[Tiffany - 7:10 AM] Hey Taeyeon 👀
[Taeyeon - 10:32 AM] You're such an early bird 😱
[Taeyeon - 10:32 AM] Why did you wake up at 7?!
[Tiffany - 10:35 AM] My sleep is messed up, don't ask 😑
[Taeyeon - 10:35 AM] Okay...
[Taeyeon - 10:35 AM] What's up?
[Tiffany - 10:35 AM] Are you free this afternoon?
[Taeyeon - 10:35 AM] I'm having lunch with my Dad in less than 2 hours, but I'm free after that.
[Taeyeon - 10:35 AM] Why?
[Tiffany - 10:37 AM] Would you like to meet up?
[Taeyeon - 10:37 AM] What? 😧
[Tiffany - 10:37 AM] I mean, it's okay if you don't want to, we can just stick to texting.
[Taeyeon - 10:37 AM] NO NO NO
[Taeyeon - 10:37 AM] I would love to meet you!
[Taeyeon - 10:37 AM] I have never typed as fast as I just did just now
[Tiffany - 10:38 AM] 😅
[Tiffany - 10:38 AM] What time do you think you will be done with your dad?
[Taeyeon - 10:38 AM] Is 3 okay?
[Tiffany - 10:38 AM] Yeah.
[Taeyeon - 10:38 AM] Where do you wanna go?
[Tiffany - 10:39 AM] I mean, we could just have coffee and take a walk.
[Taeyeon - 10:39 AM] It sounds as if we're planning a date 😂
[Tiffany - 10:39 AM] Is it not?
[Taeyeon - 10:40 AM] What? 😳
[Taeyeon - 10:40 AM] Really?
[Tiffany - 10:40 AM] If you're okay with that.
[Tiffany - 10:40 AM] Or we could just be friends meeting up, no pressure.
[Taeyeon - 10:40 AM] NO NO NO
[Taeyeon - 10:41 AM] It's a date.
[Taeyeon - 10:41 AM] I just never expected you to take the initiative to take a step further.
[Tiffany - 10:41 AM] Why?
[Taeyeon - 10:41 AM] I don't know, it's just a feeling.
[Taeyeon - 10:41 AM] 3 was it?
[Taeyeon - 10:41 AM] Send me your location and I will pick you up then.
[Tiffany - 10:42 AM] K.
[Taeyeon - 10:42 AM] Did you just k me?! 😧
[Tiffany - 10:42 AM] Shut up.
Tiffany spent a few minutes just staring at the texts with a smile.
Finally, after 2 months, she's going to meet Taeyeon in real life, she's going to converse with her face to face and she's going on a date with her for real.
"Oh god..." Her eyes widened.
It's her first date with a girl ever.
"Oh no..."
She realized that she definitely didn't think it through and just asked away.
"Jessie!" She yelled, barging into Jessica's room.
And then she realized. She had fucked up just now. She just barged into Jessica's room at almost 11 in the morning. She's going to die.
Jessica slowly lowered the blanket from her head and gave Tiffany the scariest glare Tiffany had ever seen of Jessica her whole life, "You better have a fucking excuse for waking me up."
"So you're telling me you woke me up because you were too excited for a date?" Jessica asked, taking a bite of her pancakes.
"Yeah..." Tiffany trailed off, scared shitless, "But it's not just any date. It's my first date with a girl."
Jessica blinked at her.
After she was rudely awakened from her slumber, Jessica tried to avoid murdering her best friend and instead asked Tiffany to treat her pancakes as an apology, so now here they are, at a restaurant, eating pancakes for lunch, and Jessica never wished that murdering people is legal more than now.
"You're not going to sleep with her on the first date, are you?" Jessica asked suspiciously
"No! Of course not!" Tiffany shook her head and hands in the air furiously, her face red from the idea of sleeping with Taeyeon, which sparked a few memories of their steamy conversations on her phone.
Jessica squinted and stared at Tiffany with a knowing look, "Don't you dare lie to me."
Tiffany leaned back in her seat and looked at her own plate of pancakes, "I mean...if it happens it happens. I wouldn't mind it."
"Who the fuck are you and what did you do to my best friend?" Jessica looked at Tiffany in disbelief.
Tiffany isn't really the type to sleep with someone in the dating phase and actually likes to drag it longer than it should be just for the fun of seeing her guy squirm and wait for it.
But this...this, though.
"Why the sudden change?" Jessica asked.
"I don't know...It's just exciting." Tiffany answered with a shy smile while playing with the food on her plate.
"Explain please," Jessica said, not really getting it.
Tiffany sighed and chuckled at her best friend's lack of interest in love, "It's...I don't know, the idea of undressing a woman is already making me turned on. But when I was with a guy I just...I liked the idea of it not happening better. I only did it to please my boyfriend at that time if you know what I mean."
Jessica grimaced, "I will never understand all this romance shit you people all do." She shook her head and just continued eating her pancakes.
"You know what? I think she will be even cuter in person." Tiffany said with a dreamy smile.
"Hmm." Jessica hummed with a nod.
"I mean, all the pictures she has sent to me were on the spot but she looked cute in all of them, I just can't." Tiffany spazzed a little and whipped her phone out to Jessica, "She sent me this last night, ugh, isn't she cute?"
"Last night? That's what you fap to? I'm sorry Tiff but if you fap to something like this or rather someone with that face, you're definitely a pedophile." Jessica said with a frown.
"Wha- ! How dare you?!" Tiffany leaned back in her seat, offended by what her best friend just said.
"Tiff, she's nine!" Jessica rolled her eyes.
"For fuck's sake Jessie, she's older than both of us!"
"Right. I won't believe in that until I see her ID." Jessica said nonchalantly eating her pancakes. She looked up with a smirk but before she could say anything to her best friend, her eyes caught something at the far away table in the corner.
"What's wrong?" Tiffany asked, concerned by the sudden change of her best friend's demeanor.
"Show me that picture again," Jessica said, not giving Tiffany the chance to even register what she just asked for, she snatched Tiffany's phone from her hand and stared at Taeyeon's picture hard.
"What?" Tiffany asked again, snatching her phone back from Jessica.
"Tiff..." Jessica leaned back in her seat, crossed her arms and smirked at Tiffany, "I don't think you're the only one who doesn't feel like eating right now."
"Huh?" Tiffany raised an eyebrow.
"The table behind you, in the corner," Jessica said, gesturing for Tiffany to look behind her.
Confused, Tiffany looked behind her and squinted to get a better look at the table far away, at the corner, next to the windows.
There was a family of four sitting together, a man who seemed to be in his mid-forties, slightly overweight, wearing a baseball cap, next to him, a brunette who seemed to be the same age as him, her hand resting on his on the table, next to the woman was another brunette who's a lot younger than the man and the woman, maybe the same age as her, she had a sweet smile on her cute face and something glamorous about her that Tiffany couldn't put her finger on, and sitting between the man and the younger brunette is another girl whose face Tiffany definitely recognized right away.
"T- Taeyeon!" Tiffany immediately put her hand on her mouth and turned back to Jessica, lowering her head, afraid that Taeyeon had heard her or saw her.
Jessica had a smug smile on her face and just enjoyed watching her best friend squirm.
"Hide you idiot!" Tiffany said, shooting a glare of her own at Jessica.
"Why? She doesn't know who I am." Jessica shrugged.
Tiffany then realized that she is the stupid one, of course Taeyeon doesn't know who Jessica is, she doesn't need to hide, "Is she looking?" She asked nervously.
"She hadn't looked up from her plate once," Jessica said, making Tiffany physically relax.
Tiffany slowly looked back again and took in the full sight of Taeyeon.
Her pale skin grabbing attention from far away, her face is way cuter than the pictures and Tiffany believe that it will be even cuter if Taeyeon was smiling. Right now, Taeyeon doesn't look like she's having the time of her life. Unlike her three companions who are laughing and seem to be enjoying the company of each other, Taeyeon seemed to be more interested in how sticky the cheese on her potato skins is. Although her expression was stoic and leaned to the board side more, it's clear how uncomfortable she is even from that far away.
"She doesn't look like she wants to be here," Jessica commented.
"Yeah..." Tiffany nodded unconsciously, still taking in the sight of Taeyeon for the first time, "God, she's cute."
Jessica grimaced, "You sick pedophile."
Tiffany looked back at Jessica with a glare and opened her mouth, about to argue.
"Try texting her," Jessica suggested before Tiffany manages to say anything.
"What?"
"Text her, I wanna see how her face looks like when she's texting you."
"Jessie that's- "
"Hush" Jessica put her finger on Tiffany's lips to stop her from arguing, "Just do it, I know you want to see it, you know you want to see it." She said as if she's hypnotizing Tiffany.
Without saying anything, Tiffany grabbed her phone from on top of the table and opened her conversation with Taeyeon.
[Tiffany - 1:03 PM] Hey Tae, what are you doing?"
After hitting send, Tiffany immediately looked up just in time to see Taeyeon putting her hand inside the pocket of her skinny jeans and took out her phone, a little smile made it's way to Taeyeon's face which made Tiffany turn around to Jessica, excited that a text from her could make Taeyeon smile.
"She sure is into you," Jessica said with an impressed smile and a nod.
"Of course she is, who do you think I am?" Tiffany said smugly, flipping her hair over her shoulder.
"Bitch you're back!" Jessica almost went around the table to hug her best friend who seemed to be back to her usual confidence self instead of the fangirl shit.
The smug smile on Tiffany's face immediately vanished to a nervous one when her phone vibrated in her hand.
[Taeyeon - 1:04 PM] Still in the restaurant
Tiffany sneaked a peak behind her to see what Taeyeon was doing and found out that Taeyeon was now back to playing with her food but with a hint of a smile on her face.
"Ask her if she's enjoying herself," Jessica suggested.
Tiffany immediately looked back at her phone and typed as fast as she could.
[Tiffany - 1:05 PM] Having fun?
Tiffany again, looked up to see what Taeyeon will do, and as a boost to her ego, Taeyeon smiled again and looked at her phone.
[Taeyeon - 1:05 PM] Nah, it's boring here.
[Taeyeon - 1:05 PM] I would rather talk to you right now but I would rather not appear rude in front of these people.
[Tiffany - 1:05 PM] Okay, just checking in on you.
[Taeyeon - 1:06 PM] You boosted up my mood a bit, thanks for that 👽
[Tiffany - 1:06 PM] You're very welcome 😉
Although Tiffany was a bit concerned that Taeyeon had just called her family these people, she closed her phone with a smile and looked back up again to see what Taeyeon is doing. To her distaste, Taeyeon is no longer holding her phone but instead, she's listening to something the older brunette is saying, her face expressionless again. The conversation, however, did not continue long because with a single word from Taeyeon, the conversation immediately averted from her to the younger brunette next to her.
"I kind of feel sorry for her," Jessica said, grabbing Tiffany's attention.
"Yeah..." Tiffany nodded, having a hard time taking her eyes off Taeyeon.
"Well, at least she has got you to go on a date with later." Jessica shrugged, not really able to hold her attention on one thing for long.
"Yeah..." Tiffany answered absentmindedly and finally looked away when the eyes of the younger brunette met hers, "She saw me!"
"Well, you gotta hope she won't say anything later because you know how normal it is to watch someone eat that intently," Jessica said, sarcasm dripping from her voice.
Tiffany rolled her eyes at that, "Not Taeyeon, the girl sitting next to her."
Jessica looked up at the younger brunette whose seat is facing them and saw that indeed, she was staring at their table but the hand of the older brunette grabbed her attention away.
"It's okay, she's not looking anymore," Jessica said to the nervous Tiffany.
"Who do you think she is?" Tiffany asked, curious about Taeyeon's family.
"Either her sister or her girlfriend."
"She said she's going out with her Dad, not family, I think she's her sister and besides...Taeyeon doesn't have a girlfriend." Tiffany said, refusing the girlfriend idea.
"Says who?" Jessica smirked.
"Says Taeyeon."
"Yeah, right." Jessica rolled her eyes, still not trusting Taeyeon at all.
"Let's get out of here before she notices me," Tiffany said getting up and followed by a lazy Jessica.
However, before exiting the restaurant, Tiffany couldn't help it but take one last glance at Taeyeon whose expression did not change from 5 minutes ago.
She looks so...lonely.