Chapter 61: Don’t Go Home (1)

“…?”

When I woke up, I felt something.

Specifically, I felt something on my side.

Something that was a good size to snuggle up to, but wasn’t a pillow, something that smelled good, but definitely wasn’t a pillow….

At this point, you’d have to be an idiot not to know what it was.

I turned my head slightly and looked in the direction of the sensation.

“…Yeon?”

Yeon, who was clearly sleeping on the bed, had crawled into my bedding on the floor and was sleeping.

If she had fallen off from above, she would have fallen on top of me, so there’s no way I wouldn’t have woken up, which meant she had come down on her own….

Is something really wrong?

I carefully got up so as not to wake Yeon and picked up my phone to check the time.

It was still 8 AM.

It was time for other people to go to work, but it was way too early for nocturnal creatures like me and Yeon.

It seemed that my life cycle had been turned upside down while I was in the hospital.

“…I’m awake, so let’s get to work.”

As always, I got up from my seat, muttering to myself as if I were making a resolution.

“Let’s see… today I have to prepare for my comeback broadcast and manage the YouTube videos that I’ve been neglecting….”

I splashed my face with cold water to clear my head and headed to the bathroom.

I obviously couldn’t take a bath while I was in the hospital, and I was too tired to take a shower last night, so it was my first bath in a week.

I roughly took off my clothes and went into the bathtub, and my naked body was reflected in the mirror.

“Hmmㅡ”

It felt like it had been a long time since I had seen my own body.

I was used to it by now, but when I looked at it again, it seemed like a clean body with no blemishes.

So much so that it didn’t seem like a real person.

“…I wonder what’s at the end of all this.”

Anxiety about the future crept in, but that was something I couldn’t do anything about.

Instead of worrying about things I couldn’t do anything about, it was better to let go and rest comfortably.

“Oops.”

I grabbed the makeshift bathtub that was about to fall over next to me and set it back up.

It made a bit of a loud noise in the process, but it wasn’t late at night and it was morning, so it shouldn’t be a big problem, right?

I felt uneasy for no reason, as if it was a bad omen, but I shook off my anxiety and went into the shower booth.

【Swoosh】

Hot water poured over my head.

The moderate heat gradually relaxed my body, and I felt like I was floating.

I wanted to stay like this, but I washed my body thoroughly and meticulously in every corner for the sake of greater happiness.

As I was washing every corner, I suddenly realized something.

“This is definitely a bit uncomfortable, I wonder if it’ll be okay in the summer?”

It wasn’t anything else, but because my breasts were so big, sweat was bound to accumulate in the area where my breasts and torso met.

It was okay now since it was winter, but I had a feeling I would suffer a bit in the summer with heat rash.

I thought I should wash this area carefully, so I held up my breast with one hand and used the other hand to lather the soap with the shower ball

“….”

I suddenly felt a bit cold and turned to look beside me while washing.

When I turned my head and looked out of the shower booth, I saw the cold air coming in through the open bathroom door.

No, that wasn’t the important thing

“…So if they’re that big, you have to lift them up to wash them.”

Yeon had opened the door and was looking at me.

“Close the door!!!”

I quickly covered myself and screamed, and Yeon slowly closed the door.

“By the way, I want to use the bathroom.”

“……There’s a clean restroom on the first floor of the shopping center next door, so go there for now.”

“Okay.”

…I guess I can’t take a bath after all.

“Yeon.”

“Yeah.”

After washing up, I went back to the room and sat facing Yeon.

Feeling my face flush after a long time, I sternly said one thing to Yeon.

“Even if we’ve gotten really close… isn’t it a bit much to peek at someone taking a shower?”

But even at my stern words, Yeon tilted her head and retorted.

“I didn’t peek, I just went to the bathroom.”

“…But you must have heard the shower, right?”

“I thought the shower booth door would be closed. But boss.”

Yeon said as if she was just saying something obvious, and then she questioned me instead.

“Why do you shower with the shower booth open?”

“Well, that’s”

“Water splashes everywhere.”

“That’s true, but”

“If that’s the case, there’s no point in using the shower booth.”

“…That’s also true.”

Ah, I can’t say anything when she argues like that.

In the first place, I should have closed the shower booth door, or locked the bathroom door.

I had been living alone for quite a long time, so I didn’t need to close or lock the door, so this was what happened.

“No, no, that’s not the problem, wait a minute.”

“Then?”

Yeon still looked at me with an expression that said she didn’t understand at all.

“Okay, let’s say I had the shower booth door closed… were you going to use the bathroom anyway?”

When I asked that, Yeon just nodded once without any particular reaction.

Looking at her like that made my head throb, so I had no choice but to put my hand on my forehead.

“No… that’s a bit much, Yeon.”

“Is it?”

“Even if we’re family, I think it’s a bit much even between friends, Yeon….”

“Is it?”

“…Isn’t it?”

Because Yeon’s reaction was so firm, I was in a dilemma for a moment.

Well, there are often urinals in bathhouses, so maybe it’s just that kind of feeling?

I thought for a moment, but there’s no way there would be urinals in a women’s bathhouse.

“No, I think it’s right that it’s not okay.”

“Boss, you’re overthinking it.”

“You’re the one who’s not thinking enough, this is for sure.”

What should I do with her?

I sighed and looked at Yeon.

Looking at her with her knees neatly gathered and staring at me reminded me of a scene where a dog that had done something wrong was looking at its owner with its body hunched over.

“Sigh, never mind. Don’t do that next time.”

So I just stroked her once.

It’s not like she did it with any malicious intent.

Yeon, who was being stroked by me, gradually changed her posture to be more comfortable, as if she was relieved.

As I was stroking Yeon, the most fundamental question came to mind.

‘By the way, why did she suddenly come back last night?’

It didn’t seem like she had left anything behind

And it wasn’t the time when the transportation had stopped running.

Besides, considering the time she left our house and the time she came back, it meant she had gone for a long time and then came back….

Is something really wrong?

“Boss?”

When my hand, which had been stroking her, stopped because I was thinking, Yeon called me as if to ask why I had stopped stroking her.

“Yeah, yeah.”

Yeon’s expression seemed more comfortable, as if she was satisfied that I had stroked her again.

This is really like a dog.

Looking at Yeon, who was sticking her head out to be stroked, I had that thought.

So, my playfulness was triggered.

“Woong?”

I took my hand off her head and stroked

“Woo woong? Woong….”

Under Yeon’s chin.

Dogs like it when you do this.

“ㅡ♪”

I guess she is a dog?

A purring sound came from Yeon’s throat, as if she felt good.

She didn’t seem to know it herself, perhaps because it wasn’t a sound she was making on purpose.

“Yeon.”

“ㅡWoong? Why, boss?”

I asked Yeon while stroking under her chin.

“It’s okay if you stay here… but you don’t have to go home?”

The moment I said that, Yeon’s body flinched and stiffened in my hand that was stroking her chin.

“….”

Yeon was silent for a moment, frozen

“……Okay, just stay here until you feel better.”

She escaped from my hand that had been stroking her, climbed onto the bed, and curled up.

It was a clear expression of her will not to go home.

I guess something is really wrong?

It seemed like she would vehemently refuse if I tried to ask what was wrong….

Well, what can I do, in this case, I can only wait until she tells me herself.

However, if this was the case, there was one thing I had to make clear.

“But you know I have to do a comeback broadcast tonight, right?”

“…Yeah.”

“Then you have to leave the room while I’m broadcasting, or you have to broadcast with me… what are you going to do?”

At those words, Yeon, who was lying on the bed, hugged her pillow and sat up.

She seemed to be worried.

We had broadcast together with the four of us, me, Cha-in, Ara, and Yeon, many times, but this was the first time we had broadcast with just the two of us.

Moreover, even when the four of us broadcast, Yeon often sat quietly and watched, so this was an even more burdensome situation.

Yeon hugged the pillow and pondered for a moment, then

“I want to broadcast with you.”

Unexpectedly, she said that she wanted to broadcast with me.

Given Yeon’s personality, I thought she would say that she would be in the living room while I was broadcasting because she was uncomfortable with broadcasting.

“Really? It’s a little surprising… okay. Then I have to think about some content that we can do together today.”

I started to rearrange the flow of today’s comeback broadcast in my head to match the changed situation.

A broadcast with only Yeon, unlike usual.

People will think it’s very unexpected, combined with the uniqueness of the comeback broadcast, how should I handle it?

“Boss.”

As I was sitting in my chair and thinking, Yeon patted me on the shoulder from behind.

“Yeah?”

I turned the chair around at Yeon’s call and looked behind me…

“…Where did you get that?”

In Yeon’s mouth was a party blower, the kind that you blow on and makes a noise at birthday parties, was in her mouth.

【Booo】

Yeon blew the party blower with a triumphant expression.