Today, too, I walk to school with you, glancing at your face. Kwon Soon-young... You're really handsome today, too.
"Jihoon... Lee Jihoon!!"
"Uh... why?"
"What's wrong? Why are you so absent-minded today?"
"Ah... but why?"
"No, I just thought you looked so dazed."
With a bright smile, I brush off your question of why I'm so absentminded today by saying, "Just like that." I feel my heart ache as I see you smiling at me. How did I start this unrequited love that is so difficult?
Ah.... It was probably from the moment I first saw you. I was so introverted that I lived like an invisible person in class, but you were the one who spoke to me first.
"Hello, I'm Kwon Soon-young. What's your name?"
"Me..? I'm Lee Ji-hoon."
"Really? Let's be friends to celebrate our relationship."
"Okay, good."
Did I feel a crush on you, who smiled brightly and spoke to me? I answered your words as if I was possessed by something. After that, we became close very quickly. Since our houses were close, we went to and from school together and became close friends. As a result, my feelings for you also began to grow. Now, it has grown to the point where I can't control it, but there's nothing I can do. You wouldn't be interested in someone like me. To you, who is popular with your friends and the girls, someone like me is nothing more or less than a friend. That's why I have to hide these feelings of mine. Because I don't want to become a person who isn't even your friend.
After arriving at school a while later, we hear rumors that a transfer student is coming.
"Ji-hoon, do you know who the transfer student is?"
"But why the transfer student? Are you interested?"
"Um... I'm just curious what kind of person he is."
Seeing you so interested in the transfer student, I couldn't help but feel a pout. I asked you in a prickly voice, "Are you interested?" Fortunately, you didn't seem to notice. I thought to myself, relieved, and vowed not to make that mistake again. If I didn't see you like this, I'd die. The bell rang, and a cute child and the teacher came in together.
"Hi, I'm Lee Chan. Please take care of me."
I still can't forget. The look on your face as you looked at that child... The look on your face, exactly like mine when I looked at you, I knew the moment I saw it. That you had fallen for that child...
Since then, you've become fast friends with that transfer student named Chan, and before we knew it, it became natural for the three of us to hang out together.
"Jihoon! Jihoon!"
"why?"
"Hey... I think Chan likes me."
"Is that so?"
Yeah, so I'm going to confess to Chani."
"..."
I knew you liked the transfer student, but hearing it out loud was even more shocking. My vision went dark and I couldn't say anything. And a confession... What should I do if Soonyoung ends up dating Chani?
Can we continue to be friends like this?
Thoughts like, "Should I just confess and then get dumped?" were floating around in my head.
"Hey... Sunyoung"
"Jihoon, why?"
"...it's nothing"
I guess I can't do it after all. I don't have the courage to confess to you and then get dumped. After being dumped, I didn't have the courage to look at your face, and I didn't have the courage not to look at your face either. Goodbye, my first love. My lonely and sweet unrequited love that was long if it was long and short if it was short. I liked you, Soonyoung...