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I kept mentally cursing at myself for making that situation awkward. I mean o just embarrassed myself in front of global super stars, and I'm sure they would probably forget since they meet so many people but how am I gonna forget? Ugh I'm literally so dumb. Why did I have to be miss fair play there too?!?
I reached the restaurant by the evening and excitedly texted all of my friends and family about my great day, excluding the last awkward part.
The face of yeonjun saying a disappointment 'oh' kept popping in my head, and i wish erase just that much part of the day. The rest was perfect.
I told susan about my day and she asked me if I had fun today.
'i mean yes I did, until I made a fool out of myself in front of them. now I'm going to overthink this for a good 10 years.' I replied
'well why overthink about the worst part when you can focus on the thousands of good things that happened today?' she said, and her words left me speechless.
Soon it was 11 pm and the restaurant was set to be closed. I was usually the one who closed it and went last, so today too I was in there alone. Susan had left wishing me a happy birthday again.
I sat in front of the oven waiting for my bento cake to be ready. I decided to give myself a little treat for my hard work.
Just then, the bell on top of the ringed. It happened when someone walks in the restaurant, but I clearly remember turning the 'WE'RE CLOSED' sign after susan left.
I grabbed the kitched knife just in case it was some criminal and i needed to defend myself as I went into the dining hall.
It was empty, I swiftly looked through the room, scanning every bit of it. There was no one, until I turned around.
'AAAAHHHHH' I screamed, pointing the knife at the tall man in a mask and beanie behind me. He raised his hands in surrender and screamed louder than me.
I pinned him to the wall scaring him with the knife, and I asked 'who are you?! Huh??!'112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkpFltD5Jj
'its me yeonjun!' he replied in a scared for his life tone.
'hahah' i scoffed 'if you're yeonjun then I'm soobin. Now take off your mask Sebastian and stop playing these games'
He took off his mask and BAM! Another embarrasement of the day. Did I just pin THE CHOI YEONJUN to the wall with a knife.
I quickly let go when he revealed his face, awkwardly coughing.
'what are you doing here?' I asked curiously.
'well you see...' he started to speak clearing his throat, 'you said you won't tell me the broth recipe, so I came to ask the owner myself.'
'too bad the owner's gone' I nodded. 'but wait, aren't you a celebrity I'm sure you have better things to do.'
'uhm...you can say I'm very passionate about ramen.' he awkwardly replied, scratching the back of his head. 'but I think I'll go since the owner's gone.'
'oh no wait please stay' I quickly said. 'i don't know what came to my mind I said that but I can sure tell you. I just got a little bit nervous.' i nervously laughed. 'do you want to see how we do it?'
I showed him around our entire process and he looked actually quite serious about this. He listened to me very carefully.
'ah now I see, the secret to freshness is water soaked freshly chopped cilantro!' he exclaimed.
'yea in indian recipes we use a lot of cilantro so I kinda mixed this with noodles too and it turned out pretty great.' I explained.
'oh...wait are you baking a cake?'
I suddenly remembered, the oven was beeping but I couldn't hear it since I was way too focused on yeonjun.
'yea it's my birthday, so I thought I should give myself a treat.' i smiled and said. 'do you want some?'
He nodded so I shared my meal with him.
He sang happy birthday to you for me and I blew the candle.
'im too full but can't say no to some really good ramen' he unclearly said, because of the food stuffed in his mouth .
'im glad you love it' I replied and seeing him enjoy the food made me happy. As a chef, this is what we do everyday, but this was even more special.
We walked out of the restaurant together and kept walking together in comfortable silence for a while gazing at the stars and the moon that appeared prettier than ever today.
'do you know a good ice cream place nearby?' he asked out of the blue 'my treat'
'i was gonna say no but now that you mention you're paying, i think I do know this place. either way, there's always some room for ice cream even if you're full.' i smiled.
I saw him pick mint choco ice cream and I stared at that with disgust. He caught me doing that.
'ya ya ya, you're a chef. You shouldn't judge people's food choices. Plus this is overhated.' he defended his mint choco.
'sure that totally doesn't tastes like toothpaste at all and definitely does not kills the purpose of a dessert.' i sarcastically rolled my eyes. As we were getting down of the shop, yeonjun tripped and stumbled down the stairs. I laughed so hard at this, so much that I lost my balance fell too. Both of our ice creams fell too and smashed against our faces. We lookedyat each other and laughed like crazy. He helped me stand up.
We got our ice creams again and came by the Brooklyn bridge to sit.
'have been living here since always? You seem to love new york.' he asked randomly.
' i guess I do love new york, but haven't been living here since long. Just 10 months, but I think this place challenges you to be your own person, and i like that.'
He looked at me like I'm a masterpiece.
'i like that.' he mumbled.
'what?' i asked.
'this moment. How we were complete strangers a few hours back and now we've seen each other trip down covered in ice creams.
'i like this moment too.' I said to myself in my head. 'but I know you'll forget about someone like me as soon as you get back in your fancy world. You won't care I exist somewhere reliving myself into this daydream everyday, just for the hope it all to see you ever again. In fact I don't love this moment, i love you! '
' I think I'll remember you kate' he said out of nowhere, as if he could read my thoughts. 'im going to remember us on this summer night of 3rd August every year, and I would love to meet you again.' he said, giving me his eye smile.
He looked at me, under the moonlight. The reflection of the water and the lights in his eyes, the skin of our hands brushing against each other's and the ice cream on his lips that formed the warmest smile ever. And my world froze once again.
'Why overthink of the bad when I could live in the daydream of the good?' Susan's words kept ringing in my head.
And I smiled back at him, knowing damn well he'll be gone in a few hours, and won't probably care as much I do, but what matters is he is right there, with me of all people in this world right now, and I'll cherish us till the day I die
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