“You had a lot of acquaintances back there,” Yoojin spoke under the orange-colored sodium street lamps.

“You’re talking about me?” Maru asked back as he walked by her side.

“Who else is here?”

“Him?”

Maru pointed towards Jiseok who was on Yoojin’s right side. Yoojin shook her head as though that wasn’t the case.

“I’m talking about you.”

“I just got to know them by chance.”

“You looked rather close to them to be just that.”

“If you think so, then maybe I am.”

They were on their way back home from the get-together. Maru tried to quietly leave the two alone and go home quietly, but Jiseok followed him like a ghost and Yoojin was with Jiseok as he had dragged her with him. Jiseok’s reasoning was that ‘it’s a pity to separate ways so early’.

“Let’s go to the noraebang! Or maybe the arcade?”

“It’s 8 o’clock. Aren’t you going home?”

“There’s still time. Let’s have a little fun before we go home.”

Jiseok was very excited since the moment the get-together started. No, he was in an excited state from the moment Maru met him. He had never seen Jiseok being quiet before. Jiseok sought new events as though every second mattered to him.

“What are you going to do?” Maru asked Yoojin for her opinion.

“My house is not far...