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━ Would you like to order?
━ What do you want to drink?
━ Hmm... I'd like a cafe mocha.
━ Two cafe mochas, please.
━ Oh...! Senior, I'll buy it.
━ It's just there.
━ ···Yes.
━ Are you going to eat?
━ Yes.
━ Yes, I'll call you when it's done.
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So we sat down by the window. We sat facing each other, but my senior kept staring at me.
━ What's on my face···?
━ Huh? No. Yeoju, call me oppa.
━ Yes?
━ You're supposed to be my girlfriend, but you're going to keep calling me "senior"? Stop using that polite language.
━ Oppa···.
━ Well done.
━ Phew... What is it, really?
━ I'm not perfect yet. I can't even use formal speech.
━ Oppa... I'll drink coffee well.
━ Now you did really well.
We looked at each other and just laughed about how nice it was. Soon the coffee arrived and we took a sip.
━ Hmm- Is it delicious?
━ Right? It's right next to my house, so I come here often. It's really delicious here.
━ Oh really?
━ Yeah!
“Excuse me... Could you please give me your number?”
━ Yes? Me?
“Yes. I work here, and every time you come here, I always look at you.”
I checked my senior's expression. I looked at him, and his face didn't look particularly good. And if I don't like someone, I immediately reject them, a nickname that brings to mind the iron wall. Of course, I didn't like this guy, and since the person I liked was right in front of me, I rejected him as expected.
━ I'm sorry, but I have to decline.
“Ah... I’m sorry if it was inconvenient. Then, enjoy your coffee and go.”
The employee may have been hurt, but he kept his words sweet until the end, so I didn't really care.
━ The saying that Park Yeo-ju is an iron wall is not for nothing.
━ Hey··· what···.
I took another sip of coffee. After drinking, I felt someone staring at me, so I looked at my senior, no, my brother.
━ Why, again? Is there really something on your face?
What happened earlier was something I couldn't even call trembling. My brother kissed me out of the blue. I was so shocked, my body froze again.
━ You really asked.
━ M, what did you do···?
I was so flustered that I blurted out the formal language. It was my first kiss ever. And it was with the person I liked. I was truly shocked.
━ I wiped it off with whipped cream.
━ No, why did you put the tissue down and put it in your mouth...
━ If we go to a gathering later, we'll be drinking, and of course the kids will kiss. I prepared it in advance.
━ Ah···.
━ Are you very surprised?
━ Isn't that obvious? It's our first kiss...
━ Oh really? That's good...
━ Yeah...? What do you like?
━ I like first kisses. It was my first time with you.
━ Phew... I need to go to the bathroom for a second...
Jimin kept looking at me with a happy expression on his face, wondering what was good. My face was really burning up so much that I felt like I was going to explode if I stayed there any longer, so I quickly ran to the bathroom.
━ after···.
I looked in the mirror and gently touched my lips. The events of earlier kept replaying in my head. The trembling wouldn't subside easily. Finally, with the trembling still lingering, I left the bathroom and went to see my brother.
━ Are you here?
━ Huh? Yeah, yeah...
━ Should we go now? It's almost time.
━ okay···.
My brother didn't seem bothered at all. Perhaps because I was new to dating, I felt trembling and embarrassed by every move he made. But I also wondered if it was okay to be like this, even though we weren't really dating. With a trembling heart, I arrived at our meeting place. Once we arrived, he intertwined his hand with mine and went inside.
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