episode_0148

After returning from a three-day, two-night vacation in Hongcheon, we periodically spent time on dates alone or in groups.

I still had a short-term part-time job in the mornings and worked two part-time jobs a day on weekdays, so I didn’t have much time to meet other kids.

Instead, the convenience store part-time hours from afternoon to night were exclusive time for Suyeon, who could not go to the water park with her.

“Senior love~”

“Please hug me again?”

“Yes. And give me a kiss.”

It’s been almost half a year since we started working at a convenience store together, but Suyeon and I still fondle each other’s lips quite often when there are no customers in the store.

Especially after Sooyeon couldn’t go to the water park with us because she was busy for personal reasons.

Su-yeon must have been resentful of not being able to go to the water park, and even while working part-time at a convenience store and studying in her spare time, she regularly asked for hugs or kisses.

This was especially true after I received a call from Yuri, Eunji, and Yumin while I was working.

“Oop… haa…♥”

Suyeon parted her lips with a satisfied expression and took a break to look through her phone.

Su-yeon went to the SNS page of Yu-min, whom she had registered as a friend with during the previous school trip pre-field trip, and narrowed her eyes as she scanned through the photos posted there.

“Hmm… Hmm…”

“Hey, Suyeon… Don’t you see that too often…?”

The problem is that this isn’t the first time I’ve seen it.

For several days now, Suyeon has been looking at the photos posted there at least 2-3 times a day.

“Senior, how was the water park there? Was it good?”

Su-yeon asked with a smile, but for some reason, I felt like an interrogation was about to begin.

“It would have been great if you were there, but it was a bit disappointing that you weren’t there. Let’s go together next time, okay? No, it was from the ski resort this winter, right? Don’t fall out then. Got it?”

I quickly calmed down Sooyeon and comforted her before she got even more jealous.

Since Su-yeon didn’t go by choice, she couldn’t express her anger and just kept looking through the photos with an expression full of regret.

“Wow… Look at Eunji’s real swimsuit. Did your senior put this on? I don’t think Eunji would have worn this herself.”

“Right? You know that. Eunji actually likes being forced to do things like that.”

“It’s funny just thinking about what you said to me on that topic…”

Suyeon muttered softly as she scrolled through the photos on Yumin’s Instagram and sighed.

“Ha…”

“Why. Is there anything you don’t like?”

“Senior, do you know what the status of these photos posted on Yumin’s Instagram is like?”

“No. I don’t have an Instagram account. What is it like?”

“Look at this.”

Suyeon held her cell phone screen towards me.

In the picture are Yumin in the front, Yuri, me, and Eunji in the back.

Yumin winked and put her fingers outstretched in a V shape to her cheek, Yuri crossed her arms behind me, and Eunji didn’t know what to do because she was embarrassed by the dizzying micro bikini.

Since Yumin had already taken the photo and showed it to me, I had no idea what Suyeon wanted to say with it.

“How does it look?”

“Uh… the correction was really good?”

Suyeon’s eyes narrowed as if it wasn’t the correct answer.

“… Sorry, I’m not sure.”

“Look underneath, not at the photo.”

“Below?”

There were comments and likes.

Dozens of comments and thousands more likes.

“Uh… lots of likes?”

“That’s it! What’s with a few dozen comments and likes? 4,000? Do you know which order this is? This is almost like a model or a quasi-celebrity! This much is being spread on other sites?!”

“Isn’t it good?”

“Good!”

Su-yeon burst out in anger.

“I’m not there!!”

Su-yeon must have been so angry that she covered up the workbook she was studying and stamped her feet.

After listening to the story, I realized that the reason Sooyeon was angry was not complicated.

The girls in the photos posted by Yumin are very pretty and have great bodies, and because Yumin even edited them and uploaded them, the photos became quite popular on Instagram.

Thanks to the rapid popularity of those photos, Yumin’s account does not have many followers, but the water park photos have thousands of likes.

The problem was that even though all three other people were in the photo, Sooyeon was not there, so she thought people wouldn’t be able to associate her with me.

“It’s annoying! If I had known this would happen, I would have just given up studying and everything for a few days and gone! If I had taken a picture of a surprise kiss from behind my senior, everyone would have known that I had this kind of relationship with my senior! I’m not even in the picture! Everyone else has it!”

So Soo-yeon was upset that photos that did not even exist of her would be spread around all kinds of communities.

The reason for her anger was simple and typical of a girl of that age, so I chuckled.

“Are you smiling? Senior, is this funny? I’m really serious!”

Soo-yeon must have really thought this was a serious problem, but when I laughed, she opened her eyes and lunged at me.

After returning from the water park, I felt that my demands for affection increased much more than usual during my part-time job. I heard this was the reason.

I comforted Suyeon by patting her butt.

“I didn’t laugh because it was funny. He seemed to be in a bad mood lately, so I was worried that he might be mad at me, but he wasn’t and he was relieved. Our Suyeon, are you angry because the photo of the water park that everyone went to except you became famous?”

Mr. “…”

“Then I guess we have no choice but to make Sooyeon’s photo become famous once more, right? Well, when would be a good time? Winter is still far away… How about the launching ceremony? I don’t know what to film, but let’s leave good memories of our time together, okay?”

“Is this a promise?”

“Okay, promise.”

Suyeon and I linked our little fingers.

Suyeon stared into my eyes for a moment, then closed her eyes and slightly put her head forward, and we kissed again.

Until my cell phone rang.

Ugh-

I stopped kissing because my phone was vibrating and I checked the sender.

It was a call from Eunji.

“Why is he calling at this hour?”

The time on my phone was 7pm.

At this time, Eunji is usually taking a shower or eating dinner at the end of track practice or on days when it ends a little early.

I had never called at this time before, but when I saw Eunji’s name suddenly calling, I answered the phone with puzzlement.

“Eunji? What are you doing at this hour?”

And as soon as I answered the phone, Eunji’s angry voice boomed from the other end of the phone.

– Seongjin! Ah, I really can’t do this anymore!!!

The sound was so loud that Suyeon could clearly hear it even though it wasn’t in speaker mode.

We looked at each other for a moment with confused expressions.

“……?”

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After returning from her water park vacation, Jeong Eun-ji suffered from far more contacts from Gong Young-bae than before.

It’s also much sharper.

– Eunji, what is this photo you posted on SNS?

“SNS? picture? What photo?”

– Did you go to the water park with Yumin and Yuri? Are you the person in this photo?

“Ah.”

There were more than one or two photos taken at the water park, but since he had seen the photos posted on Lee Yu-min’s social media and knew them, he could immediately guess what she was talking about.

– Han Seong-jin… Why is Han Seong-jin here…? Did you know that Han Seong-jin was there and go with him? In that… wearing a swimsuit like that?

Jeong Eun-ji, who remembered his order to tell her that if Gong Young-bae found out, that they had originally planned to go together with the women and that Han Seong-jin had joined late on her own will, she said exactly the same.

“No. Originally, Yumin and Yuri were supposed to go together, but Han Seongjin joined in on his own later. I was so embarrassed too.”

– But this swimsuit… What on earth is this swimsuit? This… you’re almost naked!

‘Ugh it’s frustrating.’

Just a couple of months ago, I liked Gong Young-bae so much, but when I found out his true nature, even his voice became irritating.

How dare you shamelessly meddle in a subject that did such a thing to your childhood friend.

Jeong Eun-ji thought this to herself and thought about it appropriately.

He kept telling lies, such as saying that he bought a strange swimsuit after ordering it online without looking at it properly, that he was too embarrassed when Han Seong-jin came, and that he couldn’t even enjoy it.

The call that day somehow ended well, but what happened afterward was the problem.

– Eunji, are you busy?

– what are you doing right now? Are you practicing?

-Aren’t you with Han Seong-jin?

From that day on, Gong Young-bae called me at various times like a person with doubts and asked me what I was doing, and even did not care about the time.

Morning, noon, evening, late at night… When he couldn’t answer the phone because he was practicing, there were times when he had more than 10 missed calls, and he even followed him to the playground where he practiced track and field.

“Eunji!”

“Huh? W, Youngbae…?”

“Why can’t I contact you like this? I keep getting anxious.”

“No, you know for sure that I practice track and field on weekdays, so why are you doing this? I’m not even done with practice yet!”

“Isn’t it break time now? Just talk to me for a moment.”

Gong Young-bae recklessly used his force to get Jeong Eun-ji out for a while, and after that, he continued to press her, asking why he couldn’t contact her.

Jeong Eun-ji got irritated and started talking back and forth, raising her voice. While they were fighting, Gong Young-bae got angry and brought up Han Seong-jin.

“Han Seong-jin showed up unexpectedly, but you were still wearing that swimsuit in front of that kid! Can’t I come to you like this? Who is more important to me, Han Seongjin, and you?”

‘Of course it’s Seongjin.’

Jeong Eun-ji answered by saying that in her mind.

“Well, I said it was just an accident. Now, isn’t this just you coming and disturbing my schedule even though you know it?”

“Can’t we even confirm this between us?”

“Between us…? We’re not even a couple!”

“Then let’s do it now.”

“What?”

Gong Young-bae suddenly said that and pushed Jeong Eun-ji against the wall and suddenly tried to kiss her.

As Gong Young-bae’s face got closer, Jeong Eun-ji was startled and pushed him away.

“Ugh!”

“Surprise… Youngbae, what are you doing? You come to other people’s practice and you’re like this…”

“If you can’t tolerate this because you’re not a couple, shouldn’t you be a couple? It’s like we’re dating anyway-”

“Do you really want to do this? Go back quickly. And don’t come to me out of the blue or contact me like this. Let’s think about it for a while.”

“Eunji!”

“Go back!!!”

After Gong Young-bae left, Jeong Eun-ji clutched her chest and took a deep breath, shocked at the thought that she had almost lost the lips that were meant only for Han Seong-jin.

And when things calmed down a bit, I became angry at Gong Young-bae’s sudden behavior and contacted Han Seong-jin.

– Eun Ji? What’s happening at this hour?

“Seongjin! Ah, I really can’t do it anymore!!!”

Han Seong-jin asked her to hold out at least until the launch ceremony, but Jeong Eun-ji did not want to deal with Gong Young-bae any longer.