Annyeong, Soojin! [Ateez Fanfiction] ✓

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Y'all! V O T E! And if you don't want to, tell me in the comments why. There are always so many silent readers. Your votes don't get the authors any money or benefit, we just like to reassure with proof ppl are actually reading rather than seeing just view count. It motivates! Please!

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I don't believe in the concept of 'fillers'. I think it's an equally important part of a book. Ppl who don't like filler prolly skips to the climax scene in porn or watches action movies to just skip to the fight scenes and watch it. If we remove the fillers, what is left in a book? Only those parts you actually anticipated and knew for sure would happen, what's the point of reading then.

This chapter is loooong(longest chap in all the books I've ever written), and it starts out slow(in some ppl's opinion, filler-y). Y'all, I only partially introduced the MC in the first book, cuz she's always been Daisy in it. We just knew abt her personality, but not her background. This book deals with, Soojin, the real person/the real face of the MC, so we start learning about Soojin's life and background in this. 

Also, if you couldn't tell already, we have new sets of characters in this book than the 1st book.

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The Wise Monkey's POV:

Soojin wondered why she agreed to meet up with Ateez again on a time flexible to just them. It annoyed her that now she and Sooyoung both had to leave work behind to make it to the meeting. The girls' mom is interacting with a regular customer, now stepped out from her work as a cashier behind the counter being aware of her girls' soon-to-be departure. Mrs Ahn does the co-managerial work with Soojin in the restaurant, along with being the cashier. The girls' temporary absence will be filled out, the backups are on the way and that's what Soojin is waiting for as she leans against the wall and absentmindedly watches her mom working. 

Their family has come a long way in managing this restaurant without the presence of the father since he passed away. It was Soojin's grandpa who started the restaurant business first. The man was a dignified noodle chef in Japan once, he then came back to Korea and started his expertise here, taught his son the work who in turn passed it on to his eldest born. Soojin now is skilled in everything she learned from her preceding generations, almost; she can still make hand-pulled noodles but just not as perfect as her appa's, besides, they don't serve that in the restaurant anyway.

Anyway. The backups Soojin is waiting for...

The two boys who are to cover would only replace Sooyoung, though, so it's gonna be a staff extra tonight in the girls' absence. Well, Sooyoung does the jobs of taking orders and cleaning in the dining area of the restaurant, and the boys would only be skilled enough to replace that particular job's vacancy; Since Soojin works within the hot confines of the kitchen, she cooks. They already have a main cook who learned all the recipes from Soojin's dad. Soojin just helps, in the evening after she's done with her university.

It's again on a night, like her first Soojin-to-Ateez meeting with the boys. Sooyoung suggested dropping by home first to change into something better before leaving for the meeting at the antique store. Their clothes could be carrying the scent of the kitchen, she reasoned. Soojin simply dismissed. She didn't care now anymore if she smelt like spices and aromatics. It's one of the positive transformations in her she managed to hold onto after that whole Daisy-creation task of mine. Why has she always been conscious about it and physically distanced herself from people because of some mere bullies from her childhood? Why should she? If anyone feels uncomfortable, it's on them, they should distance themselves. She doesn't wanna be considerate enough to be the one to deliberately avoid any discomfort to others who're always strangers( she doesn't have friends).