For My First Love

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This story is fictional

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The struck cheek grew more and more swollen and red; after work, rubbing my numb, sore cheek,

I stop in my tracks when I see Taehyun waiting for me on the way home

Staring at the heroine’s reddened cheek,

"..Taehyun?"

"I’m sorry, noona"

Taehyun, apologizing out of the blue, hugs the heroine, and when she asks if something happened,

he says nothing’s wrong and holds her even closer in his arms. The heroine, unable to shake off the faint trembling

Taehyun, says it’s okay and strokes his back

"Are you feeling a little better now?"

"Ah, I’m sorry"

After being held for a long while, Taehyun comes to his senses and, still apologizing,

hastily loosens the arms around the heroine and looks at a loss

Seeing Taehyun rambling on and on, a snort of laughter escapes

"Taehyun, did you maybe go around doing things you had to apologize for without telling me?"

"No, I didn’t"

"I won’t ask what happened. If you ever have something hard going on, contact me anytime.

Today, if I’d had something else to do, you would’ve made a wasted trip"

As if he understood, Taehyun nods, and soon his ear tips turn slightly red.

He can’t even meet the heroine’s eyes and just keeps looking at the ground. Then, beside the heroine, Subin

appears and grabs the heroine by the shoulder

"Yeoju, who is that?"

"Ah, Subin, that’s the owner of the umbrella"

"Hello, I’m Kang Taehyun"

"Hello, I’m Choi Subin"

The two are in a strangely tense standoff. Then Subin’s eyes catch the heroine’s reddened cheek

"Yeoju, what happened to your face?"

"..Huh? Nothing. It’s just because I’m cold"

"Nothing? Who did this to you?!"

When Subin strokes the heroine’s red cheek, the heroine flinches, and Subin’s face darkens

The heroine sends Taehyun away, saying she’ll contact him next time, then goes home with Subin

As soon as they open the front door and go inside, Subin hugs the heroine from behind

and buries his head in her shoulder

"..Subin..?"

"Yeoju, let’s stay like this for a little while"

"...."

The heroine sighs; Subin trembles faintly as if he’s crying, and soon his arms

wrap around the heroine’s waist. Knowing this shouldn’t be happening, he still wanted to lean on you

The heroine’s body stiffens; for a while, only the sound of the two of them breathing lingered in the air

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On Christmas Day, the day she’d promised to meet Beomgyu, the heroine couldn’t sleep well

Now she resolved to tell Beomgyu clearly

She’d make sure this meeting would be the last, without hurting him as much as possible. Morning came, and

the heroine got ready to go out. At that same time, Beomgyu was getting ready to leave too

Happiness was written all over his face. He’d been so excited he couldn’t sleep, and meeting her not for work but privately

made him unbelievably happy. Beomgyu looked up a good restaurant to eat lunch with the heroine,

booked a movie, and even found a trendy café. Humming to himself, he stood in the busy center of

a downtown area not far from home. Fortunately, it wasn’t very cold,

just like Beomgyu’s heart at the moment. It was winter weather that felt nothing but cozy. With a fluttering heart, he waits for the heroine. Across from him,

he sees the heroine waiting for the light, and as expected, she was glowing even from far away

The light changes, and the heroine seems to notice Beomgyu too, welcoming him with the biggest smile she could manage

"Beomgyu, when did you get here?"

"Just now. But aren’t you cold, senpai?"

"Why?"

"Why, because you’re wearing only a coat like that. What if you catch a cold.."

"Oh, this is thick. I’ve got layers on too, and I’m wearing a scarf, too, hehe"

"Huh? Why are you laughing all of a sudden? Are you making fun of me?"

"I’m not making fun of you. I’m laughing because you’re cute"

With her mouth pursed out, Beomgyu, who had been nagging at her, suddenly looked cute, and a snort of laughter

escaped. And Beomgyu’s face was growing hot

"Hurry up, I’m hungry"

She tugged on Beomgyu’s arm and hurried him along. The reserved restaurant was a fairly famous Japanese-style

Japanese restaurant. They were shown to their seats and sat down

"Oh! I know this place. I saw it on TV"

"I saw before that you seemed to like Japanese food, hehe"

Beomgyu said shyly

"I can eat anything as much as I want. I eat everything well"

Because they weren’t talking about work, it felt almost like they were on a date

When the dishes came out, the two of them chatted and blossomed into laughter, and after a pleasant lunch

they headed to the movie theater. The downtown area was crowded with Christmas songs and people

The movie theater was just as packed

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The two people who came out after watching the movie had moist eyes

"Beomgyu, this movie is really sad, isn’t it?"

"Sniff, yeah. I didn’t know it would be this sad"

"Come to think of it, Beomgyu, you’re such a crybaby, huh? You kept crying until the end"

"You weren’t any better, senpai, hehe"

"Hey, can you really compare to me, Beomgyu?"

"You’ve been crying, and now your eyes are completely swollen. I’ll wipe them again.

Close your eyes"

At Beomgyu’s words, the heroine obediently closes her eyes. With trembling fingertips, he carefully

wipes the damp corners of her eyes. Beomgyu suddenly has a nasty thought: he wants to hold her and kiss her

Even now, he could barely hold on to the last thread of reason, wanting to grab her hand and run away right this instant

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Did you wait for me?🥲

I’ll upload the next part soon