My Boyfriend (나의 남자 친구) | ✓

o3. when he's jealous

There are moments in life where Junhoe just catches me off-guard. You'd think that he'd be the type of boyfriend to get jealous easily, but it's not. When he does though, he acts so cute I just want to squish his cheeks forever.

Take this one incident for example.

It is no secret that senior Kim Jinwoo is by far, the most popular one with the girls. Said senior is also included in Junhoe's limited range of friends. I've been close with his tight-knit group, but not the seniors since I get intimidated easily, even though they have done nothing but make me feel comfortable.

So there's this one time when Junhoe and I were heading to the cafeteria, when we met senior Jinwoo on the way.

"Chaeyoung! Junhoe!"

His bright and charming smile that always captivated me took me off-guard. It felt like he was shooting me hearts with that smile. See, this is the reason why he's popular with the girls. He is so effortlessly charming and dreamy...

Oh, did I also mention that I had the biggest crush with Kim Jinwoo before I met Junhoe?

"Hyung," Junhoe greeted back. We stopped walking to wait for senior Jinwoo to catch up with us.

"Where are you going?"
"Cafeteria. You?"
"Oh! I'm going there too! Let's go there together, hm?"
"Okay. The others should be there too."

I initially planned to leave them alone, have their boy talks and all,  when Jinwoo suddenly shifted his focus at me. I guess it was expected since he disliked excluding other people from conversations, something I noticed about him whenever I'd eat with them.

"Chaeyoung – woah – you're getting prettier every day."

Fiddling with my thumbs shyly, I mumbled, "Thank you..."

"Hyung, if you see her with no makeup on, you'll be surprised," my boyfriend interjected.

It brought a downer to my mood, my shy smile turning into a frown. Trust Junhoe to ruin something like this.

"I'm pretty sure she's still beautiful." Jinwoo softly nudged Junhoe on the shoulder. "You're lucky to have someone like her. She's beautiful inside and out."

Omo. I hid my blushing face with the ends of my hair. "Oppa... stop it..."

"Oppa?" Junhoe's eyebrows seemed to disappear behind his bangs.

My cheeks heated more. Seriously, I couldn't even talk properly when I'm around with my seniors and yet, I have the audacity to call Jinwoo sunbaenim, oppa?

"I – It's not that—"

I didn't get to finish my sentence when Jinwoo ruffled my hair. Along with this gesture was his bright smile directed at me. Omo. Omo. Omo.  "Frankly, I prefer it that way. Call me like that from now on, okay? Let's get closer with each other."

I could feel my cheeks burning, but for a different purpose now. A little piece of my mind thought, does he secretly like me? Why now?

"Hyung, you don't like being called like that though," Junhoe interrupted, yet again.

"Well, this time, I'll make an exception. Let's get closer, hm?"