Mask

"Hi, I'm looking to buy some flowers."

"Yes, what would you like, who are you buying for?"

"She's my..." You stop, pausing to debate your relationship with Saerom in your head. "She's a very close friend."

"I see, and is this a romantic gesture you're planning?" The discerning florist asks.

"Uh..."

"Say no more, I have the perfect flower for you." He leads you to a display of beautiful white flowers. "You clearly have problems with deciding what she means to you, so this flower is the perfect middle ground, we call it the flover flower - both friend and lover."

"Thanks, I’ll take one.” You pause, thinking for a moment. “Actually, I'll take 9 of those."

"Excellent!" He packages the flovers for you. "And when you two have figured it out, we have red and yellow roses, depending on how things go."

"Well prepared huh?" You remark as he hands you the bouquet. "Anyways thanks, have a good one."

"Goodbye!" The door jingles as you exit the flower shop.

You head up to the office building the Fromis company is situated in, a bright smile greets you at the front desk.

"Hi oppa!" Jiwon waves at you excitedly.

"Hey Jiwon, this is for you." You hand one flover to her.

"Aww thank you, the others are inside I think." She says, eyeing the others in your hand.

"Great, thanks." She leans in for a kiss, biting your lip hungrily.

"Come by after work sometime, Saerom always makes me close shop."

"I'd like that..." you murmur into her ear, nibbling her earlobe just as hungrily. You reluctantly step away from her and into the office. You are greeted with bright smiles, and you hand each of them a flover, which they all receive with a mix of happiness or hungriness. You've matched with almost all of them on the Fromis app at one time or another, and you've gotten to "know" them to differing degrees. All except...

"Oh hi Jisun!"

"Hello, how are you doing?" She says awkwardly as the two of you almost collide at the entrance to Saerom's office.

"This is for you." You hold out a flover for her, expecting her to at least smile or something, but she half rips it from your hand.

"Thank you..." She mumbles before zooming past you.

"Oh hi oppa!" Saerom's voice floats through the door, demanding your attention.

"Hey, for you." With a swish and a flourish you present her with the flower.

"Oh my god thanks, I love flovers!"

"You do?"

"Yeah, they always look so pretty when I walk by that flower shop nearby. Thanks oppa!" She hugs you tightly, pecking you on the cheek. "What brings you here?"

"Just wanted to stop by, say hi to everyone."

"Uh huh, and see who's down for some office sex?" She quips with a knowing smirk, closing the small distance between the two of you even further.

"No of course not! But you know, if someone wants to..." You trail off.

"Someone does want to..." Saerom sits on her desk, her legs straddling your waist as you lean in and kiss her passionately. You lips move down her neck as your hands hold her thighs, squeezing them firmly.

"Ah oppa..."

"Sorry Saerom I for- Ah!" With a small yelp from Jisun the two of you immediately break apart, leaving both of you breathless as she stands by the door, blushing furiously.

"O-Oh Jisun, what is it?"

"I-I forgot to take the documents we discussed!" The words rush out of her.

"Right, right right, they are..." Saerom pulls a white folder from underneath where her butt was planted on the desk. "Here they are." She hands the folder to Jisun, the silence in the office deafening as Jisun makes the far too long trip across the room to grab the folder.

"T-Thank you, sorry for interrupting!" Before either of you can respond Jisun is already out the door and down the hallway.

"Argh that was so embarrassing!" Saerom buries her face in her hands, kicking her legs wildly. "Ugh sorry oppa, that ruined the mood completely."

"N-No worries." Your mood was ruined too. "I'll head out then, have a good day at work."

"I can't after that, oh god there's a meeting today too, some client wants to book a 9 way ticket, what does that even mean?!" You kiss Saerom on the cheek, leaving her to ramble on about her work as you step out of her office.

You say your goodbyes to the others you run into on the way out. As you exit the building a new notification pops up on your phone:

Fromis: You have matched with Jissen!

You don't remember ever seeing that name before on Fromis, so you open the app, curious to see who she is. Surprisingly she had a mask on, so you could only see her eyes really, but even just from her eyes she was enchanting. She also had no information in her profile, weird.

Hi Jissen, that's a really unique name! I don't think I've ever seen you before on the app

Oh really? I just joined, maybe that's why

You're pretty sure you never even swiped on her before, you'd remember eyes like those... maybe a bug in the app?

Would you like to meet up? She was straightforward, you'll give her that.

Sure, when and where? We could do coffee or something

No, just come to my place, tonight. You couldn't help but smile at her directness

Well you certainly know what you want Jissen

She doesn't even acknowledge your reply, simply sending you her address and a time to be there. With a shrug the rest of the day flies by, and you go home for a quick shower before getting dressed and heading to her place.