Seunghyun had been in the kitchen all afternoon. In fact, he’d been preparing this meal for more than a week now. First, he’d had to find a recipe that sounded do-able, then he had to do some research on where to get all the ingredients (and additional kitchen utensils, since his kitchen didn’t hold more than the basics), made a detailed schedule of what to do when and argued with Hyeyoon noona over it again and again.

His kitchen was a mess, there was a plaster on his finger from where he had cut himself rather than the carrots and somewhere on his arm was a little blister where it had a run-in with a hot pan but Seunghyun proudly set the plate down in front of Jiyong on the table he had set a few days ago with the help of some tutorials on youtube.

Jiyong smiled softly. “Thank you, Seunghyun. I never thought you’d cook for me.”

Seunghyun pulled the apron off and poured Jiyong some wine. “You know I’ve never done it before, but I really wanted to.”

He held his breath as Jiyong took the first bite but Seunghyun’s face fell when Jiyong’s did and he stopped chewing, desperately trying to not make a face.

“What? What is it?”

Jiyong swallowed the bite with difficulty and reached for his wine glass to wash the taste down. “Try for yourself.”

Carefully, Seunghyun tried a little piece of the veggie lasagna only to spit it in his napkin. “That’s…that’s horrible!”

“A little on the bitter side, maybe.”

‘A little