To Learn To Love

2. Webcomic

Yoo Eun Soo had three part time jobs. First, at the convenience store. Second, at the tiny little restaurant at the end of the street, in her neighbourhood. And lastly, but most importantly, as a web comic artist.

She wasn't exactly very famous or anything but her work was published on an internet platform and a good amount of people read it and enjoyed it. She took pride in the originality of the drawings and the picturesque images that she drew but what she lacked however was a definite story. Mostly all her works were short stories. Gripping and beautiful stories but still, short.

She always wanted to write a legitimate story. Complete with hoards of chapters, cliff-hanger's and plot twists and everything but she never really had a story.

She was a person who depended heavily on inspiration and motivation and unfortunately she lacked both.

Considering how vapid, monotonous and mundane her life was, she never really had any inspiration.

But looking at the insanely hot stranger in the convenience store had given her an idea. She had a story in her head and she knew who the lead character was going to be.

When the bus took her to Dong Soon she quickly got off, cheerfully thanking the driver and rushed up the narrow slanting alleys.

It took her precisely seven minutes to reach her two bedroom apartment which she shared with her two friends, Lee Hye Jin and Kim Shin Ae.

Once inside she ran across the living room and went up the flight of stairs completely ignoring Lee Hye Jin who was in the process of making herself some ramen.

"Make me ramen too," she blurted before disappearing upstairs.

As for Hye Jin, she didn't even seem bothered. This kind of erratic behaviour from Eun Soo was nothing new. She was used to it.

"Hi," she muttered half to herself as she continued making the ramen. On a second thought, she added a third serving of ramen in the cooking pot. It was almost time for Shin Ae to come and she didn't want to have to make it all over again for her.

The two bedroom apartment had a living room and an attached kitchen on the ground floor and two bedrooms: one big master bedroom and a smaller single bedroom attached to a balcony on the first floor.

Obviously all the three of them had called dibs on the single bedroom. Eun Soo had argued that as she was an artist and for the sake of artistic purposes and inspiration and what not, she deserved to get the room. The balcony in that room offered an amazing view of the entire city as they were located on a higher region and she believed that she required it for "inspirational purposes."

In the end she did successfully get the room. Not because she was an artist, but mostly because she won in the game of rock paper scissors against them.

"I'm home," Shin Ae yelled and her face lit up when she smelled the ramen as she took off her shoes at the entrance.

"Make me ramen too," she said.

They both joined Eun Soo in her room where she was busy drawing on her tablet. When she was done, she proudly showed the result to her friends: a perfect recreation of the guy she had seen earlier.

"Wow!" Hye Jin exclaimed.

"He's hot," Shin Ae added.

"I know right...," Eun Soo gushed.

"So who is he?"

"I don't know."