as usual, thomas almost breaks into a cold sweat when asked meticulously regarding his love life. oh how endless will this conversation be, he's already picking up on her setting him once more to blind dates he probably won't attend. she always did whenever she found it possible and he's horribly sick of women crying either by his harsh hostility. his mother's questions are more dreading than those usually asked by your regular paparrazi, a little locked between the two options of keeping things simple by telling her 'none' or to satiate her with a white lie of a woman whom he's met recently (though it's always made up). the thought of her son finally dating seems to enlighten her each time and he can't help but feel slightly bad because it's that one thing he hasn't been able to grant her with.
he doesn't know how it starts, only knows of the heated fluster against his cheeks as a familiar radiating pain shoots up his spine. he spots park kyungri along the asile for shampoos, long dark hair swiped onto one side of her shoulder as she takes a whif of the bottle she holds. and before he can even think it thoroughly, he finds himself beginning his make believe story, consisting that of his ideal and that of his mother's. at the end of it, it somehow leads him to basing it on the very same woman who rammed him against the ground: kyungri herself.
❝she's years younger than i am, a little hardheaded and somewhat hard to handle.❞ he begins to describe his imaginary girlfriend, both feet propelling as he pushes the car with his weight. arms rest against the handle, face tilting to the side and thinking of a particular image he's delusionally formed in the pits of his mind. ❝good at protecting herself, a really cool and chic personality. i think you'd like her alot mom. though i gotta say, she's a little different than what i usually go for. she's a challenge though; and i guess i've been caught under hostage.❞
he thinks he's gotten away— until she insists she needs to meet the woman of his interest this very second. little did she know that the sole inspiration he holds for his fake girlfriend is now in the very aisle as they are.
