Chapter 30 – After Taking the Certification Exam…(5)

My younger brother must have heard that while the music stopped for a moment, and after coming to his senses, he stood still holding me tight.
Just like that, calming each other little by little… After taking a deep breath, our eyes met… Seriously, we slowly leaned against each other without taking our eyes off each other, to the point where the word “Man and woman met eyes” Came to mind.

My younger brother held me in one arm and dragged me off the stage while leaning on me… Some of the people around me seemed to have just been watching it, and everyone looked at it with their eyes wide open, and I saw people smirking at what they were imagining.
Leaving the stage… Passing through a hall full of people… I went out to the lobby, and by the time I was a little deaf, I could feel that I was gasping for a lot of breath.

Feeling the excitement that I hadn’t felt just from being deaf, I felt belatedly that my buttocks were exposed in a slightly raised skirt, so I put my hands behind me and pulled them down… Leaning on his leg, he put one hand on his brother’s stomach, then on his chest… Confused, not knowing where to put it, my sister made me hold my hand on top of my stomach… Holding me back with one arm, I put my big hand on top of mine and folded it.

Quietly, without saying a word, leave the club… I looked up at her brother, feeling the cool air slowly cool in my head.
My younger sister couldn’t make eye contact with me at all, probably because of something that happened a little while ago. Rather, she glanced away, but when our eyes met, she looked elsewhere, and I also turned my head to a different place every time our eyes met. .

“The club… Also, I don’t think it fits well.”

As I said that, I gently pushed my arm out of my brother’s arms to get out of his arms, and immediately staggered and my brother hugged me again, and this time I put my arms around my waist… I put my hand on her silence followed and hugged her as if to hold her back, fully supporting her back.

I’m embarrassed, but I can’t say anything… After standing like that outside quietly.
For some reason, the thumping sound kept getting louder inside my body and I felt like my head was going to break, so I tried to raise my head and told my younger brother.

“Shall we go home… ?”

Then my younger brother looked at me without saying a word and, holding me tighter in his arms as if he would not let go, walked all the way home as if he were taking me…

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With a click, after the front door closed… We stood there for a while without taking our shoes off.
For some reason, the moment I entered the house, I wonder if my sister was feeling the feeling that the feeling I felt until just a moment ago was completely over.

Quietly at the entrance… As I listened to the beating and pounding heartbeat with my ear barely under my brother’s chest, my vision gradually became blurry as if I was losing my mind.
Her sister’s things became very hot, and she felt a shock press on her belly button, and it seemed like a shock came to her head… Rather, thanks to that, I came to my senses, so I pushed my chest with both hands and said little by little, slowly getting out of my brother’s arms.

“Ka, I’ll make you a cocktail.”

I said as if I was running away from the strange atmosphere, and immediately took off my shoes and took out the ingredients to make Mojito from the refrigerator, leaving my younger brother standing still in the doorway.

The recipe is a little different from the real cocktails, but… Homemade lime cheong, a little bit of carbonated water I bought to drink while exercising, and I put it in the refrigerator… I took out the rum that her mother had bought and put it in, and I took some of her mint and rubbed it with her hands before putting it in.
After my brother made the drink, I made mine a second time, making it more non-alcoholic with very little rum.

“Is it a little different?”
“Ah, I’m weak on alcohol…”

I’m pretty weak to alcohol… It’s not that I can’t drink at all, but I had a bad hangover after drinking it, and it didn’t show that I was drunk, but at some point the film cut off and I ended up sleeping.
It’s a quiet drinking habit, but that doesn’t make it a reason to drink a lot, and it seems like it’s been over 5 years since I haven’t drank… However, I decided to drink a little today.

“It’s our first time drinking together… Let’s have a little drink together.”

After inserting the straw, I handed over the glass and said, and the younger brother took the glass… After bumping into it a little, I sucked on the straw.
Maybe because of the sweet and refreshing feeling, my overheated head seemed to cool down a bit more.
So, now that I’m back home, it’s as if nothing had happened… I started talking to her brother about what I wanted to say during the day.

“Are you too weak to drink?”
“Hmm… I’m on the weak side. I haven’t drank there in a long time, so maybe now… I think I would get drunk if I had just one cup of it.”
“… I think I’m rather weak right now.”
“Oh, would you like a little more alcohol later?”
“Are there more?”
“Hmm… Once or twice? This is a refillable cocktail bar.”

My sister laughed at my joke, pulled out her straw, and drank from the glass.
Gulp, gulp, the movement of the neckband strangely attracted my attention, so I just watched it… For some reason, I took two sips because it seemed that my body had not cooled down yet.

“How was the exam… ? Wasn’t it very difficult?”
“It wasn’t difficult. My sister taught me well.”
“It’s because you studied well. No matter how well you teach, the learner has to persevere.”
“… He motivates me so well that I had no choice but to work hard every day.”
“Motivation… ? Oh… That, though… You worked hard.”

For some reason, it seems that embarrassing things keep coming out.
Normally, it’s a conversation I’ve gotten used to to some extent, so I’m not ashamed of it, but strangely, I’m more conscious today.

“What is the prize you were told to play well?”
“Ah, it was originally a secret… Hong Kong, do you want to go see it?”
“… Do you want to go to Hong Kong… ?”
“Yes, Hong Kong… No, I do not want?”

For some reason, my younger brother heard me and had a strange expression on his face, but did not answer.

“I don’t want to go to Hong Kong with you… ?
“No… I want to go… But.”
“Oh, is it okay to go to Hong Kong?”
“No, I’m fine… Yes, I want to go to Hong Kong with my sister…”
“Thank god! In fact, I already bought a plane ticket.”

In fact, I secretly collected all of the school fees I saved while teaching my younger brother… I’ve already booked a flight ticket for a trip to Hong Kong… I was thinking if I should take a little loss and get a refund if I said I didn’t want to go.

But as if I was just surprised because it was a little sudden, my brother said he wanted to go, so I was delighted and brought out a document showing that I had booked a plane ticket that I had secretly purchased and printed.

“It’s Labor Day in a little while, right? Ah, this is my first time, so I don’t know… In China, Labor Day is a very big holiday, so we take a break for 7 days… Among them, I plan to go on a trip together for about 4 days… But Hong Kong only takes one day off on the day of Labor Day, ah, originally I went on a trip every long holiday like this… I thought it would be good for my brother to go with me… In the meantime, the supermarket, the restaurant, the academy… Everything is closed.”
“Ah… Um, ah… Hong Kong.”
“How is it… ? It’s my first time going too, so it’s okay. I’ve decided where to go… All you have to do is follow… Hong Kong speaks Cantonese, which has a very different pronunciation from Chinese, but English is also used a lot, so there will be no inconvenience if we go together.”

For some reason, my younger brother suddenly seemed to have lost his energy, so I tried my best to persuade him, wondering if he was reluctant to do so.
I really want to go with you, so I’m already ready… The hotel was also set to a different place every day, and there was a place with a swimming pool, so I even bought a swimsuit…

“No… ? If you don’t like it, I’ll cancel.”
“Oh, no. No? Great. I want to go with you.”
“Ah, I’m glad…”

It wasn’t until after I got my brother’s consent that I started to realize that I was going on a trip with my younger brother belatedly… Thinking that this is a family trip for the first time, I spread my hands and put my fingertips together… I couldn’t stand the good feeling while putting them together in front of my chest, so I wiggled my hands and said with a very pleasant smile.

“Cheer, it’s the first time we’re going on a trip together… I planned very hard. You don’t have to do everything like homework, but let’s have a good rest while watching.”

I felt the corners of my mouth smirking, so I slowly put my hands together and covered my mouth.
I was a little embarrassed as I seemed to enjoy it so much that we barely went on a trip together.

“Did you all drink? I’ll make you another drink.”

I took the empty glass to hide my shame, and this time I made a Mojito with more alcohol as my brother ordered, and I tried to take it after making my own non-alcoholic one… I was surprised when my younger brother suddenly approached me from behind.

“Is that the end of the award?”
“Uh? Uh?”
“I wish it was a little more naughty.”
“Uh… ?”

And at the words whispered in my ear… My brain messed up again.