I left my coat there, grabbed a plate, and went to get food.
I came back to the table loaded up with meat, rice, salad, and the like...
"?"
Sanghyeok and Taesan were about to sit at the table right next to us.
I walked over and said quietly.
"Go find another seat. Today I’m only eating with Haneul..."
"It’s Taesan and Lee Sanghyeok, right? Right next to you guys—coincidence?"
By then, Haneul had already come back.
In the end, I had no choice but to eat in awkward silence.
"Tae-ri, can you wait a sec...?"
Haneul picked a few of the things he’d eaten earlier onto another plate and went to the table next to ours instead of ours.
"Taesan... I tried this and it was so good, so..."
"Really? Thanks."
After handing over the food, Haneul returned to his seat and got excited all by himself.
He kept going on and on about how cute that smile from earlier was...
I quickly glanced at Haneul’s plate.
'Did he give him eggplant?'
Han Taesan doesn’t eat eggplant.
He’s the kind of guy who once got called ahjumma because his mom told him not to call her mom if he wasn’t going to eat eggplant, and he ended up calling her that before...
"?!"
Taesan was eating the eggplant like it was nothing.
He was even smiling... ?
'Looks like he’s fallen hard too...'
Even after that, whenever Haneul saw something tasty, he would leave his seat to take it to Taesan.
"You brought more?"
"It looked good..."
"If it’s tasty, you should eat it."
"I already ate some."
"Then that’s fine. Thanks."
After a while, Taesan also started giving food to Haneul...
"Tae-ri, try this. It’s good."
"It’s good, isn’t it? What is it?"
"Taesan gave it to me..."
Haneul wore a smile like he’d fallen in love.
No, not a smile—he was grinning ear to ear.
Swoosh-
"??"
Looking to the side, I saw Sanghyeok holding out a slice of cake to me.
"Eat this."
"Huh??"
"Cake. You like it enough to eat six plates of it, don’t you."
"Hey, why would you say that...! Anyway, thanks. I’ll enjoy it."
I looked away from Sanghyeok and glanced up at Haneul.
Haneul was watching the two of us with a meaningful look.
"Something’s going on with you two~"
"W-what do you mean, something’s going on? Hurry up and eat."
Go Haneul, you’re seriously sly.
But... why did that not feel all that bad to me?
