My Happy Place, ㅤ ㅤ Lee Cheong San

ㅤㅤㅤ001ㅤjust another day.

"I named it Cheong-san Chicken way before you were born." His mother replied with her head up, "Exactly you named me after the restaurant." Cheong-san whined, receiving a knee-jab from Gyeong-su. "I really like it. Sounds like a tradition." He cheered on, the girls agreeing leaving Cheong-san to sulk alone.

"Look, so this is a new recipe we just came up with, this one is just a little spicy and this one's really hot. What do you think? You can be totally honest with me." Everyone's gaze lingered from one face to another, Soyang spoke up first, "It's heavenly, auntie!" She put up a thumbs up.

"It's super crazy mad good." Gyeong-su praised the chicken in his hand, "It's delicious." He looked up to Cheong-san's mom, the older woman smiled. "Ma'am if you ever need a delivery boy, I'll work for cheap." Gyeong-su spoke with sparkle in his eyes, "You guys need to study." Cheong-san's mother laughed.

"Onjo, is it too hot?" She looked at Onjo expectantly, "It's salty." The woman's smile fell, "How about this one? Is it spicy?" She asked again, "No, it's salty." The mother immediately rushed to the kitchen to relay the information to her husband.

"Auntie, make the spicy one a little spicier and─" Yijae took a bite of the hot chicken, "Make the hot one, a little sweeter and a little spicy as well." His mother turned again, relaying more of the information, glancing thankfully at Yijae.

The other spoke amongst themselves, Cheong-san picked up the half empty Coke bottle and poured all of it for Onjo, Gyeong-su slid his cup near him but till the very end, he was ignored. Cheong-san opened another bottle and poured some for Yijae, "Here." He smiled at her.

"Did you hear about our science teacher?" Isak excitedly brought up the gossip, "What about him?" Cheong-san asked interestedly. "Well he smells like rotting corpse, Yijae gasped and Soyang rolled her eyes. "That's just a rumour Nayeon started." Soyang claimed, "It's true." Onjo argued on ── "He was absent after his son went missing. But then he came into class, she said he smelled like corpse." Onjo concluded, looking at everyone's reaction.

"How does she know what a corpse smells like? Has she smelled one before." Cheong-san counters, "I swear she know every other smell except that one." Onjo countered, "Since she's never smelled it before, it has to be a rotting corpse."

"Well maybe they found his son's body or something, maybe dead and that's where he got the scent from. I wouldn't be surprised if his bullies killed him, they're brutal. I never want to fight Gwi-nam." Yijae shuddered, which also made Soyang shudder. "I completely agree." Soyang nodded.

"I feel really bad for Mr. Lee." To that everyone agreed, "Remember last week when he just left class." Onjo reminisced, the group thought. "They say he was a genius" Isak added, "Lots of geniuses go crazy." Onjo tagged on, looking at her plate.

"Well atleast you won't have to worry about going crazy." Cheong-san laughed on, Yijae snorted. "That's mean." Yijae snickered, gulping down some of her soda, "Does that mean Yijae will go insane." Soyang whimpered, everyone laughed along.

"Oh by the way, I hope you didn't forget starting day after tomorrow we all meet at my house for group studies." She reminded everyone, "Tell Suhyeok also." She looked at Cheong-san, "Yes ma'am." Everyone nodded along.

"It's because of the great Myo Yijae that we have gotten through high school till this point, please keep blessing us oh great god and bestow us with knowledge." Gyeong-su spoke with a fancy accent, all of them continued to laugh.