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seafood pancake things then looked around at the vast array of side dishes.
    Wow, if I went out with Eric, he’d better not expect me to cook like th at every day. I could barely manage to throw a meal together for myself, let alone a feast every night.
    While we ate, Eric-Mama talked about all the bargains she'd got at the market. She told Eric-Papa the gossip and he nodded in all the right places even though he so didn't care. It was like I wasn’t even there. I wasn’t sure if I should get involved in the conversation or just stay quiet.
    Then she turned to me.
    “So umm… Angie…” she said. “What is your job?”
    I thought she ’d known I worked for the band. When I told her about it, she pursed her lips, obviously not approving.
    “But what about a real job? A job you do for money.”
    I shrunk a little bit, feeling like I should’ve had some kind of “real” job. I wanted to apologise for my lack of effort, while part of me watched and cursed myself out for being such a sap.
    “But you went to university?”
    She asked me this just as I took a big bite of food. I tried to swallow it so I could answer but ended up just nodding.
    “Ah, that is good.”
    “I studied film.” I’d managed to swallow my food and could answer.
    “Film! Film! What is that to study? How can you study film at university? If you want to study film, you can just go to the cinema.”
    “Not watching film,” I explained. “Making film.”
    “Ah, that’s why you filmed the boys. Are you good at making films?”
    I felt too scared to eat any more with all the questions being fired at me. That made me sad because there was a dish of magically delicious pork belly right in front of me and it needed to be eaten.
    “Well , I wouldn’t say I was great but I’m okay.”
    “Ah, if you like film, you should watch Korean drama. Korean dramas are very good.”
    I nodded. I remembered Hannah telling me about watching dramas with Eric and how they’d been really fun. Eric had never watched dramas with me.
    I ’d figured I'd stay for dinner then make excuses and have a quick getaway. I hadn’t taken into account that Eric-Mama would want me to hang for a while. Still, if she was going to this much effort to be nice, I should try to get along with her. It wouldn’t hurt me to stick around and watch dramas with her. It might even be fun. I’d have killed for a cigarette but I felt strangely shy about saying so, figuring it’d be another point against me.
    We went into the living room and she put on some drama. I couldn't understand a word of it because it was in Korean. I thought there would be subtitles but there wasn’t. Instead, she kept trying to explain it to me.
    “ That girl is the cute girl. She is in love with him but she thinks she hates him. He is rich and not very nice. But she has to stay with him because they have an agreement. If she doesn’t stay with him for 100 days, her dad will go to jail.”
    It sounded mighty complicated but I nodded and tried to look interested.
    " Aigoo! " Eric-Mama suddenly cried.
    I couldn't understand what she was saying but I could tell from the action on the screen that the girl had done something stupid and the guy in the ugly sequin outfit was ranting at her. I’d have just told him to shut up his stupid talking and to stop wearing that ugly outfit.
    "She is mung chung ee , very stupid girl."
    I nodded.
    "That’s his mother. She's invited the mung chung ee girl for dinner. She's going to offer her an envelope of money so she will go away. He is very rich and his mother doesn't want him dating a poor girl. That's the way of Korean dramas."
    God, was that going to happen to me? Is that why she invited me over for dinner, to offer me an envelope of money? I wondered how much she'd offer. Not that I'd take her lousy money but it had to be worth a fair bit to her. I needed to keep watching the drama to see how the girl reacted.
    "He's very cute, isn't he?"
    I looked at the guy on the