Aaaaahhhh if she wanted him to answer questions she shouldn't be doing those thiiiiiiings!!!!

??? She seems to have broken him, somehow?

She... will get out her phone and start looking places up?

"Does... barbecue work okay for you?" she asks, because if no one present produces a food opinion they are going to be trapped here forever in limbo, and she hasn't had Korean barbecue in a while, and the Korean style of grill-your-own-meat is the perfect sort of thing for a picky perfectionist like her.

"Yeah. Yeah, that's—fine."

"Okay," she says, smiling at him. "Then I have a place for us to eat!"

"Okay." What's happening? Why is he going on a date with a person he met today? Is it even really a date? Sure they fucked like rabbits but that's a different thing.

If he does not ask these questions out loud then this person is not going to know to answer them! She will instead merrily lead him off to a little barbecue place and see about trying to get them a table.

Okay! He mostly has time to recover his ability to think on the way there. 

(Get a grip, Lee Tae-gun.)

...omg??? Lee Tae-gun???? Yes of course please come in come in where would you like to sit oh hello to you too are you Lee Tae-gun's partner they've never seen you before here's the menu if there's anything they need please don't hesitate to call them also can they get an autograph and a picture.

(Oh. Right. That. If he'd been more on top of things he'd have remembered that.)

He plasters a smile on. "Sure!" Autograph and selfie, maybe with Kim Hye-jin if she wants to be in it?

.... Kim Hye-Jin might perhaps have made an error. In that she forgot her (!!!) partner is a celebrity.

She'll pass on being in the picture, mostly because she thinks her face is stuck on an expression that could be described as a deer-in-headlights. Instead she'll, er, she can take the picture, make sure it's a good one, then hand the phone back.

She totally knows how to smile, do that, c'mon:

"Do you have any private rooms available?"

Please say yes please say yes please say yes.

"—oh! Um, we don't have private rooms per se but we do have privacy screens?" they try. They really, really don't want Lee Tae-gun to leave, are you kidding!!!

That... is better than not that, but possibly they should - no it's Korean barbecue, there's no take out option to speak of - go, somewhere else maybe, um?

She looks to Tae-gun for guidance. Help?

...

Yeah. 

"We're very sorry, we should've looked it up in advance. We won't be able to stay, but please have a lovely evening!" He bows to them apologetically.

Yep bowing apologetically that's a thing she can also do!!

"Oh. That's of course alright, I'm sorry we couldn't offer what you need." Goddamnit, what's the point of working right around the corner from Quasar if they can't even receive Lee Tae-gun!!! They're going to complain to their boss about it.

Right, then! Tae-gun's brain is fully online, now, so he'll be able to properly make decisions. He grabs his phone and starts scanning over restaurants in the area. "I assume you like sushi? I also have Italian-Chinese fusion, regular i.e. Korean, and pizza."

"Anything is fine," she agrees, now perfectly willing to eat literal cardboard to avoid another social situation. Wait, but what if he wants an opinion...? "- I do like sushi, though. Japanese, and all." Ha. Haha. She's recovering, and is going to resemble a real person again soon, probably.

He nods, puts his phone away, starts walking with purpose—

—and a group of three giggling teenage girls walks up to them  "Oppa, oppa!"

(Oh goddamnit.)

??? Why are they calling him oppa, does he know them?

She looks to him for further guidance, and - okay so he doesn't know them, she doesn't think, but then why are they being so weirdly intimate?? That's so rude??

What do. She specifically stated she'd rather eat cardboard than deal with this, it was right there in her narration. Why this.

The flash of annoyance doesn't actually make it to his face. He had Si-yeon-hyung help him practise keeping his face under control by getting under his skin—which hyung had a lot of fun with, of course—so now he's got his Public Face on again.

"Good evening."

"Can we get a picture? With all of us and then one at a time?" asks the one that's been the spokesperson for the group. 

(One of the other two is kind of giving Kim Hye-jin the stink eye, though.)