Citrus

Chapter 23

"It's nice to meet you. My name is Kim Dahyun." Dahyun said as she reacher out her hand and smiled sheepishly to Momo, who was already munching on her ice cream. Nayeon was still ordering her food when Dahyun came back to their table with her chocolate ice cream but remained standing as she waited for Momo to shake her hand.

"O-oh. Sorry about that. I'm Momo. Hirai Momo. B-but you can call me Momo, or whatever you want. He-hehe. Nice to meet you, too, Dahyun-ssi." Momo nervously gulped her ice cream and stood up as she shook Dahyun's hand and smiled back. She was distracted both from eating and from the beauty in front of her.

By that time, Nayeon was now at their table already pulling a seat beside Dahyun and started eating. She noticed Dahyun and Momo's hands were still not leaving each other, but the two were just staring at each other. "Oh, I see you already introduced yourselves with each other. That's good, but can you please take your seats? I'm famished."

After hearing Nayeon, both girls sat back and started to eat their ice cream. Nayeon felt awkward, and to break it, she started telling Momo how she met Dahyun. "...and we lived in the same neighborhood as kids, so we played together a lot!" Nayeon cheerfully said.

"So, she's basically your childhood friend, I presume." Momo smiled at her friend and glanced to Dahyun, who seemed to be paying attention to her phone now. She shrugged it off and looked at Nayeon again.

"If I had to say, she's more like a little sister to me." Momo took a glance at Dahyun again, but flinched because this time, Dahyun was now staring back at her with a grin on her face. "God, she had grown up so much since the last time I saw her!" Nayeon unknowingly interjected, and Momo mentally thanked her for that. To be honest, Momo was weirded out of Dahyun ever since she saw that sheepish grin on her face earlier. She looked like a devil disguised as an angel, that's what she thought.

"Oh my god, unnie! I'm not a kid anymore! I'm in my last year in middle school now!" Dahyun whined, and for a second, Momo takes back her thought.

"Okay, okay. Sorry!" Nayeon chuckled. "But what are you doing here, by the way? You came all the way from Busan to just play around? Or fid you move here in Seoul? Where is uncle and auntie?" She questioned.

"Relax, unnie. I came here to see you." Dahyun grinned as she looked at a confused Nayeon. "I thought I might run into you at one of the shops around here. It was a bit of a game for me. You know well how much I like challenges."

"What the— you could've just called me if that were the case! Aish, this kid!"

"When you know the outcome of a challenge from the start, it's just boring. Like I said, I like being challenged, and I succeeded! I'm glad I ran into you today, unnie." She said, dramatically leaning her head on Nayeon's shoulder as she closed her eyes. "I just got my paycheck from my part time job from that nasty old man, but it's boring to just spend it all by myself."

"Your what now!? A paycheck when you're in middle school!?" Nayeon scolded like a mother and pushes Dahyun away, but not harshly.

"Unnie, did you know? You can earn money if you send old guys masturbation pics." Momo and Nayeon choked and blushed slightly after hearing that. Nayeon stood up when she recovered from her cough.

"What the fuck, Kim Dahyun! That's compensated—"

"No, no. Don't get me wrong. It's just a part time job, unnie. A teeny, tiny part time job." Dahyun shrugged.

"But still, Dahyunie, it's dangerous! And you're in middle school, for fuck's sake! How can you do such thing!?" Nayeon looked worried.

Momo was just observing her. The more she talks and grins, the weirder she gets. She thought that Dahyun is weird, but she chose to stay quiet since she doesn't want to offend the younger girl. Besides, she's also her type.