The lights in the cinema were already off. The screen showed instructions on how to escape in case of fire.
The two moved to seats 11 and 12 in row F. It was pitch black, making it difficult to see their seat numbers. As soon as they took their seats, the movie began.
"Mr. Yoohan, what movie is this?"
Taehyung leaned in close to her ear and spoke. She flinched, startled by his voice, and put her hand to her ear.
"Ah... I don't know the title, but the genre will probably be romance."
Taehyung watched a movie while munching on popcorn.
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Fifty minutes have passed. In the movie, the female and male leads have finally confirmed their feelings for each other and confessed their love.
More than half of the popcorn was gone. More than half of it was Taehyung who ate it. Taehyung asked Yoohan if he didn't like popcorn.
Then Yoo-han turned his head and drank his cola. He reached into the popcorn bucket Tae-hyung was holding and took a popcorn.
"There are only 15 minutes left. This isn't very fun. Should I just leave?"
The plot of the movie was too predictable. It was just a typical scenario where they liked each other but didn't understand or know each other's feelings, so they went around in circles until they eventually fell in love and had a happy ending.
"is it so."
At Taehyung's answer, I leave the theater. I throw away my drink and popcorn and wait for Yoohan, who has gone to the bathroom for a moment.
As the movie nears its end, more and more people start coming out. It quickly becomes noisy and chaotic.
Yoo-han comes out of the bathroom and suddenly can't see Tae-hyung because of the large crowd. He goes into the crowd to look for Tae-hyung.
Just then, someone grabs Yoohan's wrist and drags him towards the wall. Yoohan looks at his face.
"Suddenly a lot of people are flocking in... We'll have to wait a long time..."
The person who dragged her out was not Taehyung, but someone else. When Yoohan saw him, his eyes widened and he looked as if he was about to cry at any moment.
He was a close friend of Yuhan's who played outside with him whenever loan sharks came to visit his house when he was young.
"Hanseo... You're my brother, right... huh?"
Taehyung, who was searching for Yoohan while calling out to him among the people, finds Yoohan with a man.
"Mr. Yoo-han--..,,,"
I see Yuhan leaning against the man and looking like she's about to cry. I take Yuhan's hand and look into her eyes to ask if she's okay.
"Oh... it's okay. Let me talk for a moment..."
Taehyung readily agreed. But his heart was utterly uneasy. He couldn't tell if she was seeing another man or if she had someone else in the meantime.
'No... we could be friends. Why are you so narrow-minded?'
"...I'm frustrated"
He felt a pang of sand in his chest. The fact that she was talking to another man alone, not him, and the way she looked like she was about to cry at him—all of it. He didn't like it.
