Once More, Love 2

28. Ideal

Mina plops herself to sit on her room's bed and wipes her forehead with her palm. "That was tiring. I didn't have the need to clean my bedroom like this for years."

She looks at her small cork board on a tripod to the side of her small desk. There is a new sticky note pinned there, looking identical to the notes scattered on Jihyo's desk back at the dance studio.

The note says 'Your Husband's radio guest show is @ 8PM - 8:30PM'.

Mina sharply exhales and glances at the desk clock in the room. The time now is 8:21PM.

"Guess I'm too late for it anyway." She simply stares at her phone that is on top of her desk near the cork board for a good minute. Then, she lets out a sigh of defeat as she stands up and picks up her phone to promptly tap on it. "Well, I once heard that endings are the best part."

Mina walks to her house's living room. She crosses her legs on the couch and puts her phone down in front of her. She checks the time once again before heaving in a deep breath and tapping the play button on her streaming app. "Seven minutes."

The room was suddenly filled with laughter from the stream. It was Chaeyoung's voice and another soothing feminine laughter which could perfectly fit for a DJ's voice.

The dance instructor was just staring at the floor while focusing all her attention on the ongoing stream.

"So, Chaeyoung-ssi." The DJ began to talk again after quickly calming herself from whatever she and Chaeyoung got happy about. "While we're at the topic of trying to poke around your love life— And since we really have exhausted all the preselected questions from your Korean artsy fans. I'm sure they will also all agree when I try to pitch this. That you... for all of these years, have successfully dodged every single question elaborating your love life. You once mentioned you were married. But that was like... nine years ago? Was it nine years ago?"

"I'm not sure." Chaeyoung's soft tone is heard. "I was away from Korea for seven years now so... it could be that long. I mean— my European interviewers already gave up on asking me about this stuff much quicker to my relief."

"Well, I'm sure the Koreans are much more interested in this topic than the Europeans."

The painter and the DJ once again laughed loudly on air.

Mina raises an eyebrow. "Huh. I thought this should be about art? Why can't they just end the segment if there's no other question left? They can play a song in between schedules anyway."

"So." The DJ's voice is heard over the stream again. "Chaeyoung-ssi. Here is the magic question. Just one magic question. You can answer yes, no, or pass."

Chaeyoung chuckles. "Okay...?"

"But... if you say pass, then I can throw another question which you can answer using the same options again."

"What if I say pass again?" The painter quickly replied.

"First of all, you totally just broke all the hearts of the young art girls of Korea. And second, we will be out of time so I can't ask you anything further."

"Yes!" Chaeyoung playfully yells and there was laughter on air again.

"Okay, okay." The DJ starts. "Here we go, Chaeyoung-ssi."

"Ne."

Mina audibly scoffs but she is obviously trying her best to listen and not miss anything from the conversation on air.

"What is your ideal type of woman?"

"Ahh." Chaeyoung's voice turned a bit proud and happy. "That's it? That's an easy question."