Chapter 219 (1/2)

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‘So far I know isn’t she Eun Jiho’s first love? I never saw Eun Jiho acting like that or talking about someone else in front of others,’ thinking further to that point, Kwon Hye Young gave a warm glance at Eun Jiho.

It will be great if we can choose a person we like, following our head. The moment we realize that we can’t is when our first love begins at last.

Those that Eun Jiho lost as he grew up or through the flow of time such as impulsiveness or emotions… Kwon Hye Young didn’t hate to see those things returning to Eun Jiho by the girl, Ham Donnie. Although those who admired his rational side would take it differently.

Kwon Hye Young then suddenly tilted her head sideways as there was something weighing on her mind.

What Eun Jiho said just now,

“We’ll never gonna be here together again.”

What would that mean too? Kwon Hye Young’s brows met in the middle, but when Ham Donnie turned her head to look at this side, she bent her steps quickly to usher the girl to the hairstyling booth.

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The moment Ham Donnie opened the thick pink curtain by pulling it to the side and stepped out of the fitting room with her dark brown eyes meeting his eyes, Eun Jiho wanted to say how beautiful she looked. He, however, barely added just a few words to Kwon Hye Young sitting next to him.

“Yeah, it sure is. Pretty, Ham Donnie.”

Eun Jiho continuously disheveled his hair. He later realized that his response to her, saying, ‘pretty’ and the random things he rambled after to hide his embarrassment were all from his true heart.

Perhaps, I’m not such a sophisticated person that I think.

Eun Jiho smiled bitterly. Well, he knew very well how reluctant he was when it came to giving up things. That was what he had been the most scolded for under his father’s strict discipline and education.

If asking him, didn’t he have any plot in mind at all when Ham Donnie volunteered to follow him, the answer would be, of course, yes. Eun Jiho, however, decided to give up his feelings toward her and just threw the suggestion like a joke, regarding it as the last. He never thought Ham Donnie would accept it right away.

‘Or else, did I look too desperate?’ having that thought, Eun Jiho touched his face, but he would hardly grasp what he had looked like to her at that time. Eun Jiho shook his head with a sigh.

Never mind since this will be the last anyway.

‘Once this is all over, I’ll treat Ham Donnie only as a friend. This will be my last time to reveal my true feelings.’ Before coming to this place, he already made his decision like that.

Despite Ham Donnie and Kwon Hye Young suggesting him to go wait somewhere else, Eun Jiho sat down on the sofa with his chin resting on his palm and watched the whole process. Ham Donnie was now near the end of getting dressed up; All that remained was wearing accessories.

When Ham Donnie, at last, turned around to look at him, Eun Jiho blurted out his response.

“It’s really pretty.”

He tried to put those words out as casually yet sincerely as possible, thinking himself having a talent of praising others. Ham Donnie’s reactions were, however, always the same.

“Liar.”

Replying to him curtly, Ham Donnie then suddenly closed her mouth into a tight line, which made Eun Jiho almost burst into laughter.

It looked as though Ham Donnie had reached a compromise on his proposal to pretend today as his birthday. Although she decided to accept his request, she responded bluntly like a habit then quickly put on a look of a mistake on her face.

‘Anyway, I’ve seen a new face like that after a long time.’

Since they got along with each other for over three years not only at the school but also in the house, it wasn’t easy to see each other making a new face. In this regard, it was quite an intangible benefit for Eun Jiho.

‘I’m glad that I suggested this,’ narrowing his eyes with a smile, Eun Jiho got up from the seat when Ham Donnie stood up.

Ham Donnie’s shoulders flinched once every step Eun Jiho took, walking toward her through the marble floor. Other female employees cast a blank stare at Ham Donnie and Eun Jiho, then when their eyes met, they blushed in silence.