Yes, It’s Me. The Obsessive Side Top

#058

‘What does he mean by saying my smile is pretty too? Sin Yeo-un wouldn’t have even seen me smiling.’

Flustered, I pulled my upper body back. Then Sin Yeo-un withdrew his touch and stood up as if regretful. Sin Yeo-un, whom I had to look up at for a while from my sitting position, was quite taller than I had imagined. He, wearing a school uniform, went well with his upright image. The unique fresh smile that appeared in the webtoon was still hanging on the corners of his mouth.

“Why were you crying?”

Sin Yeo-un took a step closer, cupped my face with both hands, and slightly lifted it up. Sin Yeo-un’s touch gently wiping away my tears with his thumbs was very careful. The tears didn’t flow anymore, but the tear stains that had already flowed down disappeared with Sin Yeo-un’s hands. Sin Yeo-un caressed various parts of my face as if washing a child’s face. He even pushed my hanging bangs to the side, looked at my revealed forehead, and smiled slightly.

The kind and considerate Sin Yeo-un was a man close to perfection.

While admiring the real-life protagonist, I belatedly felt strange about his actions. The skinship of him putting his hands on me was as natural as flowing water. Only then did I realize that his actions were inappropriate to do to someone he was seeing for the first time. I detached his hands from me.

“What are you?”

Sin Yeo-un was acting as if he knew me. Did he meet me when I was young, like how his father the hospital director knew me? As I was thinking, I suddenly remembered what the hospital director had said.

‘You haven’t seen Yeo-un, right? He’s my son.’

It was certain that Sin Yeo-un didn’t know me.

“I’m Sin Yeo-un, 3rd year class 2 at B High School.”

He suddenly took out something like a card from his pocket and held it out to me. When I received it in a daze, it was his student ID with his photo.

I carefully examined the student ID as if doing an identity check.

‘He’s really Sin Yeo-un?’

“Sin Yeo-un. That’s my name.”

I know. That you’re the protagonist and an incomparably better guy than Ha Jin. This young guy already has an incredible aura. While Sun Woo had an aura that draws people’s attention, Sin Yeo-un possessed a heavy charisma.

‘Ha Jin. This isn’t a game. You have to admit what you have to admit.’

“Do you know me?”

“Are you curious?”

I was curious. How he knew me. But I didn’t particularly answer yes. In the webtoon, they were two people with Sun Woo between them, but they had no significant points of contact. So I thought this scene would just pass by as a flowing story.

I frowned and was leaving the spot when Sin Yeo-un suddenly called me.

“Ha Jin hyung.”

“?”

What, you know my name too? Does Sin Yeo-un really know me?

“Can I borrow your phone for just one call?”

“Huh?”

“It’s really urgent. Please.”

He even politely bowed his head, so I was too kind to refuse him. When I handed him my cell phone, he pressed the numbers firmly and called somewhere. It seemed like a ringtone was heard from somewhere, then Sin Yeo-un took out his cell phone from his pants pocket.

After checking the screen, he returned the phone to me.

“Thank you.”

Wait a minute. This is too old-fashioned that I’m dumbfounded?

“This.”

I was about to hold up the phone, laugh hollowly, and retort to him, but he cut me off with a smile.

“That’s my number. I’ll contact you often.”

Sin Yeo-un, with his brightly smiling face, passed by me and went down from the rooftop first. Everything was so natural that only after some time did I realize the strange points.

“Why do both Sun Woo and Sin Yeo-un make me into a soft rice cake?”

Does my iron wall not work on the protagonists?

* * *

I also came down from the rooftop and returned to the hospital room. After confirming that no one was there, I immediately headed to the bathroom and washed my face with cold water.

“Sin Yeo-un.”

The young guy already had an excellent appearance. Poor Ha Jin. If the opponent he had to fight over Sun Woo was like that, there was no way he could win. Well, Ha Jin didn’t intend to win from the beginning anyway. He just thought forcefully taking would be enough.

While I was in the bathroom, I heard Grandmother’s laughter, so I hurriedly went out without even wiping the moisture from my face. Grandmother saw me suddenly popping out of the bathroom and raised her small fist to pound on me.

“Oh my! You startled me, Jin-i. Do you want me to die of shock after barely staying alive?”

Even while being hit by Grandmother, I tightly hugged her, saying it was good. I don’t have to send Grandmother away. Now it’s really certain.

“Oh, Grandma can’t breathe. Jin-i.”

At Grandmother’s words, I gently detached from her embrace. Grandmother was smiling so brightly that her eyes couldn’t be seen, and she took my hand, put it between her two hands, and patted it.

“Jin-i is my savior.”

“Ok-bun. We don’t have to prepare to part ways now, right?”

“Yes, yes. Grandma won’t go, so don’t worry.”

“Ok-bun.”

I slightly hugged Grandmother again. They say Grandmother’s illness is treatable. Sun Woo doesn’t have to get hurt, and I also don’t have to worry about the shade prepared for me disappearing.

‘To think I gained someone to rely on only after coming to the webtoon.’

I was constantly trying not to cry in front of Grandmother, but someone hugged my shoulders from behind. Sun Woo, who had his arms around me, lightly kissed my cheek and rested his head on my shoulder. Fuck, my tears are disappearing.

“Thank you, Ha Jin.”

“…”

“Well, I don’t have anything to give… Do you want to have me?”

“Yes Jin-i. Take our boy. Grandma will give him to you.”

At Grandmother’s playful words full of laughter, I swallowed the rough words right away. I spoke very mildly, looking at Sun Woo leaning on my shoulder.

“You’re too big so I’ll decline.”

“I’ll lose weight.”

“Does losing weight reduce your huge build?”

“Oh, he may be big in size but he’s still a baby.”

Surprisingly, Grandmother got along very well with Sun Woo. Even though their personalities seem completely different, when they say things like this, they are inseparable friends. Still, thinking that I can continue to see Sun Woo saying such strange nonsense, a smile slowly spreads across my lips. Sun Woo, who was watching me like that, lightly pulled my cheek with his hand.

“While you’re happy inside.”

“Jin-i, take good care of our boy. Grandma has to take care of her health now so I can’t pay attention to our boy.”

Grandmother got out of my arms and stepped back, waving her hand as if really entrusting Sun Woo to me. As if telling me to take him quickly. I was just laughing at Grandmother’s joke, feeling good, when I felt Sun Woo’s breath still hanging on my neck. He kissed my cheek again. And he still doesn’t let go.

“Oh my. Baby, do you like it that much? Hm? Grandma is so happy that you two get along well. Right, Jin-i?”

Well, if Grandmother is happy. I smiled back, with a big baby nearly 190cm tall hanging around my neck.

* * *

“As expected. It’s not a typical birthday celebration.”

I let out a small sigh. I was stupid to think it would be a small birthday party.

I-na sent a message saying she wanted me to come because it was her birthday. When I tried not to go, somehow she found out right away and the following messages included words that if I felt sorry to her, I must come. I had no choice but to swallow the words I was going to say to decline and replied that I understood.

There was no way she, who was using her top popularity, would have a quiet birthday party. I still hadn’t escaped much from the thoughts of a commoner. Still, fortunately, since it was I-na’s birthday party, I came dressed in a suit.

I-na, being the protagonist, wasn’t here yet as if she would appear last, and for some reason, Kim Shin, who always came first to greet me, was also absent.

Excluding those two, I didn’t know anyone, so I was just standing there when someone approached me, pretending to know me.

“It’s really Ha Jin, huh?”

I thought it was another trashy group, but it was someone I recognized. Where have I seen him before? I was racking my brain trying to remember, but I couldn’t recall at all. What was certain was that he wasn’t a member of the private gathering.

“You still came to your ex-girlfriend’s birthday? This beats Hollywood. Being friends with your ex-girlfriend too. Someone like you, Ha Jin, would understand that much. It’s not easy to cut ties with you, Ha Jin.”

“…”

“Your face got a lot better since I last saw you? It’s been about half a year since we last met, right?”

When I saw his brightly smiling face, I remembered who he was. It was Lee Ji-hoo, who debuted as an idol and just started acting. He was a person mentioned a few times in the stories I-na told me while having dinner together after filming a movie with her this time. Despite being a rookie as an actor, the reason he was able to snatch the lead role was thanks to his kind image and handsome face.

His acting was still lacking, so I-na had to carry hard in this movie. Even though he was the lead, his role was quite small.

“Ji-hoo hyung?”

“Why are you calling me hyung? Call me Ji-hoo like before. It gives me goosebumps when you call me hyung. I heard you came to your senses, but this is disappointing, Ha Jin. We still have a bond of doing bad things together. You completely ignored my contact and it even said the number doesn’t exist?”

Ah, this person was also a trashy group. Well, that’s how the people around Ha Jin are. What does he mean by bad things? And that we did them together? He looks like he has a righteous image…  I shouldn’t easily judge by outward appearance after all.

“I’m in the process of settling the past.”

“Ah. Am I included in that past?”

I glanced at him once and turned my head. It was a sign that I didn’t want to get involved anymore, but he didn’t care.

“Your personality is still prickly even though you’ve come to your senses. This is why many kids are hung up on you. Anyway, you’re charming. It was fun when anything beyond imagination was possible with you around. I miss not seeing you these days?”

Is this guy completely crazy? Anyway, Ha Jin, really. There’s so much shit he left around everywhere that it’s not easy to avoid it. Wherever I step, it’s shit.

“Keep missing me like that. There’s no reason to hang out with you anymore.”

Even when I spoke roughly, he just laughed as if he was in a good mood.

“Ha Jin. You’re not cursing? Your cursing sounds like dirty talk and it’s fun to hear. You know it’s fucking exciting whenever vulgar words come out of that noble mouth of yours?”

“Crazy…”

“Wow. I just flinched a little.”

You avoid shit because it’s scary, not because it’s dirty. I tried to move to another spot, but he put his arm around my shoulder. Before I could escape, he whispered softly in my ear.

“We met after a long time, but you’re being so cold? Ha Jin, hm? We have so many memories of playing dirty together.”