Chapter 48
Chapter 48
—–CROW—–
On my way, I smacked Hwa-yeon’s head a few more times as she chattered and told her to stop with the baseless speculation about Geum-bi noona.
I replied “Okay” to Su-jeong noona’s message, but there was no reply. After waiting for a long time, I went into the bathroom first to wash up after Hwa-yeon.
‘What does she want to talk about, Su-jeong noona…? What is she going to say?’
The bad feeling didn’t disappear until I finished showering. As I was toweling my hair dry and sighing,
The changing room door burst open, and Su-jeong noona, back from work, poked her head in.
For the record, I wasn’t dressed yet.
“Ji-gu, can we talk for a moment… Kyaa?!”
“Whoa! Wait, please wait outside…!”
“Oh, okay. Sorry for not knocking!”
She had a determined look on her face, but in less than a second, Su-jeong noona’s face turned red and she flustered.
I wondered if this was how Hwa-yeon felt when the bathroom door opened during her shower last time, and I hurriedly dried myself and put on my clothes.
“I’m done, noona. You can come in.”
“Ahhh… I’m really sorry. When I went up to the second floor, Hwa-yeon said that you’d probably be in the middle of showering, so I thought the changing room was empty.”
“It’s okay, you didn’t do it on purpose.”
Seeing Su-jeong noona stammering made *me* feel embarrassed.
That Hwa-yeon, she must have been thinking based on her own habits. I don’t take long showers like you, tsk.
‘But, does that mean Su-jeong noona was planning to talk to me with the bathroom door between us? …That’s embarrassing in its own way.’
I’ve said it several times, but the entire bathroom door was made of glass.
It was frosted, but silhouettes and blurry colors could be seen through it. Really.
‘It feels like there are fewer and fewer boundaries with the noonas. At this rate, our family might really become five sisters… Haa.’
I put the soaking wet towel in the laundry basket and gathered my complicated thoughts.
The short break seemed to have helped Su-jeong noona too. She cleared her throat and cautiously began to speak.
“Anyway… can we get to the main topic now, Ji-gu?”
“Yes, but it doesn’t seem like a big deal? I was waiting for your message, thinking you’d ask me to go out.”
“If we go out and come back alone… the kids might think it’s strange, like last time.”
“That’s true, and because of that, I ended up sleeping with Geum-bi noona… ahem.”
An embarrassing memory from when I was drunk came up, and I blushed like noona.
But Su-jeong noona, as if to say I did well, took a step closer and pressured me.
“Ji-gu, did something happen with Geum-bi again?”
“I knew it. What is it this time? What did you hear?”
“Nothing in particular… but Geum-bi’s atmosphere is strange. It’s like, when I watch her, my woman’s intuition… is on high alert.”
A woman’s intuition, that’s scary.
I’ve been bothered by Hwa-yeon all day because of that.
I felt like the headache I had suppressed was coming back, and.
Seeing my reaction, Su-jeong noona, like someone at the cafe, bit her lip, her certainty growing.
“Geum-bi and I… we sleep in the same room, and these days, we even eat breakfast together. So, there are things I can’t help but notice.”
“What kind of things?”
“The way she looks at you, Ji-gu… it’s changed a lot. It sparkles, like a girl in love.”
“…Noona, aren’t you embarrassed to say that kind of thing in real life?”
“I-I’m super embarrassed too?! But what else can I say to describe it better!”
Su-jeong noona was spouting lines that seemed like they belonged in a romance comic, and I endured by pinching my cringing hands and feet.
However, unlike the childishness of her words, the content of her questioning was not something to be taken lightly.
“The day Geum-bi said she liked you… Of course, it wasn’t completely confirmed, but.”
“Yeah.”
“It was probably from then. I’ve been anxious ever since… but it’s gotten worse recently.”
“What has?”
“I don’t know the details. She avoids the topic whenever I subtly try to sound her out, or even ask directly.”
“Geum-bi noona did that?”
“Yes. She was the type to answer even difficult questions… It must be related to you, Ji-gu, right? Otherwise, there’s no reason for her to hide it from me.”
It was an accurate deduction.
If Geum-bi noona was hiding something, and the other person was Su-jeong noona, there was a 99% chance it was because of me.
‘Hoping for that 1% wouldn’t work, would it? She wouldn’t have brought this up for no reason.’
The fact that she came to the changing room as soon as she got back meant that Su-jeong noona was that anxious.
On the one hand, it was her will not to give me a chance to escape.
As if to back up her resolve, Su-jeong noona had cornered me, leaving me with nowhere to run.
I was pushed into a corner of the changing room, raising both hands to signal that I had no intention of resisting.
I parted my lips and asked Su-jeong noona for advice in return.
“Actually, Geum-bi noona kind of… confessed to me.”
“Huh?! Wh-what?”
“It wasn’t a full confession. She just kind of hinted at it.”
“Huh? No, how did that happen? How did things suddenly turn out like that…?”
“You can roughly guess, can’t you, noona? Things have been complicated lately, and there was also that incident in the living room.”
“Ugh. That’s true, but… saying it directly is a completely different matter.”
As I made a clean breast of it, Su-jeong noona fidgeted and twisted her hair.
Of course, I didn’t tell her about the racy incident with Geum-bi noona, but that part… let’s skip it for now. It wasn’t important right now.
‘There’s no need to mention it if we didn’t go all the way. I’ve done plenty of racy things with Su-jeong noona too.’
With the vibration of her fidgeting legs, Su-jeong noona’s breasts jiggled.
Since our bodies were practically touching, I couldn’t help but look at her shaking breasts, and.
While my gaze was stolen by the cleavage in her blouse, Su-jeong noona was staring at me intently.
“Ji-gu?”
“Uh, yeah? Noona, why?”
“You’re looking at that kind of place in this situation?”
“No, it’s unavoidable… I’m sorry. I was wrong, yes.”
“I understand how you feel as a boy, but. Let’s try to control ourselves now, okay?”
“Yes, I understand… Noona.”
Su-jeong noona poked my chest with her finger as if telling me to be careful, and.
She sighed deeply and shook her head as if she also had a headache.
“Going back to the story, Geum-bi… finally confessed, huh?”
“Yeah. …It’s a secret that I told you this, okay?”
“Ji-gu, you’ve been having a lot of secrets between us lately.”
“It just happened… Please understand, I’m also confused in many ways.”
“Haa, right, I know. I know so well that it’s a problem. If I hadn’t known, I would have scolded her… Sigh.”
Su-jeong noona’s sighs grew louder.
I could understand her feelings, with her two younger siblings on the verge of a romantic relationship, but I wondered if she knew that she was also responsible… I scratched my cheek and swallowed my words.
“Anyway, that’s the situation, what do you think, noona?”
“What are you asking? Do you want me to cheer for you and Geum-bi?”
“It’s not like that. You’re the oldest in our house… so I wanted to hear your opinion.”
“You only treat me like the oldest when it’s convenient, after causing all this trouble. And mom is the oldest, why are you excluding her, when you’re not even Geum-bi?”
“Of course, I mean among the people who are in our house now. …Besides, I don’t think Geum-bi noona would treat mom like she doesn’t exist.”
“You’re already taking her side? You’re already on the same page?”
“I’m not saying that! I haven’t even decided what to do yet… Ugh?”
While I was talking, Su-jeong noona lightly pressed down on my shoulder.
It wasn’t a very strong force, but considering the atmosphere, I obediently lowered my upper body to noona’s eye level.
“Ji-gu.”
“Y-yes.”
“You haven’t decided yet…. Are you saying you don’t know how to respond to Geum-bi’s confession?”
“W-well, it can’t be helped, can it? No matter what, we’ve lived as family for our whole lives, and we don’t even know who’s adopted…. If I suddenly hear something like that, how can I just make up my mind right away?”
“Hmm~ That’s true.”
“That’s why I’m consulting with Su-jeong noona since we’re talking about it, ugh? Noona?”
“But you know, Ji-gu, I’ve become curious about something while listening.”
“Wh-what is it?”
“You keep making excuses about family and the situation… but what about your feelings, Ji-gu? If you heard a confession, you must have been swayed one way or another. We need to clarify that first.”
“My feelings? Augh, noona. It feels like you’re pressing down on my shoulder harder and harder… U-ugh?”
Instead of making progress in the conversation, we were just increasing the number of questions.
But since I was being physically pressured, I became the one to answer first.
‘My feelings… what are my feelings for Geum-bi noona? It’s difficult. I thought I shouldn’t even think about that.’
It was the same reason I tried not to cross the line until the truth was revealed.
What if I made up my mind and then it turned out we were blood-related? It was obvious that dealing with the aftermath would be incomparable to my current worries.
“…I can’t choose right now.”
“Whether to accept Geum-bi’s feelings or not?”
“How can I decide? We don’t even know if it’s something I should even be considering.”
“Even if I just ask you what your feelings are right now?”
“It’s the same. The moment I say I like her or not, it’s like making a decision.”
“Hmm, rather than being cautious… you’re holding back because you shouldn’t, right?”
“For now, yes. And in the first place, it’s rude to even look at the noonas that way, heup?!”
“Rude? You were staring at my breasts just now.”
“S-Su-jeong noona? Ahk?”
As I postponed my answer once again, Su-jeong noona moved her arm from my shoulder to my back and gently hugged me.
We hugged often, but it was the first time we were at the same eye level like this. Noona’s eyes and lips were close to my face, and I felt strangely flustered.
“If you had answered carelessly, Ji-gu, I would have been really angry.”
“R-really?”
“Of course. There have been so many things like that lately, so if it was because of Geum-bi’s body or… a man’s urges, I would have cut it off right there.”
“Heeup!? N-noona?”
“Well, if that was the case, Geum-bi would have come looking for you with scissors before I could do anything.”
“Th-that’s true. If it’s Geum-bi noona… she might actually do it? Haha…”
For a moment, the scene of the two noonas discussing how to deal with my dick flashed through my mind.
With the feeling that if I answered incorrectly, I would wake up the next day with my hands and feet tied to the bed, I gulped.
“But seeing you worry so seriously like this, as your noona, it’s a bit…”
“R-right. I’m sorry for having strange thoughts about my family…”
“It’s okay. We’re not kids, and considering the circumstances, it would be stranger to just brush it off.”
“That’s true… There have been so many circumstances with the noonas, haa.”
“But what I’m upset about is something else.”
“Uh, what is it? Heuk?”
“Don’t you know? Even though I told you so many times, you did all sorts of things with Geum-bi, and in the end… it annoys me that you only care about her.”
“N-noona? Your breasts are too close, uh?”
“And now you have a hard-on because of me.”
“Noona?!”
Su-jeong noona glanced down and then gave me a sidelong glance.
That look felt like she was poking my untouched heart, and I wanted to distance myself as much as her breath was close.
“Ji-gu. Can I just check two things?”
“Wh-what do you mean?”
“First, that you’re not hesitating because of a momentary impulse.”
“How can you check that… uh?”
“Do I have to explain it at this point?”
“Ah, n-no, I think I understand. …Then what’s the other thing?”
“If it’s not an impulse, I’m curious how much you’re actually swayed.”
“…In the end, isn’t there only one way to check both?”
“In a way, that’s true. Two birds with one stone, it’s simple and nice. Right?”
I understood without her saying it.
With our bodies this close, and her breath alternating between my neck and cheek, there was no way I couldn’t figure out what she was trying to do.
‘She’s going to test it… with her body, right? If I react, it means it was that impulsive. And also… that I’m swayed even by Su-jeong noona.’
The former was a problem, but the latter was an even bigger problem.
Not just one family member, but wavering between two. I could clearly see a future with scissors hovering between my legs.
‘I should just make an excuse that it’s the former… No, wait. I just need to not get excited, right? Why am I giving up before even starting… Ugh!’
I made up my mind, but that firm resolve crumbled in seconds.
Because the weapon in front of me was too powerful. If I could hold back after seeing this, that guy wouldn’t be a man.
“I came straight from work, so I’m properly wearing a bra… Hmm? Ji-gu, you prefer this better?”
“N-noona. You’re being very bold today… aren’t you pushing it too much?”
“Do I look like I wouldn’t do this? You and Geum-bi, if I take my eyes off you for a second, you do weird things.”
“I can’t argue with that, but, whoa?! Y-you’re going to take off your underwear right away?”
“Shut up, don’t make a fuss. …Even if I pretend I’m not, I’m so embarrassed I could die.”
I knew it.
Su-jeong noona was acting bold because of her younger siblings’ problems, but she couldn’t hide her true nature.
Her slightly turned head clearly showed her red ears and cheeks, and her lips, which had been talking tough, were now tightly bitten, controlling her nervousness.
And yet… noona’s hands steadily took off her bra, and.
Then her hands went down, even to her pants… Huh? Why there?
“Ugh?! Noona, wait a minute?”
“I don’t know how far you went with Geum-bi… but I need to do this much to properly check… Heut!”
“Ahh, woah, wooaah…”
Su-jeong noona’s pants slid down.
Her black suit pants didn’t reveal anything when she was wearing them, but the difference when she took them off was stark.
‘White panties… you were wearing them, noona.’
I was thinking that black would suit her better when she was being this bold, when.
Su-jeong noona’s hands slowly pulled down the last piece of underwear.
—–CROW—–