NOVEL NEXT Chapter 14: Chapter 13
Soobin was taking out the muffins from the oven. He was wearing oven gloves so his hands looked so fluffy right at that moment. He was bending a little to take out the tray from the oven and was so focused that he didn't notice someone was coming towards him. When he took out the muffins and turned around, he was startled by seeing Arin right beside him. If he was a little bit careless, he would crash on Arin.
"Ah, Noona! You startled me! Are you a ghost? How many times have I told you not to appear in front of me without making sounds?" Soobin felt relieved because he actually didn't crash on Arin.
"I.Am.Ghost! Arin.Is.Right.There!" Arin made a creepy face though she looked funny more than scary. Soobin put the tray on the table and started to unmold the cakes.
"Yeah, yeah, sure! You can kill me if you want!" Soobin made a joke with a poker face because he was used to this kind of joke from Arin.
"By the way, who was that guy just now?" Arin made a serious face and asked though Soobin didn't notice.
"Who?" Soobin was focused on his work so much that he couldn't get what Arin was asking him.
"That guy earlier! Is he the one who always bullies you?" Arin asked. Her face was full of tension. She knew about Soobin though she couldn't help him much. But if she confronted something like this, she wasn't a person to sit back.
"Oh! That guy! No! He is not!" Soobin finally looked at Arin and said vigorously.
"Ah! Really? Then, was he harassing you?" Arin was worried about Soobin because she knew Soobin was an easy pushover.
"No! He is not! And I met him before. So, he was just asking how I'm doing." Soobin was strongly shielding Yeonjun while talking a little louder though he had a smile on his face.
"Did you? When did you meet?" Arin asked. She couldn't feel less worried because she had a bad impression on Yeonjun.
"It was that time I went to the town for my grandma's funeral. I was taking a stroll and we met on the way." Soobin replied while remembering the day.
"Are you sure he didn't harass you in any way?" Arin's face had a serious expression. She was asking to release her worriedness.
"I'm telling you! He didn't! And he even fed me bananas!" Soobin shouted all of a sudden.
In the meantime, Yeonjun choked on his drinks and because of that, he started coughing.
"Are you okay?" Wooyoung asked while giving him tissues which were on the table from before.
*Cough* *Cough* "Hm," Yeonjun nodded while coughing. He took the tissues and wiped the dark colored liquid coffee which he just spilled on himself.
"WHAT? WHAT DID HE FED YOU?" Arin shouted as she was shocked by her wrong guess.
[Note: Banana can be refer to males certain lower body parts]
"NOONAAAAAAA! Why do you have such dirty thoughts all of the time?" Soobin shouted back because he could understand what was going inside Arin's head. But when he thought about it, he blushed and became a walking tomato.
"Okay okay, now go and deliver the pieces of cakes to them." Arin finally remembered they ordered something and she was there to get the items to deliver.
"Two? Or One? We only have three pieces left!" Soobin was surprised because he was the one who cut the cake into pastries and there was a lot in the morning.
"TWO!" Arin said in a loud voice because she was a little far from Soobin.
Soobin took the pastries and went to the table where Yeonjun and Wooyoung were bickering.
"Um…here's your order, sir!" Soobin put the plates in front of the two of them and bowed to act gently.
Seeing him, Yeonjun and Wooyoung became silent and acted as if nothing happened there. They both looked at the table because none of them wanted to leave a bad impression of them on Soobin.
"Do you need anything else, sir?" Soobin asked gently. He looked at Yeonjun and when Yeonjun also looked at him, their eyes met with each other's. Yeonjun noticed how innocent the pair of eyes were! As if he was lost inside them. Soobin was looking very cute at that moment because of the bunny smile he was throwing on Yeonjun. Yeonjun gulped as he was tempted to kiss the lips which were asking him if he needed anything else. Wooyoung was silently judging his friend and understood what was going on there.
"Can I have one more iced Americano?" Wooyoung deliberately asked for another coffee with a loud voice to make Yeonjun come back to his senses and his plan was a success. Yeonjun came back to his senses and coughed to avoid the awkwardness.
"Yes, sure! Anything else?" Soobin looked at Wooyoung this time and his gentle smile made Wooyoung's heart melt. He put a sweet smile on his face and refused. Soobin left and Yeonjun kept looking at the back of Soobin. The feelings which he had when he first saw Soobin, came back and he started blushing.
"He sure is an item, huh?" Wooyoung leaned back on his chair and made a flirty face, looking at Soobin.
"Hey! Don't say it like this! If his girlfriend knows, she'll kill you for sure!" Yeonjun said in a very low voice.
"Eh? The cutie got himself a girlfriend?" Wooyoung was both surprised and disappointed.
"Here's your Americano, sir!" Soobin came back with an iced Americano and said.
"Got a quite hot girlfriend, huh?" Yeonjun asked Soobin while putting the blank fork in his mouth.
"Pardon?" Soobin was flabbergasted by the question and he looked at Yeonjun with his curious and astounded eyes.
"Uh! What I mean is, your girlfriend is quite fierce! She thought I was a bad person and started interrogating me! Hahaha!" Yeonjun got that his way of asking was totally wrong so he corrected himself.
"Heh? I don't have a girlfriend though!" Soobin was astonished by hearing Yeonjun and finally he clarified that he doesn't have any girlfriend.
"Really?" Yeonjun got happy and asked with all of his excitement. But he realized that he shouldn't show his inner feelings to the boy all of a sudden. So, he cleared his throat and said,
"Um… I mean, then why did she tell me you were her boyfriend?" Yeonjun tried to make his voice thick but instead, his voice seemed funny. Wooyoung was trying his best to hold his laughter back while Soobin was looking at Yeonjun with his idiotic but innocent face.