"This is my house Yoongi." I tell him when we pull up to my apartment building.

"You mean your rusty, old and dirty household? Yeah I know." He says, getting out of the car.

I follow him to his trunk, where he opens it to a bunch of cleaning supplies.

"What.. Yoongi you don't have to really..." I explain, but he simple smiles at me cutely. "It's alright Yoongi."

"You said we were friends now right? So here... this is what friends do for each other... I'm pretty sure."

I smile childishly, a weird feeling forming in my stomach.

"Alright..."

And that's how we spent our afternoon after school. Cleaning and dusting up my apartment, and for once a strange feeling cane back to me that I hadn't felt in a really long time.

Happiness.

After our chores, I offered Yoongi some dinner, knowing very well that he couldn't cook for his life, and his roommates weren't that better.

Chicken stir fry with rice. Something my mom and I used to make when I was younger.

Things are different when you're younger. The simplicity of even waking up and getting up in the morning as a child was beyond my own belief. Everything seems so big to you when you're a kid. The world was just too much to take in for such a little one's eyes. But we always had someone alongside us. To help us through this cruel and hurtful world.

If only it was the same for when we got older.

Or at least for me.

"I can make kimchi." Yoongi offers me, and I smile at him.

"Yeah go ahead."

And soon enough we're eating our lives away in rice,
Kimchi and chicken.

"How the heck do you cool so well. I can't even boil water correctly." Yoongi asks, clearly satisfied with the meal he had eaten.

I giggle a bit.

"I learned from my mom when I was younger." I explain.

"She must be a wonderful cook." Yoongi guesses. And he's right. She was at least.

It's amazing how some changes to your lifestyle could even change such habits you have picked up during your whole life.

"She loved to cook." I say, "It was something she took pride in, her cooking."

I found myself remembering the times with my mother in the kitchen back then. "She loved baking too. You should've been there! You would love her cakes. Anytime I made them using her recipe, it would never come out right."

"She sounds wonderful. Does she live back at your hometown in Ilsan?" Yoongi asks.

"Yeah. And she was. She really was wonderful."

By the subtle change Yoongi has in his expression, I can tell he notices the excessive use of past tense in my speech. He quickly changes the subject.

"So uh... have you ever went out dating before Aly?"