Chapter 41: 〈Episode 41〉Onarin (7)
< Wednesday, August 4, 22:30 >
After breaking up with Cha So-young, I quickly finished my housework and greeted my mother, who came home from work at the same time as usual.
After the two of us had dinner, we briefly reviewed the studying we had piled up in our room, washed up in the shower, and briefly checked off the things we had to do tomorrow.
After finishing a day that could be called a bit unusual, I am lying on my bed with my Netophone in my hand, the chat window with Onarin open.
I'll do as you say, sister.
A short and simple message. But my thumbs were hesitating to send it.
The reason was simple. The proposal that Onarin made to me, even though it had essentially the same purpose, implicitly demanded that I break my promise with Cha So-young.
The issue was how free my actions could be for the purpose of helping Cha So-young.
'For now… there's a higher chance that it'll turn out as Onarin said. Just looking at today…'
After Onarin left the cafe, he thought back to the side of Cha So-young he had discovered on his way home.
To double check whether that can be a sufficient basis for my judgment.
< Wednesday, August 4, 14:30 >
On the way home together after leaving the cafe.
He is walking down the sidewalk alongside Cha So-young, who is wearing clothes reminiscent of an office look.
"That… Jaehyuk? What did you talk about with that woman?"
While I was wondering why she was holding back on speaking even though he must have had a lot to ask, Cha So-young happened to be the first to speak, seemingly tired of waiting.
After leaving the cafe, I became quiet and it seems like she was waiting for me to gather my thoughts like usual.
"Should I tell her everything? Or just leave out what I heard?"
"What? How do you know what I heard?"
"You have good ears. Didn't you hear everything except for the two times I whispered with that older sister?"
"… … Sister?"
"Yeah. She's 25. Her name is Onarin. She live on the outskirts of Seopyeong-gu."
"… … … "
Cha So-young stopped talking.
I suddenly wondered why, but it seemed as if she was certain that she had not been caught eavesdropping on the conversation with Onarin.
Have you forgotten that you avoided my gaze behind your sunglasses when I was talking about your taste? I guess I should have pushed you to go home first instead of telling you not to wait.
Anyway, since I knew what Cha So-young was thinking, I immediately added something that would put her at ease.
"I'm not upset at all about your eavesdropping, so don't worry about anything weird. And don't feel sorry either."
"Huh?"
"Why, no? I thought you cared about that."
"… … "
Cha So-young kept her mouth shut again. If it wasn't because she was caught eavesdropping, why did she do it this time?
The conversation feels strangely intertwined. An awkward silence falls.
"That older sister also said she had something to prepare, so we decided to meet in a few days. She said Friday or Saturday would be possible."
"…I see"
"I think we'll meet in the evening, but I haven't decided exactly what time we'll meet yet. I'll let you know as soon as I decide on a date and make a plan."
"… Okay. Okay."
The voice is small and the answers are dry.
I didn't like the awkward atmosphere that would arise as the silence grew longer, so I brought it up first, but seeing the conversation end abruptly, I thought I should put aside my conversation with Onarin for a moment.
Since I couldn't just say anything in the cloudy atmosphere, I tried to approach it from a different direction.
What's needed in a situation like this is not an attitude of just waiting until the thought is finished, but a topic of conversation that can gradually find a way out.
'Should I have asked that first?'
I had a feeling that maybe Onarin was acting like he was being sullen because he didn't like her very much.
Last weekend, Cha So-young said she would leave the process of selecting the invitee completely up to me, and today, she said she would only check the person in person because she might not be the right person to date.
Since she said those words with his own mouth, it must have been difficult for Onarin to express whether she liked it or not.
If that weren't the case, instead of chewing ice until my jaw hurts at the cafe, I would have come to our table a long time ago. That's the kind of person Cha So-young is.
As he was passing by a deserted street corner, he stopped Cha So-young and told her to listen carefully while clasping his left hand with his.
"Should we save someone else?"
"what?"
"What? I'm talking about the invited girl. There are still five days left until the vacation ends, right? That girl made an appointment yesterday and met today. If you really don't like her, I'll just find someone else."
As if something in my words had moved her, Cha So-young's eyes, which were staring at me, took on a serious expression. Her interlocked fingers tightened slightly, and the corners of her mouth twitched.
"… If I say no to that girl, are you really going to find another woman? Then I guess you wasted your day."
"You're saying there are still 5 days left? If you include today, it's 6 days. If I post a tweet, I'll probably get a bunch of messages like I did yesterday."
"You brought another woman with you, and what if I say no again?"
"Then that person is no good. If you don't like him, what's the point of doing this? Right?"
Cha So-young didn't ask any more questions. It didn't seem like she was trying to avoid my questions, though; her serious eyes remained the same.
"… … "
I and Cha So-young exchanged glances for a few seconds as we leaned against the sidewalk railing. Suddenly, Cha So-young smiled broadly, grabbed the back of my head with her left hand, and kissed my forehead.
Why is she like this? When she asked if I liked her and started being intimate with her, I felt awkward and fixed my messy bangs.
"What are you doing? Why are you kissing me all of a sudden?"
"Kuk kuk. I just did it because I wanted to. You don't hate it, do you?"
It wasn't that I didn't like her as she said, but I felt like she was trying to avoid my question about whether she liked Onarin, so I urged Cha So-young to answer.
"So, do you like it or not?"
"What about you? Do you like it?"
"Hey. I asked first. Then you should answer first."
"I asked you because I only had one answer. Remember when I said I would leave it up to you to decide who you would choose? So you don't have to think about me."
My answer is the same. If you like Cha So-young, then it's over.
But since answering directly would have been no different from going on parallel lines, I looked away for a moment and thought about an appropriate answer to Cha So-young's question about how Oh Na-rin was.
"I am…"
Answering that you don't like it means you will find another invitee.
Just a little while ago, I said without hesitation that it was okay for her to look for another woman, but as a man, if you ask me for an honest answer, my answer will inevitably be different. That's why I hesitated to answer.
But it was awkward to say that I liked it. That wasn't the answer Cha So-young wanted to hear.
If a lover says he or she is externally attracted to another person of the opposite sex, there will be no one who likes that person.
"I am?"
As if the roles had been reversed, this time Cha So-young calmly urged me to answer.
"Huh? How is it?"
As I kept urging her, I felt like I was falling into a trap. I looked at Cha So-young's expression with slightly open eyes, feeling a sense of for no reason.
When I briefly met the fever in the two eyes looking down, Cha So-young slightly turned her head and avoided eye contact.
"Hit. I've been standing around too long. Should I go now?"
Cha So-young said, turning her still body towards the house and gently pulling the hand that was clasped between her fingers.
"If it's hard to answer, you don't have to."
Cha So-young whispered quietly next to me.
It's true that it's difficult to answer, but the reason my answer was delayed was for another reason. Because, just a moment ago, in Cha So-young's eyes…
'she was definitely excited.'
Why are you hesitating to answer the question of what you think of Onarin? That is the only causal relationship I have discovered with my own eyes. And if my current guess is correct, Cha So-young must have felt a slight excitement when she saw me showing that I like Onarin.
It seems like she's still not looking kindly at Onarin since the cafe, so why is she suddenly showing such a look? Is this also part of that fetish?
It was a change of emotion that I couldn't verify as fact or know the exact reason for, but it was enough to serve as a basis for my actions.
The instinct of the body to react before reason. I have experienced this once before with Cha So-young, and it is also in line with my principle of action of secretly plotting to play with Onarin without Cha So-young knowing.
I'll do as you say, sister.
Have you decided on the day?
It wouldn't have mattered if I received the message tomorrow, but since it wasn't that late, Onarin's reply came back quickly.
[Yeah lol]
[You can come on Saturday. You can't be late, right?]
[See you then, Hyuk-ah]
[(Heart emoji)]
After checking the last emoticon, I put down my phone and fell into a deep sleep.
< Saturday, August 7, 20:30 >
"Hoooo…"
Cha So-young, who was sitting on the living room sofa in her underwear, let out a deep sigh as if she was frustrated. Her pounding heart just wouldn't calm down.
She turn on the smartphone in her hand and check the messages exchanged with Shin Jae-hyeok.
After chewing over what she read several times, she put her smartphone back down on the table.
Thursday, August 5th
[We agreed to meet on Saturday.]
[We've prepared the cameras to film the video, so all we have to do is just show up.]
[I'll let you know the time on Saturday.]
[Just wait until I contact you. Okay?]
Saturday, August 7th
[I'm eating lunch.]
[Sorry. I couldn't see you because I was eating dinner.]
[yet]
[Please wait a little longer.]
[Since Na-rin lives close to our house, the time won't matter much.]
'Isn't it too late?'
He clearly said he would let me know when to meet him, but there has been no response from Shin Jae-hyeok.
I never expected it to start early in the morning or in the afternoon when the sun was out.
I had taken into account that it might start late at night, but as midnight approached, I started to feel increasingly impatient, perhaps because the day would end in just a few hours.
At the end, Shin Jae-hyuk left a message asking her to wait. Shin Jae-hyuk said that he sometimes does two days' worth of housework at once on the weekends, so it must have been delayed due to her personal circumstances.
"Fucking bitch…"
Cha So-young licked her lips and swore.
I don't like it. I'm not dissatisfied with the situation itself. How could I be dissatisfied with the day that the child, who set the stage for his lover with his small body, created?
What Cha So-young is dissatisfied with is that it feels like Shin Jae-hyeok is being dragged around by the invited woman. You can tell just by looking at the text messages she exchanged with Shin Jae-hyeok over the past three days.
I was grateful that Jaehyuk liked it and just quietly watched it and left, but when I heard that he even prepared a camera instead, I was speechless.
However, from a distance, it was also part of Shin Jae-hyeok's day. The things he bought for this job could be used later.
'Let's wait a little longer.'
Because it was already a familiar wait, Cha So-young walked to the refrigerator and took a big gulp of cold water to calm her stomach.
Gulp. The water that flowed past her lips went down her chin and seeped into her breastbone. Cha So-young wiped the water that left a straight line from her lips to her chin with the back of her hand and returned to the sofa.
Tiring
"…!"
A bright and cheerful notification sound set exclusively for Jaehyuk Shin. It meant that the message was sent from Jaehyuk Shin's original smartphone, not from the Netophone.
Cha So-young checked the message by touching her smartphone.
[(Message sharing the address of Kakao Map)]
[Just come here.]
Cha So-young checked the address printed in the center of the map and immediately prepared to leave.
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