the following day, sunmi woke up rather groggily, stirred by the sound of her mum's laughter. rubbing her eyes, she glanced at her phone; it was only 7 am.
"what's eomma doing so early in the morning?" she muttered with a cracked voice.
stretching and tying her hair, sunmi headed out.
"goodmorni- what is this?, kwon hoshi, what are you doing here so early" to her surprise, hoshi was seated in the kitchen with sunmi's mum, making kimchi.
hoshi is a kimchi fanatic, especially loving sunmi's mum's version, which reminded him of his childhood.
"aigo, look at this lady. you should be helping eomma out," he teases, toothpick in hand. sunmi's mum chuckles at their banter.
"you pabo iseekkiy—-"
"language! before appa hears you both," her mum hushes them, just before sunmi could finish her curse towards hoshi. hoshi sticks his tongue out mischievously.
taking a seat next to hoshi, sunmi rubs her eyes. "what are you doing here so early anyway? don't you have practice?" she asks, ending with a soft yawn.
"practice doesn't start until after 12 pm. plusss eomma said she's making kimchi and asked me to come. how could i say no to that?" hoshi replies with a playful pout, making sunmi feel like pinching lips with the laundry clip and hang him outside like a stuffed doll.
"whatever," she mutters under her breath. "i'm going to the company later as well. want to go together?" she asks, and hoshi replies with a nonchalant "thats why im here too." reminding you.
hours later, sunmi dresses in a brown jumper over a white t-shirt that peeks out a little bit under the brown jumper , paired with loose curved jeans and beige-green onitsuka tigers.
feeling satisfied with her outfit, sunmi often receives compliments on her comfortable yet stylish style when she posts pictures on instagram. though it is her staple clothing style to wear somewhere borderline tomboy and femininity..
grabbing her shoulder bag, she slings it across her shoulder and heads out.
"eoomma, hoshi and i are off to work now. bye!" she calls out while putting on her shoes.
outside, hoshi leans against her car. "you're driving, right?" he asks, and sunmi agrees. they have a system where they alternate driving duties though most of the times their manager would be driving them around.
in the car, hoshi immediately connects bluetooth and plays music. "let's listen to maestro, shall we?" he says, reminding her of what they had discussed last night, wiggling his eyebrows and teasingly poking sunmi's shoulder.
sunmi rolls her eyes. "this is going to be a long and tiring day."
arriving at the company, they enter the lift together since they work on the same floor.
"so, what's your task for today?" hoshi asks.
"something about vlogging...it's low-key exciting because i love the idea of it. i was told to bring the camera everywhere and do things without my manager watching over me" sunmi says happily.
"that's fun. i wish i could do that, but no, we have another dance practice for our unit performance," hoshi sighs. sunmi pats his shoulder, offering encouragement by doing the "fighting" hand sign.
reaching the 8th floor, they go their separate ways after saying goodbye.
"hello, yoona unnie," sunmi greets her manager. yoona, just 3 years older than her, working together with her is very fun according to sunmi due to their closeness in age.
