“Just... somewhere.” Se-Young said and looked away.
“I know this look, what are you hiding? Tell me.” Yoon-Hwa squinted her eyes, placing her hands on her hips.
“Gosh, I am going to a business event and nothing else.” Se-Young said being annoyed.
“oooooh, with Mr. Shim?” she gave her a perverted smile.
“My dear Yoon- Hwa, why don’t you use such a big brain while working. It literally runs only for gossips.” Se-Young scolded her.
“Everyone has their specialties, my dear Se-Young.” Yoon-Hwa said with the same tone, making Se-Young roll her eyes.
“You know I can give you some tips.” when Yoon-Hwa said that Se-Young squinted her eyes at her with a hint of disgust. “You?” Se-Young made a face of absolute objection. “What do you think of me, I have more experience with boys than you.” Yoon-Hwa flipped her short hair.
“Ok, Miss more experience with boys than me, enlighten me.” Se-Young said sarcastically but still was looking at the kitchen counter doing her work.
Yoon-Hwa turned Se-Young towards herself. “Look here. In such events, you might have the chance to be in the elevator alone with him for some time and when you are alone you need to flick your hair like this.” she said and flipped her non-existent long hair.
“Showing your cleavage, a bit. You need to go near him.” she went near Se-Young as Se-Young was enjoying the funny show.
“Then you need to undone his buttons like this.” she put her hands near Se-Young’s chest and was about to undo her Chefwear's button.
Se-Young widened her eyes and smacked her hands away. “You are such a pervert. Keep your tips to yourself.” she just like every other time pushed the gossip queen away and fanned herself with her hands. “Gosh, it’s quite hot here. maybe it is the mask." she exhaled deeply, trying to not make a scenario out of Yoon-Hwa's words in her mind.
...
Tae-Hoon was wearing a three-piece black suit but instead of the waistcoat, he was wearing a Dartmouth-green turtle-neck sweater, looking very handsome as always and he was doing his hair when Hani came out of the bathroom wearing a breathtakingly beautiful dress.
The color of her dress was the same as that of Tae-Hoon’s turtle-neck sweater and Tae-Hoon was left blinking there in utter shock. The collar was completely wrapped around her neck in elegance and the length of her sleeveless gown was touching the ground. The dress was really presenting her innocence.
“You are looking very handsome.” she complimented him shyly and getting back to reality he gulped, hard. “You... are looking beautiful yourself.” he could not believe that he hesitated to give a compliment to a girl, he was not the type to be shy around girls.
He awkwardly laughed. “Well, what a coincidence. We are matching.” Hani smiled at him nodding her head but in reality, she wore that dress after getting a look at his suit to match with him.
“I am going downstairs, you... can get ready.” he put the comb back to its place and hurriedly left the room.
Tying a bun and putting on some simple makeup she also left the room hurriedly.
...
Dong-Hoon and Ji-Hoon were both wearing those classical three-piece suits, Dong-Hoon in maroon and Ji-Hoon in a pure black one.
Just like Tae-Hoon and Hani were matching because of Hani, Se-Young was wearing a maroon knee-length fold-over off-shoulder dress and it was all because of Jung-Nan.
Looking at them, Jung-Nan felt proud of herself. “Don’t they look like a match made in Heaven?” she whispered to Min-Hoon. “They do but what about us?” he raised his eyebrows suggestively.
“You old man, still want compliments.” tutting and shaking her head she moved away from him towards Hani leaving Min-Hoon behind, scoffing alone. "Who is old?”
Se-Young was putting her hair in front over her shoulders again and again as they kept going backward, whenever she made a slight movement, exposing her shoulders completely and Dong-Hoon was just looking at her like she was a beautiful fairy who had summoned herself in front of him.
“Big bro, what is going in this head of yours?” Ji-Hoon nudged him and Dong-Hoon cleared his throat. “Nothing... and don’t you think you should get going to pick up YOUR date.”
“Oh... Yes, Mom, Dad I will get going.” J-Hoon said and hurriedly left the lounge.
Tae-Hoon, Hani, Jung-Nan and Min-Hoon left in a car and since Dong-Hoon did not know how to drive both he and Se-Young were in another car driven by the chauffeur.
Dong-Hoon wanted to compliment her but did not, thinking that she will only say something completely opposite of it. Se-Young cleared her throat. “Mr. Shim is looking very handsome today.” she said looking at the opposite side suppressing her smile.
Dong-Hoon was left blinking rapidly, not able to digest her words. He gulped down the saliva. “Thank you... You are looking quite pretty as well.” there was complete silence after that, a killingly awkward silence.
Dong-Hoon tried to break the silence by saying, “There will be Min Eun-Bi as well, you should not regard me as Mr. Shim.”
“Then?” she asked looking at him and when she turned her face to his direction, he felt an electrical effect in his whole body, her eyes were looking enchanting, deadly gorgeous that he was falling into the ocean of love more and more just by having a single eye contact with her.
“Dong... Hoon?.” Se-Young raised her eyebrows to ask, he was really flustered as he looked away from her. “Whatever you want.”
After that, the silence filled the car again. This time a flustered silence, they were together in a car alone (excluding the poor chauffeur) third time but it was never this awkward before.
Dong-Hoon cleared his throat thinking of something to say again. “Now that I think about it, why don’t you have a car? Like, you are the executive chef and get a good amount of salary, getting a car is not that... difficult for you, right?” he said thinking about her weird-looking and kind of worn-out pink scooty.