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@mthseokjin​
naturally, as someone who didn’t have a lot of free time on her hands, cooking wasn’t exactly high on her priority list. jiyeon knew her parents would sometimes spend hours cooking for dinner, and sure she could cut up vegetables and meat ( although not... prettily ), but beyond that -- nothing. it was just food that tasted good, and that was all she cared to know. fast food and home cooked all seemed the same to the young woman, so she never bothered to look all that deeply into it.
when expressing the matter to a classmate who needed a shopping partner, her friend cried out in shock, “you don’t know how to make shrimp carbonara?” jiyeon blinked up innocently from her phone, completely unaware of the scene they were creating in the store. her friend was simply being overdramatic for no reason, as usual. “no? to be honest, i hardly even know how a rice cooker works...” her laughter was shy and short, pushing her bleached blonde hair out of her face. “i’m uhm, busy with school and work, so i hardly even have time to experiment in the kitchen.”
a short pause followed her, then she asked very, very quietly, “is it difficult to make?”












