I Knew She Was Crazy... But This Crazy?
I knew she was a crazy bitch... but this crazy?
Contrary to the worries I'd been carrying since yesterday, things at school had gone surprisingly well. I exchanged greetings with my stiff, awkward classmates, and we actually managed to warm up to each other. The lectures themselves were so tedious I couldn't even remember what we'd covered. Afterward, the guys I'd gotten somewhat friendly with headed for the Campus Cafeteria.
What occupied all of us was a single question: how were we supposed to survive until the freshman trip?
Three of us had gathered at the cafeteria to eat. The only things we had in common were that we were guys, and that despite the semester being well over a week old, not one of us had been to a single drinking party.
"...So why haven't you guys been to any drinking parties?"
"I don't drink, so..."
"Oh, you too?"
At my question, the two of them clicked together like they'd been made for each other. I was about to chime in myself when an ominous chill crawled straight down my spine.
Sure enough. Standing behind me was the girl I'd already classified as a crazy bitch — Baek Harin. She was staring at me with a look fierce enough to peel paint.
"So this is where you were?"
...Gulp.
I couldn't even tell if the ramen I was eating was going into my mouth or my nose. I felt a hiccup rising in my throat from sheer nerves.
"...What is it this time...?"
When I looked up at her with uneasy eyes, she flashed a devilish smile and snatched the phone right out of my hand.
"I'll borrow this for a sec."
I reached out this way and that, demanding it back, but Baek Harin's fingers moved at lightning speed. Before I knew it, she'd added herself on Kakaotalk and handed the phone right back to me. Staring at the Kakaotalk screen swaying in front of my face, I scrunched up my features.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? You can't just snatch someone's phone like that."
"Harin-ie just added you as a friend. Why are you overreacting like this? Have you never even talked to a girl before?"
"...I already told you yesterday, I have a girlfriend. I really hate it when people act this pushy."
Baek Harin just shrugged, as if she couldn't comprehend the problem at all.
"Unbelievable. Harin-ie isn't even asking you to date. She just wants to keep in touch."
"...Anyway, don't contact me. If you do, I'll block you."
Faced with my iron wall, Baek Harin finally left, grumbling under her breath. When I tried to pick up the conversation with my classmates again, they were glaring at me with eyes full of envy and jealousy.
"....What?"
"Dude! Do you even know who that is?"
"Yesterday she was yelling at me asking if I knew who she was, too. Who the hell is she supposed to be?"
"...Haaah. I can't tell if this guy is an idiot or just that naive. That's Baek Harin — she even entered a modeling contest and won. A girl like that added you on Kakaotalk just to talk, and you... Aigoo."
"Is she really that big a deal?"
My classmate's blood pressure shot so high he grabbed the back of his neck, wheezing like he was about to pass out.
"...I suppose this damn bastard wouldn't know, seeing as he already has a 'girlfriend' and all. If you asked every guy from freshman to senior year who they most want to date, they'd pick her on the spot."
"...Then why is a girl like that coming after me?"
My classmate just sighed. There was something he wasn't saying, of course.
Donghyun, you've got a decent face — why are you hanging out with this group...?
He didn't say it out loud, but the question kept circling in his head. Meanwhile, I couldn't understand why she was targeting me, either.
She's a former model. Sure, I invested in my Appearance stat so I got a bit better-looking, but I don't think I'm handsomer than the models she would've met on the job.
With the two of us utterly unable to understand each other, the ramen sat there going cold.
After I got home, I threw together a rough dinner. Then, determined to at least review, I sat at my desk and struggled through a major textbook that refused to enter my brain.
Then, suddenly, my phone buzzed with a Kakaotalk message.
"A vibration...? Could it be Noona?"
There were only a handful of people I'd left notifications on for, so I picked up my phone with my heart pounding in anticipation. And then the sender that completely shattered those expectations appeared at the top of the screen.
Just seeing that name made my teeth grind. I hurriedly opened Kakaotalk to block her. But the moment I checked the message, more of them poured in one after another.
Who did she think she was, talking like that? It was an unbelievably arrogant way of speaking. I was about to reply out of sheer spite when I saw this crazy bitch's next message — and I lost the ability to form words.
I hurriedly turned the phone off, then turned the screen back on and sent a message that captured my sheer disbelief exactly as it was.
In a flash of sheer bewilderment, I dropped my phone. Sex partners? Did she mean the kind of thing you only ever saw on places like Twingter?
Even as I sat there too stunned to form any kind of reply, Baek Harin's messages kept coming.
I couldn't even think about answering. I just stood there with my face burning.
"Sex partners... is that what she's talking about?"
Scenes flashed through my mind of the two of us sucking on each other's parts, moaning and mixing our bodies together — just like Noona and I had done yesterday.
"...I haven't even gone all the way with Noona yet."
It suddenly occurred to me that Noona and I still hadn't gone as far as actual sex. And then a call came in from a number I didn't even remember saving.
The person calling was none other than Baek Harin.
"...Hello?"
"What, you weren't even passed out and you just weren't answering? That's pretty arrogant."
"What on earth are you thinking, doing all this?"
"What do you mean, what am I thinking? Harin-ie's telling you she likes you. And are you really going to keep talking all stiff and formal?"
"...I don't want to."
"Then let's do it this way. Try it with Harin-ie just once, and then you can decide."
"No."
"Hold on, you said you have a girlfriend — wait, are you actually a eunuch or something? A pretty girl like Harin-ie is offering to do it once, so why do you keep refusing?"
"...Has it not occurred to you that the fact I have a girlfriend is the problem?"
"Does that matter? We're talking partners here."
It was becoming painfully clear that talking to her was useless, so I moved to hang up. That was when Baek Harin hit me with a threat that wasn't quite a threat.
"...? How do you even know where my apartment is?"
"Harin-ie has her ways. There's nothing Harin-ie doesn't know."
My head started to hurt. If I kept ignoring this bitch's requests and she actually came and cried in front of my apartment all day — and if Noona saw that — there would definitely be a problem. Noona would go, Donghyun, what on earth is going on? Why is that person crying...? and this crazy bitch would come up with some ridiculous excuse and wreck things between me and Noona for sure.
Still, I was trying to think of some way out of this, because I didn't want to break the trust between me and Noona — when it happened.
"Fuck..."
This goddamn quest had gone and pulled this shit at the worst possible time. At this rate, even if I had to swallow it like a bitter pill, I couldn't refuse. In the end, the only option left was to accept.
"...Fine. Just once. After that, you promise this will never happen again."
"Harin-ie keeps the promises she makes. Don't you be the one begging to do it again and again. And from now on, drop the formal talk. Otherwise I'll keep following you around."
And with that, the call ended. Neither of them could have known, but they were both entertaining similar yet different thoughts — each plotting how to wreck the other.
"You arrogant bastard. How dare you make Harin-ie go this far? Just you wait. I'll make you submit one way or another and work you like a slave."
Baek Harin's eyes gleamed as she hatched her wicked little scheme.
As for me, I opened the status window with every intention of wrecking this crazy bitch somehow. Appearance 8, Virility 2. And in my possession were the 4 Coins I'd just received as the quest reward.
"Three into Virility, one into Penis Length."
A moment later, I looked at the changed status window and smiled.
I pulled down my pants and looked inside my underwear. Sure enough, the thing I always gripped when I jerked off had grown by about a finger joint.
"Just you wait. You damn crazy bitch."
I ground my teeth, already planning a proper revenge against Baek Harin.