When I Grow Up (Seventeen Jeonghan x CLC Seunghee)

Thirty Two: When I Keep My Cool

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Early in the morning, about 5AM, Jeonghan hears his doorbell ring repeatedly. He rises up his bed and sits on it with a temper.

"Aghh! Just who the hell is it?!" he grumbles.

He walks to his doorway still half-awake and opens his door. What welcomes him is no one.

"What the hell..."

But when he looks down on his feet. A bunch of frogs are squirming their ways inside his apartment.

"Dammit!"

He jumps through the little things and even kicks some, out of surprise. He manages to toss every little one of them out of his door and angrily grunts at the person who he thinks is responsible for this outrageous juvenile act. Only one guy comes to mind.

"That bastard!"

He calms down a bit and enters his apartment, but throws his door closed, annoyed.

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He ignores the frog thing and lets it slide. Maybe the kid is just trying his patience out. But the next day, he opens his door to an army of ants. It takes him almost half an hour cleaning up the anthill. He disregards it again, looking at it as a way of the kid's rejection of him as Seunghee's boyfriend. So he shuts his mouth once again, not telling Seunghee about it. Even if they see each other sometimes, they will simply glare at each other without Seunghee noticing it. But both of them know of the underlying circumstances. They are dealing with it like men do, no talk, just plain work.

But the day he gets a box full of snakes, he's truly become furious. He can't let this go on. This is actually an act of harassment. Even if he's not really bothered that much, he doesn't deserve to be treated this way. Not anybody deserves to be. And he's thinking of his neighbours' welfares too. It's completely out of reason.

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As they are walking together going to the campus, Seunghee can see Jeonghan's irritated mood. He has this long face all morning and an irritated grunt once in a while.

"Hey, is there a problem?" she inquires, creasing her eyebrows at him.

"Nothing," he replies curtly.

"Are you on your period?" she tries making him laugh.

But he reacts a bit mad, "Are you?"

"Hey! What's with the mood Jeonghan?" This time she's the one getting grumpy.

He sighs in defeat. He originally didn't want to tell her but he tells her otherwise. He puts his arm around her shoulders and apologizes.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I didn't want to tell you but then okay I will. I wanted to deal with it as soon as I can but I guess I have no choice but to tell you. Early this morning, I woke up to the ringing of my door again and what welcomed me was, you know what?"

"What?"

"A bunch of venom less snakes in open box infront of my door."

"What?!" Seunghee blurts out surprised and alarmed by the fact.

"I had to pick up the small ones that swarmed right out and seal the box tight. I had to make sure none has escaped the area so I had to check the corners of the corridors thoroughly. Thank goodness our neighbours don't usually wake up early, cuz if not, it would've been a fuss. So I'm pissed off okay. It's a dangerous act, anyone can be harmed by it. And I can easily deduce a clear suspect."