Not Interested in Noona?
After breathing in Junhi's scent for a long while, I finally turned my steps back toward the mart.
"Ugh, uuh…"
Fortunately, Junhi's zipper had been pulled all the way up. He clutched the padded jacket's zipper with both hands and showed no intention of letting go.
"Junhi."
"……Hmph……"
"Look, Noona's sorry about earlier."
"It's fine…… D-don't talk to me…."
"Your reaction was just so good that Noona wanted to tease you a little. If you keep sulking like that, Noona's heart will hurt."
"……"
My teasing had been a bit much, sure, but I'd thought things had somehow been smoothed over. Junhi, however, seemed thoroughly furious.
He tried to free his hand as if sulking, but I held on tight, so he couldn't. Instead—maybe to make sure I knew how angry he was—he started walking at a slightly faster clip.
Yes. This is it…… This….
I'd poured plenty of my own selfishness into tormenting him, but it finally felt like we were doing something couple-like.
Cheering up a sulking boyfriend is a girlfriend's job, after all.
Still gripping the hand I refused to release, I tugged the fast-walking Junhi toward me. He came along without resistance, limp as a doll.
"…That hurts."
Dragged by my hand, Junhi glared up at me and spat the words in a thorny tone.
"Junhi."
"What…."
"Are you sulking?"
"No."
"What do you mean, no? Anyone can see you're sulking."
"I said I'm really not!"
The moment I called him out for sulking, Junhi snapped right back at me and tried to shake off my hand—but he couldn't escape my grip. We stayed locked together.
"Our cute Junhi~ Are you sulking about what just happened?"
"Ah…… No… I said no……"
When I kept asking, he answered as if truly wronged, voice wobbling on the edge of tears—whether he really wasn't sulking or not.
"There, there, our Junhi. I know, I know. You're not sulking. Noona knows everything, so no more tears!"
"……I-I wasn't crying…."
I pulled him into a tight hug and patted his back.
"Okay, okay. Noona won't tease you anymore until we get home."
"……R-really……"
So simple and naive♡
How easily this boy falls for it, Junhi.
Even after everything I'd put him through, the second I said I wouldn't, he believed me completely. He lifted his head a little and looked up at me with that catlike face.
So cute I could die. Seriously.
Being this adorable while wearing clothes so skintight under that long padded jacket that anyone would suspect him of being a pervert—
Where else in the world was there a man who tasted so different inside and out?
With a body this alluring and a face that made women's hearts flutter like this, who wouldn't fall for Junhi?
Well. He's mine now anyway.
Only I get to see this side of him. Only I get to feel it.
I won't hand Junhi over to anyone.
"You really…… won't tease me……"
"Mm. I promise. Until Noona goes home, I won't touch you at all."
"O-okay…… I'll trust you…."
So simple♡ Even that is so lovable.
After soaking in a little more of Junhi's body heat through the tight embrace, I started walking toward the mart again….
"……"
"What are you doing, Noona?"
"Nothing… I just felt like someone was watching us from somewhere."
As I was about to move, a presence prickled at the back of my neck—someone watching. I turned around. No one was there.
Just my imagination?
Maybe because it was evening, the place was swarming with people out to do their grocery shopping.
I dug a hundred-won coin from my wallet, unlocked a cart, and headed deep into the mart with Junhi.
"Junhi, what do you want to eat?"
"Th… c-clothes first……"
When I asked again what he wanted for dinner, Junhi tugged on my sleeve and pointed toward the clothing section far ahead.
"You want clothes that badly, Junhi?"
"Yes……"
"Then try acting cute for Noona once."
"Ah……"
At the words act cute, Junhi's face flushed scarlet in an instant. He glanced around wildly.
"C… can't I do it later…."
"No, no. If something comes your way, something has to go the other way—that's how life works, Junhi."
Honestly, I could have just bought them for him without any of this.
I'd deliberately lied that his pants had a hole and dragged him all the way to the mart looking like that.
If he needed everything, there was no reason to pinch the money I had.
But letting an opportunity like this slip away would be far too much of a waste, wouldn't it?
"Ah, ah……"
"Come on, do it, Junhi. Or Noona's just going to push this cart right past you?"
"………J-just a moment… I'll do it once… the people all pass by…."
He says he doesn't want to, he can't—but in the end he'll do everything this Noona tells him to. This tsundere♡
Just as Junhi had said, once enough people had drifted past, the aisle grew a little quieter.
"People are gone now. When are you starting, Junhi?"
"Ah… I-I'll do it… I just have to do it, right…."
After scanning the surroundings one more time, Junhi slowly stepped closer and whispered, barely audible.
"Ah…… Aing……"
"Pffft—hahaha— Ah, no, Junhi, ah ah ah—"
I'm going insane. Was that seriously his attempt at being cute? God, why didn't I record this?
That single word had Junhi's face burning red. Meanwhile, all I could do was lament not having taken a photo or video of the moment.
"I-I did the… cute thing… so hurry… b-buy me clothes…."
"Can't you do it just one more time, Junhi?"
"Ah… no…."
"Tch. So mean. But a promise is a promise."
I didn't particularly want to change those pants out—but I'd made a promise with Junhi, so I had no choice.
Only after I'd done aegyo for Hayun Noona was I finally able to escape those pants.
I stripped off the stifling, humiliating pair, pulled on new ones, and stepped out of the fitting room.
The moment I emerged, Hayun Noona looked me over from head to toe, then handed her card to the employee standing nearby.
"I can't tell if the clothes make the man or if Junhi just wears clothes well—they suit you so perfectly."
"Even if you… p-praise me like that, nothing's going to come of it."
I'd just put on some sweatpants sold at a mart. What was so flattering about that? And yet Hayun Noona kept praising me.
"Shall we go now, Junhi?"
"Yes."
Finally in loose pants, my whole body felt somehow lighter. I stuck close to Hayun Noona's side as we headed down to the basement where the groceries were.
"Hmmmm~~♪"
Whatever had her in such a good mood, Hayun Noona hummed beside me while constantly glancing my way.
"Why… why do you keep looking at me?"
"Nothing. Just… coming to the mart shopping alone with Junhi like this feels like a date, so I was looking."
I glanced once at Hayun Noona's smiling face.
She'd been a little rough with me, sure—but she was still the one who'd saved me from Minhi.
It was still vivid….
Whenever I thought about how Minhi had used violence and confinement on me, how under the name of "education" and with those strange drugs she had raped me—
Goosebumps rose all over my body.
Maybe being by Hayun Noona's side is safer for both body and mind….
She had a playful streak, but compared to Minhi she was truly mild.
"Um… Hayun Noona…."
"Mm, what is it, Junhi?"
"That… what I said last time… is it real…."
"Which story—maybe marriage?"
"No, not that…."
"Then what are you talking about, Junhi?"
I don't really want to go this far.
We've spent a lifetime together. We're blood family. I don't have the confidence to push it this hard—but
Minhi crossed the line.
No. She didn't just cross it. She used that line to play with me.
She did things a family member should never do, dozens of times, and treated me as her possession.
"That… that woman living in our house… y-you can really keep her from coming near me… right…."
"Ahh… that crazy bitch?"
"Ah, ah… yes… that crazy bitch……"
Calling my little sister a crazy bitch still felt a little wrong—but that was all in the past now.
She'd even threatened to kill the people around me one by one if I didn't listen. I could no longer see Minhi as family either.
Hayun Noona nodded as if she understood, then interlaced her fingers with mine and held my hand.
"Just trust Noona. This Noona will make sure that crazy bitch can never even approach Junhi again. Junhi just needs to live comfortably by Noona's side, okay?"
"R-really…."
"Of course. Junhi is Noona's now, so this Noona has to take care of him, right?"
"Ah, we're not… that kind of relationship yet……"
Maybe it would be okay if it were Hayun Noona. But at least it still felt too fast for that kind of relationship….
Hayun Noona suddenly let go of my hand. She pulled down the zipper of her padded jacket, then—while looking straight at me—started fondling her own chest.
"Why? Doesn't Junhi have any interest in Noona? If Junhi loves Noona, he can touch these big breasts however he wants."
"Noona, what are you doing! There are so many people!"
I urgently grabbed the zipper of Hayun Noona's padded jacket and yanked it back up.
"Why? If Junhi will watch, I could strip right here. Or better yet—should we have sex right here?"
"No… that's a bit much…."
"Then you are interested in Noona, right?"
Saying no would have been a lie.
"A-a little…… I am…."
"A little? Only a little? That won't do. Let's have sex right here and now, Junhi."
The second the word "a little" left my mouth, Hayun Noona really seemed about to strip—she started lowering the zipper of her padded jacket again. I hurriedly stopped her.
"N-no! That was a slip of the tongue… n-not a little—a lot! I have a lot! So please don't do that…."
"Hehehe. When our lovely Junhi asks so nicely, I have no choice."
At my words, Hayun Noona looked at me with smiling eyes and started pulling the zipper of her padded jacket back up.