it had turned out that the girl didn't have a name tag, so minho had decided just to wash the hoodie and ask her then.

because the more he had looked at her, the more he was convinced that she was beautiful; not like a confident beauty, more like a sad beauty.

not that he had looked at her for long -

at the laundry he spend a lot of time staring at the girl's hoodie going round and round in the washing machine. other people would've probably spend a lot of time overthinking what to say, but that wasn't really minho's thing.

so he just went into the store, not minding what was going to happen. there wasn't a lot to expect for him, just like everything in his life.

outside the store cold rain was dripping against the windows, but it wasn't anything like the autumn ivy knew from her home town.

it made her feel the urge to cry, so she did; she wasn't good at holding back her emotions.

when someone entered the store, she wiped her tears quickly anyway and checked her appereance with her phone; it was flawless.

she looked up to see the costumer right in front of the counter, though he wasn't a stranger to her.

"hi" he greeted her "i brought your hoodie, i washed it too."

"thank you, that's nice." ivy smiled, but soon turned into a smirk. "to be honest i thought i'd never see it again."

"ouch!" minho laughed anyway and the girl behind the counter laughed with him.

"what's your name by the way?" she asked after an awkward moment of silence and left minho surprised by her straight foreward question. "song minho."

"nice, i'm ivy choi."

wow, i expected something like seyoung or chanmi, but this is really unique!

the girl across from him had been smiling, but suddenly went back to serious. "but i'm glad to see you wearing a bomber jacket now instead of a thin t-shirt."

"why do you care so much, though?" minho asked out of curiousity.

for the first time that night, ivy lowered her gaze. "because i know how much going to the doctor can cost."

and song minho related a lot to her words.