Matchmaker: BOOK I [Y/N X KAI]

✨ Chapter 27 ✨

"That's wonderful! Can we take a seat somewhere and talk this through? I'll be grateful," I tell her.

"That's a sure thing! Come, follow my lead," she says enthusiastically and leads us to one of the vacant benches in the restroom.

She turns to us, "So?"

I take out a notepad and a pen from my bag and turn to her, preparing to ask questions. Yep, I carry these on my bag all the time. Interesting, huh?

"Let's begin with the easiest one..is there something she absolutely hates?" I ask, gotta make sure I don't bring up anything that may screw the shit outta my job again.

She chuckles, "I'm not even sure if you ever met Aria, but if you didn't, let me tell you that she's like an eternal ray of sunshine. There's really not that much that upsets her. As long as you're being nice, she should be fine. But with creatures that are..not-so-nice, she can get a little itchy. For example, I'm pretty sure that she despises centipedes of any kind."

"I mean, who doesn’t?" Piyuu cringes at the thought of it.

I laugh, "Okay, I'll make sure to not put any of them in the guest list, then. Now tell me, does she have any weird phobias?"

Her eyes widens up, "Why? Are you planning to scare her on her bridal shower?"

"No, no, no," I cut her off immediately, "I was planning to not scare her actually. And I need to know if she has any phobias so that, you know, just so I make sure to avoid them when prepping the shower."

"I see.." she nods, "Speaking of her phobias, hmm..not any significant one that I know off actually. As long as you don’t fill the place with spiders or drown her into any river, I think you’ll be fine."

"I see, so she has aquaphobia and insectophobia.." I say.

Piyuu turns at me, "Wait, insectophobia isn’t a real word, you know that right?"

I roll my eyes, "Yeah, whatever, I made it up."

She nods, "The real word for phobia of spiders is-"

"I don't care," I raise a hand, "I said it's insectophobia so it's insectophobia. Scientific names aren’t cute."

"So you’ve got your answers, then?" Dolly asks gesturing between me and Piyuu.

I immediately hold her hand to stop her, "No, not everything. So dolly, tell me a crazy fact about Aria."

She taps her chin trying to think, "Hmm..she's got a secret nerdy side. You’d barely see her looking at any textbook or work documents, but she literally buries her face in all types of story books all the time. She sometimes keeps all-nighters only to read books."

"That's not a hobby anymore, that's literally commitment! I respect that," Piyuu says.

Oh, this is so ripe for a one wedding ring to rule them all joke but I think Piyuu might keel over.

"Okay, now I've got a tough one for you. Please tell me that you know what her favourite food is?" I wiggle my eyebrows.

She smiles brightly, "That's actually the easiest of all the thinks you've asked so far. Her favourite food is Buldak!"

Ooh..well, that's kind of anticlimactic.

"Really?" Piyuu exclaims.

See? Even Piyuu's surprised.

"Yeah? Why? Anything wrong with it?" Dolly asks with wide eyes.

"No, no, nothing wrong with it. I guess we just expected it to be more..exciting," I say.

"Exciting?" Dolly frowns.

"I mean, a very complicated food with a lot of things to be specially done and probably something we've never heard of before," I say.

"Exactly. I mean, I guess she lives in the right place for something like that," Piyuu adds in.

Dolly laughs, "No, she doesn’t have any complicated choice on food. Her brother must've gave you this perspective but Aria's actually pretty simple no matter where she lives in."

"Oh, I figured it'd be something as wild as Aria is..like a nacho flavoured ice-cream or something," I say.

"Does something like that even exist?" Piyuu says in surprise.

"We can only hope," I chuckle.

"No ways, that'd be awful. Buldak is so much better," Dolly adds in.

"It's a good thing that we're in Seoul, then," I say.

"And good thing that we booked that restaurant. Buldak is their speciality," Piyuu adds in.

Ooh, I see. Probably that's why it's her favourite restaurant of all time.

"Then congratulations, Aria will be supremely happy. I think if she could sustain herself on just buldak and milk tea, she'd do that without any hesitation," Dolly smiles.

"Milk tea? Aria's definitely a girl after my own heart," Piyuu exclaims.

I run eyes on all the things I've pointed out on the notebook one last time before closing it and turning to Dolly.

"Well, thanks for the help today. We highly appreciate it," I say with my usual formal smile.

"Oh, it's nothing! Anytime," she says.

Finally Piyuu and I bid our goodbyes and leave the place on instant.

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By Friday evening, I've got the menu prepared, confirmed the number of guests, acquired all the supplies needed, and, as of half an hour ago, got the custom banner back from the printer. Needless to say, our unlimited ride subway passes have already paid for themselves twice over.

"My feet are killing me," I whisper to Piyuu whose walking me back.

"You're done now, though. Right? I think it's time you finally get to relax," she whispers back softly.

This girl's capacity for energy and motivating is seriously fucking insane. But she's the only thing that's kept me from keeling over today.

I get a quick rundown in my brain on if I've done every task till now completely. Suddenly, a realization hits me.

"Oh shit," I curse aloud.

"What? What happened?" Piyuu asks worriedly.

"Flowers! I was going to fold a bunch of paper flowers for the table decoration," I hiss.

No way that's happening now.

✨ To Be Continued ✨