Sugar Baby

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"You can pull in here."
Chaeyoung points towards the plaza

He pulls in and parks

They unbuckle and get out the car,
Chaeyoung steps on the sidewalk and turns around  to him

"Alright, my aunt is probably upstairs. Try to stay quiet so she doesn't come downstairs, I don't feel like being questioned."

Christian nods

She unlocks the entrance door and lets him in.
She closes the door and flips the 'on break' sign.

Christian stops at the tape shelf, looking at all the music. Rose passes him and heads to the cash register.

Taking her coat off and hanging it on the back of the front desk chair she watches him.

"Um, do you want me to take your jacket?"
She asks.

He turns with a cassette in his hands

"Hm." He nods a yes

She walks back over to him and waits for him to take off the jacket.

"Is there a genre or album you want to listen to? We can play it." With Christian at the shelf still she puts up his jacket.

"What do you suggest?" He looks over to her

"Ah, it's a quiet night, maybe R&B?"

He steps back from the shelf and waves his hand across it, an indicator for her to pick.

She stands in her spot for a couple of seconds before, once again, walking over to the tapes and cassettes.

"Actually there's a new release on the records. Have you heard of Sabrina Claudio?" She heads to the records and he follows along

"No I haven't, is she a new artist?"

"No, but I just found out about her. An amazing alternative R&B artist. She just released this." Chaeyoung
picks up a record vinyl

Sabrina Claudio, About Time

"You have a record
player for this?" He asks

"Yeah, it's late and I don't want to annoy my aunt so we can't use the stores. But I have this cute portable one. You can wear headphones with it."

She shoves the vinyl to his chest

Christian's face screws up. He pushes the record back towards Rosé

"I?" He touches his chest in a
questioning manner

Chaeyoung shifts all her weight on her leg

"Yeah, you. What's the problem?"

"We're not going to have a listening party together?"

"I don't know if you've forgotten
but I'm on my shift right now"

He looks around the shop