Getting a second chance at life isn't exactly as enchanting as it seems.
Sohee Young, who lived life like the callous person she was, dies. She gets another chance to live life correctly though, and that is by swapping lives with Lina Park, who die...
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"DOES A BAKING slump exist?" Andrew asked. "Because I think you just entered one."
"Shut up," I retorted at the jab, and small smile splayed on my lips.
"It's like you forgot technology existed to make everything easier."
"That was once," I retorted as he mentioned my embarrassing moment.
"You have to whisk the egg a thousand times?" He mimicked. "Haven't you been spending time with Imo too much?"
That's it. I smacked him on the shoulder and burst out laughing. Lina's mother and technology were never a good pair, but I didn't expect Goody Two Shoes Andrew to called her out like that. After cooking for an hour with shorthanded directions, something familiar in my household but uncomfortable with Lina's best friend, he finally broke. Like I knew he would.
Said person nudged me with his elbow-knowing very well that mine still throbbed. We stood in front of the oven, watching the meringues mold into shape. For someone who did this their first time, I thought I exceeded my own expectations, at least.
"Go watch some more Sohee Young videos. You used to get all motivated saying you were going to share the same hobbies as her, but now that spark seem to have died."
"I said that?"
"That you wanted to share her hobbies?" Andrew's shoulders shook, snickering.
"No," I rolled my eyes. "That I-Sohee-liked baking?"
Duh, he gave me a look. "Gee, you really are going through sachungi," Andrew laughed. "I must be talking to a completely different person."
"Very funny," Cue the nervous laughter.
"I'm messing with you." He bumped my hip with his. "It's not a bad thing, though. Like how you stood up for your parents at the restaurant yesterday. And how you're downgrading yourself less. I haven't heard a Sohee Young comparison for weeks now. Pretty refreshing, I might add."
And the friendliness dies. "Sohee Young isn't that bad," I frowned, offset by how quickly his attitude changed when mentioning me. I get that some people hated me. It came with being plastered on the media. But at least they had some respect to lurk on the internet rather than say it to my face-or Lina's. "Stop bashing her. You don't know how hard she worked to get where she is today."
Or how much "constructive" criticism she had to endure in her own household.
A sigh. "Lina ya," he said softly, "I'm sorry that I criticized Sohee Young like that, okay? It was an off day for me, and I was being irrational."
Liar, I wanted to scoff. Obviously, he wanted to avoid getting on Lina's bad side. If she even had one. His appeal was worse than Will's, who somehow managed to keep me in a relationship with him.
