A Trip to the Pension with Hyeonsu and Hyeona
Saturday morning.
I got up at dawn and pulled out a small suitcase to pack. I gathered a change of clothes for the overnight stay, along with toothpaste and toothbrushes.
A few days earlier, Hyeonsu had called me.
"Hey. Minwoo, what are you doing?"
"What do you think? Staring at the ceiling."
It was true. I was lying there staring at the ceiling.
"Want to go to a pension?"
"Why a pension all of a sudden?"
"Hyeona kept bugging me about going to a pension, so I said yes—but what's the fun if it's just the two of us?"
"Well. You two could just eat something good and hang out."
"That doesn't make sense. What's fun about a brother and sister going to a pension together? It's not like we're lovers."
"You two… ah, never mind."
I almost said the wrong thing and quickly mumbled past it.
"What, about us having sex? Hey. That's that, and love is love. It's different from a real girlfriend."
Hyeonsu continued the conversation like it was nothing.
"Well. Yeah, I guess so."
"Anyway, you coming or not?"
"Let's go. We'll take my car."
I had a car, and I figured I might as well show it off, so I agreed readily.
"You've got a car? What kind?"
"Ah. My folks sent one for me to drive."
"Whoa. Damn, I'm jealous. Then I'll book the pension. See you Saturday."
"Okay."
So here I was, packing from early morning, completely busy. In a corner of my mind, I secretly hoped I might catch the siblings having sex again late at night.
I finished packing, loaded everything into Typhoon's trunk, and headed for Hyeonsu's place.
The weather wasn't great. It wasn't raining, but thick clouds made everything overcast.
When I arrived in front of Hyeonsu's house, the two siblings were waiting for me with a pile of luggage already set down.
The first thing I saw was Hyeona.
A short pleated skirt, white knee-high socks that covered her knees, and black sneakers caught my eye. And the tank top visible under her short, thin windbreaker gave off a distinctly sexy vibe.
"Hey. Nice car. Is it new?"
"Minwoo oppa's car is so nice. I'm riding shotgun."
Hyeona's mouth stretched into a bright smile that reached her ears. Then she hopped right into the passenger seat.
"Hey. You still have to move the bags."
Hyeona didn't even pretend to listen and just looked around inside the car. Hyeonsu and I stuffed all the bags piled up by the roadside into the trunk.
"Hey. Why is there so much stuff?"
"I don't know. We went to the mart and Hyeona filled the cart, so I just bought it all. Who knows what she's planning to cook."
Still, it seemed he'd bought everything his little sister said she wanted to eat.
I got into the driver's seat. Hyeonsu had no choice but to take the back. The engine started and we slowly pulled out onto the road.
Even though it was Saturday, the highway was wide open, so driving wasn't tiring.
"Oppa, you're a good driver."
"Well. This much is nothing."
Hyeona kept putting tangerines and snacks into my mouth. In the back, Hyeonsu had somehow fallen asleep, lying sideways and snoring away.
Hyeona opened the passenger window. It looked like it might rain, but the cool outside air flowed into the car.
"Ah. That feels good."
The wind that came in through her hair carried a fresh scent as it brushed past me. In the seat beside me, Hyeona spent the time playing games on her phone and occasionally feeding me snacks.
But from sitting so long, Hyeona's short pleated skirt had been riding up higher and higher. Whether she knew it or not, she left it alone without pulling it down. Thanks to that, her pale thighs were exposed below, distracting me from my driving.
Sometimes when the wind from outside swept up under her skirt and reached my face, it felt like I could smell her thick female scent.
"Hey. Rest stop."
Hyeonsu, who'd woken up at some point, shouted while looking at the navigation. Rest stop two kilometers ahead.
"Let's buy something to eat. I'm hungry."
Hyeonsu said as he fumbled into his outer jacket. A moment later the car pulled into the rest stop.
After each of us used the bathroom, we stood in front of the snack corner.
"Hyeona, eat whatever you want. Oppa'll buy it for you."
I decided to be generous today with the older woman's card.
"Really? Then—sausages and corn dogs. And tteokbokki. And also…"
"Hey. Order what you can actually eat. You never finish it all."
Hyeonsu scolded from beside her.
"No. Hyeona can order whatever she wants."
"You're the only one for me, Minwoo oppa."
Hyeona laughed and linked her arm through mine. The shape of her bra, hidden under the windbreaker, pressed fully against my arm.
We laid out the food that came on a rest-stop table and ate. After eating for a while, Hyeonsu took off his jacket and draped it over Hyeona's legs.
"Every guy walking by is staring. Cover up a little."
A pretty girl in knee-highs and a short skirt was bound to draw eyes. I figured dozens of men who'd passed by us had all looked.
"So what if they look? They're just losers who can't even talk to me anyway."
Hyeona was bold. Or was she just pretending to be? She paid no attention at all to the other men's gazes. Was that why she'd left her skirt hiked up in the car earlier?
For a moment I felt like I'd become one of those losers.
After polishing off all that food, we got back in the car and left the rest stop. After driving for a good while, as we neared our destination, a beautiful view of open fields appeared. Crossing the wide fields, a luxury pension with a distinctly European feel came into view.
"Whoa. Must've cost a bit, huh?"
"I dumped my entire month's allowance into this. Because of Hyeona, I'm going to have to live like a beggar for a month."
Hyeonsu sighed and shot Hyeona a look. And yet he was the good older brother who did everything his little sister wanted. Of course, while also having sex with her.
The two-story pension was like a private villa, with clear boundaries separating it from other units. The first floor had a room and an indoor pool, and the second floor had a terrace and another room.
"Two rooms, nice. Hyeona can take one, and the two of us can take the other."
I said as I carried the bags inside.
"Well. For now."
There was something ambiguous about Hyeonsu's "for now." I wondered if maybe I'd take one room alone and the two of them would share the other.
Well, they've already been caught having sex by me, so that wouldn't be so bad either.
Hyeonsu and I finished moving the bags and collapsed onto the large sofa on the first floor.
"Ah. Even moving the bags is exhausting."
"No kidding. Pretty much all of this is Hyeona's stuff."
Hyeona looked around the pension interior and shot Hyeonsu a glare.
"Want to take a short walk around the area, then grill some meat?"
I suggested a walk, wanting to feel nature for a change and stretch my legs.
"Sounds good, oppa."
Hyeona even clapped her hands, delighted in a high-pitched voice. That was her true self—a bright, bouncy personality like a rubber ball.
"Let's make it quick. Ah, I need a drink."
Hyeonsu had somehow already put on his jacket and was ready to go.
The walking path the pension had set up was quite nice. The wooden boardwalk led through the forest, then to a small lake, before looping back to the pension. We enjoyed the walk at a leisurely pace.
The whole time, Hyeona stuck right beside me, arm linked through mine as we walked. I didn't refuse. Hyeonsu followed behind us alone, diligently taking landscape photos.
Plenty of couples passed by on the path. Among them, we were the only group of two guys and one girl. Sometimes passing couples looked at us and muttered among themselves, but we didn't really care.
"It's starting to sprinkle a bit?"
The weather had been cloudy since morning, so rain was probably coming.
"Let's head back before it really starts."
Hyeonsu said, covering his head with his hands even though it wasn't really raining yet. By the time my arm, pressed against Hyeona's body, was getting warm, the walk was over.
"Ah. The course is pretty long."
Hyeonsu grumbled about the walking path.
"Says the guy who took the most pictures."
I teased him playfully.
"Alright. Now let's grill some meat and have a drink. You come to a pension, you gotta grill."
"Okay. Let's hit the meat and booze."
We'd come to a nice luxury pension and the first thing we wanted was alcohol. Delicious meat was grilling, and we drank. Hyeonsu had bought every kind of alcohol—soju, beer, whiskey. And why had he bought wine too…
We drank for a long time. Maybe because it was such a nice pension, we didn't get too drunk even after drinking a lot. Hyeona seemed to be getting a bit tipsy though, and said she wanted to rest for a bit before heading up to the second floor.
Hyeonsu and I finished our beer and switched to soju.
"Still, it's nice you came, Minwoo. Getting to drink like this."
"Well. I came to get some fresh air too, sort of. Check out a place like this."
After about two bottles of soju, Hyeonsu looked at me with a somewhat serious face.
"Minwoo."
"What?"
"Want to sleep with my sister?"
I wondered what he was talking about. Figured he was just rambling from the alcohol.
"What? Are you drunk? That's ridiculous."
"No. I'm being serious."
A shadow fell over Hyeonsu's face. He knocked back a shot of soju and continued.
"Hyeona has sex with me. I took her virginity."
"I know. You told me last time."
"A little while ago, while we were having sex, Hyeona said something serious to me."
"What?"
"She said she wants to try it with someone other than me. Meaning, not her real older brother."
I nodded. It was natural. Once she'd been with a man, she'd want to be held by a new one too. Men and women felt the same way about that.
"But the thought of my little sister having sex with another guy drives me crazy. What if he's some weirdo? What if he's some scumbag who just fucks her and pretends he doesn't know her…"
"Yeah. There are so many weirdos these days."
"And Hyeona's been dressing sexier lately, like she's trying to seduce other guys… The guys who approach her when they see that are all the same. Just looking to get some."
"True. That's how it is."
"So I figured, if that's how it's going to be, it'd be better if the most decent guy I know did it with Hyeona."
I just listened quietly to what Hyeonsu was saying.
"I'm not saying date her or marry her or anything. Looking at Hyeona right now, she seems like she's looking for a one-night stand. Rather than her doing it with some guys she meets at a club, I think it'd be better if it was with you. That's why I'm saying this."
"Hmm… I get what you're saying. But even if I say yes, Hyeona might not want to."
"No, from the way she's been with you today, it doesn't look like she dislikes you, Minwoo."
"So that's why you said 'for now' when we were deciding on rooms earlier?"
"Yeah. I'll take one alone, and you and Hyeona take the other."
Only then did I understand what he'd meant.
"So… you want me to sleep with Hyeona?"