WOO! Moving on...
Mi-Hi and Mi Sun were cleaning up the pastry shop after closing. Well, Mi Sun was doing most of the cleaning and Mi-Hi was doing most of the eating. Mi Sun's curly dark hair was pulled back into a high ponytail which bobbed around whenever she exerted force.
"You know, "Mi Sun started, "It wouldn't kill you to help out with this."
"No, "Mi-Hi chewed, "But, it would kill me to leave this cake half eaten."
Mi Sun looked at her friend, thinking. Finally, she nodded.
"Yeah, you're right."
Just then an engine was heard outside. It muffled and then sputtered with a louder roar. Probably Oppah showing off. The engine was then cut off completely. Mi-Hi turned to see the most important man in her life (after her father) smile as the chimes on the door sounded. (Author note: Insert Song Woo Bin face here.) She smiled at him through the chocolate cake in her mouth. He rolled his eyes at her and signaled for Mi Sun to sit across from him and Mi-Hi on the table she was at. Mi Sun questioned his motives. Usually he ordered a German Chocolate cake to go and then left with Mi-Hi. Apparently, her best friend told her, he always took the chocolate to give to Mi-Hi right before her leaving his car. He always gave it to her saying, "I hope this chocolate warms your heart just as much as you warm mine." Also, a little bird had told Mi Sun that Mi-Hi ate that piece of cake religiously right before going to sleep. If that isn't love, I don't know what is. Mi Sun said to herself.
Mi Sun sat across from the two star-crossed lovers. Song Woo Bin leaned his arm against the back of Mi-Hi's chair as she ate. She eyed it tentatively but continued eating nonetheless.
"What's up?" Mi Sun asked him.
"So, Mi-Hi... You know those girls that every time you hear their name it makes your insides churn?" He talked to the person next to him while looking at Mi Sun without any expression.
"You mean, Ginger! Sonny! Mi-ran-da!" She imitated in a high pitched nasal voice. He half-smiled.
"Yes."
"Love those old chaps! How are they anyway? Any closer to the River Styx?" she hinted at sarcasm.
"Actually, it just so happens they invited us to their going away party! Well, they invited me... But they didn't say I couldn't bring any one with me." Mi-Hi looked skeptically at her Oppah while Mi Sun tried to follow along. She had heard very little about the ATHH (Annoying Trio of Hags from Hell). If Song Woo Bin thought he was going to convince Mi-Hi to go he was sorely mistaken. Mi-Hi hated those girls so much she would rather swallow toxic acid than hang out with them. She actually disliked all of the Shin Hwa egoists, but they were the worst.
"What are you trying to say here, Woo Bin?" she said drily.
"Well... I'm kinda asking you to go with me."
"Ha! No"
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Umm..guys?" Mi Sun interrupted.
"What?" they both snapped at the same time.
"Why am I in this conversation?" she asked to clarify.
"Well, it just so happens So Yi Jung was invited too. I told him I would convince you to be his date." Mi Sun blushed slightly while a low "Ow!" came from Song Woo Bin when Mi-Hi kicked him under the table. She disapproved of the Don Juan. She knew he wasn't exactly a bad person, but she didn't trust him not to break her best friend's heart.
"I don't know..." Mi Sun said tentatively.
"Please?" he looked at her with puppy dog eyes.
"Well..." she looked at her best friend with apologetic eyes, "It doesn't seem that bad if we go there to trash it." Mi-Hi glared at her best friend for giving in so easily. From the corner of his eye, Song Woo Bin winked at Mi Sun as a thank you. She blushed lightly. Mi-Hi saw the exchange and actually felt a bit of envy. Do they like each other? She thought. For some reason, this thought saddened her.
"So will you go?" he asked her. She simply glared.
"Come on, Mi-Hi. How do you think I'll feel when all of Shin Hwa is there and I have no date? Please? Saranghe it maritjima, if you go with me."
"You already love me forever; this doesn't change how you feel now." she said unconvincingly. He turned on the puppy dog eyes full throttle. Mi Sun didn't say anything because she knew if she intervened she wouldn't hear the end of it from her best friend. Mi-Hi blew on her bangs.
"Fine." she replied curtly. Mi Sun pumped a small fist in the air at the same time Woo Bin took Mi-Hi's face in his hands and kissed her forehead. This left both girls shocked. He got up from his chair and practically ran to his car.
"That was... Unexpected." Mi Sun said.
"You're telling me." Mi-Hi said half-dazed. As she walked out to Oppah's car, the owner of the car came back in.
"Make my order a double. Once the shock of what she did wears off-"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You won't hear the end of it. I know the drill." Mi Sun prepared another bag for Woo Bin. He took them gladly and smiled at her while going out the door.
"Com sam ida!"
Mi Sun was trying to avoid her father inside the shop. Even though he had let her go to the party, he didn't trust 'those rich people and their money' except for Mi-Hi because she had proven her loyalty by leaving Shin Hwa high for public school with Mi Sun. She was dressed to go in a beautiful halter top silk dress that she stole from Mi-Hi's closet as the girl never actually wore any of them. Leaning on a chair against the wall, Mi-Hi was eating cake out of boredom. They both heard the rumble of cars approaching knowing only two people could own a sports car in this neighborhood. They saw an orange and a yellow racer pull up in front of the shop ensuing a bunch of honking and cursing from passerby. The protest ceased when they got out of the car in tuxedo dresses and, just like models, strutted into the little shop.
So Yi Jung came up to Mi Sun and kissed her hand. Woo Bin was approaching his best friend and date for the night.
"I'm so honored to be your gentleman for the evening." Yi Jung told Mi Sun. Mi-Hi took a glob of cake and put it in her mouth while looking at them in disgust. Woo Bin half smirked. Mi-Hi had finished her cake and stood up. Her Oppah froze in place halfway to her table. So Yi Jung looked shocked. Mi Sun looked... Smug. Earlier than night, she had convinced her best friend to wear a dress. It wasn't extremely feminine or expensive but it was dressy nonetheless. She doesn't remember how she ended up convincing her, but she knew she did right by doing so just by looking at Song Woo Bin's face. His Casanova facade crumbled into that of Romeo.
"What are you all staring at?" Mi-Hi crossed her arms.
"Hey Mi-Hi! If I had known you were hiding that under your training outfits I would have invited you to some chocolate cake a long time ago." Yi Jung said only half joking. This caused Woo Bin and Mi-Hi to glare at him sharply (in unison).
"I told you this was a bad idea, Mi Sun. I'm gonna go change." she went to step into the back room, but Woo Bin grabbed her wrist.
"I wouldn't stop you if it weren't for two reasons. One: we are already later than the acceptable fashionably late. Two: With this outfit, everyone will think me the luckiest man in the entire room." She seemed weary of his words but consented. All four walked outside. At the same time, Casanova and Don Juan took off their jackets, revealing vests, and put the warm cloth on top of the ladies' shoulders. Mi Sun and Mi-Hi looked at each other and, like true best friends, communicated with just one look what they were both thinking. Oh, we are so discussing this later on. As So Yi Jung led Mi Sun to his pumpkin beauty, Mi Sun stopped short.
"Wait, I want to ride with Woo Bin."
"What? Why?" So Yi Jung asked kind of shocked.
"I don't like orange." she said simply.
"But, I don't like orange." Mi-Hi protested.
"But, I give you cake." Mi Sun told her.
"But, you give me cake." Mi-hi repeated.
"So, you should let me go yellow."
"So, I should let you go yellow." she replied entranced. So Yi Jung and Song Woo Bin looked at each other weirdly. They shrugged. Therefore, Woo Bin and Mi Sun rode in his car while Mi-Hi rode with So Yi Jung. Just as she was strapping her seat belt, Mi-Hi felt the same pang she had felt when Oppah winked at Mi Sun. Her suspicion was starting to grow stronger.