By Zephyria I was afraid that I couldn’t discuss it with anyone and had to make a decision on my own.
If I rashly opened my mouth and Sung Se-han fell into confusion, then it would really be irreversible…
The elevator stopped with a notification that I had arrived in the underground parking lot. I took my body off the mirror I had been leaning on and walked towards the door that was slowly opening, and then I was startled and let out a groan.
“Uh!”
Sung Se-han was standing in front of the wide-open elevator door.
I couldn’t believe it even after seeing Sung Se-han, who was breathing roughly while holding onto the wall, so I just blinked blankly.
“Se-han! You…?”
Sung Se-han, who had straightened his back, grabbed my wrist. I finally came to my senses after being dragged out of the elevator in a daze.
“Se-han? How did you… did you run down the stairs?”
“Yeah.”
Sung Se-han, nodding, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand.
“Se-han, wait a minute…”
Sung Se-han was walking so fast that I had to walk quickly to keep up.
“Where are you going? You have a meeting this morning too…”
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
Sung Se-han’s expression as he looked at me was so firm that I couldn’t say anything more. At that moment, the door of the sedan parked in the designated spot on the right opened, and Vice Manager got out.
“Se-han, where are you trying to go again…”
“Hyung, take a rest. I’m going to take Tae-kyung.”
Vice Manager’s expression immediately became serious at Sung Se-han’s words.
“Se-han, wait a minute. You have to get permission from Sunbae first…”
“Okay, then.”
Sung Se-han, opening the passenger seat door, pushed my back. I looked at Vice Manager’s expression and had no choice but to get in the car.
As Sung Se-han closed the passenger seat door, Vice Manager Joong-seop quickly approached.
“Se-han, you know the atmosphere over there isn’t good these days. I have to be by your side…”
“That’s unusual.”
Sung Se-han, turning his back on Joong-seop, walked to the driver’s seat.
“Was Hyung someone who cared about things like the atmosphere?”
Sung Se-han waved his hand as if he was annoyed and got into the driver’s seat, and Joong-seop sighed.
“I don’t know either.”
As the sedan smoothly left the parking lot, he took out his phone from his pants pocket.
“I’m the one who’s going to get scolded by Sunbae for this.”
Because Robin Sunbae would never say anything bad to Sung Se-han. Joong-seop sighed deeply while the phone signal was going through.
“Se-han.”
Sung Se-han, who was holding the steering wheel, had been driving for a while without saying anything, so I spoke first.
“Did you come to take me home? Or…”
I was afraid to ask if he had something to say to me, so I couldn’t finish my sentence and bit my lip.
“I also wanted to see Lee Tae-kyung’s face a little more.”
The sedan slowed down and stopped at the crosswalk stop line.
“I also have something to say.”
Sung Se-han, with one hand on the steering wheel, turned to look at me. I was so focused on Sung Se-han that I belatedly realized he was scratching the seatbelt with his fingernails, even though his gaze was fixed on the front. That’s why I could sensitively feel Sung Se-han’s eyes carefully examining me.
“Tae-kyung, about the day you came to see me.”
The day I went to see him? Sung Se-han watched me until I turned to look at him, puzzled.
“January 8th. The day you suddenly came to see me.”
Ah…! I almost faltered, but I desperately tried to keep a straight face.
January 8th. That was the day I returned from Sung Se-han’s funeral. As soon as I woke up, I rushed out of the dorm and ran to Sung Se-han.
“I pretended not to notice, but Lee Tae-kyung started acting strange from then on.”
I released the seatbelt I had been pressing with my fingernails and lowered my gaze.
“I acted strange…?”
“Yeah.”
Suddenly, Sung Se-han reached out and touched my cheek.
“You admit it too, don’t you? You chased after me like someone who received a mission.”
“……”
Sung Se-han watched every detail of my eyes shaking uncontrollably.
“You said you just wanted to see me. Did you also say you would protect me from now on?”
That wasn’t my will, but the Status Window forced me to…
“You had a face that looked like you hated me to death, but you only said pretty things I wanted to hear.”
I touched my forehead without realizing it. Back then, saying those things was frustrating and unfair. Because resentment towards Sung Se-han remained.
“But the way you looked at me was so affectionate that it’s hard to describe. Like you were looking at someone who had died and come back to life.”
“Sung Se-han!”
I raised my voice towards Sung Se-han without realizing it.
“Don’t say things like… dying.”
My lips trembled so much that the words didn’t come out clearly. I didn’t even realize the light had changed, and I flinched as the car started moving with a small vibration.
“Lee Tae-kyung.”
Sung Se-han, who slowly turned the steering wheel to change lanes, called me softly. Now, Sung Se-han was looking straight ahead, and I was looking at Sung Se-han’s picturesque profile.
“I’ve been having dreams about you for the past few days.”
“What…? What kind of…”
What kind of dream? My mouth was parched, and even though I was impatient, the words didn’t come out quickly.
“Maybe…”
Had he been having those dreams ever since that day? Then… even the scene of the accident…? As that thought crossed my mind, I felt the blood turn cold.
“Lee Tae-kyung, dating another bastard in my dream.”
Huh…? At the completely unexpected words, my shoulders slumped as if the air had been let out of me.
“That’s just a stupid dream.”
“Even if it’s a stupid dream, it pissed me off.”
Sung Se-han turned towards me and stared intently.
“I kept thinking about it even after I woke up from the dream, and it pissed me off.”
Sung Se-han’s face looked so cold when his expression was erased, and I had always hated that. So, I took Sung Se-han’s hand and smiled brightly for him.
“Se-han. It’s just a stupid dream, why are you worrying about something like that?”
Me dating another man. Hearing such an unimaginable thing made the tension disappear.
“Hey, if it weren’t for you… I really wouldn’t have met a guy. My dream was to get married early, but you ruined it.”
I’m not interested in anyone, man or woman. Now, I can’t be with anyone but Sung Se-han. I know for sure that I will never have feelings for anyone other than Sung Se-han.
Because there’s no one else like Sung Se-han in this world.
“Marry me.”
Sung Se-han took my hand and rubbed his lips on the back of it.
“If you marry me, I’ll do whatever Lee Tae-kyung wants.”
Brown eyes looking at me while kissing the back of my hand. Everything I wanted was already contained within them.
“You bad guy.”
My heart was getting so hot that I felt heat rising throughout my whole body. Even my exhaled breath was hot, and I nervously licked my lips.
“You still haven’t even asked me to be your Darling.”
At my words, the corners of Sung Se-han’s lips turned up.
“That’s in preparation.”
“In preparation?”
I leaned towards Sung Se-han without realizing it, and he also leaned his upper body towards me.
“Yeah, there was something I was originally preparing.”
“What is it? Tell me.”
“It’s a secret.”
The moment Sung Se-han brought his face close to mine, I forgot that we were in the car and closed my eyes. Warm, soft lips touched me like a feather and then fell away, and I couldn’t help but hug Sung Se-han’s neck.
“Se-han, I’m really strange today. I don’t want to be apart from you.”
Sung Se-han hugged my back tightly and buried his face in my neck.
“Me too. I’ve been having strange dreams and feeling stressed, but I feel like it’s all okay when I’m with you.”
I couldn’t ignore the fact that Sung Se-han said he had been under a lot of stress.
“What is it? You’ve been having dreams that were so hard on you? You haven’t been able to sleep properly, have you?”
As I looked around worriedly, Sung Se-han nonchalantly turned his face to let me check.
“More than that, Tae-kyung.”
Because a large hand cupped my cheek and warm eyes looked into mine.
“You have something to say to me too, don’t you? Tell me everything. Don’t get stressed like me.”
Intoxicated by the hazy feeling, I felt like everything would really be okay as Sung Se-han said.
“Se-han.”
To think I could bring up the unbelievable things I experienced so easily.
“Do you perhaps… remember the person who appeared and gave you medicine on the day you were very sick when you were seven years old?”
You, with no ability to handle the confusion we would experience.
“What…?”
The way Sung Se-han’s eyes changed subtly made my heart start pounding violently. I grabbed Sung Se-han’s hand tightly as he moved away from me.
“Se-han, I’m…”
“You’re strange after all.”
His gaze, which had briefly strayed from me, seemed to be pondering something.
“How does Lee Tae-kyung know everything that I’ve never told anyone?”
Even though he was full of suspicion, Sung Se-han smiled at me. As he had said, as if telling me not to worry because everything would be okay no matter what I said.
At that moment, I didn’t feel afraid of anything. It felt like the moment to reveal everything to Sung Se-han had come, and I even felt a brief surge of emotion.
“Then… when you were eighteen…”
Bee—
“Ah!”
I clutched my head, suddenly struck by a sharp ringing in my ears.
“Tae-kyung!”
I shook off Sung Se-han’s hands grabbing my face and covered my ears.
Bee— Bee— Bee—
“Aaaah!”
A scream burst out from the sharp metallic sound that felt like my ears were being torn apart. I felt like my head would explode and I would die any second.