Have you been living under a rock?

"Korean BBQ? There's also Korean Restaurant here?"

When they arrived at the mall, and at the location of where they were planning to have lunch, John couldn't help but get surprised that there's now a new Korean BBQ place in the city.

"Yeah, why? Wait, don't tell me you didn't even know that there's a new Korean BBQ restaurant here?"

The group entered the restaurant and occupied a table as they talked amongst themselves.

John scratched his cheek, a little bit embarrassed at his ignorance, "Well, I don't"

"What the hell? Have you been living under a rock all this time?"

Flabbergasted, Marcus couldn't help but say those words to John, even the others were also surprised by it, as even Dana is laughing to herself while covering her mouth, trying to suppress her laughter.

"Dude, when was the last time you came here?" a girl called May asked him with a laugh.

"Uhh…" John started thinking while scratching the back of his head, "Probably around two to three months ago?"

"That's...quite a long time"

May could only say those words as she didn't know what to say to that, and instead, she hurriedly gestured for the others to hurriedly go and get some food as she knows that John is getting quite a bit embarrassed now, especially when she noticed the people looking at their group.

And so the others stood up, leaving May, Dana and John at the table.

"Just what have you been doing until now that you didn't even hear about this place that's been here since a month ago?" Sitting beside him, Dana asked curiously.

John didn't immediately answer her but started thinking about what he had been doing until just a few weeks ago.

"B*tch! Let go! Your freaking breath...stinks!"

A male ghost suddenly appeared before John and grabbed his neck as the ghost slammed John on the wall of the room they were in, and then it opened its mouth as it started releasing what'd you call a miasma towards John's face.

Which would have normally incapacitated a person, but John wasn't even affected as he was instead angered when he smelled that damn bad breath that smelled like a f*cking latrine pit!

"I said...let go!"

Bam!

John angrily slammed his arms against the ghostly arms that's choking him, and when he got freed, what followed was him headbutting the f*cking bad breath ghost on its face!

Eat sh*t! You hundred year old bad f*cking breath ghost!

After that, he successfully exorcised that damn monster!

Goddammit! Why does every ghost I've encountered have f*cking bad breath!?

And then there was that virgin ghost who possessed a lady, and whose grudge was already obvious just from its name.

It died a virgin!

As someone who's not gentle towards ghosts, John didn't even hesitate to reward the possessed with a punch in the gut when it tried to reverse rape him.

Which surprisingly cast out the ghost from the possessed lady who immediately started retching the moment the ghost left her body.

John saw the scene and lightly covered his mouth with his fingers, embarrassed and guilty at the same time when he realized that the punch might have been too heavy.

Well...he just made an excuse that he didn't mean because it was in the heat of the moment to his clients after the job was done.

"John? Hello?"

"Wha...what?"

John was quickly brought back to reality when he felt someone tap his arm.

Dana rolled her eyes at him, as she clearly saw that he was dazed there for a couple of seconds, but she didn't bring it up and instead repeated her question from earlier.

"I said....what have you been doing these past few weeks that you didn't even know this hot new place?"

Snap!

"Ahh! I was busy with my part time job...yeah...my part time job"

John snapped his fingers at Dana and confidently answered.

"What damn part time job is that, that it actually made you so busy that you didn't even have the time to check the social media?" May rolled her eyes at him doubtfully, as she clearly didn't believe him.

'Why do women not believe you when you say the truth, but believes you when you are actually f*cking lying to them? Women are such confusing creatures sometimes…'

Thought John while shaking his head inside.

"Well, I'm really that active on social media. I rarely open my Notebook or even Tweeter account"

"Really? Even Monigram?'' said May as she can't believe she's actually meeting someone like him, who sounds like he came from the generation of her grandparents.

'What the f*ck is Monigram even?'

"Yeah, that too...Monogram"

John couldn't help but furrow his brows when he heard that weird word he's unfamiliar with, but of course, he just acted like he knew about it, but couldn't really wrap his head about the crazy person who named a social media app, that!

"You mean...Monigram, right?" Dana said with a doubtful tone while staring at him with her head resting on her hands on the table.

"Yeah, I meant Monigram, sorry"

"Make way, move your damn head out of the way Dana!"

Fortunately, when things were just about to get awkward, Jay and the others had just come back in time with trays of food on their hands, which quickly dispelled the atmosphere that was slowly getting weird.

John smiled in relief at their untimely rescue.

What a shitty situation that was!

***

"Are you really not coming with us?" whispered Dana to John, a little shy as she fidgeted around.

John could only scratch the back of his head as he really can't understand what's the deal with this woman ever since she started flirting with him starting two weeks ago.

"Yeah, I just had a lot of things to deal with today, so I'm kind of busy. How about next time?"

"Okay, I'll hold you onto those words then! Next time, okay!? You can't refuse then, see ya!"

"Eh?"

Her change of mood was so fast that John could only stand there confused as she watched Dana running back to the others after waving at him with a huge smile on her face.

"What the hell...was that? Maybe I shouldn't have said those words"

John scratched his head as he suddenly regretted telling her that he'll go with them next time.

"Forget it"

He just shrugged his shoulders in the end, and turned around as he also headed towards his next destination at a store called Octagon that sells the items he desires.