Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 17

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Episode 17

At that question, Yeon-jae had an intuition.

‘This girl likes Hyeonoh sunbae.’

It was obvious what kind of feelings she had when asking me this.

She probably saw us eating together by chance and is bothered by it. If there wasn’t ‘affection’ at the bottom of her emotions, she wouldn’t be this persistent.

It’s better not to get involved in other people’s romantic affairs. But it was difficult to immediately come up with a decent rejection to such a direct question.

Just last time, Yeon-jae really didn’t know Hyeonoh well, so she replied that she didn’t know him well.

But now the situation was a bit different.

Could she really say she didn’t know anything about Hyeonoh?

‘We’re not strangers anymore.’

She owed him a big debt, and they had eaten together alone. She didn’t like lying. She also didn’t want things to get complicated by lying for no reason.

“Ah. We do know each other, but…”

So Yeon-jae spoke honestly. Only the clear facts.

Then Si-eun’s eyes sparkled. Si-eun rolled her eyes for a moment as if hesitating about something.

Yeon-jae waited quietly for Si-eun’s next words. Si-eun sat next to Yeon-jae, worried that the other kids might hear, and whispered carefully.

“What’s your relationship? Are you two dating by any chance?”

What?

“No, no! Absolutely not! We’re nothing to each other.”

Yeon-jae waved her hands frantically with a startled voice. Then Si-eun sighed with relief.

“Ah, really? That’s good.”

She wondered what was so good about it, but only briefly. She immediately understood the reason from Si-eun’s request that followed.

“Then could you help me get together with Hyeonoh oppa?”

“What? Me?”

Yeon-jae was dumbfounded. Aren’t we having our second conversation right now?

And she’s making this kind of request?

“Yeah.”

“I’m not that close with that sunbae…”

“No way! Of all the people I’ve ever seen, you’re the first girl who gets along this well with Hyeonoh oppa.”

“No. He’s probably closer to you than to me. You two are in the same club.”

“It’s different…! Hyeonoh oppa absolutely never eats alone with girls.”

Yeon-jae’s face became troubled. Si-eun didn’t miss that opportunity and clung to Yeon-jae.

“I’ll really buy you a meal. Please? Please please?”

Si-eun’s face as she said this looked quite desperate. Yeon-jae just rolled her eyes. She had no idea what to answer.

They were definitely not close enough for her to help someone get together with someone else.

“We’re really not that close. Sorry.”

After brief consideration, Yeon-jae gave a textbook answer. Si-eun immediately looked deflated.

However, not long after, she changed her expression again and asked with sparkling eyes.

“Really can’t you do it?”

“Yeah. Sorry.”

This time too, Yeon-jae rejected her sharply without leaving any room for hope.

It wasn’t intentional, but there really was no way to help. How could she possibly connect Hyeonoh and Si-eun?

Moreover, she didn’t know Si-eun well. She couldn’t introduce a girl she barely knew to her benefactor Kang Hyeon-o.

Even though Yeon-jae always refused to attend department events, Si-eun seemed nice enough to consistently ask about her attendance without fail.

Only when the professor entered the classroom did Si-eun return to her seat.

Even after class started, Yeon-jae couldn’t take her eyes off Si-eun, who was sitting in front of her.

She could tell just from her back view. Her earlier lively appearance had completely disappeared, and her shoulders drooped listlessly.

‘Now I’m worried for no reason.’

Suddenly Yeon-jae couldn’t concentrate well on class either.

But when class ended and she was packing her bag to leave the classroom.

“Wait a minute. Wait. I have something to talk about with Yeon-jae! You guys go ahead!”

Si-eun sent away the friends she took class with first, then approached Yeon-jae. Meanwhile, Yeon-jae heard her name flowing from Si-eun’s mouth and thought quietly.

‘She even knows my name.’

After Si-eun’s friends left first, finally only two people remained in the classroom: Yeon-jae and Si-eun.

“You know…”

Si-eun began with a somewhat hesitant attitude.

“What I said earlier. I’m absolutely not forcing you, but…”

“…”

“You know. I really, really like Hyeonoh oppa a lot.”

Si-eun firmly grasped both of Yeon-jae’s hands.

“I’m a bit desperate. If you ever change your mind, please help me.”

In Si-eun’s eyes as she said this, Yeon-jae saw Miyeon from long ago overlapping.

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“Hyeonoh oppa is famous for not giving any chances. Honestly, he’s handsome, right? So there were many girls besides me who liked him, but not one of them ever ate with him. He absolutely never eats alone with someone without a purpose. But you and that oppa… you really seem close. No, couldn’t you just naturally arrange a meeting once without saying it’s for me? Please? Please! If you just create the opportunity, I’ll somehow manage everything after that. Please…”

Until the weekend, Yeon-jae couldn’t shake Si-eun’s words from her head.

That was probably because, despite their different personalities and attitudes, in front of unrequited love, she and Si-eun didn’t seem very different.

Even in her childhood when she had no problems with peer relationships, Yeon-jae was often misunderstood as having cold eyes, but in reality, she had quite a soft heart.

‘Come to think of it, that’s why I went to get Dohan sunbae’s number in middle school too.’

Though I never gave it to Miyeon in the end, anyway.

Yeon-jae, who still felt a bit bitter when thinking about Miyeon, resolved not to have unnecessary sympathy this time and headed to school.

The reason for going to school even on the weekend was because of a promise made last time.

“Then want to come to school together on the weekend and study? I won’t do it if I’m alone.”

“Ah, really? I was planning to study at Jungdo anyway.”

“Oh. Good. Hey, Shin Yeon-jae. Do you want to come too?”

Thanks to that, she woke up at dawn today and spent ages trying on this outfit and that outfit.

Getting scolded by her sleeping mother for making a fuss on a weekend morning was a bonus.

Her mother asked with a face full of sleepiness.

“What’s gotten into you lately?”

…Our ghostly perceptive mom.

What was finally chosen was a plain dress without any patterns. Even though that was all, just wearing a skirt she didn’t usually wear made goosebumps rise on her bare legs.

On one hand, she was also worried.

‘Am I being too obvious…?’

She was thinking such thoughts while walking toward Jungdo when.

“Hey, Shin Yeon-jae.”

A familiar voice came from behind her. When she turned around, Hyeonoh was waving his hand. He soon closed the distance and pretended to be surprised for a moment.

“You put some effort in today?”

“…It’s similar to usual.”

Actually, she felt guilty even as she said it.

“When you usually only wear t-shirts?”

…That’s not wrong, but.

“And what happened to your glasses? Don’t tell me you got contacts?”

“Yes. Does it look bad?”

“No. You look much better without those trashy glasses.”

“What?! A beggar-like pair of glasses?”

“Why are you so surprised? Weren’t you wearing them on purpose? Your eyes look half their size when you wear glasses.”

“I had no idea….”

“Don’t you look in the mirror?”

“I do. I thought the glasses suited me pretty well.”

“Ah. Well, they don’t look bad on you. You look just like that character. What was it again? Oh, I remember. Dr. Slump’s Arale.”

“So you’re saying I look like an elementary schooler.”

“Exactly.”

Ugh. I feel like I’ve been had again somehow.

Yeon-jae glanced sideways at Hyeonoh. As always, he was wearing a tracksuit and a carelessly printed t-shirt.

“You’re consistent as always, senior.”

It was quite the opposite of Dohan, who always looked crisp and wrinkle-free even in just a t-shirt.

But because of Hyeonoh’s handsome face, unless you observed carefully, you wouldn’t really notice what he was wearing.

His frame was so good that the t-shirt that would have looked shabby on others suited him amazingly well.

“Who do I have to look good for that I’d dress up?”

“You did wash up though, right?”

His glossy face was annoying, so Yeon-jae decided to be petty for no reason.

“Of course. What do you take me for?”

“I’m looking at you exactly as Kang Hyeon-o senior.”

As they bickered and walked, they had already reached the front of Jungdo.

Yeon-jae took a deep breath for a moment. Inside, Dohan would already be settled in the library studying.

Last night, under Hyeonoh’s initiative, a group chat named ‘Library’ was hastily created.

While they were busy comparing each other’s schedules and deciding what time to meet, Dohan said:

I’m going swimming at dawn tomorrow, so I’ll go straight to Jungdo in the morning. You guys take your time coming. Let’s eat lunch together.

‘And that’s when I fell for him again.’

Going to dawn swimming and waking up early on a weekend when most people would sleep in lazily.

Yeon-jae had fallen for Dohan’s diligent side for who knows how many times now.

Usually, the more you get to know someone, the more you see their unpleasant sides, but Dohan had none of those aspects.

‘Maybe he’s a perfect hexagonal human being from the very beginning? Otherwise, how could I keep discovering new cool sides of him without getting tired?’

She was lost in thoughts about Dohan when:

“By the way, what’s that in your hand?”

Hyeonoh gestured with his chin toward the paper bag in Yeon-jae’s hand and asked.

“Ah. It’s the shirt that Dohan senior lent me the day we ate pork belly.”

“Oh. You did what I told you to do, right?”

On the evening of the day they ate pork belly, Hyeonoh had thrown her a mission via message.

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