MUL - Chapter 44

It was the same today. It was a required major class, but I couldn't focus throughout the lecture. Because of these bastards running around in my head.

As I was lost in thought as usual, Park Chanmin, who had become quite natural sitting next to me, looked at me with a worried face.

"Hyung, are you okay?"

"...No."

"Are you sick somewhere?"

I wasn't sick, but I was a bit worried about my own state. What on earth is this absurd situation?

I, with very little backbone, found myself getting flustered by these bastards anew every day. So much so that my plan to get away from them for good felt meaningless. Is this what they call managing a "fish pond," or something like that? But does managing a fish pond include getting flustered?

In reality, I had never even held hands with someone, let alone had a 'situationship' going on, so I couldn't even tell if the feelings I was having now were normal or abnormal.

"Hey..."

"Yes?"

"So, this is just..."

"Yes."

I couldn't continue my sentence and hesitated. People were rushing out of the classroom, and amidst the noise, I was worried someone might hear my story.

"So..."

At my shrinking voice, Park Chanmin lowered his head and brought his ear close to me.

"Th-this is about my friend... my friend's story."

"Your friend, hyung?"

This bastard looked a little suspicious at the word 'friend' coming out of my mouth. I guess it was too obvious that I didn't have any friends.

"Ah, anyway. It's about my friend..."

"Yes."

"That... there's a guy she's in a 'situationship' with..."

"A 'situationship'?"

Ah, Park Chanmin kept catching the tail end of my words. Unable to hide my annoyance, I frowned, and Park Chanmin smiled with a playful face. He held up his palm and said, "Alright," nodding his head and even letting out a small laugh. I guess he did it on purpose. Anyway.

"She says she has three guys she's in a 'situationship' with... is that even possible?"

"Three? If it's a 'situationship,' it's possible to have thirty, not just three."

Th-thirty seems like too many, I tilted my head for a moment and then continued in a dazed voice.

"Is... that so? No, anyway... she says her heart pounds and all that when she's with those three."

"Well... that can happen. But she'll only date one of them, right?"

"Uh... I'm not sure about that... She says the three of them are friends, and it seems they're okay with meeting her all together."

I opened my eyes wide and quickly added, "Isn't that absurd?" At my words, Park Chanmin's face was instantly filled with horror.

"What is that. They're okay with her dating all three of them at the same time? Aren't they total perverted bastards?"

"What?!"

"They're perverted bastards. Love is supposed to be one-on-one, not one-on-many."

At the words that came out of Park Chanmin's mouth, this time it was my face that was filled with horror. Hearing it, he was right.

"The girl and the guys don't seem normal either. You should stay away from that friend, hyung. That's really weird."

Right, it's not normal. I nodded with a stiff face. A sigh escaped me on its own.

"Hyung, I think it's time to go."

"What?"

"Seo Jaehoon-sunbaenim is outside."

At Park Chanmin's words, I turned my head back, glanced at the figure leaning against the door, and then started packing my bag. Sighs kept escaping, so I let one out deeply so it wouldn't be obvious and slung my bag over my shoulder.

"Seeing him come to pick you up every single day without fail, you two must be really close."

"Huh? Ah... it's just, well... our liberal arts classes overlap... and I'm not feeling well..."

"Still, I don't think he would do this even for his girlfriend."

Park Chanmin said with a silly laugh. Right, even I thought his dedication was amazing.

I had nothing to say, so I just smiled awkwardly and muttered a short, "I'm leaving." Park Chanmin didn't hold me back any longer and hummed a melody I had never heard before.

"See you tomorrow, hyung."

"Yeah."

"Really, stay away from that girl."

This clueless bastard... It was at that moment that Seo Jaehoon, who had gotten bored of waiting outside the classroom, came in and stood right behind me.

"What girl?"

I'm screwed, shit... Seo Jaehoon asked again as he naturally took the bag from my shoulder. Park Chanmin, who was standing awkwardly, bowed his waist and greeted Seo Jaehoon.

"What girl, Ha Yeoul."

Seo Jaehoon, who just gave Park Chanmin a careless nod, asked again. I didn't know how to explain and was just stuttering, when Park Chanmin, who seemed to have traded his wits for candy today, opened his snout, no, his mouth.

"He said it's Yeoul-hyung's friend."

"Friend?"

"He said it's a female friend, and she seems to have three guys she's in a 'situationship' with. So I think she was asking hyung for advice, and those guys are all friends with each other. It's not like she's some femme fatale... Anyway, this is already shocking, but apparently, they're okay with meeting her all together. Aren't they total perverted bastards?"

That, that mouth, I wanted to cover his open mouth.

I managed to calm my hand that was about to fly out and glared at him, trying to convey the meaning, 'Shut up, shut up, please.' Please get a clue, you crazy bastard.

"So what does Ha Yeoul's friend want to do?"

Seo Jaehoon asked in a casual voice, as if he found my anxious state amusing.

"Doesn't that friend want to do it too? That's probably why she asked Yeoul-hyung for advice, to see if it's weird or not. Wondering what other people think?"

"I asked Ha Yeoul."

When Seo Jaehoon spoke in a slightly annoyed voice, Park Chanmin quickly apologized, saying, "I'm sorry."

"So what about you, Ha Yeoul."

Seo Jaehoon quickly put on a smile and met my eyes. I couldn't even meet his gaze properly and kept looking away, but this bastard persistently met my eyes.

"Huh? Ha Yeoul."

"What... what about it... it's just... just—"

Feeling my neck flush with embarrassment, I reached out and pulled Seo Jaehoon. Let's, let's go.

In the midst of that, not forgetting to say goodbye to Park Chanmin, I led Seo Jaehoon and hurriedly left the classroom. I couldn't breathe properly. He surely knew that the story was about the three of them.

"Ha Yeoul."

"...Yeah."

"So what does that friend want to do?"

I pretended not to know and just walked forward, and I heard the sound of a small laugh from beside me. And a voice that softly called my name, "Yeoul". With a face that couldn't possibly get any redder, I shook my head and muttered, "I don't know."

Seo Jaehoon stopped for a moment, then twisted his wrist out of my grasp and grabbed my wrist instead. What's this? I stopped walking at the suddenly grabbed wrist and turned my head, and Seo Jaehoon was smiling with a heart-pounding face. My heart was throbbing, and it seemed this bastard was not unaware of my state.

Seo Jaehoon let out a low curse between his lips and pulled my arm. I was caught off guard and was dragged along as Seo Jaehoon moved. Seo Jaehoon, who had good eyes, pulled me into an emergency staircase that I didn't even know existed.

"Shit, where did such a cute thing come from?"

Instantly held in Seo Jaehoon's arms, I blinked my eyes with a stupid face and then lowered my awkwardly raised arms. "It's suffocating", the words I was thinking inside unknowingly came out at the arms that were squeezing my tightly held body.

"Did you pick a movie to watch?"

"...No."

At my answer, Seo Jaehoon released his arms and lowered his head. He lifted my bowed face, met my eyes, and gently brushed back the messy hair on my forehead. His face, which looked especially handsome today, filled my vision.

"Ha Yeoul."

The hand that had been rubbing all over my face gently caressed the area under my heated eyes.

"You look like an apple."

"..."

"Pretty."

At his smiling face with curved eyes, my mouth seemed to have fallen open on its own. Seo Jaehoon would smile with a face like this, that made it impossible to think of anything. My heart was beating too fast, and since our bodies were so close, I was just about to pull away slightly in case he could feel the pounding.

As if he didn't want to be separated at all, Seo Jaehoon pulled my waist again, held me in his arms, and kissed me. Our lips naturally met on my parted lips.

His usual habit was to suck on my tongue as if to take it away. At the tingling pain of my tongue being sucked into Seo Jaehoon's mouth and being chewed on, a "ngh-ngh" sound naturally escaped my throat.

"Haa— sto, stop...!"

Every time our flesh met and parted with a wet sound, my urgent voice would come out. It was an emergency staircase, and the anxiety that someone might come finally brought me back to my senses.

"No one's coming."

Seo Jaehoon pulled his lips away and licked my wet lips sensuously. This crazy bastard...!

I let out a rushed breath that had quickly become heated and twisted my face, which was held in Seo Jaehoon's hand. "Stop it", my voice, slightly cracked at the end, sounded so lewd that even I was flustered.

"Stop it?"

As expected, it wasn't just my ears that found it lewd, as Seo Jaehoon dropped another light kiss on my lips. I tried to avoid him here and there, but in the end, I was caught by his lips and we mixed our tongues deeply again. For a long time.

Only after we had kissed to Seo Jaehoon's satisfaction were my lips released.

With soft, wet smacking sounds, his lips clung to mine several times.

"...Enough, you crazy..."

In the end, a curse escaped my mouth.

Seo Jaehoon, who had puckered his lips and kissed my cheek, the tip of my hair, and my earlobe, let out a small laugh. "Okay, I'll stop." A sweet voice echoed. Feeling flushed for some reason, I moved my body, and Seo Jaehoon's arms slowly loosened.

"You've gotten redder."

Seo Jaehoon's white fingertips brushed the tip of my ear. I felt like if I stayed any longer, my heart would really jump out of my mouth.​