Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 60

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Episode 60

“…What? Wait a minute. What did you say?”

“Uh… I heard she came to Korea, so we agreed to meet once before she goes back. We’ve known each other since we were kids, so we had a meal together. In Canada, the three of us used to hang out often. Yesterday we had dinner together and I was dropping her off at the subway station.”

“Ah…”

“Hyeonoh mentioned that you two had met before. Didn’t you know?”

“…Yes.”

Dohan nodded as if it wasn’t incomprehensible.

“Anyway, the reason I urgently wanted to see Yeon-jae was…”

Dohan trailed off at that point. After a brief pause, he continued his explanation.

“We’re nothing special, so I didn’t want you to misunderstand.”

Yeon-jae only fidgeted with her hands that were placed neatly on her thighs.

She felt as if exactly how she had misunderstood was laid bare before Dohan.

“Anyway… Yeon-jae might not have cared at all, but since you didn’t even come to class today, I was worried for nothing and wanted to clarify in advance. If Yeon-jae really didn’t care… I might be a bit disappointed.”

At the same time, Yeon-jae’s heart began beating wildly again.

This was a kind of confirmation.

When they showed each other being with another person of the opposite sex, it was confirmation that they had entered a relationship that required explanations.

That confirmation explained only one thing.

The fact that Dohan and Yeon-jae were now becoming the relationship they had dreamed of for so long.

“…”

“…”

The misunderstanding was cleared up, but she still felt dazed.

The subtly awkward atmosphere that usually comes after a fight was now present between the two of them.

‘Come to think of it, it’s a bit strange to call this a fight…’

Yeon-jae was having such trivial thoughts when it happened.

“Yeon-jae.”

Dohan called Yeon-jae in a quiet voice.

“But I also have something I want to ask…”

“Yes?”

Just then, the dark phone screen lit up.

“Oh, it’s Hyeonoh.”

It was Hyeonoh, who had left more missed calls than Dohan, and earlier too.

“Can I take this call for a moment…!”

Yeon-jae said as she got up from her seat. However, Dohan’s answer didn’t come right away.

After a brief silence, when Yeon-jae was starting to feel awkward, his answer came.

“Yeah. Go take the call.”

* * *

Yeon-jae answered the phone at a distance where Dohan wouldn’t be able to hear the conversation.

“Hello, senior?”

-Hey. Why didn’t you answer your phone.

“Ah… I was talking with Dohan.”

-…Oh, really?

Hyeonoh reacted a beat slower.

-The misunderstanding must be cleared up then?

“Ah… yes. Were you worried about that too, senior?”

-Yeah. Everyone who was there except you probably knew.

“Huh, was I that obvious?”

-At least it was crystal clear to me.

“…I had no idea she was his sister.”

-She said she went to a salon during the day for some idol fan meeting or something. Kang Gio’s makeup is usually at costume level.

“Ah, I misunderstood for nothing…”

-It’s fine as long as the misunderstanding is cleared up. Finish talking with Lee Dohan. I’ll see you at school…

“Wait, senior. Would you like to come here too?”

* * *

Yeon-jae calling Hyeonoh was almost an unconscious action. Usually, whether it was Hyeonoh or Dohan, when two of them were together, they would often call Yeon-jae.

The three of them gathering together was neither awkward nor surprising.

Belatedly remembering that she had called Hyeonoh without saying anything to Dohan, Yeon-jae added an explanation.

“Ah, I told Hyeonoh to come this way…”

“Oh, really?”

Dohan seemed somehow displeased.

However, since Yeon-jae had never even thought that Dohan would show a lukewarm reaction to Hyeonoh, she didn’t think much of Dohan’s reaction.

“Oh right. What did you want to ask me, senior?”

“Ah, no. Nothing.”

Hyeonoh came quickly.

From outside the school building, he waved at the two people sitting on the terrace.

It was a leisurely greeting, but there was sweat on his forehead as if he had been running.

“Hyeonoh, over here!”

Yeon-jae approached the railing and waved her hand.

“You came?”

Dohan also greeted Hyeonoh.

Up to that point, it was no different from usual.

But conversation didn’t flow easily. Dohan was especially quiet.

Yeon-jae just rolled her eyes.

Usually, being alone with Dohan was much more awkward than when the three of them were together, but now it was the opposite.

‘What is this… This is really strange…’

In the awkward silence, Hyeonoh, who had been fiddling with his phone, spoke while still keeping his eyes fixed on the phone screen.

“Want to go out? Kang Gio is asking if we all want to drink together.”

“…”

“Shin Yeon-jae too.”

“What? Me too…?!”

“Yeah. This would be the third time you’re meeting her. What’s wrong with that?”

Hyeonoh answered simply.

“She’s going to Canada in a week, so let’s have a last drink with her.”

* * *

The three of them took a taxi together to the busy district.

The place they were meeting Gio was a Korean restaurant located in Jongno.

Hyeonoh clicked his tongue as soon as he heard.

“Wow. She really picks places like a total tourist.”

“Well, she’s not wrong. Gio doesn’t come to Korea often anyway.”

In the taxi, Dohan and Hyeonoh chatted away just fine.

It seemed like Yeon-jae’s feeling that there was an uncomfortable current between Dohan and Hyeonoh was just unnecessary worry.

Not that it wasn’t always the case, but at least to Yeon-jae’s eyes, they seemed to have completely returned to their original close friendship.

Meanwhile, Gio appeared in the glamorous beauty look that Yeon-jae had seen the night before.

“My Korean friend says this area is hot these days.”

Then she naturally hugged Dohan.

Yeon-jae was momentarily flustered.

Setting aside the hug that exuded foreign sensibilities.

Appearance is ultimately all about genes, and since Hyeonoh was quite handsome, it was natural for his younger sister to be pretty, but….

‘She’s this pretty and he has no ulterior motives? He really has nothing going on with Dohan sunbae?’

Gio herself immediately put Yeon-jae’s doubts to rest.

“Yeon-jae. I was so shocked when you left like that yesterday! Dohan oppa and I really have absolutely nothing going on. Ah. You should have seen how flustered both Dohan oppa and Kang Hyeonoh were.”

“Yes, yes?! Yes….”

“Ah, but how long have Dohan oppa and Yeon-jae been seeing each other? Have you been together long?”

“Gio, it’s not like that.”

It was Dohan who blocked Gio’s barrage of questions.

A moment of silence fell over the table.

Hyeonoh was just watching this entire situation with his chin propped up.

That’s when it happened.

“…Not yet.”

Dohan quietly added those words.

“Ooh.”

Gio narrowed her eyes and made a sound that could have been either jeering or cheering.

Yeon-jae, detached from the three people’s conversation, paused mid-bite while eating the nuts that came as a basic side dish.

“Not yet?”

Then a voice that sounded somewhat sarcastic interjected.

At Hyeonoh’s sudden interruption, Dohan looked at him. Hyeonoh, who had his chin propped up, spoke with a crooked smile.

“You really speak in a confusing way.”

“I didn’t say it to confuse anyone.”

There was an inexplicably tense atmosphere flowing between the two.

Gio looked back and forth between them with a puzzled expression while raising her glass.

“Anyway, let’s make a toast! I’ve really wanted to try this!”

Hyeonoh withdrew his gaze from Dohan and looked at Gio.

“You can make toasts anywhere in the world, right? You couldn’t do it because you have no friends?”

“That’s not it. Kang Hyeonoh, really! When a pretty younger sister says she wants to do something, just do it.”

Thanks to Gio, who was quite a heavy drinker, the alcohol disappeared faster than expected.

After that, whenever glasses emptied, the next drink was naturally poured, and the conversation at the table gradually became lighter.

Hyeonoh and Dohan chatted well like before. The main topic of conversation was what happened in Canada.

“No, remember when Lee Do-han and I were practicing hockey in the backyard and ended up breaking the window.”

“The funny thing is, Mother suspected me first. Even then, I barely went outside, let alone into the backyard. Ah. I still feel wronged thinking about it.”

Yeon-jae, who didn’t know much about their old stories, just smiled and nodded beside them, or occasionally asked questions.

When she came to her senses, quite some time had passed.

Gio was rambling on with a flushed face, and Yeon-jae was also quite tipsy.

“Yeon-jae, are you okay?”

Dohan asked.

“Yes… I’m a bit drunk, but I’m okay.”

Dohan observed Yeon-jae for a moment, then said.

“Then shall we get going?”

Yeon-jae reflexively nodded.

At that moment, Hyeonoh added.

“Then let’s call it here and all leave together.”

After cleaning up and coming outside, the night air brushed against their faces. Yeon-jae felt momentarily dizzy and caught her breath.

Dohan naturally matched his pace to Yeon-jae’s.

“Let’s catch a taxi.”

Hyeonoh, who had been watching the two from a little behind, turned his gaze and searched for a crumpled cigarette pack in his back pocket.

Gio, who came out last among the four, extended her hand to Hyeonoh.

“Give me one too.”

Hyeonoh tilted the cigarette pack slightly with a cigarette in his mouth. One cigarette popped up, and he picked it up and handed it to Gio.

“A light too.”

Hyeonoh lit the end of Gio’s cigarette with his lighter. He didn’t light his own cigarette though.

Gio, finding this strange, asked.

“Aren’t you going to smoke?”

“Later.”

Even as he said those words, his gaze was still directed toward Dohan and Yeon-jae.

And Dohan, as if responding to Hyeonoh’s gaze, looked back at Hyeonoh and Gio and said.

“Go ahead. I’ll take Yeon-jae home.”

Then.

“Alright.”

The sullen voice that flowed out without him realizing was quite startling even to Hyeonoh himself.

Watching the backs of the two people who went ahead to catch a taxi, Hyeonoh stood in place for a moment.

Yeon-jae’s drunk body unconsciously leaned toward Dohan.

“Yeon-jae, are you okay?”

Dohan asked in a gentle voice while tidying Yeon-jae’s disheveled hair that had fallen forward and blocked her view.

“Ah, I’m okay….”

Hyeonoh’s mood sank as he quietly watched all of this.

What was this feeling?

No.

Hyeonoh could now clearly explain this feeling.

He felt like shit.

It would have been a scene he wouldn’t have cared about normally. He really shouldn’t have cared.

Ah. But why did he feel so bad?

Dohan opening the car door, Yeon-jae bowing her head as she got in, even the brief eye contact they shared in that short moment.

Every single thing was irritating.

After the taxi carrying Dohan and Yeon-jae left, Gio nudged Hyeonoh and asked.

“Oppa, let’s smoke a cigarette and then catch a taxi too.”

“Yeah. Alright….”

“Are you okay?”

“I’m not drunk at all.”

“No, not that.”

Gio seemed to hesitate with her words, which was unlike her.

“You like Yeon-jae, don’t you.”

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