DWWWB Special Extra 1

My body felt heavy as if someone had tied it onto the bed. The sunlight seeped out in between the closed curtains of the window.

What time was it?

I stretched my hand next to my head and felt around. I felt like I had placed my cell phone somewhere around here before falling asleep, but it wasn’t there.

“Ah, damn it.”

I swallowed back another curse and sat up halfway. Because it was final exam week, I was quite sleep-deprived.

I’m dying here.

Who says that university students of Korea don’t study?

People often said that kids studied up until they graduated high school and only played around once they hit college, but I felt that this observation was unfair. Even if it wasn’t as bad as senior year of high school, if we wanted to keep up our grades in college, we still needed to study until our veins burst.

Got it!

I felt around the floor and finally found my phone. It felt like a dumbbell that weighed 20 kg, and I used all my strength to pick it up. My phone was vibrating.

The caller was none other than my only non-blood-related oppa, Gong Mujin.

“Hello?”

— Haa…

I heard his sigh coming from the other end. Gong Mujin’s presence was seriously so crazy. Even the sound of his sigh sounded handsome. His mere presence sent a shiver down my body.

— You asked me to call you and wake you up, remember…?

And so I did. Before I fell asleep, I was studying my textbook late into the night and sent him a text asking him to call me early in the morning to wake me up.

After I had been rejected by him, I had skipped classes for two weeks. In order to make up for all that, I needed to do well on my exams.

“What time is it right now?”

A dazed voice flowed out of my mouth. My eyes were already moving towards the clock on the wall of my bedroom.

— 10:30.

I had begged him to wake me up at 8 o’clock. That meant two and a half hours had passed since the time I had asked him to wake me up.

“I must not have heard your call because I was so tired.”

I felt that he had called me numerous times before this one. I had asked him to call me and wake me up, but I had kept my phone on vibrate mode.

“I’m sorry.”

My voice crept out as if I had committed a terrible crime. I couldn’t admit to him that I had accidentally put my phone on vibrate mode. I was worried he’d sigh in disappointment.

“I haven’t been feeling very well lately. It must have been because I wasn’t getting enough sleep… My head feels a bit heavy.”

– You’re sick? Will you be able to come to school?

His soulful voice went up an octave. It was true that my immune system had taken a hit due to the lack of sleep. I merely added the bit about feeling a little unwell.

“It just feels like a small cold. It’s not so bad that I can’t go to school.”

— Then just rest at home and come in the afternoon.

“I study better at school.”

Actually, more than anything, I wanted to go when he was done with his classes so that I could see his face.

— Alright. Call me when you get to school.

After a few more words, he ended the call with a disappointed voice. After the call ended, I checked my phone.

[103 missed calls]

For a moment, I thought my eyes had misread the number. I closed my eyes before opening them again. No matter how many times I looked, the number remained ‘103’. It seemed that he had kept calling since 8 o’clock.

This kind of tenacity only seemed possible for someone like Gong Mujin.

Once I drowsily got to school, I called him.

— Ah, you’re at school?

He answered the call before it even had time to ring twice. But his voice was a lot quieter than usual. It sounded different from when he called in the sweaty gym auditorium.

“Yes. I just got off the bus now. What about you, Oppa?”

When he heard ‘Oppa’, he began to chuckle. He liked hearing that term so much.

— I’m at the main library. Call me when you’re there.

This was the time he should have been in the gym. So I found it a bit surprising that he was in the library instead.

I quickly walked across the summery landscape of the campus. Walking quickly would get my blood pumping, which was good for studying, and… More than anything, I really, really missed Gong Mujin.

I panted as I arrived in front of the main library and called him. He said, ‘I’ll be out now!’ and ended the call.

He quickly appeared in the library lobby. He was so handsome. Whose boyfriend was he? He was wearing a black tracksuit today as well, and he looked quite sleek.

He walked over with his long legs and covered my forehead with his large hand.

“Do you have a slight fever? Did you take any medicine?”

“No, I didn’t take any medicine.”

He frowned and observed my face. My skin began to grow feverish under his gaze. I felt a bit embarrassed at being stared at so openly like this.

“Your face is a bit flushed… And it feels a bit warm. Don’t you think you should take some medicine? Did you eat?”

I liked that he was worrying about me, but it also felt strange because it felt like he was treating me like a child.

“It’s not like that. It’s because you keep staring at me like that…”

I squirmed and almost bashfully shook my shoulders from side to side. I even lowered my eyes. His gaze made me feel like melting, but it was also unbearably awkward because it was my first time dating someone.

“Did you eat?”

He asked in a laughing voice.

“I did…”

“Then let’s head to the convenience store and buy some fever reducing medicine.”

“I said it’s not a fever.”

I angrily looked up at him. For a moment, all I could see was his red, attractive lips.

“I think I need to eat something other than medicine.”

What was I saying right now?

After saying such lewd words, I quickly looked away.

“What do you want to eat?”

Sunbae’s lips.

I wasn’t able to say it outright, so my lips merely pursed. Every moment of the day, I wanted to hold his hand, hug him, and kiss him so much that it was driving me insane. But on the other hand, he seemed like a wise sage who dwelled in an ivory tower, looking down on me with cold eyes.

Yeah. I’m the only one who’s getting worked up. Again.

I felt disappointed and ended up avoiding his cool gaze.

“Let’s go. I need to eat something too.”

His large, hot hand grabbed mine. Even though summer was approaching, my hand was a bit cold. His hot palms seemed to suck out all the cold from my fingertips.

Starting from my fingertips, to my wrists, arm, shoulder, and to my heart, everything felt like it was melting. The heat that he was giving me reached my lower belly, and it felt like I was holding the hot summer sun between my legs.

Has my body always been this lustful?

Even though I didn’t completely know what went on between a man and a woman, I was always on edge. And while I was thinking all of this, I hadn’t realized that he had dragged me to a dark area underneath the staircase.

I was slow and naive when it came to these feelings.

“Oh Milhee?”

He called my name in a dark voice. I finally realized we were beneath a remote staircase.

“Why are we here? What’s there to eat here?”

I suddenly felt so stupid for looking for something to eat around here. I gulped.

His large hands wrapped around my cheek and my waist. His face suddenly approached mine. Even though I should have closed my eyes at this moment, they were wide open.

His humid breaths brushed against my skin as he asked.

“Can I eat it?”

I never expected him to ask such a lewd question with an indifferent look on his face. Even though he was the one who had asked the question, it seemed that he was also feeling a bit embarrassed because the tips of his ears turned red.

With his hand still on my cheek, I nodded.

His dry lips immediately swallowed mine.

“Mmm!”

A hoarse moan flowed out of my throat. It was because I was surprised. His sudden kiss surprised me, and its lasciviousness also surprised me.

His thick, hot tongue slid into my mouth. The bumpy surface of his tongue rubbed against mine. Because he was pushing against me with such force, I had to take a few steps back. And then my back hit the cold wall.

My shoulders flinched and trembled at the cold, hard wall. Then his hands that were around my head traveled down my neck and wrapped around my waist. They naturally wrapped around my hips and pulled me closer.

The coldness spread through my back, but my front was plunged in his firm heat as he pushed up against me, leaving no gap between us.

Then he strangely pulled his body away. I tried to stick closer, but he even took a half-step back.

He pulled his lips away and whispered.

“Stay still.”

He drew in a deep breath as if he were in pain.

Doing the opposite of his own curt whisper, he tilted his head and plunged into my mouth once again. He wrapped one arm around my waist, and his other arm held onto the wall as if he were suppressing something.

I could instinctively understand what it was that he was trying to suppress. I was still inexperienced, but my body stiffened.

The sound of our breaths as we continued to kiss each other’s lips sounded extremely lewd. The inside of my mouth was covered in his taste, and the tip of his tongue seemed to lick all the way up to the back of mine. I had a difficult time inhaling and exhaling.

I wanted to stick closer to him and rub my body against his, but I wasn’t able to move an inch. His tongue filled my mouth as he sucked, and all I could do was receive his overwhelming kiss.

“Hnng.”

I let out a groan when his lips slightly pulled away from mine. As if he wanted that breath as well, he swallowed my lips once again. It felt as if a fever was rising inside my mouth. The breaths he exhaled flowed down my throat and seemed to burn my internal organs.

I clumsily caressed the nape of his neck. I wasn’t able to control the feverish heat at my fingertips, and my entire body trembled. I could feel something trickling out from between my legs as it drenched my panties.

The depth at which his tongue thrust inside my mouth lessened. The kiss was ending. I tightened my grasp around his neck in disappointment. He tilted his head and pulled his lips away.

He placed a few more light kisses against my wet lips and murmured.

“I saved you a seat in the library.”

His voice was incredibly warm after we had finished sharing a lewd kiss.

“What?”

I couldn’t understand what he meant by this.

“The window seat in the library where you always sit. I was sitting there all this time. Now go and sit over there.”

Finding a seat in the library during exam season was like waging a war. But he had remembered where I liked to sit and had saved it for me. My heart felt full for another reason this time.

The man who had given me such a lewd kiss had saved me a seat in the library during exam season. If you merely left your book with a pen on top and left your seat unoccupied, the worker in the library would clear the seat up for someone else to use. Therefore, you would have to sit there the whole time in order to keep that seat.

How could I study knowing that?

“I kept the seat since dawn. Do your best with your studies. Don’t get distracted.”

He spoke as if he had read my mind.

“I won’t get distracted.”

I replied in a coy voice as I shook my head.

“Good girl. I kept getting distracted while I sat there.”

I was gazing at his wet lips as if I were bewitched when I looked up at his words. His eyes were also drenched with emotion. Everything about him was so bewitching.

“What… kinds of distractions?”

If he said something even more lewd now, I felt like I was going to faint. My head was already at its limit with lewd thoughts, and it felt like all the things I’d studied last night were now covered in red ink.

“I’m sitting in the seat that Oh Milhee sits in every day, things like that… I’d really hate it if some other guy sits here… I’m getting jealous of the chair that you sit on… Perverted thoughts like that.”

I bit my lips and smiled, so happy I didn’t know what to do with myself. He must have felt a bit embarrassed by his honesty because he playfully added.

“And seeing as how you sit in the same spot as you study so desperately… I think you’re also a pervert for obsessing over one thing so much?”

“Am not!”

He looked down at my sneakers. I couldn’t refute that one. I really liked black canvas sneakers, and I’d been wearing them for several years now.

But it wasn’t something a man who only wore black tracksuits could say. But then he pulled away and took a step back. Rather than wanting to refute his words, I felt even more disappointed.

“Are you heading to the gym now?”

“Yeah.”

I nodded my head. Now that we had to separate, I was starting to feel upset. The thought of separating from him made me want to die. I wanted to stick to him like gum. No, I wanted to become his black tracksuit and wrap myself around him.

Then his firm body and muscles…

“Are you thinking about something?”

“No!”

Even though I knew he couldn’t read my mind, I quickly shook the thought out of my mind. I felt like I had been caught thinking of something obscene.

His large hand rustled my bangs.

“Good luck with your exam.”

I laughed awkwardly and nodded my head. His smile deepened as he grabbed my hand.

Holding hands, we walked up the stairs and into the reading room.

Just like he said, his bag, notebook, and pen were on the seat where I usually sat. But there was also a chocolate milk carton with a heart-shaped post-it on it.

He silently packed his bag and sat me down in the seat as if he hadn’t noticed the milk carton or was ignoring it altogether.

I stared up at him. He looked back at me, his eyes filled with meaning. I angrily gestured to the chocolate milk with my chin. Then he looked at the carton as if it were something incredibly strange.

He frowned and picked up the 200 mL carton of milk. His hand was so large that it looked incredibly small in his grasp.

It seemed that the heart-shaped note had a phone number written on it. He quietly peeled off the note from the milk carton. Then he placed the chocolate milk down next to me.

What’s he doing? Does he plan on taking the note with him?

He held out the memo for me to read.

<There is a girl who sits here every day. Please move to another seat.>

My eyes widened as I looked up at him. He brought his lips to my ear and whispered in a scary voice.

“If I ever see this son of a bitch, I’m going to kill him.”

Then he said, ‘Drink the milk,’ and left. I thought he’d snatch the milk away too, but it seemed that he still wanted me to drink it.

Then he turned around and crumpled the note. I pursed my lips and suppressed the laugh that almost escaped.

How was I supposed to study like this?

It felt as if Gong Mujin had shaken my entire world.

Summer was coming.

But like a snowball inside his hand, my mind felt numb.

Because of the adrenaline rush brought by his kiss, I was able to focus on my studies to an alarming degree. I easily memorized all of the terms in my textbook.

Thanks to that, I was able to easily answer all the questions on the exam and exit the classroom. But it still wouldn’t guarantee a good grade because I had missed two weeks of class…

After I finished taking my exam, I unexpectedly found Gong Mujin standing outside the classroom.

“Huh? What about your training?”

He grinned at my question.

“It ends early during exam season.”

“I feel like I’m getting a reward.”

The inappropriate remark burst out of my mouth. I wasn’t able to hide my inner thoughts and grinned up at him. Even though I still had other final exams to take, the fact that I’d be able to see him more often like this made me feel happy.

He walked over to me and smiled at me. Because the days were longer now, the sun was not setting just yet.

“Shall we go to the library?”

He must have known that I planned on studying for my exams a little more.

“Did you save me a seat again?”

“Yeah. And this time, I saved the seat next to you too.”

It looked like he was also going to study for his exams.

“But isn’t it prohibited to save seats for so long during exam season?”

“There’s always a way. Do you want to eat something before we go? You’re hungry, right?”

Because I had used a lot of my energy to take my exam, I did feel a bit hungry. We sat down at the student cafeteria and ate a meal. He liked to sit next to me instead of sitting across from me. As we ate, his arm would occasionally brush against mine, and it caused my heart to race like crazy. But I still liked the fact that he was sitting so close to me.

“You know…”

“Yeah?”

We were about to stand up after having finished eating. He picked up my tray as well as his and began to walk away.

“Why do you always sit next to me instead of sitting across from me?”

“Because I don’t want anyone to sit next to you.”

He answered without turning around as he walked away. I wanted to see what kind of expression he was making as he said something like this.

“And not because you want to kill the guy who gave me the chocolate milk?”

He suddenly froze. I was walking behind him and almost ran my face into his back.

“If need be, I can also run my bicycle wheels over his spine.”

This man often claimed he would run his bike over a person’s neck whenever he was angry. Someone might really die from that, but it made my heart flutter.

We headed for the library reading room. Two bulky men were sitting at our seats. They were quite large, and it seemed that they were his hoobaes.

As soon as we arrived, they gave up their seats. He hid me behind his back and made an effort not to show me to them.

Perhaps due to his fierce gaze, the two guys also did not make a move to check out my face. What a heartfelt sunbae-hoobae relationship.

The sunset was quite beautiful outside the window. With the sunset at our backs, we sat next to each other and opened our textbooks. The sound of scribbling pencils and rustling pages sounded more romantic than usual.

I turned my eyes and glanced at his profile as he read his textbook. His focused expression made him look so intelligent. His clenched jaw and his calm eyes were so beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes away from him.

He must have felt my gaze because he turned his head to me. It was too late for me to pretend I wasn’t staring at him.

<What is it?>

He quickly scribbled on his notebook. Gong Mujin’s handwriting was so handsome.

<Just looking.>

<Are you hungry?>

This man always asked if I was hungry.

<Of course not.>

<Your eyes look hungry.>

<Where in the world can you find eyes that look hungry?>

<The ones right here, Oh Milhee’s eyes. They look like they can devour something. Do you want me to buy you something to drink?>

What I wanted to devour wasn’t a canned drink. It was probably this man right in front of my eyes. I shook my head and quickly turned my eyes back to my textbook.

Then he wrote something in his notebook and pushed it towards me.

<I’ll do it for you later.>

What? I wasn’t able to ask back and grew stiff.

A deep smile stretched across his lips. Struggling to hold back his laughter, his face turned red. But seeing him like this also made me laugh, so my face turned red as well.

Back then, we were redder and more beautiful than the sunset.