Running Away from Lunch
Lunch Time at the Parasols
"Haa... Jung Ian, where on earth did you learn to say things like that? And just so you know, you absolutely can’t say things like that to other girls, got it?"
That was the first thing Han Sia said after my remark, her cheeks still faintly flushed as she kept her mouth shut for a while afterward.
Was that her way of saying she didn’t believe me?
"No... I was just saying exactly what I meant."
So I hurried to explain.
But for some reason, that only made her expression turn a little more severe.
As I was starting to feel a bit wronged by Han Sia’s reaction, Yu Somi opened her mouth next.
"Yeah. If we’re best friends, that’s not really weird at all! Honestly, I don’t feel attracted to any guys except Ian anyway. Looks like our hearts are in sync, huh?"
She said it wasn’t a strange thing at all.
Honestly, whether or not we were best friends didn’t seem to matter much, but at least Somi seemed to believe me, so that was a relief.
.
.
.
Lunch came after I gave up my turn to go into the pool.
After distributing the food I’d smuggled in from outside to my friends in roughly equal portions, I picked up a convenience-store bun for myself.
Han Sia had never been much of an eater to begin with, so it looked like she planned to finish lunch with just the chicken skewer and a few kimbap rolls she’d bought at the snack bar.
As for Yu Somi... she was happily eating the tteokbokki she’d bought, paired with the kimbap I’d brought.
Beside her, I could see a cup ramen steeping in hot water, too, and I wondered whether she’d actually be able to finish all of it.
On top of that, it was carb after carb after carb. I was a little worried whether she was really okay eating like that.
"Of course I’m okay! Because... I also bought a frank sausage!"
"...You’re actually going to finish all that, right?"
I looked at Somi with concern.
It was the kind of situation that happened all the time when you picked out food while starving—buying way more than you could actually eat.
Once you’d already made the mistake, you ended up trapped in a hellish either-or: overeating or wasting money.
So if you realized you’d bought too much, another option was just to take it home unopened.
But she seemed to have come up with a slightly different idea and smiled at me brightly.
"Hmm... if I get too full, I’ll just share some with you, Ian. Want a bite of this sausage? Aaahh❤"
Somi held out the sausage, which she hadn’t even bitten into yet.
Come to think of it, hadn’t she been the type to care about things like indirect kisses?
I still remembered how, during our last food outing, she’d been flustered just because of the cup from the cafe that my mouth had touched.
So, trying to be considerate, I decided to keep the contact area with the sausage to an absolute minimum.
I was about to bite it off carefully with my teeth, making sure my lips didn’t touch it.
"Hey, you’re trying to take way too small a bite! It’s fine, you can bite bigger!"
But just as I went to bite down, she pushed the sausage further into my mouth.
Because of that, the sausage went deeper inside than I’d expected, and I, startled, reflexively closed my mouth.
...As a result, the sauce on the sausage was left with a blatantly obvious mark from my lips.
"...❤"
But Somi didn’t seem to care much about indirect kisses anymore.
Without saying a word, she took back the sausage with my lip mark still on it and kept eating.
Well, if she’d cared about that sort of thing, she wouldn’t have offered me the sausage in the first place.
While I was eating the sausage Somi handed me, Han Sia quietly moved to sit behind me.
Since she’d scratched my back with her nails during that bikini-disappearance incident earlier, I guessed she was checking whether she’d left a mark.
"Hmm... thankfully, there doesn’t seem to be any bleeding. But you did lose a bit of skin, so it’ll probably stay red for a while."
"It’s fine. It’s not like my back is something people usually see anyway."
It had hurt quite a bit at the time, but honestly, I’d completely forgotten about the injury until Han Sia brought it up again just now.
I hadn’t really cared to begin with, and if it wasn’t even going to leave a scar, there was no reason to make a fuss about it.
Still, while looking at my back, she dropped a somewhat meaningful line.
"Hehe... that mark kind of looks like proof you spent a hot, intense night with your lover the night before, so it’s a little sexy."
"...What?"
"Actually... maybe the reality isn’t all that different?"
"..."
"Pfft...! I’m kidding. Still, if a mark like this stays on your back, I figure other girls at the pool won’t be able to get close to you very easily, so I like it."
Han Sia sat behind me and stared at the nail marks on my back without seeming to get bored.
Then she gently stroked the skin around them with her fingers, as if she genuinely liked the scratch marks quite a lot.
Of course, since she was sitting behind me, I couldn’t see what expression she was making.
...
After that, Han Sia stayed seated behind me, continuing to touch my back, and Yu Somi periodically brought food to my mouth.
Most of what she fed me was tteokbokki.
Seeing her use the same toothpick herself while feeding me too made it obvious she really didn’t care about indirect kisses.
So I stopped refusing and just accepted the tteokbokki Somi offered me.
"...❤"
She seemed to like the tteokbokki, because every time she took a bite, she smiled as if she were in a good mood.
It just looked like ordinary tteokbokki to me... but maybe there was something in it that suited Yu Somi’s taste.
Then, just as she was finishing the plate of tteokbokki, she lifted up a square piece of fish cake with her toothpick and accidentally dropped it.
The fish cake, which should have gone into Yu Somi’s mouth, instead fell straight downward...
"Ah...!"
And sank right between her ample breasts.
...
I stared blankly for a moment at the fish cake that had invaded the valley between Yu Somi’s white breasts and stained it with red tteokbokki broth.
Then I snapped out of it and reached for the tissue I’d set on the table.
But when I thought about it, there was nothing I could actually do just because I had a tissue in my hand.
Honestly, I wasn’t completely innocent of imagining what it would be like to pretend not to know anything and slide my hand holding the tissue between Somi’s breasts, but...
Still, it was only natural that she should deal with it herself.
So, though I was a little shaken by the situation right in front of me, I handed the tissue to her.
Swish, swish.
Yu Somi used the tissue I gave her to pull out the fish cake wedged between her breasts and toss it away, then carefully wiped off the red broth stuck to her bare skin.
But every time her hand moved, Yu Somi’s large breasts shifted and trembled, soft and shape-shifting, powerful enough to pull my gaze in like a black hole.
In the end, even though I knew it was rude to keep blatantly staring at her chest in front of her, I still couldn’t bring myself to look away.
"Aww, man... the broth got all the way in here too...♪"
But the wicked tteokbokki broth had apparently seeped not only over the top of her breasts, but in between them too.
So Somi hooked one arm under her big chest to lift it slightly, then slipped the tissue underneath and began wiping it away.
Which naturally made the underside of her breasts, until now mostly hidden from view, come into sight.
...
By this point, my desire had already surged up, but I managed to somehow suppress it by crossing one leg over the other.
Swish, swish.
The tteokbokki cleanup continued after that.
She carefully went over the part above her breasts again, as if it still wasn’t fully clean, and since the inside of her bikini seemed to have gotten a little dirty too, she remained careful while pushing the tissue in and wiping, all the while still aware of my gaze.
She seemed a little burdened by my staring too, because her cheeks had gone faintly pink.
But Yu Somi didn’t move seats or ask me to turn around and look away, and just quietly kept dealing with the tteokbokki broth.
Really, I should have been the one to turn away or give her some space before she even had to ask...
Even though I knew that in my head, I still couldn’t tear my eyes off her, which made me wonder if my mind really had gone a little strange.
...
No, that wasn’t it. She could have moved somewhere else if she wanted to, but she was deliberately cleaning her chest right in front of me.
There was no way to see that as anything other than her intentionally showing off her breasts to me.
This... this shameless little vixen!! She knew exactly how much I was holding back today and was still trying to tempt me!!!
Haa... haa...
My breathing grew ragged.
My field of vision kept narrowing, and my head filled with nothing but dirty thoughts, as if my own mind were urging me to cross a line I could never come back from.
Even so, seeing Yu Somi smile as if she were actually happy while looking at my tormented expression, my urge somehow began to mutate little by little into a sadistic desire to bully her.
Right. Her ass.
Someone as shameless as you needs to be punished with a spanking.
In my head, the memory of slapping Yu Somi’s butt during dance practice at the school gym began replaying itself.
The glutinous, rice-cake-soft flesh wrapped around my palm, and the strangely intoxicating sound her voice made afterward.
Uuugh...! No... I can’t do something like that right now...
But then Yu Somi, for some reason, glanced sideways toward Han Sia behind me...
She brought her index finger lightly to her lips, gave me a wink, and mouthed, shh.
And then...
she bent forward just a little, brought both arms inward, and emphasized her chest in a way that made it impossible to ignore.
"Guys, sorry!! I’m gonna go to the bathroom for a sec!"
I couldn’t endure Yu Somi’s visual attack any longer and ran for the restroom.
...
...I felt better.
At the Parasols After Jung Ian Left
After Jung Ian hurried off to the side, the two girls clicked their tongues in disappointment.
And especially Yu Somi, who had been taking the lead in the situation, looked even more disappointed than the rest.
"Ah... did I get carried away too much? Ian ran away... sorry. I guess this is as far as we get today."
Yu Somi apologized to Han Sia with an air of regret.
But Han Sia, as if it couldn’t be helped, answered with a bitter smile.
"It can’t be helped. That man was the one recklessly coming on to me first. Saying things like that without any intention of taking responsibility afterward... he clearly needs discipline."
Their expressions looked a little deflated, but there was still an unyielding determination in their eyes.