Chapter 39: The extra falls asleep holding two flowers in each hand.

In the end, I couldn’t send Siyeon back to her room.

No, to be precise, it was that I couldn’t even bring up the words to go to her room.

‘It’s against the rules to suddenly act cute there.’

Siyeon usually gave off a slightly mature feeling, so the power of acting cute suddenly was doubled.

How can I tell my usually dutiful sister to go to her room when she says something so cute?

Besides,

-…Since Kim Hayeon’s room is spacious, wouldn’t it be okay if Siyeon slept with us too?

-Let’s sleep together, Siyeon!

The two of them had already taken Siyeon’s side and moved on, so there was nothing I could do.

-…Okay, let’s sleep together.

So, the four of us, including me, ended up sleeping together in my room.

“…So, after playing at the playground, I got a ride in the Student Council President’s car and she dropped me off at home. That was it.”

And now, I was talking about what happened between me and the Student Council President before going to bed.

‘I thought I could get away with it.’

-Then, what did you do with the Student Council President today?

I thought I could get away with it because they were busy talking to each other in the living room, but as soon as it was decided that Siyeon would sleep in my room, Sejeong asked me directly.

‘Well, that’s the original purpose of the two of them coming, so it’s not like they’ll forget.’

There was no problem with the story itself.

I don’t know if I did something bad, but if I summarized what I did with Lee Seorin today, it was ‘I had fun with the Student Council President.’ That’s it.

There was nothing to be ashamed of.

Nothing.

‘…Still, I filtered out some of the accidents that happened and the conversations we had.’

I can say with certainty that this wasn’t because I was guilty, but because I didn’t want Yoon Sejeong or Baek Ahra to misunderstand.

‘I didn’t think she would show signs of being jealous just because I talked to Baek Ahra.’

The reason was the jealousy that Yoon Sejeong showed this morning.

If it was jealousy towards me for talking to ‘Baek Ahra, her childhood friend’, I wouldn’t have cared.

Because that was a natural situation that could happen between the main character and the heroine.

‘Yeah, that’s how the two of them confirm their feelings for each other….’ I would have watched happily with the feeling of a reader.

However, from the perspective of feeling that jealousy directly, it was clearly closer to jealousy towards Baek Ahra, who talked to ‘me, the first friend I made after transferring’.

‘Why….’

I just thought that we went through the natural process of becoming close friends.

We just did things like taking classes together in the next seat, joining the same club, and going out to play together on the weekend.

So, I honestly thought that I would be a lower priority than Baek Ahra, who is her childhood friend.

However, considering the reaction she showed this morning and the fact that she came all the way to my house, it seemed that I had already entered deep into Yoon Sejeong’s heart.

‘It’s probably just a very close friend, though.’

I don’t think it’s a romantic feeling.

Because there was no dramatic past or development between Yoon Sejeong and me, like the heroines Baek Ahra or Lee Seorin had.

I, ‘Kim Hayeon’, am an extra.

That is a truth that has not changed even if the content has been twisted from the original.

‘Romantic feelings, my foot.’

I’ll leave that to the main characters, and all I have to do is move busily in this reality that I twisted to survive.

In the same vein, in order not to be bothered by unnecessary jealousy or misunderstanding, I needed to tone down the content to some extent before conveying it.

For example.

The accident where Lee Seorin fell at the convenience store and I caught her didn’t happen,

We shared omurice, but I never fed her with my own hands,

We played at the playground while keeping a moderate distance,

And on the way back home, we didn’t talk much in the car and parted ways.

‘…Huh?’

…When I list it like this, it feels like I did a lot of strange things.

It must be my imagination, right?

“Hmm, really? It doesn’t seem like you did much?”

When I finished the story, Yoon Sejeong stared at me with her chin propped up on her hand.

It seemed that the story I told was a little suspicious.

‘If I told that Yoon Sejeong everything that happened with Lee Seorin as it was… that’s when the annoyance would increase exponentially.’

It was calmed down by hugging her in the morning, but I was also wondering if it would work again.

“Is that really all? Didn’t you do anything rude to the Student Council President?”

Baek Ahra also looked at me with a suspicious expression, like Yoon Sejeong.

“What on earth do you think of me?”

I can’t believe I have this little credibility.

Even though I pride myself on having lived fairly diligently for the past week….

“Well, considering Unnie’s usual behavior, it’s not surprising that you don’t have credibility.”

“Even you, Siyeon….”

My sister, instead of taking her older sister’s side, delivered a jab.

I didn’t raise you that way.

‘…Well, it’s closer to her growing up on her own.’

Unlike me, Siyeon has been growing up since she was a child, already hearing that she is a mature and dutiful daughter.

When I looked at such a sister, I sometimes wondered if she was in her second life.

She wasn’t like a kid her age at all.

But….

‘I was the real second life, though.’

Still, I want to be a mature older sister from now on.

As a blood relative that didn’t exist to me, who was an orphan in my previous life, I had a great desire to treat her well.

“It’s really all I said.”

“…Well, if Hayeon says so, that must be it.”

Yoon Sejeong mumbled as if she wanted to ask more, but she said that and took her hand off her chin and lay down completely.

“Or I should go and ask the Student Council President, but I don’t want to go that far….”

‘Phew.’

Fortunately, it seemed like it would go over well, so I was relieved.

“It’s amazing, though. I never thought the Student Council President would be interested in such things.”

Baek Ahra said.

“From the princess’s point of view, such a place would be a new world. So she took me, an experienced person.”

I don’t know if ‘Kim Hayeon’ can be called a commoner except for the memories of her previous life, but anyway, she’s known as a kid who plays around a bit, so the word experienced person was somewhat appropriate.

“…But, even so, did she have to take Hayeon? I think any student around the princess would have known better than the princess….”

“That’s….”

‘Because, we had an appointment before.’

I almost blurted that out to Yoon Sejeong, who dug in sharply.

However, if I said that story, the story that I had made lightly would inevitably become complicated again.

“I don’t know either.”

So, I decided to pretend I didn’t know this part.

“Only the Student Council President would know the reason. And it was the Student Council President who took me.”

Fortunately, Baek Ahra supplemented my words.

“…Really. You’re very popular, Hayeon.”

“Popular? Me?”

“In many ways.”

“There are few people who have lived as an outsider for as long as I have.”

It was fortunate that Sohee and Jia befriended me, otherwise I would still be an outsider without a single decent friend.

“Siyeon, is that true?”

“She’s a voluntary outsider. If she had wanted to, she probably could have made friends with the entire school….”

“Hey. What do you mean, I’m a voluntary outsider? I’m so shy and reserved.”

It was similar in my previous life, and I could count the people I could call friends on one hand.

“…Kim Hayeon, you? Ha, that’s like saying a chicken at school crows at sunset. Why don’t you just say you were a loner in the old days?”

Baek Ahra scoffed at my words.

“…Then, shall we turn off the lights?”

I’ve said everything I need to say.

And, since it’s already late at night, if we don’t go to sleep, it will be difficult to spend tomorrow.

Of course, I could just sleep at school, but the other kids couldn’t.

‘…It’s definitely not because I’m losing in words.’

I had a strong premonition that it wouldn’t be good for me to continue this story, so I quickly changed the subject.

“Eh~. Can’t we talk a little more? It’s the first day I’ve come to Hayeon’s room….”

“No. We have to go to school tomorrow.”

“Baek Ahra is right. Tomorrow’s first period is gym class, what are you going to do?”

“That… somehow?”

Stretch.

“Heee.”

I pulled Yoon Sejeong’s cheeks, who was whining even though she knew it didn’t make sense, and walked toward the switch.

“Hmm…but, where is Unnie going to sleep?”

“Me? I have to sleep in my bed.”

“Not next to us?”

“I have my own bed, why would I?”

“…I already laid out Unnie’s exclusive bedding?”

Thud.

‘…What, that bedding was my spot?’

I just sat there for a moment while talking because it was laid out, but I never thought that was my place.

“…Won’t it be cramped?”

My place is between Yoon Sejeong and Baek Ahra.

Siyeon’s place was next to Yoon Sejeong on one side and the wall on the other, so there was a possibility that I would have to spend the night cramped and uncomfortable.

“It’s okay! Sejeong-unnie’s chest isn’t that uncomfortable! …Ah.”

Siyeon said that and then closed her mouth as if she had made a mistake, and looked at Yoon Sejeong.

‘…She already heard it.’

Her face is pretending to be calm, but when I saw that ambiguous expression and her hand going slightly to her chest, it was clear that she heard it clearly.

“Um, anyway, I’m fine, so don’t worry….”

Saying that, Siyeon went into the bedding laid out in her place.

You’re the one who made the remark, where are you going, little sister.

…Phew.

“Sejeong-ah.”

Thud.

I tapped Yoon Sejeong’s shoulder.

“…Yes?”

She’s feeling down.

“It’s okay. It’s just heavy and your shoulders will get stiff.”

“…!”

Wait.

Why is Baek Ahra glaring at me too…?

“”….””

“…I sincerely apologize for my slip of the tongue.”

In the end, I was able to fall asleep only after sincerely apologizing to the two on both sides before going to bed.