1 The Little Shop

"Su Min! Su Min!"

A man in his late 50s shouted out as he stood in front of a grocer's shop. An embellished coat of paint seemed to have just been put on earlier as the sign hanged with the title - 'Yu's Grocers'. He went to every dark alley he could see but still found nothing. The concern in his voice grew and grew every time he found no one.

"Su Min you punk!"

The man didn't seem to care for the neighbours around him as dusk approached, and it was only until a few people who lived next door shoved him back into the shop did he stop shouting. Frowning, the man slumped into the staff room and glugged himself some alcohol.

"What does he expect to happen when he's that weak..."

As the man mumbled at himself with a pout, the door leading upstairs moved open until a gentle girl revealed herself with a timid gaze. Her eyes dwindled in the background for a while until she shyly asked.

"Uh, dad?"

"Wa-"

The man's back shivered and he nearly dropped the glass in his hand when he heard a voice that didn't announce itself. He turned around and looked at the small girl in a haste before sighing a breath of fresh air.

"Ah! You are going to give this poor man a heart attack if you keep scaring me like that, sweety."

The girl let out a mischievous smile as she hopped to him and asked him.

"Dad is Su Min here?"