Loving Yourself

Dinner Together

"Where??" aunt Min Sae asked curiously.

"Eeeeee...ee is delicious." replied Shin hesitantly.

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I flinch over what I'm less than the soto I'm cooking. I approached the front of the grilled chicken in the other stove. I tasted it grilled chicken sauce, to compare with the previous soto sauce.

I have tasted my tongue several times. I kept thinking less about what was in his cooking.

Ooo! I muttered remembering something.

I approached the spice rack grabbing brown sugar, white sugar, salt, soy sauce and mrica. I put a little brown sugar, soy sauce that I did not take into the Grilled Chicken pan. Shin and Bibi could only be glued to see me put sugar and soy sauce without a dose.

"Heee!! Coco, sweetness later!! Cholesterol. You want to poison us?!" kyun Protest.

I didn't pay attention to Kyun's words. I approached the soto sauce that was on the stove.

"Ehh no! Nay! This one don't, it's sweet." Kyun firmly blocks the pot with both of his tans.

I brushed off Kyun's hand and added a little white sugar, mrica. I also put salt, which again, without size added mecin which is not small.

"God! Citizen +62 is mecin!" kyun Protest.

I put the salt in while glancing cynically at Kyun. Kyun was just stunned standing beside me. He occasionally gulps. Kyun held both cheeks, looking in disbelief at what I was doing.

"Are all Indonesians like this?!" chirps Kyun.

"God! You're this! Be quiet." cried Aunt Min Sae.

I added a little more Mrica. Again, again and again. I also added a little more salt to the soto sauce.

I could only help but laugh at Kyun's cute looking expression. He was stunned like a puppy seeing what I was doing. What else did Aunt Min Sae and Shin Ji Joon's expression notice.

He he he******you! Batinku demgan diaboliknya.

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About 1 hour passed. All dishes are ready for eating. Soto Noodle Chicken, Chicken Roast Ketchup, Fried Salted Fish, Sambal, Krupuk, Lalapan, and some Vegetables Boiled ready to eat.

There is also the addition of ready-to-eat Korean snacks, which Yokada and Shin Ji Joon brought from outside earlier.

"Well! It must be delicious." praise Secretary Min.

A very foreign-looking atmosphere. The awkwardness was visible from the faces of some people there.

We all sat on the floor with a thick carpet. Sitting around like a meal in Indonesia.

"LET'S EAT!!" we encourage all of us to eat.

There was clearly a clumsy gash on the faces of Secretary Min and Aunt Min Sae when she saw us eating food. A plate of both with a hand-eating meal. It was a strange thing for them, mutual bribes and scramble food dishes color compactness of the four of us.

Shin Ji Joon only smiled faintly at our behavior so very much enjoying the atmosphere.

"Honey, why do you eat so much Tteokpoki? You don't want to try Soto and the roasted chicken?" ask Jennie.

Jennie tries to pull Kyun's hand that is cool eating Tteokbokki who is sitting right by her side.

"Emm the smell is good," Jennie whispered a piece of grilled chicken to Kyun.

I smiled amusedly glancing towards Kyun and Jennie. I took the bowl and concocted Sotoku. Enjoying every mouthful without paying attention to my surroundings. Every now and then I take and bite off pieces of grilled chicken from the plate of Hani sitting next to me.

"Yahaha!" exclaimed Hani did not like the side dish I stole.

"Hey! You didn't see that?! Coco accidentally put sugar and banyuuuak mecin once into her cooking," Kyun looks upset.

Kyun looked at Jennie with annoyance as she continued teasing him with a piece of grilled chicken. With her mouth still full of tteokbokki Kyun continued to brush off Jennie's attitude.

"He wants us all to have a stomachache!" connect Kyun.

"I think he wants revenge on us. Or her brain shifted a little after the Incheon vacation." Kyun whispered to Jennie.

I didn't pay attention to Kyun's words. I keep eating food in front of me. Like I didn't hear him talk to them.

"Haiss you are!" sela Yokada hit Kyun on the head, using a spoon in her hand.

"Eat that alone. Let this be all we spend" Yokada said regretfully.

"Come-ayo eat," continued Yokada welcome all to enjoy the dish.

I glanced towards Kyun smiling in satisfaction. Because I managed to prank her.

"How does it feel?" yokada asked Shin who was sitting right next to him.

"Enice, very good," replied Shin as he ate the food in front of him.

I stopped chewing the food in my mouth. I bowed my face with Tetiba. That strange feeling suddenly reappeared in my chest.

Oo, mwo! I murmured in my heart.

I feel like my heart just jerks. It's ticking irregularly. It feels tight for me to breathe.

"Hmm?" My mummy raised my face.

"Coco. You really aren't a brain gag, are you? Your nerves sprained?? Or your boils break?! Take a look." Kyun's tease grabbed my cheek.

I tried to shake Kyun's hand quickly.

"Oh!!" I clapped Kyun's hand.

I threw the Chicken bone at Kyun in annoyance.

"Let'soo!" kyun shouted as his ears were pulled by Jennie.

"It's so bad to bother people to eat." Jennie told Kyun.

I glanced towards Kyun and threw a thin smile. Try to act normal as if nothing happened.

"No, it's okay, just a little sleepy hi hi," I replied grinning.

I went back to eating my food. I don't want everyone to be bothered by my situation.

"Oo, what time is it?" ask Secretary Min to look at the clock on his wrist.

"He's a baby" Yokada pointed at me.

"Don't ignore it" he continued voraciously eating his food.

I looked towards Yokada with an annoyed frown. Not thinking long I went back to eating food in front of me greedily.

Why did it feel so hungry that night. I finished 2 soto bowls quickly.

"Hi! You're not in Incheon for food, are you?! Lots of eating," said Kyun.

"If I could. I really want to eat you." threatened me.

"Oh, Really?! Takuuuttt," said Kyun trying to taunt me.

Everyone there seemed to be enjoying the food that night. We talked and joked together.

We are like our own family.

I occasionally glanced towards Shin. A few times our eyes looked at us. Several times also my heart like jerking want to be dislodged.

Nguuuukkk! (vibrating sound of mobile phone ringing).

I hurried up from my seat to the cell phone I had placed on the Bar table. I saw there were 2x missed calls from numbers that were familiar to me. I immediately tried to call back the number.

Tutttt Tuttttttt. (mobile phone dial tone).

"Hello! Opow ono? Ha?! Ooo. Ohh. Yes it's here already. It just so happens that we're on a gathering again." I told someone who was on the other end of the phone.

I turned to look towards Yokada who was enjoying the food in front of him.

"There's a lot of food here. You come here. Okay, I'll wait." I replied.

I hung up on that phone 'cause I think the audition's over. I was silent looking towards Yokada who was looking at me suspiciously.

I'm sure Yokada wouldn't like it if he knew who was coming. I try to be normal and go back to my seat.

"Oe! Said poison?! How do you keep going?! For tauk!!" my protest is Kyun's head.

"Hehe, it turned out to be delicious." said Kyun.

Kyun grinned at me, with his mouth still biting off a piece of chicken thigh. Kyun held a thumbs up at me, to praise my cooking. I just smiled at him looking at it.

"Hey, Ha Jae, who did you tell me to come here? Looks like it's really happy? Girlfriend!?" asked Sekertatis Min curiously.

"Hags?! Nope. Temen," I replied flatly.

"Since when have you had friends?!" yokada Tuas.

I was surprised to lift my face.

"So we haven't been successful all this time??" my refutation looked towards Hani, Jennie, Kyun with my innocent gaze.

"Yeah! We are not really happy!" sergeant Jennie.

"But sahabataaaannn!!" continued tease.

"Yumuuuuuuuu!!!" The compact cheer of the four of us in a gemulai style.

Yokada slammed a piece of cucumber he had bitten into his plate. He looked very upset and amused at our silly behavior.

"I don't think you're sane!" accuse Yokada.

I smiled sinisterly looking at Yokada's expression which was so visibly irritated. Several times we exchanged glances to my 3 best friends.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" our laughter sank the atmosphere.

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