Jeonghan’s cute behavior made me smile. But on the other hand, I felt a great sense of crisis.
Unlike such a kind Jeonghan, Hyeol had a minor fight last night when he changed the channel Kkotsu was watching.
‘I, I… was w-watching… that…!’
When Kkotsu looked at Hyeol indignantly as he took away the remote, Hyeol replied bluntly.
‘You were sleeping.’
‘I w-wasn’t sleeping…’
‘You were sleeping.’
‘I, I… wasn’t sl-sleeping…’
‘You were sleeping.’
‘I w-wasn’t… sleeping…!’
Finally, when Kkotsu turned red-faced and shouted, Hyeol smiled slightly.
‘Then wipe the drool off your face first, Kkotsu.’
Right after that, Kkotsu threw a cushion with teary eyes, and Hyeol dodged it, further irritating Kkotsu. If I hadn’t intervened then, they probably would have had a big fight.
I sighed involuntarily. Both of them are too stubborn… It was hard to believe that those two would become future partners, but since they’re still young… I decided to understand it that way.
“This is near the station, right?”
At the sound of Eunseong-ssi’s voice, I came out of my reverie.
“Oh, yes yes, if you could stop over there, that would be great.”
“Wait a moment, there are cars behind us…”
Eunseong-ssi’s car went a little past the station and stopped in front of a street corner.
“Thank you so much for giving me a ride this far. Well then…”
“Wait, Seungyeon-ssi.”
“…Yes?”
It was when I was about to briefly say goodbye and get out of the car. Eunseong-ssi put his hand in his inner pocket, rummaged around, and took something out.
“I thought you might need this.”
“Ah, if it’s vitamins…”
I hadn’t looked at it properly, but whatever it was, I was about to refuse when strangely my vision became dark. At this strange feeling, I slowly turned around toward the car window.
“Uh…? Woojin… -ssi…?”
Somehow he had found out, because right in front of the car window stood Baek Woojin with a frightening expression.
“Uh… What, suddenly that person…”
As Eunseong-ssi muttered in surprise, I quickly unfastened my seatbelt.
“Eunseong-ssi, actually I have an appointment… I’ll get off here, I’m sorry.”
“Wait a moment, Seungyeon-ssi.”
Click.
As I was about to get out of the car, Eunseong-ssi locked the door. When I turned around in confusion, Eunseong-ssi looked at Baek Woojin standing outside the car and said,
“Really, you have no relationship with that person at all?”
“What…?”
It was absurd. Did he really need to ask such a question in this way? Eunseong-ssi’s behavior right now was incredibly rude.
“Eunseong-ssi, it’s not that we have no relationship – I clearly told you that he’s my friend.”
So I openly showed my displeasure.
“Friends?”
Twitch, Eunseong-ssi’s eyebrows shot up as he said that. His eyes also showed that he couldn’t believe my words at all.
“But he’s marking you like that, as if you took a pheromone shower?”
“What? What? Shower?”
What was he suddenly talking about? I had heard about marking from Baek Woojin before so I roughly understood it, but pheromone shower…? That was the first time I’d heard such a strange term.
Bang!
That’s when it happened. At the heavy sound of something hitting the car, both of us were startled and turned our heads. Baek Woojin had knocked on the car window with his fist clenched tight. The glass didn’t break but it left a mark.
“That person really…”
Then Eunseong-ssi unfastened his seatbelt with an angry expression. He looked ready to get out of the car immediately and grab Baek Woojin by the collar.
“W-wait a moment, Eunseong-ssi…!”
If I just left it like this, it seemed like a big fight would break out, so I hurriedly grabbed Eunseong-ssi’s arm.
“That person…! That person is Kkotsu’s dad!”
“…What?”
As I expected, Eunseong-ssi showed a confused expression, as if the imaginary person he had created and Baek Woojin didn’t overlap at all.
“Really… Kkotsu’s… dad…?”
Eunseong-ssi’s pupils shook aimlessly. It was natural. Not only was his appearance completely different from what he had imagined, but right now he was glaring at him with very frightening eyes.
“So Eunseong-ssi… Please open the door now.”
I grabbed the door handle while asking. Only then did Eunseong-ssi seem to realize his mistake, his face turning red.
“S-sorry, Seungyeon-ssi…! Ah, but take this with you. You must!”
What Eunseong-ssi had been trying to give me was a palm-sized deodorizer. It was exactly the same as the deodorizer that Yoon Mina, the mistress of the second son of the Gwak family, had been carrying.
“Why this…”
When I looked at him with puzzled eyes, Eunseong-ssi made a bitter expression and opened the door.
“If you really have no relationship… please make sure to use that.”
Click.
As soon as Eunseong-ssi finished speaking, the door opened and strong hands pulled me out. Swoosh, in an instant my body that had escaped from the car was easily embraced in Baek Woojin’s arms.
Thud. Then the car door closed. Without looking back, Baek Woojin held me and strode away with large steps.
“It seems Chae Seungyeon-ssi has quite an intimate relationship with taxi drivers.”
“…!”
Gasp… Only then did I realize that I had lied to Baek Woojin. If I had known it would turn out like this, I should have said I was taking a ride from a parent from the same kindergarten…
“W… Woojin-ssi… About that…”
I was trying to make excuses when Baek Woojin suddenly stopped walking.
“I’ll consider that I misunderstood.”
“…”
“So please don’t mention the taxi driver story anymore.”
Baek Woojin spoke curtly and started walking again. Until we reached the car where he had parked, I couldn’t dare ask to be put down or say anything at all.
His rigidly hardened face clearly showed he was very angry, but what made me most afraid was that Baek Woojin never once made eye contact with me.
*
The car was moving smoothly. Inside the car that Baek Woojin was driving, I didn’t say anything. The atmosphere made it that way.
Was Baek Woojin’s anger still not resolved? I was wrong to lie about taking a taxi, but… acting like he wouldn’t even listen to my explanation seemed honestly too much.
“Do you know where we’re going right now?”
Then, Baek Woojin spoke to me first. I looked at him with half joy, half anxiety.
“Where are we going…?”
“The hospital.”
“What? The hospital?”
I naturally recalled the memory of getting an injection. Of course I had to be disgusted.
“No, why? Why suddenly the hospital? Are you sick somewhere, Woojin-ssi?”
When I sat up to examine his complexion, Baek Woojin stopped the car.
Gasp, had we already arrived at the hospital? Looking outside the car window, there was no hospital parking lot around, only an alley leading inward.
“If you ask if I’m sick, it’s around my heart area, but it’s fine now.”
“What? Your heart…?”
He had seemed healthier than anyone else until now, so I wondered if he had heart disease or something.
As if he had read my thoughts, Baek Woojin slightly raised the corner of his mouth and said,
“I don’t have heart disease or anything like that. It’s just that today Chae Seungyeon-ssi is going to receive a simple trait examination at the hospital and get prescribed appropriate medication.”
“Trait examination and… medication…?”
No, the purpose of coming to the hospital wasn’t Baek Woojin but me…?
“As I mentioned before, alphas have rut cycles, and omegas have heat cycles that come periodically or aperiodically.”
“Ah.”
It was something I was well aware of, just as Baek Woojin had explained at the department store.
“Usually in such cases, they either sleep with a partner or take suppressants.”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
