Chapter 56

                                    

                                          

Ophely checked the address again, making sure that she was in front of the right building, and then she reread all of the messages that followed, telling her which entrance to take, which flour to go on, which way to go from there to find the restaurant. The building was huge, and way too many businesses resided in it. But Soobin had said the restaurant was good, familiar and quite private. So she accepted. Of course she had. 
Once inside, it didn't take long for her to find the familiar head, the girl turned to face her with a smile on her lips.
"Opeli!" She said loudly and waved her hand over.
"Inyoung, it's been so long." She took her seat down, still waiting for a message on her phone. "We're still waiting for one more person, she told me she will be here soon."
"No problems, I still ordered a drink for myself, if you want one there's some home-made Makgeolli." Ophely didn't even have time to think about it before a voice she knew well spoke from behind her.
"Opeli, it's been so long." She smiled at the two girls and quickly took a seat beside Ophely, Inyoung in front of them. "Hi," She turned to look at her, "My name is Soobin, nice to meet you."
"I'm Inyoung, I'm glad to see that I'm not Ophely's only friend!"
"Hey!"

Ophely felt so light in between her two friends, weirdly closer to them than with Flora and Amelia back in France. Maybe, she thought to herself, their friendships were just different. They didn't talk about the same things, didn't do the same things, didn't live the same things. It was bound to be different, she was bound to grow up.
Their meal went well, Inyoung had started university while Ophely was getting her professional life in order and moving homes, and Soobin was now in her second year of studies. She was the only one working a full time job. It was weird.
But weirdly enough it was Inyoung and Soobin just hitting it off that was the most perturbing. By the end of the meal it felt like Ophely was the one that had been added to the duo, not the other way around.She didn't mind, but felt nice.
The eldest of the three was the first one to leave the meeting, promising Ophely to pay her back as she hadn't seen the time pass and she had to tutor at the academy some younger students, and she was nearly late.

"Can we agree on the fact that she definitely looks like her brother?" Ophely was startled out of her reverie as Inyoung leaned over the table to murmur in her ear her inner thoughts.
"What brother?" She didn't remember telling Inyoung about Jeonghan.
"Yoon Jeonghan." She stared. "I mean, you didn't tell me you weren't friends with them, but you do work with the same company and were photographed with the group and their manager." Inyoung was way too intelligent for her own good. "I'm not wrong, am I?"
"You're not. I just didn't realise how similar they looked. But unlike him she truly is an angel." Inyoung spared her a grin, glad to have been right, And what her friend had said wasn't a lie either, any Carat would know how looks could be deceiving, Jeonghan the prime exemple.
"She's so pretty too." It was true, Soobin was a pretty girl, with a natural charm and soft smile. If she hadn't wanted to study cosmetology, she could have been an idol or a model for sure. But Ophely knew that she had no want for that type of lifestyle, for now she liked being unknown, her brother's coming fame was enough for the both of them.
Yet here they were fangirling over her like crazed high school fans with nothing better to do. I mean, yeah. They had a free day with no studying, on Ophely's part, she didn't know about Inyoung.