As Seulgi and Irene ate, the former realized that the goddess was definitely not wrong. Solar had packed so much food, the barista wasn’t sure whether her fake mother wanted her to feed just herself and Irene or give food to anyone she comes across on the way there. As much as Seulgi was a big eater, this was simply way too much.

Despite her mind saying that the food was definitely too much, the bear-like girl found herself immersed in her sandwich, hungrily devouring the snack much like the animal her friends often compared her to. That was, until her sharp ears picked up a small giggle. Eyes widening, Seulgi turned to look at the only other person in the room.

Doe eyes were shimmering in amusement as they looked at the barista, and Seulgi couldn’t help but send a smile back, her eyes upturning to crescents even if she had no idea what was going on. Irene placed her food down and raised her hand, gesturing for the bear-like girl to come closer.

Cluelessly Seulgi leaned closer towards Irene, her heart thundering in her chest as the space between them closed. When they met eye to eye, the goddess suddenly cupped the taller girl’s face and leaned closer. Seulgi held her breath. The bear-like girl was sure that she was flushed from head to toe, and squeezed her eyes shut in an attempt to not completely combust at what was going to happen next.

Seulgi suddenly felt a smooth sensation ghosting atop her lips. When she felt the developer lean away from her, the bear-like girl’s eyes fluttered open.

“Uh—”

“There was sauce on your face... You should slow down a bit, there’s no rush...” Irene said rather calmly as she folded the napkin she used to wipe the creamy substance off of Seulgi’s face, a small smile on her lips. The barista chomped on her sandwich, devouring all of its remains in an attempt to ease her nerves. If Irene was bothered how brash she was being, she didn’t let it show.

“I know I said it earlier, but you could really feed the whole world with all of this,” The goddess gestured to the bag of food that still seemed to be filled to the brim with various sandwiches and pastries. Seulgi swallowed hard and gathered her courage.

“Well, I was hoping I did…” Seulgi paused, gauging Irene’s reaction as the goddess gracefully ate her own sandwich.

“Because you’re my world,” The bear-like girl tried to wink, which only resulted to both of her eyes closing and opening at random intervals, as if her eyes were having a seizure.

Irene was coughing up a storm by the time the barista ended her attempts at winking, and Seulgi quickly grabbed tissues to hand over to the developer, and patted her back repeatedly to ease her coughing.

“Are you okay—” The usually slow bear was quick to face Irene. “Oh my gosh your lips are bleeding!” She suddenly exclaimed, her eyes widening as she saw a streak of red descending from plush lips.

“It’s— I’m not,” Irene said calmly while pushing Seulgi away. “It’s the ketchup,” The developer clarified as she dabbed a napkin on her face, removing the reddish substance.

“Oh, I was worried for a second there,” The barista said, relief evident on her features, oblivious to the pink hues adorning the goddess’ face.

Seulgi did not need to know that Irene bit her lip too hard just to stop herself from dying on the spot.

    When the pair had finally finished their little meal, with Irene insisting that she was perfectly fine, despite the fact that her heart was beating a mile a minute, the developer went ahead to teach Seulgi how to build a computer. It was mostly to distract herself. Mostly.

Besides the usual system overloads Irene would get over the angelic girl, the developer soon discovered that if Seulgi was as smooth as butter when it came to her pick up lines, her hands seemed to be even smoother.

Irene wasn’t sure how she survived watching Seulgi almost drop another set of expensive PC parts.

With her hand on her chest, struggling to catch her breath after the bear-like girl nearly knocked the newly built desktop off the table just by turning around, the developer decided that perhaps messing with technology was not Seulgi’s thing. At all.

Nonetheless, she appreciated her enthusiasm.

It was cute.

Scratch that, it was absolutely adorable and Irene was smitten.

But this had to come to a stop before the developer actually dies of cardiac arrest from the angel’s cuteness and clumsiness all at once.

“Seulgi why don’t you move those boxes over here first, and I’ll finish this,” Irene gestured to the computer while the bear-like girl nodded dumbly as she returned the screwdriver to the developer. When they had switched places, Irene couldn’t help but notice that Seulgi seemed out of it. The angel-like girl’s cheeks were flushed, and she was sweating buckets even with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows.

“Seulgi?” Irene tilted her head slightly, looking at the barista in concern. When she received nothing as a response, the developer realized that she must’ve been overheating.

Though Irene was never one to assume, so she might as well ask.

“You look… thirsty,” The developer managed to voice out instead. That seemed to jolt Seulgi out of her trance, as the bear-like girl’s features quickly turned into a shade of crimson.

“Wha— I, uh, well—” The barista struggled to form a proper sentence, her eyes darting to anywhere but Irene while the developer seemed completely oblivious to the situation. The latter turned around and bent down to retrieve a water bottle from the bag. Seulgi squeezed her eyes shut.

“Windows!” Seulgi muttered much too loudly as she swallowed, listening to the sound of items shuffling about. “Who on earth decided to have an office without windows…” The barista tugged on her shirt in a feeble attempt to cool herself down from the heat and from the object of her affections.

“Windows? Oh shoot,” Seulgi’s eyes snapped open, watching Irene place the cold water bottle to her head for a while before handing it to the bear-like girl. A small frown was etched on the smaller girl’s face, the glare from her glasses blocking her eyes.

“I can’t believe I forgot to bring the installer… But another one should be here somewhere...” Irene muttered, mostly to herself as she removed the hair tie from her head, her hands raking down her brown locks. While the developer was preoccupied with her thoughts, Seulgi greedily gulped down the water bottle’s contents before attempting to speak.

“Maybe it’s in one of the boxes?” The barista suggested. She could no longer stay so close to a goddess that didn’t know how absolutely alluring she was at the moment. “I can look for whatever that is,” Seulgi continued as she quickly shuffled towards the boxes that were stacked haphazardly in the corner of the small office space.

Irene jumped slightly at the bear-like girl passing by her, as the latter’s footsteps were almost completely silent. The developer huffed in annoyance, frustrated at how easily she jumped at anything that moved. When Irene realized which box Seulgi was about to pick up, she knew she had to stop her.

Her life depended on it.

She would rather deal with another round of bugs than Seulgi seeing the contents of that box.

“Seulgi, wait!”  

Suddenly, Irene had turned into a track star with how fast she was able to get to Seulgi, her small frame soaring through the sky as she sat atop the box that the barista was about to grab.

The large stack of boxes swayed uneasily, and Seulgi’s grip on the box that Irene was currently sitting on was faltering.

It was at that moment that the developer realized that many mistakes were made today.

“AAH!”

“Irene!”

“Seulrene, it’s official,” Yeri announced into the cafe like she owned the place, her fist pounding on the table