If Seongheon hyung were a woman…… gulp.
But hyung doesn’t know. My standards aren’t that high. Seongheon hyung suited women’s clothing so well that he really was a spitting image of his late mother. If he’d been born a woman, he’d have looks good enough to dump Gangjin hyung or Daesu hyung 10 times over, and I wouldn’t dare presume to approach him.
“That…… I’m not sure.”
The reason I said I wasn’t sure was because hyung’s current appearance was too high of a hurdle.
Seongheon hyung wasn’t someone I could handle. If we went around together, people would obviously point at me calling me a thief, and whether I could endure such humiliation and date him……
While thinking about it, I momentarily forgot reality.
That the hyungs were teasing me right now.
There was no need to get overly immersed and pick up on all of hyung’s questions. I ignored Seongheon hyung patting my head and quickly turned my head to stare somewhere at the ceiling.
“Hyung!!! Stop it and let me out!! Hiing.”
This wasn’t directed at Seongheon hyung sitting next to me. I suddenly shouted to the hyungs who must be somewhere outside, but the surroundings were still quiet.
“Daeyoung.”
Seongheon hyung cupped both my cheeks with his palms, and as the red lips slowly approached, I urgently pushed against his chest. Hyung might be doing this to tease me, but I was disturbed enough that I couldn’t sleep over just this one prank.
So I pushed urgently, but I felt something soft in my palms.
“U-uwa! What did you put in your chest!”
Even knowing the breasts were fake, I trembled my hands in shock at the sensation, and Seongheon hyung laughed loudly.
“Haha. These are water balloons.”
While saying that, he unbuttoned his blouse one by one and took out two water balloons from inside, placing them on a nearby desk. I understood taking them out, but why wasn’t he buttoning back up? After covering the lower body, now the upper body was the problem.
When Seongheon hyung approached again and sat on the sofa armrest, I buttoned them all up for him instead. Hyung quietly looked down at me doing that while lightly touching somewhere around my earlobe with his fingertips.
“Daeyoung.”
“……Yeah.”
“Did you really kiss your girlfriend?”
Ah…… I knew hyung would interrogate me about that incident someday, but I hoped it wouldn’t be today. Asking such strange things with such an alluring appearance like today was a foul.
I maintained as much of a poker face as possible and answered calmly, “Yeah.”
“Then you must be good at kissing?”
“Well, as much as others……”
I tried to package my lie by giving a pretentious answer, but hyung seemed to take it differently. I don’t know why he keeps showing obsession in that direction.
“Then, Daeyoung.”
“……”
“Teach hyung too.”
“……Huh?”
It seemed like hyung came with some determination today. He actually crawled up onto the sofa I was sitting on and sat on top of my thighs.
Hyung, as if the wig was bothering him, swept the hair to one shoulder, then bent his waist while placing his hands on the sofa backrest. Between the red lips, his tongue briefly came out and went back in, looking like a snake detecting prey.
Thump thump.
Even if Seongheon hyung did this in his usual appearance I couldn’t handle it, but doing this in women’s clothing made my heart beat too fast.
‘Get it together. This person is Seongheon hyung, a man!’
I was confused because I couldn’t understand the reason hyung was acting like this. And above all, hyung’s face was so pretty that regardless of my mind feeling repulsed, my heart fluttered too much.
If I said my honest feelings right now, the hyungs would laugh at me, right? Maybe because I’ve never dated anyone, but this kind of stimulation hit me too strongly. Every single action Seongheon hyung was doing felt too sensual, so I just squeezed my eyes shut.
“Huh? Daeyoung. You closing your eyes right now, does that mean do it?”
“Ah! Hyung! Stop it!”
“Teach me too. You said you do it as well as others.”
“Ah, please stop joking around!”
“……What if it’s not a joke?”
“……”
“If it’s not a joke and I’m asking seriously, will you do it?”
Ticklish long hair dug into the nape of my neck.
I couldn’t tell well because my eyes were closed, but since I could feel hyung’s breath on my nape, it seemed like he was resting his head on my shoulder right now.
Heat rose as if all the blood vessels in my body were rapidly circulating, and beyond just pounding, I could feel stomach pain. I must have been too tense too because my stomach started twisting more and more.
“Ah……!”
Seeing me clutch my solar plexus and bend my waist, hyung hurriedly got up from the sofa.
“Daeyoung! Does your stomach hurt? Is it psychosomatic again?”
I couldn’t speak from the pain and just nodded, and hyung’s eyes shook severely. Then he knocked on what seemed like the door we came in through and called someone.
“Hey!! So Gangjin, open the door!! Hey!!!”
As expected. I knew the other hyungs were outside.
A hollow laugh came out, but my solar plexus hurt too much to stand up. I was struggling enough to get cold sweat on my forehead, but the door still showed no signs of opening.
When my strength drained and my upper body drooped to the side of the sofa like a wet towel, Seongheon hyung lost it. Hyung immediately picked up a chair and hit the door, and that wasn’t enough, so he even removed the blanket wrapped around the skirt and lifted his leg high to start kicking the door.
Thud─! Thwack!
It seemed like it would never open, but after how hard he kicked, on the 5th kick something around the door handle broke and the door fell forward.
When the door opened like that, the corridor wall came into view, and next to it I could see Gangjin hyung standing bewildered holding a card key.
“Wow, this is ridiculous…… Breaking down the door and coming out.”
“You fucking…… What were you doing, seriously! Shouldn’t you have opened it!”
“I went to drain the lizard. But the CCTV was also off, and I was already wondering if something happened inside.”
“Stop talking and move the door.”
Seongheon hyung immediately approached, scooped me up like a princess, and came outside. Daesu hyung who happened to be nearby also looked flustered seeing me come out like that and helped lay me down on a long sofa.
“Hey, what’s wrong with him? Huh?”
“He says his stomach hurts. Daesu, you know what medicine he takes, right?”
“Yeah, I know. Wait, I’ll go buy it from the pharmacy on the 1st floor.”
Seongheon hyung wiped my forehead dripping with cold sweat with his hand. I stared up at hyung’s face, and he looked like he regretted today’s events.
Even though the hyungs’ pranks were severe, they were all bearable. Today, Seongheon hyung was particularly pretty…… so I must have been more tense.
“I’m sorry, Daeyoung. I went too far…… I should have been moderate.”
Seeing me lying down moaning, Seongheon hyung got up and irritably took off the wig. Hyung made a sad expression thinking I overdid it because he pushed me too hard.
“Seongheon, I’ll be by his side. Go change your clothes.”
“……Sorry, Daeyoung.”
I watched the back of Seongheon hyung going somewhere, then closed my eyes again. Lying down comfortably, the pain gradually got better.
Why am I like an ocean sunfish? There are many things I can’t eat, and I get sick at the drop of a hat. I thought it must have been quite troublesome for the hyungs to play with someone like me.
“Sit up for a bit, take this.”
“Shouldn’t we take him to the hospital?”
After taking the medicine Daesu hyung bought and lying down again, I could hear the hyungs’ conversation.
I just waved my hand at those hyungs. Seeing I was okay, Gangjin hyung walked back toward the broken door.
“How hard did you kick for the door handle to break? We’re going to have to pay for this. I wonder what sunbae will say.”
Even with my eyes closed, I could hear the hyungs talking about something, but I wasn’t interested.
After that, maybe because of the medicine’s effects, I fell asleep without knowing, and when I opened my eyes later, I was in my room’s bed. One of the hyungs must have moved me home.
“I cleaned up everything next to the warehouse. Don’t go out and rest.”
I was heading to the kitchen because I was thirsty when I ran into Daesu hyung, and maybe feeling sorry about that incident, he said that and quickly went into his room.
This prank by the hyungs went too far. Seongheon hyung’s cross-dressed appearance even appeared in my dreams at random times, enough that I lost sleep for several days.
I resolved to completely ignore all the hyungs’ contacts so something like that would never happen again, but my heart melted seeing the latest computer installed in my room a week later. And it was the ××× graphics series too.
Even though I didn’t say it, I could tell this was something the hyungs bought out of guilt.
* * *
“Daeyoung, load that in the car.”
“Got it, Mom.”
Every year around mid-January we go on a family trip, and this time we went to a glamping site that Gangjin hyung’s father was opening. It was a place inside the ranch that Gangjin hyung’s family operates, and since it wasn’t open yet, we were the only guests.
“Ajussi, if I come later with my friends, will you give me a discount?”
“No, I have to take full price from you, Daeyoung.”
“I’m the poorest one here…… That’s too much.”
Gangjin hyung’s father is an FM style person, so he always answers with that expressionless face. So at first I believed it thinking it was real, but he always said he’d take full price, yet when we actually used it, he never took any money at all.
Before, I briefly borrowed a horse saying I’d take riding lessons, and he let me ride for free then too. That’s why Mom tried to send me to college as an equestrian specialty student…… but we had to give up because the horse hated me.
I was sticking out my lips showing my disappointment when someone put their hand on my shoulder. It was Seongheon hyung.
“Aw, ajussi. Then when Daeyoung and I come, you especially have to give us that spot.”
“That’s only for 10 or more people.”
“I’ll pay the cost for 10 people.”
“You throwing money around is just like Jongsik.”
“Dad’s probably worse.”
Jongsik is Seongheon hyung’s father’s given name. That bushy-bearded ajussi who enjoys watching Heo Jun reruns.
Anyway, I won’t have any occasion to come here affectionately with Seongheon hyung. Not only did he deceive me about the hair down there, but hyung’s cross-dressed appearance still lingered, so I twisted my upper body trying to shake off hyung’s hand.
