Noona's Friends Join the Table
Yang Minah, her friend, me, and Yoon Suhyeon ended up sharing a table together.
Friends sat side by side, with Yang Minah facing me directly.
Yang Minah's friend Sagong Yuna was pretty in her own right. The horn-rimmed glasses gave her a studious vibe that toned down her looks, but she was still the second-prettiest girl in the bar after Yang Minah.
"Yuon, isn't this place pretty close to your studio apartment? What brings you here?"
"Oh, I just tagged along with him."
"I heard this place is famous for its food. I saved it thinking I'd come with a girlfriend someday, but Yuon got dumped so I dragged him here instead."
"Ah~."
"Since it was a campus couple thing, I figured you might run into her. She was in the lecture hall from first period today—"
"So it really was a campus couple~."
Yoon Suhyeon was chattering away excitedly. He'd been hyped ever since Yang Minah and Sagong Yuna joined us.
Yang Minah smiled slyly while listening to him, resting her chin on both hands and deliberately showing off her ring. A silent warning not to hit on her.
Luckily, Yoon Suhyeon had enough sense to focus his attention on Sagong Yuna instead.
"Noona, what kind of food do you like?"
"Huh? I can't eat peanuts because of my allergy, and I hate bell peppers… but other than that, I eat pretty much everything."
"Really? I hate bell peppers too."
"So I always pick them out of pizza."
"Whoa, same here. Want to grab pizza sometime? There's a really good place near the university district."
"Where is it?"
Sagong Yuna didn't seem to mind Yoon Suhyeon's advances. Their conversation flowed without any awkward pauses.
While the two of them talked, Yang Minah turned to me.
"Hey, your studio apartment isn't far from here, right?"
"A little. I'll probably catch the last bus. But isn't your place farther?"
"Mine's pretty far, but my boyfriend lives around here."
"Oh, got it."
"Look at that total lack of interest. Heh."
"What am I supposed to do with interest in your boyfriend?"
We clinked glasses together every so often.
The conversations split again.
"Among noona's friends… ah, they're Yuyoung's friends too. The ones who came over that time."
"Ah, right."
"One of them was a total solo queen, but I think she got a boyfriend recently. Look."
She showed me Seo Hyeonji's profile picture.
I'd been mid-sip and nearly sprayed beer all over Yang Minah's face.
"Kehk! Cough! Cough!"
"You okay?"
"Cough, cough… I'm fine, cough…."
"Heh. Cute, right? Noona's friend?"
Shit, she startled me.
Never expected her to suddenly show Seo Hyeonji's photo.
"This t-shirt looks like a guy's too. She always dresses so sloppily that it's hard to tell. What do you think? Does it look like a guy's shirt?"
Oh. Right. My t-shirt.
I'd forgotten she was wearing my shirt.
"Uh, I can't really tell…."
"Huh? It's obviously a guy's."
Yoon Suhyeon suddenly leaned in from the side.
"That's the one that was trending last year."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Some celebrity wore it on a live stream and it sold out everywhere. I bought one too… oh wait, you have one as well, don't you?"
"Huh? Uh, yeah, I guess?"
"I barely managed to get one and gave it to you as a birthday present."
Oh, now I remembered.
That was the one this guy gave me.
"Maybe it was… I'll have to check later."
"How could you forget that?"
"So it really is a guy's shirt…."
Nod nod.
She nodded with a serious expression, then tapped the screen a few times. Looked like she was posting something in a group chat.
Yoon Suhyeon went back to talking with Sagong Yuna. Thankfully, Yang Minah showed no suspicion toward me at all and just kept staring at Seo Hyeonji's profile picture.
Some detective she was. Not much to her after all.
"By the way, Yuon, you're not getting back together with your ex, right?"
"Uh, yeah… probably not."
"Then are you thinking about meeting someone new?"
"Well… I guess I should."
After seeing Park Jiyeon's reaction today, it really felt over. I didn't want to cling to a girl who'd already asked to break up.
The first person who came to mind was Yoon Seona. And… Seo Hyeonji popped up too, but that wasn't exactly a normal relationship, so she ranked lower.
"Want noona to introduce you to someone?"
Yang Minah grinned.
"Noona, the person you're thinking of introducing isn't sitting at this table, right?"
Why are you the one getting surprised?
"Pahaha! Yuon's friend is funny too."
"He learned all his jokes from me."
"Bullshit."
"Pahahaha!"
"Hehehe."
Glasses clinked again, and conversations split into pairs once more.
"Who's this person you're offering to introduce?"
"Ah, there's this really pretty girl among noona's friends who's still single."
"……Really?"
Don't tell me it's Yoon Seona…
She tapped her phone a few times and showed it to me.
…It wasn't her.
"Pretty, right? She's a model."
"A model?"
"Not the runway kind. Fashion model. Huge SNS following too."
"Ah…."
Over 300,000 followers. Han Yeonju. Ah, the blonde girl who was standing behind Kim Yuyoung with Seo Hyeonji that time.
Every photo she posted on SNS looked like art. Probably edited, but she could pass for a celebrity.
Long, glossy blonde hair, pale skin, long eyelashes… and blue eyes.
…Blue eyes?
"Is she a foreigner?"
"No. Korean. Half-British."
"Hmm… This noona must be popular."
With those exotic, striking features and fair skin, it was impossible for her not to be popular.
"Yeah. Super popular."
"Well, then I guess I'm out."
"Eh, that depends on how you play it. Heh."
Getting introduced to this noona through Yang Minah sounded like an interesting turn of events. So I didn't refuse.
"Ah, but since she's Yuyoung's friend, maybe it's a bit awkward?"
"You're Yuyoung's friend too, noona."
"Pfft, true. Doesn't matter then?"
"Uh, well, not exactly…."
"Huh? Why?"
Because I already had Yoon Seona… Yang Minah seemed to have completely forgotten I'd slept with Yoon Seona.
'…Though that night with Seona noona was just a one-time thing anyway.'
She might've just seen me as a one-night stand. After we made plans for the weekend, there'd been almost no contact. She said she was busy with studying and assignments.
Maybe she was like Yang Minah or Seo Hyeonji—only interested in something physical.
Maybe it was because of Park Jiyeon that I felt restless, but I didn't feel like dating anyone right away. Still, I couldn't help feeling curious about the last one—Han Yeonju.
Well, getting an introduction wouldn't hurt. It wasn't like we were setting up a blind date.
"Never mind. Noona, you're not talking about a blind date, right? Just hanging out together?"
"Whatever you're comfortable with."
"Then let's meet up as three."
"Okay. Should I ask her then? Send me some photos. Or just take one now."
Yang Minah suddenly started taking pictures of me. Yoon Suhyeon jumped in making a V-sign, which made Sagong Yuna burst into giggles.
"Well, her standards are pretty high, so if she turns you down, nothing you can do~."
"Yeah."
I drank while waiting for a reply. My heart was secretly pounding. I wondered how Han Yeonju would react.
Drink after drink, and it was almost time to call it a night.
No reply came.
"She hasn't read it yet."
Yoon Suhyeon offered to walk Sagong Yuna home and left with her. I headed to the bus stop with Yang Minah.
"By the way, noona, your outfit today is actually normal."
"Huh?"
Blue tracksuit top, white crop bra top, and blue tracksuit shorts. Her stomach was showing and there was plenty of skin on display, but it was way more normal than the leather outfit with the exposed bra from before.
"So you're saying my other outfits weren't normal?"
"The other ones were insanely sexy."
"Puhuhu, noona was sexy? How about now??"
She pouted her lips and struck a seductive pose. Passersby glanced over.
I smacked her protruding lips back in.
"Ow!"
"What the hell are you doing in the middle of the street?"
"Shiiit, acting cocky with noona?"
We reached the bus stop and waited… when Yang Minah suddenly made a call.
"Yeah, jagi~♥"
Must be her boyfriend. Her voice had gone ridiculously cutesy.
She looked so aloof and chic, yet she could pull off aegyo like that.
"Uung~ Uung~♥. Just left after dropping off Yuna~. Gonna sleep over at jagi's place~♥"
She was laying it on thick with the baby talk.
She must save all her aegyo for her boyfriend.
"Ah, jagi isn't coming home today? Whyyy…."
"I don't knowww… work hard… Uung… I have to go home… It's fine, I'm at the bus stop now."
"Yeah, jagi work hard too!! Kiss kiss kiss♥♥♥!!"
After hanging up, Yang Minah grabbed my wrist and pulled me away from the other people waiting at the stop, then whispered in my ear.
"Can noona sleep over at your place tonight?"
"…!!"
She'd literally just said she was going home.
So she was planning to sneak over to my place…?
When I looked at her, she twisted her body shyly.
"No good?"
"…It's fine."
So we got on the same bus and walked side by side to my studio apartment.
"Whoa, it's spacious. How many pyeong?"
"Seven."
"Wow~ Even at seven pyeong it feels really big. Nice place~. Cleaner than most guys' places~. Doesn't even smell~."
"I air it out before leaving."
"But Yuon-ah, what's this…?"
"!!!"
In front of the washing machine, on the drying rack—Seo Hyeonji's white skirt and panties.
Shit, I'd forgotten about those because I was drunk.
"Ah, those are my ex-girlfriend's… I forgot about them. Haha."
"Oh really?"
Yang Minah casually touched them. They were already dry and fluffy. Thank god.
Whew, I secretly let out a sigh of relief.
"Your ex must've been really cute. Cute skirt and cute panties."
"Yeah…."
"Can noona try them on?"
"Huh?"
"Don't want me to?"
"N-no. Go ahead."
Yang Minah grinned and started stripping without hesitation. Unlike Seo Hyeonji, she didn't turn around—she just faced me and peeled everything off right there.
Then she put on Seo Hyeonji's panties and skirt. The white skirt fluttered beneath her blue tracksuit top, looking completely mismatched.
"Wow, it's breezy. Noona doesn't wear skirts so I don't have any."
She spun around once. The skirt lifted slightly, flashing the panties underneath.
My body reacted to the sight.
"Yeah, these delicate clothes really don't suit me after all."
I grabbed Yang Minah's wrist as she tried to take them off again.
"Noona."
"Yeah?"
"Let's do it like this."
"…Huh?"
Yang Minah's eyes dropped. She looked at my pants.
"…Got hard?"
"…Yeah."
"Puhaha, you got hard seeing noona in your ex's clothes? You little perv, are you turned on by noona or by your ex's clothes?"
"By noona."
"Really~?"
Grinning, she lifted the hem of the skirt with her fingers. The view underneath teased in and out of sight.
"You like noona wearing your ex's clothes? Do I look pretty?"
Not my ex.
Those are your friend's clothes, you crazy bitch.
"Pretty~?"
"……."
"If you don't answer, I won't do it?"
"You look pretty."
It was hot.
Seeing a girl who probably never wore flowy clothes like this wearing them created an incredibly erotic gap.
Yang Minah's face drew closer. Her lips, tinged with red, approached. The scent of alcohol hit me with her breath.
"Good job~."