When Jo Minjoon said those words, the ones that were next to him all put strange faces. And it wasn’t an exception for Chloe. She opened her mouth as if she was perplexed.
“Why are you sorry to me?”
He couldn’t reply anything at that question. It was a really embarrassing thing to reply back. And even if he did say it, it would only hurt Chloe. Jo Minjoon forced a smile. He didn’t want to send her with a suffering face.
“No. It’s nothing. Thank you for what you have done.”
“Why thank me……”
Chloe scratched her cheeks with an awkward face. Kaya asked with a voice that you couldn’t even say by joke that it was cheerful.
“But why did you do that?”
“Huh?”
“The mission? Why did you suddenly make a familiar meal? You could make an even better dish.”
“I wonder…… There are those situations when your mom is lecturing you, and even if you know that if you reply back it will only get longer, but you do it anyways. I think that I felt like that.”
It was a weird and convincing reply. When Kaya and Anderson were nodding, Jo Minjoon just looked at Chloe without saying anything. Chloe, too, seemed like she wanted to say many things, but she couldn’t open her mouth maybe because of Anderson and Kaya. Anderson glanced at Chloe and suddenly brought his handphone that didn’t even ring to his ear.
“Yes, Martin. Yes. Right now? Understood.”
Anderson stood up and looked at Kaya.
“Hey. Get up.”
“What? Why so suddenly?”
“Martin says that he has something to ask. We have to go for a moment.”
“…….I wanted to be a little more with Chloe.”
Kaya pouted her lips with a sad face. But she couldn’t act spoiled when the PD was calling her. At that moment, Anderson’s and Chloe’s eyes met. Anderson smirked, and Chloe that saw that could vaguely guess the situation. Chloe blushed and moved her feet sluggishly. Jo Minjoon mumbled with a weird voice.
“Why is Martin calling them?”
“Ye, yeah. It doesn’t happen normally.”
“Well, if they come back we will know.”
Jo Minjoon looked at Chloe. They sat facing each other with a table in the middle, and they looked tactfully at each other for different reasons. Chloe slowly opened her mouth.
“I got to go first.”
“…….We will be able to see again. Cooking, you will keep doing it, right?”
Honestly speaking, the words she had said to him kept roaming in his head. It had stimulated him, and at the same time made him worry. Would she think that this path wasn’t suited to her, and leave it? Chloe smiled merrily and nodded.
“Don’t worry. I’m not planning to stop. I just…… resisted for a moment. This cooking can be done, and that cannot. I don’t like differentiating that much. I told you that I’m going to run a restaurant.”
“Right. You said that you were going to run a couple restaurant. I hope for your dreams to become true.”
Jo Minjoon said while putting a soft, yet sad smile. Chloe just looked at his smile. She liked that expression she could see at times. Because she could feel that he thought about her. At Jo Minjoon’s one smile, Chloe imagined tens, or twenty things. She saw things that weren’t visible, and heard what wasn’t hearable. Chloe forced a leisure voice.
“If I want to run it, money is money, but I need a husband to run it together. And a chef husband on top of that.”
“Ah, that’s also true. It will be a really difficult dream.”