Slide. Hyeja's fork missed the slippery slice of cantaloupe, almost knocking it off her plate.
Frowning slightly, she readjusted her grip and aimed again, but once more her fork bounced off the surface.
On the third try, Hyeja finally managed to spear the evasive fruit on her plate and was about to place it in her mouth when the opening notes of 2NE1's I am the best started sounding from her pocket.
She gave her brunch partner- Charlotte, because who else could it be?- an apologetic look before sliding open her phone. Clicking the new message button, she saw she had just received some mail from Baizou, that mysterious nation from a world where apparently Japan wasn't the land of the rising sun. There were a variety of questions for her from foreign delegates and personalities, ranging from her opinion on nuclear defense to establishing monarchism in California. She flipped her phone closed and had already picked up her fork to eat that elusive piece of cantaloupe once and for all, but now it was Charlotte's turn to answer her phone.
"You too?" Hyeja asked when Charlotte had read her own messages, and she replied between bites of perfectly cooked strawberry waffle. "Mmm, I'm mmmm to mmmm!"
"Lotte, you shouldn't speak while chewing, it's not very elegant." Hyeja admonished, and she received an unmoved expression from Charlotte for her trouble.
After finishing her mouthful, Charlotte spoke once more. "It seems rather urgent...shouldn't we respond as quickly as we can?" she asked Hyeja, who shook her head.
"Not before cantaloupe-nim and I have our decisive final battle" she proclaimed proudly, before reaching for her fork only to find the cantaloupe had somehow fallen off during the time they had been conserving.
To the amusement of Charlotte, Hyeja said something very un-empresslike.