Episode 3
That’s not it.
I’ve heard that there are kids who run home from school without paying attention, but Yoonjae isn’t that obsessive-compulsive.
However, she just doesn’t like the fact that Jeong Soo-hyeok is invading her most secret and private space.
It’s none other than Jeong Soo-hyeok.
“Don’t be funny, just use the bathroom in your parents’ room.”
“I don’t want to invade adults’ privacy.”
“So, you want to invade my privacy?”
Although Jeong Soo-hyeok is the idol of all the female students in school, that doesn’t mean that Yoon Jae herself idolizes Jeong Soo-hyeok.
I have no intention of screaming even if Jeong Soo-hyeok just looks at me.
“Adults have to go through the bedroom to get to the bathroom, but it’s different here.”
Jeong Soo-hyeok knocked on the bathroom door across from Yoon Jae’s room with his hand.
“I don’t even have to pass by your room, so why do I have to ask permission to use it here?”
“It was originally a place that I used alone.”
“It wasn’t decided like that, was it?”
“The second floor is for me alone. It’s always been like that.”
“There probably wasn’t anyone to use it.”
What Jeong Soo-hyeok said is not wrong.
It’s not a bathroom attached to the room.
The two bathrooms on the lower floor are each located inside a room, making it inconvenient for anyone other than the person using that room to use it.
However, on the second floor, the room and bathroom are separate.
It is not a structure that can be entered through a room like the
lower floor.
If you insist on using it, there is no excuse for saying you can’t.
And as Jeong Soo-hyeok said, no one has used the bathroom on the second floor so far.
In a house where only my father and Yoonjae lived, my father never had to come all the way to the second floor to use the bathroom.
So, Yoonjae confirmed once again that Jeong Soo hyeok was an unlucky guy who threw a wrench into her quiet life.
Now he’s a first human who even tries to touch her toilet.
“You are a bit bitter.”
“Hey, Jeong… … .”
Before she could say anything, Soo-hyeok opened the bathroom door and went inside, then smirked at Yoon-jae right before closing the door.
“Even if you peek, I won’t say anything.”
What? What is that guy saying now?
Peep? Peep at what.
No, what kind of person do you think I am?
Yoonjae, who was angry, slammed the door shut.
And then I sat back down on the chair, but I couldn’t concentrate.
Is he doing this on purpose to make me fail the test?
I know it’s not true, but I was so annoyed that I couldn’t even look at my workbook properly.
What was more disturbing was the sound of water seeping through the crack in the door.
The bottom of the door floats slightly, and the bathroom door also floats a few centimeters, so the sound of the shower water is bound to be heard.
“It’s annoying.”
Yoonjae took out her earphones and put them in her ears.
Then I picked some loud music and looked at my workbook again.
Next week is the test, and I can’t afford to mess it up by getting distracted by someone like Jeong Soo-hyeok.
How much time has passed?
Yunjae, who was working on her workbook with earphones on, looked up and checked her phone on the desk.
It’s 2 o’clock.
Now I need to close my eyes and sleep for about three hours so I can wake up and leave for school early in the morning.
‘Lets go and wash up a bit… … .’
It’s a bit awkward after Jeong Soo-hyeok used it, but there’s nothing I can do about it.
Yoonjae stretched, opened the door, and went out into the hallway.
It was pretty quiet downstairs.
Because she was wearing earphones, Yoonjae doesn’t know whether her father or stepmother came home in the meantime.
Even if they came back, there was no reason for Yoonjae to know about it.
We live in the same house, but we are now used to living like strangers.
My stepmother is a stranger to me, and my father has also been like that for a long time.
Even before my mother had an affair, divorced him, and left home, my father had been acting like a stranger with me.
It can’t be helped that my genes are mixed with my father’s, but once I enter college, I plan on to become completely independent and become my own person.
I can live alone. That’s enough.
Yoonjae opened the bathroom door and went in, while stopping on her tracks.
A look of confusion was evident on Yoonjae’s face.
“Jeong Soo-hyeok?”
What am I looking at right now?
Jeong Soo-hyeok was asleep in the bathtub.
Lying in a bathtub filled to his chest with water and his arms hanging over the bathtub, Jeong Soo-hyeok appeared to be asleep.
‘Are you crazy?’
Does it make sense that he has been like this for two hours?
The water might have cooled already.
No matter how tired you are, falling asleep in the bathtub is truly absurd.
And in someone else’s bathroom, too.
I also noticed some clothes hanging on the shelf, carelessly thrown away.
Rather than feeling uneasy about leaving him behind, I was more concerned about Jeong Soo-hyeok staying like this until the morning.
‘Do you really want to catch cold?’
The water should have cooled down enough by now.
If you sit in cold water like that and fall asleep until the morning, there’s a good chance you’ll catch a cold.
I hope Jeong Soo-hyeok catches a cold.
How would I feel if he got a really bad cold and couldn’t take the test at all?
‘Let’s leave him alone.’
Thinking like that, Yoonjae was about to close the door again and leave.
“Shouldn’t you wake me up?”
Yoonjae was startled and embarrassed by the voice of Jeong Soo hyeok, who she thought was asleep.
“If someone falls asleep in the bathtub, you have to wake them up. How can you just leave them out?”
“Why do I have to wake you up when you can wake up on your own?”
Yoonjae turned around and glared at Soo hyeok.
There was not a single trace of sleepiness in Soo-hyeok’s eyes as he looked at her.
It wasn’t like he was asleep from the start.
He was just pretending to be asleep.
‘You crazy kid.’
“I thought you would come in, but I was wondering when you would come in.”
“What?”
Soo hyeok slowly got up.
As Soo-hyeok, who had been leaning against the bathtub, sat up straight, the water in the bathtub began to drip down his chest, sloshing.
To be honest, this was my first time seeing the naked upper body of a man, especially a man my age.
But that’s not what’s important right now.
There’s no need to blush or anything over something like that.
I don’t want to do anything embarrassing to Jeong Soo-hyeok.
“I thought you might peek, but you didn’t, so I waited, thinking you might come in to wash your hands.”
“What the hell?”
“Seo Yoon-jae.”
When Jeong Soo-hyeok called her name, Yoon Jae’s shoulders flinched.
Honestly, Yoonjae thought that Jeong soo hyeok didn’t know her name.
Although we lived in the same house, we had no interest in each other, and because we had no interest in each other, we never talked to each other, and we never even sat at the same table to eat.
It wasn’t strange even if he didn’t know my name.
No, it was stranger that he knew my name.
“Do you know my name?”
“You know my name too.”
“You…….”
Yoonjae barely managed to swallow the words, “You’re not a celebrity.”
What good would it do to remind someone that they are a celebrity?
It just makes them more arrogant.
“Seo Yoon-jae, it’s been five months since we started living together. But you don’t even pretend to know me at school?”
Pretending to know?
Should I pretend to know you?
She already has little time to study, and if it becomes known that she lives in the same house as Jeong Soo-hyeok, her school life will obviously be a mess.
Her friends would ask her about Jeong Soo-hyeok all day long, and even kids from other classes she didn’t know would look for her.
Just because I live in the same house as Jeong Soo-hyeok.
And then I’ll be compared to him by everyone else in the class again and again.
Jeong Soo-hyeok is always first in the entire school, and she herself is always second.
Any involvement at school, good or bad, is absolutely unacceptable.
“We don’t have to pretend to know each other. We don’t even say a word at home, so why should we pretend to know each other at school?”
“Because we’re family?”
“Who? You?”
Yoonjae snorted without realizing it.
It didn’t matter that it was 2 AM, that I was in the bathroom, and that Jeong Soo-hyeok was sitting naked in the bathtub.
What’s important is what Jeong Soo-hyeok said to me.
Family? I’ll never listen to all that crazy nonsense.
I don’t even think of my blood-related father as family, so what about him? He believes that I would think Jeong Soo-hyeok as my family?
“You and I. Aren’t we a family?”
“No.”
“Before the end of this year, Father and Mother will legally register their marriage, and then I will be added to the family register, but won’t we still be family? When we get the paperwork later, the paperwork will say that we are family.”
“No matter what, you are not my family. I don’t have a family like you.”
“Is it because you don’t like me? Because you hate me and my mother?”
“No. It just won’t work.”
“So you hate me for no reason?”
“Do you need a reason? Why do you need a reason when I say I don’t need a family? I don’t consider you and your mother as family. My father? I don’t even consider him as a family either. Is
that okay? I don’t have a family.”
Yoonjae herself didn’t know why she had to say such things to Jeong soo hyeok.
Maybe she fell for Jeong Soo-hyeok’s provocation.
But I didn’t know that I would end up telling Jeong Soo-hyeok something I had been keeping inside, something I had never told anyone else.
“I knew it.”
Yoonjae didn’t like the way Soo hyeok kept pulling his lips and smiling.
I don’t like it when people laugh like they knew exactly what I was going to say.
As if you know everything.
Actually, he doesn’t know anything.
“Me too.”
I didn’t want to listen to anything that Jeong soo-hyeok had to say.
