When he opened his eyes, like a few hours ago, Shin Jaewoo was shaking his body, and Kwon Yunsu exhaled slowly. He slept well. He really slept incredibly well.
“…Thank goodness you slept without opening your mouth.”
At that sincere mutter, Shin Jaewoo, who was pulling his arm to help him up, buried his face in Kwon Yunsu’s shoulder.
“Ha… why are you endlessly cute?”
“I’m originally a human who’s like the crystallization of loveliness.”
When they left the movie theater, he was hungry again. Energy surged through his body, the day had grown dark, he wanted to eat something delicious, and suddenly he felt the realization that exams were over.
“Did you reach the kids? Who can come?”
Shin Jaewoo took out his phone.
“Uh… let’s see. Ahn Shinwook called first, Song Taesu probably can’t come, bujang hyung said he’ll come back to school. With Eunsub hyung.”
“As expected of a loner gathering. How is it that none of you have plans?”
Kwon Yunsu was impressed.
“…More than that, you, turn on your phone quickly.”
Shin Jaewoo’s laughter showed traces of embarrassment and apology. Kwon Yunsu searched his pockets.
“Why, what is it?”
While waiting for the phone to turn on, he asked, and Shin Jaewoo answered,
“Lee Euishin seems to be looking for you.”
“Why?”
“…The face you see every day disappeared without a word, and your phone is off?”
Right at that timing, the vibration rang. Call connection screen, Lee Euishin. …I’m nervous for no reason.
“Yeah?”
[Yeah? You wanna die?]
The guy who usually makes people nervous was coming at him coldly, so it was brutal. He definitely failed the last exam.
“…Were you looking for me?”
[Where are you, right now.]
“In front of school. With Jaewoo.”
[Shin Jaewoo? You were with that bastard?!]
Does he hate Shin Jaewoo? Kwon Yunsu quickly changed the subject.
“Where are you?”
The breathing ringing in his ear was steep.
“I’m asking where you are?”
Should I go now? While he was considering whether to subtly add that while reading Shin Jaewoo’s mood, a welcome answer came back.
[The club room.]
“Oh, I’m going there too. I’m going now. Are you with the kids?”
The call ended without an answer. Tsk, petty guy.
“His temper, really… fuck, let’s go.”
Kwon Yunsu grabbed and pulled Shin Jaewoo’s arm. It felt like his hazy head was suddenly clearing.
“First, let’s buy alcohol.”
“Hurry up and buy it, hurry.”
They crossed the narrow two-lane road toward the convenience store.
“Why, is Euishin mad?”
“His horns are this big. He thinks I’m his son or something.”
When Yunsu pulled out a shopping basket, Jaewoo naturally took it from him. You do your thing. Kwon Yunsu strode briskly to the liquor section and opened the refrigerator.
Watching Yunsu frantically picking out this and that, Jaewoo felt strange. He reacts like this even though he doesn’t know anything. He wasn’t sure if that was good or bad.
“Slow down a bit.”
Jaewoo grabbed the sleeve of Yunsu, who took two steps forward for every one step he took, and laughed. Though he always went around smiling mindlessly, he had even less reason to frown in front of Kwon Yunsu.
“It’s close anyway.”
Between his neatly cut hair and black sweatshirt, his white nape was long and pretty. Yunsu turned around and instead pulled Jaewoo’s arm, grumbling.
“I’m hungry. Let’s hurry.”
Jaewoo pulled out a heated hot bar from the convenience store bag and offered it to Yunsu. And while the guy was waving his hand dismissively, he quickly pulled out another one and put it in his own mouth.
“I’m hungry too. Let’s eat while we walk.”
“……”
Yunsu had no choice but to tear open the wrapper. The distance to the engineering building where the club room was located was far if you called it far, close if you called it close. Once he had food in his mouth, it instantly became a long distance.
Yunsu, who had been quietly chewing on his hot bar, suddenly asked.
“Don’t you have a girlfriend?”
“I don’t. Do you?”
“No. Aren’t you going to date anyone?”
“When the time comes. What about you?”
“Me too, when the time comes.”
Why is this conversation so fun? Jaewoo found it curious.
“Kwon Yunsu, whether it’s the right time or not, if romance luck follows you, grab it for sure.”
“Why?”
“Because you’ll get swept up in the moment and miss your timing.”
Because there’s someone as scary as the King of Hell firmly planted right next to you.
“And you don’t have any brothers, right?”
“How did you know?”
“You really love hanging out with guys. You’re totally smitten with Younghwan hyung whenever he does anything.”
“Is that so?”
Kwon Yunsu responded meekly and smiled brightly. Ah, pretty. Did Kim Wonwoo tell me to contact him knowing he’s my type?
“And broaden your horizons a bit, don’t just hang out with Euishin because he’s comfortable. What are you going to do if he gets a girlfriend?”
It wasn’t complete malice. He still didn’t know whether Euishin was gay or a crazy bastard fixated on one person.
“Ha, Euishin with a girlfriend….”
Yunsu’s words trailed off. Jaewoo quickly caught him before his face could turn contemplative.
“Let’s go watch soccer next week. I have a friend who’s a K League supporter.”
At the mention of soccer, Yunsu’s ears perked up.
“Sounds good. With the guys….”
“No, not with the guys. With me.”
Meeting the eyes of Yunsu who turned around looking puzzled, Jaewoo smiled sweetly.
“We have to go together to get close.”
With his usual smile, seemingly without any ulterior motive but full of it.
“Okay.”
Yunsu nodded, smiling along. Easy. Of course, this wasn’t everything.
Having obtained the answer he wanted, they arrived at the building with the club room. Spotting the tall handsome man standing at the first-floor entrance, Jaewoo smiled again.
Crazy. Fuck. What kind of fucking bullshit…!
When he tried to explain the emotions surging in that instant, only curses came out. Kwon Yunsu, who had made his blood run dry by being unreachable for three whole hours, was walking over with a hot bar in his mouth, carefree. And very slowly at that, with the audacity to be with Shin Jaewoo.
That bastard’s eyes couldn’t be read by a country bumpkin. But regardless of that being fortunate, seeing the two of them walking side by side made Euishin feel like he was going to lose it.
He strode over, snatched the bag from Yunsu’s hand, and pinched his cheek hard.
“Ow!”
“Where the hell did this goddamn country bumpkin go wandering off with his phone turned off….”
“I was watching a movie!”
“What?!”
You were stuck in a dark place with that fucking bastard for two hours?!
Yunsu, who had escaped from Euishin’s grip, cupped his cheek and retorted.
“He fell asleep after the movie because he was tired. I politely turned off my phone! Why are you grabbing people!”
……You slept soundly with that fucking bastard next to you? Euishin’s hands trembled. You have absolutely no sense of caution, Kwon Yunsu. You need to take sex education again. Even elementary school kids these days would be better than you, fuck…. Seeing his own face turn deathly pale, Euishin glared fiercely at Shin Jaewoo who snickered. And with that same expression, he turned his head toward Yunsu. He had prepared something to say in anticipation of this situation.
“What did you say before going to bed yesterday? That you wanted to eat pork belly after exams. That the fridge was completely empty. Wasn’t that saying let’s go grocery shopping together? When this happened before and I went home alone, who was it that called me and poured out a whole bucket of complaints calling me petty and cheap?”
At that time, Euishin had been at the department office due to unavoidable circumstances. He swore, he had never once abandoned Yunsu and gone home alone. Even when he went to his family home or had unexpected plans, he always sent a text message without fail. Always reporting their schedules to each other—it was to get him accustomed to that kind of ‘restraint.’
