## Chapter 75 – How to Apologize to a Childhood Friend
“Oh, oh my god, what do I do, Jiwan?!”
I was surprised too, but it seemed like the senior was even more shocked than I was.
She trembled like a sister-in-law caught having an affair with her brother-in-law.
Conversely, knowing it was Jung Se-in calmed me down.
At least it wasn’t another uninvited guest like yesterday. Wasn’t this a welcome guest, rather?
“Calm down, Senior. You haven’t done anything wrong, have you?”
“R-really?”
“Yes. Just take a deep breath.”
“Hoo. Hoo…”
The senior took a deep breath as I told her to.
Now, she seemed relatively composed.
“But why did she come without calling? Ah.”
Only then did I realize. I hadn’t checked my phone in ages.
I’d left it in the bathroom yesterday while showering, and then neglected it until I woke up.
I found my phone in the pile of clothes I’d taken off yesterday.
“Let’s see, missed calls…”
Quite a few… a lot.
Ugh. I must still be half asleep. The numbers look doubled.
I must be seeing things, right?
“What are you doing?! Open the door!!”
Bang, bang, bang!
Jung Se-in couldn’t wait even a moment and started banging on the door.
Our door won’t last at this rate. The landlord will cry if he finds out.
More importantly, I have to pay for the damages, right? Who do I get the repair costs for the broken door lock from?
“Ugh, why is she making such a racket from morning?”
“J-just a moment.”
The senior grabbed me as I was about to open the door.
“Jiwan, is there something going on between you and Se-in?”
“Huh? Nothing at all?”
“Se-in isn’t the type to get angry like that, is she? She has a really cool and collected image.”
“Now that you mention it.”
Nothing comes to mind… not really.
It would be a lie to say I didn’t feel guilty. It hadn’t even been that long since I’d been with Se-in’s mother. And I even lied about it afterward.
But I didn’t think she was acting like this because of that.
How would Jung Se-in know unless I told her? There’s no way her mother would have told her directly.
The most likely reason was probably her period. Or maybe she fell on the way here and was just being irritable.
“Then is it because of me? Is it because you and I have gotten too close?”
The senior hugged my arm and trembled.
I thought she was joking, but she seemed serious. The senior was genuinely scared.
“Come on, Senior. How would she know about that? It’s not like she installed a CCTV in our house. Besides, she was the one who told me to hook up with you in the first place.”
“That’s not it…!”
The senior looked like she was about to cry, she was so scared. I couldn’t understand why she was so terrified.
“It’s okay. Just trust me.”
I pulled away from the senior and went to open the door.
“You idiot! Put some clothes on before you go out!”
What’s the point of clothes between us?
I ignored the senior and went to open the front door.
Click.
When I opened the door, Jung Se-in was standing there, looking as usual.
“Did you miss me so much you came to see me first thing in the morning? Oof.”
Jung Se-in didn’t even acknowledge me and walked right into the house.
She even bumped my shoulder as she went in, so she was definitely pissed.
“Hey, hey. At least say hello.”
I was ignored like a teenage daughter ignoring her dad.
Then, Jung Se-in took off her shoes and went right in as if it were her own home.
“Who’s here?”
She asked, noticing a pair of unfamiliar women’s shoes.
“Ah, Senior Mireung is here.”
“Senior? What for?”
“What for? She came to hang out.”
I wasn’t in a good mood either, thanks to Jung Se-in’s annoyed attitude.
Of course, I had to stay quiet until it was 100% confirmed that it wasn’t my fault.
“Oh?”
Hearing that the senior was here, Jung Se-in stomped into the room.
She was acting like a wife who’d come to catch her husband’s mistress.
“Senior! What are you doing?”
“Eek! S-Se-in, Ms. Se-in…”
The senior was something else too.
What crime did she commit to be trembling like that?
Maybe she was trying to get dressed and fell in surprise, but the senior was lying on the floor with her skirt tangled around her legs.
You could see her panties, but it looked more funny than sexy.
“Seriously. Senior, Ms. Se-in? Who’s going to eat you?”
Jung Se-in said, laughing as she looked at the senior.
But the senior’s fear didn’t seem to disappear.
“T-that’s, that’s not it.”
“Ah, the thing Senior is wearing, is that Jiwan’s?”
Jung Se-in noticed my shirt that the senior was wearing.
She was definitely asking with a normal smile, but the senior’s expression froze.
“Looks like you slept here? Did you have fun last night? Someone couldn’t sleep all night.”
“Why couldn’t you sleep?”
“Do you even need to ask?”
She turned her head sharply and glared at me.
She was smiling, but her eyes were very sharp. If she were a man, it would have been a challenge to fight.
“It’s not because of the senior, so you don’t have to be so scared.”
“R-really?”
“Then what is it because of?”
I had to hear what she was upset about.
That way, I could decide whether to get angry in return or grovel and beg for forgiveness.
“Jiwan, you slept with my mom, didn’t you?”
Jung Se-in asked with a sigh.
So that was it…
But it was too early to admit it yet.
I replied without changing my expression.
“Didn’t.”
“Did. You did.”
The reaction came from an unexpected place.
The senior looked at me with a dumbfounded expression and said that.
“I didn’t? Senior, do these eyes look like they’re lying?”
“Yes. They look like the eyes of a complete liar.”
This can’t be! The senior betrayed me!
She was all sweet and lovey-dovey with me until just now, and now she’s turned on me without looking back. You can’t trust women!
“This is ridiculous. How could you do that with your friend’s mom? Are you just okay with any woman? Do you not care if they’re old or young? Are you a total slut?”
“N-no, Senior…”
The senior was attacking me like a machine gun. Yesterday’s lover had become today’s most terrifying enemy. Now the senior was completely on Jung Se-in’s side.
Jung Se-in, who had been watching the conversation between the senior and me, said in a much calmer tone.
“My mom told me everything. That you did it.”
“That can’t be! I trusted your mother!”
The betrayal of the person I least expected!
I couldn’t help but shout in shock.
But that was my downfall.
“So you did do it!”
I was tricked! She was just testing me!
“N-no, I didn’t? I didn’t do it?”
I tried to play dumb, but it was no use.
The senior looked at me with eyes that saw me as trash, and Jung Se-in glared at me with a completely cold, expressionless face.
Damn it. There’s no way out. I didn’t think I’d get caught this early.
Oh well. If it’s come to this, I’ll go all in.
I decided to be brazen about it.
“So what if I did? It’s possible for a young man and woman to fall for each other and do it.”
The air in the room seemed to drop by a couple of degrees.
“Of course, I admit that there’s a moral issue. But you were the one who told me to do it with your mother, weren’t you? Why are you getting angry now?”
“Se-in’s mother… ah!”
Suddenly, the senior seemed to have remembered something.
She seemed to have realized who Jung Se-in was talking about when she said ‘Mom.’
“Senior. This is a real secret. You can’t tell anyone.”
“Do you think I’m such a blabbermouth?”
“I did cum in your mouth.”
“Ugh! You!”
Oops. This isn’t the time to be joking around.
But thanks to the senior, the serious atmosphere seemed to have lightened up a bit… not really.
“Why, did you lie?”
Jung Se-in asked with the same expressionless face.
I gave up and answered seriously.
“Because I didn’t want to say it.”
“Why?”
“It’s not something I can proudly go around telling people, is it? Your mother is married, after all. I could get hit with a divorce settlement bomb.”
“That’s not a reason.”
“What? What answer do you want?”
“The reason you lied to me.”
“I didn’t lie. I hid it.”
“I’m not trying to play word games right now.”
“It’s not a word game. Lying is when you lie to gain something. Hiding is when you hide something because you’ll lose something if you reveal the truth.”
“Huh…?”
The senior, who had been listening from the side, tilted her head.
“So Jiwan didn’t intend to lie to Se-in? He was just hiding it because he was embarrassed…”
“Senior, be quiet.”
“Ah, okay.”
“Hey. What’s with your tone towards the senior?”
I could tell she was upset whether I lied or hid it.
But that didn’t give her the right to treat the senior, who had nothing to do with it, so rudely.
“Are you more concerned about the senior right now?”
“That’s such a girly thing to say.”
It was a casual remark.
I was starting to get annoyed too.
The reason was that Jung Se-in was acting particularly girly today.
Usually, we got along like friends, even if it was forced, just friends of different genders (with sex added), but now she was acting like my girlfriend and throwing a tantrum.
“Girly?”
Jung Se-in’s eyes widened at those words.
Oops.
“You just realized I’m girly? We’ve been fucking all this time, and you didn’t know I was girly?!”
“No…”
“Yeah. I’m girly. Sorry for whining like a girl. I should have let it go like a man that you fucked my mom. I’m really sorry for acting girly?”
“Hey. That’s not what I meant.”
“Then what did you mean? That I should have just let it go that you did it with my mom and lied to me? That I can’t let it go because I’m a woman?”
I was screwed.
Jung Se-in had completely turned into a girl.
“Haha! Yeah, that’s right, it’s because I’m a girl. Huh? The fact that I was worried all night, that I called you dozens of times when you weren’t answering, that I skipped class and came here, but you’re rolling around with the senior, and the senior is wearing your clothes, and all that makes me annoyed, it’s all because I’m a girl. Sorry! For not being manly!”
Jung Se-in’s speaking skills were already above average. What else would you expect from a politician’s daughter?
When Jung Se-in went into full-on girly mode and started grilling me, I couldn’t come to my senses. I raised both hands in surrender.
Yeah. I was the one who was wrong here.
I should have apologized and begged for forgiveness from the start. I failed because I tried to be brazen about it.
“Hoo…”
I sighed deeply.
To let out the anger inside me.
“Hey. Jung Se-in.”
And, I decided to apologize sincerely, bowing my head, even now.
If I apologized with all my heart, she would understand.
“You fucking bitch.”
