Do You Suck and Fuck Your Daughter?
I closed the front door.
Then I playfully pinched my nose and scolded Areum.
"Ugh, you reek of alcohol. Drink in moderation, you boozer."
"I didn't drink that much."
Was it because I'd started nagging the moment she walked in? Her lips jutted out in a pout.
"You're not drunk? Your tongue's all twisted."
"It's not twisted. It's just how I talk."
"Oh, please. So you're doing fake aegyo, then?"
I'd said it teasingly, because her sulky face was cute.
"Fake aegyo?"
Areum tilted her head for a moment, then grinned and made a flower cup with her hands under her chin. Then she batted her eyelashes and asked me this.
"I must've looked cute, huh? Yeah?"
"...You're seriously hammered, aren't you? How much did you drink?"
"I told you, not that much? And answer the question. I asked if I was cute. Huh? Huh? If I'm cute, you can just be honest and say so."
The way Areum was asking... honestly, it was devastatingly cute. Just look at her tilting her head side to side with her hands making a flower cup. Even knowing what was inside her was a sex parrot, her appearance was undeniably a perfect fit for the word adorable.
Of course, saying that outright felt a little embarrassing.
"...At that height, being petite, it's hard not to be cute, I guess."
So I ended up deflecting it brusquely like that.
"What?!"
Areum's eyes went axe-sharp. Maybe because she knew she was small herself. Areum was particularly sensitive to any attacks on her height. Not that a pint-sized thing getting angry was even a little scary.
I smirked and gestured.
"Stop blabbering there and just come inside."
"Wha—! I'm not coming in!"
"......?"
What kind of stubbornness was this now?
"...Then do you want to go back out?"
"Y-you heartless jerk! How can you kick out a frail and delicate beauty like me in the middle of the night?!"
"Then what do you want me to do."
The little thing was quiet for a bit, but it seemed her cooldown was over. She was digging her heels in with some weird obstinacy again.
I shook my head and sighed. Seeing her act this pathetic was always part of our back-and-forth. It was probably my turn to cheer her up a bit now.
"You win, I give up, so hurry up and come inside. I'll make you some bean sprout kimchi soup. You need to settle your stomach."
I was about to head to the kitchen to heat up the leftover kimchi soup from breakfast, but...
"Don't go! Come here!"
Areum stamped her feet on the floor, saying that. Tsk tsk, making noise between floors in the middle of the night.
"Why?"
"Here! Come! I said come heeere!"
"...What are you, a rain-summoning creature? You should be grateful this place is well soundproofed."
"Ah, hurry uppp!"
Maybe because she was drunk, her temper tantrums were especially bad today.
I walked over to Areum, who was still rooted stubbornly in front of the entrance.
"Alright, I'm here. What?"
"Bend down a little. My neck hurts."
At that, I stared down at Areum for a moment, then nodded. Yeah, it did look tough on her.
"Mm. Yeah, it does look like it'd hurt."
"...Ah, shit!"
Peok! A cotton-bat fist lodged into my stomach. I was sympathizing with her, so why was she hitting me?
Anyway, once I feigned an appropriate amount of pain and bent my upper body down, Areum finally smiled with satisfaction.
"Hmph. You should've bent down right away."
"......"
I barely held back from saying, "You should've grown taller right away" — because it felt like that would turn this from WWE into UFC.
Once I bent over, Areum grabbed both my cheeks with her hands and began scrutinizing me from every angle. I had no idea why she was doing this.
Anyway, seeing her up close again, she was really small. If I asked her what she was doing instead of growing when everyone else was shooting up during their growth spurts, she'd get mad, wouldn't she? She claimed to be 153cm, but honestly, I had my doubts about that too. Wasn't she rounding up?
I was lost in these idle thoughts, admiring Areum's compact little face, when suddenly she grinned and spoke.
"Yes, our Kkangcheol is handsome."
"All of a sudden?"
My head tilted sideways at the random compliment. Her hands, like little maple leaves, were still cupping my cheeks.
"I went drinking with the girls today, and everyone said you've gotten handsome."
"...Oh, yeah? Thanks. Still got a ways to go before I hit my target weight, though. The timeline stretched out since I couldn't stick to my diet and kept eating this and that."
My words grew longer out of embarrassment.
In the meantime, Areum was staring at me intently with her big eyes. I didn't know why she was gazing so piercingly today, of all days.
Feeling somehow cornered, I launched a timid counterattack.
"Ahem. What do you think? If I'm handsome, you can just say so."
It was a spin on what Areum had said earlier.
"Huh? But I already said you were handsome?"
"...Ah."
"Pfft. Our Kkangcheol, did you wanna hear more compliments?"
"......"
Ah, shit. This is exactly why people shouldn't do things they never normally do. I was grumbling internally and about to straighten up my body.
"Kkangcheol, arms out!"
I reflexively spread my arms at the sudden shout.
"Huh?"
"Hooooummm~ This cozy and sturdy feeling."
Areum came into my arms. The size difference was so huge that rather than being wrapped up in my embrace... it was more like she was clinging on. Like a cicada on an old tree.
Pat pat.
I patted Areum's back as she nestled in. She always had a similar vibe, but today her aegyo was a bit much. Maybe it was the alcohol. Well, not that I disliked it, but...
"Kkangcheol, your stubble's coming in."
"It's nighttime. Is it prickly?"
"A little. But it's fine. I like stubble."
She said as she rubbed her chubby cheek against mine. It was soft and felt nice.
I scooped Areum up from my seated position and stood.
"Take your shoes off."
"Yap."
She kicked her legs in the air and skillfully slipped her shoes off. I adjusted my stance out of habit and lifted Areum up in a princess carry. It was a position I'd held her in plenty of times when tossing her onto the bed for sex.
"I shall carry you so as not to jostle you!"
"Yeah, yeah, princess."
"...Uweeh. Princess is a bit much."
Even when I played along...
"Let us go, my lady."
"Very good, Dolswe!"
Geez, I thought I knew her tastes, but sometimes I didn't. A girl who looked so sweet and girly preferred being called 'my lady' over princess, and preferred Dolswe over prince.
"It's scratchy. You gonna grow a beard?"
"No."
I had no intention of growing one. A beard made you stand out for no reason.
"Whyyy. Grow it. I think it'd suit you."
"Just have your hangover soup."
"I'm full. Not eating."
"Then you want to sleep?"
"No. I'm gonna hang out with Kkangcheol. Here, mwah."
Suddenly, Areum pursed her lips and stuck them out towards me.
"...What's with you?"
Those words ended up coming out of my mouth. Because by this point, it felt a bit unfamiliar.
Areum had always had a somewhat aegyo-like side, but she wasn't usually this much. We were at a stage where we kissed and had sex, but she wasn't the type to initiate by sticking her beak out like this. Our style was more losing our minds to lust and pouncing on each other.
As I stared at her with a bewildered look.
"...Tch."
Areum clicked her tongue and averted her gaze. She looked a little embarrassed. The reason her cheeks were red might not have been solely because she was drunk.
A chuckle burst out of me at the sight.
"You're embarrassed right now, aren't you?"
"...No, I'm not."
"Sobered up yet? It was cute. Do it again."
"Was I cute?"
The same trick wouldn't work twice. The initiative was with me now. I giggled and teased Areum.
"Yeah, so try it again, why don't you? I should take a picture."
"...Ah, shit. I'm screwed."
Having said that, Areum scrunched up the bridge of her nose in displeasure.
"I'm getting down. Put me down."
"Uh-uh. It might've been your choice when you got in my arms, but getting down is— whoa! That's dangerous, hey!"
"Hoi-tcha!"
She thrashed, then jumped out of my arms. Then she landed like a hero landing.
Twist!
"Uwahk!?"
"Aigoo!"
In the end, she hurt herself. This kid, seriously!
"It hurts......"
"Serves you right for not listening! Let me see!"
I took off her sock and examined her ankle. Luckily, it didn't seem badly sprained.
"Tsk. At this level, it won't swell."
"It huuurts...!"
"Shut it. What are you, a baby?"
"Ack!"
I gave her a knuckle to the head, and now she was clutching her crown instead of her ankle. Now that she was drunk, she was no different from a little brat.
"Stay still. I'll get a cold compress."
I didn't have a dedicated ice pack, but I could just fill a plastic bag with ice and wrap it in a thin towel. I'd done it plenty of times back when I used to play soccer.
As I moved towards the kitchen, I heard a sullen mumbling behind me.
"Haa-shit. I'm seriously screwed......"
What was she going on about being screwed over and over again?
*
Pi Ah-reum sat perched on the edge of the bed.
Kang Cheol-jin wrapped a makeshift cold pack around her ankle and nagged.
"You seriously do that again, getting wasted like that, just you wait. After what happened last time, you still want to drink until you're blackout drunk?"
"...I really didn't drink that much today, okay."
"Talking back!"
"Uugh."
Pi Ah-reum shut her mouth sullenly. She'd caused a mess, so she had nothing to say. But she really hadn't drunk that much today. Her lips poked out in a pout at the unfairness of it all.
The nagging continued.
"Your bar for 'that much' is way too high. Don't you have any self-preservation?"
"...Were you worried?"
"How could I not be worried? You want another hit?"
Thunk!
"Ack! You hit the same spot!"
"So what. You want more?"
"You violent brute!"
"Shut it, you troublemaker. Good grief. When I look at you, huh? It's like I've gotten a seven-year-old daughter even though I'm not married. You know?"
"...Tch. You suck and fuck your daughter?"
"Your mouth!"
"Oobbbup!?"
My lips were pinched between his index finger and thumb. They were released quickly, but it was enough to leave Pi Ah-reum sulking.
'This wasn't how it was supposed to go.'
Kang Cheol-jin didn't seem to believe her, but she truly hadn't drunk much. Two bottles of soju. That was only half of her usual limit, so anyway, she hadn't drunk much.
In any case, the reason she'd come to Kang Cheol-jin's studio apartment instead of going home to her own place was something else entirely. She hadn't meant to cause an accident and make him worry like this.
First, because once she got tipsy, she started missing Kang Cheol-jin. And second, because thinking about Kang Cheol-jin made her body, which had been heating up since daytime, start itching with need. So, if she'd had her way, she'd have planted a kiss on him and gotten down to business the moment she arrived, but...
Contrary to her feelings, she'd started by acting cute and laying on the aegyo. It was all to seduce Kang Cheol-jin.
Pi Ah-reum knew full well that Kang Cheol-jin had his trauma. That was why she couldn't just directly confess and ask him to go out with her.
So, she decided to seduce Kang Cheol-jin into confessing to her first. That was Pi Ah-reum's plan.
But as you could see, it wasn't going as well as she'd thought.
'How exactly are you supposed to seduce a guy?'
Come to think of it, she'd received plenty of confessions, but she'd never set her mind to seducing a guy before. In the first place, she'd gone to an all-girls middle and high school and hadn't really hung out with guys much. Once she got to college, guys approached her on their own without her having to bother with flirting.
So that's why she'd started by acting cute and laying on the aegyo.
'But we've already gone all the way with sex, so fresh aegyo doesn't seem to be working anymore.'
Far from working, it had backfired.
'He says I'm like a daughter.'
Just look at that face. It was completely the expression of someone looking at an accident-prone kid. It stung even more because there were a lot of things she felt guilty about.
Just then, something caught Pi Ah-reum's eye.
On the desk. The pictures pulled up on the monitor.
Spotting them, Pi Ah-reum twisted her lips into a smirk and thought.
'Yeah, what was I doing trying to play pure love. You shouldn't do things you never normally do.'
In the end, lewd stuff was the best.