Chapter 13: You… do you realize you’ve been calling me ‘unni’ all this time?

<Yun Ho’s POV>

“Tch… All you do is tease with lies…”

“Ehee, sorry~”

Si Eun said, giving me a playful smile and stroking my head as if I was cute.

For some reason, a smile formed on my face, too.

Against my will.

‘Could it be… Now that I’m a girl, even my heart…’

I shook my head as if I had just said something ridiculous.

“Eh, Yun Ha, do you not like it?”

When I shook my head, Si Eun must have thought I didn’t like being petted, so she took her hand away and asked cautiously.

It’s not that I don’t like it, but what do I call this feeling that I do like it?

My true feelings wanted to grab Si Eun’s hand and bring it to my head right away, but even now, my reason still thought of me as a man.

Or maybe I still just hated Si Eun.

“I, I don’t know!

Let’s just eat!”

I forced myself to raise my energy to hide the feelings that said I didn’t hate it and suggested eating.

Then, Si Eun responded, “What should we eat?”

“Hmm… I wonder…?

Do I even have anything to eat in my house?”

I was deep in thought.

I definitely had something in my house… Ah!

That’s right.

“Did you think of something?”

“I have some meat I bought last year!”

“Huh…?

If you bought it last year, it’s already spoiled, isn’t it…?”

That’s right.

The truth was that I bought that meat with my first part-time job money, so I was too precious to eat it, and I kept saving it, and that’s how it got left in the refrigerator.

So, it must have been spoiled long ago.

“Ah… Then I have to go out and get groceries…”

I didn’t even have any ramen in my house, so my refrigerator was so empty that I had to go out and get groceries.

The ingredients for the kimchi fried rice Si Eun made last time were the last ingredients left.

Should I have eaten it back then?

‘No.

It wasn’t the right atmosphere to eat back then.’

Thinking that, I looked at Si Eun, and she was wearing her jacket.

“…?

Where are you going?”

“Yeah, I’m going to get groceries.

Let’s go together.”

“Ah, okay.

Let me get dressed.”

I went into my small closet and picked out clothes.

For the most part, no, all the clothes in the closet were clothes I bought when I was a man, so they were all bigger than my body.

“Ah… I don’t have anything to wear… I’ll just have to wear whatever.”

So, I just put on a plain white T-shirt and came out.

Then, Si Eun saw me and,

“Pfft…”

tried to hold back her laughter, but then burst into laughter.

Holding her stomach.

“Why are you laughing like that?”

“No… You’re just too cute!!”

With that, Si Eun hugged me tightly and rubbed her cheek against my cheek.

“W-wait a second… Stop…”

Ignoring my request, she continued to rub her cheek against my cheek.

About 10 minutes passed, and Si Eun finally let me go.

It was because I told her to let me go so that we could go get groceries.

Thanks to that, Si Eun’s mood got a lot better.

“By the way… Do we really have to hold hands?”

“Of course, who knows, you might get kidnapped.”

“I wouldn’t get kidnapped…”

I pouted and said.

But Si Eun ignored those words.

“By the way… Yun Ha, do you know what?”

“?

What?”

“Do you know that you’ve been calling me Unni all this time?”

‘What…?’

U-Unni…?

My mind went blank.

I’d been unconsciously calling her Unni all this time.

Why?

Wait…?

As I stood there blankly,

“Just kidding, it’s because you haven’t been calling me by any honorifics.”

“Haa… You scared me…”

Si Eun gave me another playful smile.

She’s really hopeless.