Chapter 177 – Even the Best of Friends Have Secrets (4)
Drunk Lee Ji-eun had no intention of denying that fact.
It was only natural that she didn’t have a strong drink to begin with, and she didn’t drink snacks and chat slowly like she did with Jung Hye-soo, but from the middle she swallowed them down like water to cool her bubbling stomach.
However, she wasn’t drunk enough to leave her speechless. Although she drank a lot, it was because the first sake she tried was weaker than soju.
She’d rather be completely drunk and forget it all.
Even though she screamed that she couldn’t do it inside, she poured out all kinds of embarrassing nonsense to Min-seok Choi, and eventually even made a ridiculous suggestion to go to a motel.
Unlike himself who went on a rampage after being drunk without drinking much, Choi Min-seok handled it in a really mature way.
Even though it was a casual meeting from the beginning, he apologized for meeting with a light heart, apologized, answered his feelings seriously, and escorted him home, asking him to think about it properly.
This, too, was proof that Lee Ji-eun was not too drunk.
As she got into the taxi, she was the one who told Choi Min-seok her home address, and it was she who got out of the taxi and told her the apartment number.
In the whole process, Lee Ji-eun’s mind was a little bit awake, but she was awake enough to be able to discern her own self-interest.
“Ji-eun, I’m home.”
“Yes..”
With Choi Min-seok’s help, she rode up to the elevator and stood in front of her door. Lee Ji-eun, pretending to be drunk, staggered her body slightly, pressed her password, and opened the door.
“Then get some rest.”
“..Your brother suffered too.”
It’s embarrassing to feel like she’s caring for herself, even with a particularly short greeting according to her today. She answered and closed the door, oblivious to the face that was about to explode.
Beep-! Beep-!
The moment the door is locked with a loud electronic sound. Lee Ji-eun sat down on her porch and covered her hot face with her hands.
“Aww… It’s crazy, really..”
Why the hell did that happen? For alcohol? If she really did, she wouldn’t even scream no desperately in her heart.
With each word she uttered, she gulped down a glass of barely-sweetened liquor to dispel it. Drinking is just an excuse for her, which means she did it because she wanted to.
Even though she could do it all by herself, she dared to take a taxi with Choi Min-seok’s help.
That’s how she couldn’t come to her senses even after making a dark history, and she enjoyed the situation because she liked Choi Min-seok’s concern for her, being supported and clinging to her.
In a different sense, her face was burning with her arm muscles, solid shoulders, and short breaths, which she hadn’t normally felt while supporting herself.
“…”
It was clear that something was clogged up. Otherwise, even in this situation, there is no way my heart is pounding and jumping.
My parents haven’t returned yet. Choi Min-seok always sent himself home by 6 o’clock, and that was the case today as well. For my parents to come, I still had about 30 minutes to spare.
She couldn’t stay prostrate on the porch forever, and Lee Ji-eun staggered up, took off her shoes, and trudged back to her room.
After locking the door and not turning on the light, I went straight to the bed and lay down as if I was collapsing.
‘What should I do..’
It was tea. It was definitely a car, but I really don’t feel like giving up. Rather, it seemed that the desire to date had become stronger.
As she went through college, how much attention she heard from Jung Hye-soo about men. Be careful of drinking parties, be careful of men who approach lightly, even if he pretends to be kind, there is a high possibility that he is a man who tries to do it once.
I know what you mean. He just didn’t pay much attention, because Lee Ji-eun also knew everything there was to know.
However, Choi Min-seok, he did not come over even though he was first seduced by him. Rather, he pushed me away, asking me to think about it more seriously.
Every time I thought of those serious eyes, expressions, and voices, his heart skipped a beat, making not only his face but his whole body heat up.
Lee Ji-eun closed her eyes for a moment, feeling her drowsy body burning up from being drunk.
*
Next day. Lee Ji-eun, whom I met casually at the driving school, shook his shoulders and blushed as soon as our eyes met.
“What. What happened yesterday?”
“I drank with Jieun yesterday.”
“I heard that too, but I thought it was nothing special?”
“There was nothing special, but the author had a little dark history.”
“Oh, brother…!”
Feeling something wrong with Lee Ji-eun’s reaction, Jeong Hye-soo playfully answered the question.
“I didn’t even drink that much, but I was sitting across from her and then he clung to the seat next to her and did a lot of teasing with her.”
“Huh… They said nothing happened, did you do that?”
“Mo, I don’t know…”
Jung Hye-soo teased Lee Ji-eun with a mischievous smile as if she had caught one of my appropriate lies, and Lee Ji-eun desperately avoided Jeong Hye-soo’s gaze to avoid getting caught.
And as usual, after her practice was over, Lee Ji-eun came out of the academy and as if she was trying to act as normal as possible, she sneaked up to me and greeted Jung Hye-soo.
“Then see you tomorrow.”
“Okay. You’re not drinking today, are you? Oppa, if Jieun gets drunk again and acts cute, should I take a video and send it to me?”
“Oh, you’re not going to drink!?”
“If you try to drink it again, I’ll take it properly this time and send it to you.”
“Brother..!”
Lee Ji-eun desperately pretends to be embarrassed at the subject of her poor lying, and she slaps her on the shoulder as if telling her not to. She still acted awkwardly, but considering she was acting awkward just because she was shy, she wasn’t too weird.
She sent Jeong Hye-soo off first, and while she was wondering where to go, she slowly grabbed and dragged Lee Ji-eun with her arms folded as she walked down the street to refresh her atmosphere.
“I think you were very drunk yesterday. Are you feeling better?”
“..Are you okay.”
Lee Ji-eun shook her shoulders as if she was startled by the word ‘yesterday’, then she answered with a short, deep breath.
“My brother doesn’t care about yesterday, so…”
“Oh, no.”
“Huh?”
“..You have to take good care of it.”
I wonder if hypnosis worked well beyond my expectations. For now, I was thinking of making Lee Ji-eun fret by slightly widening her distance. She looked into her eyes now and it was like she got her heart right in one day.
“Ji-eun.”
“..Please listen. I knew that I looked like a child to my brother, and I also knew that he had no intention of dating right away. But that doesn’t mean I have to give up unconditionally.”
Personally, she didn’t like to cut off her words, but she was willing to listen if she was in a situation like this.
“Yesterday, I told you to get drunk and think again, right? Even if you think about it again, I don’t mind.
I can’t even say sex properly, and I’m embarrassed, so I’m good at talking about the topic of blushing. His desperate appearance was so admirable that I wanted to pet him right away.
“There’s a difference between being okay and being good, Ji-eun.
“..If you don’t do that, there’s no way. What if you don’t date. But if you do that, you won’t look like a child. You might change your mind later.”
In the end, it even came out that it was okay not to date. At this level, I could say that I had come to the stage I wanted.
“If you don’t change? Can you give up then? Are you really confident you won’t regret it?”
“That..”
“And now, oppa quit his job and is taking a break to get his driver’s license so we’re seeing each other like this every day. After getting his driver’s license, he’ll be busy again and we won’t be able to see him every day like we do now. Maybe we’ll be able to meet on the weekends too. Then it’ll be harder for you to do what you want. .”
It’s a lie. I will never look for a job again unless there is a special reason, and I intend to use all my time for my own enjoyment.
But even so, he had no intention of spending unwanted time with Lee Ji-eun. I wanted a relationship where I met if I wanted to, and didn’t meet if I didn’t want to.
‘Come to think of it this way, it’s really trash.’
Something to know I threw away my conscience when I first decided to use hypnosis, and now I don’t even remember if there was such a thing. In the end, it was enough for me to be comfortable.
Hypnotized Lee Ji-eun can’t give up on me in the end. Because she is, she had the guts to pounce.
Even when she bluntly told her to give up quickly, Lee Ji-eun closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them, looked straight into my eyes, and answered with a trembling voice.
“..It doesn’t matter. I’m going to be busy anyway when I start my college life, so we just have to meet each other when we have free time. Isn’t it strange that we see each other every day like now? I don’t care. I won’t give up unless my brother finds another girl .”
“Ha..”
I did it.
She sighed with a tired expression, as if her head hurt, but the thought that she had finally done it made her want to dance.
“..Okay. If you say that, it would be worse to refuse. But, if you feel like you’re not even a little bit later, I’ll quit right away, so tell me. Okay?”
“..All right.”
“Then let’s go.”
“Uh, where are you…?”
“Motel. You said let’s go and do it. Why are you scared because you’re going to do it? If you’re scared, tell me. Oppa doesn’t matter if you don’t.”
“Ah, it’s not scary!? I was just surprised because it was so sudden! Let’s go!”
Just by saying her words as if slightly provoking her, Lee Ji-eun, who had become furious with her, rather grabbed her arm from her side and pulled her forward to hasten her pace.
I don’t know if there’s a motel in this direction right now, but it’s clear that the next destination is a motel, no matter where it is.
