He takes a beat before suggesting that they buy new outfits to get out of these wet ones. She refuses, saying they can keep wearing what they have on. "Do they call this bipolar disorder?" Jae-yeol asks, perplexed by her reaction.
While Jae-bum checks in on a mysterious favor he put in before his early release, Sunbae Jo balks at the claims that Jae-bum is a good person when his criminal files state otherwise. When Tae-yong tries to justify Jae-bum's actions, he's told to explain the picture of a beaten and bruised Jae-yeol at sixteen, then. Yeah, you can't really argue with that, but also-should you be sharing legal records so freely, doc?
Sunbae Jo challenges him to think about how bad the situation must have been if their mother had to call the police. Furthermore, these records note that Jae-bum was the one who killed their stepfather and trying to blame it on his brother.
People like Jae-bum don't feel guilty towards their wrongdoings like the rest of society, so the best treatment in those cases is for them to remain behind bars. Tae-yong acknowledges that Jae-bum is still throwing murderous threats against Jae-yeol, but neither can he give up on the family who believes in Jae-bum.
Jae-yeol buys new threads for himself and Hae-soo, who promises to pay him back. "I don't take money from a woman I've kissed," Jae-yeol replies. She's particularly sensitive about calling it a kiss at all when it was one-sided.
He doesn't let her off the hook for that, telling her outright that he can understand if this is a reaction to her anxiety issues. Anyone would have been flustered if someone suddenly kissed them, she argues. And he kissed her twice.
"You didn't hate it the second time. Like me," Jae-yeol counters. He isn't interested in her thoughts about it, but how she felt about their kiss. "I hated it. I'll say it again, but I hate you," she firmly answers. "Someone who flirts with just anyone..."
"Not anyone, but someone I feel something for," he interrupts. "Not just because, but with sincerity in that moment. I kissed you because I like you, not because I was just flirting."
Hae-soo betrays a small smile, but then barks at him to come clean-they were both in a good mood and in the middle of nature. He was acting on impulse, wasn't he? Jae-yeol doesn't deny it.
He doesn't see what's so absurd about it either-does she like men who strategize and calculate those sorts of things? When she says they should put an end to this argument, he catches her off-guard again. "Let's date," he says. "Should I give you time to think about it?"
She declines, so he drops the subject too. And then tells her to sit up front when she tries to climb in the backseat. She warns him not to make a pass at her like he did in the water, but he assures her that it won't happen again.
Despite Soo-kwang's protests that he won't do So-nyeo's bidding anymore, he trails behind her anyway, though he emphasizes that he isn't heading to her place because he at all likes her. I... still don't get what the deal is between these two. Is Soo-kwang's interest purely friendly oppa to dongsaeng or something more? But then, Soo-kwang-she's a minor.
Things are still prickly between Jae-yeol and Hae-soo at home that evening. Sunbae Jo asks if they fought again, and whereas Jae-yeol dismisses the question, Hae-soo freely explains that Jae-yeol kissed her and was slapped for it today.
As per usual, Jae-yeol tells it like it is and confirms that it happened, acknowledging that she was fine in that moment, though she isn't now. She calls him an embodiment of impulse, which prompts him to ask if she didn't feel what he did.
"You really didn't feel it?" he repeats. But Hae-soo shakes her head, saying somewhat unconvincingly that her answer will always be no. Jae-yeol walks out of this argument first, leaving her fuming in his wake.
