10. What do you like to say when you eat a hamburger?
Written by Malranggong.
Taehyung and Yeonhwa decided to eat hamburgers at a fast food restaurant inside a department store, so they went there. The fast food restaurant inside the department store wasn't much different from the one outside. That was natural. It was a branch of the same brand. Taehyung liked hamburgers even in the spirit world and ate a lot of them. Maybe that's why he seemed much more adept at ordering than Yeonhwa. Yeonhwa ate a lot of cold delivery, but she didn't eat fast food like hamburgers, chicken, or pizza that were cold. Yeonhwa preferred things like lunch boxes. As they say, Koreans have to eat rice after all.
“What do you want to eat, Yeonhwa?”
“Um… Same thing as Taehyung.”
Taehyung ordered two sets of bulgogi burgers, the menu he'd chosen. Of course, Taehyung didn't have any money right now, so he used Yeonhwa's card for all the payments. But Yeonhwa didn't really care. As the amount paid increased, Taehyung's working hours also increased. The more Taehyung worked, the more beautiful Yeonhwa's garden would become, and Yeonhwa could now spend the time she normally spent tending to it on other things.
After ordering and paying, Taehyung took the pager and sat down in the seat Yeonhwa had reserved. Sitting across from Yeonhwa, Taehyung was at a loss as to where to look. His gaze was too directly locked with Yeonhwa's to look ahead, but there was nowhere else to look. Taehyung looked around like that, then fiddled with the pager and lowered his gaze. Yeonhwa couldn't understand Taehyung's actions, but somehow she found them cute. Now, Yeonhwa seemed to find everything Taehyung did cute and lovable.
‘Woong-’
It was an awkward moment when Kim Taehyung was the only one conscious of Yeonhwa. The buzzer rang, allowing Taehyung to escape from that awkward atmosphere. Taehyung said he would get it and got up with the buzzer. To Taehyung, the buzzer was like a savior. When he was lost and awkward, not knowing where to look, the buzzer rang like this. However, Taehyung never dreamed that a hamburger would be one of the top ten foods you should never eat with someone you like.
“Enjoy your meal, Taehyung.”
“Yeonhwa, enjoy the food too.”
With the words “Enjoy your meal,” Taehyung opened his mouth to take a bite of the burger, but paused for a moment. If he opened his mouth any further, it would make an ugly sight, and if he ate it like this, it would get all over his mouth, and he would end up eating dirty. Taehyung stood still without even taking a single bite of the burger, lost in agony. How could he eat it neatly and prettily? But there was no such thing as a neat way to eat a burger. Unless you cut it with a knife, you had to eat it slurp-like. Taehyung glanced at Yeonhwa, regretting his decision to eat the burger.
Yeonhwa was eating very well. Even the sauce was getting all over her mouth. She didn't seem to care at all about Taehyung's gaze. But to Taehyung, Yeonhwa's appearance was simply cute, lovable, and blissfully satisfying.
“Huh? Why aren’t you eating, Taehyung?”
“Oh, that’s… uh, there’s something strange over there…!”
Taehyung pointed out the window to divert Yeonhwa's attention and shouted that there was something strange. Yeonhwa then turned her gaze in the direction he was pointing, and as soon as she turned her gaze, Taehyung took a bite with a "Wow!" That was it. Yeonhwa instantly turned her gaze back to Taehyung. For about five seconds, Yeonhwa was silent, but then, once she understood the situation, she chuckled.
“You were embarrassed to open your mouth wide and eat a hamburger, right? That’s why you looked away from me, Taehyung?”
Taehyung was embarrassed and just nodded with his head down.
“Oh, really… Taehyung, you’re surprisingly cute. Anyway, what were you embarrassed about? It’s me anyway. What did I say?”
“…I was embarrassed because it was Yeonhwa.”
“You were embarrassed because it was me…?”
"yes."
"…why?"
“……Because I like it.”