Taesan Fanfic | You met me in the prologue of youth - 03. That's cheating

김여주

What are you talking about .. ! You want to ditch class .. !

At Taesan’s one line, the heroine’s face reddened as if it had exploded. To say he wanted to keep ditching class. Watching the heroine at a loss and not knowing what to do, Taesan let out a low, breathy laugh.

Taesan let go of the hand that had been holding onto the heroine’s school uniform sleeve, brushed himself off, and plopped down on the stairs. When the heroine tried to get up like she might run off any second, Taesan casually tapped the seat beside him.

한태산

Sit. There are still more than 5 minutes before the bell rings.

김여주

But ..

한태산

You were tired from running up here too, weren’t you? If I tell you to sit, just sit, yeah?

Even as his words came out cold, as if tossed out one by one, Taesan slipped off the school uniform jacket he was wearing and spread it over the cold cement stair floor. The heroine, again biting her lip and hesitating at that thoughtful gesture, carefully sat down on the jacket.

The jacket, still warm with Taesan’s heat, was cozy, and its distinctive deep scent drifted softly over, tickling the heroine’s chest without mercy.

김여주

You .. why do you keep trying to run away during class?

When the heroine asked in a crawling voice, Taesan stared at the sky outside and answered indifferently.

한태산

Because the classroom feels suffocating.

김여주

What if the teacher calls on you ..

한태산

I don’t care. Nobody pays attention to me anyway.

At that moment, the heroine didn’t miss the strange bitterness that brushed the end of Taesan’s indifferent voice. To others, Taesan always looked confident and cold, but sometimes when he hid alone on the rooftop stairs like this, he looked like a lonely island completely cut off from the world.

Though the heroine was timid and had never once reached out first in someone else’s business, this time, for some reason, courage welled up inside her. With trembling hands, the heroine quietly held out the strawberry milk she had gotten that morning toward Taesan.

김여주

This .. I haven’t drunk it yet .. Do you want it .. ?

Taesan quietly turned his head and looked back and forth between the heroine and the strawberry milk held in her hand.

한태산

You mean the one I gave you earlier.

김여주

I thought you might not have eaten anything since you’ve been here since morning ..

한태산

…

Taesan’s gaze deepened for a moment. To other people it might have just been a small carton of strawberry milk, but to Taesan it seemed to come across as something much bigger than that. Looking down at the heroine silently, Taesan lightly brought the strawberry milk, with the straw already poked in, to the heroine’s lips.

한태산

You drink it all.

김여주

Huh … ?

한태산

You have to drink at least one sip before I will too.

김여주

You, you’re seriously weird … !

When the heroine again widened her rabbit eyes in surprise and drew her face in, Taesan let out a small snort of laughter. With that straight-ahead expression of his, smiling with one corner of his mouth lifted, the heroine had to feel her heart drop again.

Then, the bell rang with a shrill ring.

한태산

Let’s go, kid. We should head down before you get scolded, right?

Taesan brushed off the dust and got to his feet, then picked up the jacket the heroine had been sitting on and casually draped it over his shoulder. And after walking ahead, he slowed his pace to match the heroine’s footsteps behind him.