Chapter 37 – The First Kiss Tasted Like French Banana Milk

“Really? Senior Yuri said that? You asked him to come to his house?”

Soo-yeon Choi asked as she displayed new items at her convenience store.

Her expression was full of surprise.

“Isn’t that surprising? I thought she would just be quiet, but she was also bold enough to invite men into her room.”

“Surprisingly, you don’t say much? You’re not stopping me from asking what I’m going to do?”

Su-yeon Choi snorted
.

“What should I do? I can already be with my senior ♥ right next to me every day for 6 hours, 4 days a week? I guess it’s like a winner’s leisure? If I don’t even get this much of a penalty, I feel sorry for Yuri, right?”

“Aren’t you being too careless? She always packs a lunch box for me, so I can have breakfast in her own way. Like a wife.”

When I subtly mentioned Yu-ri Lee’s lunch box, a look of embarrassment appeared on Su-yeon Choi’s face.

“Well, a lunch box…? Senior Yuri brings a lunch box? In the morning? She made it herself too?”

“That’s right. I ate it for breakfast today too.”

“Sir… Isn’t that too shameless? You should at least eat breakfast alone.”

“I want to do that too, but I can’t eat it because I don’t have the money. After hearing about my situation, Yuri said she would prepare me a packed lunch.”

“… I can’t eat breakfast because I don’t have money? What does that mean?”

Soo-yeon Choi came right in front of me and started interrogating me, and I told Su-yeon Choi the story I had told Yu-ri Lee.

Suyeon Choi, who heard my story, turned on her cell phone and checked the date with a puzzled expression.

There are about two weeks left until payday.

“… Do you want to win 10,000 won of happiness?”

“Would I want to live like this?”

“Then why did you reject the tuition support system that Yuri mentioned?”

“I’ve already made a purchase, and I’ll do my best to pass the examination. I don’t want to end up as a low-ranking bastard recognized by the academy as I’m not going to succeed anyway. And even if it happens miraculously, won’t it spread rumors around the academy?”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“If there’s a rumor that Han Seong-jin has no money and is going to school with help with her tuition, I’ll just be a fucking idiot.”

Choi Soo-yeon sighed, looking dumbfounded at those words.

“No, so now… Are you saying that you rejected Gao because he took over your brain? Are you trying to starve to death while taking care of Gao?! Of course, I think I was 100% eliminated in the screening because of what my senior did!”

“You have a knack for killing people with your words.”

“No, wait a minute. Then, sir, is it possible that you said you would go out to that meeting on the weekend and only show her face at the meat restaurant…”

The doubt on Choi Su-yeon’s face had already almost become confirmation.

I answered while scratching her head.

“I know it’s trash money, but it was too much of a temptation to refuse.”

“…”

“No, but that wasn’t the main purpose, and I was really trying to say that I am leaving the group now-“

“I’m crazy! Is it true that a person who doesn’t even have money to feed himself is taking me around and spending money here and there? And then he goes to that crazy party just for the free meat? Are you out of your mind or not?”

At the end, Soo-yeon Choi spoke informally, went to the shelf, rummaged through something, and soon came back with a few items.

It was 6 pieces of rib dumplings, 1+1 bundle of triangular gimbap, and banana milk.

“Eat this. I’ll buy it. After 12 o’clock, you can throw it away and eat it for free, but we can’t do that because our time is until 10 o’clock.”

“Hey, why are you like this? I don’t need anything like this-“

“It’s noisy, and they eat.”

Sooyeon Choi spoke in an unusually cold voice, and I ate the food she brought without any further refusal.

Honestly, I was a little hungry.

“Have you ever thought about how I would feel if I saw the man who told me he liked me, and the man I fell in love with, shivering because he couldn’t even eat?”

“I wasn’t nervous about the situation.”

“I’m already in a bad situation because I always get a packed lunch from senior Yuri.”

“It leaves me speechless.”

While I was eating the dumplings and triangle gimbap, Sooyeon Choi, who was sitting next to her and quietly watching me eat, burst into laughter.

“Why are you smiling?”

“Senior, put yourself in my shoes. Isn’t it funny?”

Soo-yeon Choi came closer to me and gently stroked my thigh while she was eating.

“Until last year, there were so many rumors that I didn’t even know how much of it was true, but now I don’t have money to eat, so I get boxed lunches and get food from convenience stores from my juniors.”

“It’s embarrassing enough, so stop.”

“There was a time when one of my friends got hit for bothering a senior and her face was bruised, but now for some reason, I don’t even think that my senior will ever hit me if I act like this.”

Sooyeon Choi put her head forward and made eye contact with me.

“When I saw him from a distance, he was vaguely a very scary person and I thought I should not meet him, but now that we are making eye contact like this, I feel at ease.

Even though I wear a mask to my friends, I don’t care about that at all in front of my senior.”

Then, she crossed her arms around my left arm and gently rubbed her proud chest against my forearm.

“Even though we weren’t dating or even kissed, he just massaged my breasts… I didn’t even feel like I hated it that much.”

Choi Su-yeon blushed shyly and smiled.

“Regardless of what happens with Senior Yuri, I even think that it would be great as long as I could be next to him. Isn’t this funny?”

“… Suyeon.”

Meanwhile, I finished eating, and as soon as I did that, Soo-yeon Choi put a straw in the banana milk and gave it to me.

I took it, took a sip, and continued talking.

“As you know, I am a person who has lived such a life that even the word human trash is a waste.”

“I roughly heard it.”

“And like I said before, I’m really greedy for women. I’m shameless.”

“I know.”

“You heard rumors about Lee Yuri and me, so you know it, right? It’s not a rumor at all. I even confessed to Lee Yuri that I like her.”

“I know.”

“I don’t know how it might sound… Or rather, I know it might sound like an asshole, but I like you too. But at the same time, I may not be able to devote all my time to you. I decided to go to Lee Yu-ri’s house this weekend.”

“That’s a little maddening, but… I know.”

“Instead.”

I placed my hand on Suyeon Choi’s hand that was placed on my thigh.

Suyeon Choi’s cheeks turned a little redder, and she shyly raised her head, and we made eye contact for a moment in the air.

“I will promise you one thing for sure.”

“… What is it?”

“I will never play with your heart and make you cry.”

At those words, Soo-yeon Choi swallowed her saliva, fanned her hand as if she had a fever, and placed her mouth on the banana milk straw I was drinking and sucked on it.

“Ahaha… That’s what I need the most.”

Then, when she realized that her hand was still on my thigh, she tried to gently pull her hand away.

However, I put a little pressure on her hand to prevent it from escaping.

“Senior… Season?”

Choi Su-yeon swallowed her saliva once again.

Her wandering hand found the banana milk once again, but it was already empty.

Suyeon Choi looked at me with trembling eyes.

The distance between us is only a few spans.

It was in the afternoon, but after the gangsters who came to smoke cigarettes stopped coming, the place became quite quiet until office workers left work.

There were no customers around.

There is no room for interrupters in these situations, who often appear in romantic comedies, to appear now.

There are only two people in this convenience store right now, me and Choi Su-yeon.

The only thing that could be heard in the quiet convenience store was the two of us breathing.

Little by little, little by little, we got closer to each other, no matter who was first.

The distance of a few spans narrowed to three spans, then to two spans, and soon we were looking into each other’s eyes, so close that our noses were touching.

I slowly lifted the hand that was placed on Choi Soo-yeon’s hand and gently stroked her cheek.

Sooyeon Choi lifted her hand, which was placed on my thigh, and placed it on her cheek.

Her eyes closed very slowly, and I took that as a cue to narrow the distance from one span to zero span.

“Hmm…”

Sooyeon Choi took a brief breath, and at that moment our lips touched.

Choi Soo-yeon’s lips were very soft, but felt slightly sticky due to her lip balm.

I could feel Choi Soo-yeon’s left hand, which was resting on my cheek, exerting a lot of strength, probably because she was very nervous.

In an effort to relieve her tension, I slowly grasped Choi Soo-yeon’s right hand with my left hand, which was gently stroking her cheek.

Suyeon Choi’s right hand groped for my hand as if grasping for a straw, and soon we hugged each other affectionately.

“Huh…”

The moment their lips touched, Choi Soo-yeon, who had held her breath due to tension, let out her breath very slowly.

Her breath tickled my lips, and I wrapped my hands around her slim waist and pulled her closer to me.

Su-yeon Choi slowly stretched her arms forward and wrapped them around the back of her neck.

We continued kissing, with my hands wrapped around Choi Soo-yeon’s waist and Choi Soo-yeon wrapped around my neck.

As Sooyeon Choi gently sucked her upper lip, she also sucked my lower lip.

So, when Choi Su-yeon’s mouth was slightly open, I penetrated my tongue into her mouth.

“Whoop?!”

Choi Su-yeon, who was surprised, instantly tightened her grip on her hand around my neck.

But when I gently stroked her back, she slowly relaxed and accepted my tongue.

Sooyeon Choi’s tongue was motionless, but she didn’t even try to avoid my tongue, so I slowly rolled her tongue around, feeling the wet feel of her tongue.

After an eternity of kissing that I didn’t even know if 10 seconds or 10 minutes had passed, I slowly took her tongue out of her mouth and released her lips.

“Puhaa…♥”

As Sooyeon Choi let out her breath with difficulty, she looked up at me blankly with her half-opened eyes.

Our first kiss tasted like the banana milk we just drank.