Chapter 164 – #35_Friendship(3)
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Sharon, who said she was just going to change her clothes, came out to the living room after about 10 minutes.
“I didn’t make you wait too long, did I?”
“No, just grab some beer. I’ve already microwaved the popcorn.”
“Okay!”
Microwave popcorn that costs 2,000 won at the convenience store and a cold can of beer.
Watching a movie with the air conditioner blasting and a blanket over your lap is like paradise.
Especially watching a movie with a pretty female friend like Sharon…
“Whoosh!”
Sharon put the popcorn and beer on the armrest and leaned back on the sofa.
The distance was naturally close.
She sat so close that her smooth thighs, exposed under her dolphin shorts, were touching mine.
“Can I have a beer?”
“Here.”
Even though it was summer, the air conditioner was so cool that it didn’t feel sticky to be close, and while it was awkward at first, it was now at a level where it felt natural.
Siwoo leaned towards Sharon to get the beer, and as he reached out his arm, he noticed something.
“………?”
Sharon, who prefers a combination of dolphin shorts and a tank top as her indoor wear.
The combination of Sharon, who has a voluptuous chest that doesn’t match her slender waist, and a no-bra tank top has given Siwoo a devastating culture shock.
Every time Sharon moved slightly, the shape of her chest would ripple and her nipples would be visible almost without any filtering.
He had gotten used to everything else, but he couldn’t easily accept that, so he had been avoiding looking at it.
It’s not like Siwoo has such a bold personality that he could openly say, ‘Hey, it’s embarrassing, so please wear a bra at home!’
But today, Sharon is suddenly wearing a black bra under her black tank top.
It seems she matched the color of the shoulder straps.
The bra cups replaced the nipples that had been protruding and showing off their presence.
“Why?”
“Ah, it’s nothing.”
Sharon asked, noticing Siwoo’s hesitation.
But here’s the problem.
Sharon, who asked as if she was somewhat embarrassed, was clearly conscious of Siwoo’s reaction.
She even fidgeted and rubbed her arm.
“……..Ahem.”
“Hmm…..”
Siwoo, feeling parched, took a sip of beer and straightened his posture.
Why is she wearing a bra now?
I’ve been avoiding looking, but did I glance too much?
It’s a relief that the thing that bothered me is gone without having to make an awkward request, that’s 30% of my feeling.
The other 70% is an uncomfortable feeling of ‘Why did Sharon suddenly do that?’
“….Well, I thought you seemed a bit conscious of it, so I did it.”
“Huh?”
“You know… about wearing underwear. You haven’t been wearing it until now, but you suddenly wore it. I was worried you might think differently.”
Sharon glanced at Siwoo’s expression and said, slightly turning her mint-colored eyes.
Siwoo is also the type who can’t hide his expressions and emotions well, so it was quickly obvious.
“Oh, okay.”
After Siwoo’s short reply, only the dry sound of sipping beer was heard for a while.
What is this suffocating awkwardness?
It feels like I should say something, but I don’t know what to say.
Fortunately, Sharon spoke first.
“By the way, what movie are we watching today?”
“I haven’t picked one yet. I’m not good at this kind of thing.”
“Then let’s just watch anything. I don’t mind.”
“Should we?”
He pressed the remote control and randomly picked a movie.
He was originally going to choose a war movie or a suspense, but in his haste, he ended up choosing a genre he hadn’t planned on at all.
It was a romantic comedy that he hadn’t heard of and didn’t seem to be particularly classified as a masterpiece.
Siwoo and Sharon started watching the movie, munching on popcorn.
“……..”
“……..”
Siwoo realized it less than 15 minutes into the movie.
Isn’t there a feeling you get when watching a movie?
Just by looking at the opening scenes and the flow of the plot, you can tell whether it’s going to be boring or interesting.
According to the first evaluation, Siwoo’s choice was a complete failure.
The actors were terrible at acting, and even the events that led to the man and woman getting involved were absurd.
It seemed like the rest of the time would be spent trying to hold back yawns.
Of course, Sharon was watching the screen with wide, bright eyes, without any of that.
“Siwoo.”
“Yeah?”
A passionate kiss scene appeared just 15 minutes into the movie, which was supposed to be a romantic comedy.
Watching it, Siwoo gave up any expectations.
Sharon, who was watching the male and female leads kissing passionately at their graduation party, suddenly called out to Siwoo.
He glanced sideways and saw that Sharon was also looking at him out of the corner of her eye.
Except for the light from the screen, it was dark, so it might just be his imagination, but her face seemed a bit flushed.
“Have you ever kissed?”
“Out of the blue?”
Siwoo scratched his head at Sharon’s sudden question.
He was confident that he now understood women’s hearts to some extent.
However, it was difficult to understand why Sharon, of all people, would ask this question at this moment.
Because what he had confirmed during his time living with Sharon was, ‘Ah! Sharon has no interest in romantic relationships and doesn’t see me as a man!’
So, it must be out of curiosity.
As if to prove his prediction, Sharon followed up.
“I’ve seen the main characters kissing a lot while watching movies, and I just got curious. I wanted to ask if you had experience.”
Experienced…
Just thinking of the people he remembers, there are four.
Amelia, Odile, Odette, and Yebin.
Suddenly, he had a feeling that he had lived a surprisingly blessed life in Gehenna.
“I have.”
“I knew it…”
Sharon’s voice sounded somewhat dejected.
“What do you mean, ‘I knew it’?”
“It’s just that, you seem to watch kiss scenes without much reaction.”
It’s not like Sharon was watching with clenched fists and sparkling eyes.
Anyway, the important thing is why she brought this up.
“Oh, right. So, what I wanted to ask is.”
“Yeah.”
“When do you kiss? Is it the same as in the movies?”
“The same as in the movies?”
Sharon has seen and heard things over time.
But the criteria were still vague.
In movies, the main characters kiss when they reunite with an ex-lover after a long time, confess their love, or when their love is fulfilled, with a romantic background music.
“Kissing is something that two people do. In movies, the two people almost start kissing at the same time. Do you feel like ‘This is it!’? Or is there some kind of socially agreed-upon thing?”
But is it only in those ‘important moments’ that kisses happen?
That’s not the case either.
When they wake up in the morning, right after they meet, or while eating, or before going to bed, etc.
Once they are classified as lovers, the characters in the story are always kissing and making out in their daily lives.
“Hmm….”
The movie was forgotten, and a conversation began.
Siwoo thought that Sharon’s question was similar to the twins’.
Curiosity from a blank slate.
Is it an attempt to classify and categorize a problem arising from emotion into the realm of reason?
“How was it for you?”
“Me?”
In the case of his first kiss, Odile almost attacked him, so that’s excluded, and the kiss he had with Odette was also a forced kiss caused by a love potion.
Then that leaves Amelia and Yebin.
In Amelia’s case, he hugged her while she was crying and apologizing, and he ended up kissing her without realizing it, and when he kissed Yebin, it was at her request, ‘Should we kiss before sex?’
“Hmm….”
Among them, there is only one case that fits Sharon’s question.
His kiss with Amelia.
His chest suddenly felt a little sore.
He forced himself to ignore the feeling and just thought about that moment.
But when he thought about it, it was hard to say definitively.
It’s not difficult to recognize a bouquet of flowers and say, ‘This is a bouquet of flowers,’ but if you ask, ‘How many flowers make a bouquet?’ it’s hard to answer.
“It’s difficult. It’s like you just feel like you want to do it.”
“What do you feel?”
Moreover, the topic of conversation is really…
Is it awkward to talk about this kind of topic while watching a romance movie?
Even if Sharon doesn’t care, Siwoo felt quite embarrassed.
“My heart beats.”
“Heart? You mean it beats like ‘thump-thump’?”
“Yeah.”
Sharon said with wide eyes.
She looked like she had received a big shock.
“And then it’s like you just see the lips magnified? You feel like you want to kiss first, and then you just try it.”
“Try? What about the other person’s intention?”
“Well, I’m not sure about that part. When I think about it, I think I had a feeling that ‘the other person also wants it’ or something.”
Although it was an embarrassing topic of conversation, Siwoo answered Sharon’s questions diligently, as she was particularly focused on them.
“You wouldn’t have done it if you weren’t sure?”
“I wouldn’t have.”
“Hmm… relationships are more difficult than in movies.”
They are difficult.
There were still so many things that Siwoo didn’t understand.
It was full of complicated things that couldn’t be formalized.
With that, the conversation ended for now.
The two of them decided to just keep watching the movie, even though they hadn’t seen the plot for a long time.
In Siwoo’s case, he wasn’t interested in the movie in the first place, and Sharon was pondering over Siwoo’s answers.
[Slurp…slurrrp… Oh… chomp]
[Haa….suck suck heop heop]
“……..”
“……..”
And not long after, another passionate kiss scene came up.
Sharon, who had been pondering without looking at the screen, started watching the movie again.
He could see her profile as she began a detailed analysis, using the information Siwoo had given her as a basis.
But it felt like this wouldn’t end with just a kiss.
[Oh, f*ck yeah~]
Siwoo’s intuition, honed by watching romance movies, was not wrong.
The man and woman kissed as soon as they got home, and then immediately merged at the entrance.
It was an adult romantic comedy, so there was an explicit bed scene where the woman’s breasts and the man’s buttocks were fully exposed.
At first, it was quite awkward for Siwoo to watch these scenes with Sharon, but there were so many movies with sex scenes.
Since Sharon didn’t seem to care at all, Siwoo had stopped being nervous about it.
Of course, it was still a little awkward when the conversation suddenly stopped, but that was it.
But today was different.
He realized it as soon as he glanced at Sharon.
Sharon, who had been sitting with her knees hugged, had half-buried her head and was staring at Siwoo with sparkling eyes.
Could it be…
“Can I ask you one more thing?”
Her scent felt closer than usual today.
Although it was dim from the TV light, he could see everything about Sharon at this distance.
Her eyes, with a mysterious color that could not exist naturally.
Her features, which were flawless on a face that was, to exaggerate a little, only half the size of Siwoo’s.
Even her long eyelashes and the stray hairs sticking out to the side.
He was suddenly struck by the thought that they were together at such a close distance.
“It’s nothing big.”
He tried to refuse.
Siwoo liked this life.
He didn’t want to change it rashly.
And he could feel it instinctively.
This question could be a turning point in their relationship.
If some incident were to make Sharon and him not friends anymore, or if they were to become awkward, he would be quite upset.
“What is it?”
The words that slipped out of his mouth were a little braver than his true feelings.
