Chapter 19 – 019. Convenience Store
“⋯I ate well.”
⋯I never thought I would eat tear-soaked bread.
When you fail the CSAT.
When you fail an audition.
I’ve never cried except when my younger brother hit the charts right after his debut.
It was so shameful that a man like this shed tears out of fear.
“Are you full? “I’m not good enough.”
“⋯It’s full.”
“Then I’m glad.”
Having finished eating a while ago, he sipped his coffee until the end and did not leave my side.
Even the glances at me while I was fiddling with my phone annoyed me.
I wanted you to disappear somewhere I couldn’t see, but you never know what else you might do outside of my eyes.
“Haeun, I’m going to the convenience store. Do you want to get dressed? If it’s bothersome, you can just go dressed like that.”
“⋯Why me?”
“If I go out alone, I can’t come back in. “Security is tight here.”
“I’ll open it for you, so go alone.”
“I saw earlier that you need a card key to get on the elevator. “Can you lend me that too?”
When I heard that he was leaving, I expected to be able to lock the door and kick him out, but Kang Joo-hyuk was meticulous even in unnecessary details.
⋯Yes.
I have no intention of leaving, this is it.
The fear that had built up to the top of his head had turned into anger because he cried earlier.
I can’t just sit around being bullied by a man like this for the rest of my life.
“Let’s just go together.” I feel really bad because I can’t change my clothes right now. But I can’t borrow your clothes to wear them.”
“What are you going to buy at the convenience store?”
“Underwear and T-shirt. If shorts are sold, buy shorts too. You also need a toothbrush. I need to buy something to eat. “My stomach is less full.”
I was tired of Kang Joo-hyuk laying out daily necessities in a row instead of setting up a household in someone else’s house, but that didn’t change anything.
You can’t end your relationship with him until you delete the recording on your cell phone.
As long as I have that, this man won’t let me go.
I have to let Kang Joo-hyuk sleep in this house until today.
⋯It’s really annoying.
I’m annoyed.
“Just tie up your hair and leave right away?”
“What does it matter to you whether I tie my hair or let it down?”
“I like it better without it tied up.”
“⋯.”
I deliberately changed my hair to a hairstyle he did not like, put on a hat, and wore one of his cardigans.
When he saw me like that, he put on his clothes and headed toward the front door.
“If you don’t like going with me, would you like to go alone? Actually, I don’t need anything, just underwear.”
“I’m crazy? “Leave me alone in this house.”
“That’s kind of cool. Ha-eun.”
“Oh, really…”
“A joke, a joke. Let’s go out.”
I cursed Kang Joo-hyuk, who was always annoying me until the end, and temporarily relieved the anger that had built up to the very end of his head.
⋯I will never sleep before him.
All you have to do is drink an energy drink and stay awake a little longer than Kang Joo-hyuk.
Since his phone is from the year before last, you can probably use your finger to unlock it while he’s sleeping.
Phew…
Come to your senses.
Don’t be swayed by this man again.
***
I thought he would make fun of me outside, but surprisingly he walked ahead, even leaving me on the street.
Perhaps because we were familiar with the road, we went into the convenience store first without looking at the map. We were a little caught off guard and followed him in, where a chubby male clerk greeted us.
Seeing that, Kang Joo-hyuk smiled and said,
He grabbed my shoulder.
“Hey!”
“Why. What. “No?”
⋯I wondered why he was fine, but still.
This man only wants to play with me.
A man and a woman stopped by a convenience store late at night.
I’m even wearing a shabby indoor coat, with just a decent cardigan.
Kang Joo-hyuk always wears comfortable clothes.
It was obvious even without looking at what others would think.
⋯Yes, this was all expected.
You just have to endure it for today.
“⋯If you touch me any more, I’m really going to report you.”
“Okay. “I won’t do any more.”
I opened my slightly swollen eyes and glared harshly at Kang Joo-hyuk, and only then did he smile heartily and let go of my shoulder.
It didn’t mean much since I had already shown it to the clerk, but being touched by him was unpleasant.
The smell of my body his wash coming from his body his his his was also very annoying.
⋯Every single thing was just annoying.
“What are you going to buy too?”
“Drinks.”
“Oh, drink some hangover medicine too. “You drank too much today, so even if you’re fine now, you’ll have a headache tomorrow, right?”
“Give it to me.”
I threw energy drinks and hangover cures into the shopping cart he was carrying and searched the shelves to see if there were any more drinks related to sleep.
The first thing that came in was alcohol.
Even if I die and wake up, I have no intention of drinking in front of Kang Joo-hyuk in the future, but wouldn’t Kang Joo-hyuk be able to drink in front of me?
But he didn’t think a man who was so good at pretending to be drunk would get drunk just by drinking a few cans of beer.
If you buy it, they’ll do whatever trick they can to get it to me.
“What, are you drinking again?”
“Am I crazy?”
“No, he was looking at the beer very carefully. Do you like it?”
“No, take this.”
Look, it’s right there.
For a scumbag who only wanted to make a woman drink, I found coffee milk instead of beer and put it in the shopping cart again.
I drank a lot of that when I was in high school, so I know it’s very effective.
In addition, I pick up another can next to the energy drink.
⋯I’ve seen this on the internet.
Was it a relaxation drink?
Just the opposite of caffeine, they say that drinking it makes your body slack.
I can give this to Kang Joo-hyuk.
“Ha-eun, aren’t you buying too many drinks just because I’m buying them?”
“You can drink it too. “I let you sleep for a day, but can’t you buy me even this much?”
“Well, it’s not like that. “I was wondering if I would be able to sleep if I drank caffeine.”
“I’m eating it because it’s delicious, so don’t worry about it.”
Kang Joo-hyuk, who was quick-witted, immediately said something, but he still had no intention of giving in.
No matter how physically strong he is, he won’t be able to stay awake longer than this person who grits his teeth and holds on.
There is no need to fight with him, just pretend to sleep and wait for him to fall asleep first.
It’s a little past 7 o’clock now, so if I stay awake for about 8 more hours at the most, I can use Kang Joo-hyuk’s cell phone.
Just erase everything from there.
Whether recording,
Any video that may have been taken.
“Well, caffeine helps me pump better when I exercise.”
Fortunately, Kang Joo-hyuk, who accepted my drink without a doubt, nodded his head, put in things he wanted to buy, and quickly went to the counter and started paying.
Underwear and white t-shirt.
Chicken breast sausage.
Energy drink with coffee milk that I bought.
Hangover reliever.
Zero Cola.
Toothbrush.
Dental floss.
Eye patch.
Con…
“⋯Hey! Crazy… “
“Why?”
As soon as he saw the box with 0.01 on it, his sinking heart rekindled and his whole body began to tremble.
I was scared earlier,
Now, the pleasure I had forgotten because I was so annoyed came back to me again.
“Take that out. “Right away.”
“I used up everything, but I’m not buying it?”
“Take it out!”
Because of that, I forgot that the clerk in front of me was paying and started yelling at Kang Joo-hyuk.
⋯Thanks to this, the surprised clerk opened his eyes wide and began to glance meaningfully at me and Kang Joo-hyuk.
“⋯Except, really. “Don’t play around.”
“I’m not joking. “If it was a joke, I wouldn’t have bought it.”
“Oh really. My head hurts… “
I feel disgusted by Kang Joo-hyuk, who behaves shamelessly until the end, and I cover his face with my hands in shame.
Oh, really…
Fucking pervert, rapist, blackmailer, bastard…
“⋯There, just like the calculation⋯.”
“Yes. Please do it as is.”
“⋯.”
Even the clerk who had been staring at us kept looking at me with an increasingly sinister look and laughing.
I wasn’t that stupid of a woman to not know what the ridicule meant.
⋯Trash bastard.
Do you really enjoy making me a laughingstock, even to people who don’t know me?
I really want to kill you…
“Hey. I’m sorry, but please look at me, not over there. “I’m calculating.”
“Ah… Yes, yes. “I’m sorry.”
The moment when I couldn’t even say anything because I was so unfair,
Kang Joo-hyuk smiled brightly, blocked my path, and spoke to the clerk.
A very friendly voice.
A tone of voice that someone of the same sex would not use even if they were dead or awake.
That tone and voice that you have told me several times.
“Po, do you have a point card?”
“No. Please just pay by card.”
“Yes, yes.”
Maybe it was because his back plate was unnecessarily thick and wide, but even the stuttering clerk’s voice could not be heard clearly.
The back of the man I wanted to hit in the back of the head came into view, but he was so tall that I couldn’t seem to reach his head.
⋯If I were just 10cm taller, they would hang on my back and strangle me.
Hiding behind the mischievous and annoying man, I quietly left the convenience store and protested to him.
“⋯If you really bought it with the intention of using it, wake up because you never intend to do that.”
“Who is writing with you? “I used up everything I had in my wallet, so I don’t need to buy anything.”
“You, you… “
But where did the man who was smiling with a scary face earlier go? Kang Joo-hyuk quickly returned to being an irritating man.
I hated him so much that he made fun of me by scratching my heart to the bottom.
⋯I left with a promise that I would never be fooled again.
I wasn’t fooled this time, but I ended up playing in the palm of his hand again.
Even though I thought he would do something strange to me, I never imagined that he would humiliate me in such a dark way.
“Oh, if you want to do it, of course I won’t refuse. There isn’t any. Right?”
“Nothing, you bastard!”
⋯Bad boy.
Really, it’s good just once.
I wish I could see that annoying guy crawling and crying at my feet.
At least spit.
Hehe.
