Chapter 10: I could roughly understand just how obsessed they are with me

Si Eun held out her hand and said, “Let’s just live happily together, with you only listening to me. Okay?”

I gradually became entranced by her hand and reached out to take it, as if I was being seduced by something.

That hand looked like a hand of salvation.

“That’s right, Yun Ha, let’s live with your Unni.

We’ll live happily, with you only listening to me.”

I gradually reached out my hand, but then I stopped.

It was because the thought that I would never do as Si Eun said had come back to me.

That’s why I withdrew my hand.

Then, Si Eun gave me a rotten look and said, prompting the atmosphere to turn hostile once more.

“Yun Ha, what’s wrong again?

Why?

You can be happy again if you just listen to me.

I mean it.

So… let’s live together.”

“No.

I can find happiness on my own.

So, don’t meddle in my life.”

I said.

Yes.

I truly could find happiness on my own.

It’s not like I’m such an incompetent adult that I can’t even find my own happiness.

A happy life, as Si Eun wants.

I’ll live it, on my own terms.

“What if you suddenly have thoughts like today again?

Are you going to do nothing but clutch your head and hyperventilate like before?

That’s a nuisance to people.

A nuisance.”

“No, it’s you bothering me like this that’s the nuisance.”

Si Eun hit me with a zinger, and I almost couldn’t reply, but I didn’t back down and responded to Si Eun.

Then, Si Eun clenched her fists tightly.

It was because she was annoyed that I wouldn’t back down.

Si Eun probably didn’t expect me to be like this.

It was so satisfying.

“…Yun Ha, I’m telling you nicely, listen to me.”

Si Eun said to me as if this was her last warning.

The atmosphere was getting heavier and heavier.

The atmosphere in our house was like a rollercoaster.

Really… It was suffocating.

Couldn’t she just give up at this point and go home?

Was she really this obsessed?

Was this some kind of mental illness…?

“Yun Ha, you were just thinking that I seem to have a mental illness, right?”

“H-huh…?

N-no… I didn’t…”

As if she were a mind reader, Si Eun accurately grasped my thoughts.

It was truly scary.

I could roughly tell just how obsessed she was with me.

“G-get out right now…!

Just… get out right now!”

I yelled at Si Eun in a trembling voice.

Si Eun made those unreadable expressions again, got out of bed, picked up her clothes, and said to me.

Finally… Finally!

She was leaving my house!

“Fine, I’ll leave.

Try living on your own for once.

If things get tough, call me.

I’ll accept you then.”

“Yeah.

Just get out of here!”

Si Eun opened the front door and left.

I didn’t hear her muttering, “Do you think ruining your life is going to be difficult for me?” and just celebrated like I was throwing a party.

‘Ah, I should put some clothes on first.’