KFL 159

“Huh…?”

My body stiffened as I held my head.

“What are you talking about?”

“You’ve been acting so comfortable with me from the start, as if I’m familiar. Don’t you realize that?”

Sung Se-han’s narrowed eyes were scrutinizing me without missing a moment. My mouth was dry, but I managed to maintain a reasonably calm expression.

“Haha. I thought it was something else.”

I tried to smile naturally, but I could feel the corners of my lips twitching. Have I been treating Sung Se-han casually and comfortably? Was that really the case? Ha… this is a headache.

“Perfect Puzzle shamelessly picked all the popular programs to appear on. So… I guess I felt familiar because I watched the videos so much.”

I scooted sideways, keeping my butt on the desk. After putting some distance between myself and Sung Se-han, I raised my head again.

“Don’t change the subject. Explain properly why you watched my video. Why do you even carry something like that on your phone…”

“What’s the rush?”

Sung Se-han checked his wristwatch and gave me an eye smile.

“We can get to know each other slowly from now on, so don’t be in such a hurry.”

“Get to know each other, my ass…”

My remaining hair felt like it was about to explode, and I was about to go crazy because of the guy who was grinning leisurely.

“Hey, answer me properly, before I really sue you.”

Even as I made a threat that wouldn’t work, I couldn’t hide my anxiety and chewed on my lower lip. Sung Se-han checked the time once again, ignoring me.

Ha… judging by the way this guy’s acting, he must have snuck out in the middle of his schedule again. My head was starting to throb, so I pressed my fingers against the space between my eyebrows.

“Sky Blue, Lee Tae-kyung.”

His low voice always made my heart flutter, but not now. I couldn’t stand the unpleasant sense of unease added to my anxiety, so I sharpened my tone.

“Is my name Sky Blue Lee Tae-kyung? Why do you keep calling me Sky Blue, Sky Blue Lee Tae-kyung!”

I was already feeling troubled, and I was getting annoyed because he kept calling my name in such an unfamiliar way.

“Why don’t you call people’s names properly…”

“Then how should I call you?”

Sung Se-han, who had been standing crookedly, put his hands in his pants pockets. And he looked down at me askance with brown eyes that reflected the light.

“Would you like me to call you Our Tae-kyung, like your boyfriend?”

“Huh…?”

My mind seemed to have stopped for a moment, and I couldn’t think of anything, and my vision became blurry.

“Sung Se-han, you just…”

Our Tae-kyung. He must have said it without any special meaning. But still, the words that came out of Sung Se-han’s mouth felt like they had squeezed my heart tightly and then released it.

“That word just now…”

Ring ring. Ring ring ring. I couldn’t finish my sentence because of the sudden loud noise. As I stood there blankly with my mouth open, Sung Se-han put his hand into his jacket pocket and took out his cell phone. Only then did I realize that the loud music was his cell phone’s ringtone.

“I should get going.”

As if he had no intention of answering the phone, Sung Se-han put his phone back in his jacket pocket.

“Sung Se-han, wait a minute…”

I couldn’t just let him go without hearing any answers, so I took a step forward anxiously. Sung Se-han, who had already turned around and was walking away, turned back to me.

His eyes were cold and calm, quite different from before.

“First of all, I think we need to resolve the imbalance in our relationship.”

“Huh? What…?”

What is he going to resolve? Sung Se-han waved his hand lightly at me as I tilted my head.

“So, let’s see each other often.”

I stared blankly at Sung Se-han as he strode away, and only when the door to the conference room closed did my body move.

“Wait a minute!”

I hurriedly followed him and ran out into the hallway, then stopped abruptly.

The sight of his back walking down the long hallway suddenly made my throat tighten. I covered my mouth with my hand, feeling a sense of crisis that I shouldn’t open my mouth.

Every time I saw his broad back leaving me behind, I felt anxious that Sung Se-han would never look back this way again. But I had never been so afraid as I was now.

The sound of his shoes receding seemed to pound against my heart.

What if Sung Se-han disappears like this?

What if I never see him again?

What if I wake up… and all of this, meeting Sung Se-han, is just a dream?

Just as my heart was about to wear out from weak imaginings, Sung Se-han stopped in front of the elevator at the end of the hallway. And he didn’t look at me once until he got on the elevator that had arrived.

As Sung Se-han disappeared before my eyes, a heavy pain struck my empty chest. I slowly raised my hand and pressed down on my heart.

“Hyung?”

I turned around reflexively at the voice behind me.

“Did Sung Se-han leave?”

Jeong-min poked his face out from the conference room next door. Seeing his curious, bright face, I let out a hollow laugh for some reason.

“Jeong-min, what are you doing there?”

“Just… I was here, and I was going to go to the practice room with Hyung…”

I put my arm around Jeong-min’s shoulder and stroked his head.

“Okay. Let’s go to the practice room quickly before Gun-woo Hyung calls.”

“Okay.”

I knew that Jeong-min was very interested in Sung Se-han, but I had no choice but to pretend not to notice. I pushed Jeong-min’s back, who was looking disappointed, and ran to the practice room together.

The light footsteps echoing in the hallway seemed to awaken my mind.

There was no need to doubt or fear; this was the solid reality I was standing on.

Into the solid time that I had set up, Sung Se-han fearlessly took a big step. He crossed a long time and met me again.

But why can’t I be happy or welcome him as much as I want? What am I so afraid of?

I bit down hard as I ran down the stairs, feeling frustrated and resentful.

I actually know.

I can’t say that I’ve never wanted it, even in my dreams.

What if I could meet Sung Se-han miraculously on the way to school, or in front of the company, or even on the way to the convenience store in front of my house? What if we could pass by each other? I couldn’t deny that I had such a desperate wish in the back of my mind.

If that wish created the current situation…

Ha…! But I want to ignore the uneasiness in my heart right now.

I am not a strong person.

I want to be a little happy. I wanted to shout at the sky not to interfere.

So that I can enjoy this happiness of meeting Sung Se-han, even for a moment. Please.

“Doo-hyun Hyung? Is it kimbap again? You’re going to have too many carbohydrates if you keep eating this.”

Doo-hyun Hyung, who was driving, glanced back at Jeong-min’s dissatisfied voice. Today, because we were wearing the same training clothes, Doo-hyun Hyung looked like a member of our team at first glance.

“I prepared it because Tae-kyung said he likes kimbap?”

“Huh? Really? Tae-kyung Hyung, did you want to eat kimbap?”

I barely took my eyes off my phone because Jeong-min, who was in the passenger seat, poked me in the side.

“Well, it’s filling and good to eat kimbap when we’re recording. Let’s eat what Jeong-min wants to eat next time.”

“No. It’s enough if Tae-kyung Hyung eats well.”

When Jeong-min answered sulkily, Soo-in and Ho-soo, who were sitting in the middle seats, turned around.

“Tae-kyung Hyung, I like kimbap.”

“Me too. I like tuna kimbap the best.”

“Okay. Eat a lot and cheer up so we can record well.”

I gave a warm smile to my pretty and kind younger brothers, but I couldn’t get the rice to go down. The internet world in my hand was so chaotic that I couldn’t get my appetite back.

“Hoo…!”

Three days after the cover song was released, the comments on Sung Se-han’s video are getting more and more heated.

In the beginning, fans were mainly cheering for Sung Se-han’s new style, but there was no way that there wouldn’t be fans who felt uncomfortable with the explicit lyrics.

Seeing Perfect Puzzle fans fighting with each other in the comments made my heart race so much that I ended up only half-opening my eyes and checking them roughly.

When overseas fans joined in and shouted ‘OMG!’, I just closed my eyes completely.

Anyway, thanks to the heated atmosphere, Sung Se-han’s cover video, which was uploaded two hours late, surpassed eleven million views in three days.

This was a record number of views, more than double the previous cover song.

Nevertheless, I couldn’t just be happy, and I had a headache. I was tired of the antis who were rushing in at this opportunity, and on the other hand, I was also scared.

Title: It’s not a creation controversy, but shouldn’t they have been careful about the song selection in the first place, since there are so many young fans?

Comments (6)

It would have been natural for him lol Everyone who knows knows that he played a lot since middle school lol

I heard he’s an orphan, so it seems like he was influenced a lot by the auntie who raised him lol

⌎Well, even though he’s young, his eyes are unusual lol

⌎His body doesn’t look ordinary either lol

Are you all crossing the line here? You know you can be sued for this, right?

There’s no subject? What are you going to sue for? lol

Just looking at the posts on the community made my head throb, but this was just the beginning. Yesterday, I saw such explicit sexual harassment posts that I wanted to wash my eyes out, and I was dazed for a while.