“Hey.” A voice called Niel, Ricky and Changjo as soon as they left the café, heading towards the nearest minimarket to buy the ingridients for the cake. Niel turned around and saw CAP, waving at them.

“Oh, CAP-sshi.” Niel bowed and continued. “The café is closed for today, sorry.”

“Yeah, I know. Chunji’s birthday, right? I heard from Byunghun.” CAP smirked.

“Niel-hyung, let’s go. We will be late if we don’t hurry up. We still need to make the cake.” Ricky tugged Niel’s shirt.

“Ah, I can take all of you with my car if you want. It’ll be faster.” CAP offered.

‘It would be good if he could do that, but it wouldn’t appropriate right? I mean I’ve only known him for a while.’ Niel thought and he was about to refuse CAP’s offer but CAP suddenly cut Niel before he could even speak.

“I insist. Let’s go. It seems like your brothers want it too.” CAP pointed at Changjo and Ricky who were behind Niel, making puppy eyes.

“Fine.” Niel groaned and turned back to CAP. “Sorry for the trouble.” He bowed.

‘Wow this kid has manners!’ CAP thought and smiled.

                They went to CAP’s car which was parked nearby. After telling CAP the place, they hit the road. Niel sat beside CAP on the front seat and Ricky and Changjo sat behind. The car was filled with laughter from the back seat because it seemed that Changjo was tickling Ricky while CAP and Niel stayed silent.

‘Aish these kids are embarrassing.’ Niel thought in his head.

                After they arrived, CAP carefully parked the car in front of the minimarket and they went inside together. Niel grabbed a trolley and started walking around with a paper in his hand. CAP was following him but Changjo and Ricky went somewhere else. Niel started exploring the minimarket and was still followed by CAP.

“So, how old is Chunji now?” CAP started as Niel took a small bag of flour and put it in the trolley.

“21 years old now. We’ve never celebrated it since our parents’ death because he thinks it’s a waste of money. But Ricky and I have been saving money so at least we can get him a cake. We still can’t give him a decent gift though.” Niel sighed as he pushed the trolley to the canned fruit section.

“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.”

“It’s okay. It isn’t your fault anyway.” Niel said as he picked the canned fruit.

“Hey, how about I buy a gift for Chunji? I mean I didn’t give you any money for the cake. So let’s just say we buy the gift together.” CAP suggested. Niel suddenly looked at him with furro