Chapter 1003 – Good Things Should Be Shared Between Friends (8)
“We’ll do the baking, so you just eat it.”
“Is that okay?”
“You gave up your time because of us.”
Hye-soo took the initiative to speak up, and when Ji-eun asked if it was really okay, she responded with a bright smile.
“It’s okay if you don’t worry too much. Anyway, since you both said so, I’ll just eat.”
It may vary depending on the situation or atmosphere, but there is no reason to refuse something like that.
If it had been any other partner, I would have tried to make a good impression and build goodwill by doing troublesome things for myself, but with these two, there was no need for that.
In Hye-su’s case, she was already in a close relationship with me, almost like dating, and Ji-eun also felt a deep crush on me, despite the fact that we had not been in contact for a long time.
‘It might be closer to sexual desire rather than liking.’
Anyway, for now it was enough to just enjoy the atmosphere without going against it.
“Then, I’ll bake it right away.”
Hye-su spoke in a calm voice and immediately lit the brazier, and she quickly began placing her skewers one by one on the heated grill.
The sight of meat, shrimp, and various other ingredients such as mushrooms, onions, green onions, and sausages sizzling and cooking in a row on her long skewer stimulated my appetite to the point that my mouth watered.
“It looks delicious. Did you make it yourself?”
“Yes. We made it together.”
“You’re very dexterous. I can sell it as is.”
In reality, it looked like a simple dish that just had to be prepared by putting the prepared ingredients on a skewer, but since it was true that it looked good and tasted good, I gave it my own sincere compliment.
Not to mention Ji-eun, Hye-soo’s expression, which had been showing signs of being faintly nervous, relaxed slightly at the praise she gave in succession.
It seemed as if he had regained his composure and soon returned to a serious expression.
“Oh, brother. Do you want to have a drink? I brought it for now.”
“Alcohol?”
“Since I took the time to come here, I thought it would be okay at least a little.”
“That’s right. Then, should I drink a little too?”
Not to mention me and Hye-su, Ji-eun was also the type of person who knew how to drink but didn’t enjoy it, so we had already discussed this.
She’ll talk about it in moderation, so just respond.
I, too, could hypnotize the other person more easily if he was drunk, so it was a request I had no reason to refuse.
Ji-eun hasn’t said she wants to drink it yet, but Hye-su places her can of beer on the table as if it were obvious.
She wondered if it would be possible to get as drunk as beer, but Jieun was not a good drinker, and she agreed that it would be difficult for her to get too drunk.
To be honest, there was absolutely no chance of failure as long as I helped persuade them, so beer that used less and had its own flavor was better than soju, which was only used.
“Okay, brother, eat first.”
“Thank you.”
She smiled lightly at Ji-eun’s words as he brought the cooked skewers to the plate and brought them to the table. She picked up her skewers and blew them lightly to cool them down and took a bite.
“Hmm. It’s delicious. It’s cooked well.”
“Really? I’m glad.”
“Take a bite.”
“Then, just one bite.”
When Jieun smiled at her as if she was relieved to hear that it was delicious and held out her skewer, Ji-eun looked slightly embarrassed, but instead of rejecting it, he quietly stuck his head out and took a bite of her skewer.
“Hmm.”
“Is it delicious?”
When I asked her a question with a smiling face as she munched and admired the contents in her mouth, she nodded in response.
And, thinking that I should set the mood first, I opened the can, took a gulp of beer, and took another bite of the skewer.
All she did when she came was watch other people setting up tents, take a nap in the tent, and eat the grilled skewers, but it occurred to her that this is why people come camping.
Just like that, she exchanged nonsense, saying it was a good thing she came, and as she ate the barbecue and drank alcohol, opening more cans, time passed, and the meal was over.
“Ha, it was a good meal.”
“. Yeah. It was delicious.”
“Good job you both. Thanks to you, we ate well.”
First, Ji-eun, whose cheeks were slightly red, let out a long breath and muttered as if satisfied, and Hye-su responded with a slightly stiff expression and voice.
Looking at the atmosphere, it would have been okay to just wrap things up like this and go to bed, but from Hyesu, and I’s perspective, the point was to start now.
However, Hye-su just keeps her mouth shut with a nervous expression, unable to speak properly and just stares at him.
She decided that she had to be honest about it this time, but when the time came, it seemed like it was difficult for her to do so.
‘. It’s a bit awkward for me to take the lead.’
If I wanted to, I could come forward and bring up the story, but it was a more clear way to sort out my feelings if Ji-eun and Hye-su talked alone.
‘For now, just a little push will do.’
After briefly calculating in her head, she lightly applied her hypnosis to Hye-su, who was hesitantly observing her.
[If you don’t speak honestly now, you won’t be able to speak honestly in the future. When the opportunity comes, you must have the courage to speak up.]
It may have been something she was already thinking about in her head, but it made her even more conscious, and her hesitant expression became a little more determined, as if she had made a decision.
“. Jieun.”
“Huh? Why?”
“I’ve wanted to say something for a while. Will you listen?”
“Suddenly? Is this important?”
She came to the camping trip she wanted to go and happily filled her stomach with barbecue. Her voice was a little excited because there was some alcohol involved, but when she saw Hye-su’s expression, she looked a little embarrassed.
“What is it? It makes me anxious. Is this a bad story?”
“. Yes.”
How should I get the story out of here?
In fact, if you really want to talk about it properly, it would have been better to start off by creating a serious atmosphere in advance rather than this excited atmosphere.
In Hye-su’s case, she couldn’t muster up the courage to do it, so she had been waiting for almost a year, so she had no choice but to use this camping trip as an opportunity.
“That’s right. Actually, I…”
Carefully. Hye-su, who was trying to tell a story in her trembling voice, paused for a moment and glanced into my eyes. It was only after I nodded her head with a serious expression that she seemed to feel a little relieved and continued speaking.
“I’m dating my brother.”
“Huh.?”
As soon as Hye-su finished speaking, a slightly stunned sound came out of Ji-eun’s mouth, as if she didn’t really understand what she heard.
However, even though she was drunk, she was only drunk enough to feel slightly excited, so she quickly understood what he meant, and soon her expression became tinged with deep embarrassment, and she began to shake.
“Well, what.”
“I’m sorry for not telling you until now. I’ll explain everything now, will you listen first?”
“No, wait a minute. So. Oppa.?”
“It’s true.”
I understood what she meant, but perhaps it was too embarrassing to accept as it was, so she turned her head towards me and answered in a quiet voice, making an expression as if I had no shame.
“Since when.”
“I’ll explain everything. Please listen first.”
Her best friend was secretly dating her older brother, whom she had a crush on. Even though she knows that she likes him.
Since it is a desperate situation that can only be found in romance novels or dramas, there must be a lot of embarrassment and a sense of betrayal.
When Hye-su spoke as if she was hanging with a very guilty expression, she didn’t get angry right away and pursed her lips, then took a deep breath and let it out to calm her excitement.
‘. Amazing.’
To be honest, she didn’t think there was anything wrong with getting angry or screaming right away.
She had no idea that here she would be alone, without the help of hypnosis, to calm down her emotions and listen to her story.
I don’t know if it was because of her deep relationship with Hye-su, or whether she was good at suppressing her anger because she had a good personality, but it was clear that she had amazing self-control in many ways.
“I’ll listen to it first.”
“. Yes.”
Hye-su answered briefly without even saying thank you to her calm, slightly trembling voice, and began to explain.
“First of all, after I got my license, I barely had any contact with my brother.”
Of course, she was only ‘almost’. We met three or four more times, but that was it.
After a while, my attention turned to Min-ah, and as she turned to Elena again, she had half-forgotten about Hye-su.
“But last year… Something came up, and I asked my brother if he could help me.”
“What. Happened.?”
It was only for a moment, but her body, which had barely suppressed the tremors, flinched and trembled slightly when she heard the words “Last year.”
This meant that she had been hiding her relationship with me for almost a year, not just for a month or two or three, so it was understandable that her feelings were greatly shaken.
“Well. I had a stalker.”
“. Stalker?”
However, the word ‘stalker’ seemed completely unexpected again, and this time she mumbled her words briefly with a purely embarrassed expression.
“Yes. I couldn’t tell my parents or people around me because I thought it would only worry them.”
“No.”
“I have to keep going to school. Even if I move house, it’s meaningless if they follow me from school. Even when I talked to the police, they didn’t know who it was, no incident occurred, and they only told me to be careful.”
“Still.”
“Anyway, since there was no one around me, I could ask for, I urgently asked my brother if he could help me. That’s why her brother came to help.”
“…”
I haven’t heard the whole story yet, but the beginning of the story seems to have decided that it wasn’t Hye-soo’s fault, but her stiff expression softens slightly and takes on a slightly more complicated look.
“That doesn’t mean there is a solution, so we decided to see the situation through by staying together, driving her to school, and picking her up.”
From here on, he appears to be quite hesitant, perhaps because it is difficult to talk about.
However, at the point where she revealed that she was already dating, it was impossible for her to stop talking, so she had no choice but to keep talking.
“As I stayed with my brother… We became closer… And that’s what happened…”
Still, she didn’t want to say out loud that they had sex every night, and the way she mumbled it as best as she could was cute.
I wanted to step in and tease her, but I decided to hold back so that things could proceed smoothly.
“Anyway, I caught the stalker and resolved it well… After that, we didn’t see each other often. Since my brother was busy too… Only once or twice a month…”
Even though we were dating, we only saw each other once or twice a month, but since it was true that she had been meeting Ji-eun in secret, her excuses gradually became quieter.
And, in the end, Ji-eun’s mouth, which had been silent, slowly opened as she closed her mouth and watched her quietly.
