Blackpepper

He always told me that he dreamed of me at night.

The warmth of our hands under the pool waters during our schooldays

What was that heavy feeling that sunk deep into the pool that night?

A love that was too short to call it first love and the story that redraws that moment piece by piece.

Chief Kim and Assistant manager Choi

Woojin didn't consider rules to be very meaningful. Every morning, he woke up at the same time and did a light exercise. He then wore the dress shirt he ironed the night before and grabbed a fruit before leaving the house. Immediately after getting into the subway, he put on his earphones and tried his best not to contact anyone. He listened to similar, if not the same, music every day.


His alarm was set at 6 AM, and he woke every 10 minutes beginning at 5 AM. This was his routine, but he was so used to it, so comfortable with it, that he couldn't understand why people would call it a compulsion.


Woojin sighed. The problem was that after last night, he realized that routines could be broken.


Yeonwoo saw Woojin in the hallway and greeted him with a bow, "Assistant manager! Did you just get here? Did you eat lunch yet?"


Chapter 10.