metal straw | ast. cha eunwoo

twenty four

"Rock, paper, scissor!"

Instinctively, Eunwoo held out his fist to the front as Myungjun did the same. Without a second thought, both immediately changed their weapons of choice. Eunwoo stayed loyal to his fist while Myungjun decided to reveal his palm instead. Just like that, he won.

"I win!" he screamed, adding a little dance with his entire body.

Eunwoo immediately smiled, finally seeing how similar Soyeon was to her brother. It seemed like Soyeon had inherited her brother's loud and happy personality. Both having the same defined features of their nose and eyes as well as their bright smile that could light up an entire stadium. Though, their contagious laughs being quite different. While Soyeon had a loud and hearty laugh, Myungjun's laugh sounded more like an evil cackle than an expression of amusement. Eunwoo thought to himself that anyone could have guessed they were siblings, him being quite a latter after their odd first encounter.

"Let's eat!" Myungjun grinned before running back inside excitedly, his laugh echoing behind him.

"Wait, what?" Soyeon yelled in disbelief and ran inside to stop him from entering the kitchen. Eunwoo hesitated at first but soon followed close behind her.

"And... your parents?" he asked, anxiously looking around the house for anyone other than the three of them.

"They don't come home as much, they usually only come during special occasions," she explained as she led both to the living room. It wasn't too small, just enough for a small group of people to eat or hang out together.

"I'll cook!" Myungjun announced confidently before clapping his hands together excitedly as he turned his heels to lunge forward to the kitchen.

"That's dangerous," she claimed immediately stopping Myungjun in his tracks, "Can we not die today, please? I'll make dinner tonight."

With that said, she immediately moved her brother to the side to stand further away from the kitchen door. His eyes widened at the sudden gesture, immediately offended when she did it while looking at him disgustedly.

"Fine then, I'll just stay with Eunwoo—"

"No, not with your chatter mouth," she argued. She then turned to back her attention to Eunwoo, "You can wait in the living room for now, is that alright?"

Eunwoo's turned into a slight smile and nodded as an answer. Soyeon's face redden when she decided to replayed back the situation she had gotten herself and Eunwoo into. She sighed before grabbing onto her brother and pulling him away to the kitchen. As soon as the doors shut behind them, he smiled as he suddenly heard voices raising and saw arms moving around frantically through the tiny window on the door.

"MJ, what are you planning?" he heard Soyeon asked.

"Beef? Chicken is good too."

Eunwoo proceeded to watch as Soyeon suddenly shifted upwards on her toes make her seem taller. Unfortunately, that only provoked Myungjun further and now both siblings were arguing back and forth on the tip of their toes. As they argued, the sounds of frying pans and plates were heard. The kitchen was now filled with noises loud enough for the neighbours to hear.

While that situation evolved, Eunwoo took his time to look around the living room. A small television sat on one side of the room against the wall with shelves above it. Upon that were photographs, souvenirs and other small knickknacks set as decorations.

However, the thing that got Eunwoo smiling all ears was the collection of small pouches being hanged on the walls by the shelves. Though they had only small sizes, they occupied a lot of space on the wall. He knew instantly what they were and he bet Soyeon had a big role in that mystery, but he did wonder why she had so many for only a few metal straws of her own.

"Eunwoo," Soyeon called out, her head peeking out of the door, "dinner's ready."