“What will you take?” he asked.

“Um, maybe I’ll just take American lobster. What about you?”

“Huh? You know you can take the European one if you’d prefer!”

“No, it’s okay, I…”

“Please? What would you really want?”

He looked at me with pleading eyes and I couldn’t help but smiling softly.

“But European lobster is expensive…”

“If that’s what you’d prefer, just take it.”

I shook my head softly but gave up.

“Okay, okay. I admit it, I really want to try the European lobster. But it’s very expensive!”

“I told you not to think about it.”

I laughed softly and used the tip of a finger to trace delicate patterns on the back of his hand.

“Thanks.”

He smiled and looked at his menu to escape my eyes.

“You’re welcome, Miina.”

We stayed silent for a moment before I noticed that he had escaped my question.

“What about you?”

“Crab. It looks delicious.”

I tilted my head to the side. “Seafood too?”

“Why not?”

“I was just wondering. Is this a seafood restaurant?”

“Nope, but it serves food you can’t find everywhere.”

He put his menu down when the waitress arrived. I ordered the European lobster and waited until Ryeowook was done before asking him to tell me more about him. He smiled.

“I’m 25 years old, I work in a technology company. I’m not very important in the company, but I don’t really mind. I don’t like having too many responsibilities.”

As he was telling me about him with his soft voice, I noticed how gentle his eyes were, and how beautiful his face was. I mentally laughed at myself for being falling for him. I couldn’t be like this. If he fell for me, okay, but… I couldn’t feel the same for him. If he fell for me, it meant that he liked girls. But… I was not a girl. I was a man. A real man that had been transformed into a girl. What would happen if I turned back into a man? He wouldn’t like me anymore. I couldn’t let myself get hurt like this. So, I couldn’t fall for him.

“But, my boss is sick… and I’m very worried…”

I blinked a few times. Oh. He had talked and I had stopped listening to him. I raised a brow.

“Why are you worried?”

“Because I really like him. He seems cold and everything, but I know he isn’t. He is a good boss. But hey, what about you? I told you a lot about me, but now it’s your turn.”

“There isn’t much to say about me… I’m 24 years old, I’m not very girly… I work at home, through my computer, because I’m better when I’m working at home, so my boss told me it was okay for me to stay home, as long as I do what I’m supposed to do.”

I told him as much as I could without revealing who I really was. I was ashamed to lie so much, but there was no way I could tell him I was Kyuhyun Cho, his boss, but I had been cursed and I was stuck in the body of a girl.

Everything went well, after that. We ate - the food was extremely delicious -, we talked a lot, we walked around Old Montreal for a while, and when he drove me home, I couldn’t help but tell him to call me when he would be free. He left and I went to my apartment, half-smiling like an idiot, half-growling at myself for being so girly.

Half-growling at myself for falling for him so easily.