Sparkle | HoonSuk

ch 26

“Why are we stopping?” Hyunsuk asked as the car that Seungcheol’s driver drove stopped. 

“I have some stuff to buy,” Seungcheol pointed at the convenience store beside where the car is parked. Hyunsuk looked outside. Yeah. He knows. It's the convenience store where Jihoon part timing at. “Do you want to buy anything? Or you're staying here?”

“I’ll just stay here,” Hyunsuk said.

“Okay then,” Seungcheol opened the door and walked toward the convenience store. From where the car was parked, Hyunsuk can clearly see the counter. And it's currently Jihoon's shift. So he can see Jihoon standing behind the counter clearly from his seat.

Not only that. Hyunsuk can also see someone who's talking to Jihoon. It's Ahn Yujin. Yujin stopped talking to Jihoon when Seungcheol entered the convenience store. Hyunsuk can see Jihoon greeting Seungcheol, the customer who just entered as the procedure of his work. Hyunsuk can see that Yujin didn't bother Jihoon when Seungcheol was inside the convenience store but as soon as Seungcheol left, she started talking to Jihoon again.

Hyunsuk took out his phone. For some reason, he opened his Instagram application. Ryujin's post is the first one he saw on his feed. Recalling that Ryujin has been friends with Yujin, Hyunsuk looked up for Ryujin's following list and he found Ahn Yujin's account. He touched the profile. She posted a story a few minutes ago. It's a picture of a packed meal with a caption ‘dinner for my love’ on it. Maybe she just packed Jihoon dinner since it's his night shift.

Hyunsuk let out a sigh. He turned toward the convenience store. Jihoon and Yujin indeed look so close.

“What with the long sigh?” Seungcheol asked as he entered the car.

“Nothing,” Hyunsuk said. Because he himself didn't know why he's sighing. But there's something bothering him that he can't even point out.

•

“Did you see that guy earlier?” Yujin asked right after the customer left the store.

“Did you see that I was the one who attended him earlier?” Jihoon asked him back, making Yujin roll her eyes. “Your point?”

“Didn’t he look like someone from a rich family?” Yujin asked. “Like did you see his suit? It’s personally tailored for him. And the fabric of his suit is just high quality, you know? It’s so rare to see this kind of rich people,”

“You’re also from a rich family. Why did you get impressed by him?” Jihoon asked.

“Tsk! You’re not fun to talk to,” Yujin said.

“You can just go home instead of bothering me right now,” Jihoon said. He walked toward the front shelf to tidy up the stuff there.

“Why are you being so grumpy today?” Yujin asked.

“I’m busy, Ahn Yujin,” Jihoon said. “You said that you just got back from sending your girlfriend dinner that you made for her, right? Why don’t you just go straight home?”

“You only look for me when you have a problem,” Yujin said. She took out her phone. “Eh? Ryujin attended a party today? Wait! Jihoon-ah! Look!”

Jihoon looks at the phone that is being shoved to his face by Yujin. It’s a picture from an Instagram post. It’s Ryujin’s post.

“That’s the guy earlier, isn’t it?” Yujin asked.

In that picture, Ryujin took a picture with the customer earlier and Hyunsuk. Jihoon couldn’t take his eyes off Ryujin’s arm that’s hugging Hyunsuk’s arm. He didn’t really care about the customer earlier anyway.