No Confession Between Friends - No confession between friends - Episode 126

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Of course, Hyun Gyu-jin also completely understood those feelings. In general, casually, oh, really? I knew that not many people would be able to get over it, and I especially knew that my parents would likely be greatly shocked. That’s why Yoo Won’s reaction when he found out that Choi Hae-young and Kim Jun-jae knew about this relationship was a little tense and scary.

I was so nervous that I couldn’t even taste the chocolate, which was obviously very sweet, for a moment. Also, my hand that was holding the envelope kept sweating. It certainly wasn’t hot, but now I could feel my body temperature rising, perhaps due to tension and fever.

“Do you have something to say?”

“uh?”

“But it’s a bit hard to say, isn’t it?”

“… how did you know?”

“hand.”

Hearing Yoo Won’s words, Hyun Gyu Jin lowered his head and looked down at his hands. He was nervous, and his eyes caught his hand as he repeatedly held and opened the handle of his envelope.

“It’s okay if you do something wrong. “Her fingers folded and unfolded, and I couldn’t keep them still.”

“It wasn’t my fault this time. Just… “I can’t imagine my own reaction.”

“What? “When you say that, I feel scared for no reason.”

“I’ll tell you when I eat it all. No, after you go home and eat as much of the rest as you want.”

Hyun Gyu-jin grinned as he stretched out his hand and pushed the tissue that Yu-won was holding upward a little, lifting the chicken at the bottom so that it could be eaten.

“Um, is that a bad thing?”

“No, it’s not a bad thing… . is not it? Uh, by my standards, it’s not a bad thing.”

“… “Is it really surprising to hear that?”

“Wouldn’t you be a little surprised? “To be honest, I was a bit surprised too.”

“Is it our business?”

“huh.”

“… Then tell me now. “Because it’s our job.”

Hyun Gyu-jin, who stopped in front of the crosswalk on the way home, opened and closed his fingers again, tightly gripping the handle of the envelope.

“I should know because it’s our job. I don’t know how surprising it is… . I, too, have to go through the same thing as you, Gyujin. “Because it’s our job.”

“… that’s right. Because it’s our job. Phew… . wait for a sec.”

Hyun Gyu-jin took a deep breath, exhaled, closed his eyes, and then opened them. Still, all the tension did not go away.

“… Choi Hae-young and Kim Jun-jae… .”

“huh.”

“… I knew I liked you. “Even if we’re dating.”

“ah… .”

sparkle. The light turned green, but no one crossed the crosswalk. Hyun Gyu-jin, who was only looking at the thick white gold, raised his head and made eye contact with Yu-won, who was looking at him.

“… Sorry. “I guess I showed off too much.”

“… … .”

“We…” He said he saw them kissing in the art room. You told me not to do it at school, but I said it was okay. Sorry. “I should have listened to you.”

Even if Yuwon scolded me, I could endure it. Even if you get scolded, it’s cheap. I couldn’t even make an excuse because I had such a clear memory of taking Yuwon, who wasn’t allowed to go to school, and kissing him here and there because I couldn’t stand it until I got home.

Still, to be honest, I was a little scared to see Yoo Won speechless. No, actually a lot. So, for no reason, I ended up talking more to fill the silence.

“… that… Neither of them have ever told anyone or even shown me anything like that… . “I said I would never tell anyone in the future.”

“… … .”

“… babe. Can’t I just show off my anger? Do you want to hit me?”

Hyun Gyu-jin bent down in front of Yu-won’s face and put his head down so that he could hit him right away. Yuwon, who was quietly watching this, raised his hand.

Ah, I finally got hit by Jeong Yu-won. Yes, it’s fucking ridiculous that I’ve been scolded for so many times and survived all this time without getting hit… .

“… … .”

“… … .”

Warmth reached the place where I thought I would hear a pop or crack sound. Hyun Gyu-jin looked blankly at Yu-won, who was stroking his cheek. Yoo-won stroked her cheek and then her hair before popping the last bite on the end of the skewer into her mouth. Hyun Gyu-jin could not even understand the situation properly and just looked at the face with blank eyes.

“… “Aren’t you angry?”

“It didn’t work out.”

“… “Are you so angry that you don’t even get angry?”

“What is that? “I’m not really angry.”

“… “But why aren’t you saying anything?”

“Because it’s fascinating.”

“what?”

Hyun Gyu-jin took the empty skewer containing Yu-won, put it in a bag, and put the iced chocolate straw in Yu-won’s mouth again in case he got hurt. Sucking the hair twice in a row was so cute even in this situation, it was really hard to resist this time. Hyun Gyu-jin looked around and saw that no one was there, so he lowered his head and kissed Yu-won’s soft cheek.

“In the past, when I heard something like this, I would have been really surprised… fury… Even if it wasn’t, it would have felt a bit strange. “At that time, I may have said something to you, asking why you did things like this even though I told you not to do it.”

“… … .”

“But now…” a little… .”

“… … .”

“… I was surprised, but something… . good.”

“… good?”

It was something I had never thought of. It wasn’t something to hide, and of course it was something Yuwon should know, but I really didn’t expect that good words would come out because I was worried that Yuwon would care and hate it while I was talking.

“we… I didn’t know that it would feel good to know that other people were dating. But it’s much more than you think… good. It was nice when it was just the two of us, but is it because I know it’s not something to hide? Good mood.”

“… ah… . thank god… . “I was really worried.”

Hyun Gyu-jin bent down and let out the breath that had been trapped all along, closed his eyes tightly, and then opened them. Now I can finally breathe properly.

“But aren’t Choi Hae-young and Kim Jun-jae more surprising? If you saw us kissing… “I think it would have been more like that.”

“I thought so too, but it was nothing.”

“why?”

“I just thought we would. I guess I saw everything I liked. And they say they are on your side unconditionally. “You trained me to become a human being, so they told me to reward myself for living by imitating a human being.”

“Choi Hae-young said that, right?”

“uh.”

“I think I hear voices.”

Yuwon laughed out loud as he remembered Choi Haeyoung’s tone of voice. I made friends who knew that me and Hyun Gyu-jin were dating, and the fact that they even took my side made me feel much better than I expected. No, it was good enough to say it was okay.

“what. “Why do I think I can hear Choi Hae-young’s voice?”

“huh?”

“No, have you always liked Choi Hae-young’s voice?”

“No, you can imagine what kind of tone and how Choi Hae-young would have said it.”

“No, so why are you imagining Choi Hae-young? “Leave me in front of you.”

“No, that’s not important.”

“No, why is that… .”

The moment I realized that I kept saying no in front of it, I started laughing at the same time. The laughter that spread in the moderately warm night breeze that did not feel cold penetrated into each other’s hearts. That’s how love became a little stronger, surrounded by each other’s laughter.

It flashed again and the light turned green. Hyun Gyu-jin held out his hand. Soon, a slightly thinner finger slipped between his fingers. The tightly intertwined fingers were warmer than spring.

It was always exciting to walk together and cross the crosswalk. Maybe it’s because we went to ‘our’ house. Yuwon was filled with the deeply sweet air of a spring night.

“Shall we go to the park for a moment? “All the flowers would have bloomed.”

“Isn’t the bag heavy?”

“It’s not heavy.

Hyun Gyu-jin grinned and walked past the house toward the park. The closer we got, the sweeter the air became.

“Maybe it’s because cherry blossoms are blooming everywhere these days. “The air is so sweet that I think of you every time I breathe.”

As we walked into the park where cherry blossoms were in full bloom, Yuwon recalled what Hyun Gyu-jin had said to me when we were friends and when we should have been friends.

‘Do you want to come out for a moment? When I arrived, I saw that cherry blossoms had already bloomed in the park.’

At that time, I missed Hyun Gyu-jin every minute and every second. Even though I had it in my eyes, I wanted to see it more deeply, and whenever I fell for a moment, I eagerly waited for the next morning. It was so hard to be friends, and I cried every night thinking about Hyun Gyu-jin.

‘Shall we take a short walk together? The air is so sweet that I think of you every time I breathe.’

With that one word, I forgot to breathe and moved with only one thought in mind: I wanted to see Hyun Gyu-jin. He said that we should remain friends, but I remember being stupidly jealous and not being able to hide how much I liked him, so it showed a lot.

On the spring night of nineteen, I visited Yuwon a lot. Very tenderly, I drew love into my eyes, through my fingertips, and up onto my lips. And all those emotions belonged to Hyun Gyu-jin.

And the spring night of the twenty-year-old came again and shook the Yuwon. It made the love that was already in her eyes, fingertips, and lips even deeper. Yoo Won leaned her head on Hyunkyu Jin’s shoulder, not hiding the fact that her love was freely revealed in her heart.

Hyun Gyu-jin’s shoulders stiffened for a moment and then relaxed. He touched me all the time, and even though he touched me more fully than this many times, Hyunkyu Jin still flinched his shoulder like this whenever I touched him first. I liked the twitching that was full of trembling and excitement. Yuwon smiled.

I loved this love that I could see with my own eyes, feel with my whole body, and now that I was starting to see it in the eyes of others as well. I liked Hyun Gyu-jin.

The flower language of the cherry blossoms that I saw when I was nineteen and twenty is Hyun Gyu-jin. Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three… . The name of all springs to come would always be Hyun Gyu-jin.

“I called my mom earlier and said I’ll be home for a long time after midterm exams. “She asked me how she never came home. She nagged me and she just said she knew.”

“A few days ago, my dad told me to come home after the exam, so I said I was going. Come with me. I miss mom and dad too… “I want to see my aunt and uncle too.”

“For the first time in a while, I will become friends with Jeong Yu-won.”

Hyun Gyu-jin, with a grin, raised his joined hands and waved them. She felt strange for no reason being friends with Hyunkyu Jin again. Even when I was her friend, I think my days were not much different from now, except for the skinship, but I felt a little at a loss as to how to pretend to be a friend again.

“Gyujin. we… “What was it like when we were friends?”

“well. I don’t remember much either. It wasn’t that long ago. what… . “Wouldn’t it be okay if we just don’t kiss?”

“I think it would be very difficult to hold back from kissing…” .”

Even though I’m busy preparing for midterm exams, it feels really good to take time out to see the cherry blossoms with Hyun Gyu-jin, and it also feels good that someone found out about my relationship with Hyun Gyu-jin and doesn’t think it’s a big deal, which is something I don’t usually do. All the jokes were out.

Of course, it wasn’t 100% a joke and there was some sincerity mixed in. Since we started dating, we’ve been talking to each other so much that it’s safe to say that we kiss whenever we make eye contact. It was true that I was worried at the thought of having to endure the kisses that had now become a habit.

When I turned my head to the quiet side, I saw Hyun Gyu-jin’s ears turn red under the streetlight. Yuwon, who thought it was cute and had an innocent expression on his face, tilted his head.

“Aren’t you like that?”

“… uh?”

“only me… I guess it’s nice to kiss my honey… .”

Hyun Gyu-jin’s lips, which had been closed, gradually opened as he continued to say ‘baby’ and ‘honey’. Unable to bear it any longer, Yoo Won raised both hands and pressed Hyun Gyu Jin’s cheek to rub it.

“Why are you so cute today?”

“babe.”

“huh?”

“I want to.”

I didn’t say what I wanted to do, but Yuwon didn’t ask. It seemed like I was thinking the same thing as Hyun Gyu-jin, as only one thing came to mind. Yuwon nodded his head slightly. I wanted to hang out with Hyun Gyu-jin tonight because I had finished one important assignment and the presenter had to make a presentation tomorrow.

“… me too.”

“… Oh, this is so fucking crazy. “I’m sorry, but I’ll walk a little faster.”

Hyun Gyu-jin turned around while holding his hand. Yuwon also walked along the way he came.

Yoo-won smiled as he watched Hyun Gyu-jin walking at his own pace, telling him to go quickly, but not walking at his own pace for fear of running out of breath or even a little bit of pain. Every time I passed under a streetlight, I saw my ears and the back of my neck turn red, and I also felt itchy all over my body.

Flower petals fluttered in the soft spring breeze. The sweet air stuck to my skin. Even though I walked faster than usual, I didn’t feel tired or out of breath.

As I left the park, I saw a house. Following Hyun-gyu and Jin, who couldn’t hold back and started running lightly, Yoo-won also moved his feet in a hurry. Instead of a heavy breath, laughter burst out between parted lips.

“… Should we go a little slower?”

“No, you can go faster.”

Yuwon thought as he saw Hyun Gyu-jin looking back. No matter how many times I go back, I will definitely like my friend.

The fall when I started liking my friend, the winter when we went on our first trip alone, the summer when nothing sparkled, and now. Spring at this moment. Because you will eventually fall in love at any time.

All the seasons of the Yuwon in love sparkled.

With just one name: Hyun Gyu-jin.

<No confessions between friends> Finished.