Chapter 459 (2/2)

Aram made a rectangular frame with her fingers and placed it in front of her eyes. Jiyoon slapped Aram on the shoulder and told her to stop.

“Sorry about that, seonbae-nim,” Jiyoon apologized.

Yeondu immediately shook her head.

“Of course. Our cutie here is too courteous for her own good.”

Yeondu winked at Jiyoon. Jiyoon smiled back at her. She thought that having a little sister like her would be great. After all, there would be a lot of fun in teasing someone like that.

“Rather than that, Han Maru. You were pretty good back there, huh?” Yeondu said as slapped the back of Maru’s neck.

She found out just today, but an assertive boy didn’t seem too bad. If someone confessed to her the way Maru did, she might end up accepting on the spot.

“What do you mean?”

“Your acting was pretty good. I knew it was a lie, but even then I was nervous, you know? I was wondering what you were up to all of a sudden. Tell me honestly. You actually have feelings for me, don’t you?”

Yeondu didn’t hold back since everyone was throwing around jokes everywhere. The people from the acting club all burst out laughing. Yeondu also just shrugged and enjoyed the situation.

“Seonbae. Maru-seonbae has a girlfriend already.”

“Really? Then is he a two-timer?”

She grinned and had a look at the clock. It was about time they went back. It was fine for Yeondu to be late to 5th period since she had her work in the broadcasting club, but the rest of the people here would get an earful if they were late to the next class.

Just as she was about to tell them to go to their classrooms, Maru, who was cleaning up the papers on the ground, spoke,

“It was an act, but it wasn’t a lie.”

“Huh?”

Yeondu tilted her head in confusion. It was an act but not a lie? It took her three seconds to understand what he meant, and her head became complicated immediately. Even the others, who were listening from the side, stopped laughing and looked at Maru with surprise.

“An actor I respect once told me that I shouldn’t put on a lie when I act. Although it was an act, and it was just for a short time, I really tried to like you for real, seonbae. Grabbing your hand was just a byproduct of that,” said Maru as he placed the neatly piled script on the center of the table.

“So I felt really good when you admitted that you were nervous because of me. I thought my acting was praised.”

Only then could Yeondu smile back.

“Oh, and here I was thinking about something completely different.”

The others also chimed in.

“That startled me. Maru-seonbae, I almost swore at you because I thought you were two-timing.”

“I was also surprised as well.”

Maru pushed his chair in and said ‘I thought we were all joking here?’. The people from the acting club giggled as they cleaned up.

“Seonbae-nim. We’ll take our leave.”

“Alright, thanks for today. Also, there probably won’t be a drama tomorrow.”

“Then we don’t have to come?” Aram asked as she opened the door.

“You don’t have to, but you can if you want to. It’d be great if you can help me out.”

“Then I’m coming.”

“Instead, you’ll have to eat at the cafeteria. There won’t be any food here tomorrow.”

“Okay!”

Yeondu waved at the kids leaving the room before quietly closing the door. Then, she leaned on the door and spoke in a small voice,

“Maru, huh. He’s pretty decent. I might have confessed if he didn’t have a girlfriend already.”

So that was what it felt like for someone to like her seriously. Yeondu fantasized for a while before shaking her head. She had a mountain of work to do. She had to stop her delusions and take care of the problem in front of her.

“Ah, I think that song will be good tomorrow.”

She always had a problem picking the right song every day, but today, she thought of a suitable one to play tomorrow. It was a song about love that would perfectly portray what she was thinking right now. It was quite childish when she first listened to it, but right now, she thought it was pretty good. It was a pretty old song. Yeondu started humming that song as she cleaned up the cables. Just then, the bell for the next class started ringing. Since it would be okay for her to be ten minutes late to class, she thought that she should rest a little before going.

At that moment, the door to the broadcasting room suddenly opened before a junior came in. He was panting as though he came here in a hurry.

“What the, why are you here?”

“T-to help you out, seonbae.”

“Your homeroom teacher told you not to miss any classes though.”

“It’s fine. I came here after saying that I needed to go to the bathroom. Seonbae, what should I help you with?”

“Help, you say…”

At that moment, Yeondu caught sight of her junior’s eyes as he looked straight at her. Those eyes, they were the same eyes that Maru looked at her with just before. She felt her calm heart start racing again. She calmly stared at her junior who smiled brightly, telling her to give him work, before giggling and speaking,

“Hey.”

“Yes?”

“Do you like me?” Yeondu asked as she raised her glasses a little.

Her junior froze up on the spot. Yeondu sat on the table and waved her feet around like she was playing by the stream before laughing out loud. She could hear the sound of the wind, as well as the deep voice of a teacher from the corridor seeping through the door.

“What are you doing after school today?”

“E-eh? Ah! I go home. No, I actually don’t.”

Yeondu threw a pen from the desk at her junior and spoke,

“Then come watch a movie with me.”