Seungmin ran back to his special someone changing in hurry. He came back with still a dirty face not looking in mirror but having cleaned clothes.
Yoona was still settling the flour she was kneading. He walked toward her and stood beside her. Who walked in silence, that his presence Yoona didn't felt for a moment, until he came close to her and asked her standing there, "What are you doing?"
"Woah! You scared me!" With little scared voice Yoona moved to other side. Then looking at his face she laughed.
"Seungmin you didn't saw a mirror, did you?" She laughed again.
"What now!" Touching his face asked Seungmin.
Taking few tissues from beside Yoona gave it to him. "There's some dirt on your face!"
"Oh!" Seungmin looked at her.
"This side or this side?" He asked asking changing his face and showing his cheeks to her.
"This one!" Giving tissues with her left hand she told. Gesturing him to take the tissue.
"Will you do it for me!" Asked Seungmin smiling to her, giving her his cheek and standing there. She have seen this Seungmin, talking to his hyungs like this, acting cute. But he never talked to her like this before.
She laughed walking back. "I'm not!" She passed tissue to his hand. Seungmin stood there making a pout, then taking tissues from her hand.
"But, what are you doing?" He asked again.
"Can't you see I'm trying to make something!" Said Yoona kneading a dough again.
"Shall I help?" He asked looking at her face again. The dough sure was hard and she had to knead it for few minutes. The dough maker that Mrs. Lee have, was sent to repair.
"You can?" She asked.
"Um!" Nodding he went to wash his hands. And then taking gloves he asked her to move aside. Taking it slower he finally started kneading it well.
"Isn't it too hard?" Asked Seungmin.
"That's how I want it!" Replied Yoona.
"What are you making!" He looked at her.
She stood resting over the counter having a worrisome smile. "I was planning to give you guys a little surprise." She turned to him.
"I wanted to treat you guys. So Mrs. Lee told me I can cook food for you. So I planned today. But you..." She looked at him and Seungmin giving a face 'what did I do?' looked at her.
"You, why you came early?" She gave a little pat to his shoulder.
"Woah, it was surprise?" He reacted as he got amaze, but Yoona knew he was being sarcastic.
"Kim Seungmin!" She gave another hit on his shoulder.
Yoona looked at his hands which she tried from long time not to look at.
"Do you workout Seungmin?" She asked unintentionally. The slip of toung. He looked at her. Her eyes hesitating for eye contact. She knew this boy will take a chance for teasing. He is indeed made for that.
"Were you looking at me?" He asked.
"Why you asked?" He trying to look into her eyes.
"I said nothing! Forget!!" Turned Yoona taking out the vegetables from bag.
"Why!" Seungmin walked back with her.
"Why you ask! Come on Yoona! Answer!" Said he until Yoona came back to the counter again.
"Kim Seungmin, are you that hungry for compliment?" Said Yoona getting irritated.
He laughed looking at her frustrated face.
"Why, you don't like compliment me!" He smiled. "Why Yoona, tell me!" He kept bothering her.
Yoona washed the vegetables and set them on the counter. She still kept looking at him, the handsome young man with a little bangs over his head. Whose hands looked like the one she saw in anime or, a handsome chef in shoujo mangas!
"I see you!" He said. "Speak it! Or I'll call you pervert!" Said Seungmin teasing her again.
"Woah! You calling me pervert. What does your idiot mind thinks all the time!" Yoona again got irritated. And Seungmin was enjoying.
"Then tell me why are you looking at my hands!" Asked he stopping kneading.
"Well! Your hands were looking good!" Said Yoona hesitantly.
"Good? Why they don't alway looks good?" Asked he Looking at his hands.
"Well, I actually haven't seen them before!" Answered Yoona, who always made herself to get distracted by seeing him.
"Why? didn't you saw them earlier?" Asked Seungmin.
Yoona didn't knew what he meant. But it sure acted as a missile into her heart. She mumbled. She didn't knew what to answer. Brain malfunctioning!
"For me, your hands did looked attractive when you were kneading! So no odd thoughts for me!" He said reaching to her hand.
She walked back. "Kim Seungmin!" She looked at him.
"What?" He asked with his face which didn't had slightest hint of guilt.
"Ah!" She screamed. "Don't play with my mind. I got alot to do!" Said Yoona looking for knife.
"Well I'm here to help!" He walked behind her as she walked.
"For god's sake Seungmin. Let me concentrate!"
"Yes yes!" He walked back laughing a little.
He did saw the clouds over her head disappearing again. And then she getting frustrated. He loved to see her like this. Those fuzzy clouds and then her nothingness for him. He still don't know what is that nothingness but he was sure it was only for him. And no one else.
She started cutting some vegetables. She still asked Seungmin to knead the dough few more minutes. Seungmin was tired now, not by kneading! But od her silence, she not saying a word. She should have said, " your hands are looking attractive!" Thinking of this he laughed to himself.
"Are you maniac?" Asked Yoona looking at him.
He laughed again. He kept looking at Yoona's hand while she was cutting vegetables. She noticed it.
"You give me chills Kim Seungmin!" Said she knowing again he will take this as something else.
"Of what?" He asked laughing again.
"Ah, why are you like this Kim Seungmin! Stop flirting or I'll throw you outside!" Said she little whining and then getting angry over him.
"Why! Now what I did?" Asked Seungmin, Looking at her still laughing.
Shaking her head, 'I can't do anything to him' she started to work again.
"I think it's done!" Said Seungmin pointing the dough.
Yoona came close to him checking on it. She nodded and she found, he didn't moved back. 'Really! What are you thinking Seungmin! '
When you slide over to a person, a person is tend to move back. But Seungmin just stood there making his way closer to her.
It was getting difficult for Yoona to handle him.
From the day he came. He kept bothering her. Not only his non stop flirting but, the Seungmin who was silent in school was missing from him.
The person she fell for first was sure the one she saw in school. But whom she loved the most was that goofy one who bent to see her. The person who laughed like a puppy and then immediately change his smile seeing someone passing by.
Not much days but she soon noticed those change in him. And when she became friend with Hyunjin. She got to know a different side of Seungmin.
It took days for Seungmin to open up to her. And these days, he was the one she was in love with. The one Hyunjin kept talking about. His way of talking, his sulking. His anger, his cuteness. The way he loved to irritate everyone. The way he kept nagging about all things. The way he manages to achieve what he want. She was witnessing it all. And Seungmin kept giving her moments she couldn't handle.
He kept himself close to her. He first used to give a space but these days as if he won't walk back. Seungmin who knew nothing about Yoona's nothingness was about to add his love into it.
Yoona flinched back losing her composure and was about to fall when Seungmin held her by waist.
"Are you okay?" He asked getting worried.
"Yes, yes!" Standing proper and making him leave her immediately she answered.
"There's no way in the world I'll be fine you idiot Kim Seungmin. Who told you to come back. And who told you even to come to help me. Who told you, you can! Ah!! Do you understand how delusional I'm being while here cooking with you. And again your flirting. What am I supposed to do. Can't you even walk back when I move beside you. How close you can get to any girl. Ah! By what face I'll stand in front of Ahn tomorrow! Do you have any idea!"
The thoughts inside her head kept cursing this flirty Seungmin. Seungmin who losed all the thoughts for a moment kept staring at her. Seungmin knew she was frustrated, he was intentionally getting close to her. But he too didn't thought about this.
Moving from the scene, Yoona got back to work again. While cutting the vegetables Seungmin still was standing behind her. And she does got irritated by it.
"You want to help?" She asked.
"Um!" Nodding answered Seungmin . The nod which was felt by her as if he was standing too close.nshe could feel his touch and his breath as he spoke.
She stopped sudden. Not knowing what to respond. But she should lead the conversation.
"In freeze theres lamb meat can you take it out?" She asked.
"Um!" Nodding he stood there not responding anything. The same feelings again.
"Kim Seungmin?" She asked not turning knowing he is still standing behind her. She could feel heartbeat, it was his that she heard or it was her heart who lost the pace feeling him standing behind. As she looked up his breath was all she could hear.
The moment of silence. She dared not to turn and not to speak a single word.
He finally walked back and Yoona could feel the air touching her back. He wasn't standing touching her. Yet it felt there was no space there.
He took out the meat and kept it on counter. Yoona looked at him and his face was little red.
"Are you okay Seungmin?" She asked.
Seungmin looked and her, not for even a second, breaking through his thoughts he breathed heavily.
"Just a moment!" And he walked outside the kitchen.
Running to his room covering his mouth not letting a single breath escape he sat there closing the door.
"What I was even thinking about!" He sat there getting little tears in eyes.
Not from moment he entered he saw Yoona cooking made him feel this way. As if they were a married couple. He came late and found his wife cook for him. Just the way he wanted.
He kept looking at her. The flour he didn't removed from her bangs, cause it was making her more beautiful. Her messy bun which made him wanting to pull out few strings of hair from them just to tease her.
Her hands which he wanted to hold, the feeling that he kept fighting with. When Yoona was getting frustrated about his hands, he felt the blood run through him. She feeling little like this to him was much for him.
And when she came close to him. He did wanted to move aside but more than that he did wanted to hold her just like the apron around her waist.
And he couldn't fight with those intentions of him that he kept standing behind her. And when he was finally able to, he didn't wanted to leave her. But she acted so fast.
He still stood behind her. Collecting courage to hug her from back. But even if he wasn't touching he was lost there. Just those two and Yoona being unbothered by his presence. Not the nothingness. But the clear sky and nothing.
Finally when she called him, he lost all his courage but still not his need of holding her. His heart was screaming to hold her just a once. But he was scared if he is wrong and being delusional, Yoona might not to speak to him again ever.
But then, as she called and his presence came to her consciousness. The clouds again started disappearing. Nothingness that he loves but somehow he hated when it comes to this.
He fought alot to his instincts. "Just once, to hold her! Just once!" He finally walked back coming back to his senses. But he still wasn't able to shred off that instincts to hug her. As she called, he wasn't able to hear her. As the blood running through his veins was audible to him. He looked at her. And her eyes, cheeks her lips! He stared at them all at once. And when he knew he couldn't handle it more. He asked for time to cool down.
"What are you even thinking Kim Seungmin! Get hold of yourself!" He sat there and then walking to restroom to wash his face.
As Seungmin walked out from kitchen Yoona too fell and sat there in misery. Hiding herself behind the counter, buring her face in her knees.
"What are you thinking Kim Seungmin! Standing behind my back like this! Are you idiot. What am I thinking about!" She cursed herself sitting there. Soon, knowing Seungmin will return she went back to work. Yoona haven't cooked a meal for herself. But this year she was learning it. And so she had some problems in cutting vegetables. But still, she does it anyhow. She had to chop them into small pieces and so she started concentrating there.
Seungmin came in little while, his bangs letting little wet. She looked at him, "What happened?" She asked.
"Ah nothing, I was feeling little hot!" He smiled. A little restricted one.
She looked at him. "Of course for a person who is hot, it will be always hot!" Said she to herself.
"What you said?" Asked Seungmin looking at her. Shaking her head she kept doing her work.
"Why are you so slow?" Asked Seungmin walking to her.
She looked at him. Her eyes telling ' You dare to say this Seungmin!' he walked back. "What?"
"I don't cook usually. I'm trying from few months!" Said Yoona with sad face.
"Oh so are we experiment pigs?" He asked opening the meat bag. She looked at him with angry eyes.
"Just what is wrong with him. Sometimes he won't stop flirting. And sometimes those unnecessary wierd cold jokes!" Yoona thought to herself giving him a little teasy laugh.
Opening the bag he spread the lamb meat on tissue.
"You know how to cook?" Asked yoona with little excitement.
"A little!" He smiled. And as he turned to look at her he stared at her. He came close walking.
"What is it?" Asked Yoona. Taking this gloves he started removing the flour from her bangs. And some fresh vegetable chops that got added there.
"If you can't handle! You shouldn't have cut the bangs!" Taking out them one by one caring not to hurt her hairs while pulling the sticked flour tangled into her hairs said he.
"Too close!" Yoona closed her eyes while her heart screamed only those two words. "That's why I avoid being close to him!" She again starting to get lovesick when Seungmin put his hand over her head.
"Back to conscious!" Said he as he patted her head. She really came back to her senses. He didn't meant any harm. But as he too noticed when he did that, the thought of nothingness did broke down.
Yoona still feeling the closeness to him, just as same as earlier to get her lovesick. But the feeling of losing herself didn't bothered her.
Opening her eyes he looked at Seungmin. Who was concentrated on not hurting her. He Looked into her eyes. And again as if nothing happened he kept untangling them.
"Don't be wild Kim Seungmin! What she will think of you if you let lose your thoughts run like this!" Seungmin managed to stay cool at a moment.
Yoona kept looking at unbothered Seungmin which made Seungmin to get frustrated a little.
"Don't look at me like that!" Said he.
"Like what?" Asked Yoona.
Seungmin felt a shiver as she spoke. He walked back letting those bangs of her get little messy. Yoona tried to tidy her bangs and Seungmin walked back to do his work.
"What are we doing with lamb meat!" Asked Seungmin.
"Lamb chops!" Said Yoona still trying to untangle her bangs.
"Next time don't cut them like this!" Asked Seungmin putting extra tissues over lamb meat.
"Why?" Asked Yoona.
"They look extraa beautiful on you!" Said Seungmin again being unbothered.
The sentence came out of nowhere! Yoona got stratled. She wanted to ask further but getting red she just stood there.
"So shouldn't we keep it to marinate?" Asked Seungmin looking at her. She nodded saying nothing.
"And what else you preparing?" Asked he.
"As a main dish, I'm making shrimp bimbibab, side dish lamb chops and some salad, with as an extraa dish, sea food pasta. And in dessert honey heotteok." She told him.
"Why are you making this much. If you had done only shrimp bimbibab it would have been enough!"
"I wanted to give you guys treat!" Said Yoona pouting.
"Ah okay!" Said Seungmin. "So where are shrimps? Did yo washed them?" Asked he.
Yoona took out a polythene bag from down. "She said I can have them all!" She laughed.
"You sure you was going to to this alone?" He looked at her folding his arms.
"You didn't even washed them! Cutting vegetables took this much time. Are you able to make them all in time?" Asked he shaking his head.
"It's you Kim Seungmin. Because of you I'm distracted!" Said she angrily.
"What did I even do!" He laughed seeing her getting angry.
"Give me those I'll wash them. You wash rice first and that honey heotteok stuffing. Do those things. If there's more vegetables I'll chop them!" Said he.
"No they are enough!" Looking at the chopped vegetables she said.
Seungmin looked at her adorably and started working. Yoona helped him seasoning the meat. And leaving those living shrimps to him she went to make rice. And her stuffings and the sause she prepared for bimbibab.
She kept looking at him while he was doing his work. The Seungmin few minutes ago present here was adorable. What he did even do in those few minutes he came back getting matured. Does he have two personalities. But then which one of he is real? Either way he is too attractive to look at.
As he kept catching Yoona looking at him he would smile.
"What are you looking at?" He asked finally after letting her go twice or thrice.
She walked to him.
"You know Kim Seungmin!" Resting her hands beside him on counter she said it cutely, "you look so attractive when you are doing this?" Seungmin laughed letting his sanity walk down by the street.
"Earlier when I asked you won't say it. And what about now?" Asked he.
"Earlier, you was flirting. But now you aren't. If I had said it then, you were definitely going to tease me!" Said she.
"Why, you don't think I'll tease you now!" He looked at her.
She shook her head not letting go one seconds of eye contact. He was again captured by her stare. Looking at her again not knowing what to do.
"Move aside! I have to work or you will let everyone starve!" Said he trying again to work.
'What is she! Earlier when I was flirting she won't say a word. And now making me lose my composure again. Does she want me to flirt. Or what does she want. She looks at me with those eyes. When I try my best not to let me lose myself.'
Washing shrimps he was fighting his urge not to let his sanity run wild.
Yoona started seasoning the stuff. She then started making honey hotteok. He was in between looking at her. And whenever she saw him looking she would act cute.
Seungmin let shrimp dip in wine telling her it will make dish more tasty. Helping her to fill the hotteok he again went silent.
"Seungmin-ah!" Said she.
"What!" He laughed hearing her cute call.
"Why are you so good?" Asked she.
"What you mean by that!" Asked he.
"You are good in studies, in singing and in cooking too!" Said she. He laughed saying nothing.
"No seriously, with those looks and ..." She was about to say when she stopped.
"And what?" Seeing she stopped in between he asked.
"Ah, about that!" She turned. And then taking a complete turn she looked at him. And his curious face looking at her.
"You know, you are Mr. Perfect of our campus right!" Said she which made him laugh again.
"What is that. I thought Chan Hyung was it!" Said he.
"He is, but you are one of them too!" Answered she.
"So how many are there?" Asked he curiously.
"All the handsome men in campus!" Laughed she.
"So continue!" Said he.
Completing the stuffing Yona heat up the pan, telling Seungmin to keep continue making those balls.
"So you know, that new year girls gave you that name! Our juniors!" She laughed as she said.
"Ah so!" Not worthy reactiong which Yoona expected.
"You knew?" She asked.
"Um!" Nodded Seungmin. "Ahn told me! Some even asked her to help out!" He laughed.
"Wow, knowing That Ahn and you are couple!" Said Yoona again a slip of toung.
"Couple?" He looked at her somehow getting angry.
"Ahn and I are just friends. We aren't couples. Idk why people keep saying this!" Said Seungmin getting little angry.
"Ah, I'm sorry!" Said Yoona.
"Why you sorry for!" Looked Seungmin at her. "I just don't like getting called couple!" Said he, ' unless if it's you! ' the words he could not utter.
"Um okay!" Told Yoona.And soon one by one the hotteok was ready.
"You want to taste?" Asked Yoona
"Can I?" Asked he.
She nodded serving one to him. He broke it with hands taking a bite giving half to her.
"It's delicious!" After a few minutes of him loosing in it taste he said.
She smiled, "I'm glad!"
"Shall I toss the vegetables then. With shrimps. It will go with noddles and rice!"
Seungmin nodded enjoying the rest of the hotteok. He looked Yoona just took at bite. "Aren't you eating?" He asked.
With sound of oil she couldn't hear him. So he ate the remaining hotteok by himself.
He walked close to her again looking at what she is doing.
Here rang the phone! Mr. Lee was it. Seungmin took the call coming out the kitchen.
"Hello Mr. Lee!" Answered Seungmin.
"Where is Yoona?" Asked Mr. Lee.
"She was busy, shall I call her?" Asked he.
"Ah no, she might be doing something. Tell her 30 minutes more or minimum 20!" Said Mr. Lee.
"Did you guys already finished the trekking?" Asked Seungmin.
"Yes, on way back to the house!" Replied Mr. Lee.
"Tell her to be prepared!"
"Ah okay! Well everything is almost ready!" Replied Seungmin.
"That's really good. Okay then I'll go now!" Saying this Mr. Lee cut the call.
Seungmin came back to the kitchen. Looking at Yoona carefully tossing them made him laugh.
"Who was it?" Asked she.
"Mr. Lee! 30 minutes he said!" Replied he.
"Ah okay!, rice is ready, hotteok is ready. Lamb! Ah we have to cook it!"
"Um, I'll take it out!" Seungmin bought the marinated lamb to her. Helping her to move dishes.
He then helped her to cook them too.
In about time the all lambs were cooked one by one. The bimbibab vegetables were ready. Now she had to prepare for noddles.
She took out few vegetables. The wine dipped shrimps were as it is as when they arrived she thought of cooking them only then.
She again started cutting vegetables which made Seungmin laugh. She looked at him with angry eyes.
"You really can't cut them properly!" Laughed Seungmin.
"Were they not good until now?" Asked Yoona.
"They were!" Laughed Seungmin walking to her.
Making her hand settled over knife properly. One hand of her to settle beside knife not close to cut he looked at her.
"Try now!"
Yoona broke out from her delusional world and started cutting.
"Look this, this way easy!" Seungmin stood folding his hands.
"Well, your hands too looks attractive you know!" He said with straight face and Yoona looked at with amaze. Her eyes opening wide and lips sealed tightly. As if she asked him, 'What did you said?'
"What?" Laughed Seungmin.
Her eyes staring at him, ' You can't say this Kim Seungmin? '
"If you say it, it's good and fine, then why can't I say it! " He laughed again.
Taking her hand into his, taking out the gloves he spoke,
"Look at this! It's not first time though that I felt it!" He letting his finger slide through her wrist and making Yoona's heart beat wildly.
He looked at her. Whose eyes seemed to pop out any time. "What?" He said.
Yoona was frozen. Not only eyes, but her words and her action both.
"You think I'm lieing?"
" Kim Seungmin it isn't thing you are lieing you are holding my hand. I'm screaming inside you know what this means! " The inside of Yoona who was running wildly.
"Yoona?" Questioned he.
She came back to senses. But she couldn't take her hands out of him. Not that he was holding it tightly but, he was holding onto it with so much love that she wasn't able to do it. It will break her own heart.
Lining her wrist with his finger and caressing her forearm with thumb he looked at her wrist adorably.
" Kim Seungmin just kill me if you are going to make me insane!" Yoona stood there not knowing what to do.
He looked at her. And the finger which was dancing over her wrist stopped. There comes a lovely pat over her head.
"Back to senses you idiot!" He said smiling yet not leaving her hand.
He turned her hand looking at her palm. That pat did helped her to come back to senses. But when was she lost? She is already in in unbearable happiness that her crush Kim Seungmin was holding onto her forearm. It was once when he was unconscious but now he with his full senses was holding onto it.
Running his fingers through her lines on hand he smiled. His cold and carecing fingers did tickel her a little.
"Your hands are so tiny!" Said Seungmin. Wanting to rest his hand over hers when she finally broke from the magic he put on her.
"Seungmin-ah!" She was red. Of course shy! And when Seungmin looked at her in disbelief that she took her hand in such hurry he looked at her. But her shy face made him smile again.
Seeing him smiling Yoona got angry a little. "You do know how to flirt well!" She said.
"What, you think I was flirting?" Asked he. Coming little close to her red face teasing her again.
"Yoona- yah!" He said as he bent.
"Do you think I was flirting?" Asked he.
"Don't believe him Yoona! He is the number one flirty person I know!" Breaking the lovely conversation Jeongin came in.
Seungmin turned looking at him.
"You came?" Asked Seungmin.
"Um!" Jeongin came checking on what's happening. He looked at Yoona who was little red.
"Was he teasing you Yoona?" He looked at her with worry.
She looked at him. "No, I mean yes! As always!" She laughed.
"Where are others? And how you come so soon?" Asked Yoona.
"Ah, I asked them to drop me here! They all again went to garage. They will be back in half hour or so!" Said Jeongin.
Seungmin standing there was looking at this conversation.
"What are you doing?" Asked Jeongin.
"I wanted to treat you guys. But you won't let me cook. So I decided to do it in surprise!" Answered Yoona smiling to him.
"Woah! Well when I entered it was beautiful scent coming. I'm already starving!" Laughed Jeongin.
"Really?" Questioned Yoona.
"Umm!" Jeongin nodded cutely.
"I'm gonna go get fresh and eat before they come!" Walked Jeongin to room laughing.
Seungmin stood there looking at her. ' she manages to talk to everyone else directly yet she avoids when she talks to me. She is even avoiding me now!'
Note : I don't know about Korean dishes mostly so I chose this one not knowing if that was right descision.