Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 19

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Episode 19

…Wow, I’m really grateful.

It was definitely a good situation. Nevertheless, Yeon-jae was restless.

The skirt she had unnecessarily picked out so carefully from early morning was making her feel embarrassed.

‘The saying that you die if you do things you don’t usually do didn’t come from nowhere.’

Yeon-jae thought she should avoid doing unnecessary things in the future as she followed Dohan who was leading her.

The nearest campus cafe that opened on Saturday was a 10-minute walk from the Central Library.

10 minutes.

Just the two of them.

‘Ahhhhh…’

Good! It’s good, but still!

The conversations they had when alone together followed almost one pattern, as if randomly picked from a list of small talk topics for college students floating around the internet.

Hometown, whether they lived alone, school restaurants, and so on. Even those topics had been exhausted, so Dohan seemed to have nothing more to say either.

‘Being alone together for a long time isn’t always good.’

Forget charm points, even her likability must be plummeting vertically.

Yeon-jae kicked the innocent ground with the tip of her shoes, resenting herself for lacking wit and not even having decent social skills.

“But how did you become close with Hyeonoh?”

Dohan asked, looking at Yeon-jae’s shoes that kept kicking the ground.

“Ah, ah… Senior Hyeonoh picked up something I dropped in Digital Marketing Strategy class. And somehow from that… we ended up talking. Hahaha.”

…Well, it’s not exactly wrong.

Dohan just nodded his head briefly and didn’t seem to show any other particular reaction. An awkward silence continued to linger between them.

And after a moment.

Dohan spoke. In the same plain tone as before.

“You two look good together.”

What?

Yeon-jae doubted her ears.

“Look good together, what do you mean by that…”

“No. Are you two… having something? Like a fling?”

What??? What? A fling?

“…Senior, I think you have some misunderstanding, we’re absolutely not that kind of relationship.”

“Ah, really?”

“It’s really not like that. What fling, we’re just ordinary senior-junior relationship…! Just got a little closer…!”

“Really? I guess I misunderstood.”

Dohan nodded and replied blandly. Making Yeon-jae’s loud explanation with hand gestures seem pointless.

But this wasn’t enough. Her uneasy feelings hadn’t disappeared yet.

“It’s really really not like that! We’ve been hanging around together lately, but it just happened to overlap. Really truly…”

“No, okay. Well. It’s common to start dating after hanging around as friends.”

See, he still hasn’t cleared up the misunderstanding!

“No, Senior! I’m telling you it’s really not like that!”

“Oh. This seems to be the longest I’ve seen you talk among all the times I’ve seen you?”

Dohan said jokingly with a dry laugh.

Only then did Yeon-jae realize that her voice tone had become excessively high compared to usual, and even her words had gotten longer.

“It’s really not like that… I was worried you might misunderstand for no reason, Senior. I got a bit excited. I’m sorry.”

“You apologize for everything. It’s nice to see you so lively.”

Dohan smiled and gave a thumbs up. Yeon-jae walked again with an awkward expression.

After that, Dohan didn’t make any more remarks linking her with Hyeonoh. Of course, Yeon-jae’s uneasiness didn’t disappear either.

However, by the time she realized the atmosphere had become less awkward than before, they had already arrived in front of the cafe.

“One iced americano and one java chip frappuccino. Ah. Please put lots of cream on the java chip frappuccino. Yeon-jae, what do you want to drink?”

“I’ll have an iced americano too.”

“Please make it like that.”

Dohan naturally handed over his card.

“I’ll send you the money right away!”

“No. I’ll buy it. I’ve never bought you a decent coffee before. It’s embarrassing that it’s not even a meal.”

“Yes… Thank you…”

Yeon-jae answered with trailing words again because of her heart that was jumping around. But even so, she felt uneasy.

It seemed to be because of the misunderstanding on the way here. A bizarre misunderstanding that was hard to believe had come from Dohan’s mind.

Moreover, to Yeon-jae, Dohan was the person she least wanted to have such a misunderstanding.

Hyeonoh?

‘He was the most ridiculous target for such a misunderstanding.’

The desire to explain again surged up.

“Senior, but you know Senior Hyeonoh and I really aren’t like that…”

“Right. If you’re not, then you’re not.”

“Not like that. We’re really really not like that.”

“Right. You’re really really not. I don’t believe it at all. Is that enough?”

“Yes…”

Finally, Yeon-jae was able to calm her heart only after getting a definitive answer from Dohan.

The two walked back to the Central Library while sipping their drinks amicably.

As they entered the Central Library, Yeon-jae glanced at Dohan.

His clear and straight handsome face and his broad shoulders that seemed well-built. Between the coffee cup in his hand and his briefly visible forearm, she could see the tendons.

In front of the reading room, Dohan showed a gentle smile.

“Study hard.”

Unlike Yeon-jae’s americano that was melting without her having taken a proper sip, Dohan’s americano was about half gone.

For a moment, the thought that she had to somehow hold onto this time flashed through her mind.

“Oh, Senior. Wait a moment before going in! I have something to give you, and I feel like I’ll forget when I go home…!”

With those words, Yeon-jae left Dohan there and entered the reading room. When Yeon-jae came back out, she was carrying a paper bag she had hurriedly prepared from the morning.

“This. It’s the shirt you lent me last time. Thanks to you, Senior, I was able to go to class comfortably. Thank you so much.”

Yeon-jae bowed her head with earlobes that had turned red for who knows how many times now. She trembled as if that one word of thanks was a love confession.

“And Senior…!”

And with courage squeezed from her core, she added one more thing.

“I really… am not in that kind of relationship with Senior Hyeonoh. Not just with Senior Hyeonoh, but with anyone…”

“I know, I know.”

Now Dohan looked sorry instead.

“Your reactions were interesting so I was teasing you a bit, but I went too far. Sorry.”

“No, no. You don’t need to be sorry… Anyway… it’s really not like that…”

“Right. It’s not, really.”

As expected, Dohan is a nice person.

He accepts her tiresome explanations at every opportunity without showing any sign of annoyance, and even apologizes for teasing her.

Yeon-jae found this fact so wonderful it made her want to cry, but she was also scared that Dohan might already judge her as an annoying person because of her behavior.

When her thoughts reached that point, she just wanted to disappear.

‘How wonderful it would be if I could turn back time.’

Not only did she waste a golden opportunity, but she ended it in the most boring way in the world.

A brief silence passed. Yeon-jae just rolled her eyes around. Dohan also seemed to have nothing to say and just stood there blankly.

“Should we go in?”

At the end of the silence, Dohan asked first. Yeon-jae nodded. And she followed Dohan’s broad back to find her seat in the reading room.

Hyeonoh was already sitting in the reading room, playing with his phone.

Hyeonoh, who received the drink from Dohan who came in first, glanced sideways when he heard the sound of a chair being pulled out.

Soon a message arrived.

Enjoy your date?

Yeon-jae sat down and sluggishly typed her reply.

Mandate

Yeon-jae let out a deep sigh and slumped her shoulders.

How much? Out of 10 points, what score?

Can I choose zero points?

That bad?

ㅠㅠ I don’t know, don’t ask me

Yeon-jae put her phone face down.

That day, the three of them really did nothing but study.

To be honest, while Yeon-jae pretended to study, she actually spent all her time dwelling on what had happened with Dohan during lunch.

That day’s meeting ended earlier than expected.

Something suddenly came up, so I think I need to go home?

This was because Hyeonoh, who was practically the organizer, said he had something at home and bid farewell a bit early.

While they were at it, everyone decided to just go home early. Moreover, Dohan also said he had somewhere to stop by in the evening.

Yeon-jae half-resignedly made assumptions.

‘Don’t tell me he’s making excuses about having plans to avoid being alone with me…?’

There must be a German word meaning to become the least attractive person at the moment you want to appear most attractive.

‘If such a word really exists, it would be referring to me exactly.’

Even after returning home, Yeon-jae lay face down on her bed, kicking her feet in regret.

“You’re shaking the house! Shaking it!”

The kicking only stopped after her mother, who was passing by her room, scolded her.

* * *

That night, while Yeon-jae was endlessly watching shorts that seemed to drain her intelligence in real-time, trying to clear her complicated mind.

A message notification suddenly appeared at the top of her phone screen.

“Ah!”

Yeon-jae was so startled that she dropped her phone on her face. Only after rubbing her aching nose bridge and picking it up again could she clearly see the name on the screen.

Senior Dohan.

Yeon-jae quickly scanned the preview in the notification center.

(Photo)

Thanks for the snacks~^^

The name she double-checked was definitely Dohan. She checked again thinking it might be a message sent to the group chat that Hyeonoh had created, but it wasn’t.

It was a personal message.

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