For My Signature Drink
Another day starts with the same routine—fed my pregnant cat, cooked some breakfast, took a bath, and opened my coffee shop but this time, I wake up even before my call time and it's only 4 in the morning.
I couldn't find any reason for waking up so early and even the sun, isn't ready to shine for the daylight.
"I feel like I'm a middle-aged woman, who always gets up so early to clean the house. Should I be worried?" I ask myself as my hand buries my face.
"I should get out of my bed before I end up going back to sleep and if that's happened, Theo and Jus will kill me if I don't open the shop early," I utter as lightly slap my face to refresh myself.
My cat lays down beside me and rests peacefully which makes me desirous to sleep more but I need to endure from dozing off on the bed. So what I need to do is unlock my phone and start watching funny videos on the internet. The video I always watched is either funny videos or a new recipe of drinks and pastries that could be used to develop our new menu.
"Should I include flower tea in the menu? I think it'll work on middle-aged people, who want flower tea. I'll use the suggestion box for the menu so I could develop a new beverage." I murmur to myself while watching the videos about food. I stop watching videos to contact Yoongi and tell him my idea.
"Why?" He asks on the other line.
"Yoonie, can you come with me to the shop?" I politely ask knowing that he's infuriated. He doesn't want to interrupt his beauty rest but we live in the same building and decide to bother him for a while.
"Really, Mia? It's only 4 in the morning and you want me to come with you to the shop? Are you out of your mind Amiadainne?" He rants.
"I know Yoonie but you can't resist my charm and can't say no to your boss. Please?" I forcefully plead at him so he could come with me.
"No. I want to sleep more. You can go by yourself." He says while yawning.
"Yoonie, please? Just this once. I will give you a day off today so you could sleep more. I will make the lunch menu for you. Just come with me." I whine. He sighs in defeat.
"Fine but promise me you won't mess up my menu for today. I will give you my plan okay?"
"I got it Yoonie."
"Okay, I will just change clothes and brush my teeth. Also, bring some breakfast for us and you need to make me some black coffee." He says after hanging up the phone without waiting for me to answer.
"Oh, he hung up on me. Well, I can't blame him when I just woke him up. I'll just change clothes and place some food for my lovely cat and make some toast for both of us," I clap as I cheer myself.
I take off on my bed to change my clothes and bring my working clothes with me. I take a glance at my cat who's sleeping at my bed. I stroll closer to her and caress her head before walking downstairs.
I step inside my kitchen to prepare some bread, egg, ketchup, and mustard at the cabinet and ham and cabbage at the fridge. While toasting the bread, I cook the egg and the ham into the pan.
I collect all my ingredients like flower tea that was merely seen inside the pantry. Since we haven't any menu for the flower tea, I come up with the idea to aim at something that could catch the attention of the customer like the signature drink of Theo which is 'Chrysanthemum Love'.
Chrysanthemum love is very popular in a short period of time when we release our newest beverage. It has a unique flavor that could catch the taste of every customer.
I place all the ingredients along with our breakfast in my lunch bag, and before leaving the apartment, I grab the dry cat food in the cabinet to place the fold to the Yang's bowl so she could eat her food anytime while I'm gone.
I tug my bag and keys to the table before getting out of my apartment. I use downstairs rather than the elevator so it could brighten up my mood and had a light exercise.
When I arrive at the lobby, Yoongi is waiting for me while looking at me, crossing his arm and sulking therefore I need to walk fast.
"You are 5 minutes late." He mutters.
"And I am calling your phone but you didn't answer any of my calls. Do you know that it's very cold? It was like 5 degrees outside." He adds while shivering due to the cold weather.
I sigh and wrap my arms to his.
"I'm sorry, I'm very busy preparing our breakfast and I need to fill some food for my cat and also I know it is very cold outside knowing that it's October," I say while pushing him to start walking. He takes a glimpse of my bag and hesitates to carry my bag.
"Do you want to carry my bag?" I ask.
He looks away while clearing his throat. Without looking at me, he takes my bag so he could carry it. I giggle at his action.
Yoongi is not a typical guy that would want to show that he's being a gentleman. For him, he doesn't need to show if he wants to help someone. I don't know his reason so I think he's a shy person and more like a walking cat.
"What are you thinking?" He asked out of nowhere.
"Nothing, just stuff," I say while looking at the empty road. Well, what would I expect? It's only 4:30 in the morning and no one wants to roam around at this hour. Only me and my crazy brain want to wander the place at this hour but Theo doesn't like me to walk alone outside since it was very risky.
"I know you're thinking about me being a gentleman." He mumbles as he's bickering me.
"I am not!" I exclaim.
When we reach the shop, I immediately opened the door and walk straight to the pantry without opening the light. I open the light and the air conditioner in the pantry and placed all my ingredients on the table along with the breakfast that I made earlier. Yoongi sat in front of me and gave his toast.
"Thank you." He says while opening the wrap of the toast. I sat down and started eating my food.
"Why do you want to come here at this ungodly hour? You know it's very unhealthy for you to wake up so early without having a good sleep." He mumbles as he bit his toast.
"I just woke up and didn't get back to sleep so I decided to have my own special beverage."
"And you decided to put that on the menu." He says while reaching the ingredients I have. He frowns as he stares at the flower tea.
"Flower tea? Do you want to mix it with other ingredients?" He asks me as he doesn't trust my guts.
"I just brought all I have in my apartment to discover some unique mixture that could match up with the flower tea but I don't know what mixture I'd be using," I mumble honestly.
"For me, flower tea is delicious as its own nature so I don't know what ingredients that could blend to the flower tea, and as far as I know, it doesn't have a strong flavor than other tea so you should be careful when choosing the right mixture that could stand put the main ingredients and not other ingredients." I listen to his explanation for my specialty.
"But I should try to do that, right?" He nods while eating his breakfast.