Day Dream • Na Jaemin

4

While Doha is scarfing down his meal, Suji has yet to take a single bite of the food in front of her. She is not hungry in the slightest. She has no trace of an appetite.

"This is so great, Ji Ji!" Doha praises.

She refuses to acknowledge him. After all, he has complimented her cooking skills five times already.

Doha points his fork at her untouched plate. "Hey, aren't you going to eat, too?"

Because she is still cuffed, Suji has to move both hands in unison to grab her fork with her dominant hand. She merely pushes around the pasta, not taking a taste of it. "I'm not hungry."

"But a pregnant woman needs to eat!"

"Maybe later…"

Suddenly, Suji's cell phone starts going off to a ringtone unlike the other two. She immediately knows it is Nari.

Doha looks at the phone that is next to the gun on the table. "Ugh, who it is now?" he groans.

"My best friend," Suji explains, leaving out her name. "Can I talk to her?"

Doha debates for a moment. "Only if it's on speaker."

"Okay," she agrees, dropping her fork.

So Doha grabs the phone and hands it to her.

To the best of her ability, Suji sets the phone onto the table and answers the call. She makes sure to put it on speaker. "Hey," she says calmly.

"Soo-ya, what's going on?" Nari asks with worry. "Jaemin was stranger than normal earlier. He called me to ask a question and called you Suji and not Soo. I can't reach Jeno at all. None of their buddies won't answer either!"

"Jen… ?" Doha mutters under his breath, wondering why the name sounds familiar.

"Wait, why did Jaemin call you?" Suji asks, focusing on that.

"He asked if you were babysitting Min."

Suji tries to think of why he would do that. He should have known she would not be. After all, it was supposed to be their day together.

"When I told him he, he got quiet and didn't say much else before he hung up. So what is going on?"

Suji glances at Doha for a moment, finding he is occupied with eating. "I'm, um, eating in the kitchen," she replies lamely. "With someone."

"Someone? Who is this someone?"

"Someone from high school."

"Wow, that's so specific," Nari says sarcastically.

"I bet Jeno would know who I mean," Suji says. Although, she can only hope her friends from high school recognized Doha when they were briefly outside.

"High school…" Things click in place for Doha. "Jeno as in Lee Jeno from high school?"

Suji inhales sharply. She purposely avoided using Nari's name, but she just messed up because of her little slip.

"Soo-ya, who was that?" Nari asks.

"She's married to Jeno?" Doha asks.

"She is," Suji replies, not denying the truth.

"Hang up."

Suji is caught off guard. "Why?"

"He's friends with Jaemin," he reasons simply. "I don't like Jaemin."