Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 48
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Episode 48
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As soon as she arrived in front of the villa, Yeon-jae tensed up again. She pressed the bell for the unit number Hyeonoh had given her and waited silently for the main entrance to open.
Ding.
In front of the apartment she reached after climbing the stairs without even being asked who she was. Without needing to ring the bell twice, Hyeonoh was standing crookedly with his foot wedged between the door frames.
“…Senior, are you okay?”
Yeon-jae asked instead of greeting him.
Hyeonoh looked more disheveled than usual, as if proving he was sick.
He was wearing his usual white t-shirt and jogger pants, but his hair was wet as if he had just washed it, and his lips were paler than usual.
“Ah. It’s just a simple body ache. But this is kind of embarrassing…”
As Yeon-jae belatedly realized, Hyeonoh also seemed to feel awkward about seeing Yeon-jae at his home for the first time.
“Anyway. Come in.”
And he fully opened the door and stepped aside to make it easy for Yeon-jae to enter.
Hyeonoh’s dormitory that she entered was quite spacious compared to an ordinary university student’s dormitory.
The fact that not many university students live in villas with living rooms was something even Yeon-jae, who had never thought about living alone, knew.
Yeon-jae, who had been imagining being trapped alone with him in a cramped studio apartment, finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least that was fortunate.
“Senior, here. I bought some porridge.”
“Ah, right. Thank you.”
“It’s nothing…”
Though she spoke as if she were calm, Yeon-jae couldn’t even make eye contact with Hyeonoh, thinking about how she had entered his private space.
An awkward atmosphere flowed for a moment. She unnecessarily turned her gaze and scanned the inside of the house.
Hyeonoh’s home was surprisingly neat.
She thought it smelled fresh, and she noticed an incense stick that was thinly smoking as if it had just been extinguished.
‘Don’t tell me he hurriedly lit it with his sick body because I was coming.’
Next, what caught her attention was a TV with an unusually large screen for a university student’s dormitory, a console game system, and manga books piled up haphazardly on one side.
“Then shall we continue in the living room?”
“What?! Continue what…?”
“Why are you so surprised? Let’s do our assignment.”
“Ah, ah…”
“…Didn’t you come to do the assignment?”
“Right. But senior, did you go to the hospital?”
“In the morning. I went and then fell asleep again.”
“You went to the hospital but still look sick. You got a shot, right?”
“…”
No way.
“Senior, did you not get a shot? Why? Because you were scared?”
As if Yeon-jae’s words were true, Hyeonoh couldn’t answer.
Hyeonoh avoided her gaze. He looked embarrassed. Yeon-jae laughed a little because she was dumbfounded.
“Why are you laughing.”
“Then you took medicine, right? You didn’t not take medicine because it was bitter, did you?”
“Am I a child? I should take it now.”
“You’re scared of shots but what. Anyway, eat the porridge and take your medicine…!”
“…Thanks.”
Hyeonoh scratched the back of his neck as if embarrassed.
Then noise came from the closed room door.
“Wow. I crushed it. I totally carried this round. Admit it?”
“…”
Right, he said his younger sibling was home.
Only then did she remember the conversation they had on the phone earlier.
Hyeonoh’s gaze turned toward the room door.
“Gaming in the room.”
“Ah.”
“Don’t mind it.”
“Don’t I need to say hello?”
“Uh, she doesn’t care about that stuff.”
And then it was quiet again.
Yeon-jae hurriedly took out the packaged porridge from the paper bag. Seeing that utensils were missing, when Yeon-jae got up from her seat and headed toward the sink, Hyeonoh blocked her.
“Just stay there. I’ll do it.”
“But senior, you’re the patient.”
“You’re the guest.”
So Yeon-jae sat back down nicely.
“Wait. Did you eat? There’s nothing to eat at home. Should I order you something?”
“It’s fine. I ate a sandwich. Hurry up and eat your porridge, senior. So we can do the assignment.”
Hyeonoh headed to the kitchen, touching the back of his head as if embarrassed.
In that brief moment, her lips quickly became dry.
Yeon-jae thought she had no idea why she was this nervous.
‘This won’t do. I should just watch him eat a little and then go home.’
Yeon-jae was roughly coming to that conclusion in her mind.
When Hyeonoh, who had quickly set the table, finished about half of the porridge.
Bang-!
The tightly closed room door burst open.
Hyeonoh and Yeon-jae’s gazes simultaneously turned toward the room door.
What popped out from between the room doors was a woman in a tracksuit who appeared to be around Yeon-jae’s age.
A loose-fitting t-shirt that Hyeonoh had worn before and pants that dragged on the floor. Hair tied up high and thick-framed glasses.
Despite all this shabby appearance, only her nose and lips visible below the glasses were beautiful, exactly resembling Hyeonoh.
She didn’t pay any attention to where Hyeonoh and Yeon-jae were and headed straight for the refrigerator.
And without even getting a cup, she took out a water bottle and gulped it down straight from the bottle.
“…Pfft!”
Upon seeing Hyeonoh and Yeon-jae, she spat water into the air.
“Ah, gross.”
Staring intently at Hyeonoh who was making a serious face, the woman shouted in shock.
“Crazy, Kang Hyeonoh. Why didn’t you tell me you were bringing your girlfriend!”
“No. It’s not like that.”
Hyeonoh denied it flatly.
“Huh, really? This is the first time I’ve seen you bring a girl home?”
“Yeah. She’s a junior from my department.”
“If you were bringing your girlfriend, you should have told me so I could at least put on clothes…”
“I said no. Ugh, damn, you’re not listening. Just stop talking crazy and hurry up and get lost to Canada.”
“Oppa. Why are you being like that.”
“Are you sick?”
A deeply furrowed brow and delinquent speech pattern that he had never once shown to Yeon-jae.
Hyeonoh, who usually acted selfishly all the time, at least maintained boundaries in front of girls. But even that seemed to change when the other party became his ‘younger sibling’. Hyeonoh talking like real siblings was unfamiliar.
Yeon-jae thought that Hyeonoh had that side to him too and smiled softly.
Hearing the laughter, both people’s gazes turned toward Yeon-jae.
Embarrassed, Yeon-jae hurriedly lowered her head.
“Oh. Hello. I’m Hyeonoh senior’s junior… My name is Shin Yeon-jae. I’m twenty-two years old.”
“Oho.”
The woman scratched her chin and approached, slowly scanning Yeon-jae from head to toe.
“You look kind of cute. I’m Kang Ji-o.”
As Ji-o waved her hand, Hyeonoh interrupted.
“Hey. Why are you speaking so casually?”
“We’re the same age. I’m twenty-two too. And I’m. Canadian.”
“Get lost.”
“Oh my, look at him taking such good care of his girlfriend. I should tell Mom. You’re totally whipped.”
“I said she’s not!”
No matter what Hyeonoh said, Ji-o just giggled.
“Anyway, have a cozy time~ I’ll be gaming with my headset on so I won’t hear anything~ You know what I mean, right? Mm-wa.”
“…”
At those meaningful words, Yeon-jae’s face burst into flames without her realizing it.
Ji-o winked at Yeon-jae and left, thoroughly getting under Hyeonoh’s skin until the very end.
“Ugh~ Kang Hyeon-o is dating someone.”
Hyeonoh clutched his chest as if frustrated, then turned to look at Yeon-jae.
“Sorry.”
Thanks to Ji-o’s appearance, the awkward atmosphere had somewhat dissipated.
“It’s okay. But your sister’s personality is exactly like yours when you’re not sick, Senior.”
“Me? I act like that?”
“…Yes.”
“Isn’t that a bit harsh?”
“…Um. Is it?”
“Is it?!”
“Senior, you suddenly seem to be getting your energy back.”
“I guess it’s thanks to the porridge you brought.”
Hyeonoh said while scraping the bottom of the bowl.
After setting down his finished spoon, he took his medicine right in front of Yeon-jae.
“Alright, now let’s really work on the assignment. First, I drafted a PPT outline up to here, okay?”
Hyeonoh took out his laptop and sent the file to Yeon-jae. His determination to give an amazing presentation wasn’t just bragging – the draft Hyeonoh created was thorough.
“Senior, I organized this part like this…”
And so the two sat in the living room, absorbed in their assignment with the laptop on the coffee table.
How much time had passed? They were in the middle of compiling materials for their respective sections.
Soon, wheezing breathing sounds could be heard.
When she casually turned her gaze, Hyeonoh was sitting there nodding off.
It seemed the medicine was finally taking effect.
Yeon-jae watched the sleeping Hyeonoh for a moment.
His feverish cheeks were red, unlike usual. His lips were also tinged red, perhaps from the fever.
‘His eyelashes are incredibly long.’
Thinking she should cover him with a blanket, she looked around and pulled over a throw that was on the sofa.
This wasn’t the first time seeing Hyeonoh asleep. He slept just fine sprawled out in the classroom too. But…
‘This is the first time seeing him sleep so relaxed like this.’
Even after that, Yeon-jae continued watching Hyeonoh for quite a while, until she belatedly became aware of Hyeonoh’s uncomfortable groaning.
The fact that she had been quite intently admiring Hyeonoh’s sleeping face.
Embarrassed, Yeon-jae cleared her throat softly.
She had been so captivated by Hyeonoh’s face that she didn’t even notice he was sleeping in an uncomfortable position.
‘Since his sister is in the room, I should tell him to at least lie down on the sofa.’
Yeon-jae carefully grabbed Hyeonoh’s shoulder and shook it.
Hyeonoh remained completely still and quiet.
“Senior, wake up.”
Just as Yeon-jae was about to shake him once more.
Hyeonoh’s head slowly fell.
His falling head landed exactly on Yeon-jae’s shoulder.
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