Can Love Be Transferred Too? 47

#47

“Even so…”

Gazes poured from all directions. I couldn’t bear the embarrassment and swallowed dry saliva before answering.

“Once we decide like this, we can’t change it. Won’t you regret it?”

Then Jin Woohyeon raised his eyebrow and asked back.

“Why would I regret it? I made my decision the moment I saw hyung’s face.”

“…”

My gaze reflexively whipped around. Lee Chan was looking at me with a displeased expression. I wasn’t really doing anything wrong to him, but I don’t know why I was being conscious of him.

‘…Come to think of it, that’s right.’

That’s why habits are scary. Being conscious of Lee Chan first no matter what I do has become completely ingrained in my body. Even though it’s been a long time, a very long time since we stopped being in that kind of relationship.

It was when Lee Chan’s sharp, pointed eyes and my eyes that were flinching for no reason met directly.

“Why are you looking over there?”

In an instant, my chin was grabbed and my head turned. The flashy, sharp face disappeared and Jin Woohyeon completely filled my vision.

“I was the one who asked for the date, but you’re looking in a strange direction.”

Han Jiwon laughed as if bewildered.

“You really can’t see us at all, can you?”

“It’s not just hyung that can’t be seen, right? We’ve all become invisible people now.”

Hwang Yeonwoo tapped Jin Woohyeon’s wrist with the edge of his hand to separate us.

“Alright, alright. If you’ve all decided, could you please separate for courtesy’s sake? We need to decide roommates. You two also go over there and get the cards that Eungi hyung is handing out.”

While Hwang Yeonwoo went to get the whiteboard, we received pens and cards.

Write three words that can describe your pheromone. It was a simple question, but filling it out was harder than expected.

“Lemon…”

Isn’t there only lemon? Holding the pen, I became serious.

‘How are you supposed to know your own pheromone?’

My scent was lighter than others’, only barely noticeable when my heat cycle was approaching. And by that time, I’m half out of my mind, so I don’t have the leisure to leisurely distinguish what my pheromone resembles.

Of course, there was the method of asking my X, like how Han Jiwon filled out Bae Taeseong’s card for him, but…

I was frowning deeply and staring at the writing when.

“Blood orange and acacia honey.”

Jin Woohyeon, who was next to me, gave me the answer. My head shot up.

“How… Ah.”

We were together during this heat cycle, right.

“Thanks.”

Thanks to him, my worry was completely resolved. As I wrote down blood orange and acacia honey in order as he said, Jin Woohyeon gestured to me.

“Will hyung guess mine?”

“Don’t you know it all?”

“I’m not sure…”

I looked at him with a bewildered expression, then made a fist and tapped his shoulder.

“Where are you lying? You didn’t even wet your lips with saliva.”

“Quickly, quickly. I’m going to write down the scent that hyung describes.”

He seemed determined to persist until I answered. If this continued, I felt like I’d hear other people say we were completely invisible again, so I eventually nodded with an expression that said to get it over with quickly.

“Water and… earth and… wind?”

“There’s no sincerity at all? Are you getting revenge for me playing around just now?”

“No, I’m serious! I’m not just saying whatever comes to mind… It really smells exactly like that? The scent of dawn after rain?”

“Doesn’t it smell fishy from the ground after rain?”

“…Give me that. I’ll really write ‘fishy smell.'”

“Ah, why. No.”

We were childishly bickering over how to write it when.

“If you’re done writing, give it here.”

An arm suddenly stretched out from behind and snatched the card from my hand. It was Bae Taeseong.

“Aren’t lemon and lime the same thing? Anyway, even the pheromone is exactly like me. Jin Woohyeon, right? This one is…”

Bae Taeseong, who was collecting Jin Woohyeon’s card that we finally agreed on as ‘dawn earth after rain,’ flinched.

“Taeseong hyung? What’s wrong?”

Was it my imagination? For a moment, his atmosphere seemed to sharpen dangerously, but as soon as I looked at him with puzzlement, it softened instantly as if nothing had happened.

“Aha…”

“…”

“So that was you.”

Jin Woohyeon tilted his head and asked.

“Why? Are you acquaintances now that you see each other?”

“If you want to put it that way?”

Before I could ask what was similar, there was a rattling sound. Hwang Yeonwoo, who had placed the whiteboard in the center of the living room, couldn’t stand it anymore and showed off his juggling skills with three board markers.

“Let’s draw for the Alphas first? Two people per room, and one person gets a single room. If you write your names above, I’ll make the ladder shape however I want.”

Hwang Yeonwoo, who drew the ladder with swift hand movements, announced the results one by one like he was hosting a game. Since he mainly worked on internet game broadcasts, his speaking skills were definitely exceptional.

“Alright, then. To summarize, Choi Eungi hyung gets the single room. Han Jiwon hyung and Lee Chan hyung, and Bae Taeseong hyung and Jin Woohyeon hyung. That’s how it’s decided!”

I glanced at Bae Taeseong and Jin Woohyeon. It was because Bae Taeseong’s mood seemed subtly uncomfortable.

When they first met, it wasn’t this awkward, so why did the atmosphere suddenly become strange? I thought I should ask casually later.

While I was lost in thought, our turn came. When we drew the ladder, Kim Sehyeong got the single room, and Hwang Yeonwoo and An Lei would share the same room. Naturally, Jeon Yudam and I were paired together.

“Wow!”

Jeon Yudam was genuinely delighted and hugged me tightly.

“Amazing! Same room with Sanho hyung! I’m so excited!”

I was also looking forward to living in the same room as the cheerful him, but…

“What should we do and play first? Should we play board games while drinking beer? I have so many things I want to ask Sanho hyung. Then should we definitely play a truth game? Should we include other people too? Ah, I brought face masks. Should we do that while we’re at it? They’re peel-off masks and they’re really good.”

…I was exactly that worried too.

* * *

I was literally wrung out to my soul.

It wasn’t that I disliked it. It was closer to feeling refreshed. Although I was mentally drained, it was good that I could avoid being buried in depressing thoughts because of it.

‘Still, difficult is difficult. Today’s quota of socializing is over…’

I climbed up to the rooftop with sluggish steps and lay down on the bench. Maybe because it was closer to May than April, it wasn’t that cold even being outside like this.

Jeon Yudam had chatted so much that he eventually came down to the bottom bunk. Watching him stick right next to me and chatter without pause, I wondered if this was what it would feel like to have a younger brother. Jeon Yudam seemed to think similarly and asked with a big smile.

‘If I had a hyung, would it feel like this?’

If I really were Jeon Yudam’s hyung, I think I would have wanted to do anything he wanted. Just looking at him with pitiful eyes and acting cute would make me give in completely, so objectively, I probably wouldn’t be a good hyung.

‘Yudam seems like he grew up without lacking anything. In a good way, of course. Should I say he seems to have no wrinkles?’

‘I know what you mean. It’s also true. I was lucky, you know. My family had a lot of money. Thanks to that, I got into medical school too.’

Even while saying that, he didn’t seem completely happy, but the gloomy expression disappeared instantly, so I wondered if it was my imagination.

‘Medical school means you’ll be busy from now on.’

‘I managed to take a month off, right? Actually, this is a secret… There’ll be chaos when it airs on TV, hehe. I might get in huge trouble with my parents.’

‘…You came even knowing that? Why?’

Jeon Yudam, who was blinking as if sleepy, hugged me tightly and mumbled.

‘Because I wanted to see him that badly…’

Forgetting to go up to his own bed, Jeon Yudam fell asleep next to me. I patted his back and thought deeply.

“It seems like he has lingering feelings.”

It seems like he still likes Choi Eungi, so why did he say he had no lingering feelings last time?

Between saying he wanted to see his face this badly and saying he didn’t want to meet again, which one was sincere? If both were sincere, would there be a reason why it had to be that way?

I was deeply absorbed in such thoughts when.

“Do you have lingering feelings?”

“Ahh! You scared me!”

At the voice that suddenly came, I literally jumped. Clutching my pounding heart and looking toward where the voice came from, there was Choi Eungi with a bewildered face, as surprised as I was.

“…What? Are you real?”

“Excuse me?”

“You’re real… I thought I was seeing things because I was thinking so hard.”

Then a faint smile appeared on Choi Eungi’s face.

“You must have been thinking about me.”

“…”

“May I ask why?”

I ended up clutching my head.

‘Ah… Yoo Sanho.’

This idiot.