Chapter 96 – Drinking
That’s how we started drinking in broad daylight.
I sat down at the table with appropriate snacks and wine prepared by my junior.
As I drink one or two glasses of alcohol, the awkwardness towards my sister disappears.
“Oh, indeed. Eve. “My name is Lisa.”
“Yes.”
“It’s okay to call me sister, but… “It’s easier to be called by your first name, so would you do that?”
“Yes. Lee, Lisa…”
I think I was able to do that even more because Lisa treated me so freely.
It’s hard to believe that she and her younger sibling were completely different from each other.
Unlike her juniors who are serious about almost everything, she is full of playfulness and always smiles brightly.
Are all people in the Ernest family like this?
As if she was proud of her descent from a prestigious family, her pretty face combined with her charming personality made it hard for any man who met her to fall in love with her.
“I like women.”
“… “You’re a woman, right?”
“Huh. But I don’t care about that.”
I don’t know if it’s because I have such a confident attitude,
The fact that she was gay wasn’t the slightest fault with her.
If it were me, I would have been in a hurry to hide it. Even now, there is something that is holding me back, and it remains like a stone in a corner of my heart.
She was a great person.
Anyway, Lisa was that kind of person,
Lisa was observing me just as I was observing her.
She pulled the dining table chairs close to us and started talking, looking more interestedly at her junior than at me.
“My younger brother, who looks like he could be stabbed without a single drop of blood, is in love.”
“What does my sister think of me?”
“I’m really surprised. To be honest, I always thought that he was a machine and not a person.”
“It’s overkill.”
“I was wondering what kind of woman would take you, who only has a flashy face and has no interest in such things…”
“I’m taking senior Eve with me.”
“Oh my.”
I tilted my head.
Because my junior and I weren’t really dating.
It’s not like that…
I thought I was misunderstanding something, but I had no intention of interfering with the conversation between the siblings, so I just had a drink by myself.
From our last conversation, you know that I don’t think of him as my lover, right?
But why does he keep assuming that I am his lover?
I guess I was making a sullen expression without even realizing it,
The junior looking in my direction said, “Ah.” His face hardened as if he realized something.
Well, it’s too late.
I don’t want to break the mood, so I won’t say anything in front of my family, Lisa.
As soon as she returned, I planned to give her junior a very firm shout-out.
As if you were peeking into my thoughts,
My junior started to get really upset with me.
“Hey, Eve…”
“Hmph.”
“No, it’s not like that. “Listen to me.”
“Just have a drink.”
“… Is that so? For now.”
Lisa’s eyes widened as if she was seeing her younger brother like that for the first time.
After she fully understands the situation, she smiles and makes a mischievous face as if she’s having fun.
“You’re not Ian!”
“What are you talking about?”
“Ugh, what are you so into, my handsome little brother?”
The junior must have realized that his older sister was planning to make fun of him,
She didn’t answer what she said anymore.
Then Lisa started talking to me naturally, as if she knew she would.
“How long have you been dating?”
“Yes?”
“When did you first meet?”
“I guess it’s been about two, two months…”
“And. “You made him look like that in just two months?”
She started praising me as if I were some really great person.
Anyone could tell that it was exaggerated, but the feeling of being praised wasn’t bad… I can’t stop the corners of her mouth from twitching.
“They said it was pretty and worth seeing!”
“Thank you… ?”
“You know, who confessed first?”
It’s a confession.
I looked up at my junior.
Then Lisa continued talking, her eyes shining like a girl in her prime.
“Of course you kissed, right?”
“Oh, that’s…”
“Sister. “Why are you asking such a thing?”
“You’re curious!”
I gulped down the wine like I was drinking water,
I don’t know if it was the alcohol or because the story between us was interesting, but I brought her slightly flushed face closer.
This is just my opinion,
I think Lisa has a unique ability.
Is it because she listens to others, and it is evident from her every gesture that she truly enjoys listening to other people’s stories?
As someone who feels awkward and reluctant to talk to people I am not close with,
Before she knew it, she seemed to have been influenced by the atmosphere surrounding her, and she enjoyed talking a word or two with Lisa,
Just like dealing with a close friend, you end up blowing away your true feelings without considering this and that.
But what did he say at the end,
Ah. Kiss. Have you tried it? You asked.
I hesitated for a moment at that point and then,
I spoke as if I was being pushed by the two eyes that kept looking at me twinkling.
“Not yet…”
“What? That’s ridiculous!”
Why is that reaction?
It’s as if he’s genuinely wondering why he didn’t do something he should have done sooner.
In that sense,
I guess Lisa’s and my natural thoughts are a little different.
I was a little hesitant, but I was able to say it somehow with the help of alcohol.
“Of course, kissing is something you do with someone you like…”
“Does that mean you don’t like Ian?”
“Oh, that’s right…”
“Hmm. Okay? “You don’t like sesame seeds pouring out like that?”
“What, what is it?”
“Did you think this guy wouldn’t notice if I held his hand and made fun of him?”
“Keck…”
She kept squirming under the table and trying to grab her hand, so I had no choice but to let her do so.
Lisa, who is quick-witted, had already figured it out.
What kind of disgrace is this in front of the family?
My face got red, and I hit my junior on the shoulder with my free hand.
“What do you think?”
Did the junior guy put an iron plate on his face?
Even though he was hit hard on the shoulder by my palm, he didn’t loosen his clasped hands.
There was no way I could overcome the force, so I had no choice but to keep holding on tightly…
While we are doing that,
Lisa had her hand on the tip of her chin and seemed to be thinking about something.
She seemed like someone who was struggling with a difficult problem.
She smiled brightly as if she had just thought of a good answer, and then she spoke to me again.
“Eve, you know that?”
“What… ?”
“You don’t have to like someone to kiss them.”
“Yes?”
What does this mean?
I really couldn’t understand.
But I couldn’t find any signs of lying.
There was no reason for Lisa to lie to me.
“Kiss, ah, I do it with anyone…” ?”
“Of course I won’t do it with just anyone.”
“Then… ?”
“With someone I like.”
“What do you mean by liking it?” ?”
“Huh? That’s literally it. In my case, it’s okay as long as it’s pretty. Ah. Eve. In that sense, would you like to kiss my sister?”
“Gyaaaaagh…”
“Hey, I was joking. You are really cute Would you like to go out with your sister? I can do much better than that guy over there…”
“If you’re going to talk nonsense, get out.”
If it weren’t for my junior’s proper intervention, my face would have turned red or even exploded.
“I said the same thing to my swordsmanship teacher the other day. Are you doing this to your lover now?”
“It’s pretty, what should I do!”
“Absolutely not Eve.”
“Hey. I’m not a villain who tries to ruin a relationship by getting in the middle of a good couple… ? “It’s because Eve’s reaction is cute.”
“Anyway. “Don’t even dream.”
I didn’t mean it.
Even while I was sighing my heart out,
The two continued talking.
“But then, does that mean the teacher’s side is okay?”
“It is none of my business to meddle in who you date.”
“Yay.”
“Why are you so excited?”
“It sucks to be a teaching assistant to a cocky girl!”
“… “Master, did something wrong with my sister?”
“He suddenly showed up the other day and scolded you and the other professors and said he was right.”
“Master, there is nothing wrong. On the contrary, it was resolved well thanks to that.”
“How dare you do this to my only little brother!”
“Actually, I don’t have anything to do with it and I know you’re just doing it to satisfy your selfish interests.”
“Isn’t that why you just came here without knowing much about the situation?”
“It’s crazy what your sister is doing to us right now.”
“My younger brother said he’s never been able to kiss me because he’s got a blood clot. How can I not act like an older sister?”
“…”
Wow.
Not saying a word.
The junior seemed to have a headache and took a swig from the glass in front of him.
Lisa took advantage of that opportunity and spoke to me again.
“Anyway, Eve. You can kiss even if you don’t like it right now. On the contrary, there are many cases where I end up liking someone by kissing them.”
Coogung-
I think I hear something like that.
It was a sound that shattered the common sense I had firmly believed in until now.
If I heard something like that from a junior,
I would just tell people not to lie and get excited.
I laughed inwardly, saying I was playing tricks because I wanted to kiss him somehow.
However, Lisa, who seemed to sincerely support the relationship between my junior and me, was definitely sincere when she said that.
Just by looking at the way he talks, you can tell he’s a dating expert.
I see.
I guess I was wrong all this time…
“How does it feel when you kiss… ?”
“You’ve never done this before in your life?”
“I tried it, I tried it, but…”
With the West.
But I couldn’t say that.
When I said that I had experience kissing,
My junior looks at me so hard, as if beams are coming out of his eyes.
I came with so much force that it hurt when we held each other’s hands.
There are a lot of things he wants to ask me, but he seems to be holding back because it’s in front of his sister.
Lisa was so happy at her sister’s reaction that she grabbed her stomach and laughed as if she was going to die, then drank her drink again.
Her junior also let out a few heated sighs, as if a fire was boiling inside her, and began to drink from the bottle.
I couldn’t leave out again, so I gulped down the alcohol that was poured for me without refusing.
So the three of us continued,
I drank a lot of alcohol.
