I’ve Been Possessed by a Sub Character 19

# Chapter 19

“Alright, everyone!”

A student council senior clapped his hands to get attention. He announced that the after-party was over and told everyone to take care of their drunk classmates. I stood up and looked around to find Lee Daeju, Kwon Jisu, and Shin Gihyeok.

“Who are you looking for?”

“My friendsss…”

“Didn’t they go home first? Check if you got any messages.”

That made sense. When I opened my phone, there was a message from Shin Gihyeok, just as Ki Taeyoung said.

[21 Shin Gihyeok: We’re leaving first]

[21 Shin Gihyeok: I was going to wait for you but Lee Daeju drank so much he can’t even stand]

[21 Shin Gihyeok: He’s making a fuss saying his boyfriend will kill him if he finds out]

[21 Shin Gihyeok: He’s so drunk he doesn’t know where his house is]

[21 Shin Gihyeok: It feels weird taking him to my place so we’re heading to Kwon Jisu’s]

[21 Shin Gihyeok: Sorry, see you later]

“They left firsttt…”

I looked at Ki Taeyoung. I thought I was keeping myself together, but my words kept slurring.

“Then I’ll be goinggg now… Thank you for comforting me today.”

I bowed my head while standing. As I turned to go home, Ki Taeyoung called me.

“Can you go alone?”

I might have been drunk before, but not now. There was a small incident where I almost hit my head on a beer bottle while bowing and Ki Taeyoung caught me, but anyway, I had sobered up.

“Yes. I can go by myshelf.”

“Do you know you’re slurring right now?”

“I’m shpeaking very clearly.”

Ki Taeyoung covered his mouth and chuckled. It felt like he was laughing at me, so I pushed out my lips in a pout and gave him a timid glare.

“Do you live in a rented room? Or do you commute?”

I was about to say I commute, but then I realized that from tomorrow I’d be living in a rented place, so I closed my mouth. At the same time, I thought it would be better to walk to my nearby rented room than go all the way home.

“I live in a rented room nearby. It’s very closhe, so I can go alone.”

I heard all the furniture was already set up. I didn’t have a change of clothes, but I thought it would be fine if I just slept there.

“Really?”

“Yesh.”

Just then, my phone vibrated with a KakaoTalk notification. My heart raced with anticipation, wondering if it was from Do Jihoon.

[21 Shin Gihyeok: Just to be cautious, even if that senior offers to take you home, don’t go with him. Call your fiancé instead]

It wasn’t.

Irritation washed over me. That bastard Do Jihoon was still sulking after getting angry, not contacting me for days.

As I quietly stared at my phone, Ki Taeyoung looked at me like he was watching a cat or a dog.

“What is it?”

He asked, tilting his head.

“Nothing. It seems the person I was waiting for didn’t contact me.”

Ki Taeyoung’s joking comment made me suddenly upset. There must be something wrong with my tear ducts because the tears that had stopped began to well up again. Ki Taeyoung was startled and tried to comfort me, saying he didn’t mean to make me cry.

“Take me home.”

I blurted out in a fit of anger. After saying it, I fidgeted with Ki Taeyoung’s outer coat, wondering if I had been too rude, when I clearly sensed his fresh apple scent pheromone through my nose.

“Thank you.”

“…? For what?”

“For saying you’ll take me home.”

He smiled widely as if genuinely happy. I stared blankly at that smile. He was truly a kind person.

There are people like that. People who have consideration ingrained in them and kindness as a habit. People who are liked by everyone and who like everyone. That seemed to be Ki Taeyoung. He was someone who made others feel excited with every word he spoke.

I gave Ki Taeyoung my rented room address. He said I’d found a good place for a rented room and supported me by placing my arm on his shoulder.

“My arm hurts…”

But perhaps due to the height difference between Ki Taeyoung and me, my arm started feeling stretched. Ki Taeyoung thought for a moment, then knelt in front of me and showed his back.

“Climb on.”

“What…? I’m heavy.”

“I’m strong.”

“Come to think of it, my arm doesn’t hurt anymore. I think I can walk on my ownnn.”

Despite my protests, he just smiled and showed no sign of getting up. I had no choice but to climb onto Ki Taeyoung’s back. He grabbed my legs with his hands and carried me.

I was feeling very awkward about being piggy-backed by someone I’d only met three times, so I curled my hands and placed them on Ki Taeyoung’s back.

“Can you put your arms around my neck? Otherwise, you might fall backward.”

“……”

“Hmm? Put them around. It’ll hurt if you fall backward.”

“I know that.”

I grumbled, but eventually wrapped my arms around Ki Taeyoung’s neck. As I lowered my head, my nose touched his smooth brown skin. Maybe because that’s where the pheromone gland was located, the apple scent wafted around as if I were in an apple orchard.

As I sniffed the sweet smell while being carried for a while, the apartment I’d searched for online came into view. When he asked which building, I answered properly while swinging my legs back and forth.

“Is it here?”

I nodded at his words. I unwrapped my arms as a signal to let me down. But he lowered his waist instead, preventing me from getting off.

“I’ve arrived. I just need to go up now.”

“…I see.”

It was just as he was about to put me down.

“……”

A warm sun-like fragrance brushed my nose. It was a pheromone scent that shouldn’t be here. I thought people could imagine smells just like hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, but when I looked ahead:

Do Jihoon was there.

Wondering if I was now having visual hallucinations too, I reached out and tapped him. The warm skin under my fingertips felt vivid.

“Huh…? It’s really you?”

“……”

He opened his mouth with an expression that seemed to have a lot to say, then closed it again. The warm sun smell gradually turned into a hot furnace.

“Put Yeon Yuri down.”

At Do Jihoon’s words, Ki Taeyoung stared at him intently, then gently put me down. As I staggered from the sudden change in perspective, Ki Taeyoung and Do Jihoon’s hands grabbed my left and right arms respectively to support me.

“……”

“You can go now. I’ll take Yuri to our home.”

“…Our home, huh.”

Their pheromones tangled sharply.

But Ki Taeyoung couldn’t win against Do Jihoon’s dominant Alpha pheromones. Ki Taeyoung’s apple scent gradually faded, and the hot heat wrapped around me.

“Ah! Senior. Thank you for taking me home.”

I quickly raised my head and bowed to Ki Taeyoung. Immediately, the two pheromones surrounding me disappeared. Ki Taeyoung smiled prettily at me and gently stroked my hair.

“Get home safe.”

“Senior, take your coat back.”

“Give it to me later.”

“But it’s cold…”

“It’s okay. This is an excuse.”

Ki Taeyoung covered my ear with his hand and whispered softly.

“An excuse to meet again when you return the coat.”

At the same time, I felt a piercing gaze on my back.

“……”

Ki Taeyoung turned and left the apartment complex. Do Jihoon and I stood still in the cold outside until he disappeared into a dot.

“……”

Do Jihoon looked at me. Something in his dark eyes conveyed various emotions. It was a panorama of feelings too difficult for drunk me to comprehend.

As I stared at him blankly, Do Jihoon raised an eyebrow and said:

“Let’s go inside first.”

Do Jihoon held my arm and went into the apartment. His pheromones, emanating gently, were warm yet lonely.

I must have been drunk for sure. Given Do Jihoon’s personality, it wouldn’t have been surprising if he’d left me on the ground and gone home alone, not caring whether my mouth went crooked or not.

It felt like Do Jihoon was holding my arm quite gently.

“…You’re not Jihoon, right?”

“Here we go again.”

“My Alpha isn’t this caring.”

“You, I…”

He moved his lips as if to say something, then stopped. Despite me pestering him from the side with “What? What?” his tightly closed mouth showed no signs of opening.

“Wow. It’s home!”

With a beeping sound, the door closed.

The rented room had that distinctive new house smell. Feeling good, I took off my shoes and ran into the living room.

But the floor was more slippery than I expected. I fell and banged my knee on the floor. A thud echoed.

“Ouch…”

“You just can’t stay still, can you.”

Do Jihoon quickly walked over to me. He sat on the floor and lifted my leg onto his thigh. He carefully rolled up my jeans.