Chapter 1132 – Is It Trendy to Contact Me After a Year? (5)
Should I say it is a blessing among misfortunes?
Han Ye-seul didn’t talk much, but she kept talking to Choi Min-seok so that the conversation wouldn’t stop.
Do you have any siblings? What are your hobbies? What are your favorite foods? On the other hand, is there anything you can’t eat? It was really nothing special, but it was better than just looking at each other without saying anything.
Before cooking, we chatted while drinking a little sake along with the basic snacks, but she didn’t seem particularly happy.
She wasn’t forced to come, and it wasn’t her place to say anything, but it was because her mind was somewhere else.
“Now that I think about it, do you still go to clubs these days?”
“. I’m not going these days. It’s not that fun.”
She went to the club to enjoy the reactions of the men who tried to sleep with her, but after the day she met Choi Min-seok, she became annoyed instead of having fun.
She had a lot of things she wanted to say, but she was too proud to talk about them one by one, so she answered briefly.
“I haven’t gone once since then. It’s not that it wasn’t fun. Maybe it’s because I don’t like noise. I don’t want to go again.”
When she heard that she hadn’t been to the club since then, somehow she felt a little relieved.
However, because of his pride, he didn’t show it on the outside and answered harshly, sipping the sake lightly and passing it down her throat to hide his expression.
Why is there so much pride hurt these days? Even if I thought about it myself, I couldn’t understand it.
“But aren’t you drinking it too quickly? The food hasn’t even been served yet.”
“This is okay.”
“Still, drink it a little slowly. They say that even if you drink the same amount, drinking it quickly without a snack is much worse for your health.”
The way he talks carefully, as if soothing a child, with subtle concern is strangely irritating.
In my life, I had never heard that I was weak at drinking, and I was confident in my drinking ability as I had made men who tried to get me drunk somehow get drunk and fall asleep.
We only drank one bottle, or rather the two of us, so I can’t believe I’m getting worried because I only drank half a bottle.
It felt like they were blatantly belittling this group just because they won a drinking contest last year.
“Ah, the food is coming out right now. Now eat and drink slowly.”
“. Okay. Well.”
There was still a lot I wanted to say, but instead of getting annoyed, I just briefly nodded and moved on.
If nothing else, it was childish to build up one’s pride over one’s drinking capacity, and getting irritated by something said because one was concerned about oneself seemed like it would make one look too sensitive.
It’s annoying to have to obediently follow orders, but when I took a few bites of the snacks that were on the table, the taste was not that bad, so I felt a little relieved.
“I don’t drink alcohol often, so I don’t often eat snacks like this. It’s definitely delicious.”
Choi Min-seok, who had just moved his chopsticks and ate a few pieces of the snacks, smiled lightly and expressed his sentiments, and spoke his mind without waiting for his own answer.
“Yesul, do you have a boyfriend?”
“. Why?”
Han Ye-seul, who took another drink of sake due to the strong taste of the snack, calmly controlled her expression and asked back a beat later.
The reason why a man asks a woman if she has a boyfriend is so obvious that there is no need to ask, but it is better to pretend not to know for now to gauge the reaction. However,
“Yeseul would be very popular. I was the first. Still, it’s been a year.”
“Big, clack…!”
“Oh my, are you okay?”
Sare was taken aback by the completely unexpected words, and quickly covered his mouth with his hand and coughed.
Choi Min-seok immediately looked worried and handed me a glass of water instead of alcohol, but right now, those worried eyes only felt ironic.
‘What are you saying all of a sudden.!’
There is a degree of randomness. Isn’t it natural to be embarrassed when someone suddenly brings up something like that?
It is true that the first opponent was Choi Min-seok, but it was too unexpected.
“. Nothing.”
I emptied the cup of water Choi Min-seok gave me several times to calm my sore throat, and only after I finally stopped coughing did I put the cup down and answer.
I thought it was okay enough, but I felt embarrassed that my voice was cracking, even if only slightly.
“You haven’t been dating since then?”
“But. Why?”
“I’m just curious.”
If the other person had been another man, he would have laughed at me because I could see everything dark inside even if I tried to explain it.
Strangely, Choi Min-seok can’t read what’s inside.
He pretends to be harmless on the outside. It’s not like there weren’t men who approached him pretending to have no evil intentions.
Although he seemed to be interested in this area, his attitude toward me was extremely light, and he suddenly asked a question that crossed the line like before, so I couldn’t guess what he wanted or was doing.
‘. You’re really not thinking anything, right?’
No way. Anyway, that probably isn’t the case.
Even though it only lasted one night, the woman I had a relationship with a year ago suddenly contacted me. She couldn’t have come out without thinking.
Even though he was a little embarrassed to say it himself, it was natural for him to come out with at least some dark intentions or expectations when the other person was a pretty girl like him.
‘No, no.’
If you have dark intentions, what are you going to do?
I’m not even drunk yet. She was embarrassed by the thoughts flowing in a direction she couldn’t understand, and quickly emptied her glass, feeling cold inside her.
Since you are drinking alcohol and not water, you will quickly feel hot after feeling cool for a moment, but since it is a low-alcohol drink, the burning sensation is not that strong.
Anyway, I should have at least been clear about what I want and how I want to do it.
Since I didn’t know what I wanted, my thoughts kept wandering in strange directions.
‘It must be like this.’
Doesn’t it seem like he’s hoping that Choi Min-seok will harbor dark intentions toward him?
‘That’s absolutely not the case. Never.’
His goal was to check whether Choi Min-seok changed his number or deleted his number, and he only lost direction because he achieved his goal too easily compared to the period of waiting.
After I started getting hot whenever I felt it, whenever I had sex alone, I imagined having sex with Choi Min-seok or what would happen if I had it again, but that was just something I couldn’t help.
Since the only person I had experience with was Choi Min-seok, the only thing I could properly think of was my relationship with Choi Min-seok. That’s just it.
Anyway, if something isn’t revealed on that side first, this side will just be…
“But, have you ever had a fling?”
“…”
Before I could organize all my thoughts. Instead of being grumpy, I was irritated by the light tone of the question, as if I just wanted to hear a love story.
It was because I couldn’t get rid of the thought that I was the only one worrying, and that the other party was just enjoying the drinks without thinking about anything.
“. Nothing.”
“Oh, that’s a shame. Still, there must have been a lot of men who liked Yeseul. It looks like they’ve all hit an iron wall, huh?”
“Study… No, I don’t go to college to date.”
I was busy studying, but instead of trying to criticize them by asking if they were dating or something, I changed the subject.
It was at a club that I met Choi Min-seok last year, and I already said that I went to the club a few times after that, so I felt a little bit stung by saying that.
“Hey, just because you go to college doesn’t mean you can’t date. That doesn’t mean you can’t just date.”
“. That’s true.”
To be honest, I was just annoyed because there wasn’t a guy that caught my eye.
However, if he spoke so honestly, he might think that he was the one who caught his eye and that he contacted her again like this, so I just accepted and moved on.
But that didn’t mean things changed.
Choi Min-seok’s speed at emptying his glass became faster, as if he really only wanted to drink and then go home, and it didn’t take long for the first bottle to become two, two to three, and then four.
There is only one bottle of alcohol left.
While I was emptying the bottle, all kinds of topics came up, and I even heard a trivial story about a friend who had been bickering only with him since high school, and that he recently met again and reconciled, but in the end, he couldn’t have the serious conversation he wanted at all.
“Would you like to order more alcohol?”
“Do you want to drink more?”
“It’s been a while since I’ve had a drink.”
“Then it might be a bit disappointing. Still, I drank enough in five bottles, so that’s all for today. They say it’s usually best to drink alcohol only until you feel a little regretful.”
“…”
Alcohol and such are probably good. More than that, I just spoke out because I didn’t want to just drink and go home without any results, but contrary to what I expected, I got a sharp answer that cut me off.
The conversation that had been going on calmly, as if trying to end the drinking party, gradually diminished, and in the end, even the last bottle was empty.
“It was nice to come out and drink for the first time in a while, and it changed my mood. Oh, should I call you a taxi?”
“. I think I’ll feel a little dizzy if I get in the car now. Would you like to walk for a moment?”
After paying, I said hello as soon as I left the store, and when I saw her take out her cell phone as if she would call a taxi as soon as I spoke, I quickly pretended to be upset and said with a hard look.
“It’s a good thing I didn’t drink anymore. It’s not too late yet, so let’s walk a little.”
“. Thank you.”
Her pride was hurt when she said it as if she knew it would happen, but since she couldn’t say that she hadn’t taken anything now, she continued to act out her expression.
She didn’t really decide where to go, but just walked aimlessly through the crowd, and the surroundings gradually became quiet, as if she had just left the busy street.
And Choi Min-seok, who was walking quietly next to me without saying a word, opened his mouth and spoke in a low voice.
“Are you feeling better now?”
“That. Not yet.”
“I think it happened like this last year too, so I bought you chocolate milk. Should I buy it again?”
“… It’s okay. I think it’ll be okay if I just wait a little longer.”
At that time, I was so drunk that it was difficult for me to walk properly, so I had no choice but to take whatever was given to me, but now that I was not drunk at all, there was no need for such consideration.
But what difference will it make if I keep walking like this? I can’t just pretend it’s difficult and just walk forever.
While thinking that, I was about to bite my lip slightly out of nervousness. In the corner of my eye, the motel’s signboard, brightly lit with neon signs, caught my eye.
‘. No, no.’
As soon as the sign caught my eye, a thought came to my mind and my cheeks instantly felt hot, but I managed to hold on to my senses and ignore the thought that came to mind.
No, I tried to look away, but I couldn’t.
“Over there.”
“Yes?”
“Well, will you listen without thinking anything strange?”
Do you have no self-respect? Even so, it would be obvious what the intention was, so what difference would it make if you just added words like that? The thought of please stop was constantly warning me, but the words had already been spoken.
“What are you talking about?”
“I thought I would feel better if I walked a little bit. I felt like I was getting more and more dizzy. Why don’t you just take a break?”
As she said that, she glanced in the direction of the motel that was in the corner of her eyes.
It’s true that it’s been a while since I drank alcohol. If you think about it at a common sense level, five bottles would have been enough to get you drunk.
She was proud of herself by saying that she wasn’t drunk at all just a little while ago, but it was because she had been drinking for the first time in a while that she felt a little drunk. She decided to think so.
She had no choice but to think that way because it felt like her hot face would explode at any moment if she didn’t.
The only difference is who suggested entering. It was exactly the same situation as last year.
