Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 49

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Episode 49

 

She froze stiff as if her heart had stopped beating.

 

Yeon-jae couldn’t even bring herself to look at Hyeonoh and just stayed still.

 

Hyeonoh seemed to be sleeping quite deeply, resting his head on Yeon-jae’s shoulder, completely oblivious to the world.

 

Her neck tickled where Hyeonoh’s head touched it. When his breath touched her skin, her heart raced like crazy.

 

Thump. Thump.

 

The sound of her heartbeat was so loud she was afraid it might wake Hyeonoh.

 

* * *

 

Hyeonoh’s eyes, which had been lightly dozing, half-opened.

 

‘Where am I.’

 

Still drowsy from the medication, Hyeonoh felt hazy as if he were still in a dream.

 

But the place where his head rested felt hard. It was strangely uncomfortable.

 

What the hell am I using as a pillow.

 

Hyeonoh, who had been tossing irritably, quickly realized. The fact that his head was resting on Yeon-jae’s shoulder.

 

‘Is this a dream.’

 

At the same time, his impression of discomfort was instantly retracted.

 

It wasn’t a bad feeling.

 

Yeon-jae had a nice scent.

 

But her neck is particularly white. Was she always this pale?

 

I want to touch it….

 

It was a strange dream.

 

For a moment, he thought that sometimes being sick could be nice too.

 

Hyeonoh closed his eyes again.

 

* * *

 

Hyeonoh slept on the sofa for about an hour before waking up.

 

Yeon-jae had moved to sit in a corner of the room, mindlessly looking at her phone, and only looked up when she heard rustling sounds from where Hyeonoh was lying.

 

“…How long did I sleep?”

 

“A little over an hour…?”

 

“Wow. That’s crazy. Sorry. I shouldn’t have called you over. What’s wrong with me today.”

 

He didn’t seem to know that he had been leaning on Yeon-jae’s shoulder for a while before moving to the sofa.

 

“When you’re sick, that can happen.”

 

“I’m really sorry. Even if I’m sick, still.”

 

“It would be better for you to rest alone, but I insisted on coming over quickly, so it’s my fault too.”

 

“Forget it. How is it your fault.”

 

Still feverish, Hyeonoh kept denying and explaining with his hot-looking face every time Yeon-jae blamed herself.

 

Yeon-jae thought it wasn’t something that required such explanation.

 

But since Hyeonoh was so actively explaining, she didn’t bother to add anything.

 

She just thought to herself.

 

‘Hyeonoh must be someone who finds such explanations important.’

 

He seemed to hate being a burden to death. There are always people like that. Even when the other person considers it no big deal, they keep drawing lines by themselves.

 

To Yeon-jae, it really was no big deal.

 

When you’re sick, that can happen.

 

She definitely thought that way, but….

 

Every time those words came out of Hyeonoh’s mouth, she remembered the moment when Hyeonoh had fallen asleep leaning on her shoulder.

 

Whether Hyeonoh knew about it or not, there was no way for Yeon-jae to know.

 

But what was certain was one sensation that had swept through her in that moment. Very brief, yet clear.

 

Her heart had fluttered.

 

Yeon-jae tried hard to ignore that fact. And she picked up her quite heavy bag containing her laptop. Hyeonoh asked.

 

“Are you leaving?”

 

“Yes. It seems like doing the assignment today is out of the question anyway.”

 

“Sorry.”

 

“I told you it’s really okay.”

 

“Let’s do twice as much next time.”

 

“Okay.”

 

“Let’s go. I’ll take you home.”

 

“What?! It’s okay! You’re not feeling well, so just rest. It’s not like I don’t know the way.”

 

“No.”

 

It was a firm answer.

 

Yeon-jae was more flustered by the overly swift rejection.

 

Hyeonoh walked past Yeon-jae to the front door first and slipped his feet into his shoes.

 

He was like a large dog trying to go for a walk. Anxious that the owner might leave first while he was hesitating.

 

And leaning crookedly against the shoe rack, he said.

 

“What are you doing. Let’s go.”

 

* * *

 

Yeon-jae kept glancing at Hyeonoh with every step she took.

 

Noticing Yeon-jae’s worried gaze constantly following him, Hyeonoh added a word like an explanation.

 

“I told you I’m really okay.”

 

As soon as he finished speaking, Hyeonoh coughed. Finding this embarrassing even to himself, he added another word.

 

“That wasn’t a cough, it was a sneeze.”

 

“It was quite different from a sneeze though.”

 

“Anyway, it was a sneeze.”

 

“Senior, why do you pretend to be okay even in front of me? You can be honest. It’s not like we’re dati…”

 

Yeon-jae stopped mid-sentence and closed her mouth.

 

There was a world of difference between thinking something and actually saying it out loud.

 

Even if what she was going to say was a negative statement.

 

“Why did you stop talking?”

 

Hyeonoh said in a voice still subdued from his cold.

 

“No… I was asking why you insist on taking me home. It’s not like we’re dating or anything.”

 

Yeon-jae’s voice trailed off as she spoke the broken sentence. Even saying the word “dating” made her embarrassed and her neck area felt hot.

 

“Do only dating couples take each other home?”

 

“Usually, yes. And it’s not even night right now.”

 

“The sun will set soon.”

 

“These days the sun sets longer, it doesn’t go down until almost 8 o’clock.”

 

“You’re like a know-it-all. Just come with me. Today I really don’t have the energy to keep talking.”

 

“…Yes.”

 

Summer was just around the corner.

 

Rarely, the weather was nice without a speck of fine dust. It wasn’t hot or cold, and the wind was moderately cool. It was a good day for walking.

 

“But how did you catch a summer cold that even dogs supposedly don’t get?”

 

“I don’t know. This is the first time I’ve been this sick since becoming an adult.”

 

“First time since becoming an adult? So you haven’t been sick once in 5 years?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“No wonder you got sick.”

 

“I guess Kang Ji-o coming over stressed me out.”

 

“Do you get stressed too, senior?”

 

“Of course I do.”

 

“I thought you were usually the one giving stress to others.”

 

“Aren’t you seeing me in too negative a light?”

 

“I was just joking.”

 

“Wow. Look at this girl. Now I’m completely easy to you, aren’t I?!”

 

“No way. Of course not.”

 

“It doesn’t seem like it though.”

 

“Since you’re sick, you do seem a bit more gentle than usual…”

 

At that part, Hyeonoh was the first to laugh as if finding it absurd.

 

“Still, you look better than earlier.”

 

“I guess it’s because I got some sleep.”

 

“If you don’t get better over the weekend, just go to the hospital and get a shot. Even when I had the flu, I got better right away.”

 

“Ah. I said I don’t want to.”

 

“Oh, right. You said shots are super scary, didn’t you, senior?”

 

“Hey.”

 

When Hyeonoh got flustered, Yeon-jae laughed.

 

At that moment, Hyeonoh hesitated. Soon he stopped dead in his tracks.

 

“…!”

 

The moment he saw Yeon-jae’s face, the thought that came to him was extremely bewildering.

 

Meanwhile, Yeon-jae continued walking forward, then realized Hyeonoh was no longer beside her and stopped walking as well.

 

And turned around.

 

Hyeonoh was standing far away.

 

“Why? Is something wrong?”

 

Hyeonoh didn’t answer right away. The silence grew long.

 

Gradually, confusion appeared on Yeon-jae’s face too.

 

“Ah. No, it’s nothing.”

 

As if he had been spacing out for a moment, Hyeonoh walked with large strides and quickly closed the distance with Yeon-jae.

 

“…It would be fine if you went back inside now.”

 

“No. Let’s keep going.”

 

Hyeonoh began walking slowly again, matching Yeon-jae’s pace, and at the same time thought.

 

That something was wrong.

 

That he must have gone crazy.

 

* * *

 

What kind of person is Shin Yeon-jae?

 

The more he knew, the less he understood, Kang Hyeon-o thought.

 

She made him wait in front of the school for a long time, then even bought porridge and came home.

 

After Hyeonoh ate all the porridge she bought and collapsed sick, she didn’t show even a hint of displeasure and just left him alone.

 

Perhaps that’s why. In front of Yeon-jae, Hyeonoh kept making disappointing remarks.

 

The kind of remarks where even after saying them, he didn’t know why he had said them.

 

And when she smiled…

 

‘Pretty.’

 

Yeon-jae was definitely not the type who smiled easily.

 

The expression he’d seen most from Yeon-jae so far was a flustered one. She was the type who gave immediate reactions whenever he teased her.

 

Second was her embarrassed face. Usually when she made that face, Dohan was involved nine times out of ten.

 

It wasn’t that Yeon-jae had limited expressions, but for some reason, her smiling face was rarer than her spacing-out face.

 

And now.

 

Hyeonoh had inadvertently thought while looking at the smiling Yeon-jae.

 

That she was pretty.

 

And that he wanted to kiss her.

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