episode_0027

I never thought that Yuri Lee would remember everything that happened even though she was so drunk.

I was surprised, but still not embarrassed.

I would guess that Yuri Lee has already crossed over 90% of the way to me, and there’s only one final step left to make her my woman.

So I confessed openly.

People say that he is a good sex lover, and even Han Seong-jin was a good sex sucker, but Lee Yu-ri has a tendency to be too far from the good sex life, so there was a need to follow the old, traditional way.

At my confession, Yuri Lee’s face turned the brightest it had ever been.

I was so embarrassed that my eyes couldn’t stay in the same place for even a moment, and I couldn’t say ‘uh…uh…’ as if I had become mute.

I wanted to hear an answer to Yuri Lee’s feelings right away, but a type like Yuri needs time.

And there is one more object to work on.

“I… I, I… I…”

“Isn’t it difficult for you to say yes or no right now?”

Yuri nodded slowly.

“There’s no need to bother trying to answer now. You would have originally hated people like me, but now you can’t make a sudden decision.”

Nod.

“If I stay next to you for no reason, you will become more conscious and confused. So, should today’s date end here? It’s almost time for me to go too.”

Nod.

“I don’t mind waiting, so I promise to answer you whenever you make up your mind. As soon as possible. Okay?”

Nod.

I felt like I was dealing with a dumb person.

“Shall we go then? Oh, now that I think about it, you seem to remember everything that happened last week, right?”

Nod.

“Then you remember how we got home that day, right?”

“……”

This time he lowered his head and nodded much later.

“Then can I consider this as permission?”

As I said that, I clasped Yuri’s hand.

One of the most basic postures for couples to express their affection for each other.

Yuri Lee flinched in surprise, but instead of pushing me away as I clasped my hands, she quietly relaxed her hands.

He still didn’t say a word or make eye contact out of shame, but it was a tacit permission.

She, sober and sober, accepted me clasping hands with her like a couple.

With one hand, I held hands with Yuri Lee, and with the other hand, I picked up the tray with our empty coffee cups on it and went to put them where the drinks were dispensed.

And while walking, Gong Young-bae and Choi Soo-yeon made eye contact, albeit for a brief moment.

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Gong Young-bae, who was on a date with Choi Soo-yeon, felt like his heart was sinking.

No matter how you look at it, the familiar face with dyed blonde hair, tall stature, and bulky body was Han Seong-jin.

Fortunately, the other person seemed to not have recognized him and quickly turned his gaze elsewhere.

However, when Gong Young-bae saw the woman standing next to him, his heart began to beat so hard that it felt like it was going to explode.

Long, shiny black hair, a very voluminous body even for a 20-year-old, and even moles under her eyes.

‘glass…?’

It was Lee Yu-ri, my childhood friend whom I had known for over 10 years since I was young.

The sight of her with Han Seong-jin was frighteningly familiar to me now.

But there was something I couldn’t just ignore…

‘Why… why are you holding hands?’

Han Seong-jin and Lee Yu-ri were holding each other’s hands tightly.

And not just holding hands, but clasping hands like a couple in love.

Even though the two people were crossing their fingers, Yu-ri Lee did not shake off the hand, but instead blushed and accepted Han Seong-jin’s hand with great embarrassment.

Gong Young-bae felt like cognitive dissonance was coming.

Choi Soo-yeon was saying something next to me, but I couldn’t hear a word of it.

‘A guy like Han Seong-jin… I heard you hate an Iljin guy like that the most in the world… But why are you doing that there? Why are you holding hands like a couple? Why aren’t you angry and why are you making such a shameful expression?’

Gong Young-bae felt like he was going out of his mind with anger and jealousy.

Han Seong-jin and Lee Yu-ri walked out of the cafe, still holding hands like a couple, and after a brief conversation, Han Seong-jin left first.

……

Meanwhile, Choi Soo-yeon almost screamed in joy the moment her eyes met Han Seong-jin’s eyes for a very brief moment.

He didn’t know whether the other person saw him or not, but it didn’t really matter.

The important thing is that Han Seong-jin and Lee Yu-ri were so close that they almost looked like a couple.

If Lee Yu-ri were to completely go to Han Seong-jin, the seat next to Gong Young-bae would essentially be vacant, and she thought that she would be able to fill that position.

‘Seongjin senior, nice! Cheer up more!’

The two couples left the cafe while they secretly cheered for Han Seong-jin’s love for their own.

And after a while, Gong Young-bae stood up.

“Suyeon, I’m going to go to the bathroom for a moment.”

“Yes~”

Gong Young-bae went out through the cafe entrance holding an umbrella, and Choi Soo-yeon hummed as she looked around at the photos taken today.

Then, she also felt like she wanted to go to the bathroom, so she approached the cafe worker and asked.

“Hey, where can I go to the bathroom here?”

“Toilet: Go through the door inside the building and turn right.”

“Thank you… Hmm?”

Choi Su-yeon, who sensed something strange, tilted her head.

“The bathroom is inside the building… Why did you go out through that door?”

An unknown anxiety slowly grew in Choi Soo-yeon’s mind.

……

After Han Seong-jin left, Yu-ri Lee felt like the warm feel of his hand still remained on her hand.

Last week, I was so drunk that I couldn’t even feel anything, but the man’s hand I held for the first time was much bigger and warmer than I thought.

‘You really like me…’

Even in the midst of Yu-ri Lee’s confusion, her heart continued to pound when she thought of Seong-jin Han’s confession.

If I were to divide it into likes and dislikes, I feel much closer to likes.

‘Ji, are we really dating like this…? But it doesn’t change the fact that he’s part of Iljin… I definitely hate those guys… Why am I so happy?’

Lee Yu-ri, who had managed to calm herself by standing in place for a while, holding on to her trembling heart, opened her umbrella and headed out into the rain while contemplating the answer to Han Seong-jin’s confession.

However, less than a minute after she started walking, someone called her from behind.

“Yuri!”

At first, she was excited for a moment because she thought it was Han Seong-jin, but soon Yu-ri Lee’s heart cooled down.

The voice that called her was a bit higher and thinner than Han Seong-jin’s.

And because it was a voice I had known for a much longer time than Han Seong-jin’s deep, low voice.

Yu-ri Lee, who looked back, shot back coldly, her face changing from that of a girl who was excited by her first emotions to a cold and cold one.

“Why are you here?”

“Wait… talk to me for a moment.”

“I have nothing to say to you.”

Lee Yu-ri could not possibly forgive Gong Young-bae.

Because Gong Young-bae’s words of treating him like a cheap woman and a lowly woman who was coquettish with Han Seong-jin just because she had a few words with Han Seong-jin were still stuck in his heart.

“I just saw it all. Are you… dating that bastard Han Seong-jin?”

“You… really stalked me?”

Yuri Lee asked back with an expression of disbelief.

If that were the case, she did not intend to treat Gong Young-bae as a human being at all.

“No! I saw it when I went on a ‘cafe date’ with Suyeon!”

Gong Young-bae put extra emphasis on the words ‘cafe date’ with the intention of arousing Lee Yu-ri’s jealousy, but Lee Yu-ri’s expression did not change at all.

“Suyeon? Ah, that second-year student you used to visit often? Are you here for a date? Congratulations.”

“Uh…?”

Gong Young-bae was completely dumbfounded by Lee Yu-ri’s words as she calmly congratulated him without being angry or jealous.

“Why are you so excited? As soon as he stopped being a bitch and hitting on Han Seong-jin, he congratulated me on finding a new woman.”

“You… Are you sure that’s why… That’s why you’re acting like that with Han Seong-jin? They even hug each other like a couple? Fuck me just for saying that one thing?”

“Ha.”

Yuri Lee snorted as if she was shocked.

“If anyone hears it, they’ll think I’m hanging out with Han Seongjin just to watch over you, right?”

“Then no?”

“Don’t be mistaken. You have nothing to do with it. No, maybe it has something to do with it? Because you treated me like that that day, I ended up letting go of all my feelings for you and started hanging out with Han Seong-jin?”

“You… are you still saying what I said was wrong? Even after seeing what you’re doing with Han Seong-jin?”

“Wrong. You didn’t say such harsh things to me because I taunted Han Seong-jin first, but because you said those words, I went to Han Seong-jin.”

And Lee Yu-ri made a bombshell that ripped Gong Young-bae’s heart to pieces.

“I was confessed to by Han Seongjin.”

“What… what…? ”

“He says he likes me. Seongjin Han.”

“W-what… of course you refused, right? Right?”

“……”

“Lie… Yes! You’re lying! Are you lying to make me jealous!? Just like I did last week and then intentionally stuck around with Soo-yeon, are you doing that to me too?!”

“… Are you saying you’re sticking around with her on purpose to make me jealous? Are you really the worst?”

“Han Seongjin What kind of child is that child! You know because you heard the rumors! Rumor has it that he is a guy who touches every girl he likes and has done nothing since he was in first grade… no, he has never done anything since he was in secondary education, including drinking, smoking, and riding a motorcycle! How many kids were ripped off by that bastard’s gang!”

“It might have been like that in the past. That was also acknowledged. But… he changed.”

“What…?”

Gong Young-bae was having a hard time breathing now.

Even though she said this, Lee Yu-ri was defending Han Seong-jin.

“He has never hung out with his group since the semester started. Now, he is working part-time to make money, and even though he has less than 80,000 won left for living expenses, he refused tuition support, saying he has to handle it on his own. He quit smoking and drinking and is now trying to live a normal life somehow.”

“You… why do you protect such a child…”

“And above all, he really cared for me.”

“… What does that mean-”

“You and I have known each other for over 10 years, but if you think about it, have you ever done anything for me first? On Valentine’s Day, I always made chocolate first and you bought it at the convenience store.

I’ve made lunch boxes for you, but I’ve never eaten the lunch box you made. Even so, you always left everything, right?

When I ask you to go somewhere with me, you don’t have any opinions, and when I was 11 years old and I was almost bitten by a street dog, I cried, but you abandoned me and ran away first. Do you remember that time we had a fight and didn’t talk for a few days?

When I think about it, I was a fool for sticking around because I liked you.”

“Yu, Yuri, I’m sorry. Because I will apologize for what happened then-”

“Han Seong-jin took me to arcades, escape room cafes, and all kinds of places to entertain me even though he had no money.

Instead of running away like you, you protected me from the front, and like you, you didn’t say a single word that hurt me, and you comforted me while thinking about what I would think and how I would feel after being hurt by you.

Things I’ve never received from you.”

After pouring out all her words, Lee Yu-ri sighed, not sure if she was controlling her anger or shaking off the last of her emotions.

“Let’s just get it over with.”

“!!!!!”

They have been living with each other for more than 10 years.

When the words to end the relationship came out of Lee Yu-ri’s mouth, Gong Young-bae’s eyes filled with tears.

“No, this also sounds strange. I’ve never even started. What happens to me now or not with Han Seong-jin is none of your business. So, from now on, don’t suddenly show up like this and act like it’s natural or something was left to you.”

Leaving only those words, Yuri Lee walked further and further away, holding her umbrella.

“Yuri! Yuri!!”

Gong Yeong-bae called desperately, but she didn’t even look back and soon disappeared into the crowd of people.

Gong Young-bae, who had been standing there for a long time just listening to the sound of rain, forced back tears and returned to the cafe in a dizzy state.

‘Gwae, it’s okay… Suyeon is there… Eunji is there…’

Gong Young-bae, who entered the cafe, suddenly felt strange.

Choi Su-yeon, who should have been there, was not there.

‘Did you go to the bathroom…?’

Gong Young-bae turned on his cell phone to ask where he was.

There were several messages from Soo-yeon Choi on his cell phone.

[Choi Su-yeon]: Where did your senior go? I heard there’s a bathroom here in the building.

[Choi Su-yeon]: Senior?

[Choi Su-yeon]: Does it take a long time? Please reply if you ask me

[Choi Su-yeon]: Sorry, senior. My body suddenly feels so good, so I’ll go in first.