Yes, It’s Me. The Obsessive Side Top

#046

In the end, I got up on my own without grabbing anyone’s hand. As I raised my body, water flowed down like laundry that had been dipped and taken out. I thought I wouldn’t get wet wearing shorts, but I got completely soaked from falling over.

“Are you okay?”

Sun Woo asked with concern and got on the ditch first, pulling me up to make it easy for me to get up. Kim Shin quietly looked at the hand he had held out and soon followed. Kim Shin’s expression, which had stiffened perhaps from being startled by me falling into the water, turned back to a grin after getting out of the ditch.

“Ha Jin is still careless as ever. I can’t take my eyes off you for even a moment because of this.”

“I just stumbled and fell. More importantly, I need to wring out my clothes.”

Water kept dripping from my stretched clothes, and I couldn’t stay like this. As I grabbed the hem of my top to wring out the water, Kim Shin turned his head to the side. Finding Kim Shin’s behavior suddenly being modest unlike him strange, Sun Woo does something even weirder. Is he taking off his clothes too? It’s really hard to keep up with Sun Woo’s thoughts.

“Sun Woo. Why are you?”

“Take it off.”

Hey, saying that here will cause a misunderstanding. I was already in the middle of grabbing and lifting my clothes anyway. I took off my clothes without stopping, and Sun Woo put his clothes around my neck and took my clothes in his hand. He wrung out the water tightly and roughly hung it on his body.

“I can wear it though.”

As I put on the clothes Sun Woo hung around my neck, I smelled his signature soap scent. The clothes got slightly wet from the remaining water on my body, but it was still much better than wearing wet clothes. Although I was startled by Sun Woo’s actions, I felt a small touch of gratitude towards him for changing clothes with me in consideration of me. As we were changing clothes with each other, Kim Shin, who had been looking away, fumbled with something.

“Kim Shin, what are you doing now?”

Kim Shin brought his hands to his waist and was pulling his pants halfway down. Unintentionally seeing his underwear, I frowned. What is he really doing? Kim Shin spoke with a shy expression.

“Well, since Sun Woo gave his top, I was going to give my bottom.”

“…Are you crazy?”

I think the webtoon has definitely taken a turn towards comedy.

Grandmother saw me wet and scolded Sun Woo, asking how this happened. He was simply dumbfounded by the sudden scolding. Sun Woo isn’t even my guardian. And I’m not young enough to be protected either.

“Darling, you didn’t take good care of Jin-i.”

“I fell on my own. Sun Woo even changed clothes with me because I got wet.”

“Oh my, still. Darling should have taken good care of you.”

“I’m fine.”

“Jin-i. I’ll turn on the hot water, so go wash up quickly.”

Grandmother turned on the boiler like that and headed to the faucet with the loaches we caught, and Kim Shin followed behind her like a baby duck. Thinking that Kim Shin follows Grandmother well, my heart ached for no reason. With so many people who love her, I hoped Grandmother would live happily for a long, long time.

After washing up feeling great with hot water gushing out, I saw Kim Shin sitting on the wooden bench with a completely dead face. Seeing his pale white face, I asked Sun Woo who happened to be next to him.

“What happened to Kim Shin?”

Sun Woo laughed faintly.

“He saw the loaches being salted and became like that.”

Well, it probably wasn’t a pleasant sight to see.

“The precious young master must have been very shocked.”

“You’re talking as if it’s not you. It’s a good thing you didn’t see it either.”

Sun Woo put his hand on my head and ruffled it roughly. Is it because I soaked in hot water? I felt my face getting hot. I turned my head to the side at the strange feeling, and Sun Woo’s hand fell off. Then I feel disappointed again. What’s wrong with me? Feeling uncomfortable being next to Sun Woo for no reason, I approached Kim Shin.

“Are you okay?”

When I asked Kim Shin, who was sitting as if he had lost everything in the world, with concern, his eyes drooped pitifully and he showed me a rained-on puppy expression.

“Ha Jin. Humans are the cruelest in the world.”

“You realized that now?”

“My startled heart won’t calm down. Comfort me a bit, Ha Jin.”

Kim Shin got up and stretched out his arms towards me. He probably doesn’t think I’ll hug him, it’s just Kim Shin’s usual playfulness. As I was thinking he would act pitiful again, Sun Woo suddenly appeared and hugged Kim Shin.

‘What are you two doing…?’

Watching the strange scene, I sighed in disbelief. The two of them seem to have gotten quite close since the loach catching.

“Our kind Sun Woo.”

Even with a dead expression, his mouth is still alive. Kim Shin put his arms around Sun Woo and hugged him tightly. Sun Woo also hugged him with force as if competing, and the two of them stayed attached like that for a while, unable to even breathe.

“Oh my, how disgusting, you punks!”

Grandmother, who discovered the two of them like that, approached them and mercilessly struck their backs with her hand. I knew it was playful since she was laughing, but her touch was strong. The sound of slapping from Grandmother’s hand was very loud. Only then did the two separate. Kim Shin must have been quite hurt, as he rubbed his back with his hand.

“Oh my, I’m dying from the heat, what are you two doing? You grown-ups are so disgusting!”

Grandmother separated the two so they couldn’t stick together again and went into the kitchen.

“Ha Jin. Did we look disgusting to you too?”

“Yeah.”

“Then it would have been good if you had hugged me.”

“Kim Shin. Should I hug you again?”

Sun Woo asked coldly. His words contained the meaning of comforting him kindly.

“I think my ribs might shatter?”

“I’ll hug you whenever you want.”

“Sun Woo, I like your forcefulness. But can I decline a bit?”

“Go ahead.”

“Thanks.”

The two of them really seem to have become a comedy duo at some point. It’s much more fun like this. The webtoon.

Kim Shin ended up not being able to eat the loach stew. Even though we had a hard time catching them and Grandmother cooked it with care. The loach stew had the loaches ground up, making them unrecognizable, but Kim Shin couldn’t even look at it, having blurry eyes as if he had morning sickness. His face is really wasted.

“Oh my, Shin-nie. Try eating even a bite. It will be delicious if you try it.”

“Grandmother. I’m sorry. I’m… a weak human being.”

“Oh, it’s okay. Then should I boil you some nurungji (scorched rice)?”

“I eat rice well even without soup.”

“Grandma feels bad for you.”

“I love you, Grandmother.”

At the sudden love confession, Grandmother laughed and picked out fish bones and put them in Kim Shin’s rice bowl. Kim Shin made a very touched expression and took a big spoonful and ate it blessed. As I was blankly watching that, a piece of fish was placed in my rice bowl too. Sun Woo had picked out the flesh and put it on for me.

“I’ll take care of you.”

“…”

Kim Shin saw that from across the table and closed his eyes tightly, seeming to hold back laughter.

“I’ll eat it myself.”

I refused, saying that, but Sun Woo kept picking out fish flesh and putting it in my rice bowl the whole time I was eating. Honestly, it was convenient to have the fish flesh picked out for me, so I didn’t refuse anymore.

“That was originally my role.”

Kim Shin said that and smiled brightly at Sun Woo.

“That was when I wasn’t here.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

“Now I’ll take care of it.”

“Wow, did I become unemployed? Ha Jin. Don’t abandon me. I’m still helpful to you, right? It feels a bit sad, like our Ha Jin is leaving my embrace.”

Kim Shin said that and looked sullen, then made eye contact with me and smiled bitterly. Since he was good at joking around, I thought it was an expression he made up, but at the same time, I wondered if his feelings were really hurt. Well, it makes sense to feel left out when your friend who you thought was closest to you gets another best friend. He’s the guy who even catches mosquitoes for me while I sleep. Knowing that Kim Shin sincerely cares for Ha Jin, seeing him make that expression made me feel uneasy too.

“Who’s abandoning who?”

With those words, Kim Shin smiled brightly, and rice was pushed into my mouth. I accepted the rice, thinking that Sun Woo’s action meant to quietly shut up and just eat. He really has a quick temper.

After finishing the meal, Grandmother told us to go next door and give them some loach stew. Sun Woo asked me to go together for a task he could do alone. What’s the point of two people going to deliver a pot of loach stew? As I wasn’t answering, Grandmother told us to go together. In the end, I had to leave the house with Sun Woo.

On the way, Sun Woo persistently examined my nape.

“Why?”

Thinking there might be something on it, I rubbed it with my hand, and Sun Woo smiled brightly.

“I like that my mark is left.”

I guess it left a scar from biting and sucking so much. I frown deeply, but the smile on Sun Woo’s lips doesn’t disappear.

“Sun Woo, you should listen to people until the end. I said a mosquito bit me. What misunderstanding did you have on your own to bite someone?”

No. Is it okay to bite like this even if it was a misunderstanding? I feel dizzy, unable to pinpoint what to scold him for.

“I have weak patience. Then you shouldn’t have made this kind of mark from the beginning.”

“Do I have to be mindful of mosquitoes sucking my blood while I sleep?”

“You’re too defenseless when you sleep.”

“…”

“It won’t work today. I’ll have to sleep with you.”

“The three of us sleeping together? It’s cramped.”

“Being cramped is better than being concerned.”

“We’re going back to Seoul after today anyway.”

“So bear with it for one day.”

Sun Woo’s persuasion skills are really no joke. There was no way to win against him. No matter how I tried to persuade him this way or that, he wouldn’t listen and only put forth what he wanted to say. As we were bickering like that, we soon arrived at the neighbor’s house. Entering the house without a gate, the first thing that greeted us was a shiny black sedan. The sedan, which seemed newly purchased, was the best model among domestic cars.

“Grandmother is cool. Nice car.”

Sun Woo’s expression wasn’t good looking at the car. I thought it was because Ok-bun didn’t have a car, but someone must have heard us, and the front door of the house opened and someone came out. The person who opened the door and came out was a man with the vibe of an ordinary office worker in his 30s. He saw us and approached with a big smile. And standing in front of Sun Woo, he greeted him as if he knew him.

“Isn’t it Sun Woo? The pride of our village. The genius Sun Woo. Long time no see?”