The Enemy's Easy To Please!

Chapter 13 [No One Who Can Understand Squirrel More Than Yoda]

Tzuyu choked on a piece of steak meat. He put his knife and fork down and he drank a sip of water.

Sana secretly gave Tzuyu a why-didn't-you-choke-to-death look. Then she smiled at her stingy date.

Sana's date passed the plate of fried potato chips to her after he ate most of the chips except for three measly chips.

When the waiter returned Sana's date pretended to be generous, he passed her the menu a second time. "Miss Minatozaki, feel free to order anything from the menu."

Sana stared lovingly at Tzuyu's steak and she pointed at the steak on the menu.

"No, it's too expensive. Take a look, there are only a few pieces of meat but it costs eight hundreds won. Think about how many fried potato chips you can get compared to the pieces of meat. If you go to the shops you can buy a kilogram of meat for eight hundred won and it'll feed you for a month!" The man said.

Sana smiled stiffly at the waiter and the waiter smiled politely.

Nayeon's voice popped inside Sana's head and the voice reminded her to be civil toward her date. Sana sighed and she gave up ordering the steak. Instead she decided to order coffee, because she could eat after the date ended.

Sana pointed at the espresso coffee under the drink section of the menu and the waiter nodded his head.

"No, it's not worth eighty won for twenty-five millilitres of coffee. You can buy a jar of coffee at the supermarket for  hundred won and you'll have enough coffee to drink for a fortnight." The man said.

Sana's finger that pointed at the espresso coffee caused a dent on the menu. She glanced at Tzuyu, he held up a cup of coffee and he smiled at her. She looked back at the waiter and she shook her head. "I don't need to drink the espresso coffee."

"Miss Minatozaki, take a look around this place. Its furnishings are average, the music here is average and even the table cloth is cheap. I don't know how this place is reputed as the best cafe in the city." The man said.

Sana noticed the waiter's face flinched and the waiter walked away from her table. Suddenly her back felt itchy like there were angry eyes focused at her table. But her date felt no shame and he continued to harshly critique the cafe's surroundings.

Sana's date's tactless chin pointed at the tables behind her. "Miss Minatozaki, turn around and look at the customers sitting behind you. It's no surprise an ugly cafe like this will attract many ugly customers."

Sana's hands gripped the corners of the table. She wanted to curse her tactless date! She hated men who harshly judged other people the most!

Sana heard Tzuyu coughed and she glared at his amused face.

"Miss Minatozaki, look at the waiters here. There are tall waiters and short waiters. No consistency-" The man said.

"I'm sorry. I need to..." Sana said and she was about to leave but she noticed Tzuyu's face glowed triumphantly so she bit her tongue. "I mean... why don't we talk about something else?"

"Ok. Miss Minatozaki, how much do you earn a month?" The man asked.

Sana vaguely remembered Nayeon drilled her monthly earnings into her ears, but the numbers were lost on the way to her brain.

"Miss Minatozaki, it's ok if you're too embarrassed to tell me your monthly earnings. Can you at least tell me if you work in the public or private sector and is your job stable?" The man said.

Sana didn't get a chance to open her mouth, because her date rudely made the wrong assumption.

"Oh... so you're unemployed. It's ok if you're unemployed. I make enough to support myself and a wife too. My wife won't need to work and she'll be staying at home." The man said.

Sana thought 'won't need to work' were the first decent words to come out of her date's mouth.

"But..." The man said. His eyes focused on Sana's dress. "I think women shouldn't care too much about clothes and makeup. It's a waste of money to spend on unnecessary luxury items. There are too many women who overspend on clothes, makeup, bags and shoes on a monthly basis. Why do women need to buy new shoes when the shoes they have aren't broken?"

Sana thought her date was lucky she wasn't Nayeon. If Nayeon heard him, she would throw her newest pair of shoes at his mouth.

Sana stopped paying attention to her date. She looked at Tzuyu's empty table, and she saw a waiter rushed to Tzuyu with a bag of take away containers.

Sana widened her excited eyes. She wanted to go home together with Tzuyu to... steal his food in the car! She needed to steal her enemy's food, eat all his midnight food and let him starve in the middle of the night!

"Women shouldn't prioritise their looks. They should stay at home and look after children. They don't need to socialise like going to karaoke bars. I hate places like karaoke bars. What a waste of money. Miss Gu, do you go to karaoke bars often?" The man said.

"No." Sana said and she silently planned to eat Tzuyu's lobster buns first.

"In the future I'll give my wife a twenty hundreds won monthly allowance. Miss Minatozaki, what do you think?" The man said.

Sana didn't care about her date's future wife's monthly allowance, it was none of her business. "Is that so?"

"I think twenty hundred won a month is a generous allowance. My wife can spend five hundreds won on tops, five hundreds won on pants and five hundreds won on shoes and she'll still have five hundreds leftover. But if my wife knows how to be thrifty, she won't spend her allowance on unnecessary items... like cigarettes and alcohol. I hate women who smoke and drink alcohol. Miss Minatozaki, do you smoke or drink alcohol?" The man said.

Sana was hypnotised by Tzuyu's bag of food and she stood to follow Tzuyu outside the cafe.

"Miss Minatozaki!" The man called and he stood to chase Sana.

A waiter who guarded the front door put out an arm and he stopped Sana's date from leaving. "Gentleman, you haven't paid your bill."

Sana's date quickly paid the bill. "The service here is poor. I sat here for less than half an hour and the cafe skinned me two hundreds won. I can buy dozens of buns with two hundreds won and it'll feed me for a week."

"Gentleman, I recommend you find yourself a man. Because a man spends less money on clothes, shoes, bags, makeup, haircuts, manicures, pedicures and... a man can save a lot of money each month, because a man doesn't need to buy tampons." The waiter said.

Sana's date closed his mouth for the first time that day.

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The moment Sana sat inside Tzuyu's car, she grabbed his bag of food. She opened the container lids and he thought her eyes lit up like a hungry puppy's eyes that found food. She bit into a lobster bun and she moaned.

Tzuyu turned on the ignition. "Sana, you're eating my midnight food. Pay up."

Sana ate another lobster bun. She choked and she rubbed her chest. "I don't have money."

Tzuyu tried to take back the containers from Sana's lap, but she protected the containers. She put another lobster bun in her mouth and she smiled at him.

Tzuyu noticed Sana's blind date was running toward his car. Tzuyu put his car in drive mode, he stepped on the accelerator and he drove Sana and himself home.

Sana was too busy satisfying her neglected stomach so she didn't pay attention to her abandoned date.

Tzuyu kept his eyes on the road. "Next time ask your match maker not to introduce you to a man who speaks rubbish."

Sana laughed and she spat out a piece of lobster bun in an unladylike manner. She looked at Tzuyu. "How did you know?"

"I could tell by looking at your expressions from where I was sitting at the cafe." Tzuyu said.

Sana silently ate another lobster bun. She thought in the world the person who understood her the most was her enemy.

 
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To be continued>>>