Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 50

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Episode 50

 

Hyeonoh was flustered by the fact that he had such thoughts.

 

Right. Let’s say she’s pretty. Objectively speaking, she does have a pretty face.

 

The moment Yeon-jae smiled, he thought she was prettier than any woman he had ever seen in his life.

 

It was a judgment made by instinct.

 

Hyeonoh was someone who didn’t really care about others’ beauty or ugliness. Even if you brought the most beautiful woman before his eyes, he would simply brush it off lightly with a “pretty” or “not pretty.” He couldn’t care less whether someone’s eyes were on their nose or ears.

 

But this time was different. At least for this moment, his subjectivity reigned like absolute monarchy.

 

And going one step further, the sentiment of “pretty” jumped logic at a merciless speed, eventually reaching the thought of “I want to kiss her.”

 

But what? Kiss?

 

This is crazy. It’s not like I’m some pervert…

 

And then he realized.

 

Ever since meeting Yeon-jae, he had been quite flustered by thoughts that popped up out of nowhere.

 

“Senior, when can we work on the assignment together? It would be more convenient for you if we schedule it in advance, right?”

 

“Uh, yeah. Right.”

 

“This won’t do. Senior, you seem to be getting a fever. Just go inside…”

 

“…”

 

“…Never mind if you don’t want to.”

 

As they walked, they had passed the bus stop where Yeon-jae needed to catch her bus.

 

Yeon-jae should have said “here” and stopped, but she couldn’t. Somehow, she walked one more stop with Hyeonoh, who seemed absent-minded.

 

One stop became two stops, and eventually became three stops.

 

Now Hyeonoh’s house, which they had left behind, was far enough away that it would take a good 30 more minutes to return.

 

“Senior. I really need to go now.”

 

Only then did Hyeonoh look back at the path they had taken. His eyes widened briefly, then he scratched the back of his neck with an awkward expression.

 

Hyeonoh had been stubbornly refusing when she kept telling him to go in first.

 

“Alright. Go.”

 

But this time, Hyeonoh obediently let Yeon-jae go.

 

Yeon-jae, who had been secretly wondering what she would do if Hyeonoh told her not to go again this time, felt a bit embarrassed.

 

At that moment, Hyeonoh cleared his throat.

 

After clearing his throat several times as if he was about to say something, Hyeonoh looked away as if pretending not to care and quietly opened his mouth.

 

“Should we meet tomorrow?”

 

“Tomorrow? Oh, for the assignment?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Will you be okay by tomorrow? It seems like too much.”

 

“If it seems like too much, I can just get a shot tomorrow morning.”

 

“But you said shots are scary.”

 

“Even if it’s scary, I’ll get it.”

 

“…Is the group assignment grade that important?”

 

“Not at all.”

 

“Then why…”

 

“To get better quickly.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Too many questions. Go.”

 

“Yes.”

 

Though she found the hurried Hyeonoh puzzling, Yeon-jae turned around.

 

She left Hyeonoh behind and walked to the bus stop, taking a seat.

 

After quietly waiting while looking at her phone for a while, she turned her head to check the remaining time on the electronic display, and in the process, she happened to glance briefly in the direction she had come from.

 

Hyeonoh was still looking at Yeon-jae.

 

* * *

 

The next afternoon.

 

Hyeonoh appeared with a perfectly fine face.

 

In one hand, he carried a carrier with two drinks.

 

He approached Yeon-jae, handed her an americano, and greeted her.

 

“Village dog, hello.”

 

“Did you get a shot?”

 

“No.”

 

“But you got better this quickly?”

 

“Right after I sent you off, I took medicine and went straight to sleep, so when I woke up in the morning, I was fine.”

 

“Wait. Then you slept for almost fifteen hours?”

 

Hyeonoh shrugged his shoulders.

 

Only then did he look like the original Hyeonoh. Yeon-jae smiled without realizing it. It was a smile of relief.

 

The two headed to the group study room they had reserved in advance.

 

The Central Library on Sunday was much more leisurely compared to Saturday.

 

Since Hyeonoh had already done additional research and drafted the PPT outline, and Yeon-jae had roughly created a PPT template, they just needed to fill in the content.

 

The main task was filling in their respective assigned content in the PPT based on the materials, and since Hyeonoh had done such thorough additional research, there wasn’t much difficulty.

 

“If we just fill up to here… Oh. Complete.”

 

“Wow, amazing. We really finished quickly.”

 

They had whipped up a PPT in less than three hours.

 

Just as Dohan had said that Hyeonoh had good grades, when they revised the PPT according to Hyeonoh’s advice, a much more plausible material was completed.

 

Even Yeon-jae, who prided herself on making decent PPTs, was satisfied with the quality.

 

“Senior, you really worked hard!”

 

“What did I do? We just ended up postponing what we could have finished yesterday to today because of me.”

 

“No! We finished quickly because you did such good research on the materials.”

 

“Then I’ll write the presentation script now.”

 

“Yes! Thank you…!”

 

“Nothing to thank me for. Now don’t worry about me and do what you need to do. I’ll go home once I finish writing the script.”

 

“Yes.”

 

The group study room was sized for a minimum of two people and a maximum of six people to hold meetings.

 

There was a window on the innermost wall, but it wasn’t a large size, and above all, it was cramped because it was booth-style.

 

When they were working together looking at their respective laptops and working on shared documents, this narrow area didn’t bother them much.

 

But now that only Hyeonoh was writing the group assignment script while Yeon-jae tried to do other studying, the fact that this space was very cramped hit her belatedly.

 

Once she became conscious of that fact, Yeon-jae found it hard to concentrate.

 

She briefly looked around aimlessly.

 

She tried to turn her gaze back to her book, but she kept being conscious of Hyeonoh’s concentrated face visible beyond the laptop.

 

Before she knew it, Yeon-jae was staring at Hyeonoh in a complete daze.

 

It was because she kept remembering the moment when he had leaned his head on her shoulder the day Hyeonoh was sick.

 

It had happened just yesterday. The tickling sensation she felt then was still vivid.

 

“You’re going to bore a hole through my face.”

 

Hyeonoh, who had been still, spoke while keeping his gaze fixed on the laptop.

 

“Huh, what?! A hole? Why?”

 

…She ended up saying nonsense.

 

“Why don’t you just look openly?”

 

Yeon-jae, who understood belatedly, covered her mouth with both hands. Hyeonoh chuckled.

 

“Why. You don’t like it when I tell you to look openly?”

 

It was clearly a voice tinged with playfulness.

 

His eyes were still not taken off the laptop screen, and his hands typing on the keyboard remained steady.

 

About 5 more minutes passed from then.

 

Hyeonoh, who had been concentrating on his own work for a while even with flustered Yeon-jae in front of him, turned the laptop screen toward Yeon-jae and said.

 

“Check the script.”

 

“Huh? Yes, yes…!”

 

Yeon-jae awkwardly pulled Hyeonoh’s laptop toward herself.

 

Hyeonoh had a subtle smile on his face. Puzzled, Yeon-jae asked.

 

“Senior, why do you keep smiling?”

 

* * *

 

Last night, instead of going straight home, Hyeonoh suddenly ran around the neighborhood several times.

 

Considering he had been bedridden sick until just before, it was definitely crazy behavior.

 

But Hyeonoh wanted to shake off these random thoughts somehow. He had to.

 

Because this was really insane.

 

It was such an absurd train of thought that it was hard to believe it had started in his own head.

 

Pretty? Want to kiss her?

 

Wasn’t he crazy?

 

It was an even crazier thought when he remembered the background of conspiring with Yeon-jae for months now.

 

After causing all that chaos for so many months, what? This crazy bastard.

 

Hyeonoh only stopped running when his t-shirt was completely soaked with sweat.

 

Even that wasn’t enough, so after returning home and showering, he still thought about the same thing and came to a conclusion.

 

Shin Yeon-jae is pretty.

 

That was simply a fact as it is.

 

Not just Hyeonoh, but any ordinary person with universal standards of beauty would think Yeon-jae is pretty.

 

Just like how you judge celebrities famous for their looks as pretty or handsome, regardless of your personal preference for them.

 

So thinking she’s pretty was settled to this extent.

 

Then what about the kiss?

 

Kiss…

 

No matter how much he racked his brain about the desire to kiss her, he couldn’t come up with any plausible reason.

 

I really don’t know about this…

 

Ah. Fuck it. Forget it all.

 

And honestly, what does it matter? It’s not like I actually kissed her.

 

Thoughts are just thoughts.

 

As long as you don’t voice them, they become secrets no one will know. These stupid and absurd thoughts are also just secrets that begin and end only in Hyeonoh’s head.

 

Having reached that thought, Hyeonoh’s heart felt much lighter.

 

Hyeonoh went to bed with a lightened heart, and today came to school on a Sunday to work on assignments with Yeon-jae.

 

And now.

 

Hyeonoh found himself smiling without realizing it as he watched Yeon-jae react to his teasing.

 

Despite her being the culprit who had made him agonize to the point of sleeplessness last night.

 

“Why do you keep smiling?”

 

When Yeon-jae asked, Hyeonoh thought like someone who had lost his mind.

 

…Shin Yeon-jae is kind of cute.

 

Hyeonoh didn’t even realize he was smiling.

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