She’s half-amused, a quarter embarrassed and a quarter annoyed with herself for being this nervous.

It’s not like she’s about to do anything for the first time… Well, technically, not really. She’s not about to do something to cross off an item from her bucket list. She’s not about to go on some wild you-only-live-once kind of adventure. She isn’t even about to meet a celebrity or some other person for the first time either.

But she can feel the butterflies fluttering around in her stomach, making her feel anxious and excited and a tad bit queasy all at the same time. It’s an uncomfortable feeling, mind you; one that won’t let her stay still as she waits.

He has never been late, maybe save for a mere handful of occasions wherein he couldn’t help but be tardy.

In the nearly ten years she’s known him, Kris has never liked being the cause of delay, never liked not being where he’s supposed to be at the right time. She remembers him saying how punctuality has always been important to him back then. He merely mentioned it in passing but she’s always remembered.

She’s always been the one with the better memory between the two of them. But aside from that, his I’m-never-late-or-absent claim always came back to bite him in the whenever he asked her to time his arrival and then subsequently arrived late than the promised time.

Sooyoung glances at the clock. The moment it strikes 12:55 pm, she hears the honk of a horn outside. She wills herself to calm down, checks her reflection one more time in the mirror, grabs her purse and runs out the front door.