Secret Diet (Se-hee, Rain)

8

After Se-hee Noona’s nagging ended, we sat at the table and ate the ramen that Shin-bi Noona had cooked.

“We all went together today~”

Shin-bi Noona’s soft voice.

Listening to the story, the tattoo that Se-hee Noona got is said to be a friendship tattoo popular among female students at fancy academies these days.

Each person engraves the name of their favorite opposite sex or celebrity on their thigh in English spelling of the same font, designed like a picture.

Since it’s done small on the inner thigh below the crotch, you won’t get caught at the academy unless you intend to lift your skirt and show it like earlier.

“We went as a group and got it cheap. Since we’re female students at a fancy academy, we even got a discount. Se-hee and I chose names of people we like, you know? They said it’s even cheaper if you do it with your lover.”

Shin-bi Noona explained in detail, even things I didn’t ask, using her unique intonation that relaxes tension with her gentle tone.

Shi-woo nodded while eating ramen.

According to Shin-bi Noona, it seemed that both Se-hee Noona and Shin-bi Noona had someone they liked.

I couldn’t tell if they were dating the person with the initials or just harboring feelings, but I didn’t particularly feel like asking.

“Should I show you mine too?”

Shin-bi Noona, who was sitting next to me, turned her knees towards Shi-woo and asked.

Shi-woo, who was eating ramen, coughed as if he had choked at Shin-bi Noona’s sudden words.

“Keuk… Heok… Wha.. What did you say?”

“Don’t you want to see? Aren’t you curious?”

Shin-bi Noona pretended to lift the top of her skirt slightly with both hands, slowly raising it.

Shin-bi Noona’s already short school uniform skirt was brushing against Shin-bi Noona’s chubby thigh flesh as it went up towards her pelvis.

‘gulp!’

Shi-woo, who swallowed hard and stared intently at Shin-bi Noona’s thigh.

Suddenly, the movement of the rising skirt stopped, and Shin-bi Noona said in a sly voice.

“Your eyes have become lecherous?”

Then, she nonchalantly covered her thigh with her skirt again with a flick.

“Did you really think I was going to show you~? Puahaha.”

Shin-bi Noona’s teasing voice and laughter echoed through the house.

Shi-woo was momentarily flustered.

“Your younger brother is so cute~ Did you see his face turning red?”

Shin-bi Noona with a playful expression said to Se-hee Noona.

Se-hee Noona, who was sitting across from me, was watching the scene silently as if she felt sorry for me.

“Were you perhaps expecting it?”

Shin-bi Noona hit the nail on the head and teased Shi-woo to the end.

“Aish~ No, I didn’t!!!”

Shi-woo didn’t like this situation where even Shin-bi Noona, whom he had trusted, was teasing him, so he answered with a mix of annoyance.

“Kareureureu~”

As if radiating the vitality of a female student at a fancy academy, Shin-bi Noona laughed while holding her stomach for a long time.

While eating ramen, Shi-woo was trying to recover his face and standing, which had fallen due to being teased, by saying nasty things like, “Men will keep changing, Noonas will definitely regret it later,” or “Well, you can just pick men with the same initials to meet,” or “I wonder if renaming the men you meet is also a method?”

However, such attempts were not very effective thanks to Shin-bi Noona’s tone of coaxing and soothing, such as, “Yeah, that would work”… every time.

“But Se-hee Noona, wouldn’t it be a real problem if Mom found out about that?”

This time, Shi-woo asked Se-hee Noona in a serious and worried tone.

“There’s no problem as long as you keep your mouth shut, you know?”

Se-hee Noona was still cold to Shi-woo.

“Aren’t you going to go to the bathhouse or swimming pool with Mom anymore?”

Shi-woo said to Se-hee Noona as if he was still worried, and

“So, there’s no problem as long as you keep your mouth shut, I’m telling you?”

Se-hee repeated the same words and answered Shi-woo coldly.

“Aish, would I tell Mom about something like that~?!”

Shi-woo was slowly getting annoyed at Noona’s attitude.

I decided to stop talking to Noona now.

It seems that the joke Shi-woo made yesterday morning touched Noona’s sore spot and she was very angry.

After Father passed away, everyone in the family was distraught, and she quit track and field, which she had been faithfully engaged in while achieving good results because her breasts grew bigger.

I heard it from Shin-bi Noona, but if that was the reason, it might have been embarrassing to reveal it to the family.

Se-hee had never thought of exercise as a profession, so she wasn’t too upset about quitting exercise itself.

However, she was secretly upset that she couldn’t confidently reveal the reason, even though she knew it would cause worry.

Shi-woo touched on that part.

Shin-bi Noona, who was watching from the side, felt sorry for Shi-woo, so she started playing with Shi-woo again.

“Does Shi-woo have a girlfriend?”

“No, I don’t?”

Shi-woo answered without much thought.

“Have you ever dated before?”

“No.”

“Have you ever kissed?”

“I said I’ve never dated, so what kiss!!”

Shi-woo said shyly.

“Can’t you kiss even if you’re not dating?”

“I said no!!”

Shi-woo was a little surprised. You can kiss even if you’re not dating. It’s not wrong, but isn’t it usually something you should do between lovers? That’s what I was thinking.

-Delusion separate from reality-

“Aren’t you interested in that kind of thing?”

Shin-bi Noona’s face comes a little closer to Shi-woo.

“No, it’s not that I’m not interested, but it’s weird to answer that kind of thing.”

Shi-woo, who can’t make eye contact and is getting more and more embarrassed.

“Should Noona teach you how to kiss?”

Shin-bi Noona gathered her glossy lips with pink lipstick on them and was staring straight at Shi-woo.

“….”

Shi-woo froze in that position and couldn’t say anything, just looking at Shin-bi Noona’s lips.

“Ah~ You thought about it for a second, didn’t you? Kissing Noona.”

Shin-bi Noona said again in a playful voice.

“Ah, forget it!! What are you talking about!!”

“Shi-woo is really cute~! Kareureuk~”

Noona laughed again while holding her stomach.

Shi-woo was constantly teased by Shin-bi Noona, so now he was just eating ramen and listening to Se-hee Noona and Shin-bi Noona’s conversation.

“Hyu~ But I can’t dance either. I sweat a lot and it’s too difficult. It’s hard to use muscles I haven’t used before, and I don’t think I should have approached it thinking it would be easy.”

Se-hee Noona seemed to be talking about the dance she was practicing earlier.

“Yeah, that’s right. It seems like a definitely difficult dance for beginners.”

Shin-bi Noona answered as if agreeing.

“Should I do that after all? Are you okay?”

Se-hee Noona seemed to be slightly looking at Shi-woo’s expression and asked Shin-bi Noona while saying ‘that’.

“Um.. I honestly think I can do it if I do it with you.”

Shin-bi Noona answered carefully to Se-hee Noona’s question.

“Yeah, I think I can do it if I do it together too? I told Sora I’d answer slowly, so let’s think about it a little more.”

Se-hee Noona finished the conversation as if hiding something while looking at Shi-woo’s expression.

“What are you talking about? Diet?”

Shi-woo suddenly became curious and asked.

“You don’t need to know, you know?”

Se-hee cut off Shi-woo’s question with a cold tone.

“Aish, what is it? Shin-bi Noona, what are you talking about? Huh?”

Shi-woo, thinking that he couldn’t get an answer from Se-hee Noona, immediately asked Shin-bi Noona.

Shin-bi Noona, still looking at Se-hee Noona’s expression, said,

“I’m sorry, Shi-woo~ I don’t mind telling you, but then Se-hee would really get angry.”

“Ah, really, what is it?”

Shi-woo’s tone became whiny with frustration.

“You don’t need to know!! You’ve finished your ramen, so go wash the dishes now!!!”

At Se-hee Noona’s angry words, Shi-woo couldn’t ask any more and started washing the dishes.

Se-hee Noona and Shin-bi Noona were sitting on the living room sofa, watching TV and chatting.

Shi-woo pricked up his ears and eavesdropped on their conversation, but there was no talk related to ‘that’.

Shi-woo thought to himself while washing the dishes.

‘There’s something going on.’

‘It was definitely about dieting, but why is Noona getting angry because I know?’

‘Is it that kind of exercise that’s embarrassing to tell your own younger brother?’

‘Aish, even Shin-bi Noona is keeping it a secret, so I’m even more curious.’

Shi-woo kept racking his brains and thinking, but the answer didn’t come out.

As Shi-woo was almost finished washing the dishes, Se-hee Noona, who had been chatting with Shin-bi Noona in the living room, got up, saying she was going to the bathroom.

A little later, while Se-hee Noona was in the bathroom, Shin-bi Noona approached Shi-woo in the kitchen and started talking to him.

“Should I help you with the dishes?”

Shin-bi Noona’s usual voice without playfulness.

“I’m almost done, so it’s okay~ More than that, Noona, wasn’t what you were talking about when we were eating ramen earlier about dieting?”

Shi-woo quickly asked, thinking that she might answer when Se-hee Noona wasn’t there.

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Shin-bi Noona answered willingly.

“But what kind of diet is it that Se-hee Noona would get angry if you told me?”

“There’s something like that. Hihihit.”

Shin-bi Noona still didn’t give a cool answer.

“Ah~ Really, even Shin-bi Noona is going to be like that?”

“I’m sorry, but I think Se-hee would really get angry if I told you.”

Shin-bi Noona kept the secret to the end.

“That’s too much, what is it~? You were just teasing me earlier, and now you’re just excluding me and leaving me out, just the two of you? How long have Noona and I known each other!!! Can’t you just tell your close younger brother?”

Shi-woo appealed to Shin-bi Noona for the last time, complaining about his feelings of resentment.

Shin-bi Noona looked troubled.

“Don’t be too upset~”

And after thinking for a moment, she said.

“I don’t think I can tell you, Se-hee would really get angry. Instead, I’ll give you a hint.”

Saying that, Shin-bi Noona wrote numbers on Shi-woo’s back with her finger while he was washing the dishes.

‘0’

‘1’

‘3’

‘5’

Shin-bi Noona was stroking Shi-woo’s back as if erasing the numbers after writing them all.

“0135?

Shi-woo, puzzled, only turned his head back slightly and confirmed to Noona by making a sound.

“Shhh!!”

Shin-bi gestured to be quiet and made a sound with her mouth.

“Even if you know the answer, you have to pretend you don’t know to Se-hee, okay?”

Shi-woo nodded.

And Shi-woo didn’t say a word, pondering the answer until Shin-bi Noona went back.