent for a moment while staring at the board she was wearing, somehow her chest was pounding so hard along with the uncomfortable feeling of thinking about the people who would come to the reunion.

Naomi would return home and rest to return to work the next day so that she would not have to meet people who no longer wanted to see her. While sighing heavily at the reality she could not avoid, Naomi could only try to strengthen herself for what would happen later. Naomi steps back to the cafe because of her duty to prepare food for the guests.

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By the time the clock struck 8pm. All the employees were standing in their respective quarters and one by one the invited guests came to fill the chairs that had been arranged in rows long.

A white luxury car stopped in front of the entrance. A handsome man who makes all eyes stunned when all sees his face that looks like a prince out of a comic book.

He came along with a woman who looked so beautiful in a long dress full of glittering glitter, long disheveled hair with a clasp that was beside her ear. It's so graceful as if she's the lead in the show. Her smiling face was confident when his hand began to hold the handsome man who didn't even seem so excited.

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Naomi's job is now almost done, now she has enough time to spare. But that doesn't leave Naomi out of hand with responsibility. Even though her work is finished, she still has to monitor what other employees do.

"Please take care of the food. We will take it out at the buffet table later. I want to go around first."

Naomi spoke to one of her coworkers who also served in the consumption department.

"Yes, Miss!"

Naomi walks out of the cafe kitchen, although she's a little worried that anyone will know her, but it doesn't seem possible. Naomi started checking the whole room, checking everything was fine. 

Her footsteps stopped with both eyes slightly trembling as her gaze fixed on familiar faces in her memory. The hearts began to flutter uneasily at their smiling faces as if all their happiness was theirs. Living without burden with the success they already have.

It feels like there's a wall between two different worlds. It felt very bitter and stinging in her heart, but Naomi didn't have the courage to go any further to enter a world so different from her.

Naomi began to step back to get away before anyone looked at her. Only half of the body turned around, instantly Naomi froze when she heard someone calling her name.

"NAOMI ...!!!"

A little bit of noise went all over the room, as if she was trapped in a trap. The uncomfortable feeling that arose from inside him as all eyes began to stare at her. Naomi thinks that if she's currently pretending not to hear, she'll look like a loser. Her pride can't allow that. Nobody knows what happened to her. Naomi is currently thinking about what she should do. Naomi mustered all her courage. Reversing her body with an ordinary facial expression. No smile or cynicism.

When she turned around, Naomi was surprised because all eyes were on her, they made Naomi feel cornered. Her brain was empty, her heart rate was pounding and her head was getting dizzy. That really unfriendly look of eyes made Naomi slowly lose her courage.

"Oh! It turned out that she was Naomi?"

The woman who called her.

The atmosphere is back in chaos. They talk to each other, talking about Naomi's whereabouts that really surprised them. The voices were heard clearly, the words that seemed to be dropping Naomi.

"Come here, Naomi! Why are you standing there?" asked one of them, pretending to be friendly.

If she's there it might be harder for her to get out of those who just want to have fun without caring about anyone else. It's really annoying for Naomi to step on her foot.

Until suddenly, a friend immediately grabbed her hand and somehow when she appeared, Naomi was shocked. Her classmate is named Gisel. She seemed to smile while holding her hands tight enough as if she didn't want to let herself go.

"Come on!"

She exclaimed.

Naomi can only give up when she is dragged into a group of classmates she always wants to avoid. Even while sitting in the chair, Naomi felt pressured by both hands of Gisel to sit down immediately.

"Wait! Wait! Why are you wearing an apron? You work here? I think you really came?"

Gisel weeping to the friend sitting next to her.

"You work here, Naomi? Oh my goodness! Why are you working as a cafe waitress? How's your work? Must be tired, right?" said a friend sitting next to Gisel.

"Being poor is tiring, right?"

Naomi's anger has overflowed until there's no place for her to hold her back. Her self-esteem and all her hard work so far have been trampled and belittled by those who don't even know anything about her. Naomi couldn't make her face smile, she was awkward.

While grinning and a little chuckle, her reaction makes the atmosphere quiet-looking confusedly at Naomi, now staring at Gisel and some of her friends who kept cornering her. 

"That's right, what you say is all true, but i live so fine, great ...!" said Naomi.