19. Between Friends

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Chaeyoung glances at his wrist watch before pushing the door to his hotel suite open. It is currently six in the morning.

The moment he stepped to his living room, a familiar voice made him flinch in surprise.

"Are you just going home at this time of the day or did you mysteriously go somewhere else before sunrise?"

The painter awkwardly smiles and looks to his couch, finding Tzuyu with an unamused face. "He— Hello there, Tzu."

"So?"

"Umm..."

Tzuyu lets out a tired sigh and stands up from her couch to walk towards the suite's mini kitchen counter. "You can tell me you're sleeping with your ex-wife. I will not judge you. I know men have their needs."

"Y— Ya!" Chaeyoung quickens his strides to follow and catch up to his friend. "I love Mina! It's not just because I have— I have needs."

"Yeah, right." Tzuyu answers in a casual tone as she begins to bring out three paper boxes from paper bags that have been lying on the kitchen's dining table. "I believe that, like how I believe pigs can fly."

"Hey! I thought no judgment!" The painter yells and points a finger to her. "And I'm telling the truth!"

The vet doctor just chuckles and nods. She carries the two paper boxes with her and walks to the microwave oven not too far from the sink.

Chaeyoung clicks his tongue and walks to the coffee brewer. "Is that our breakfast? And where's Dahyun?"

Tzuyu promptly rolls her eyes and darts to the smaller guy. "Seriously? And yes this is our food. You're welcome."

"W— Wae? Why are you so prickly at this time of the day?" The painter awkwardly chuckles as he pours water to the liquid boiler of the coffee brewer. "I was just asking things."

The celebrity vet shakes her head and goes back to busying herself in heating their supposed breakfast of the day. "Read the group chat."

"Hmm?" Chaeyoung hummed back but this time Tzuyu did not reply to him. He then shrugged and after turning the coffee brewer on, he fished for his phone from the pocket of his jeans. He taps his screen a couple of times to navigate and open a group chat named 'School Meal Club'.

He glances once again at the silent person near the microwave before he begins browsing the recent messages at the message thread.

08:05 PM. Anemic Tofu: Annyeong.

08:07 PM. Savage Princess: Who's going to buy breakfast tomorrow?

08:07 PM. Anemic Tofu: I'm guessing you're Tzuyu?

08:08 PM. Savage Princess: Huh?

"Huh?" Chaeyoung scrunches his eyebrows at the phone screen. He slowly looks to the girl who now has her arms crossed in front of her and is leaning on the side of the sink. The microwave oven is now spinning their food inside. "Who—"

"Read everything." Tzuyu quickly replied in a flat tone.

The painter faintly scoffed and went back to his screen. "Okay, miss grumpy."

08:09 PM. Anemic Tofu: Because Tiny Tiger suits Chaeyoung and Dahyun said that he never reads your group chat.

Chayeoung scoffs again as he focuses on reading. "Is it because it said tiny?"

08:28 PM. Anemic Tofu: Hello?

08:40 PM. Anemic Tofu: Tzuyu?

08:54 PM. Anemic Tofu: Are you busy? :(

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