Annyeong, Soojin! [Ateez Fanfiction] ✓

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The Wise Monkey's POV:

It's always calming for me to see the two parties I keep a watch on come together in a shared space and interact. Obviously, for my job, it requires making sure that the girl and the boys are friends and there's progress towards a possible relationship. But other than that, I really miss those days when they'd interact every day, when I didn't have to constantly transport back and forth between Soojin's house or restaurant and Ateez's dorms or company. My work's anything but menial, I'll tell you that.

Seriously, it's kinda bummer that Soojin and the boys can't often meet in the actual human world. The difference in lifestyle is such. I can't fathom what Fate was thinking when he wrote for these bunch of youths. It's never easy to understand the Trinity of /sɛrkʌ/, not even by us Solitaires who are direct subordinates and next in power to the three in the respective fields.

Anyway, what I mean to say is it's now exciting to see them interacting face to face. But right now I'm even more excited than usual. You know me by now, I'm all up for drama. Even though not all the eight boys are here, but only Seonghwa and Yunho who I see entering the restaurant that Joshua owns. And it just happens so that today's the day Soojin finally decided to visit her friend's restaurant as well. It's a surprise to me as well. I have been just following around Soojin today, that's why I'm here. And now I see these two guys grabbing themselves a table here. This unexpected meet(I'm assuming they'll meet, I mean both the parties are in the same building, the probability's pretty high), this coincidence has to be the work of the lads.

For once, you're doing good, boys!

Anyway.

Yunho watches his hyung as the older looks around the place in wonder.

"It's the same building, wow!" Seonghwa exclaims.

"You've said it 3 times already now," Yunho says. "But it does look the same." Although Yunho hasn't been physically in Daisy's restaurant ever, he did remember the place from the photos she'd shown him.

"Yes, inside and out. But the interior's obviously different than how it was then. It's still good, the people who run it has taste."

Yunho hums. "The food would taste different. But only you'd know. I've never eaten the stuff that Daisy put on the menu here. Except for the desserts she sometimes brought over."

"It tasted just like the Italian she made at home," Seonghwa says.

"And I never got to eat the Italian she made."

"Fair enough," Seonghwa says. "It's cool this place still serves Italian and the menu has some dishes she had too."

"You're so going to be comparing the food to hers, aren't you?"

"Yes, and I'll give her a detailed review later," Seonghwa grins.

Both of them are looking through the menu when they hear the familiar chuckle of a girl.

"I'm not ordering myself, get me the best thing on the menu," they hear Soojin's voice, now getting nearer.

"Doesn't it sound like Soojin?" Yunho asks and the older nods, both now looking around to spot the girl.

"Don't deviate from the topic. You're being so secretive it's kinda creeping me out. It's a simple question. Did you work in this kitchen or not?" They hear a man's voice and now they clearly see the person talking as he steps more into the common dining area where they both are seated. And behind the man, Soojin follows.

"Not exactly. I never had to work in the kitchen. I just was close to the people who worked here. Does that satisfy you?" Soojin says to the man. Joshua, of course.