coffee & sugar - lee know

nine

we walked up the steps and minho led me into a room which looked to be an office. along with the typical office stuff though, by the window, there was a bunch of cat stuff like beds, toys, scratch posts, that kind of stuff.

"soonie, doongi, dori." minho said as he walked closer to their area.

a cat then popped up, from one of the areas in the scratching post, then another and another until all three cats were visible.

minho then looked over to me and grabbed my hand, pulling me a bit closer to the scratching post and putting my hand close to the cats so they could sniff my hand.

"which one's which?" minho asked as he held out my hand for the cats. he then took his other hand and pointed to an orange cat with a decent amount of white hair.

"doongi, right?" i say and minho nods before pointing to the other orange cat which had less white on it, "soonie and then that was is dori." i pointed to the darker cat with my other hand since minho was still holding on to one of mine.

"you've passed the test." minho said, dropping my hand and walking to the door.

"right." i giggle as i stay with the cats, finally petting them all as they purred.

"come on we gotta cook." minho said and i nodded, quickly petting them all one last time before following after him.

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i was standing at the counter pretty much doing nothing but cutting. it was getting quite boring but i didn't say anything.

"are you getting bored?" minho asked as he stood in front of his stove where he stirred the pot.

"uh," i debate wether i should tell the truth or not.

minho steps away from the pot and over to me, "give me the knife." minho said and i handed it over to him. he then pulled the cutting board with the mostly cut veggies and started to finish up cutting them, doing it faster than i was this whole time.

when minho finished he placed the knife on the counter. "i'll put it in." i say as i pick up the cutting board carefully so that nothing rolled off. i then walked over to the pot and went to just dump it all in when minho stopped me.

"don't do that, you're gonna hurt yourself." minho said as he grabbed the board out of my hand and stood in front of me, dropping the veggies in little by little. "you need to do this so it won't splatter onto you much." minho instructed me as he finished it up and placed the cutting board on the counter.

"sorry." i say as i step back a little.

"shh and come stir." minho told me as he stepped to the side a little. i stepped forward and placed my hand on the large spoon that was in the pot and started to stir.

i was stirring for a bit when minho put his hand on my back and i felt like i was gonna die from a heart attack or something. i froze a little and minho moved me over a bit not saying anything as i released the spoon from my hand and let him take it.

he stirred it a few more times before glancing over at me. "try it." minho told me and i just nodded as i stepped closer to him once again. he scooped up some of the japchae and looked over to me, putting his hand under the spoon as he brought it up to my mouth. "blow on it first." he told me and i did as he said.

he had his eyes on me the whole time and i started to feel a bit self conscious. maybe my lips looked weird when i was blowing or something so i stopped and put my lips onto the spoon, slurping the soup up and swallowing it.

"what do you think?" minho asked and i nodded in approval because oh my god it was so good.

"it's really good." i respond making minho smile before he put the spoon in the pot and brought it up to his lips, blowing on it for a second before putting the spoon into his mouth. i watched as he swallowed the soup and put the spoon back into the pot.