The Law of Webnovels - Chapter 300
Chapter 300: Chapter 300
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The club was still noisy with booming music; guys and girls were falling into a trance on the dance floor. Over the hallway, I could see the chaotic sight enveloped with flashing lights. Would there be any more inappropriate places than this to run into a friend from the same school?
When I held Yoo Chun Young’s hand in silence for a while, he heaved a sigh and lowered his head.
“What are you doing here?”
“What about you?” Replying in that way, I observed his face. His blue-black hair was still there, but he was wearing a pair of blackish-gray contact lenses. I wasn’t sure if it was wise for him to cover half of his face with a face mask since many pictures of him with that look was already up on the web; however, wearing those contact lenses seemed to work.
His voice and his hand sounded and looked familiar, but when I raised my head and met his eyes, I didn’t think he was Yoo Chun Young at the fleeting moment.
His black eyes looked softer than usual but not his voice. He replied in a colder tone than ever.
“I had something to do here, but you—”
Hmm… Wrinkling at the tip of my nose, I cut in, “Something to do here with none other than Eun Jiho? Where’s Eun Hyung?”
With a slight grimace, Yoo Chun Young averted his eyes from mine and answered back, “… Eun Hyung won’t let us go to a place like this.”
Lifting my chin, I asked, “But you came here anyway even though you were aware of that?”
“…”
Looking at him turning his head wordlessly, I thought, ‘Gosh, how suspicious you are!’
Unlike his naïve appearance, Yoo Chun Young wasn’t that much of a stubborn person, so if he knew that Eun Hyung would stop him from going to a club, but he still came here secretly anyway, then that ‘something’ would be a very significant thing. Regardless of the importance, he was implying that he didn’t want to explain his reasonings to Eun Hyung and me.
At that moment, there was a transition to the offense. Yoo Chun Young tossed a sharp question.
“So, why are you here?”
Eek! Clearing my throat, I tried to reply in a smooth voice.
“Oh, I had something to do here too.”
“By yourself?”
“Come on, do you think I came here alone?”
“Then, where are the other people with you?”
I wondered for a second. Earlier, when we encountered each other in the streets, he would have also seen Jooin dressed as a girl if he noticed me. However, according to the way he talked, and the slightest signs he was showing through his words, it seemed like Yoo Chun Young wouldn’t even imagine that the person beside me was Jooin…
I hesitated for a moment. In that case, I didn’t have to let him know about Jooin. Throwing a glance at the women’s bathroom, I replied, “We’re gonna meet here.”
Once I spoke that way, Yoo Chun Young dispensed a keen edge on his voice, which made me startled.
“Then, are you saying that you entered this place alone?”
“Um, yeah… why?”
“How could you… without a membership card?”
“What about you?”
Yoo Chun Young took out his wallet from his inner pocket and showed me a gold card that had a butterfly print on. I sealed my lips.
“Did you think that I came here without any preparation?” said Yoo Chun Young composedly.
“…”
“You?”
When he flung that question immediately while narrowing his eyes, I began to hiccup.
“… Did someone drag you in?”
“Uh, nope.”
“You weren’t dragged to the second floor or other rooms, were you?”
“No…”
I had to say yes, but at that moment, the One-card members of Dae Woon High School’s fancy self-introduction and Woo San’s sudden attack, which happened one after another as soon as we were dragged into the room, rose before my mind. Therefore, I missed the timing to answer correctly.
Yoo Chun Young’s following remark sounded as fierce as a flame, and it made me swallow my breath.
“Where is it?”
“Uh… what are you talking about? Where… where?”
“The room you went in.”
Yoo Chun Young began to show a threatening bloodthirstiness on his pale face. Surprised by his unusual look since he always maintained a low emotional temperature, I quickly pulled his arm.
“No, nothing happened in the end anyway!”
“Did something happen on the way then?”
“…”
‘Yoo Chun Young, would you please stop being so sharp only in this kind of situation!’ While I had that thought in mind, his icy-cold voice returned, “Tell me where it is!”
Ahhhh! I barely succeeded in grabbing Yoo Chun Young, who was about to go upstairs right away.
Lowering my voice, I almost shouted, “Stop! I also had something to do here, so I got in secretly. Just like you. You came here without letting Eun Hyung know. Aren’t we the same, then? Besides, you’re a public figure!”
“I would not pick a fight myself,” said Yoo Chun Young while furrowing his forehead. He added, “I’m just gonna check their faces and names.”
‘Just gonna check their faces and names? What are you gonna do with those things?’ With these thoughts, I blurted bitterly, “Then?”
“…”
“Hey, hold on. Yoo Chun Young, why are you averting your eyes? Huh?”
That was when I shook his arm for an answer. The women’s bathroom door suddenly opened; my face soon turned pale. Yikes! Jooin, who was walking toward this side, also stiffened his face at a slow pace while pausing his words.
“Hey, get off her…!”
Shouting in his usual voice while forgetting to speak like a girl, Jooin covered his mouth and took a step back.
However, it was too late. With a stiffened face, I stared at the two boys confronting each other. ‘Gosh, what should I do?’ I was so busy making an excuse for Yoo Chun Young that I totally forgot to get in touch with Jooin and tell him that he was also here. Even if I did, Jooin would not have seen my message since he was busy talking with his cousin over the phone.
A suffocating silence swept among us. Covering my mouth in tension, I glanced at Yoo Chun Young, wondering, ‘What should I do? Did he notice that he is Jooin?’
Usually, I would have waved my hand as if to say, ‘Yoo Chun Young would never know that the girl is Jooin!’ but he noticed me just now. That being said, it wasn’t surprising that Yoo Chun Young figured out that whom he was confronting was actually Jooin. Besides, he also heard Jooin’s voice!
Having those thoughts in my head, I held my breath when I found Yoo Chun Young detaching his lips at last. He then tilted his head and turned around to look at me.
“Is she who you’re meeting with here?” he asked.
“Uh… um… yeah.”
I was walking on eggshells. ‘Is he acting?’ I thought, but it didn’t seem like he’s pretending. No matter how quick-witted he became, Yoo Chun Young wasn’t the kind of character who could act.
Turning his head nonchalantly, Yoo Chun Young uttered, “It was true that you didn’t come here alone then. Okay, see you.”
“Yeah…”
“Tomorrow.”
I was the only one who barely understood the word that left his mouth. He would be implying that I should confess what happened today as soon as tomorrow or forthwith. When I nodded slightly, he nodded back and walked toward the crowd.
“Yoo Chun Young,” I suddenly called him.
Pausing his step, he turned his head and looked in this direction.
Being hesitant for a moment, I asked, “How did you notice me?”
Yoo Chun Young didn’t know that the girl was Jooin, whom he encountered every day at school, even after hearing his voice. Of course, it was because Jooin was dressed as a girl; however, I also had hair extensions.
Tilting his head, Yoo Chun Young replied in a calm voice, “How could I not notice you?”
“…”
While Jooin and I became speechless, Yoo Chun Young receded again and mixed in with the crowd.
Jooin then collapsed beside me when I looked in the direction where Yoo Chun Young just disappeared. Turning around in surprise, Jooin whined as if he was crying.
“Mama, I think today is really something or else…”
I tapped his back, which looked utterly exhausted.
‘Yeah, I think so too, or else how can you meet your cousin and Yoo Chun Young in the same place?’ Thinking in that way, I kept soothing his back. No day would be worse than this for Jooin. That was when I helped Jooin to get up from the floor.
“Why are you guys here!?”
As the yelling voice startled me out of the blue, I found that it was Lucas and heaved a sigh of relief.
Geez, I also forgot that he could pretend to speak like a woman, so I was afraid I had encountered my classmate this time.
Blinking swiftly, Lucas then blurted out something, which made me tilt my head in wonder.
“I reached out to you guys! Since it’s too noisy here, I’ve sent a text. Didn’t you check your phones?”
“What?”
As soon as I took out my phone from my pocket, I became silent for a second.
