Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 18

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Episode 18

Now for the next mission

When you return the shirt, slip in some chocolate or something

Just anything from the convenience store

Then there’s about a 66.6% chance she’ll text you separately

…Why specifically 66.6%?

And chocolate? It’s not like I’m an elementary kid making friends by handing out Ma*chu, and showing interest by giving food—isn’t that too childish for a college student’s idea?

Though half-doubtful, his body moved differently.

Yeon-jae, who was naturally good at following instructions, went to the convenience store immediately after receiving the text and bought some decent-looking snacks.

At first, he was going to buy just one thing and put it in as Hyeonoh suggested, but it somehow looked empty, so he added candy, jelly, and chocolate by category.

“…Yes.”

When Yeon-jae belatedly answered, Hyeonoh added what could be either praise or criticism, saying “You’re good~ at following orders.”

“Why didn’t you go to Jungdo early in the morning to give it? You’re such a model student, I doubt you oversleep?”

“I sleep in a lot in the mornings. And that would make it too obvious that I like her. Wouldn’t that be burdensome…”

“Weren’t you already being too obvious about liking her all this time?”

“Ah… that’s true. But I don’t want to come across as too burdensome of a woman.”

“Haven’t we already passed the stage of discussing burden?”

“No. Senior. One-sided love isn’t that simple. There’s a world of anguish that people without experience in one-sided love don’t understand.”

“Ah~ is that so? Yawn. I’m too tired to live like that.”

Hyeonoh replied indifferently and walked ahead of Yeon-jae.

While taking a few steps like that, Yeon-jae suddenly stopped at a thought that came to mind.

And standing in place, he rummaged through his bag.

Hyeonoh, who he thought walked without caring about the person behind him, immediately stopped and turned around when Yeon-jae’s footsteps ceased.

After rummaging for a while, Yeon-jae handed something to Hyeonoh.

“What’s this?”

It was chocolate.

“It’s nothing special. I usually don’t eat sweets much, but strangely during exam periods I always crave chocolate. I feel like I have to eat it before taking exams too… So when I was buying something for Dohan senior, I bought mine too and got one for you as well, senior. Since you like sweets…”

“Oh. One for me too?”

Hyeonoh lightly shook the chocolate that had come into his hands as he spoke.

“Can I misunderstand this?”

“What?!”

“Just kidding.”

He smiled like it was cheating.

The atmosphere instantly became awkward. Of course, only one person felt awkward—Yeon-jae—while Hyeonoh started walking again as if nothing had happened.

Then he pushed open the door to Jungdo and held it while confirming Yeon-jae was following behind.

Feeling unnecessarily embarrassed by that seemingly casual gesture, Yeon-jae awkwardly bowed his head. And stepped through the open gap.

Once Yeon-jae was completely inside, Hyeonoh naturally let go and the door closed.

For a moment, it seemed like Hyeonoh’s smirking face was reflected in the glass window, or maybe it was just his imagination.

While riding the elevator down, Hyeonoh exchanged messages with someone and then said,

“Lee Do-han is apparently at a seat in the back of the reading room.”

It seemed the other person was Dohan. Yeon-jae nodded slightly.

Entering the reading room, he lowered his footsteps. As library atmospheres typically are, it was quiet as if it wouldn’t tolerate even the sound of an ant crawling.

Going inside, he saw the jet-black back of a head that was now familiar to the point of being burned into his vision.

It was Dohan.

Broad shoulders and earphones that never seemed to come out. The black Jetstream pen held in his hand. The slim leather pencil case placed beside it and what looked like a half-drunk Icis water bottle that seemed bought on the way.

His foolish heart was already racing.

The two chose nearby empty seats to avoid disturbing Dohan. Yeon-jae busily pulled out the major textbooks he had brought.

Shortly after, a group chat notification rang.

Lunch around 1 o’clock?

Then Hyeonoh, sitting next to him, slid a Post-it note toward Yeon-jae. The Post-it read as follows:

『Today’s Mission: Private message (Importance: ★★★)』

Then, as if he had exhausted all his energy writing the memo, Hyeonoh got up before 1 o’clock even arrived, saying he was hungry and suggesting they go eat.

Yeon-jae’s eyelids were also getting heavy since he couldn’t buy coffee, so he got up from his seat without complaint.

“Wait. I need to use the restroom.”

However, as soon as Hyeonoh left the reading room, he disappeared saying he’d go to the restroom, and Yeon-jae was suddenly left alone with just Dohan.

As soon as Hyeonoh, who played the role of neutralizing awkwardness, disappeared, the air became noticeably uncomfortable.

Soon a silence unfolded without a single word of conversation.

Yeon-jae considered trying to strike up a conversation with Dohan but couldn’t actually put it into action.

‘I don’t think I was this timid by nature, even if I wasn’t bold.’

But for some reason, whenever he stood in front of Dohan, he felt like he lost his original self and became a ridiculously fluttering balloon doll.

It was when Yeon-jae was internally tearing his hair out.

Dohan, who seemed like he would never speak to him until Hyeonoh returned, broke the silence first.

“Yeon-jae.”

When their eyes met, he smiled gently. And asked in his usual soft voice that wasn’t much different from normal.

“Do you have plans tonight?”

“N-no!”

“Really? It’s a style I haven’t seen before, so I thought you had plans.”

“Ahaha, is that so.”

“But what’s your vision?”

“About minus 6. I also have severe astigmatism.”

“Ah, that’s really bad. No wonder.”

The conversation ended there without substance. All that remained was a heart jumping around on its own.

Yeon-jae unnecessarily pulled down the hem of his skirt. Even though it was a skirt that barely reached his knees, his legs somehow felt exposed.

After that, he exchanged a few more casual small talk comments with Dohan.

Like ‘Is your house close to school?’ and ‘How did you get here?’

The more he spoke, the more he seemed to become an uninteresting woman, so when the conversation was winding down, Yeon-jae chose to shut his mouth completely instead.

It was strange.

Why is it that in front of the person you most want to appear cheerful and attractive to, you instead become the most boring person?

Yeon-jae’s thoughts stopped only when Hyeonoh appeared, shaking water off his hands. He grabbed both Yeon-jae and Dohan’s shoulders from behind and urged them to hurry up.

The Saturday student cafeteria, which only operated during lunch, was much quieter compared to weekdays. There was only one menu item—omelet rice topped with pork cutlet.

Since he was always comfortable alone, this was the first time he had come to the student cafeteria with other people.

Moreover, the fact that one of those people was Dohan would be so unbelievable that his past self would probably faint if he knew.

Yeon-jae was still thinking about what happened earlier.

“Do you have plans tonight?”

Even though he clearly knew that Dohan had just said it casually in passing.

‘He only asked if I had plans. It’s not like he said I was pretty, so why am I like this.’

The way he was worrying alone and not knowing what to do with himself felt really foolish.

But one-sided love originally makes even smart people stupid. Not to mention ordinary people. He had become completely idiotic.

Standing at the very last spot in the serving line of only five people, rubbing his cheeks with the back of his hand as they seemed to burn with some kind of illusion.

“You’re going to cook completely, completely.”

“What?!”

When she turned around, Hyeonoh was standing there with a crooked smile.

On Hyeonoh’s tray was an omelet rice that looked more like steamed rice than fried rice, piled up like a mountain.

“You know your earlobes are bright red, right?”

“Huh, really?”

“Yeah. This is real.”

Damn. The burning sensation wasn’t my imagination.

“What happened while I was gone?”

“Ah. It’s nothing special. Senior Dohan just asked if I had plans today…”

“And then?”

“That was the end of it…”

“Huh? Just from that?”

“Just from that?! Senior, you really don’t understand the heart of someone with a one-sided crush at all!”

Hyeonoh scratched the back of his neck. He didn’t know. Honestly speaking, he wasn’t even interested.

Whether someone liked him or not, it was all the same. He had never liked anyone first, and his heart had never fluttered because he liked someone.

For a moment, Hyeonoh felt embarrassed about the fact that he had never experienced genuine love.

Yeon-jae hastily filled her tray with food and followed Hyeonoh. Hyeonoh sat across from Dohan, and Yeon-jae’s seat naturally became the spot next to Hyeonoh.

Dohan, who had been eating first after waiting too long, looked up and asked.

“Why are you so late?”

“The line got cut off once.”

To Dohan who was looking at them both with questioning eyes, Hyeonoh gave a vague excuse.

“Oh, we need to go buy coffee after eating. Shin Yeon-jae said she wants to drink coffee.”

At Hyeonoh’s sudden words, Yeon-jae’s eyes widened.

…Me? Though it’s true that I urgently need a coffee transfusion.

“Lee Dohan, did you buy coffee?”

“No. I need to go buy some too.”

“That works out well. Then let’s all go buy coffee together.”

And so they agreed to drink coffee together after eating.

It was when Yeon-jae was picking at her food, thinking she needed to quickly buy an americano to get her head straight.

“Yeon-jae has a small appetite.”

Dohan’s voice suddenly interjected.

“What?!”

“You always seem to eat very little.”

Yeon-jae racked her brain hard.

The fact that he was asking such a question must mean that Yeon-jae’s appearance of picking at her food unappetizingly was quite bothersome to his eyes.

‘Dohan senior likes girls who eat well.’

Yeon-jae, who quickly made this judgment, explained.

“I usually eat a lot. Hahaha. I just don’t have much appetite today. Why is this happening. Hahaha.”

However, despite Yeon-jae’s explanation, Hyeonoh objected.

“Bullshit. You always eat like a bird.”

Yeon-jae retorted in a somewhat indignant voice.

“That’s not true.”

It wasn’t a lie. Usually Yeon-jae couldn’t be called an exceptional big eater, but she ate as much as others did.

Right now, it was just that food didn’t go down well because she was in front of someone she liked.

“I can eat two bowls of ramen.”

“I eat three.”

“Then I eat four.”

“I eat five.”

“Are you guys elementary schoolers?”

Only when Dohan, who had been watching, intervened did the two stop their childish fight.

On the way to dispose of leftovers and get their trays.

“Ah, I need to take a call.”

Hyeonoh suddenly brought his phone to his ear and said.

“The call might be a bit long. You two go to the cafe.”

“Oh, really? What do you want to drink?”

“You’re going to the School Cafe, right?”

“Probably?”

“Then java chip frappuccino. Lots of whipped cream.”

And then he disappeared in a flash.

The situation where she was suddenly left alone with Dohan again.

It was when Yeon-jae was fidgeting with her fingers, feeling awkward for no reason.

The screen of the phone she was holding lit up.

I’m clearing the way for you V

Do well

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