By Zephyria As Lee Yoon-san exchanged DMs with Hwang Hae-kyung, he sometimes liked the fact that he was an Omega, and sometimes he was dissatisfied. But he swore it wasn’t the same dissatisfaction as before. The worry that ‘me being an Omega might just become a laughingstock’ was almost gone.
It was also a change that gradually occurred as the surrounding environment changed over time. Above all, Hwang Hae-kyung, who used to bother, tease, and ostracize him when he was young, didn’t he smile at him? Without teasing or ignoring him. That Hwang Hae-kyung, who was so popular.
So now, Lee Yoon-san is just dissatisfied with the fact that he can’t meet Hwang Hae-kyung in person because he is an Omega.
“Hey, I have someone I’m seeing.”
Kim Ji-hoo said while eating lunch. This time, he was indifferent without any fuss. It seemed that the person he was seeing had less to brag about than the person he was seeing before. That was the only time Kim Ji-hoo would be so quiet, looking dejected while talking about the person he was seeing.
Most of the Omega children from Wonan Middle School entered Wonan High School unless there was a moving issue. The foundation was the same, and Second gendered beings usually went to nearby Omega or Alpha accommodation schools in the district.
There were fewer high schools than middle schools in the district, and Omega students from nearby middle schools gathered at Wonan High School. As a result, unlike middle school, separate classes were created only for Omega students.
Thus, Lee Yoon-san, Shin Soo-hyun, and Kim Ji-hoo attended the same school again. This time, Lee Yoon-san and Kim Ji-hoo were assigned to the same class, and Shin Soo-hyun was left out. Even so, there were only two Omega classes per grade in the first year, so Shin Soo-hyun was also in the next class.
“Is this bastard attending a hagwon or a hunting ground?”
“So what, you fuck. They like me.”
Kim Ji-hoo growled at Shin Soo-hyun’s sarcastic remark while picking up braised potatoes. Lee Yoon-san just thought that both of them had a point and glanced at the phone on the table. It was an action he had been doing since morning.
Kim Ji-hoo was popular because he had what people commonly called a cat-like face. So even in middle school, Alphas approached him from outside the school, and it seemed that the opportunities had become more frequent since he entered high school and took single classes at the hagwon. Even if the hagwon itself was doing its best to separate genders, it was difficult to separate genders even in single classes.
Since there were not many students with Second gendered beings like Alphas or Omegas, it was difficult to separate hagwon single classes by gender, let alone schools. From the hagwon’s perspective, it would result in a timetable that was not profitable. So, inevitably, hagwon single classes put in several assistant teachers and conduct classes without distinguishing between Alphas, Omegas, and Betas. But no matter how much the assistant teachers monitor the children, it was difficult to catch the teenagers who were hitting it off inside.
It seemed that Kim Ji-hoo’s current relationship had started that way. He had been approached first by an Alpha in the same grade who was taking the same single class, after flirting for about a month.
“My ex-girlfriend was so pretty that everything was forgiven when you saw her face, but my current boyfriend is just average.”
“Maybe just average among Alphas.”
“Well, that’s true. But he’s good at studying. They say he’s one of the top students in the school.”
“Stop bragging.”
Shin Soo-hyun, who had pushed braised potatoes to one side of his cheek, frowned and sneered, and Lee Yoon-san awkwardly smiled because his eyes met Kim Ji-hoo’s, who was sitting in front of him, while still glancing at his phone. Still, he had kept his ears open, so he was able to avoid showing that he had been ignoring the conversation.
“Won’t you get in trouble if you get caught?”
“Of course, I’ll be fucked. He’s a tennis player too, so he’ll be fucked if he gets caught by the coach.”
“But how do you meet, being so scared…?”
Lee Yoon-san continued the conversation, sensing that Kim Ji-hoo’s eyes were about to turn into daggers. Then Kim Ji-hoo’s momentum subsided a little. Kim Ji-hoo was an Omega who only met Alphas, and when he had an Alpha boyfriend, he would talk about that Alpha all day long. In a way, it was a natural thing.
Kim Ji-hoo’s dating style was to contact and talk to the Alpha he was dating all day long, and everything else was always the same as usual. And Shin Soo-hyun commented on such Kim Ji-hoo as ‘a crazy Alpha bastard’, and Lee Yoon-san thought ‘it could be’. It was true that he was at an age when he was very interested in the opposite sex.
The reason why Shin Soo-hyun could be a little detached from Alphas was largely due to the influence of the Seyoung High Alphas he saw at the amusement park last year. After seeing a group of Alphas who seemed more adult than him at that time, his taste had solidified as ‘older’. So Shin Soo-hyun couldn’t help but be indifferent to the story of the Alpha Kim Ji-hoo was meeting.
All the Alphas Kim Ji-hoo met were the same age. It couldn’t be helped. Kim Ji-hoo mainly dated Alphas he became close with at study cafes or hagwon single classes. He was like a knife to the flirting that came in while walking down the street or playing at fast food restaurants or arcades. It seemed he had his own line that he was uneasy about Alphas he didn’t know at all. His dating style was like that, and he was a surprisingly safety-conscious person.
And Lee Yoon-san….
“Hey, isn’t the atmosphere less strict since we came to high school than it was in middle school? What are you so scared of, like a real rabbit?”
“No, well.”
He still doesn’t have the energy to care about anything other than Hwang Hae-kyung.
“And you don’t have to worry about getting caught anyway, since your boyfriend is far away.”
“I’m not, he’s not my boyfriend!”
Lee Yoon-san’s voice cracked as he denied it with a flushed face. Then Shin Soo-hyun, who was eating next to him, laughed as if he was dumbfounded, and Kim Ji-hoo, who was cynical about other people’s stories, snorted. Then Shin Soo-hyun hummed with a melody, saying, ‘It’s a problem, a problem.’ It was an old song, but considering the title, the intention to tease was obvious.
The fact that Lee Yoon-san had someone was already a problem that everyone around him had noticed in the third year of middle school. Even if his parents didn’t know, at least the Omegas at school did. Lee Yoon-san, who had always been attending school with an indifferent expression, had been spending more time looking at his phone since some point, and he had been checking his phone frequently even during breaks.
When they peeked to see what he was looking at, it was always an Instagram screen. Shin Soo-hyun naturally knew whose account it was, and Kim Ji-hoo, after persistent nagging and clinging, finally found out that the target was Hwang Hae-kyung.
Even though it seems like nothing now, it was something that Kim Ji-hoo had even considered breaking up with Lee Yoon-san over at the time. If Lee Yoon-san was just liking Hwang Hae-kyung alone, he would have thought he was a common fan, but he noticed that the black rabbit ears visible in Hwang Hae-kyung’s SNS profile picture were a sign that something was going on between them. Of course, it was a minor sign that only people who knew Lee Yoon-san’s nickname was ‘Black Rabbit’ would notice.
Kim Ji-hoo tried to understand even that. Until he found out that Lee Yoon-san had not told him, who he prided himself on being the closest friend among Lee Yoon-san’s narrow circle of friends, that he and Hwang Hae-kyung had known each other from the start.
Kim Ji-hoo felt an unknown anger when he found out that Lee Yoon-san and Hwang Hae-kyung had known each other from the start, had met very briefly during a field trip, and occasionally exchanged SNS DMs.
It didn’t matter whether he was jealous because Lee Yoon-san was meeting an Alpha who was better than him, or whether he was annoyed because he thought they were close but he had been hiding such a secret. For sixteen-year-old Kim Ji-hoo, the most important thing was that he was just angry at his friend.
But when he saw Lee Yoon-san looking dejected as he acted coldly, he suppressed his anger. Lee Yoon-san had no skill at all, so he didn’t make any excuses to Kim Ji-hoo, who was angry because of an unknown jealousy. He just looked at him with a face that seemed to be full of regret, as if he was sad that his friend was drifting away, or he just moved away with a subdued expression.
So he couldn’t get any angrier. A fight couldn’t be established because of Lee Yoon-san’s personality. Whether the object of jealousy was Lee Yoon-san, the relationship of friendship itself, or inferiority, he realized that it was not more important than his friend in the end. Of course, Shin Soo-hyun also got angry in the middle, telling them to stop.
Anyway, at least Kim Ji-hoo and Shin Soo-hyun knew that Lee Yoon-san had something going on with Hwang Hae-kyung. Even after entering high school, Lee Yoon-san was indifferent to the topic of Alphas, but he was still clinging to Instagram. Kim Ji-hoo had repeatedly offered to introduce him to an Alpha through a friend he was meeting, saying that he wasn’t dating Hwang Hae-kyung, but he refused every time.
Even on the day when Lee Yoon-san and Shin Soo-hyun came near Kim Ji-hoo’s single hagwon to eat and go back, there was an Alpha who specifically asked to be introduced to Lee Yoon-san. So Kim Ji-hoo refused, saying, ‘My friend already has a good Alpha,’ to promote his friend, and that word became a rumor and returned to Lee Yoon-san’s school.
As a result, Lee Yoon-san was suddenly an ‘Omega who has someone’ or a ‘stuck-up’ Omega at school. The former was the perspective of the children who believed the rumors, and the latter was the perspective that he was just making excuses when he didn’t seem to have an Alpha he was meeting no matter how you looked at it.
Since these were words that could easily lead to stress, Shin Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-hoo casually threw out comfort, not comfort, saying not to pay too much attention to the words they were saying without knowing, but in fact, Lee Yoon-san was always pouring all his attention into Hwang Hae-kyung’s account and DMs, so he didn’t have the energy to pay attention to that.
So, very naturally, Lee Yoon-san hardly received any stress from rumors or surrounding words. To be exact, it was more like he didn’t hear it or see it in the first place. People tend to take less care of other things when they have something more important, right?
Whenever he tried to pay attention to his surroundings, a DM would fly in from Hwang Hae-kyung, or a picture of a meal with ‘rabbit ears’ on Hwang Hae-kyung’s feed would steal all his attention. As if turning the topic back to him. It was strange, but it was never a bad thing.
“Hey, don’t be too scared. The teachers are slowly catching less.”
“Yeah. Heat cycle, they say it’s over by the time you’re a senior in high school.”
“Now we’re in the late stages of our Heat cycle, and we’re getting good at controlling our Pheromone.”
Shin Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-hoo said to Lee Yoon-san, who still didn’t know what to do with his flushed face and was looking around.
In fact, they weren’t wrong. The indoctrination and control of Second gendered beings was the most severe in middle school, and the atmosphere was slowly loosening for Omegas from high school onwards.
Heat cycle was a problem, but if they controlled it well with medicine, big problems didn’t happen, and they were slowly getting used to controlling Pheromone. Although the hormones secreted by Alphas were different in nature, the control to suppress their energy was maintained more tightly for the time being.
Anyway, by the time they were 19 years old, Heat cycle was coming to an end, and usually, it ended just before they became adults. This was the difference between Second gendered beings and Betas. Unlike Betas, who continued to grow until their early 20s, Alphas and Omegas finished all their growth just before becoming adults. That’s why they started their growth spurt (Heat cycle) earlier than Betas.
Once adults, Second gendered beings were generally granted the same freedoms as Betas. This was because they completed the social education process of taking medication for their Heat cycle, could sufficiently control their Pheromone, and could live lives no different from Betas.
In the first place, Alphas and Omegas were not disruptive to living among ordinary humans unless there were problems with their Heat cycle and the Pheromone that triggered it, so there was no reason for society to control them.
“Lee Yoon-san, why don’t you go watch Hwang Hae-kyung’s game or something? The National Sports Festival for volleyball is in October, isn’t it?”
“No way… What if I go and become a hindrance?”
“You can just watch from afar without him knowing.”
“Well, if his hormone levels are high and he’s sensitive to Pheromone, his concentration might be disrupted. Lee Yoon-san might not be able to control his emotions and leak Pheromone too.”
Kim Ji-hoo said, stuffing a large spoonful of rice into his mouth, and Lee Yoon-san, who had become somewhat dejected, replied. Then, Shin Soo-hyun pointed out the most concerning part. Lee Yoon-san nodded as if he agreed.
About a month had passed since the end of the summer vacation of their first year of high school and the start of the second semester. From the second semester of his third year of middle school until now, Lee Yoon-san knew that Hwang Hae-kyung had already played in several games. He had played as a starter in the National Sports Festival held last fall, as well as in the President’s Cup and a game held in Taebaek, Gangwon-do, and he had also been selected for two games in the High School and College Volleyball Federation league this summer. And again, in mid-October, he would participate in the National Sports Festival game.
Now a second-year high school student, Hwang Hae-kyung was still the team’s ace, and as a high school Alpha with many fans, his ticket power was enormous. In fact, the team itself, Se Myung High School, already guaranteed ticket power and popularity. It was a very famous volleyball powerhouse, and especially this volleyball team had Lee Seok-jae, who was good at using social media. Thanks to Lee Seok-jae, some of the volleyball team’s Hubae became quite enthusiastic about social media, which further boosted the popularity of the players individually.
So, it was probably already too late to get tickets for the National Sports Festival game in October. But that wasn’t what Lee Yoon-san was bitter about. The problem was the ‘Pheromone’ that Shin Soo-hyun had pointed out. Lee Yoon-san knew that Hwang Hae-kyung’s hormone levels were incredibly high, and thanks to that, his sensitivity to Pheromone was also high.
It was something he had vaguely learned while talking to Hwang Hae-kyung through DM, and it was also something he had learned by secretly eavesdropping when his parents talked to Hwang Hae-kyung’s parents. Given that Hwang Hae-kyung was like that, a big problem could occur if he secretly went to watch the game.
Lee Yoon-san, now a high school student, was quite good at controlling his Pheromone, but he wasn’t confident that he wouldn’t be swayed if he actually saw Hwang Hae-kyung. He didn’t particularly think that his feelings for Hwang Hae-kyung were a great unrequited love, but he had that feeling.
Even in the bushes of that amusement park where he had met Hwang Hae-kyung, Lee Yoon-san’s heart had been beating so fast that he couldn’t control it, and he had avoided Hwang Hae-kyung’s gaze several times, hadn’t he?
Because he couldn’t control his Pheromone at all, he was taking medication with strong suppressive ingredients, so his Pheromone hadn’t been released, but these days, as the medication’s ingredients weakened and he was adapting to controlling his Pheromone on his own, he couldn’t guarantee his condition.
“I shouldn’t be a hindrance….”
“Seriously, you listen to adults so damn well.”
If it were me, I would just secretly go and watch. Kim Ji-hoo said that to the shrinking Lee Yoon-san and finished his remaining rice. Shin Soo-hyun and Lee Yoon-san had already finished eating, so the three of them quickly got up from their seats.
As time passed, Lee Yoon-san was realizing the reason for his parents’ words, ‘You mustn’t get close to Hwang Hae-kyung.’
Young Alpha athletes who exercised tended to be consumed almost like idols. Especially in the case of high school Alphas, it was impossible to know when they would quit the sport they were involved in after their Heat cycle ended, so that consumption was even more fervent.
In that environment, Hwang Hae-kyung had become more famous than last year, and his skills as an athlete had also become far superior to last year. Hwang Hae-kyung, who hadn’t been well-known when he was in middle school because social media wasn’t as prevalent, had started to gradually fill his account feed since last fall, and photos from his days as a child model were released on public communities and concept accounts against his will. He unintentionally accelerated his fame with the title ‘The Recent Status of a Famous Child Model from the Past.’
People liked Hwang Hae-kyung’s social media feed even without a single selfie of him. Hwang Hae-kyung’s photos could often be found on the accounts of his school friends or volleyball team players, and there was enough to consume just from the videos and images obtained from the broadcasts whenever there was a game.
The fact that most of the photos posted on his social media feed were of his diet or training ground was also imprinted on fans and the public as a good image. He had become a diligent image, focusing on maintaining his performance and improving his skills while being indifferent to social media with his handsome face.
The profile picture that remained unchanged even as the year changed, and the bland feed without any special words or long explanations or even the usual tags, were mostly praised as likable, and even the black rabbit earmuffs that were always present in the profile picture and always occupied one side of the diet photos were mostly seen as ‘cute for his age.’ No one knew that those rabbit ears were taken from Lee Yoon-san’s. Or that Hwang Hae-kyung was doing his best to come to the DM window, even though he was sporadic on his public feed.
Hwang Hae-kyung wasn’t really talkative even in DMs. He didn’t seem very friendly to social media like Instagram in the first place. His feed was uploaded slowly, as if he only kept it alive to talk to Lee Yoon-san, and he sent DMs more often on the days when his feed was uploaded. As if he prioritized DMs when he had time.
Above all, Hwang Hae-kyung himself had told him that he didn’t exchange DMs with anyone else. So he might not be used to opening the social media app.
He had turned off notifications long ago due to all the follows, likes, and comment bombs, and in the first place, all the people he talked to were within his real-life radius, so he didn’t have anyone he talked to about trivial things while holding his phone. His friends were seen every day at school or during training, and he only used CocoaTalk group chats to check announcements.
That night when Lee Yoon-san saw Hwang Hae-kyung’s words in a DM, he couldn’t sleep properly. It seemed as if Hwang Hae-kyung was deliberately visiting the annoying Instagram account because of him. Or as if he was showing that he had a different relationship with Hwang Hae-kyung than with other people.
So, after calming his mind for a long time so as not to be mistaken, it was already close to morning.
Realistically, Lee Yoon-san and Hwang Hae-kyung hadn’t been able to have many conversations compared to the fact that they had been exchanging DMs for almost a year since last year.
It was mainly because Hwang Hae-kyung was busy. Hwang Hae-kyung, who was busy all day with school classes, training, and training schedules, didn’t even send DMs on most days. Lee Yoon-san was often disappointed by that, but he still tried to understand as much as possible, given Hwang Hae-kyung’s situation. He knew that his situation, which was gradually becoming more relaxed after becoming a high school student, was very different from the situation of an Alpha.
In fact, it was also largely because Lee Yoon-san himself judged that it was ridiculous for him to feel disappointed since the two weren’t even dating. Then, there were times when Lee Yoon-san missed the timing when Hwang Hae-kyung finally had time or when Hwang Hae-kyung seemed to have made time somehow. When Hwang Hae-kyung sent a DM late, Lee Yoon-san was already asleep.
After repeatedly missing each other like that, they would just have small talk on the days they talked through DM. Since they were talking after a long time each time, the topic of conversation was always about their recent situation with a bit of awkwardness. Starting with topics such as school, the volleyball team, and friends, Lee Yoon-san’s sentences would become a little longer and then move on to other topics.
They would share playlists, talk about recent sports games they had watched, recommend channels they subscribed to, or bring up topics that were trending around them at the time. Hwang Hae-kyung seemed to have realized that Lee Yoon-san’s sentences gradually became longer when the awkwardness was resolved.
As time accumulated like that, a year had passed. In the meantime, the two hadn’t exchanged numbers or talked on the phone. He didn’t know if it was because he felt that they weren’t that close, or because he was being cautious about whether he could do that.
“I want to cheer him on, though.”
Of course, he had sent messages of support to the games in the meantime. It was a DM wishing him to do well in the game without any accidents. He also pressed ‘like’ on all the photos that Hwang Hae-kyung uploaded. He had only worried about whether it would become a situation where he was showing off to those around him on the first day. Soon, Hwang Hae-kyung’s account became known everywhere and everyone was pressing ‘like,’ so Lee Yoon-san didn’t hesitate in that regard after that. Of course, he was always stuttering or hesitating in all other aspects.
“Can’t you at least cheer him on?”
“How am I supposed to do that… when I can’t go in person? Everyone sends messages through DM.”
“Don’t you have a secret sign that only you two know?”
In response to Lee Yoon-san’s complaint that he couldn’t cheer him on because he couldn’t go to the stadium, Shin Soo-hyun asked, holding up his phone screen. As if there was no way there wouldn’t be anything since they had been in contact for a year.
On Shin Soo-hyun’s phone screen that he was looking at, Hwang Hae-kyung’s social media account profile was displayed. It was the photo that Lee Yoon-san had been looking at all day.
“Oh… oh…?!“
Then suddenly, Lee Yoon-san’s eyes caught the rabbit ears in Hwang Hae-kyung’s profile picture. The black rabbit ear headband that was showing off its perked-up ears like the number 11. Come to think of it, he remembered the hoodie he had received from Hwang Hae-kyung last year. The large hoodie that he had hidden deep in the storage compartment under his bed because he was afraid his parents would find out.
It was a hoodie that he hadn’t dared to take out since then, fearing that even the faint Pheromone buried inside might fly away. It wasn’t particularly because he cherished it. It was just that he was curious about the scent of another person that he had smelled for the first time, and he was a little more concerned because it happened to be Hwang Hae-kyung’s. Because it was Hwang Hae-kyung’s scent that he wouldn’t be able to smell for a long time to come, he thought he would be even more disappointed if it flew away.
Lee Yoon-san ran into his room as soon as he got home from school that day and took out Hwang Hae-kyung’s hoodie. Perhaps because a year had passed, he couldn’t smell Hwang Hae-kyung’s Pheromone no matter how much he sniffed inside the hoodie. Lee Yoon-san checked the scent inside the hoodie several times before putting Hwang Hae-kyung’s hoodie over his school uniform. Then, he picked up his phone and took several photos with his room as the background. He almost never took photos like this, so his expression was awkward and his posture seemed somewhat clumsy.
In the end, Lee Yoon-san couldn’t get a decent photo even after taking dozens of photos. He didn’t have the confidence or shamelessness to make a ‘natural but handsome expression without being conscious of the camera’ while taking selfies himself. It wasn’t like anyone was watching and laughing at or criticizing him for taking pictures, but he felt a sense of shame and was even conscious of others.
So he decided to just set up his phone skillfully on the table and record a video. The scene he would film was taking a drink out of the refrigerator. It was a place he chose purely because he was thirsty, and he thought that if he captured a moving scene and took a screenshot, he might be able to get at least one natural image.
As planned, Lee Yoon-san set up his phone on the table, pressed the record button, and slowly walked to the refrigerator to take out a drink. He tried his best not to be conscious of the camera, but even so, he glanced at the camera several times, and in the end, he frowned, closing his eyes tightly, thinking that the scene would have been captured on camera. And soon after regaining his senses, he took out a cola from the refrigerator, found a cup, and slowly approached the phone.
Just as he was about to reach out to the phone, thinking, ‘I’ll get at least one shot if I do this much,’ Lee Yoon-san suddenly stopped. He was going to send a photo of himself wearing Hwang Hae-kyung’s hoodie and cheering him on, but he realized that there was no such motion.
Lee Yoon-san belatedly smiled awkwardly and shyly at the camera and made a fighting gesture. It was only a slight raising of his fist in a passive manner, but his face was already flushed as if it would explode just from doing that much.
Lee Yoon-san quickly pressed the stop recording button on his phone and checked the video he had taken. He hadn’t known because he was out of his mind when he was doing it, but he could hear himself whispering the words ‘fighting’ when he made the fighting gesture. He was truly embarrassed and a second wave of shame washed over him.
As he was choosing a scene to capture, he wondered if Hwang Hae-kyung would like this. But he soon shook off the thought and captured one of the fighting scenes. He wasn’t dating Hwang Hae-kyung, but he steeled himself as if it was okay to cheer on an Hyung he knew.
When you think about it, Hwang Hae-kyung was the one who had been using a profile picture taken with his rabbit ears for a year. It would be a little strange if I only took a picture of the hoodie. It’s for cheering him on, and the fighting motion is important. Anyway, it’s a scene captured from a low angle with a clumsy fist, so his face is mostly covered by his fist.
Seeking such understanding for himself, Lee Yoon-san turned on the DM screen with Hwang Hae-kyung.
As soon as he tried to send his photo through DM, he felt embarrassed, shy, and even a third wave of shame, so Lee Yoon-san quickly sent the image and turned off the DM screen. This time, he was thinking of checking Hwang Hae-kyung’s reply much later or tomorrow morning.
However.
“Huh…?”
Contrary to expectations, Hwang Hae-kyung’s reply came back immediately as if he had been waiting. But the content was a little strange.
You’re so shy
Since neither Lee Yoon-san nor Hwang Hae-kyung usually used emoticons, he was used to sentences without emoticons. But the content that he was shy was a little strange. What did he see in the photo, which only showed half of his smiling face with a fighting gesture, that made him know he was shy? Lee Yoon-san suddenly felt goosebumps all over his body and turned on the Instagram app again, sweating coldly.
“Ah, ah, wah, ack, crazy…!!”
(Photo)
This part is cute
(Photo)
This part too
So that’s why they call you Black Rabbit
(Photo)
This part is perfect for a profile picture
Hwang Hae-kyung’s messages that were popping up one after another were dizzying. He had sent the video by mistake because the thumbnail of the video and the captured image were similar. Lee Yoon-san belatedly tried to cancel the video message he had sent with a flustered expression, but Hwang Hae-kyung was already happily sending his impressions along with the captures from the video.
It meant that it was too late to cancel it now.
Lee Yoon-san couldn’t move for a while, lying on the floor with a crazy embarrassment, shame, humiliation, bewilderment, and self-loathing.
For the first time in his 17 years of life, he was personally experiencing that his hands could tremble even when he was too embarrassed or ashamed. If he could, he wanted to turn back time, and if he couldn’t, he desperately wanted to just disappear somewhere into the ground or faint for a while and wake up sometime next month. But Lee Yoon-san’s self-reproach didn’t last that long.
It was because a notification rang on the phone that had been dropped next to Lee Yoon-san’s face, which was flushed red as if blood was rushing to it. When he heard the vibration, he knew it was a social media account notification. It was obvious that it was another notification from Hwang Hae-kyung teasing him with a capture, but he couldn’t help but reach for his phone reflexively.
Embarrassment, shame, and self-loathing swirled around him, but he was by no means feeling depressed or down. No, it was rather the opposite, so he was even more confused and disoriented, and his head was dizzy. And Lee Yoon-san’s eyes widened as much as they could when he checked his phone.
010-✧✧✧✧-8520
My number
Save it and tell me your number too
The content of the message left by Hwang Hae-kyung was something that Lee Yoon-san had never even expected.
To be continued in Volume 2