HE RETURNED AS A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL (PART ll)

Chapter 258: Featuring (4)

The two of them got closer and closer. They were both panting heavily since they had just performed a high-intensity choreography. The song was on the verge of ending; they needed to get ready to strike the ending pose, but...

“...”

Je-Woon’s arm was not letting go of Kang Ra-Eun’s waist. All sorts of thought raced through her head as Je-Woon continued to close the distance between them.

‘Should I just stop thinking and kick him away?’

That would for sure result in a broadcasting accident.

‘What do I do? What the fuck do I do?!’

Ra-Eun went into a state of panic. Before she knew it, she had closed her eyes shut. Je-Woon, who had been observing Ra-Eun’s face from a hair’s breadth away, hesitated for a moment and then pulled Ra-Eun back up on her feet.

“...?”

Ra-Eun had been freed. She stared dumbfoundedly at Je-Woon, who smiled at her awkwardly. He then struck the ending pose, to which Ra-Eun also quickly did at the right time of the song. The camera zoomed in on their faces. The program director pointed at the corners of his own mouth, indicating that Ra-Eun needed to smile.

Ra-Eun forced the corners of her mouth to curl up. And just like that, the troubling stage performance had come to an end.

***

Ra-Eun headed to her waiting room as soon as the performance had finished. She recalled the disaster that had almost occurred a few minutes ago. If Je-Woon had gotten a few centimeters closer, their lips might have touched.

‘Fuck... That wasn’t part of the rehearsal.’

Ra-Eun’s heart raced as she recalled that moment during the performance. She wondered what could have possibly gotten into Je-Woon to do such a thing, but couldn’t understand at all.

‘Even so, it’s a bit iffy for me to ask him directly if he had tried to kiss me for real.’

Their faces might have just gotten a bit too close due to a minor error in the choreography; in other words, a coincidence.

‘But... Je-Woon sunbae’s eyes were dead serious for that to be the case.’

Ra-Eun had even closed her eyes before she had realized it. That was how serious he had seemed.

‘Goddammit! I don’t know!’

Her head and heart would burst if she thought about it any more than this. She decided to just be happy that the stage performance had been a success.

***

There was an afterparty right after the first stage recording. Ra-Eun wanted to use this opportunity to ask... No, interrogate Je-Woon about whether his attempt to kiss her had been an accident or not. However, she could not muster up the courage to, and it was a bit weird to ask something like that during an afterparty. In the end, she had not managed to ask him due to several complicated reasons, and a week flew by just like that.

‘This won’t do.’

Ra-Eun continued to feel stifled because that moment was stuck inside her head despite the fact a week had passed. She picked up her smartphone and messaged someone. She then got ready to go out as soon as she got a reply.

Seo Yi-Jun, who had just returned home after going out, saw that Ra-Eun was getting ready to leave.

“Are you going somewhere, noona?” he asked.

“Yeah. I’ll be back before dinner, so let your sister know as well.”

“Okay... Sure.”

Ra-Eun stormed out of the house. Yi-Jun slightly shrugged in confusion as he continuously stared at the closed front door.