Chapter 16 : 16 Years Old, An Age Where You Sometimes Have Secrets You Want to Hide (2)

2 years ago, when Aki heard me shout “Aki and I are going to get married!” in front of Jae-hyun, I thought there couldn’t be anything more embarrassing than that in my life.

But, looking at it now, that wasn’t the case.

I never imagined that Aki would find out that I had watched a video featuring an actress who looked strangely similar to her.

“……Uh, how did you find it?”

I definitely deleted all of my internet browser history.

It was something that shouldn’t have been able to happen according to my common sense, so I asked without realizing that I was stuttering, but Aki didn’t answer and was just staring at me intently.

“Woo-ju~chan.”

“Oh, yeah?”

“Is that what’s important right now..?”

Well, it’s true that how she found it wasn’t important…………….

“……This.”

Aki glanced at the actress on the screen.

The actress, who had a strange resemblance to Aki, was being ruthlessly violated by a male actor while wearing a blindfold and a gag.

Her long pigtails were being used as handles, and she was panting as if to say “isn’t this too much?” It was such an explicit scene that my mouth was drying up just from watching.

“Woo-ju~chan, is that your type…?”

Is this what it feels like when your head is spinning…………….

“Woo-ju~chan…?”

“……”

I swear to God, that kind of maniacal, sadistic play isn’t my type. My sexual fantasies are extremely normal.

The reason I ended up watching that video was just because the actress looked strangely similar to Aki, so I clicked on it without thinking, but coincidentally, the genre was the type where they treated the woman roughly.

“Woo-ju~chan, you like that kind of thing…?”

“…N, no.”

“You don’t…?”

It was as if she was saying with her eyes alone, ‘It doesn’t seem like it’s not.’

I was very upset since I had a normal taste, not an abnormal one, but I couldn’t share those inner thoughts in front of Aki.

It’s embarrassing.

“Then, what’s Woo-ju~chan’s type?”

The moment I thought that, Aki’s question came flying in.

“……Huh?”

“What’s Woo-ju~chan’s type?”

“Ah…”

I trailed off and started to ponder.

What’s my type.

・・・・・・Holding hands and kissing.

There was one thing that immediately came to mind.

However, there was no way I could say something like that out loud.

I’d rather die than confess my sexual preferences to my pretty and cute childhood friend.

“Why can’t you say it, Woo-ju~chan…?”

“……”

Would you be able to say it if you were me…………?

The words came up to my throat and then went back in.

It seemed like it was an answer that would only worsen the situation and wouldn’t help, but Aki, strangely enough, seemed to have vaguely sensed what I was thinking.

The proof was in Aki’s next words.

“Watashi(I) like・・・・・・ being held tightly.”

Aki added her own preferences, shyly, but also clearly, and carefully.

“Not just hugging, but in a way where it feels like I can’t escape. Woo-ju~chan… no, in a way where I can feel that this person wants me, without them even saying it… tightly.”

“……Ah, really?”

“Yeah, that’s Watashi’s type.”

I see.

I made sure to engrave it in my mind.

‘Aki likes being held tightly with a lot of force.’

I don’t know when, but there will probably be a chance to use it someday.

“……Now it’s Woo-ju~chan’s turn.”

“Huh? Me?”

“I told you mine already…?”

Aki looked at me with the gaze that seemed to be urging me, ‘So hurry and tell me too, Woo-ju~chan.’

I don’t mind if it was a one-sided question, but since she had opened up about her preferences first and then asked me, I had no excuse to refuse.

‘……Ah.’

I never thought the day would come where I would reveal my sexual preferences in front of my childhood friend.

I really didn’t want to say it, but I reluctantly parted my lips.

“I like……. that・・・・・・・・・・h, holding hands while kissing?”

“Holding hands while kissing…?”

Aki tilted her head and looked up at me, as if she didn’t know the word for holding hands, even after living in Korea for 10 years.

“Like this, where you hold hands while interlacing your fingers. Don’t you know?”

“Holding your own hands while interlacing them is holding hands?”

“That’s what it originally means, but what I’m talking about is when a boy and a girl are facing each other and holding hands.”

“Facing each other? How?”

“Hold out your palm for a second. Spread your fingers out without touching each other.”

“Okay… like this?”

Aki showed me her palm with spaces in between her fingers.

I placed my palm over Aki’s palm, and then interlaced our fingers.

“If Aki curls your fingers in this state, your fingers would be crossed, right? That’s holding hands.”

“Ah, 恋人…?”

“Koibitotsunagio suru? Is that holding hands in Japanese?”

“Yeah, that’s usually how you say it.”

“I see. I didn’t know it well..”

I had grabbed her hand in order to tell her what holding hands was, but when should I let go?

I was slowly looking around to let go naturally, but Aki was fidgeting with her fingers and glancing at me, as if she didn’t plan to let go.

“Woo-ju~chan.”

“Huh?”

“……..We’re already holding hands, so if we just kiss like this…. Woo-ju~chan’s preference will come true, right?”

Aki was blinking her big eyes and looking up at me.

“……”

Strictly speaking, the hand-holding kiss that I wanted wasn’t like this.

I didn’t just want to hold hands and kiss, but what I wanted was something that would naturally lead to something else when we were lying in bed and holding hands and kissing.

However, if I said that, it seemed like this atmosphere would end.

For some reason, the atmosphere right now, which was subtly erotic while also making my heart flutter.

‘……Is it because the video is still playing?’

In the video, the male actor was so energetic, he was holding the pigtails of the actress, whose eyes and mouth were covered, tightly and passionately, as if he was going to pour everything out of himself.

“…..Woo-ju~chan, what are you looking at right now?”

The moment my gaze was stolen by the video that was filled with skin, Aki pulled on our interlaced hands slightly and said in a blunt tone.

The inner thoughts held in her unique big, blue eyes that were looking up at me were probably, ‘Why are you looking at another woman besides me…?’

“Woo-ju~chan, tell me honestly. Is that really your type?”

“……No.”

“Uso(Liar), you couldn’t take your eyes off of it…?”

“That’s just, well….”

It’s just a man’s instinct.

No matter how pretty and cute my childhood friend is in front of me, if there’s a man and a woman taking off all their clothes next to them, it would actually be stranger if your gaze didn’t go there.

However, Aki didn’t seem to have any intention of understanding that, or rather, it was as if she didn’t want to understand it, as she pouted her lips.

“Woo-ju~chan likes anything that’s lewd, then? To the point where you’ll treat Watashi(me) as second best?”

“There’s no way I would do that? Aki is obviously my first priority.”

“Really? Is it really your first priority?”

“Yeah, really, Aki is always my first priority.”

“……Then, prove it.”

“Prove it…?”

Prove it, how am I supposed to prove it.

I looked at Aki, who had only presented the goal and didn’t suggest any means.

I hoped that she would tell me how to prove it if I looked at her like this.

However, Aki just quietly waited while looking intently at me.

It’s like she was telling me to figure out the method on my own.

“Aki, how am I supposed to prove it?”

“……”

“・・・・・・What, should I kiss you or something?”

I had said it casually because we used to do it often when we were little, but in that instant, Aki reacted loudly.

Aki fidgeted with our interlaced hands, and then did a cute ‘ahem…’ after belatedly realizing that I was watching her.

“Th, that’s up to, well…. Woo-ju~chan to figure out, isn’t it…?”

‘She’s telling me to do it…’

I’ve been watching Aki from the sidelines for almost 10 years now. When Aki acts shy while pretending not to be, it means she’s telling me to do it.

I understood that right away because of my experiences, and I nodded.

“Okay, then I’ll do what I want?”

“……”

Aki’s lips twitched slightly.

I was still holding Aki’s hand as I gently fixed her slightly messed up side hair.

So that it wouldn’t get in the way when I kissed her cheek.

Now that I was about to do it, I was nervous.

We used to do it often when we were ten, but I probably haven’t done it much after I got a little older.

I don’t know what I was thinking or how I kissed her back then, even though Aki, who has French and Japanese blood, was okay with it. I guess that’s possible because I was young and didn’t know anything?

“Woo-ju~chan…?”

Aki quietly urged me on, since I was just hesitating.

‘It’s so strange………..?

I don’t know how it ended up like this.

On the computer screen, an actress who looked like Aki was panting, but I was trying to kiss the real Aki.

It was truly a depraved situation, but I also had the thought that it might not be so bad.

Perhaps.

Maybe, perhaps.

If Aki was in a good mood after receiving a kiss, she would take the atmosphere and allow me to do even more.

I don’t really know what that “more” is, but anyway, since that might happen, I should hurry and kiss her and see what her reaction is.

Having decided that, I steeled myself and got closer to her face………….

Knock knock

Son, why are the cookies and milk in the hallway~?

“……!”

I stopped trying to kiss her.

Are you both in the room? Can I come in?

“Ah, that….”

I thought about pretending that I wasn’t even there for a moment, but since my mom was in the living room and had already come up here, it seemed like there was no point in doing so.

If she had brought the cookies and milk inside the room, it would have been different, but since they were just left outside, she would definitely come in because she would be curious about why I did that.

Having decided that, I opened my mouth quickly before Mom started to think something was suspicious.

No, I was about to open my mouth.

Since when has he opened the door directly? Okay, I’m coming in if you’re inside.

Mom opened the door directly before I could even say anything.

Creak!

Aki sitting in front of the computer.

Me standing next to her.

And Mom, holding the doorknob to my room.

The gazes of the three people met in midair.

If Aki had been hiding the monitor screen with her body, it wouldn’t have been seen, but unfortunately, she had moved the chair because we were going to hold hands, so she couldn’t do so.

That meant that Mom had seen all of the video that was playing on the monitor.

“……”

“If you were studying, you should have said so earlier? Then Mom wouldn’t have bothered coming in.”

The words that Mom said, which I had thought would say, were far from my expectations.

“Huh? Oh….”

I turned my head to look at the monitor.

On the monitor, where that kind of video should have been playing, there wasn’t the actress, but a famous math instructor who was balding on half of his head, giving a passionate lecture.

“……Huh?”

“Oh, Mother has come? I’m sorry, I should have told you beforehand, but it seems that both Woo-ju~chan and I were too focused.”

“No, it’s okay. It’s the ahjumma’s fault for coming in without permission while you were studying. I’m sorry, should you two have some snacks while you’re at it?”

“Thank you, we’ll enjoy them. Mother!”

“Okay, both of you study hard and have fun when you’re done. Ajumma will come up with the snacks from downstairs.”

Click.

Mom, who had left behind those words, closed the door and went outside.

“……”

I didn’t know what had happened, so I was blankly spacing out, and then I finally came to my senses and turned my gaze to look at Aki.

“Hey, Aki…?”

“Why, Woo-ju~chan?”

“Were you, perhaps, preparing for this beforehand…?”

“……..”

Aki puffed out her chest proudly in response to my question.

Her voluptuous body, which was covered in the school uniform, was noticeably prominent, but I wasn’t paying any attention to that at all right now.

“Woo-ju~chan, do you know why the Korean War happened?”

“……Because we were careless?”

“Yeah, that’s right. All incidents happen because you’re careless. So, Woo-ju~chan, it’s okay as long as you don’t let your guard down!”

“……”

I should be happy since I didn’t get caught by Mom, but why do I feel angry?

As I thought about it carefully, the answer came to me right away.

Well, if you think about it, Aki is the one who caused it, but she’s proudly lecturing me, so of course I would be angry.

Having come to that conclusion, I.

“……Ah, really?”

“Woo-juchan, Woo-juchan needs to live a little more attentively ・・・・・・・ Ah, oof…?!”

Kiss

I took advantage of the moment that Aki had let her guard down and kissed her cheek.

“W, Woo-ju~chan…?!”

“Aki. This is what happens when you let your guard down.”

Just as I was about to add, ‘So don’t let your guard down,’ Aki, whose face had turned bright red, jumped up from her seat.

Kiss

“…—?!”

“Hehe, Woo-ju~chan…? How is it, you didn’t expect this, did you?!”

Aki, who had kissed my cheek as a surprise attack, was laughing quietly.

I felt a little good, no, actually I felt very good, but I deliberately didn’t show it and smiled with a hint of anger.

“Yeah, you want to try it, huh? Fine, I’ll accept your challenge. Aki….”

“No no, you’re the challenger, Woo-juchan. So Woo-juchan, it’s too late even if you regret it!”

“……Come here, I’m going to kiss you for real.”

“You’re clumsy, Woo-ju~chan! You can’t catch this Atashi(I) with that much speed, whoa…!”

“I got you. Aki…! You, you’re really going to have to be prepared today….”

-Knock knock.

“Oh, what’s wrong with me. The cookies and milk are outside, but I forgot to bring them again? Son, eat this while you’re……”

“……Sorry, continue what you were doing~”

Click.

Thump.

Ting-a-ling.

[Son, after Aki goes home later, should Mom and I talk for a bit?]

“……Woo-ju~chan, who is it?”

“It’s my mom….”

“Wh, what did she say..?”

“She said that after you go home later, she wants to talk for a bit…………….”

“I’m sorry, Woo-ju~chan….”

“Ah, whatever…. No, it’s not your fault either, Aki. You don’t have to feel sorry…”

“……Atashi, should I just sleep at Woo-ju~chan’s house today?”

Are you really saying that right now, Aki…..?