About an hour passed since they came into the shop and the street outside started to be filled with the presence of people as the typical opening hours for most shops comes closer. They all made sure to busied themselves and filled with utmost enthusiasm, they didn't seem to be drained of their energy.  

Time inched towards the opening time and they were anxious to see how the day becomes. Taking some coloured markers, Ten began to write on the sign and decorated it with a smile. As soon as he finished, he walked a few steps back to admire his work. Almost stumbling because of the chair Doyoung silently placed behind him as he was writing, he ran after Doyoung and shook his body vigorously before coming back to admire his work.

Receiving approvals on his skills, Johnny took the sign and placed it in front of the shop. As he made his way back inside, he turned the sign that hung on the glass door so the open sign faced outside rather than inside.

They eagerly waited, some from behind the counter, some at the opening that led to the kitchen, some by the tables.

The daunting wait - which was less than five minutes, even though it felt like hours for them - ended as a female came into the shop. She had admired the shop from its outer appearance, before slowly pushing the door open and stepped inside. 

Warmly welcomed, she slowly made her way towards the counter and began reading the menu. Her hand gestured as she read through. 

Despite some of them waiting with anxiety, Ten felt jolly that someone came in just a few minutes after they opened. 

In the middle of their wait for the female to order, the door opened once again and a group of four adults came in. 

Two of the older adults, who looks to be the parents of the other two adults found themselves to a table near the wide glass window. The other two adults headed to the counter, as one of them, a male read over the menu, the other, a female went to look at the showcase filled with food and pastries.

As she finished looking, she headed towards the male. Noticing there was another person already at the counter, she spoke to the male in a foreign language, ununderstandable by the boys who only looked at their soon to be first customer. The two took a step back and gestured slowly to the earlier female to place her order first.

Replying with the same hand gesture, she kindly let them place their order first. 

"I'm still figuring what I should get, you order first. Plus, it looks like you guys need to get something to eat before touring. It's just polite for me to let you first. Have a great day touring! Welcome to Seoul!" said the female in fluent English, just guessing that they would understand. 

Which was spot on as the female replied with joy in the same language. "Ah, thank you! Have a great day too!" 

The earlier female walked away towards a table in the middle of the cafe. Taking a seat she took out her phone and began to play with it, setting her mind to order later after she finishes going through the numerous notifications she had ignored for the past few days. 

The two tourists took slow steps to the counter. As they stood in front of the cashier, one of the boys greeted them with a smile. The female's gaze fell on his name tag, Jaehyun. And moving her gaze to the boy next to him, Ten, who also gave them a warm smile.

Jaehyun, trying to hide his excitement, asked in his fluent English, 

Nodded they began to place their order of three hot coffee beverages and an iced green tea latte alongside with four breakfast sets. As soon as they completed their payment and received the change including the receipt, the other boys went straight to complete the order.

Heading to the kitchen, Taeyong lightly pushed Taeil so they could cook up the breakfast set. Focused, Doyoung placed two espresso shot glasses under the dripping spout of the coffee machine and turned the machine on. As the coffee dripped down into the glasses, he went to fill up mugs with ingredients for the hot beverages.

Johnny got started on making the iced latte by grabbing a cup and placing a few scoops of matcha into it. Carefully pouring in a bit of hot water into the cup, he stirred to turn the powder into matcha paste. Setting the cup aside, he went to the fridge and grabbed a carton of milk. Pushing the sides open, he then filled the cup of matcha paste with milk until it's almost filled.

Taking the cup from Johnny, Yuta added some frothed milk on top and covered the cup with a cap. At the same time, Winwin helped Doyoung to cap on the other beverages. Placing the beverages on an elevated counter, Jaehyun called out the name of the female.

"Beverages for Bianca! Your food will come out in a few. Enjoy!"

Both the female and male headed to pick up their drinks and headed back to their seats. Enjoying the drinks, the four of them took pictures of the shop and their beverages. In the midst of capturing the moment, their food arrived, delivered to their table by Mark and Taeyong. 

As the family enjoys their morning in the newly opened, very refreshing shop and the female fiddling around with her phone, the guys behind the counter couldn't contain their excitement of the smooth sailing start of their shop.

Mini victory dances and actions filled the scene.

And Winwin silently admired the family eating the food deliciously.

As they celebrated together, the younger ones came back bursting with energy.

"We're back!!" shouted Haechan, but as soon as he noticed the family turning their heads to look at the energetic kids, he quickly waved and politely spook for them to enjoy their meal. All the while, Jisung looking at him with a so done expression.

Jollily walking towards the older guys behind the counter, they joined in the mini celebration. But in the middle of the joyous cheers, Yuta asked them why they had come back so early.

"You guys still have to go out, even if you have finished all the flyers you brought out. Go be cute and bring in some more people." Yuta said as he slung his hand onto Jaemin's shoulders.

"Can we at least get something to eat first? Be merciful!" cried the younger ones which brought laughter to the happy morning of what would be a journey full of adventures for them in Neo Coffee & Tea.

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For clarification, the speeches which are italic means they're speaking another language, in this case, it might be English, Chinese, Japanese and Thai since these are the other languages spoken by the members. Most of the time italic speeches will be English, unless, in the narration, I made sure to write what language it is that they're speaking.

Until another chapter!

Literally doomed in doing her book review for international history,
- Lily