18 Days earlier
Yuri had just ended a short conversation with a business partner on the phone when the door to her office opened and Sooyoung came in.
"Here are the documents about the Cosh Company you asked me to check." Her best friend handed her the papers. "I've read up on that project, it sounds really good."
"I know," Yuri grinned in satisfaction. "The profit is damn tempting. I wasn't sure about the level of risk we'd take with that, though."
"Well, I've checked Cosh's financial status. They will have to rely on us, which means we're actually pretty safe. It's riskless."
Yuri nodded in acknowledgement. She was pleased. Very pleased. Business was thriving recently, and one of the reasons was that Sooyoung could always find a way to check on their business partner's financial status, making sure none of them could be a threat to their company.
"Here." Yuri took out a couple of small rectangular paper pieces from the drawer and handed them Sooyoung.
"Free tickets for a book fair?"
"Read below."
"OH MY GOD INCLUDING A FREE BUFFET?"
"Yeah... I've received the tickets as a gift but I don't have time to go there."
"Thank you Yuri!" Sooyoung bent over the desk and suffocated her.
"It's--alright--" she tried her best shoving the giant away. "Anyways, there are four tickets in total. Which means you can invite some other people."
Yuri looked down at the documents in front of her again, not seeing the evil smile creeping on Sooyoung's face.
Sooyoung knew exactly who she wanted to ask out.
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"Hello?"
"Hey Sunny! It's Sooyoung."
"Oh hiiiiiii Sooyoung."
Sooyoung nervously scratched her flushing cheek at the aegyo 'hi' the other girl used to greet her. She tried to speak as coolly and be as direct as possible. The longer the conversation, the bigger was the chance of her making a mistake.
"I have four free tickets for that huge book fair on Friday. Are you free?"
"Ahh that's really sweet of you. I've heard about that fair and I would love to come. But I already have plans to hang out with some friends that day."
"Oh."
Was all Sooyoung could say. She was disappointed and didn't even bother covering it up.
"Okay, maybe another time. Bye."
Sooyoung let out a long sigh as she leaned back into her chair, staring at the ceiling. She had met Sunny in a restaurant two weeks earlier and immediately was interested in the cute, little girl. Sunny left a really good impression on her - not just because the girl paid for Sooyoung's meal because Sooyoung forgot her purse that day. Sooyoung had invited her to a dinner in another restaurant the next day to return the money and successfully asked for the girl's number. From then on, she had always tried to think of some ways to ask Sunny out. The opportunity didn't come until Yuri gave her the free tickets today.
Sooyoung was getting back to work again when her cell phone rang loudly. Without looking at the caller ID, she grumpily picked up.
"Hello."
"Oh. Am I disturbing you?"
Sooyoung almost fell off her seat when she heard Sunny's cute voice again.
