Well, what he was doing now was reminding Jeong Minha of the trauma with his former coach. He felt sorry, but it couldn’t be helped. He approached it with the mindset of definitely handing over money legally.
When Jeong Minha said he’d come to the company, Seo Sihan readily accepted. Then does that mean he can meet him tomorrow too? He started getting excited for no reason.
Especially when he held Jeong Minha’s hand, he unknowingly touched it more before letting go. His right hand was still full of scars. Seo Sihan liked Jeong Minha’s hands like that.
After finishing the contract, Seo Sihan thought in the car. Would he be able to see him shooting again soon? He was so looking forward to it and wanted to see it quickly.
However, he really never even dreamed he’d be able to see it the very next day.
Suddenly, Jeong Minha started shooting at the company.
“I can see well. It’s just right.”
“You can shoot accurately with that gun?”
“Probably?”
Seo Sihan stared intently at Jeong Minha conversing with his secretary. The nervous appearance from just moments ago had disappeared. His tone of speech was also exactly the same as back then. As soon as he held the gun, confidence began to overflow.
While watching Jeong Minha take a stance and shoot exactly like his appearance from four years ago, Seo Sihan momentarily stopped breathing.
After that, at the words that there was no place to train, he answered happily.
“There’s a shooting range at my house.”
“What?”
“I made it for you to use, Minha-ssi.”
Seo Sihan praised his past self for the first time. Thankful he had made it. If this happened, he would be able to see Jeong Minha shooting more often and up close.
However, Jeong Minha found it burdensome. He seemed unable to believe kindness without a price. At that time, the secretary whispered to Seo Sihan.
“Try asking him to live together instead. Then you can get him out of that house, and you can take care of him from beside him.”
“…!”
Seo Sihan was sincerely moved by his secretary on this day. He resolved to only give him a moderate amount of work from now on.
However, was it okay to ask for this much? But the more he thought about it, the better the plan was. Eventually, after hesitating, he smiled and said.
“Instead of just practice… live at my house with me for a month.”
“…?!”
He could see Jeong Minha getting noticeably flustered. At this, he also thought this was a bit much, but soon he himself was more bewildered. Because Jeong Minha pondered for a moment then said okay and sat in the chair.
Accepting this readily? He was happy, but on the other hand, he was worried. Isn’t this why he signed that scam contract without even reading it? The problem was that the person was too simple.
Of course, since Seo Sihan had no intention whatsoever of harming Jeong Minha, he just quickly finished work and personally escorted him home.
In fact, Seo Sihan, who really didn’t know it would go as far as cohabitation, contacted the house employees urgently while organizing company work. He apologized but asked them to please move room furniture within an hour.
Seo Sihan’s existing bedroom was the room in the central hallway. That room was the widest, got good sunlight, and was just right for placing various furniture. Then naturally, he should give it to Jeong Minha. Because it was the best room.
Then where should his room be? After thinking about it, he decided to move to a room at the end of the hallway that was being roughly used as a storage room. Since Jeong Minha still seemed uncomfortable with this situation anyway, he chose it to be as far away as possible. Also, because he had to work late into the night at home, he didn’t want to cause any inconvenience.
As soon as he received contact that the room organization was finished, Seo Sihan took Jeong Minha and went home.
* * *
After that, while living together with Jeong Minha, really many changes occurred.
Even though Seo Sihan had been Jeong Minha’s fan for four years, he actually didn’t know much about the real Jeong Minha.
When they first conversed, he thought he was a confident and self-assured person. When he watched the match, he thought he had a calm and gentle personality. The Jeong Minha in his memory was generally expressionless, and was someone who only smiled briefly.
However, spending the whole day together gave a considerably different feeling from the first impression. His facial expressions were unexpectedly varied.
“Did hyung make this?”
Jeong Minha eating was genuinely happy-looking. Watching him fill his cheeks full of food and chew thoroughly while munching, he suddenly realized he was younger than him. He thought he was only cool, but somehow he looked cute. He overlapped with the squirrels in the animal videos he always watched.
“There’s someone who cooks separately.”
Seo Sihan started remembering the things Jeong Minha liked. First of all, what he seemed to like most was food.
“Hyung, speak comfortably.”
“What?”
“Just use banmal. It’s more uncomfortable hearing honorifics from hyung.”
Then he told Minha-ssi to speak comfortably too, but Jeong Minha refused. How can I be more comfortable than this? I’m already comfortable. Seo Sihan was disappointed, but first corrected his own speech.
After a month passed, Jeong Minha started training again. Seo Sihan felt a proud heart at the appearance of eating a lot, exercising hard, and becoming sturdy.
When Jeong Minha woke him up to eat breakfast together, he said there was no need to go this far. However, Jeong Minha said absolutely not and demanded they live properly together.
Seo Sihan, who had just been thinking of making only Jeong Minha happy, before he knew it was living diligently without realizing it. It was because Jeong Minha worried about his condition.
Seo Sihan resolved to definitely keep the contract contents unlike the scamming coach. He also planned to absolutely not break the words he said.
However, around when a month passed, Seo Sihan was shocked by his own heart.
It was simply a proposal to live together for just a month to make Jeong Minha comfortable. After that, he had been thinking of finding him a good house if he said he’d leave.
However, when he saw the message that arrived, his body moved on its own.
Hyung I think I can live somewhere else now 13:01
Seo Sihan, who rushed home, unknowingly spoke harshly. He himself couldn’t understand why he was like this. Wasn’t it fine as long as Jeong Minha continued shooting, whether he left the house or not? Of course, if they lived together, he could see him more often up close, so it would be regrettable if he left.
“…”
However, while living together for over a month, Seo Sihan had become accustomed to cohabitation with Jeong Minha. Even if they moved to a bigger house, he wanted to stay together. If he left him alone, it seemed like he’d get into big trouble somewhere again. He was worried. He wanted to take care of him from right beside him.
However, in one corner of his heart, he acknowledged it was his own greed. He liked that he came to wake him up every morning, liked eating together, exchanging joke-like conversations in the living room until saying good night. He liked every moment of daily life.
Around when Seo Sihan felt anxious while wondering about his own emotions, Jeong Minha came back and coolly resolved it.
“Until I win a gold medal… can I keep living here?”
At the words that he’d live together more, Seo Sihan sincerely answered that he’d like that. He decided not to worry about the time limit specified before it for now.
Around when Jeong Minha started going to school again, various changes occurred again.
“Hyung. Want to sleep together?”
Jeong Minha suddenly demanded to sleep in the same bed. And Seo Sihan, who slept together, was shocked once again.
‘…I fell asleep?’
He always suffered from insomnia, but he fell asleep together with Jeong Minha. He slept early and deeply until morning. It was a feeling of his head being clear for the first time in a while.
“…”
Jeong Minha had been like this from when they first met. Not only did he help make others comfortable even by lying that candy was medicine, now he had even become insomnia medicine himself.
What on earth was the principle behind this? It was absurd, but for now the result was what mattered. When he was with Jeong Minha, his heart mysteriously became comfortable.
“Minha-ya… want to sleep together?”
Eventually, it reached the point where he himself asked directly. Of course, Jeong Minha refused after that.
Besides this, sudden skinship began to increase.
“What am I doing?”
Suddenly holding and pressing his hand.
“Ah, ahaha. My foot got caught so…!”
Hugging him from behind while laughing awkwardly.
Seo Sihan was flustered at first but soon accepted it naturally. He just liked everything Jeong Minha did.
