Save My Love (SinRin)

Chapter 7: The Plan

When I woke up, I was surprised to find Yerin in the kitchen preparing breakfast. It was the first time someone was up before me. As I carefully disassembled my makeshift bed, I asked her almost whispering if they had a schedule I was not made aware of.

"Not until 3 in the afternoon." She spoke in flawless Korean as she alternately shifted her attention between me and the omelet she was skillfully flipping in the air without causing a splatter.

"Yah!" She knew I was protesting against her talking to me in their language.

"They're way too tired to be up at this time, eonnie." She gave a heartless chuckle as she went back to the potatoes she was dicing. Yerin-ah, you're going to render me jobless if anyone finds out. I answered her with a sigh.

"My eyes were swollen from last night, so I decided I should not stay laying down." She replied using English words in a succession more scrambled than the eggs she was cooking. I prevented myself from smiling and said 'thank you.' "Not even your clam soup helped with my eyes." She obviously knew clams have some natural diuretic [causing one to urinate more] properties.

"Next time, you can add more celeries." She winked as she boasted about her knowledge in cooking.

What a show-off beagle. I smirked as I folded my blanket and returned it to the sliding closet that was unstylishly situated in their living room. I would have been finished decluttering my sleeping space in a nanosecond but I chose to do it in a more humanly fashion as possible. For even if I revealed my identity to the cooking damsel in distress, I left out important details that I felt were not entirely irrelevant, but were dangerous for her to know. The speeding, teleportation and the gruesome murders, I kept to myself.

"Did you say something?" Yerin turned her head with her forehead wrinkled. What? Now you can hear the words in my head?? I froze for a second trying to recall if I actually made a sound.

"Eonnie..." Eunha uttered before she bellowed in disbelief after noticing Yerin in the kitchen. "Heol! This is the first time someone woke up before you!" She was looking at me with a thrilled quizzical look. I was relieved to know it was actually another human's voice that she heard. Whew!

"Oh, I was..." I was about to invent an excuse before Yerin interrupted.

"Joon-eonnie was actually up before me but I told her I wanted to cook breakfast today. I have to practice again, you know. My skills are becoming rusty after our Joonie here started working wonders in the kitchen." She winked at me discreetly signaling that she had my back. Did she just seriously call me Joonie? I glared at her half cringing as my retaliation to her cutesy name for me.

"Oh I thought..." Eunha whimsically pouted before erupting into a chuckle after seeing my reaction to the aegyo-fied name I was called with. "Haha! Did you just see her face?" Still amused at our brief awkward interaction.

"I'm cooking omelet. How do you like yours?" Yerin asked diverting the younger member's attention while trying to hide her eyes.

"Whichever way you want it eonnie." Giving the cook a light pat on the back denoting that she need not hide the pain that left an evident trace on her face. A few moments after, the girls got out of their rooms one-by-one and trailed their way toward the smell of Yerin's inviting dish.

"Ah you're up too!" Eunha exclaimed while passing the forks to them.

"Woah... it's the first time in a long time you cooked again." That was Yuna who half-sang her words before returning immediately to her early morning ritual of vocalizing. She did that with much gusto as she moved around waking the other girls up completely.