Chapter 21 – Episode 21
Since it’s probation, I guess it’s worth knowing.
Also, what kind of part-time job does Nayu have?
With that in mind, I followed Nayu out in the morning.
Actually, it was because I wanted to get rid of some unpleasant feeling.
“My sister said she was dating my brother, but she said she wasn’t.”
I wanted to hear whether what Gahye said yesterday was true, or rather, the reason why she said that.
Maybe it’s just my imagination.
But I don’t think I’m that insensitive.
In that confession-like atmosphere, I even heard a strange suggestion.
When we came back holding hands, we kissed and tried to touch each other.
Nayu also served with her breasts for me.
It’s nothing, and we’re not even dating, so we’re doing it?
Saying stupid things.
Even though I have no dating experience and am a complete idiot when it comes to this, it’s not like I don’t know about it.
It’s not like you don’t know such clear signals.
However, while walking with Nayu, my mouth did not fall easily.
I want to ask something, but I don’t know what to ask.
Nayu, we are dating, right?
If you say something like that, the result will either be that you’ll be treated like a fool or that you’ll be put on both sides.
I’m afraid to check either way.
It’s stupid.
Moreover, since Nayu was happily talking about this and that next to me, it became even more difficult for her to ask questions.
Would I really be able to ask such a question to a girl who talks happily as if she really likes me?
Ah, what should I do?
While thinking about this and that, Nayu stops.
“Yes, here.”
It looks like we’ve already arrived at Nayu’s part-time job.
“I started working here part-time, starting yesterday.”
“So it’s a part-time job in the morning?”
“Yes, weekday mornings. But since I’m working until 4 o’clock, does that mean I’ll also be working in the afternoon as well?”
Nayu looks back at me while saying that.
The way she put her hand in her jacket and turned around to look at me again, and the way she spread her feet and then brought them back together was so lovely.
It was unbearably cute and pretty, and it was so lovely that it almost melted my heart.
Ga-hye, who woke up in the morning and told us to go out while lying on the blanket, was also lovely.
The yawning mouth, the big sparkling eyes, and even the way he waved his hand in greeting was just lovely.
It was lovely.
Both were lovely.
‘I shouldn’t do this…?’
“Are you here?”
“Hello, boss.”
A woman comes out of a small café and pretends to know Nayu.
I think this person is the owner of this café.
I follow Nayu and nod her head in greeting.
“Oh my, who is this person?”
“Oh, I…”
“He’s my boyfriend.”
I am Kang Na-yu’s guardian.
My mouth stops just as I was about to introduce it.
Huh? Boyfriend?
“Oh my, is your boyfriend going to see you off this morning?”
“You’re so kind, aren’t you?”
“I know. A lot of sesame seeds are pouring out?”
Nayu chats lightly with her boss.
When you look at her from the side, she looks natural and doesn’t look like she’s lying or acting.
Nayu must have noticed that I was watching from the side, and she turned her head towards me.
“What’s wrong?”
Her cheeks were slightly red as she asked that question.
The slight embarrassment of introducing me to someone else bloomed on her face.
I knew it intuitively.
But then, what is it?
Did Gahye lie to me yesterday?
“Hey, yesterday, what didn’t Gahye say?”
“Huh? “What are you talking about?”
“Well, when the two of us go out together in the morning, Ga-hye asks something.,”
“Umm… Not at all? “I don’t remember anything.”
“Uh… Really?”
“Yeah. I was just chatting. Why? What’s going on?”
“Oh, no…”
I barely answered and turned my head.
What on earth?
What Gahye said to Nayu was a lie to Nayu.
What Nayu says about Gahye is also a lie to Gahye.
Who is it?
Someone, one of them, is lying to me.
***
When I returned home, Gahye had already left.
When I met Gahye, I planned to ask her again about what I said yesterday, but when I saw that it wasn’t there, all I felt was ‘fortunate’.
‘Thank God, I didn’t have to check.’
I was afraid.
What if Gahye lied?
In that case, I was deceived by Gahye and ended up deceiving Nayu.
What if Nayu lied?
In that case, I was deceived by Nayu and ended up deceiving Gahye.
Neither of us wanted to deal with the consequences.
It’s probably a good thing that I was fooled.
It’s a little sad, but that’s okay for now.
The problem is that you end up deceiving one of the two.
It is to betray one of the two.
I don’t want to do that.
You can’t do that.
Therefore, since I could not accept any of the results, I thought I would remain in the state where I still do not know the truth.
The result is my current feelings.
‘First, I’m glad.’
But it can’t be fortunate.
‘You must know.’
Take care… Take care of what you’re going to do?
Are you going to condemn the boy who tricked me?
Or am I going to apologize to the girl I cheated on?
Or… Are you trying to choose one of the two?
To choose, to…?
Both faces come to mind at the same time.
Gahye’s smiling face comes to mind.
The way he smiled while lying next to me, the face he smiled while walking with me, and the mischievous smile he made while leaning towards me.
Nayu’s blunt face comes to mind.
Even when we were walking and talking together, his face was blunt, but his cheeks were slightly flushed, his facial expression was still, but his body expressed his excitement, and even the service he gave me.
Both of them were so, so, so, so lovely.
This feeling is completely sincere.
It’s like falling for two people at the same time.
It’s strange, there were two people who confessed to me, but before I knew it, the one who was missing was me.
Both have become very precious to me.
And that too suddenly, out of the blue, strangely.
‘No.’
You can’t do this.
It will only lead to hurting one of the children I love, or even hurting both.
“Damn.”
Unable to organize my thoughts, I started pacing around the room.
After feeling dizzy from all the spinning, the conclusion I came to was simple.
‘Let’s quickly figure out the truth.’
We need to quickly grasp the truth and quickly organize one side accordingly.
It has to be that way.
As soon as I thought of that, I went outside.
Since it’s important, it’s okay to ask on the phone.
So I headed straight to school.
When I saw Ga-hye being so happy when I told her I was going and promising to meet her at the front gate, something pricked my conscience, but I just responded because I thought I needed to find out the truth.
Yes, yes, let’s meet and ask.
Let’s meet up and find out what’s going on.
***
As I was waiting in front of the school for a while, I saw Gahye running from far away.
It’s still noticeable.
She has short hair, is truly beautiful, and has big breasts bouncing around as she runs, so there’s no way you wouldn’t notice her.
Above all else, her face is full of lovely expressions.
It’s impossible not to notice.
“Junseok! Are you here?”
Saying that, Gahye reaches me.
I say hello to Gahye lightly.
I want to get straight to the point, but I hesitate.
To be honest, I’m scared.
But.
You have to ask.
It must be resolved quickly.
There is no good in dragging this on.
It is not good to give time for the size of the wound to increase.
“Gahye.”
“Huh?”
As he looked up at me with his big eyes sparkling, I almost put the question back in my head.
You have to endure it.
“There is one thing I want to ask you.”
“Yes, yes.”
Let’s be patient.
“Yesterday… You said you talked to Nayu yesterday morning, right?”
“Huh! With your sister… Oh, are you talking about the fact that she confirmed to her sister that she is not dating your brother?”
“Uh, that…”
“Why is that?”
Why is that?
Uh, I see, why is that?
No, no no, no.
This is not it.
“Well… Did Nayu really say that?”
“What?”
“You said it had nothing to do with me…”
I felt like I was confessing my sin to some extent just by asking this.
Still, I asked.
I spit it out right away because I was afraid it would be difficult.
“Uh. Why is that?”
Nevertheless, Ga-hye answers innocently.
You lied with this face, this expression?
I don’t feel any malice at all.
It didn’t seem like he was doing this because he was jealous of someone.
Gahye’s eyes did not contain even a trace of such negative emotions.
Maybe Gahye wasn’t lying.
“Uh, uh… No.”
So I tried to change my mind.
“What~?”
Gahye tilts her head.
“Are you worried about Nayu?”
“Uh? Ah, uhm, a little.”
Probably for a different reason than you think.
“It’s okay. Did Nayu congratulate you last night?”
“Huh?”
“Last night, when I was going to sleep, Nayu and I were lying down together and talking. Junseok and I decided to date. So, Nayu congratulated me and told me to have a good relationship?”
What does this mean?
The two of you got a little sneaky last night, but I thought it was just a small talk.
Was that what you talked about?
“?”
When I couldn’t answer anything, Gahye started looking at me with strange eyes.
“By any chance… Do you have feelings for Nayu, or something like that…?”
A voice of doubt.
But there is something sadness and disappointment in that doubt.
A voice that clumped together like a drop about to burst hits me.
Thanks to you, I force myself to come to my senses.
“Uh, no, no.”
“Ehehe, right? It was a joke.”
Ga-hye folds her arms while saying that.
“I have something I want to try. Let’s go there!”
I had no choice but to be led by Gahye, who led me as she said that.
As I was just moving my body, I kept asking one question in my head.
‘What on earth is it?’
Did Nayu lie to me?
‘Then why?’
Why lie?
A lie that can be easily discovered?
Why on earth?