Oppa, That Must Be A Mistake - Chapter 2

Hye-Joo tightened her grip, not daring to look down.

‘What should I do?’

She probably picked up his panties while picking up a gift that had fallen on the floor. And that’s the panties Kang Joo-won took off!

‘No, I mean, I took his underwear so defenselessly!’

Seung-won’s home was far from organized. Being a laid-back person by nature, it was always a pigsty, except when the housekeeper came over once a week. You’d have to jump up and down to avoid stepping on the clutter.

How am I supposed to know if there’s a pair of panties or a pig’s trotters lying around?

‘Why are Kang Joo-won’s panties… … ..’

Even if she pretended to be calm, her eyes trembled.

“Hey, there…….”

“Besides, if that’s Oh Hye-ji, won’t the story be different if it were you?”

It’s Oh Hye Joo, not Oh Hye-Ji.

He didn’t even dare to point out such a thing in his shrill voice. Joo Won looked down at Hye Joo with her arms crossed.

“You knew I was coming to Korea, right?”

Hye-joo had nowhere to look, so she only stared at his toes.

“Answer.”

“… … yes.”

“Did you know that this house is mine?”

“… … yes.”

“Have you gotten your act together yet?”

Holy shit!

She could put up with everything else, but not that kind of misunderstanding. Hye-Joo lifted her head, which had been curled up like a docile lamb.

“Why are you talking like that?”

“You know best where this story is going.”

“You’ve had a crush on me for, for like, 10 years, maybe?”

His confidence is really commendable, but it’s also kind of ridiculous for this guy. I’m talking about a guy who can’t even remember my name, and I’m talking about something that happened more than a decade ago. My fists are crying.

‘Oh, really.’

My mind flashes back.

It was the day of my high school exams. The day I went to confess to Seung-won, but accidentally gave Joo-won my number.

I remember climbing the hill with my heart-shaped peperoes stack as tall as I was, and the times I stayed up late at night waiting for Seung-won, who never came until late at night, and the times he finally showed up the moon was full, with our school’s best floozy by his side…….

It was Kang Joo-won’s embrace that I would just throw it away out of anxiety that my unrequited love might spread throughout the school. At that time, Hye-joo was young and it was more urgent to put out the fire on her feet than to do her after-care.

There were things have happened since then, but we haven’t spoken since Joo-won left to study in the United States.

Isn’t it weird that he still believes I like him?

“I haven’t seen you in 10 years, you’re full of shit, I don’t like you.”

“There’s too much evidence to call it a misunderstanding.”

“What evidence?”

“The thing in your hand.”

“This is important to me, so I came to get it…… Oh, so it’s not the panties, it’s the stuff in the pants!”

Something in my pants……?

Kang Joo-won’s eyes narrowed.

Hye-Joo hurriedly waved her hand at the sight of him descending down her wide open breastbone.

“It’s not that kind of stuff!”

“Who are you fooling?”

“I didn’t say anything about that thing, so this is a very frustrating situation for me as well. As for what happened…….”

I was desperately racking my brain.

Tick. Tick-tick-tick-tick. Tick-tick-tick. Ding-dong-dong.

I heard the sound of the door lock password opening.

“Oh Hye-joo, I’ve been looking for it for a long time. I wondered why she disappeared without a word, and she wasn’t at home… … Huh, brother?”

Seung-won opened the office door and walked in, with Da-hee beside him.

‘Oh, my God, why do you have to come in now?’

Hye-Joo hastily shoved the item in her hand into her pocket.

Seung-won, who alternately looked at the naked Joo-won and the flushed Hye-joo, was dazed for a moment. He seemed to be struggling to make sense of the situation.

“Uh…… Well, I didn’t realize you two were together. Why didn’t you tell me? You know Hye-joo, we’ve been friends since high school.”

“Have you been living in my house?  I came in after off-duty.”

“Don’t be silly, Hye-joo and I are not like that, we’re 100% friends. Why did you come back so soon anyway? Get dressed first, please.”

Seung-won, noticing Da-hee’s burning red, picked up some clothes from the floor and threw them at Joo-won. Joo-won grabbed the gray windbreaker with one hand and replied.

“I messaged you that I’m coming back today.”

“Uh? Did you?”

“Three days ago.”

“Ah… … It was the day the new item came out.”

Seung-won scratched his head. His love of gaming often kept him up all night, and on days like this, he’d come to work practically like a zombie.

He’d probably been up all night gaming, checking his messages in between dreams.

“Anyway, I’m sorry for having friends over, and I was going to put everything away before you got home, but Oh Hye-Joo, why are you here? You disappeared while drinking and I’ve been looking for you for a while.”

Hye-Joo squeezed the gift box in her pocket at the sudden gaze.

No matter what, she can’t reveal the gift. No matter what, she must not reveal it, not even for the sake of Da-hee, who was looking at her with a worried expression on her face.

” CEO Kang Joo-won”

After clearing her mind, Hye-joo straightened her stiff shoulders.

“Since you’re going to work next week, it’s right to call you CEO, right? I’m sorry for entering the CEO’s house without permission, but my purpose today wasn’t the CEO. I came to pick up something I left at home.”

Please accept me. If it’s too much, let’s sort it out here!

“Oh, right. Didn’t you say you left something at my place, was it makeup?”

Seung-Won, who did not know English, was eagerly firing support shots.

“It’s something she left behind.”

Pissed. The moment the corners of Kang Joo-won’s mouth turned up, Hye-joo knew this wasn’t going to go well.

“Looking at it earlier, it wasn’t cosmetics.”

“Huh? Isn’t that cosmetics?”

Sensing something strange, He tilted his heads.

“Oh Hye-joo, didn’t you say earlier that you forgot your Pacton lip balm or something?”

“Uh, that… … .”

The atmosphere became awkward out of control due to Hye-joo, who couldn’t answer properly. Da-hee, who was standing behind Seung-won’s back in the awkward air that seemed like it would explode if anyone opened her mouth, cautiously added her words.

“Hye-Joo, I think the CEO misunderstood you a little bit. I think he was surprised that you were in an unoccupied house, so why don’t you just show him what you came to get? It’s better to clear the air than to create a misunderstanding.”

Damn you, Chun Da-Hee. I rather strip naked and do an Indian dance. What I have in my pocket is a knife to my throat, and I can’t show it to you. This…… this is……!

“If you’re going to make friends, go out and make friends. You’re a stalker. What is this?”

Joo-won sighed low and turned away, feeling tired. If anything, it was a good thing for Hye-Joo.

That’s it, you’re done, you can walk away as if nothing happened, and you can explain the situation later.

“Stalker! Don’t you think you’re being too harsh on my friend?”

That’s when Seung-woon raised his voice. Pampara night! Pam, pam, pam, para bam!

A fanfare erupted in her pocket. Hye-Joo stared blankly at the wall clock.

It was twelve o’clock.

‘God, just kill me.’

The box in her pocket bursts open. A Gundam dances in the bulging pocket. A sweet song plays. Despair flows from Hye-Joo’s heart.

I’ve been watching you for a long time,

even when you’re not by my side,

even when you’re far away,

my eyes were only on you

Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting , waiting

for your sparkling eyes to touch my lips .

Why are the lyrics so exquisite?

“Oh Hye-joo…… are you really my brother’s stalker?”

Her eyes seethed with embarrassment. Hye-joo looked around at the three faces in disbelief.

Seung-won was stunned, and Da-hee was speechless. Even Kang Joo-won, who stood with his head slightly tilted in a ‘see?’ expression.

It was too late to make excuses. There was no way she could defend herself without revealing her feelings for Seungwon.

Hye-joo bit her lip hard. She glanced at Da-hee, who gave her a surprised rabbit-eyed glance, then turned to Joo-won and bowed low.

“I am sorry. If you want to report me, do it.”

Thud.

He heard the door close behind his back.

The Gundam clattered to a mournful confession.

*

April 1, April Fool’s Day.

She said it was an April Fool’s Day event, but something unbelievable happened to Hye-joo, who had been sitting half-changing in class or wearing her school uniform upside down.

‘This must be a dream…… it can’t be real.’

The clock on my phone read 2 p.m. on April 1. Throughout the night, I received calls from Da-hee and Seung-won, but I couldn’t answer them.

‘Two people are dating……?’

Even more shocking than last night’s humiliation was the sight of Da-hee being hugged by Seung-won with an affectionate smile, and Seung-won looking down at her lovingly. Thinking about them, my left breast throbbed with pain.

‘You could have told me, and I wouldn’t have organized this ridiculous event…….’

I couldn’t bring myself to look at their faces, not even feel sorry for myself.

Hye-Joo turned off her phone and squatted in her studio, staring blankly at the items on the floor. Inside a wide-open gift box lay a Gundam that had just finished its confession song and died a long death. Next to it, a pair of plain black panties.

“Oh Hye-Joo you are crazy, really…….”

I walked out of Kang Joo-won’s house with a pair of Joo-Won’s underwear.

It wasn’t intentional. It was neither the right time nor the right situation to take out what I had stuffed in my pocket with the gift, so I just ran away. Common sense, where would I use it?

“I’m going crazy. What am I going to do with these damn underwear?”

Hye-joo, who had been up all night, stared at the underwear as if they were Kang Joo-won’s alter ego. Since she came out with someone else’s stuff, she should return it, but she didn’t know Kang Joo-won’s contact number. But I’m sure I can find out through Seung-won, but I don’t have the confidence to call him since I turned off my cell phone.

‘Should I just throw them away?’

I figured I could just throw them away, because Kang Joo-won wouldn’t be the kind of person who couldn’t afford them, and he wouldn’t be the kind of person who would pamper them by attaching a lot of meaning to a pair of underpants. He can pretend he doesn’t know when they fell out of my pocket.

“But what’s this?”

I was about to throw it away when I noticed a small number on the band. If I hadn’t felt it on my fingertips, I would have missed it.

“What is it?”

It looks like Chinese characters, but no matter how hard I try to look at it, I can’t figure it out. I doesn’t seem to be original letters, and I don’t think it’s a brand name. Kang Joo-won didn’t pick up someone else’s panties and wear them, so maybe it’s a signature from someone who gave the gift?

I’m so tempted to throw it away.

She was very embarrassed to think that it might be an object with precious meaning. It was the moment she decided to give it back to her company after struggling for a long time over the item that was difficult to deal with.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

The doorbell rang.

‘It’s either Da-hee or Seung-won.’

Hye-Joo didn’t respond. They went by once in the morning, but pretended she wasn’t home. I didn’t want to face them with puffy eyes, and I didn’t have anything to say if they asked about the sudden disappearance at the party last night.

‘Just go away, please…….’

I ignored it and pulled the blanket over myself.

“Is Oh Hye-Joo here?”

A gruff man’s voice came from the door.

Thump, thump, thump!

She could no longer pretend not to notice the loud knocking on her door. Hye-Joo lifted her eyelids and looked at the intercom.

“Who are you?”

“I’m a police officer, Are you Oh Hye-Joo?”

“Yes, I’m Oh Hye-Joo. Why did you come here?”

” We receive a report of a stolen pair of underwear, can you come out here for a minute? 

“!”