Your mouth felt dry. "W... what?"
"I'm leaving tonight," Hoseok added, his tone final. "I'm sorry, Yuri... but I... I don't feel the same. Our paths don't lead in the same direction," he said with a deflated tone, his eyes downcast.
"... but you sai...
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Yuri dashed down the stairs from their rooftop backroom to the main house kitchen. You were almost out of breath when you entered the opulent kitchen, where your mother was preparing the Jong household breakfast. You turned and looked at her with raised eyebrows when you felt a soft, quick kiss on the cheek. When you plopped down on one of the kitchen bar stools at the counter to catch your breath, she turned and looked at you with raised eyebrows.
As she looked at your agitated face, your mother cracked a small smile. She smirks, knowing how much you despise physical activity. You are too lazy to exercise. That's why she got you a bike to ride to school. Another form of torture.
"Good morning, Eomma," you mutter, your brow furrowed as you tighten your hair into a high ponytail. "How come you didn't wake me up? I could come down and assist you in finishing the 'royal' breakfast.
"Morning princess, I wanted you to sleep in," your mother smiled, but her eyes were weary " You have been so tired of your night school classes lately. I know the entrance exams are approaching, and you've been studying hard and you've been taking extra loads."
As you sigh and help her set up the household breakfast with the food in the warmers at the buffet table, she quickly prepares you a bowl of steaming rice porridge. Your mother awoke before 4 a.m. to begin preparing the daily breakfast. She made aromatic kimchi eggs, Korean Mushroom pancakes (her aunt's favorite), and Gyeran Jjim (a must for the daily breakfast table), and served them with dalgona coffee. You polish all the silver chopsticks and return to the nook where you eat your favorite dak juk porridge-chicken and rice porridge.
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