Christmas Prank

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(NOTE: You probably want to listen to these acoustic instrumentals while reading.)

They were walking towards the nearest convenience store.

Everyone is now looking at them what with the visual bombs that they are. Seems all that is within their range stopped to look at them or throw side glances.

Irene with her straight face is casually holding onto Lee Know's right arm and he looks like not minding the awed look of anyone passing them as he, too, maintained a poker face.

It was December 23 and they are shopping for groceries for Christmas Day.

Once inside the convenience store, they automatically pick what they need.

"Yow, Ice. You want Tomahawk steak, right? Should we buy this?" as Lee Know pointed to the referred steak.

Irene momentarily averted her gaze to the Tomahawks, but she kind of liked the Denver Steak more at the moment.

"Uhmm, you could pick several pieces of the Tomahawk but I'm picking up Denver too."

Lee Know do as he was told. The next aisle is fruits, and he automatically picks a lot of them.

When Irene saw it, she smiled a little but ended up laughing because almost a third of the whole pushcart was filled with fruits.

Lee Know also ended up laughing with Irene and returned some of the fruits to their right places in the aisle.

"Hey, Ice," while winking at Irene, "...gimme the pushcart instead so that you will be the one to pick everything we need here, and you would stop laughing at me like that. And so that I'm not just going to randomly pick everything else too."

He squeezed Irene's shoulders from the back before gently grabbing the pushcart.

Irene, now only smiling, let him get the pushcart.

They continued shopping when Lee Know poked Irene's left shoulder. "Ice, your phone's sticking out from your back pocket. Just give it to me so that you won't lose it."

Irene obediently handed her phone to Lee Know but instead of pocketing it, the moment Irene resumed picking groceries, he opened it and scrolled to her photo gallery.

Old habits of him. Haha. LOLs.

"Minho," he heard Irene calling him. He didn't even realize he wasn't following her already. She was now in the Dairy section, three aisles from where he was.

Minho's his real name.

Geez.

"Damn, Joy," he whispered to himself, and he hurried to where Irene was. To him, Joy is one of the most attractive people he ever saw.

Well, if that's to exclude Irene from the list.

Joy is one of Irene's best friends and one of the very reasons, aside from driving boredom away, why he would often borrow the cellphone and scroll the photo gallery for recent pictures of Her.

Call it obsession? Maybe not.

"Minho!" Oh, that's a little bit of a notch higher of a voice from Irene and a hint of getting irritated and, er, angry.

"Yeah, coming, Ice!"

When they finally have filled two large carts of groceries for Christmas, they finally cued in for the counter.

Lee Know intentionally wrap his left arm around Irene's shoulder by then.

The people at the counter intently looked at them.

When they finally left the convenience store, one of the security guards at the exit talked to Lee Know and Irene secretly laughed at it as she walked first towards their car.

"Your girlfriend is kind of serious, but she was really pretty."

Lee Know laughed hard too.

"Oh, she's not my girlfriend. She's my older sister."

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Author's Note:

Irene