Chapter 101: A Kiss Full of Laughter

“I’m really okay.”

I wondered how I could convince them that I was truly fine, and then slowly curved the corners of my mouth upward.

I thought if I said it with a smile, I’d look okay.

The moment I opened my mouth –

“Oh no, Jae-seo hyung must be really sick!”

“Hyung, shouldn’t you go to a hospital?”

Lee Woo-rim, looking back at me, shouted with a voice full of worry and not a trace of his usual playfulness.

His reaction, which I found utterly absurd, was followed by Lee Chan-seo’s.

In the end, I pressed my lifted lips back down and answered in a serious voice that I was really fine.

Though they asked if I was sure, when I answered again, they nodded, saying that was a relief.

Watching them, I made a firm decision inside myself.

If the time ever came when I could set my training schedule again, I would definitely raise my acting stat.

***

The car that left the concert venue drove quickly and arrived at the hotel prepared by the KM ConFesta staff.

The car door opened, and I was watching the members who had been in the front get out one by one.

With a ddiring sound, strength suddenly returned to my limp body.

My stomach, which had been nauseous like motion sickness the entire way to the hotel, also became comfortable in an instant.

“Jae-seo, wait a minute.”

As if intending to lift and carry me again like when we got into the car, Yeo Hyun-tae moved and told me to wait.

I grabbed his hand to stop him and suddenly stood up from my seat.

Aware of the nine pairs of eyes watching me worriedly, I deliberately took strong steps.

When Yoon Ji-heon asked if I was okay the moment I got out of the car, I answered that I had rested during the drive and was completely fine.

Sighs of relief came from all around.

“Then let’s go out for dinner in an hour.”

At the manager’s words, his face noticeably more relaxed whether because of me or because of me, we all nodded and went up to our hotel rooms.

Seo Jun-jae, who entered the room with me – we had been assigned two per room – asked once more if I was really okay.

I had already failed once in the car, but I thought it would work with Seo Jun-jae, who was quick-witted, so I deliberately let out a laugh.

“Haha, I told you, I’m perfectly fine.”

“……”

Contrary to my expectation that he would catch on immediately and laugh along, Seo Jun-jae kept his mouth firmly shut with a hardened expression.

At his reaction, the corners of my mouth, which I had forced up, also dropped downward.

“Seo Jun-jae?”

It was the moment I called his name, asking what was wrong.

He suddenly reached out his arms and pulled me strongly by the shoulder and waist.

Unable to resist the force, my foot stepped forward, and soon the toes of our two identical sneakers touched completely.

Caught off guard by the sudden situation, I could only blink in confusion.

Then a low voice rang out right next to my ear.

“I’m glad you’re okay, Jae-seo.”

A low sigh mixed in at the end of my name, spoken slowly, trembling finely.

Only then did I realize that the tips of Seo Jun-jae’s fingers, desperately holding my shoulder and waist, were also trembling.

Only then did I feel incredibly sorry toward Seo Jun-jae.

Looking back belatedly, the status abnormality that occurred today was quite serious by my own estimation.

After all, I had suddenly collapsed without any warning.

I had done something that would worry anyone, and especially Seo Jun-jae, and then I had just made excuses and avoided him because I was embarrassed, and at the end of that, I had casually judged his feelings again and acted lightly.

…It wasn’t intentional, but I had done something selfish, cowardly, and trashy once more.

“I’m really okay.

You don’t have to worry anymore.”

I answered more sincerely than at any other moment today, then raised my arms and wrapped them around Seo Jun-jae’s back.

And slowly began patting his back.

Was it okay to treat Seo Jun-jae like this?

That question kept coming to mind, but for now, I couldn’t stop myself.

The moment I heard Seo Jun-jae speak my name in a deeply unsettled voice, I felt as if something deep inside my heart had crumbled loudly.

And so, without saying anything to each other, I stayed in Seo Jun-jae’s arms for a long time.

After a while, he slowly pulled his body back and finally curved the corners of his mouth into a faint smile.

Then he stepped back one pace and quietly began to smooth down my hair.

Come to think of it, from the time rehearsal ended until we arrived at the hotel, I hadn’t once fixed my hair, so it must have been quite a mess.

His slow touch felt frustratingly slow, but I didn’t feel like pushing his hand away as usual, so I let him.

Seo Jun-jae’s mouth corners lifted pleasingly.

“There.

Pretty.”

After fiddling with my hair for a long time, Seo Jun-jae finally took his hand away and, as usual, added an unnecessary comment.

Seeing that it made me furrow my brow, he burst out laughing, then suddenly brought his body, which had been pulled back, close to mine again.

At the suddenly close distance, his breath, carried on his laughter, tickled and touched my cheek.

Only then, belatedly realizing the embarrassing situation, I tried to pull back, but was immediately stopped by his arm.

No, rather, my held waist was pulled even closer, and soon his lips, not his breath, lightly pressed down on my cheek.

His lips, slowly moving down my cheek, soon met mine, and at the same time, our gazes locked and intertwined deeply.

Our lips, just resting against each other as we leisurely held each other’s gaze, slowly bit my lower lip, and at the same time, his thick eyelashes fell beautifully downward.

As the lip that had been drawn into his wet mouth began to be gently sucked, a subtle chill ran down my spine and my shoulders naturally hunched.

“Mmm…”

Low breaths escaped continuously through my parted lips, forced open by his bite.

On top of that, the wet, sucking sound of our lips meeting and pulling apart began to stick lewdly and tickle my ears.

As the heat began to rise along with the increasingly raw sounds, my tightly shut eyelids fluttered uncontrollably.

After a moment, our lips, wet with saliva, parted with a moist sound.

I slowly lifted my eyelids, which had been tightly shut.

My hands came into view, clinging to Seo Jun-jae’s shoulders as if hanging onto him, without me even realizing when that had happened.

As my excited mind returned, embarrassment flooded in belatedly, and I quickly pulled my body away and bit my lips inward, still wet with his saliva, to hide them.

Seo Jun-jae gently cupped my cheek, lowered his head, and lightly kissed me once more, then stepped back.

His eyes, still heavy with lingering heat, slowly traveled down my body.

“Want to take them off now?”

…What?

Was he asking to do it now?

Caught off guard by the sudden suggestion, I stopped moving.

At the same time, he reached out his arm and lowered his body.

With dinner with the members in just a few tens of minutes, doing something like that – by any common sense, it didn’t make sense.

“Wait, no!

Right now is…”

The hand I urgently reached out to stop him stopped stupidly in midair before even touching him.

Because he had bent one knee and brought his hand not to my pants but to my shoelaces.

At my breathless voice, he looked up with an expression that asked what I had said.

“Why, Jae-seo?”

At his question, which sounded almost innocent, I was flustered and could only move my lips.

So the situation just now – Seo Jun-jae had simply asked me to take off my shoes without any ulterior motive, and I had been the only one to take it in a strange way and overreact?

…This is crazy.

I involuntarily replayed what I had just done, and was momentarily stunned, just standing there with my brows deeply furrowed.

Seo Jun-jae, who had been sitting at my feet, suddenly let out a low sigh and dropped his head down.

Thanks to that, his broad shoulders and back began to twitch slightly.

I wondered what was wrong with him all of a sudden, but only for a moment.

Then I realized he was holding back laughter.

When I realized that the expression he had given me earlier, as if he knew nothing, had all been an act, I was dumbfounded and pushed his shoulder hard with my outstretched hand.

Then, apparently unable to hold back any longer, he began to let out low laughter.

“Haha, this is crazy.”

What more could someone already crazy be crazy about…

Then he straightened his crouched body and stood up.

Following that movement, my gaze naturally rose.

His face, now in my field of vision, was saturated with amusement.

His lips, curving upward in a gentle arc, slowly parted.

“Jae-seo, you’re feeling cuter and cuter to me.

What should I do?”

Sure enough, he was spouting nonsense again.

I tried to turn away as if I hadn’t heard, but the next moment, words I couldn’t ignore followed.

“I just keep liking you more and more.

What should I do?”

The moment I met his quietly settled gaze, I felt as if my breath had stopped.

No, I was actually unable to breathe in or out properly.

Looking down at me, he lowered his head once more.

His nose tip brushed against mine first, and then our lips came together perfectly.

Only then did my breath burst out.

His wide-opened lips began to devour everything – my lips, even my breath.

As the strong, stirring, sucking kiss continued, a fear began to rise that he would take everything else too.

…If that happened, what was I supposed to do?

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