LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 42
Chapter 42
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The situation flowed in an unexpected direction.
I had to endure the gazes of the two noonas, glaring at me from both sides while I sat in the middle of the sofa.
The first to speak was Geum-bi noona, who created this three-way meeting.
“Explain.”
“Wh-what do you mean… Noona?”
“Why were you meeting Su-jeong unnie again in the middle of the night? Didn’t you promise not to do that last time?”
Did I make such a promise with Geum-bi noona?
Hmm. I seemed to have received a threatening pressure, like, she would help me if I had any trouble, so I shouldn’t call Su-jeong noona.
‘I did nod then, but it didn’t mean I wouldn’t meet her at all at night, did it?’
In the first place, I sleep in the same bed with both of them every night, including Geum-bi noona.
As long as it wasn’t a secret meeting for a shady purpose, it should be fine.
‘That kind of excuse… won’t work with those eyes, gulp.’
The timing of being caught was bad.
Su-jeong noona had made a strange guess about my intentions from the moment I called her out, and she had clung to me on the sofa as if she were going to pounce on me.
It was obvious what Geum-bi noona, who saw that scene from afar, would think.
The firmness of her folded arms and her glaring eyes represented her current state of mind.
“Ahem, well, you see, Noona…”
“I was getting some counseling from Ji-gu. That’s all.”
“Ugh, Su-jeong noona?”
“Ji-gu, don’t be so stiff either. It makes it seem like we did something seriously wrong?”
Perhaps she was frustrated with my stammering, Su-jeong noona suddenly cut in.
Noona, not only with her voice, but also with her hands, patted my thigh as if to tell me to relax.
It wasn’t intentional, but… because of that, Geum-bi noona’s eyebrows twitched, and the atmosphere got even worse.
“I was asking Ji-gu. I wasn’t talking to unnie.”
“Since we’re all here together, isn’t it the same no matter who you ask? Anyway, we just need to hear the answer.”
“It’s not like you have to answer for him. Ji-gu has a mouth, and you’re not his spokesperson, unnie.”
“In this situation, I can be a spokesperson. Can’t I say this much when my younger brother is being questioned?”
Geum-bi noona glared at me, who was hesitating, and at Su-jeong noona, who was clinging to me, with a displeased look.
Her tone was full of complaints, but instead of appeasing her, Su-jeong noona immediately retorted, and the conversation gradually expanded into a problem of each other’s attitudes.
“I’m also unnie’s younger sister? But are you only taking Ji-gu’s side now?”
“It’s not that I’m taking his side, it’s just that it’s the truth. Since you asked about something between the two of us, it doesn’t matter which of us answers.”
“Ha, us? You and Ji-gu are ‘us’, and I’m just a stranger? Since when have you been so close?”
“We’ve been close since way before? And Geum-bi, what’s with how you’re talking since earlier?”
“What’s wrong with me.”
“Beyond questioning, you have no basic manners. If you keep being sarcastic like that, unnie will really get upset?”
“If you put it like that, I’ve been feeling bad since way before? From you two coming out alone at night, to seeing you still sticking together like this.”
It seemed that Geum-bi noona didn’t just wake up by chance.
If she had seen us move from the beginning and followed us because she was suspicious… the way she was biting her lip was easily understood.
‘Since that was the first thing she saw as soon as she came out, her suspicion turned into certainty. I can’t let this go on, I need to calm them down while… Ugh?’
I was about to reach out my hands to both sides to calm them down, when Geum-bi noona pulled my slightly raised arm.
I lost my balance and fell over in an instant, but the soft sofa supported my arm and shoulder, so it didn’t hurt.
…No, this isn’t the feel of the sofa.
Geum-bi noona, weren’t you far away until now? When did you get so close?
“Yang Geum-bi, what are you doing?”
“What am I doing? Unnie was doing this the whole time.”
“When did I? I just patted Ji-gu because he was trembling, that’s all.”
“Really? I thought unnie wasn’t showing any signs of getting away from him, so I was just going to move him away a little.”
“Is that moving him away a little? You pulled him completely towards you.”
“Unnie, I’m also his noona? You said I could comfort him if he was anxious, as his unnie.”
“Who comforts someone by making them fall over? Ji-gu’s having a hard time, let go of his arm.”
“I don’t want to? You comforted him enough, so it’s my turn now. And isn’t holding him like this better for Ji-gu than touching his thigh slyly?”
“Who are you calling sly? Geum-bi, are you going to keep talking weirdly since earlier?”
“When you pointed out that I was acting weird, you didn’t say anything. That’s a complete double standard, unnie.”
“I told you not to talk carelessly, didn’t I?”
I was hugged by Geum-bi noona and my mouth was sealed, so I had no choice but to listen to the increasingly harsh conversation.
It started as a really small misunderstanding, but perhaps because of the constant sharp tone, the two of them were gradually starting to tear each other apart in earnest.
“Unnie was the one who started talking carelessly. You just butted in while I was talking to Ji-gu, didn’t you?”
“You’re the one who butted in out of nowhere during our conversation, Geum-bi? Thinking weird thoughts and picking a fight for no reason.”
“How is this picking a fight for no reason? It’s a suspicious situation no matter who sees it.”
“Where is it suspicious? If family members have something to talk about, they can meet anytime. What’s wrong with that?”
“Ha, do I have to explain why it looked suspicious myself?”
“Oh, go ahead. Honestly, I can only see it as you overreacting, Geum-bi, so say everything you have to say.”
“Unnie, really… Do you think I’m just acting like this because of this one time? I know everything and that’s why I’m doing this?”
“What do you mean? What do you know?”
“That you and Ji-gu often meet at night and do weird things! That this guy is touching your body, do you think no one knows?”
“Ugh?! Wh-what? Where did you hear such nonsense…?”
“Hey, Yang Ji-gu! You remember the promise you made with me last time? Tell them what we talked about yourself.”
During the heated argument, the fire naturally jumped to me.
It was an inevitable sequence since I was the cause of this fire, but the fact that Geum-bi noona’s hand was pushing me toward the sofa hurt a little.
‘Su-jeong noona is also… looking like she wants me to tell her everything. Ugh, is it impossible to fix it now?’
Somehow, the three-way meeting that Hwa-yeon suggested had taken place in the worst possible form.
I hesitated for a very short moment, but sighed at the harsh glares of the two noonas and told them the situation.
“Su-jeong noona. Actually, Geum-bi noona noticed everything we did last time.”
“Heup? H-how? Did you… say it first, Ji-gu?”
“It wasn’t like that, but after being questioned here and there, it felt like I confessed… umm. It’s similar to when Su-jeong noona suspected something between me and Geum-bi noona?”
“Ah, I see… Ugh. In that case, it’s understandable.”
“Still, I should have been more careful, I’m sorry.”
“No, I didn’t pay much attention either. Rather, thank you for trying to solve it on your own.”
First, I apologized to Su-jeong noona after telling her the truth, and noona smiled, expressing her gratitude.
I was relieved for a moment at that face, but Geum-bi noona pinched my side and urged me to speak.
“That’s not the end of it, Yang Ji-gu?”
“Ugh. S-so… Geum-bi noona said that if there was such a problem, she would solve it, so I shouldn’t touch Su-jeong noona.”
“It was something we decided by mutual agreement. You also clearly agreed, Ji-gu.”
“Well, you could see it that way… Ouch, ouch. Anyway, yeah, that’s the promise Geum-bi noona was talking about.”
She had somehow accepted the previous words, but the current confession was quite shocking to Su-jeong noona.
That was understandable. It was a proposal that she had heard a lot, and it would be easy to guess what would have happened next.
“Sigh, Geum-bi noona.”
“What is it? Let me tell you in advance, don’t think that you’ll be forgiven just because you’ve told us everything…”
“On the contrary, Su-jeong noona also said something similar to me.”
“Huh?”
“To put it in detail, it was almost the same proposal. I also nodded similarly to Su-jeong noona’s side.”
“What? No, wait, Ji-gu, you… Ugh?”
I wanted to make sure everything was clear since I was telling the truth, so I reported the things with Su-jeong noona, which had not been asked about, equally to Geum-bi noona.
Geum-bi noona’s expression stiffened, and she could only open and close her mouth, because the shock was different when she heard the story directly in front of the person involved.
A moment of silence.
Both noonas’ lips didn’t stop moving, but it seemed like their words weren’t organized, as they were busy mumbling silently.
Tick-tock, the second hand of the clock rotated 360 degrees.
The one who managed to speak was Geum-bi noona, who seemed less shocked.
“So, Ji-gu, you… knew everything all along, and you were enjoying yourself between the two of us?”
“I-I wasn’t enjoying myself. Actually, that’s why I also consulted with Hwa-yeon today…”
“What?! Not only us two, but you even dragged Hwa-yeon into it?”
“Of course, I didn’t mean it that way?! I also think this relationship is weird, so I was wondering how to bring it back to normal…”
“You told Hwa-yeon all that? Everything that happened so far?”
“Of course not! I just told her that it was because of the noonas’ consultation. I didn’t bring up anything about this kind of stuff.”
“Hmph… So you still have some conscience left. So, in the end, you were just playing around with the two of us?”
“Why is the conversation always going that way? You know, noona, that I never led it that way on purpose.”
“Before, I was half-doubtful, but now I don’t know at all. Honestly, it feels like you did it on purpose from the beginning.”
“That’s definitely not true! That’s a real assumption, a 100% misunderstanding, noona!”
Whether she had forgotten that she was the one who dragged me into her room first, that she was the one who offered to help, that she was the one who volunteered to sacrifice herself.
Geum-bi noona squinted her eyes and relentlessly pushed me.
I was flustered by the pressure and kept denying it.
As I trembled at Geum-bi noona’s finger poking my chest, I glanced at Su-jeong noona’s face, which was somehow quiet.
“……Then, you know, Ji-gu.”
“Ah, ugh, yes, Su-jeong noona.”
“You did… all those kinds of things with Geum-bi too?”
“Huh? Eh, uhh?”
“No, I kind of expected it, but it’s a bit more vivid when I hear it directly… Augh, so…!”
What kind of imagination she had while I was being questioned by Geum-bi noona.
Su-jeong noona lowered her blazing face and asked, fidgeting with her fingers.
“So, you saw Geum-bi naked as well, Ji-gu?”
“No, that never…”
“What are you talking about?! There’s no way that happened, unnie…!”
Faster than me, Geum-bi noona denied Su-jeong noona’s words.
Then, Geum-bi noona grabbed Su-jeong noona’s shoulder and shook her, her eyes wide.
“Wait, then does that mean you showed him your whole body? Seriously? Are you crazy?!”
“Nooo, Geum-bi, you did something similar… What are you…”
“I, at least, didn’t do that! What if something really happened if I did…!”
“Heeup?! J-Ji-gu doesn’t do that kind of thing. He won’t… right.”
“How can you believe that? In the first place, you also couldn’t 100% trust that he would just stay still, so you called him out separately at night, right?”
“Augh… Then how did you help Ji-gu by calling him out, Geum-bi? If you didn’t show him that, how did you help him?”
“Kuh?! No, I, just… in the way people usually do…”
“What is that?”
“Augh, so… you know, that kind of thing between a man and a woman…”
“Heeh? S-surely, you guys… already had sex…!”
“Not that!”
“Absolutely not, noona?! Listening to you two, where are you going with this!”
The conversation kept going in the wrong direction, and I was about to jump up and down on the sofa as if it were a mattress.
After that, we were busy organizing our diverging stories. As we unraveled the tangled threads one by one, the time had already dyed the dawn with a deep hue.
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