Gentle Giant Chapter 59
As soon as Dain arrived home, he sent an apology message to Kim Sujeong. This was because he realized that even if his actions were done with good intentions, they could make not only Sujeong but also Juho feel bad.
[Jung Dain sunbae: Sujeong hoobae. If my actions today made you feel bad, I’m really sorry. In my own way, I thought I was being good to Sujeong hoobae… I’ll be careful about such behavior from now on. Have a comfortable night and sweet dreams.│9:32 PM]
“Hmm……”
Sujeong stroked his lips while looking at the message that arrived on his phone. As expected…… it was an action without much meaning. He had been flustered on his own, thinking he was being considerate of himself as a carrier. But did he think it wasn’t obvious?
“Puhu.”
Sujeong, who was recalling Dain’s behavior at the library, let out a short laugh.
Sujeong looked at the message for a moment and then typed a reply.
[9:57 PM│I wasn’t offended. Still, you don’t need to show such consideration from now on. Sunbae, have sweet dreams too.]
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“Hyung, what are you doing?”
“Huh? Ah, I sent an apology message to Kim Sujeong hoobae and he replied that it’s okay. Phew, thank goodness. Right?”
“Mm? You sent an apology message?”
“Mm-hm! I should apologize for things like this right away. I was in the wrong. Thanks to you, Juho, I was able to avoid making a bigger mistake. Thank you, Juho.”
“It’s nothing, hyung.”
Dain smiled broadly while grabbing Juho’s fingers and fiddling with them. Juho, who had entrusted his fingers to Dain and was smiling, carefully brought up a topic.
“Hyung. Do you remember I said I also had something to tell you earlier?”
“Uh……? Ah, earlier when we were going to the car from the library? You had something else to say besides what you said in the car?”
“Yes. Actually, I should have talked about that first, but I was also out of my mind earlier.”
“Really? What is it?”
Dain turned his body toward Juho with a face full of curiosity. His face, which contained only pure questions, didn’t contain even 1% of suspicion toward Juho. Looking at that face, Juho felt great satisfaction along with a slight pang of conscience.
This was because what he was about to say was a preliminary battle to persuade Dain.
“Hyung. I think I need to move out from here.”
A bomb came out of Juho’s mouth. Dain’s eyes became as big as marbles.
Although Juho had finished what he wanted to say, Dain couldn’t give any answer. He just tilted his head to the side with his mouth open.
After staying still like that for about ten seconds, Dain’s eyes began to get wet. Dain’s lips trembled before he barely uttered a word.
“I, I don’t want that……”
“……What?”
At the mumbling words, Juho’s face moved closer to Dain’s lips. It was to properly hear what Dain had said.
Dain looked at Juho, who was listening to him, and rambled incoherently.
“No, no, Juho…… Is this place too small……? Why, why are you moving……? Was the bed too narrow after all? Then I can sleep on the floor…… Or is it because I use the bathroom for too long? Then I’ll wash and come out in 5 minutes from now on…… Uh, uh, or what’s the reason……? Huh? Don’t go! The, the dormitory is far from school and far from the company, you said so……!”
“Hyung……!”
“I don’t want it, Juho! I, being with you is really, really nice……! Mm-hm? Can’t you not go?”
Dain grabbed Juho’s sleeve and shook it. How nice it is to be with Juho……! Like an idiot, he had been excited by himself and didn’t know at all that Juho was uncomfortable. Dain’s head spun round and round, not knowing how to hold onto Juho.
Juho was also surprised. He had only brought it up to suggest moving to a different house instead of this one, but Dain’s reaction was much more intense than expected.
Juho quickly embraced Dain’s shoulders.
“Hyung, hyung! Moving doesn’t mean that……!”
“I don’t want it……! Don’t say you’re moving!”
“Ha, hyung, wait a moment. I was wrong. I’ll talk slowly again. First, calm down. Okay?”
“Mm-hm.”
“It wasn’t that I was moving out alone.”
“Then……?”
At Juho’s quick explanation, Dain, who had calmed down a bit, let out a big breath.
For some reason, thinking that Juho would disappear from his side made him feel like the ground was caving in under his feet. Thinking of being alone in this house made cold sweat flow down.
Dain thought he was strangely sensitive even to himself, but anyway, just thinking about Juho moving made his expression naturally frown.
“I sometimes live at the dormitory, you know. Although I’m mostly with hyung.”
“Yeah.”
“But living with other people is too uncomfortable. Since the dormitory is provided by the company, I’m more careful……”
“Mm-hm. Right……?”
“So…… I found a separate house.”
“What?”
Dain’s face became tearful again. He found a separate house. How was that different from saying he would leave here……! The corners of his mouth went down, and his chin began to tremble.
Juho carefully stroked Dain’s trembling eyes and continued speaking.
“I was thinking about how it would be if hyung and I lived together, mm…… So, I found a place a bit bigger than here. So I think it would be okay to live with hyung.”
“With…… me?”
“Yes. Hyung, how about living in the place I found instead of here?”
Now Juho had finished everything he wanted to say. This was why you had to listen to Korean until the end.
As soon as Juho finished speaking, Dain’s face turned dark red. He was embarrassed beyond measure for getting scared beforehand at the talk of moving and clinging desperately to Juho’s sleeve.
Dain covered his face with both hands. If there was a mouse hole, he wanted to hide in it right away. Should he go hide in the bathroom for a while first?
Dain’s knees twitched. It seemed like it would be okay if he stayed in the bathroom for just 20 minutes and then came out.
And Juho guessed what Dain would do next.
“Hyung, the bathroom won’t work.”
“……Just 20 minutes won’t work……?”
“No. Let’s finish the conversation we were having…… Keuk……”
“Juho.”
“Keum, yes……?”
“You can laugh loudly.”
As soon as Dain’s words fell, Juho doubled over. What does Jung Dain eat to be so cute? Fuck, he was so damn cute.
The more he chewed over the shameful memory, the more Dain’s shoulders curved inward. The more that happened, the louder Juho’s laughter became.
It was 10 minutes later when Juho, who had made Dain even more embarrassed with his refreshing laughter, calmed down to some degree.
“But Juho. Where did you get the money to find a house? Even if it’s near here, the deposit must have been expensive?”
“The money I saved when I was in America, and this time I asked my parents for help.”
“Ah……”
At Juho’s answer, Dain’s face became bad again. He said his relationship with his family wasn’t very good. How uncomfortable must it have been living with other people?
Juho, who mostly stayed at Dain’s house, only went to the dormitory once or twice a week. But even that must have been too difficult. Dain’s eyes were full of sadness looking at Juho, who was severely shy around strangers.
“Then, then it would have been okay to just keep staying at our house.”
“Actually, I was going to do that too.”
“Yeah. But?”
“Sigh…… I heard recently that there were burglaries in the villas nearby. Since this is a villa where many students live, and there are many places with poor security, I was too worried.”
“Gasp, really?!”
“Yes. So rather than here, I wanted to move to a place with good security even if it meant pushing myself a bit. What if something happens to hyung when I’m not here? I haven’t been sleeping well since then.”
Juho spouted lies without batting an eye. Usually, it was a neighborhood where not even strangers, let alone burglars, came and went, but because of Juho, it had transformed into a place with terrible security.
Dain looked around the house with a surprised face at Juho’s words.
Even if burglars came, there wasn’t anything to steal. However, as Juho said, it was vulnerable to security since there wasn’t even a password at the villa entrance.
Juho said he was worried about himself, but Dain was worried about Juho. He was living here trusting him, but if something big happened…… just thinking about it was terrible.
To think he couldn’t even sleep after hearing about burglaries. No wonder Juho’s face looked very tired.
“Juho, then is the house you found okay? The security?”
“I actually went to see it today. That’s what I meant when I said I had work.”
“Ah, I see.”
“Yes. I thought it was okay…… but I don’t know if hyung will like it.”
Juho liked the house that Managing Director Kim had found.
The best thing about coming to Korea was Jung Dain, but there were several other things he liked, and one of them was that work was handled quickly.
At first, he seemed curious about why he was looking for another house while leaving a perfectly good dormitory, but as usual, Managing Director Kim, without asking any particular questions to Juho who gave him no explanation, silently handled his work quickly.
It was 3 days ago that he asked Managing Director Kim to find a house with the conditions he wanted, and the day before yesterday, two days later, he heard that several candidates had been narrowed down.
From looking around just now to making the final decision. It was as swift as roasting beans with lightning.
“Mm. Well, yeah, mm. But this house…… still has time left on the contract……”
A realistic problem came out of Dain’s mouth.
The studio apartment he was currently living in was a house his parents had contracted for jeonse, thinking he would live there until next year when he was a senior. Although monthly rent wasn’t going out every month, even if security was poor, it felt a bit unsettling to leave a perfectly good house and go somewhere else.
Moreover, if he was going to live with Juho, he would have to pay monthly rent, and it was tight to cover monthly rent with the money he earned from part-time work during vacation.
“Then hyung, let’s go back and forth for now. Moving all of hyung’s stuff would be hard anyway. Ah, do you have to pay monthly rent?”
“Ah, no! That’s not it.”
Juho, who had been planning to pay the monthly rent in advance if it was monthly rent, tilted his head.
Then what was the problem? Dain’s mind was sometimes too complicated.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
