chapter 3
3 – How do you like my kiss?
I was wondering why it was Cameran.
Chaewon likes taking pictures, so I thought it was possible and ignored it. But when I looked again, I was surprised to see that the camera I was holding was not a cell phone but a GoPro……
Yes, I am a sincere friend when it comes to equipment. Because my friend is overflowing with money.
She thought she could leave her high-performance cell phone behind and pick up a Go Pro like a travel YouTuber.
“Forever. “This is my childhood friend, Yumin, whom there were a lot of rumors about.”
Until Ji Ji-bae turned the GoPro towards me and made a shameless comment.
“… “Have you finally come to your senses?”
“Hey~. “No matter what, it’s too much to cover the lens.”
“Isn’t it too much that what you said you were doing was filming a vlog?”
“Yes~. So today, I hope to make special memories by shooting a vlog in Kamakura with my childhood friend Min.”
“It was an honor to meet you, and have a nice trip, Chaewon.”
“Now, wait! “Don’t do that~.”
Chaewon quickly grabs my wrist. She doesn’t stop there, she tilts her body back and does her best to stop him.
‘I can’t leave the child who came to see me…… ‘
Ha, I turn my head with a low sigh.
Bright eyes seen through the black bucket hat. Skin whiter than Baek Seol-gi. Unrealistically small face and ideal proportions. A body that seems to say that this is what perfection is, created with innate genes and countless drops of sweat.
“You are an idol.”
“Hmm?”
“Maybe it’s because we met after 3 years, but something is different. “I feel like I’m seeing a real celebrity.”
I just didn’t get it because I called and KakaoTalked her every day, but Han Chae-won is a world-class star.
She was exceptionally pretty even when she was young, but after entering the entertainment industry, she became more complete and perfect through various management and thorough efforts.
He also has an easy-going and cheerful personality, so how could people not like him and dislike him?
“Are you in love with me?”
Of course, it doesn’t even work for me, my childhood friend.
“Do you mean to ask me to go to the other side like this?”
“Sorry. “I won’t say anything weird, so just watch.”
Celebrity Han Chae-won, who immediately lowers her tail. I know that this is also a high-level performance to win a vlog shoot, so I quickly say it out loud.
“I’m not going to vlog anyway.”
“Why?”
“Do you know how many views Ever’s vlog has?”
“Umm…. “It’s usually around 2 million, right?”
“What came out best?”
“40 Million. This is the vlog that this older sister appeared in. hehehehe.”
“Did you fully understand?”
“Yes? What? “I have no idea?”
The eyes shined purely as if they had gained new momentum from 40 million and now they really don’t know.
In particular, the detail of deliberately awkwardly portraying the naivety of ‘I really don’t know’ is very popular.
I guess she won the Best New Actress award at last year’s Baeksang (Baeksang Arts Awards), beating out other prominent candidates…… , That’s not it.
“If you don’t know, I’ll tell you clearly. “I don’t want my face to be known.”
Come to your senses and speak clearly. I hope he understands what I’m saying this time, but he’s not the kind of guy I’ll just ignore just because I don’t like him.
Rather, it is a support that will be maintained until it becomes medium, broken, or low.
“You are mistaken, but your life won’t change dramatically once this comes out, right?”
Look at this. Answering questions regularly.
“I just don’t want to come out. Are you done?”
“Wow. Are you using this cheat key?”
Chaewon puffs out her cheeks and looks sad.
No, isn’t that the face I should make?
“I’ll give you permission as long as you film it and don’t upload it to YouTube.”
“Then I guess I brought a GoPro? “I just took a picture with my cell phone.”
“Negotiations have collapsed. Would you be disappointed, Chaewon?”
“… “You’re buying me something delicious?”
“I have money too.”
“How do you like my kiss?”
“Oh.”
“What? Do you like it-?!”
“How are my fists?”
In response to the pouting lips, I also show my clenched fists.
Chaewon frowns and looks sad, perhaps frustrated by the irreconcilable difference of opinion.
“… Ugh, can’t you just come out once?”
“So why are you hanging yourself so hard? “What people want to see is you, not me.”
“I think it’s popular these days to film vlogs with friends.”
“I’m sure there are vlogs out there that don’t show your face, right?”
“… ….”
“Ha, yes. I’ll even look at your voice. “Honestly, even thinking about not having a voice is shameful and makes no sense.”
“I want to show you your face…” ….”
“Han Chae-won. So, I want to know why Simbo insists so hard even though he says he doesn’t like me.”
He speaks directly to Chaewon, who is becoming increasingly discouraged.
I tend to let it go if I can, but if I reject it four times, I really don’t want it. Chaewon knows my personality well, so she usually doesn’t ask me more than four times.
“I just want to introduce you to a childhood friend I’m proud of, but where can I go?!”
I just pout as hard as I can with a sad look on my face that says, ‘You’re really too much.’
Oh, this time it’s a variation of a previous question.
It’s been 4 years since Jeokbanhajang?
“If I come out like that, the results will only be bad, right?”
“… “I just want to make memories with you.”
Look at the tail dropping right away. He bowed his head and relaxed at my words, but……
“Don’t think I’ve forgotten that trick just because it’s been a while since I last saw you.”
I tap Ji Ji-bae on the shoulder.
“As expected. “You know me too well.”
Shameless bastard. Indeed, she made viewers grab the back of their necks with her shamelessness, and it was not for nothing that she won the Best New Actress Award at the Baeksang Awards.
There is no one in the real world who can match his sinister smile.
“But it’s true that Min wants to show off about you.”
“Five things to be proud of.”
“He’s good at studying, good at sports, pretty good-looking, and listens well to what I say.”
The more I go, the more strange the point of pride becomes.
“And.”
“And… ….”
“And?”
“…… “Eat really well.”
“Ha. “You’re really just letting out random sounds.”
“Now that we’ve said everything, shall we make a vlog?”
Chaewon smiled slightly and lifted her Go Pro up to her face. He grins and gently lowers the GoPro pointed at me.
“This is different from the story, Yumin?”
“I just asked you to talk, I didn’t say I was going to film you.”
“Hey! There is a duty to be strong, how can you break the unwritten rule… !”
“Are you watching martial arts these days?”
“Minah, if you’ve done this much, just take a picture. If I ask you this, are you really not going to do it? Huh? Anyway, even if you become famous, it will quiet down in three months, or even a month?”
“Okay. I watched it. “I’ll look at you from a place where your face isn’t visible.”
“Our late PD had the vlog philosophy that the faces of the performers should appear, right?”
“Go PD?”
“Gopro PD.”
“Ah———.”
…… What conversation is this?
I look straight into the eyes of Chaewon, who lets out a laugh and subtly lifts the GoPro. I tilt my head to the side at my childhood friend’s attitude, which is unusually stubborn today.
“What do you have? “What is there taking a picture of my face?”
“Hey, what’s there?! “It’s because it’s weird when all the members show their best friends’ faces but I’m the only one who doesn’t!”
“Are you an elementary school student? ‘Mom, I’m the only one in my class who doesn’t have an iPhone… !’, Something like that?”
“Min-ah, I’ve never asked you this much before. Huh? Just once, really.”
Chaewon holds my hand tightly.
The habit of holding hands whenever you are desperate is still the same, dear.
I snort and gently let go of Chaewon’s hand.
As expected, a sulky expression. Chaewon puffs out her cheeks, raises her eyebrows, and declares with all her might, ‘I’m angry.’
This is a situation I have been experiencing for 15 years. Easily avoid those gazes by twisting your body.
“If this happens, I can’t help but get upset.”
“It’s okay. “I’m already upset.”
“… Are you really not going to do it?”
“Yes. “I won’t do it.”
“…… Kang Yumin is really too much. Fool. Idiot. Hamanam. I hate you. I hate it so much. Tsk tsk tsk.”
Trivial and pointless things that even a kindergartener wouldn’t say. Chaewon purses her lips and pouts with all her might.
When I made eye contact with her to tell her to stop with a sigh, she turned away……
What? Suddenly I feel like I’m a sinner?
A puzzled expression suddenly appeared as the atmosphere turned upside down in an instant.
“… Hey, are you really upset?”
“Then is there such a thing as fake pouting?”
“Is this something special?”
“Noisy! Because you’re a special guy who doesn’t listen to requests from a childhood friend you haven’t seen in a long time?! No, it’s not just a man, it’s completely. “Because he’s the worst man?!”
Ppidol (21 years old) screams and then turns around again.
Seeing his angry tone and blatant whining of “Don’t touch me,” Ji Ji-bae was truly upset.
‘… ‘No, is this something to be upset about?’
I want to say ———, but anyway, this is a friend I haven’t seen in a long time.
Even if I complain here, I’ll end up wandering around with him, and I don’t want to be squealing the whole time I’m walking around.
Yes. I know it well too.
On the other hand, he asked me to make a vlog because he was happy to see me after 3 years.
I wanted to record memories with a truly pure heart and show off to my fans about my old childhood friend.
And that’s because I didn’t really get it, he’s a celebrity.
A presence that attracts attention wherever it goes and makes people open their mouths.
For Chaewon, who is the only one who can normally remember and record her sparkling self, her childhood friend, this moment is absolutely rare, so she wants to leave memories in any form.
Yes. I know it well too.
I know it very well.
“… Ha.”
This is why my childhood friend is a problem.
We know each other very well.
“… Han Chae-won. “How long will it be like that?”
I lightly poke her shoulder with my index finger, but she doesn’t react at all.
Ha, I sigh lightly and struggle to part my lips that cannot be separated.
“Is it okay to film a vlog with that kind of tension? “I’m more troubled by the fake childhood friend theory that doesn’t work out later.”
I flinch. If it had ears on its head like a dog and a tail on its butt, it would tremble as if it would prick its ears and raise its tail.
Chaewon secretly turns her head and looks at me from the corner of her eye.
Her lips are acting gloomy, but her big eyes are already grinning impatiently.
This is also a childhood friend, so it’s really annoying.
“… Are you going to take a picture?”
“I don’t know how long the video will be, but if possible, edit it to show as few faces as possible. Got it?”
“But no matter how much we edit based on the same philosophy as our late producer… ….”
“Then I will set the time in minutes, so you can write just that much.”
“I will do my best to achieve maximum efficiency with minimal cuts!”
Chaewon smiles brightly and turns towards me.
Just a vlog. Now that I think about it again, I don’t know why it feels so good to just film a vlog……
‘Okay, at most people need to find out about this.’
When she saw her childhood friend, whom she had not seen in a long time, smiling brightly, she felt good for some reason.
“Let’s go eat.”
I never feel good because of free food.
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“… “This is really happening.”
She looks at Yumin’s back and mutters that she will go to the convenience store for a while.
Honestly, although I made a promise to the members, the vlog was an excuse and I tried to be satisfied with just filming together.
Since Min doesn’t take many pictures, filming her video was literally a blessing.
But what is this?
A person who hates living in relationships is saying that he can not only film but also upload vlogs.
“Isn’t he Min?”
It’s a nonsense that she tries even though she knows it won’t happen. That means it feels good.
“But if it’s like this, you have no choice but to really check….”
At the same time, it means that you are that much nervous.
Ha, her feet are shaking and her head is lowered.
She is close to Yumin, and it’s not like she hasn’t heard people ask her if she’s dating her. Without exaggeration, she had heard it ad nauseam at a stronger level than what her members had questioned.
Even though she couldn’t avoid it, she and Yumin smiled at each other and somehow got over it.
But even if she waves her hand and says it’s not me, people around her say they don’t know because Yumin doesn’t express it so much… , She even encouraged you to attack her.
Yoo-min. She was a strict child and was famous even at other schools during her school days.
She is good at studying to the point of going to Seoul National University, she has a good body because she has been doing Taekwondo since elementary school, she is as good-looking as a celebrity, and she also has a good personality.
… Yumin. She is of course a good friend.
She is a friend I am grateful to for always being by my side. That’s why he’s the friend I trust the most and am close with. So, a very precious friend.
I’m sure he feels the same way.
And of course, I am none other than Han Chae-won.
She is an attractive woman who has received numerous confessions from her school days until now. She is a devilish woman who makes even perfect people fall in love with her, to the point where they wonder if they can even meet her.
Without exaggeration, a man with even the slightest courage expressed his entire feelings to me……
On the other hand, Yumin has never once shown favor to me in 15 years.
She is a girl who doesn’t like things even if it’s just a joke. He’s a kid who never says anything he doesn’t mean unless he really thinks so.
There was a time when I jokingly told her that I liked her and that I loved her because I thought it made no sense for a girl who was treated well by a famous idol to not be able to hear me say that I liked her from a girl who didn’t know anything about her feelings.
-Okay, thank you. But is it Pepero Day today?
Every time, he thinks I want to eat something.
No, I also have pride. Do you think I’m saying that to gain something?
… Ha, I’m really dumbfounded.
Anyway.
Will I ever meet such an indifferent man again in my life, no matter who is male or female?
You do things so calmly that you can’t even with a concept……
The Kang Yu-min I know is honest and unbiased, and that fact is also the reason why I think of Yu-min as a lifelong friend.
…… Above all, ‘that day’ is decisive.
Anyway.
The childhood friend I met after 3 years is still the same and the same, so it is unlikely that his attitude toward me or his feelings have changed much.
“Ah, really! If only they hadn’t said anything strange… !!”
Nevertheless, the first reason why I need to get to know you.
An unfriendly guy with less than 30 KakaoTalk friends told me that he would make a vlog that could be viewed by tens of millions of people in the future. Just for my favor.
Nevertheless, the second reason why I need to know you.
Living by loyalty and dying by loyalty… , Han Chae-won always keeps her promises. I’m sorry Min, but I have to do it because of my promise to the members.
Nevertheless, the third and final reason why I need to know you.
“I said I would be sure if I just checked these three things… ?”
I’m the type of person who, when I’m interested, I have to try it and find out about it.
Kang Yu-min. I became curious about you meeting me after 3 years.
Actually, this is it.