MiTube, dramas, movies, etc.
All of these were things Jeong Minha liked. Actually, he watched less than average, but Jeong Minha considered himself an internet addict.
Of course, it wasn’t like this from the beginning.
From when he was scouted by a coach at a shooting game arcade in 8th grade until his first year of college when he competed in the Olympics, his daily life was repeating training. There was no time to watch.
However, in the summer vacation of his first year of college, after the Olympics. It was a hobby he picked up besides shooting in his daily life of giving up being an athlete and only doing part-time jobs. It was because other worries didn’t come to mind as long as he was watching videos.
In the end, this hobby continued until now, so Jeong Minha always fell asleep watching things like the above before bed. As a result, he naturally knew almost all the trending memes. He especially found it funny to follow along with makjang drama lines. Just because it was funny. He didn’t particularly think much of it.
When he was with friends, since they all knew these things, everyone received them well. So Jeong Minha really played pranks on Seo Sihan without any thought either.
And Seo Sihan had thoroughly walked only the elite path from a young age and was now living a robot-like life working all day. In short, it meant he didn’t know such things at all.
Still, most were light pranks. Seo Sihan was flustered at first too, but each time Jeong Minha showed him videos saying “I copied this,” it was somehow funny and cute too, so he let it pass thinking “I see.”
Living without much thought like that, one day Jeong Minha saw a video on the internet.
[Telling your lover let’s break up and seeing their reaction]
Watching the video reminded him of the message content he sent to Seo Sihan on the first night of living together. Back then, he clearly said he would leave the house, but Seo Sihan suddenly talked about breakfast and ignored it. And because the food was really delicious, he forgot about that incident, but now he remembered again.
Jeong Minha sent a message to Seo Sihan again, half sincere, half joking.
Hyung, I think I can live somewhere else now 13:01
He lay on the bed eating snacks and waited for a reply. Would he roughly change the subject this time like when he sent it before? Unlike that time, now the one month they promised to live together had passed. Neither of them brought it up, so they were just continuing to live together.
Having lived too comfortably for a month, honestly he didn’t really want to leave anymore. However, his conscience was bothering him too, and if hyung told him to leave at this opportunity, he was thinking of giving thanks and properly living alone again. Even if not, he was just curious about the reaction.
Even when Seo Sihan was at the company, unless it was during meetings, he checked Jeong Minha’s messages within 5 minutes. This time too, the “1” indicator disappeared in 2 minutes.
However, there was no reply even after 10 minutes passed.
Is he very busy? Or just ignoring it…? Jeong Minha, who hadn’t thought much, intuitively realized he was screwed after 30 minutes passed.
The front door lock that had no reason to ring at this time suddenly made a click sound. At the same time, a beep rang saying the password was wrong.
The helpers came in by scanning cards, so they didn’t press the numbers directly. The only people who entered by pressing numbers were Seo Sihan and Jeong Minha. But Seo Sihan went to the company, and Jeong Minha was eating snacks on the bed right now, so what remained was…
At that moment, a beep rang saying the password was correct and the sound of the door opening came.
Jeong Minha quickly twisted his body to grab the self-defense (toy) gun hidden next to the bed. However, hearing the familiar footsteps that seemed to be rushing, his body stopped on its own.
Then the room door burst open.
“Jeong Minha… It’s a joke, right?”
“Hy-hyung?!”
As if Seo Sihan had been running, he caught his breath and slightly pulled down his shirt collar. It seemed he saw the message and immediately took the car using the company lunch break to come.
“…Where else would you live besides here? Don’t you like this house? Should we move? Is money insufficient? What’s the problem?”
“…”
“Hm? Say something, Minha-ya.”
“…I’m, I’m sorry… It was a, joke…”
“…Why?”
“I was just curious about hyung’s reaction…”
Jeong Minha, who was on the verge of rolling off the bed, even hiccupped while making a tearful face. Seo Sihan sighed and grabbed Jeong Minha to help him up. Then a pitch-black gun fell to the floor behind the cookie crumbs.
“…”
“…”
Is this déjà vu? It seemed like this happened at the company before too. Jeong Minha immediately apologized with a restless expression.
“I’m really sorry… I have nowhere to go anyway…”
“Mm… Really?”
“Yes, yes… But hyung, don’t come in like that next time either… I really got super startled thinking it was a robber…”
“…Sorry.”
“I thought it was someone else and almost shot, but I noticed it was hyung from the footsteps so I hid it again but it fell. Really! I won’t shoot hyung.”
“Okay… Thanks…?”
It seemed like Jeong Minha was in the wrong, but somehow Seo Sihan was also apologizing and thanking him, doing both. Since he fell for that confident appearance in the first place, there was nothing particular to say.
Actually, when he saw the message, he thought he’d already left the house and came urgently, but right before opening the door, seeing him lying on the bed plus the scattered snacks and game consoles, he was relieved. He should buy more. Still, since he was a bit anxious, since he came home anyway, he switched to remote work and worked from his room.
When he woke up the next morning, packages addressed to Jeong Minha’s name were piled up. When he opened them, they were all latest game consoles and snacks.
I’m pretty sure I did something wrong, so why am I receiving gifts? Jeong Minha couldn’t understand.
Of course, even after that, Jeong Minha often played pranks.
Seo Sihan briefly seriously considered cutting off the WiFi and data, but gave up thinking that if he did that, Jeong Minha would say it’s no fun and really leave the house.
In the end, later Seo Sihan got used to it and even played along. Then Jeong Minha would be surprised asking how he knew and be happy.
Also, sometimes situations would occur that were rather beneficial for Seo Sihan.
Seo Sihan liked Jeong Minha’s appearance when shooting, that is, his cool appearance. His concentrating expression, serious expression, even his lips that only smiled refreshingly when he shot a perfect score…
But when Jeong Minha sometimes swept back his bangs while quietly getting angry, imitating some drama again, Seo Sihan honestly complimented him saying “you’re so cool right now…” Then conversely, Jeong Minha would get flustered and suddenly run away to his room asking what he was talking about.
After that, Jeong Minha realized one fact.
For him, these were all things said without much thought, but Seo Sihan was particularly anxious only about pranks about leaving the house.
Seeing the person who always only smiled get slightly angry for the first time with a face he’d never seen, it seemed hyung also wanted to continue living together.
Then until when exactly? Jeong Minha worried alone, then thinking rather than having another misunderstanding, let’s just decide refreshingly, he confessed directly to him.
It was when they ate dinner together after Seo Sihan got off work. Jeong Minha first listed out only good points about living together with Seo Sihan.
Since he suddenly rattled off honest compliments in the middle of eating, Seo Sihan just blinked his eyes wide. He was surprised but looked pleased. After confirming that appearance, he immediately brought up the main point.
“So, honestly I also like living like this much better, you know?”
“Yeah…”
“But I’m too sorry to keep doing this.”
“I’m fine—”
“No. I’m not that conscienceless of a person.”
“Uh, okay…”
“So what I’m saying is, until I win a gold medal at least… How about it? Actually, I’m too sorry about this too… But if I just win a gold medal, I’ll pay it all back, you know?”
“You don’t have to pay back…”
“Anyway, so until then, can I keep living here?”
“Yeah, of course.”
Jeong Minha meant to extend living together only until the Olympics, but whether Seo Sihan understood properly or not, he just smiled slightly.
Except for situations like last time, Seo Sihan always didn’t deviate much from a slightly smiling expression. There wasn’t much change in expressions, emotions, tone, etc., so it was hard to know what his inner thoughts were. Conversely, only Jeong Minha, whose expression showed everything, was relieved to have finished talking safely and ate his food deliciously again.
In the end, the only problem points between the two people in the current living together situation were as follows.
For Jeong Minha, everything was good but sometimes he couldn’t handle it, and for Seo Sihan, everything was good but he was sometimes scary. These were their mutual evaluations.
And Jeong Minha’s problem could simply be called pranks, but Seo Sihan’s was a problem in that it was sincere.
From when they first met: coming to find him at the cafe, knowing he went to the shooting range, knowing about the coach incident, knowing personal information like his number or birthday, etc… Jeong Minha had never told him directly about any of it. He roughly let it pass thinking he must have done a background check on just the important facts.
However, he couldn’t help getting creeped out whenever they talked.
“Come to think of it, when I was young I was playing at a stream and lost something, and since I liked it I looked for a long time but couldn’t see it, so in the end…”
“Ah, the black bracelet?”
“…What?”
“Should I buy you the same one?”
Seo Sihan spoke while smiling as usual, but Jeong Minha could neither laugh nor cry.
“Uh, uhhh… N-no, it’s okay…”
For reference, this time he hadn’t even mentioned it was a bracelet. He had no idea how he knew this. Could a person’s entire life be exposed? Is this why they say to live virtuously?
He didn’t even have the courage to ask how he knew. He just quietly returned to his room, recalling memes like “people who know this incident: too scary.”
Of course, it was true that Seo Sihan investigated Jeong Minha’s major activities, but naturally he didn’t know information like this. This was purely thanks to good memory.
It was when they went to a festival together early in living together to break the awkwardness. Jeong Minha felt burdened by restaurant food but kept buying and eating these street foods as if they fit his standards. Of course, it was Seo Sihan’s money.
Anyway, while happily eating and walking around, when they were passing an accessory shop, he brought up the story first. The bracelet he lost while playing at the stream looked similar to that black bracelet over there, blah blah, spewing TMI.
Jeong Minha just said anything since he had nothing to say in an already awkward situation, but Seo Sihan with good memory naturally memorized it all.
In the end, as such incidents occurred frequently, Seo Sihan remembered even trivial things, and Jeong Minha got scared alone wondering just how far he investigated.
But except for points like the above, the two people got along surprisingly well. Living together for over a month, there was no major fighting except for incidents like the robber misunderstanding.
Only Jeong Minha had a new curiosity.
