I was flustered
But I couldn’t pick a fight with a tiger in a bad mood
I carefully headed for the front entrance
There was a fingerprint scanner instead of a door lock
When I held my finger up to it, it clicked
and the door opened right away
Watching this from behind, Hwang Hyunjin gave a satisfied smile and
on days when even touching the sensor with a finger felt like too much trouble
a small camera lens at eye levelhe said, telling me to look at it
and dashed into the house
After I searched for the camera lens on the door for a long time and came in
Hwang Hyunjin, already changed into pajamas, greeted me
“It’s definitely right in front of the house, but
it takes forever to get in, doesn’t it?”
I flinched
A little awkwardly, I scratched my cheek with a finger and sat on the sofa
Hwang Hyunjin tossed a set of pajamas onto my face
“They’re mine, so they might be a bit big, but change into them first and come back”
After changing, we sat side by side on the sofa and had a short chat
I also learned for the first time that the reason he had tricked me into being his girlfriend
was because of an internal leak issue
And unlike his first impression, which had seemed nothing but sharp
Hwang Hyunjin actually had a surprisingly soft side
He never said it outright, but
I could easily tell that my small words and actions affected Hwang Hyunjin’s mood
When I tried to show the bare minimum of respect to the butler-nim
if even a slightly sharp tone came out
he would panic and stammer
and when I smiled brightly at an obvious joke, he would lower his head
as if trying to hide his smile
Even if he showed an endlessly cold image to the butler-nim and the students
to me he showed himself as he really was
I don’t know when it started, but
after seeing Hwang Hyunjin’s true self
I’d get oddly excited at the thought that we were slowly getting closer
“Be careful going in”
If it had been like usual, he would have come outside
and waved until the Carnival drove offbut Hwang Hyunjin, strangely enough today, offered a short goodbye from upstairs
and didn’t come down after us
Seeing the Carnival parked in front of the front door
I felt strangely uneasy for no reason
“Right this way, miss”
Even after getting in, I kept staring blankly
at the large house visible through the window
“No, I’m telling you, it’s true? She saw it herself”
A few days later, the school was buzzing about the latest hot topic again
The main character was none other than Hwang Hyunjin
According to what I heard, the famous rich girl from our school
had gone to an elite training program and run into me and Hwang Hyunjin
People were too busy tossing around all kinds of guesses
and, convinced he was a chaebol son rather than a thug
they sent the whole school into an uproar
When students swarmed me, asking if the rumor was true
I couldn’t come up with an exact excuse
and just kept repeating no over and over
Sweat ran down my back
It was still morning homeroom, so
I knew full well that Hwang Hyunjin wouldn’t be coming
but inside I kept begging him to hurry up and come
By the time cold sweat had soaked through my uniform
the back door flew open with a bang
and the noisy classroom fell silent in an instantMaybe Hwang Hyunjin sensed the classroom’s restlessness too
because he sat down at his seat with a stiff expression
The students all looked back and forth between me and Hwang Hyunjin at once, but
they kept their mouths shut and stayed silent
The oppressive silence was broken when the front door opened right away, but
under the still lingering stares aimed at us
I let out a tiny sigh of relief that no one could hear
“Class rep, why is it so chaotic today? Say hello”
“Stand at attention, bow”
Stand at attention, bow
