“That’s not it……. Uh, if ingredients aren’t prepared, should we decide on partners and go?”
“Should we? What do you all think?”
Fortunately, Yeongwon corrected his own behavior and quickly turned the other person’s attention elsewhere. Furthermore, from now on he intended to slowly achieve his goal in earnest.
First, what he needed most was time spent alone with Jiseo. He also had to hear an evaluation of his changed hairstyle as he’d previewed. If Jiseo didn’t like it, he had to respond quickly.
Just in case, Yeongwon had also learned how to do his own hair from his stylist team in advance.
Even in the reality program he’d filmed very briefly before, and also in variety shows he participated in as a guest once in a while and personal channel broadcasts, when staying overnight he showed his natural appearance.
It had to be different from those times. In any case, Yeongwon’s purpose was no different from a regular dating program. Showing sincerity was natural.
Until now, he’d thought he just needed to do well with Jiseo, but once he actually experienced it, the scope of what he needed to care about changed.
Usually in places like this, if you showed kindness or favor, it was automatically converted to favorable feelings.
Since it was a place to openly show favorable feelings, all actions were inevitably interpreted as being to win hearts.
‘Whatever I do, they’ll see me well as a person.’
Number one groom material, number one boyfriend, number one lover. He wanted them to all call him that in unison.
Additionally, later when his relationship with Jiseo developed, it would be the icing on the cake if the words that he was perfect as Jiseo’s partner were added.
So he wanted to spend time alone with Jiseo while appealing his charm with delicious food.
Among those looking at him with smiles, the one with the best reaction was Jiwoo, so he wanted to capture his heart first.
“There’s nothing to eat in the fridge, and the card is here. Looking at how the mart name is written here too, I guess we really need to go grocery shopping.”
“Can’t people who want to go volunteer and we all go together? If you want, we can tear apart as many carts as needed.”
“Then should we accept volunteers first?”
As soon as the direction to find people to go to the mart was set, Yeongwon immediately raised his hand.
“I’ll go.”
“Yeongwon will? Do you really want to go?”
A concerned voice automatically followed, worried that Yeongwon might have raised his hand while reading the room.
To most of their eyes, it seemed like Yeongwon was trying to play the youngest role.
Yeongwon, fully grasping the intent of the question, shook his head and raised his hand again.
“I volunteered because I want to try it. I think it’ll be fun. Plus, we can get closer.”
“Really? Then should we give Yeongwon the decision right to choose a partner?”
“That would be good. Honestly, if we all say let’s go, the atmosphere would happily go along anyway.”
“Who do you want to go with, Yeongwon?”
Though he had someone he wanted to go out with, he was prepared to go with anyone.
So when the authority to choose came, he was about to say Jiseo’s name, but… his slightly hesitating gaze looked at those watching him in turn.
“Uh, with who…”
He wanted to check if there was anyone who wanted to go out with him, but it looked like he couldn’t choose and was hesitating.
The one Yeongwon’s gaze stayed on longest was Jiwoo. But if he accompanied him, he would just be wasting useless time.
Yeongwon, coming to his senses, immediately turned his eyes to Jiseo.
“I’ll go with Jiseo hyung.”
“It would be better to go with someone familiar for the first time, right?”
“You can go with other hyungs too. I think it would be nice to get close with us.”
“That’s also good, but…”
He briefly worried because he would have to show that he was an attractive person in various ways by getting close to them. Still, the most urgent was Jiseo.
“I’ll go and buy a lot of delicious things.”
“Thinking about it, you should go with someone comfortable to focus on grocery shopping. It won’t do to be distracted from the start.”
“I wanted to go with Yeongwon too, but I guess I’ll have to yield to next time.”
At the words playfully supporting his choice, Yeongwon worried for a moment. He wouldn’t say he wanted to go with him for no reason.
It seemed like he wanted to get close, so he just opened and closed his mouth, then sent his gaze to Jiseo.
No. Right now, time with hyung is more important.
“I’ll go with hyung next time.”
Because it was sincere, Yeongwon promised next time with words that looked sincere at a glance.
Watching Yeongwon naturally making promises with others, Jiseo quietly swallowed his unexpected expression. Yeongwon was more proactive toward others than expected.
“Is Jiseo okay too? With going grocery shopping?”
“Yes. I’m okay.”
“Or should Jiseo and I just go together?”
He thought the decision had already been made, but an unexpected proposal suddenly popped out.
Yeongwon would naturally want to go out with him.
Jiseo was in a position where he shouldn’t obediently follow along as Yeongwon wished. So he worried for a moment, but something unpleasant inside stopped him.
“Let’s go together next time. Today, we need to unpack and there’s a lot to decide, so I’ll go out and come back.”
Watching Jiseo give the same answer as him, Yeongwon felt a small pillar of fire rising inside.
The fact that it was the same could just be a polite answer following him, but it didn’t feel very good.
Jiseo’s tone was so friendly, and just… he hated both Jiseo showing interest in others and receiving interest from others.
“Then the rest of us should stay and start unpacking. We also need to decide which rooms to use. When I first heard about it, I thought we might share, but they said individual rooms.”
“We might get too close too quickly, so that’s right. Since it’s not the actual filming.”
Because they didn’t know where and how favorable feelings might go, there was a rule that everyone should use one bedroom each from the start.
Still, it would be nice to be next to Jiseo’s room, but since he’d gained one thing, he also had to know how to step back on one thing.
“You can give me the leftover room.”
“Should we give you the first floor since there are a lot of stairs?”
“It’s okay. It’s just a space to sleep, so anywhere is fine.”
If Jiseo had chosen first, he could have slightly followed along, but since that wasn’t the case, it was difficult for Yeongwon to claim any one place first. If it was impossible, he had no choice but to give up.
Also, he had to get much closer to the others and receive advice. He had to learn how to win a person’s heart too.
Additionally, to properly play the youngest role, it wasn’t bad to get the most uncomfortable bedroom.
“What about Jiseo?”
The other person, who had briefly shown a surprised expression as if it was an unexpected answer, turned their interest to Jiseo with a subtle smile.
“I’ll be as far from Yeongwon as possible.”
At Yeongwon’s ambiguous answer, Jiseo put forth his opinion without hiding it.
First, he thought that being as far away as possible would reduce interest in him. Also, thanks to their close relationship, it seemed they would accept it without explanation.
“You mean you want to be on a different floor?”
“I think it would be better to hang out with other people rather than me.”
“Then since the opinions are similar, the two of you can use the rooms farthest apart.”
It was no different from common knowledge that Jiseo wouldn’t openly say he’d use a room close to himself.
So it didn’t matter, but naturally witnessing him say he’d use a room far from him, he absolutely couldn’t manage his expression.
“Looking at Yeongwon’s eyes, he seems a bit disappointed?”
“If you’re close, it’s more fun to be near each other, so that must be it.”
“A little.”
Toward Jiwoo, who was whispering in a teasing voice, Yeongwon tried to shrug his shoulders as if it was okay.
Probably my inner feelings aren’t all showing on the outside, right? I probably look appropriately calm?
Yeongwon didn’t know that his rashly protruding lips openly displayed the disappointment he harbored.
“I’ll use the third floor. We have to go up and down stairs a lot.”
“Won’t it be inconvenient? Are you okay?”
“I’m okay. It’s not that high. I’ll use the one close to the stairs.”
“You don’t have to play the youngest role here. You’re doing it to move quickly, right?”
“That’s not it—I just think there will be a lot of coming and going.”
Though it wasn’t very inconvenient, consideration ingrained in his body flowed out unknowingly because it might be hard for others to go up and down stairs.
An unfamiliar hand briefly touched Yeongwon’s shoulder as if praising him.
