Chapter 93 – Part 1
The moment she opened the lid of the lunch box, thinking that there must be something identical to the stuff that was filling the box, what Gayoung saw was a glossy eel.
That’s why, seeing it, Ga-young felt her feelings of bewilderment.
Does Yuhan know?
What does it mean to feed eels to the opposite sex?
In particular, for a man to feed a woman eel… It was no different than appealing to her to eat it and work hard to eat it.
‘No.’
Because Yuhan was watching, she couldn’t bear to do it outwardly, but inwardly, Gayoung shook her head and hurriedly caught her thoughts that were about to reach her strange side.
Because it couldn’t be
Anyway, she won’t know that far.
When you think of health food, the first thing that comes to mind is eel, so he must have chosen this without much thought.
Yes, that must have been the case.
It must have been.
So she was embarrassed and had nothing to do.
Shouldn’t be
Thump thump-
Regardless of my will, my heart kept beating faster.
The speed was so fast that her mouth felt dry for a moment, with a slight feeling of heat in her face.
A feeling I hadn’t felt in a long time, a feeling I’d completely forgotten about.
It was also embarrassing that the person who brought it up was Yuhan, not someone else.
So I couldn’t do anything and just stayed silent…
“Oh, hurry up…”
I made it with great effort and brought it, but did I feel frustrated just watching it without thinking about eating it?
Yuhan, who had been sitting diagonally and constantly glancing at me, stretched out her hand toward the lunchbox she had set down with a slightly trembling voice.
Click-
The abalone came out with the sound of the lunch box being separated.
There she felt embarrassed once more.
The salad that appeared next to the abalone was tolerable.
The problem was then.
The compartment filled with shrimp, bacon, avocado, and tomato salad that looked very rich was grabbed by Yuhan’s hand and began to move sideways.
She was relieved at the glimpse of something white with him.
Apparently, the contents of the last column seemed to be rice.
The eels… I was honestly a little embarrassed, but I couldn’t let Yuhan’s time and effort into making them go to waste, so I said thanks and was about to start eating.
It must have been the moment when they were forcibly dropping the things they were holding tightly to each other to open their mouths when something black that had been sitting on top of the evenly spread rice came into their eyes.
“Please eat··”
It had lost its stiffness and was limp from the heat, but it wasn’t too difficult to see what it looked like.
Because I couldn’t know if I didn’t know.
Could it be because of that?
Something similar to it began to run fast again, as if it had calmed down.
Realistically, that wouldn’t be possible, but it seemed to be several times faster than before.
…Your face was hot.
It felt like I had drunk a lot of strong alcohol.
That’s because I realized it thanks to that.
That Yuhan’s heart is much heavier and closer to his heart than he thought.
He thought he must have mistaken longing for love.
He thought he was suffering from puberty late.
That’s why Yuhan’s actions and feelings were dismissed as just because he was suffering from a severe fever.
Even if it is a little painful right now, it is a fever that will eventually get better someday.
So I thought that Yuhan would be naturally like that too.
However, after seeing the things Yuhan carefully unfolded, he realized.
It was not Han who was mistaken, but that he was himself.
I was ashamed.
She acted as if she knew everything, her face flushed as she recalled the memories of treating Yuhan as an innocent child who knew nothing.
He acted like he knew everything, but he was the one who didn’t know anything.
What came along with the embarrassment was as strong an embarrassment as Yuhan felt when he kissed her for the first time.
He honestly thought that if he didn’t respond, one day he would fall out on his own.
Because there is nothing more miserable and difficult than unrequited unrequited love.
Yuhan, who must have experienced something like this for the first time, thought that he would not be able to endure it even more.
However, as long as she knew that Yuhan was sincere, she couldn’t do that anymore.
Love is like alcohol, so the more you get drunk, the more impulsively you change people.
Yuhan’s actions against herself, who pretends to be asleep every morning, have already crossed the line of being her family.
But if you act more impulsively there… What will happen then?
It was hard to even imagine.
No, she didn’t want to imagine.
But if there was one thing that was certain, it was that she would never accept Yuhan’s actions like that.
Therefore, one day I had to do the act of refusal.
‘But how…?’
In any case, what should she do when something like that really happens?
What should I do to make the wounds that Yuhan will receive even a little smaller?
I couldn’t tell.
Nothing came to mind.
It’s just… My head is blank.
So it was.
“··What?”
The reason why he couldn’t hear Yuhan’s voice calling out to him with a puzzled expression on his face.
“··Aunt?”
A face stained with wonder.
The eyes inside them were filled with the feeling of worry.
I realized it as soon as I saw it.
It wasn’t a look of concern for his family or his mother.
Rather… It was closer to the look of a man worrying about the woman he likes.
He couldn’t get used to the fact that Yuhan was looking at him with those eyes.
And the situation itself felt unfamiliar to me that someone was worrying about me with a lot of sincerity.
It had to be.
Because he was always worried.
As the head of a family who is responsible for a family, it was inevitable.
Because he thought that if he became weak, Gina, Sena, and Yuhan would all be shaken.
So even though it was difficult, even if I wanted to scream in pain, I persevered.
I endured like that…
I guess the time I pretended to be fine or nothing was too long.
Receiving Yuhan’s worried gaze, full of sincerity, she felt as if something was collapsing in her chest, and her thumping heart began to beat at a strange beat.
Throbbing.
Yeah, that’s exactly what it felt like to put it into words.
“Are you okay? Your face is red…”
I see
I’m making that face right now.
I am facing you with that kind of face.
“Shouldn’t you go to the hospital? If you have a fever…”
Yuhan, who was flustered as if he was sick, reached out his hand and covered his forehead.
Yuhan’s face, which came into his eyes at that moment, was so red that he wondered if his face was like that now.
The moment the figure penetrated into my field of vision, I woke up as if I had been covered with cold water.
“…It’s just that I’m a little tired, so don’t worry.”
Grabbing Yuhan’s hand that was covering his forehead, he removed it from his body, and in an instant, gathered something that filled his body into one, and started looking for a place to bury it.
It’s been so long since I’ve received someone’s worried gaze like I did just now, so I was slightly shaken, but I can’t keep doing that.
I thought I’d bury it deep so it wouldn’t be seen again.
“But just in case you don’t know, do you really need to take medicine…?”
It was in the midst of that that Yuhan took out his spoon and chopsticks and put them in his hands.
Yuhan nodded his head slowly at Yuhan’s words, “If you want to take medicine, you have to eat first, then eat before it cools down.”
Then, moving his hand holding the spoon, he slightly scooped out the rice.
“Ah, this, this… That… Sena must have been playing a joke.”
Only then did Cheok Yu-han, who found himself sitting on top of the rice, uttered an excuse that no one would believe with an awkward expression and voice.
“Did Sena help too?”
“…Yes, the side kept picking it up, so I asked them to help me with the packaging if that was the case.”
Whenever he was awkwardly bragging, he couldn’t bear to look at Yuhan’s smiling face with a slightly relieved expression.
I haven’t been able to catch up on the shaking yet, but if I see it, I feel like I’m going to shake again.
My throat is full.
So, while I was about to tap his chest with my slightly folded hands, Yuhan hurriedly got up from his seat.
“Now, wait a minute…”
It took a while for Yuhan to turn her head around as if she was looking for something. After running towards the water purifier, Yuhan returned to her seat with both hands clutching the cup full of water.
“Eat slowly.”
“··Okay.”
In order not to look strange, I had to eat the side dishes, but I don’t know why, but I didn’t get my hands on it.
I was afraid of something…
I don’t know what it is.
However, Yuhan did not leave him alone.
I took out another pair of chopsticks from the shopping bag, so I thought they were going to eat together.
“That, this, this…”
Yuhan picked up a piece of eel, thick and glistening, and placed it on top of the spoon.
At that moment, something rattled and shook inside my chest.
“Because it loses its taste when it cools down…”
Even so, he couldn’t bear to look away from Yuhan’s gaze, which was full of expectations.
So I carefully took it to my mouth.
Then, as he put it in his mouth and mumbled, Yuhan, who had glanced at him as if to check the reaction on the other side, asked for his impressions in a slightly nervous voice.
“Uh, how are you? Maybe it’s corrupt… Isn’t it?”
Contrary to Yuhan’s worries, nothing was wrong.
Rather, it was very tasty.
The unique light and savory taste of eel goes well with the sweet and salty seasoning on the outside, and the flavor fills your mouth with every bite.
“…It’s delicious. Did you make it yourself?”
“Yes? Ah, yes! I tried it after looking on the Internet…”
My heart felt heavy when I saw Yuhan, who threw off the nervousness that had been floating all over her face, and smiled broadly at that one word.
He smiled so brightly at even an insignificant word, and he couldn’t even imagine how much Yuhan would be hurt if he later rejected him.
I’d rather see Yuhan suffering from a wound–
Ga-young reflexively flinched at the thought that popped into her head.
Then, realizing that she was sitting face to face with Yuhan, she flinched at her body once more.
‘If I had to look strange…’
With that thought in mind, Ga-young, who had secretly cast her gaze toward Yuhan, felt relieved at the sight of her in her eyes.
Yuhan’s eyes were on her overturned side, not herself.
She thought she was really lucky.
If, however, Yuhan had just looked at her as if looking at something strange after seeing what she had done, she would have been so embarrassed that she really didn’t even want to imagine.
She was as crazy as she was.
That’s why she never did it again.
Ga-yeong was relieved at the fact that Yu-han hadn’t noticed that she had thought that way, even for a moment, but her feelings didn’t last long.
She was looking at Yuhan’s figure, and it was because of something that naturally caught her eye.
Unlike his own, which was torn, cut, and burned, and looked unsightly even to the naked eye, Yuhan’s hands were white and clean.
So did her fingers.
Unlike her own, which was full of scars, it was nice to see her finite fingers stretched out without a single scar on her.
She had a band-aid wrapped around her.
I couldn’t feel it until morning
No, she hadn’t seen it.
The reason why it suddenly appeared was obvious without having to check it out.
At least, I must have made a mistake while making these and got hurt.
If he had looked into Yuhan’s appearance even a little closer, he had finally found something he could never have missed.
I was busy thinking about other things, so I couldn’t appreciate how much effort Yuhan must have made to make them.
That fact made me feel guilty.
Enough to make her heart ache.
“How did your hand hurt?”
“This is it?”
As soon as he pointed out the wound on his finger, Yuhan shook his shoulders and hurriedly hid his bandaged finger under the table.
Yuhan’s face was filled with awkwardness and nervousness at the same time.
I wonder if he was worried that maybe he was telling me to stop preparing meals because he was hurt.
“I, abalone!
An excuse that was clearly made up to anyone’s eyes flowed through Yuhan’s lips.
Then-
“…It was really just a slight prick, so don’t worry.”
He hastily started shaking his hands.
I stared blankly at Yuhan’s face.
“It’s true…”
Could he not stand the gaze?
Yuhan, who had been slightly shrinking, hurriedly turned around.
“T-Try this rather than that.”
While placing an abalone that smelled like butter on top of a spoon.
