I screamed in surprise at the sensation of my toes recoiling by themselves, but Shin Heejae didn’t move even a little. Like that, he gently pressed my lower abdomen and muttered.
“There really isn’t anywhere to touch…….”
“Don’t press, you crazy bastard!”
“It’s not soft either…….”
My mood was completely ruined due to his criticizing voice.No, who was he to say to me that I had nowhere to touch or whatever!
“Shit, you’re not getting out of the way?”
So I tried to kick him hard with my pinned leg, but Shin Heejae raised his hand and put it on my chest. And soon after, he grabbed it as if he was going to squeeze it.
“Wh…….”
In my life I had never once thought of a guy bastard touching my chest this way, so because of that, for a moment all my thoughts evaporated and my brain stopped.
Meanwhile, Shin Heejae was tilting his head once, twice, three times……, he did theserepeatedkneading acts, and I…….
Puk―!
As soon as I came back to my senses (which in the meantime I couldn’t bear to hit him and endured because he was a man like me) I jabbed at his groin with my knee.
In a state where Shin Heejae couldn’t even scream, he rolled over and collapsed to the side. Of course, I didn’t let him go and kicked him in the back again.
Shin Heejae curled up like a shrimp and did a show while enduring it at the end of the bed.
“……Ah, wait……. Noona, don’t push……. I don’t have any feeling right now, down there.”
“Should I really make it so you don’t have anything down there?”
“…….”
I kicked the back of the unanswering Shin Heejae once more. Unable to even make a squeak, Shin Heejae rolled and fell out of the bed.
* * *
“Shit…….”
But when I frustratingly opened my eyes in the morning, Shin Heejae who had crawled up onto the bed somehow, was hugging me. I wildly pushed him away in panic, but Shin Heejae didn’t even wake up when getting pushed and kept sleeping.
‘I’m sure I said I’d kill him if he came back up yesterday…….’
After looking at his cheeky face, I tightly pinched his nose. Suffocation was the result I’d chosen among several methods of punishment.
“……Phew.”
Shin Heejae, who had been holding out for a bit, groaned, opened his mouth and wriggled his eyebrows. And a few seconds later, he opened his hazy eyes and looked at me.
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However, Shin Heejae didn’t even pretend to listen and avoiding my hand, laid on his stomach and yawned multiple times. And after squashing his head on the pillow a few times, he turned his head to the side and hatefully looked at me. I could see hisbrighteyes between his messy bangs.
As I argued thinking about yesterday’s unpleasant incident, Shin Heejae looked away pretending he didn’t hear anything. It meant that he was aware that he did something deserving death.
I took my hand off as if having a seizure, and looking at me doing that, Shin Heejae stretched relaxedly. Then he began to be sarcastic to me, who was still really pissed off.
“Then what should I do if I want to touch you?
“What?”
“We’re in a relationship, us two.”
It was an absurd remark, but at the same time I started to feel a strong wariness.
‘……What the hell?’
No, rubbing the chest of a man the same as you……. To be honest, isn’t it a bit at an unreasonable level to say that it’s a joke.
Meanwhile even though he said bullshit like it was possible or whatever I dismissed it as a form of bullying, but when I thought that maybe the things this bastard said were serious, I got goosebumps up my spine.
“Then instead of me touching you, I’ll kick.”
“What?”
“Where I want to kick. Do you want me to?”
“…….”
So to hide my instinctual fear I deliberately spoke coldly, and even thisunpleasantguy kept silent. But I kept staring at Shin Heejae who had a grim expression, and I didn’t get a suspicious look.
‘This punk……. What do I do if he’s serious?’
I felt that this was a bigger crisis than when Shin Heejae barged into my home.
* * *
Without knowing the complicated feelings of others, Shin Heejae, who had completely woken up, began to talk about food as soon as he washed up.
“Noona, why don’t you have anything to eat at home?”
“There’s a convenience store at the intersection if you go out, so go there and buy something to eat.”
“Noona isn’t hungry?”
“Not really.”
I responded blunty with a lot of viligance, but Shin Heejae didn’t even glance and regard my doubts, too busy looking through the cupboards and refrigerator for something to eat.
Then he suddenly started taking off his tracksuit.Surprised by the flesh-coloured feast that unfolded again, I turned my head and immediately cursed.
“Are you crazy?”
“What?”
“No, shit. Why are you suddenly taking your clothes off?”
“Huh? But you told me to go to the convenience store.”
I realized I acted sensitively too late, but I couldn’t take back what I already said.The atmosphere began to flow in a bad direction.
“Hmm…….”
Shin Heejae changed into a turtleneck shirt and with his face half buried in the turtleneck, he looked at me with asmilein his eyes. Then in a wandering manner, he approached close to me.
“Don’t steal glances and look confidently.”
“When did I do that!!”
“Suspicious……. Your face turned red, too.”
“It’s because my blood pressure is rising thanks to you.”
I narrowly managed to snap back, but Shin Heejae only politely and quietly looked down at me with that annoying face.
I felt suffocated by the gaze, so if I thought about when I regularly left the house, I could go out 30 minutes later, but I ended up leaving the house earlier than usual.
But Shin Heejae followed me. Rather than following me, he leisurely stepped behind me who walking in front. Until just before entering the subway station, I kept feeling bothered by Shin Heejae and couldn’t stand it anymore.
‘What else is he going to do again……!’
In the end, unable to hold back I turned around and stared, and as if he expected me to look back in advance Shin Heejae smiled and opened his mouth.
“Let’s go to a convenience store?”
“Why would I?”
“I didn’t bring anything coming out.”
“Are you insane?”
I tried to ignore his absurd remark right away and continue going the way I wanted to go, but the hand of the guy that was sticking behind me was faster. And the touch of that hand immediately reminded me of yesterday’s incident.
Istruggledand tried to pull off his hand, but he was an idiotic bastard with only strength and in the end I couldn’t shake it off. Like that, Shin Heejae dragged me into the nearby convenience store which had a parasol.
“Noona isn’t eating?”
“……Fuck, aren’t you going to shut up?”
“Why?”
Shin swept away snacks, instant noodles, and drinks with both hands and put them on the counter. I felt like I would be emptied out of 30,000 won minimum and just wanted to take it and run, but had no choice but to endure it because I was afraid of the future consequences.
Meanwhile, he insensitively called me ‘noona” in front of the part-timer. Fortunately, perhaps the part-timer was tired from being up all night, but he was only casually scanning barcodes with haggard eyes.
Hoping that the part-timer wasn’t interested in our conversation at all, I elbowed Shin Heejae in the side. He didn’t even move, but stopped his constant talk about his noona anyway.
“The total is 32,800 won. Do you need a bag?”
“No.”
“Please insert your card.”
I took the card out of my wallet and inserted it into the device, and carrying the food like a tower, Shin Heejae moved to a spot on the table.
“Saying piggy, piggy every day, now I was the piggy…….”
It was when I looked at that back, and had the thought that I should leave for work now. Suddenly, Shin Heejae called me up.
“Noona, where are you going?”
“Who’s your noona!”
Of all the times it was when I was making eye contact with the part-timer so I got angry, but Shin Heejae shook a cup ramen at me, not caring.
“Alright. Seyoung, let’s eat this?”
“Not eating. I have to go to work.”
“But theres plenty of time before you have to go to work.”
“…….”
Shin Hee-jae’s reasonable point made me conflicted for a bit. To be honest, it was because I was worn out from being angry all night, and there was nothing to do even if I went to work early. Additionally, the time I went to work was the type that was later than others, so if I rode the subway right now I expected it to be like hell, so I was reluctant.
While I hesitated like that without leaving the convenience store, he opened the lid of two cup ramens. As I reluctantly dawdled and approached the table, Shin Heejae pushed a triangle kimbap in front of me.
And we had breakfast awkwardly. No, I was the only awkward one. After finishing a cup ramen in almost 10 minutes, Shin Heejae made a cheeky request.
“But, Seyoung……. From tomorrow, can you come after grocery shopping? I’ll forgive you for today.”
“Do you want to die?”
As he stared while chewing ramen, Shin Heejae giggled. Then, he purposefully pretended to be worried and spoke with a despicable expression.
“Noona, if you eat stuff like this all the time, you’ll get sick.”
“I don’t know how to do things like cooking.”
“Then until now, how have you been eating?”
Usually, I skipped breakfast and foodallowancewas given for lunch, so I dealt with it around 8,000 won along with my colleagues at work. I was the type to get takeout if I was hungry or if there was something I wanted to eat in the evening.
But instead of answering word for word like this, I laughed at him while chewing on my chopsticks.
“Do you think I’m a pig like you who only thinks about eating?”