MM Ch 2 part 2

PR by neji

In order to wash away the sleepiness, I took a slightly cold shower. When I walked out of the bathroom, I saw Lee Kyuwol walking towards me from across the corridor. He was wearing comfortable clothes and had his headphones hung around his neck. It looked like he was in the middle of playing video games and was just returning from the kitchen with his arms full of snacks.

I didn’t want to speak with him, and I didn’t even want our eyes to meet. I ignored him and was just about to enter my room when Lee Kyuwol spoke up.

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“You said you had an exam tomorrow.”

Although I didn’t want to interact with him, I didn’t want to make him think that I was avoiding him because I was scared. I deliberately wiped any expression from my face and stared back at him.

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“So?”

“You didn’t eat much of your dinner earlier.”

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“Mind your own business.”

Actually, the moment I saw him, I recalled the events from earlier that I had tried to forget, and any thoughts of hunger flew out the window.

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“Here.”

Lee Kyuwol chuckled and reached into his pocket before pulling out a yogurt drink and a granola bar made of nuts. Because he was an athlete, even his late-night snacks consisted of healthy, mineral-rich foods full of protein and vitamins. I couldn’t help but compare them to the chocolatey calorie bombs inside my desk drawer.

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I ignored him and stepped into my room.

“Dayoung.”

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If he hadn’t called out my name in such a familiar manner, I would have ignored him and just entered my room. I bit my lips and turned around.

“Then do you want to go out and grab something to eat instead?”

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When I checked the clock before leaving to take a shower, it had been one in the morning. Other than the fact that it was late, I did not want to go out and eat with him alone. If I had to look at his face, it didn’t matter what kind of food we ate. I’d get indigestion.

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“Why would I eat with you?”

“Do you need a particular reason?”

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Lee Kyuwol grinned, and I felt my insides boil. Just what was so funny? I didn’t know why he was messing with me like this, but I decided that I needed to draw the line.

I wasn’t a nice child with thick skin. However, one could say that I had lived my life obediently thus far. This was because until I gained my independence as an adult without any issues, I needed a home.

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Because of this, even though my environment continued to change, I remained like the air. Invisible. I did my best not to do anything to my mother or the family she created.

The dinner was an example of this. If only Lee Kyuwol and his twisted personality hadn’t provoked me, it would have been a bit uncomfortable and awkward, but nothing would have happened. Because the thing I did best was to keep my mouth shut and stay silent.

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That was why I didn’t like Lee Kyuwol even more. He kept bothering me and made me displeased. No, actually, I hated it. Even at this moment, he annoyed me, almost as if he had planned this all along. He made it impossible to hide the surging warmth bubbling up from the bottom of my heart.

I clenched my sweaty hands. I raised my stiff face and glared at him.

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“You. From now on, stop acting friendly with me. I don’t need any of it, so stop being so annoying.”

Lee Kyuwol watched as I huffed. Then he sighed and let out a satisfied laugh. He gave me a piercing stare and slowly lowered his head.

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Unable to avoid his gaze, I gulped. His smile seemed different from the one he wore like a mask.

Inside the dark corridor, Lee Kyuwol leaned down until his face was right in front of mine and whispered.

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“You’re the one who shouldn’t be acting so sensitive.”

Possibly due to the low volume, his sunken voice sounded very different from usual. His narrowed eyes and his low voice gave me a sense of danger. My heart thumped and continued to beat faster and faster.

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“…Stop tempting me.”

His low but clear voice put me at a loss for words. It felt like my heart was going to burst out of my throat. I smiled with difficulty and barely managed to spit out the following words.

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“…What are you saying?”

“Exactly what I said.”

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Lee Kyuwol pushed the granola bar towards me once again.

“Why can’t we be friendly? We’re family.”

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His face returned to the smiling mask he always wore.

I chewed on my lips and frowned. ‘Family’ my ass. I would bet my grades that Lee Kyuwol did not consider me nor my mother as his family. He said pleasant words at the dinner table and flashed his fake smile, but whenever I looked into his eyes, they were alarmingly cold.

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His polite words were merely fabricated. I knew from our very first meeting that there was no sincerity behind them at all. If I focused on his eyes just a little bit, it was all very clear to me. He was definitely different from the thoughtless boys our age.

Did he seem different because his eye color and body were different from the average Korean man?

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No. The answer was ‘no’. Lee Kyuwol’s unique shell merely served as a shield to hide his unique essence.

If he had looked normal, people would have realized his twisted personality a lot sooner. I now realized why Lee Kyuwol kept annoying me.

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I wanted to rip off the Joker mask. I wanted to erase the wide, red lips of a clown and see his unpainted face. The urge to do so overwhelmed me.

“Family?”

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“Yeah, family.”

Lee Kyuwol whispered as he nodded. Something hot surged from within me. I looked at him and flashed him a crooked smile.

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“Then you should respect me from now on. Then I’ll respond to you.”

Even I was surprised by my own piercing voice. I was just that riled up.

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“Why do I have to do that?”

Lee Kyuwol’s long brows furrowed as he laughed in disbelief. His face looked perfect at any angle. I gulped and replied in a clear voice.

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“If we were to go by our hierarchy in the family, wouldn’t I be your superior? Just like you said that very first day. You need to call me ‘Aunt’.”

His expression turned strange as he swept his lower lip with his tongue.

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“So?”

“I’m saying that we need to practice good manners as a family. Stop acting cocky.”

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My voice held strong and firm, but it slightly trembled at the end. My hands grew cold, and my heart raced. However, knowing that I finally managed to fire back at Lee Kyuwol gave me some sense of relief.

If he was going to fool around and talk about being a family, there was no reason why I couldn’t do the same. My mother always introduced me as her younger sister to all the men she dated, but if any of them actually believed it, I would question their intelligence.

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“Haha.”

Lee Kyuwol chuckled softly. His long lips parted and revealed his teeth as he grinned. His eyes, something that everyone claimed to be his most charming feature, narrowed before returning to their original state. He tilted his head, and his expression seemed to indicate that he was truly having fun as he looked at me.

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I felt that I saw an unfamiliar gleam flash in his gray eyes as he furrowed his brow. He held his gaze as he slowly walked towards me. I took a step back. When he took another step forward, I tried to retreat, but my back hit the wall. There was nowhere I could run.

“…What are you doing?”

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Although there wasn’t any reason to feel scared, I grew tense. My heart was beating like crazy. Lee Kyuwol’s gray eyes did not move away from mine. His elbow leaned on the wall next to my head. My mouth went dry, and I had to wet my lips with my tongue. Lee Kyuwol stared at me, and his eyes flashed.

“It would have been better if you came at me from the beginning like you did just now.”

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“What?”

As if an electric shock went through my chest, my heart twinged. As if he were telling me a secret, Lee Kyuwol brought his hand to his lips and whispered.

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“I always wondered if it was frustrating for you to live like a doll that couldn’t speak.”

My lips trembled on their own, so I had to bite down on them. I looked up at him and drew in a ragged breath. I could feel that my breaths had grown hot. I felt my forehead grow feverish.

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I had reached my limit. I looked directly at Lee Kyuwol and glared at him. He flashed me a crooked smile.

“…I don’t think that’s something you can say when you hang your medals around that stiff neck of yours twenty-four hours a day.”

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“Haha.”

Lee Kyuwol looked at me and chucked softly once again. I tried to push him away and walk off, but his other elbow leaned on the wall, and I was trapped between his arms.

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Inside this dark corridor, I could clearly see the shadows on his face. When he slightly tilted his head and stared at me, I almost lost my breath.

His eyes slowly grazed over my face.

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He continued. His eyes lingered on my eyes, nose, lips, and my cheek. I felt like he was peeling away my layers. I felt like I was in an alien horror movie, trembling like the astronaut Ripley. I felt suffocating fear mixed with a strange sense of excitement.

The smell of the same shampoo I had just used wafted into my nose. I clenched my teeth and slightly opened my mouth.

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“Hey.”

“Hm?”

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Lee Kyuwol hummed softly. He sounded very relaxed.

“You… You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?”

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“Doing what?”

“…Why are you doing this to me?”

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“Because you make me want to.”

When I heard his humorless answer, I replied in a low voice.

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“Get lost before I scream.”

“I’m not sure… I don’t think I’ve done anything to warrant your screaming.”

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He smiled languidly and looked directly into my eyes. His long lips parted as he whispered.

“At least, not yet.”

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His sculpted face slowly lowered closer to mine. I felt the blood rush to my face and my heart racing inside my chest, but I did my best not to avoid him. I wasn’t stupid. I knew that Lee Kyuwol was provoking me right now. I knew that he was waiting for me to run away with my tail between my legs.

Boom, boom.

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My heartbeats seemed to roar in my ears.

Lee Kyuwol’s shadow covered my body, and I felt like I was plunged into complete darkness. He was so close that I didn’t have the room to breathe. This was a power game between me and him, and I didn’t plan on backing away first. His sharp nose almost brushed against my cheek.

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“Aah. I can’t do this anymore.”

His narrow, gray eyes grazed past my eyes and moved to the side. His low, soft murmur sounded warm as it flowed into my ears.

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“You’ll catch a cold… so make sure to dry your hair.”

Whenever he spoke, his breaths tickled my cheek. The sensation felt so vivid that my body trembled. I could feel how close he was to me. If I moved my face in the slightest, I knew that our lips would touch.

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“It’s dangerous, so make sure to close your door. Good night, Dayoung.”

His laughing whisper. Suddenly, my entire body flushed with a fever. I finally let out the breath I had been holding and pushed him away with my hand.

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“Move.”

I frantically opened my door and slammed it shut so quickly that the wind blew on his face. It felt like my racing heart was going to burst out of my throat. The moment I entered my room, the tension went away all at once. My knees buckled.

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Whoosh!

Something shot through the opening between the door and the floor and slid all the way across the room before hitting my desk. It was the granola bar that Lee Kyuwol had been holding in his hand. It spun for a moment before coming to a halt.

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I drew in a deep breath and glared at the granola bar. Then I bent down and picked it up. I glared at the closed door. I didn’t hear a voice coming from outside. According to my gut feeling, I knew that Lee Kyuwol was still standing outside my door in the corridor.

My heart was still beating quickly, and my entire body felt feverish. If I slid this back out through the crack in the door, what would happen?

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I felt that the crazy bastard Lee Kyuwol would do something completely outside of my expectations, so a curt sigh burst out from my lips.

“…Ha, seriously.”

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This was the first time I’d ever bared my claws at anyone inside the house. I usually tried not to catch my mother’s attention in any way.

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“It would have been better if you came at me from the beginning like you did just now.”

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Lee Kyuwol had been smiling when he said this, but he hadn’t been mocking or sneering at me.

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“I always wondered if it was frustrating for you to live like a doll that couldn’t speak.”

His eyes looked satisfied as if I’d fulfilled his expectations. I threw the energy bar towards the pink wastebasket next to my desk. It went in.

That crazy bastard.

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It really wasn’t funny at all. Whether it was because of all that pressure of being an Olympic gold medalist or not, something was definitely wrong with him. I made my animosity very clear, but instead of being offended, he seemed to delight in it. I was even more sure now that Lee Kyuwol was not normal.

“……”

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However, because of what had just transpired, I felt that I would feel a bit more comfortable when it came to interacting with him from now on. I had already revealed my prickly nature to him, so there was no need to make any efforts to hide it anymore. The next time Lee Kyuwol decided to mess with me, I might even bite down on those wide shoulders of his.

No. Should I just scream at the top of my lungs instead?

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I shook my head to clear it of these foolish thoughts. I saw the reflection of my smiling face in the window. I had a feeling that Lee Kyuwol was wearing the same expression I was in this moment.

“You’ll catch a cold… so make sure to dry your hair.”

They say that even dogs don’t catch a summer cold. What was he talking about, seriously?

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“It’s dangerous, so make sure to close your door. Good night, Dayoung.”

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If he thought that I would be scared by his ridiculous threat, it was a misjudgement on his part.

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I brushed my hands across my flushed cheeks and pulled out my reference book. Then, as a last stand, I opened my window. The cool night wind felt warm against my red cheeks.

I didn’t sleep a wink that night and stayed up studying for my exam. After I took my final exam, I caught a cold and sneezed and sniffled all summer long.

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Then on August 18th, Lee Kyuwol turned nineteen, and he picked out a foreign car that suited him disgustingly well. After that, he often went back and forth between our home and the athletes’ village. And the one who bought him the car was the ever-considerate actress who was immersed in playing the role of his stepmother.

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