{OST: "Tell Me You Love Me" by Bolbbalgan4}
25th December 2018,
Heart Signal Day 24,
Day of Final Date,
Tuesday
[1992 Café, 2:00 p.m.]
It's 2:00 p.m. and Seokjin and Byulyi finally reached their first date location. When they reached the cafe, there were already two familiar faces waiting for them inside. They spotted Seokjin and Byulyi from outside the cafe and smiled, waving for them to come on in.
<Lee Jaehwan, Seokjin's university friend>
<Lee Junghwan, Seokjin's university friend>
[Heart Signal Panel]
Eana: Lee Jaehwan and Lee Junghwan again?
Jaewoong: They're the friends that gave him good advice aren't they?
Sangmin: Woah, daebak. So now they're gonna meet Byulyi-ssi? I wonder how this will turn out.
[1992 Café, 2:05 p.m.]
They walk into the cafe, Byulyi bowing down repeatedly to them. They stand up as well and bow repeatedly to her.
Byulyi: Annyeonghaseyo, annyeonghaseyo.
Jaehwan: Annyeonghaseyo.
Junghwan: Annyeonghaseyo. How have you been?
Byulyi smiled and took a seat across them both. Seokjin took a seat right next to her.
Byulyi: I've been doing great, how about you?
Jaehwan: The usual.
Junghwan: Yeah, pretty normal.
Byulyi smiled warmly.
Byulyi: What would you guys like?
Seokjin interjected before his friends could reply.
Seokjin: Just choose four dishes of whatever you want to eat, we'll share!
Jaehwan and Junghwan pouted.
Jaehwan: But I want spaghetti bolognese!
Junghwan: And I want chicken parm!
Seokjin glared at them, whispering to them sternly.
Seokjin: Hey- I told you guys to behave today, didn't I?
Jaehwan and Junghwan frowned but did as he asked.
Junghwan: Alright, I don't want the chicken parm anymore.
Jaehwan: I suddenly don't feel the desire to eat spaghetti anymore. Byulyi-ssi, go ahead and order whatever you want.
Seokjin turned to Byulyi and smiled.
Seokjin: Don't mind them. Just order whatever you like today - it's my treat.
Byulyi laughed as she called the waitress over.
Byulyi: Please give us one caesar salad, one pepperoni pizza, one spaghetti bolognese and... one chicken parm. Thank you.
[Heart Signal Panel]
Sangmin: Wah... this girl's a clever one. People say the fastest way to a man's heart is through his stomach but they're wrong. The fastest way to a man's heart is through his friends.
Jongshin: You- you just made that up.
Sangmin: I did, so what?
[1992 Café, 2:15 p.m.]
Jaehwan and Junghwan beamed, looking from Seokjin then to Byulyi.
Jaehwan: Aigoo, you didn't have to...
Junghwan: We were really just saying it for fun...
Byulyi laughed.
Byulyi: It's alright, I didn't know what to order either.
Below the table, Junghwan and Jaehwan both kicked Seokjin's foot once each and raised their eyebrows at him. Seokjin winced slightly.
Byulyi: Are you okay? What's wrong?
Seokjin laughed, shooting a side glare at his two friends.
Seokjin: It's nothing, my leg just cramped up slightly.
Byulyi grabbed Seokjin's hand and Jaehwan and Junghwan almost spat out the water in their mouths. Seokjin also looked at her with a shocked expression on his face.
Seokjin: Um... what are you doing?
Byulyi smiled, using her thumb to rub the small area of skin between his thumb and index finger.
Byulyi: It's something my grandma used to do for me when I was younger. It helps to relieve muscle cramps, pains and headaches!
Seokjin smiled.
Seokjin: Wow, you're right the pain is almost gone! I mean, the cramp!
He glared at the two of them and after a few minutes, Byulyi finally let go. She smiled at Seokjin.
Byulyi: You can do it for yourself next time, when you have cramps or pains anywhere. It's an acupoint that promotes blood circulation and it's really effective, as you can see.
[Heart Signal Panel]
The BTS members burst into laughter but the rest of the panelists remain confused.
Jongshin: Why are you guys laughing all of a sudden?
V: Look at Jaehwan-ssi and Junghwan-ssi's faces. You'll know why.
They zoom into Jaehwan and Junghwan's faces and realise that they were literally staring at them with their mouths hanging open. The rest of the panelists laugh too.
Eana: Ah, daebak. These kids.
[1992 Café, 2:20 p.m.]
A while later, the food arrived. The food looked amazing. From the pizza, to the salad to the highly requested chicken parm and spaghetti. Byulyi took a fork and knife and cut a piece of chicken, before putting it on Junghwan's playe and scooped a huge spoon of spaghetti before putting it on Jaehwan's plate. She smiled at the both of them.
Byulyi: Please eat a lot!
The two of them stared at her, mouths agape for a while. Then they both kicked Seokjin in the leg again, much lighter this time.
[Heart Signal Panel]
Eana: Is that like their signal or something? Saying that she's doing the right thing or they approve of her or something?
RM: It sure seems so.
[1992 Café, 2:25 p.m.]
She then scooped some of each food onto Seokjin's plate for him. Seokjin smiled at her gratefully and she smiled back. The four of them, who were starving, finally dug into their food.
Jaehwan: So, Jin finally mustered up his courage to talk to you, huh.
Seokjin laughed awkwardly, shooting Jaehwan a death glare, which he conveniently ignored.
Byulyi laughed.
Byulyi: Sorry, excuse me?
Junghwan: Jin was having problems talking to you, he said he was upset when you didn't wanna talk to him, he felt disappoi-
Seokjin: Shhh!
But Byulyi had heard it all. She turned to Seokjin and smiled.
Byulyi: Care to explain?
Seokjin laughed nervously.
Seokjin: Er... well... yeah, that's it.
Byulyi laughed.
Byulyi: Alright, let's just leave it there then. I'm happy already, anyway.
[Heart Signal Panel]
Eana: I thought these friends might cause some trouble but turns out they're revealing good things about Seokjin-ssi to Byulyi-ssi!
[1992 Café, 2:45 p.m.]
Byulyi: So... I supposed you guys have kept contact with Jin since university, huh. Do you have anything to say about him?
Seokjin kicked both of them lightly under the table.
Jaehwan: Ouch! You didn't have to kick me, Jin.
Seokjin pursed his lips, hiding his face. Byulyi laughed, as if she knew what was going on.
Byulyi: So, anything?
Junghwan: Alright, as you know, he's a pretty cool dude. His face is a 9/10 only losing the 1 mark because he can't compare to me. I'm a 10-
Seokjin shot him a disgusted look. Junghwan laughed.
Junghwan: But other than that, everything else is a 10/10. Cooking, manners, kindness, everything. He's a complete package. I highly recommend him.
Seokjin: Ya! How can you introduce me like a sponsored product! Next! Jaehwan, you tell her!
Jaehwan laughed.
Jaehwan: I prepared a really nice comment, Jin. It's just one line, but you'll completely love me for this. Byulyi, listen carefully.
Byulyi and Seokjin leaned forward, smiling in anticipation of what Jaehwan was about to say.
Jaehwan: If I was a girl, I would totally steal Jin away from you.
All of them except Jaehwan burst into laughter as well.
Jaehwan: What? Wasn't that good?
Seokjin couldn't stop laughing.
Seokjin: Bro, that's enough for the day, you just made yourself sound weird. It's time to go home.
Byulyi laughed non-stop as well, repeatedly hitting Seokjin on the shoulder, wiping away a tear from her eye because she was laughing so hard.
Byulyi: OMG, that was a good one.
[Heart Signal Panel]
The panelists burst into laughter.
Eana: WHAT. WAS. THAT.
[1992 Café, 3:00 p.m.]
After the lunch, Seokjin asked Byulyi to wait outside the cafe as he proceeded to say goodbye to his friends and pay up for the meal. Actually, he wanted to have a final word with them about Byulyi.
Seokjin: So, what do you think?
The two of them put two thumbs up.
Jaehwan: We approve.
Junghwan: A hundred percent.
Seokjin smiled.
Seokjin: Thanks for trying to put in some good words for me, I really appreciate it guys.
They both smiled back at Seokjin.
Junghwan: We can finally see why you like her. She's considerate and really nice. I'm sad that we didn't mix around with her more back in university... if not she could have been mine inst-
Seokjin slapped Junghwan on the head and turned to Jaehwan.
Seokjin: What about you?
Jaehwan: Couldn't you tell from our taps?
Seokjin: You call that taps?! I think I can barely walk after your so-called "taps"!