Just as Hannah finished her sentence, the door of her café opened and a woman who was wearing a cap, a pink a blouse, and jeans came inside. She scanned the whole place and stopped her gaze at the counter where she saw Hazel Kun in a heated argument with someone.
She walked up to them and held Hazel"s arm, "Hazel! I"ve been looking all over for you! How could you run off like that?"
Hazel turned her head and looked at the woman who just spoke to her, "Nancy! Help me out here! They have wronged me!", she ranted.
Nancy looked up and her eyes met Hannah"s, "Hannah?", she called.
"Nancy.", Hannah"s brows scrunched up.
"What"s going on here, Hazel?", Nancy asked her friend as she didn"t understand what the problem was, she looked back to Hannah, "What did you do Hannah? Did you bully her?"
Hannah found the situation comical when she realized that the two of them were friends. She laughed and crossed her arms, "Wow, you both are friends and you both have a bad att.i.tude. Impressive! Friends of the same feather really do flock together.", she mocked.
Nancy"s expression darkened when she heard Hannah, "What did you say?"
Hannah ignored Nancy and turned to her staff who had just come back from treating her wound, "Debbie, do you want to press charges against this woman?", she asked.
"What do you mean press charges?! You!", Hazel enraged.
"Hannah Chu! Don"t go too far!", Nancy Jung also got agitated, she never liked Hannah ever since they were young. And what is this about pressing charges?
Hannah turned her head to Nancy who was also getting on her nerves, "Your friend injured my employee. Am I wrong to suggest that we should press charges?", she questioned.
Nancy was taken aback. Since she had come late, she didn"t know what happened earlier and just a.s.sumed that Nancy was bullying Hazel. After Hannah mentioned about her employee getting injured, that"s when she noticed the red patch on the girl"s arm. She then looked at Hazel beside her and sneered in her thoughts, "Idiot! What did you do this time?".
Debbie glanced at Hazel and Nancy before she answered her boss, "No ma"am. I"m okay, I won"t press charges."
"Too bad.", Hannah shrugged and both Hazel and Nancy"s face contorted because of her small comment.
Hannah faced Hazel again, "So, what would it be? Would you like to get your order or would you like a refund?"
"No! I want her fired! You"re the manager right?", Hazel whined like a child.
At this point, Hannah already had enough. She didn"t want to make the problem to get bigger especially that the customers around them were already disturbed because of the actress" childish behavior.
Hannah turned to Debbie again and asked her for the amount that Hazel had paid for her order earlier. Debbie acted very quickly and handed the money to Hannah. She then shoved the money to Hazel"s hands before she spoke to Nancy, "Your friend is drunk and you are causing my customers to be uncomfortable. I suggest that you leave."
"You"re a manager and you"re driving us out?!", Hazel yelled. "We are here as customers!"
Hazel was playing the victim card and used her role as the "customer" but Hannah wasn"t going to have it anymore.
So she firmly replied, "If you don"t leave, I will ask the security to escort you out!"
"You can"t do that to me! You"re just a lowly manager!", Hazel yelled, her high-pitched voice rang inside the cafe.
At this point, Samantha who was going through some Trident doc.u.ments on her tablet heard Hazel"s loud voice. Earlier, she didn"t bother listening in because she thought that it was just a petty argument that Hannah could handle as she owned the place. She wasn"t aware of what was happening around her as she was too focused on her reading and her table was quite far from the counter.
Looking at the commotion, Samantha saw that Hannah was facing two women and they looked like their argument had gotten serious as when she looked at the customers around them they were all watching the show intently as if they were enjoying a television drama.
After contemplating for a bit, Samantha finally stood up and headed towards them. When she was nearing, she heard Hazel complaining nonstop. She was going on and on about how arrogant Hannah is and how she was being rude to her customer and defended the staff who was in the wrong.
"I can"t believe a manager would ask a customer to leave, are you not afraid that you will lose customers? I have influence!", Hazel kept on boasting about her popularity and how she will be able to influence people to boycott The Busy Bean café for chasing a customer out.
Samantha stayed back a little as she observed the whole scene but her ears had heard enough and were starting to get irritated that she had to step in.
She laughed in ridicule at what she had heard, "I don"t think this café is going to lose any customers. As for you, a small time actress… are you sure that you have influence? What a joke!"
The three of them by the counter heard Samantha and all of them including the onlookers turned their heads to her and saw her sauntering towards the counter with a menacing smile on her face.
The first one who reacted was Nancy, "Samantha Kim."