Chapter 168 - 168 The Wink

168 The Wink

Korain and Jung-Hwa were busy cooking eggs while Jeong-Eun and Jung-Hwa made toast and made coffee and tea for everyone.

“Why does she have no material to cook Korean food?” asked Korain.

“Because she is Indian. She has no idea who to cook Korean,” replied Jae-Hwa.

“Oh right! I looked everywhere there is no seaweed, fish oil or sesame oil, not even spring onions,” commented Korain. “But how does she have kimchi?”

“Oh, that I gave her,” said Jae-Hwa.

“You?”

“In fact, my Uhmma gave her,” said Jae-Hwa.

“Your Uhmma?” asked Korain.

“After she protected me in that restaurant, my whole family came to visit her, and we brought a lot of food with us. Mom brought food worth 100 people,” laughed Jae-Hwa.

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“Moms are like that,” he smiled.

The food was almost done. Korain instructed Jung-Hwa and Jeong-Eun to bring out the plates and cups and started plating the food. He looked into the living room and shouted, “Kyungsoona, Ritti, wash your hands.”

“Why only them?” asked Him-Chan.

“Because they have blood on their hands,” replied Korain.

Nivritti looked at her hand. The blood was dry now. The pain in her foot was a little less. She placed her foot on the ground but due to the thick bandage, it was difficult to place her foot properly.

“Let me help you,” offered Him-Chan and extended his hand to her.

“I will take her. I too have to wash my hands,” interjected Kyung-Soo and he too extended his hand and shoved it in her face.

Him-Chan folded back his hand and moved to his side, disappointed. Nivritti took Kyung-Soo’s hand and stood up. She avoided placing too much pressure on her injured leg. Kyung-Soo wrapped her arm around his shoulder and walked with her. To walk with her, he slightly had to crouch down.

He took her to the bathroom and opened the door. She stood carefully with her hand placed on the sink. He was about to walk in with her when she shouted, “what are you doing?”

“Going to the bathroom to wash my hands,” he replied.

“I am in, you have to wait,” snapped Nivritti. She didn’t want to be in a confined space with Kyung-Soo. By now she knew what would happen if she would be in confined spaces with him.

“Will you be able to walk? What if you break the sink or something like that?” taunted Kyung-Soo with a wicked smile on his face.

“Just like you wreck kitchen,” she teased back.

“What are you afraid of? Are you going to do something to me if I get in with you?” he covered his chest with his hands, mockingly.

“Yeah, kill you. If you come inside, I will kill you,” chided Nivritti.

Korain who was listening to the conversation rubbed his temple to ease the frustration. “Hey!” he shouted. His voice startled both Nivritti and Kyung-Soo and they stopped bickering. “I swear Kyungsoona, why do you always tease her, shout at her.”

“What? When did I?” protested Kyung-Soo.

“SK! That is not true,” Nivritti took Kyung-Soo’s side.

“I heard what happened in the copy room,” shouted Korain.

“What?” both Kyung-Soo and Nivritti shouted and gulped with fear.

“Yeah, I heard how you were shouting at her while she was printing a copy of the proposal for me,” explained Korain.

“Oh, that’s what you heard,” Kyung-Soo sighed with relief and looked at Nivritti. She too was exhaled loudly and relaxed.

“Why? Something else happened? Ritti?” questioned Korain.

“No, nothing else happened. He kept scolding me because paper jammed in the printer. Now, how is it my fault that the paper jammed? I cannot sit inside the printer to get a fine print,” pouted Nivritti. “And he kept berating me like I jammed the paper,” she lied through her teeth, lowered her head and kept smirking.

“Nam Kyung-Soo! Hyung!” everyone shouted at him.

“What?” shouted Kyung-Soo and glanced at Nivritti in anger. She slightly lifted her head, smirked and winked at him. He was taken aback after seeing her naughtiness.

“We shouted at Thae for being inconsiderate and then you go and do this,” shouted Korain.

“I didn’t do that, Hyung,” protested Kyung-Soo.

“Enough! Both of you wash your hands and come quick,” yelled Korain.

“Why am I being scolded?” pouted Nivritti.

“Wash your hands fast. He is not ‘pleasant’ when he gets angry,” muttered Kyung-Soo and entered the bathroom. Nivritti squirted handwash liquid on her hand and started lathering it up. Kyung-Soo too pumped the handwash onto his hands and started washing them.

After they were done, they moved out of the bathroom. Nivritti thought Kyung-Soo would again offer his hands for her to walk but he did not do that. Instead, without warning, he placed his hands over her back and thighs and lifted her in his arms.

Everyone froze when they saw it. The whole living room looked like they were doing the mannequin challenge. Nivritti gasped and stopped breathing. Kyung-Soo didn’t look at anyone, he just walked towards the couch with Nivritti in his hands and softly placed her on the couch.

“Wh… what… was that?” stammered Nivritti.

“He said to come quick. I didn’t want another scolding for walking slowly,” replied Kyung-Soo innocently. No one had any words to speak after that. When no one was looking at Kyung-Soo, he glanced at Nivritti and winked at her to mock her. Her jaw dropped with his gesture.

She knew he did that to exact revenge on her for lying about the copy room.

The food was placed on the table. Some were sitting on the couch, and some were on the floor.

“Wow! This is delicious,” said Nivritti.

“Hyung is a very good cook,” blurted out Thae.

“Aww… I envy your girlfriend,” said Nivritti. Kyung-Soo who kept stuffing his mouth with eggs and toast suddenly stopped eating and chewing. He looked at Nivritti with his mouth full of food.

“Did she like someone who can cook?” he thought and instantly pouted.

“Really!” smiled Korain.

“Yeah, girls love men who can cook,” interrupted Jae-Hwa. “And you should have seen with him the knife, so sexy!” blurted out Jae-Hwa.