SELA - Extra 4

The moment Ji-hyuk’s mouth left her breast with a soft pop, he opened his eyes and looked up. Sa-hee, who had been holding his head in her arms, caressed Ji-hyuk’s face, openly displaying her excited expression. At this point, all that was left was to entwine their bodies passionately.

Ji-hyuk slowly raised his head to meet Sa-hee’s face. Their noses brushed against each other, and their lips hovered tantalizingly close. Ji-hyuk quietly watched Sa-hee’s eyelashes flutter visibly.

“Sa-hee-yah.”

“......”

Haa, haa. Sa-hee’s breathing grew rapid. His large hand traced Sa-hee’s earlobe, caressed her cheek, and then gripped her chin. Their gazes locked intensely. She was now certain that he would do something, anything.

“Now...”

“......”

“Shouldn’t we go wash up?”

What? Sa-hee’s eyes snapped open. At the same time, his body abruptly pulled away from hers. The warmth that had been pressing against her, large and comforting, receded, and a cool breeze clung to her skin.

“Wha... what...?”

“Should I finish undressing you?”

His smiling face was full of mischief. Only then did Sa-hee realize. Ji-hyuk had deliberately intended to tease her.

Sa-hee bit her lip and pulled the fallen blouse back up over her shoulders, covering her chest. She felt inexplicably annoyed. The anticipation and excitement she had felt were also embarrassing.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to sleep with Ji-hee.”

“What are you talking about?”

“You can sleep alone.”

Sa-hee left Ji-hyuk, who was smiling, and tried to leave the room. But Ji-hyuk wasn’t one to let her go. Blocking her path, he looked down at Sa-hee and tilted his head.

“Why are you angry?”

“Me? I’m not angry.”

“It’s written all over your face, ‘I’m pissed.’“

“It’s not that...! I said. Move.”

“Move where? Let’s go.”

“Ah! Why are you doing this! Let go! Let go! Won’t you let go?”

Still, when Sa-hee stubbornly tried to leave the room, he had only one option left. To bind her two feet.

He instantly slung Sa-hee over his shoulder and started walking. Sa-hee struggled with all her might, but it was no use. He went his way without wavering.

“Put me down! I said put me down!”

“More informal speech again.”

The bathroom door, kicked open as if in a fit of anger, swung wide. It slammed against the wall with a thud, but this was no time to worry about that. He only put Sa-hee down on the floor after entering the shower booth.

“You...! Bad!”

“What’s so bad about clinging to your husband’s shoulders that you have to call me a bad guy?”

Sa-hee glared at him and smacked his shoulder. Ji-hyuk, having received the blow, shrugged and lowered the zipper of his pants. His erect member was clearly revealed.

Why is he doing that again? Sa-hee frowned with a bewildered expression.

“You said yes to everything I suggest. So. Let’s shower.”

“Do it yourself, by yourself.”

Ji-hyuk grabbed Sa-hee, who was trying to push past him again. This time, the smile disappeared from his face as well.

“How did it feel meeting your student after all this time?”

“What did you say?”

“How did it feel meeting that brat, Lee Seo-won or whatever his name is, again?”

Was it her imagination, or did he seem a little prickly? If she added a bit more honesty, it felt like jealousy.

Sa-hee, her thoughts briefly tangled by the sudden topic, stopped abruptly and looked at him.

“How did it feel? I didn’t really think anything of it.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. Although he did become more mature than I expected.”

“Are you saying you felt him as a man?”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

Sa-hee laughed, dumbfounded, and he took another step closer. Ji-hyuk’s hands began to undress Sa-hee, whose mind was elsewhere.

“How can you twist it that way again?”

“Because you mentioned him becoming mature or whatever. He still looked like he had baby fat to me.”

“Anyway, no.”

“Alright.”

“No, I said no. Don’t think strange things.”

Her upper body was already completely exposed. He quickly whisked off her skirt. Sa-hee, now only wearing her underwear, finally looked at herself and raised her arms to cover her body.

“You’re quite the player.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment.”

Ji-hyuk even bowed his head as if to thank her. Sa-hee scoffed in disbelief. In the meantime, Ji-hyuk hugged her, immobilizing her arms, and then took off her underwear as well. The piece of underwear that fell at her feet felt so insignificant, it was that quick.

“It always feels like I’m the only one who’s eager.”

He took off all his clothes as well, becoming naked, and turned Sa-hee around. Standing side by side in front of the shower, the two were drenched under the pouring water.

Wanting to know what he was talking about, Sa-hee wiped her wet face with her hands and turned around.

“You’re always so laid-back.”

“I don’t know what you mean.”

“It’s exactly what I said. I’m always the one who’s anxious about whether this guy will approach or that guy will cling to you.”

He put body wash on the shower puff and quickly lathered it up, rubbing Sa-hee’s back. Sa-hee, entrusting her body to him, quietly pondered his words. What was it that he alone was so eager about, and she was so carefree? Was it really because she met Seo-won today that he was so bothered?

“I told you. Seo-won is just a student to me. Nothing more, nothing less.”

“Ah, teacher and student.”

As he turned Sa-hee around again, the two faced each other. He gently rubbed the front of Sa-hee’s body with the shower puff and began to speak.

“You remember the gathering last time, at Subin Hall?”

“Yes. Why are you suddenly talking about that...?”

“If it had been another couple when Young-joo acted that way, there would have definitely been a nasty fight.”

A strange sensation ran through her as the rough shower puff touched the area around her nipples. Sa-hee tried hard to recall the past memory, trying not to get distracted by the feeling there. Young-joo must be referring to that woman.

‘Oppa! Can I hit on you?’

A cute-looking woman with short bobbed hair and a noticeably flashy patterned dress. As soon as she arrived at the Subin Hall event, she immediately approached Ji-hyuk and blurted out those first words.

‘The rumors going around don’t seem to be entirely false.’

‘What rumors? What kind of rumors are going around about me?’

‘That you’re living in a daze at clubs, doing drugs with your drug-addicted husband.’

‘What?’

‘Wasn’t it you, the precious daughter of that company, who was foaming at the mouth and wandering around Hwayeon-dong last weekend?’

‘Oppa, am I crazy? I don’t do things like that!’

At Young-joo’s voice, which had turned red and shouted, gazes from around them flew and landed on her.

‘But why are you saying such ridiculous things.’

Ji-hyuk put down his champagne glass on the table, put his hands in his pockets, and approached her. The eyes looking down at her were so cold they were almost numbingly sharp.

‘My wife is right here beside me. Where do you think you’re acting so impudently?’

Young-joo’s clenched fists trembled slightly. Her face, so stiff that the blood seemed to have drained from her tightly pressed lips, looked pitiful. But after a few seconds, Young-joo began to giggle. The people gathered around Ji-hyuk and Sa-hee looked at her with bewildered eyes.

‘I’m divorced, oppa.’

At the cheerful confession, Ji-hyuk’s eyebrows twitched. Young-joo rather took another step closer to the two of them and chattered with a smile.

‘If I hadn’t gone to study abroad back then, I would have been dating oppa. Then we might have even gotten married.’

‘You know better than anyone that’s nonsense.’

‘It was my mistake meeting that idiot. That’s why I got a divorce.’

What does she want me to do? Ji-hyuk, with a stiff face, tilted his head and audibly sighed.

‘You never know what might happen in life. I thought I’d be with that guy forever when I got married too.’

‘Han Young-joo.’

‘Oppa might not know either. You might end up in the same situation as me.’

At the line-crossing remark, Ji-hyuk tried to approach her. At that moment, it was none other than Sa-hee who grabbed his hand. When he glanced back, Sa-hee shook her head, her eyes telling him not to.

‘Then call me first when that happens. I’ll buy you a drink to cheer you up.’

It was a mystery why her eyes were brimming with tears after saying everything she wanted to say. Smiling with tearful eyes, she waved at him, telling him to contact her if he got divorced, and then left. Because she had stirred up the cheerful atmosphere and disappeared, Sa-hee hadn’t forgotten that moment when everyone was awkward.

“She was rude, that woman, Han Young-joo.”

“See, that’s all it was to you.”

Ji-hyuk dropped the shower puff to the floor and caressed Sa-hee’s soapy chest. The smooth, soft touch felt indescribably good.

“Sa-hee, you must have heard it too.”