Love for Love's Sake - Chapter 36
Chapter 36
“Are we going?”
It seemed Cha Yeowoon had noticed my lack of focus, so he asked again.
“Didn’t you say you were working at the church on weekends?”
“I can adjust the time.”
[ “I want to touch.” ]
“What?”
Two voices overlapped. I asked again, thinking I might have misheard.
“I meant working this weekend. I can adjust the time. I don’t have much to do at the church anyway.”
Cha Yeowoon, seemingly perplexed, repeated.
[ “I want to be closer.” ]
It was similar to before. It sounded so clear that it couldn’t be an illusion.
“Does senior have work this weekend?”
“No, not really.”
Stay calm. The subject wasn’t mentioned. Maybe it was someone else. Perhaps he had started to like someone else.
[ “Senior” ]
The subject pierced my ears.
[ “I want to kiss you.” ]
A much more explicit and clear words capped off the finale. It wasn’t just a desire to embrace a ‘good senior.’
Heat crawled up from my chest. My neck and face grew warm.
Cha Yeowoon, were you crazy?
I desperately suppressed the urge to shout. Was this really happening?
“Are you sick? Your face suddenly turned red.”
Cha Yeowoon approached me. A refreshing scent wafted. Although he hadn’t touched me, my shoulders tensed and I felt my heart beating faster.
“I’m fine.”
“Senior.”
Contrary to my words, my face had heated up as if it was about to burst. Cha Yeoun reached out to my cheek.
“Touch…”
Unconsciously, I grabbed his wrist. Just before I was about to push him away, I regained my senses and stopped.
Cha Yeowoon was surprised.
I looked at his hand that had approached me. Long, elegant fingers.
He wanted to touch me. The words repeated in my mind.
“Senior?”
When I turned my gaze slightly, I caught sight of his lips this time. Straight teeth, a beckoning tongue, and slightly parted, moist lips.
He said he wanted to kiss. Me.
Cha Yeowoon’s abrupt pretty hand was kneading my thoughts.
No, why?
Why did he want to kiss me? Did he have unfulfilled desires? Contrary to how he acted, was he just a teenager with a mind boiling like this?
“What’s the matter?”
The repeated question made me tremble. I noticed Cha Yeowoon looking at me.
“What did I do wrong?”
Seeing Cha Yeowoon’s anxiety, my confusion dissipated. The question that had swelled up like a bubble burst. I quickly released his hand.
“I’m sorry. I was thinking about it for a moment. How about in the morning? To Jebudo.”
“If you don’t want to go…”
“No. Let’s go.”
“Really?”
I regretted the cautious reaction, so I nodded enthusiastically. At this point, Jebudo wasn’t much of a problem. What I had just heard was more concerning.
Cha Yeowoon walked away, glancing back at me, as soon as the bell rang. After somehow managing to act like nothing was wrong, I sat down in the classroom and tried to calm my heart.
I should keep calm and think. There were many possibilities.
First, it was all a hallucination. Maybe it was an auditory hallucination.
Second, Cha Yeowoon was suffering from the urges of a lively 18-year-old.
Third, he really wanted to kiss me.
In this case, unless he had a misguided desire to kiss every senior he became close to, a general guess was possible.
I recalled when he was nervously biting his lips. His lower lip, pressed against his upper teeth, looked pleasingly plump.
Cha Yeowoon, did he like me?
I rested my forehead on the desk. The desk was hard, and my thoughts were complicated. The question I couldn’t ask became stuck in my throat.
* * *
“I want to kiss senior.”
Cha Yeowoon said.
What? That, now?
There was no time for me to be surprised. Cha Yeowoon was approaching me with an eager facial expression.
Hey, we shouldn’t do this. Whether he had heard my fierce rejection or not, he was inching closer. Closer and closer. Closer and closer…
[ !Sub-Mission ]
[ Sub-Mission: Kiss Cha Yeowoon. ]
What was the system saying now?
It was as if it was adding fuel to the fire.
The notification window that suddenly appeared seemed almost like a thug’s coercion. How could it even make me do this? A kiss.
While my focus was on the message window, Cha Yeowoon had already shoved his face in front of my eyes. Amidst the situation, he was handsome and incredibly alluring.
“You can do it with men, too.”
Hey, what I could do with a man was different from what I could do with you!
“Just do it once.”
Just once. What did Cha Yeowoon mean once? It wasn’t like there were any benefits to experiencing it, so what would doing it once change?
He pressed me against the wall. There was nowhere to escape. His flickering breath had already reached my mouth, and his face, which was close, was lively and flushed.
His thick and dense eyelashes framed his beautiful, downturned eyes.
Despite feeling no strength from his hand on my chest and knowing I had to push him away, I couldn’t.
His lips were hot and soft. It gave me goosebumps.
A moist tongue slipped between my lips. This crazy bastard. No tongue! Where did he learn this?
Our hot saliva mixed. I could feel his fingers grabbing the back of my neck. His tongue, more and more.
“No! This crazy…”