Nam Do Hyun was a famous figure and the face of the school.

Thanks to his handsome appearance, he was selected as the cover model for the university magazine and even dominated real-time search rankings for a while. Famous entertainment agencies even came to the school to scout Do Hyun.

Nam Do Hyun’s popularity was so great that Shin Joo, who was elected as the department representative, was jealous of him.

“You’re so lucky. As the department representative, you can see senior Do Hyun often.”

“That’s why I wanted to be the department representative too.”

“Have you ever seen senior Do Hyun? I wish I could talk to him just once.”

Nam Do Hyun again.

Even good words become tiresome when you hear them repeatedly.

Let alone a person. It was a time when Joo even felt repulsed by the name Nam Do Hyun, which she heard every day.

While sorting the department jackets by size in the department room, Joo turned her head at the sound of the door opening.

“Senior Chan Woo, hello.”

Joo bowed her head first upon seeing Park Chan Woo, a senior one year above her.

“Oh, Joo is here.”

Chan Woo turned around while pulling the strap of the bag on his shoulder.

Joo thought he was alone, but a man followed Chan Woo into the department room.

Joo instinctively realized that the person who entered with Chan Woo was Nam Do Hyun.

The shoulders of the largest size department jacket fit him perfectly, and his casually styled hair suited him well. It was nothing special, but it caught her eye.

“Are the freshman department jackets out?”

“Ah, yes. I’m organizing them to distribute.”

Joo hurriedly averted her gaze and hastily gathered the department jackets.

She was so focused on looking at Do Hyun that she didn’t even notice Chan Woo approaching from the side.

“You’re seeing Joo for the first time, right? She’s the freshman department representative.”

Joo, who was busily organizing the department jackets, turned to face the approaching Do Hyun.

Despite being tall for a girl, her eyes were drawn upward by Do Hyun’s overwhelmingly tall height.

“My name is Shin Joo, the freshman department representative of the Business Administration department.”

Why am I feeling nervous?

The voice that came out was stiff.

The sound of Nam Do Hyun’s chuckle rang precisely in her ears.

Her cheeks flushed, feeling like she had been caught being nervous.

“He seems like he went to the military, not you, Chan Woo.”

Joo looked down at Do Hyun’s hand, which lowered into her field of vision.

Trying to appear nonchalant, Joo grasped Nam Do Hyun’s hand.

‘Are people with tall height usually have big hands too?’

It seemed like her hand was hidden and invisible in Nam Do Hyun’s hand.

Perhaps because it was fascinating, she let go of Nam Do Hyun’s hand after a long time.

Although she occasionally encountered Nam Do Hyun due to the student council, they were not close enough to have personal conversations.

Later, Do Hyun got a job and rarely visited the school, to the point where she could count the days on one hand.

It was around the time when the name she had heard so often that she was sick of it gradually faded.

After finishing her lecture, Joo opened the door to the student council room and froze in front of it.

The student council room was noisier than usual, and at the center of it was Nam Do Hyun.

Wearing a perfect suit instead of the department jacket he often wore.

“Long time no see, Shin Joo.”

It had really been a long time.

It had been well over two months since he last came to school.

Perhaps because it had been a while, she felt unnecessarily happy to see him.

Joo entered the student council room, trying to erase the dazed expression on her face.

“It’s been a while since you came.”

“I have some business with the department head.”

Before they could even have a brief conversation, Chan Woo intervened.

“Joo, do you want to come to Do Hyun’s place too?”

“Senior Do Hyun’s place?”

“We decided to go to our senior’s house and drink to our heart’s content.”

Hmm. Joo’s dilemma deepened.

She was worried about the liberal arts assignment that had to be completed by the day after tomorrow.

She never procrastinated, so she had intended to finish the assignment by today no matter what.

“No, I have an assignment left to do.”

“Come with us if it’s not urgent.”

Now even Nam Do Hyun joined Chan Woo’s side.

While Joo was rolling her eyes, finding it difficult to refuse, even the student council members joined in.

“The senior is treating us today. This is when you should take advantage of it.”

“The flower of our Business Administration department absolutely can’t be absent!”

The seniors hooked their arms around Joo’s arms so that she couldn’t escape and forcibly took her out of the student council room.

Thus, Joo ended up being dragged to Nam Do Hyun’s house.

Joo thought the student council members were collectively setting a world record.

They were drinking as if competing to see how quickly they could get drunk in a short period of time.

Only Joo, who didn’t particularly enjoy drinking, was sitting in the living room with a sober face.

Ah, there was one more person. Another person who was clear-headed.

Despite clinking glasses with people numerous times, Nam Do Hyun’s face showed no signs of intoxication.

Joo was staring at Do Hyun, amazed that his complexion didn’t change at all.

“Joo, why are you looking at the senior with such eyes?”

“Pardon?”

Chan Woo, with a face soaked in alcohol, bumped his shoulder against Joo’s shoulder.

“You were looking at senior Do Hyun with sticky eyes.”

He seemed to be the one who was more sticky, but was he just joking?

Dong Seok, a senior one year above Joo who was sitting next to Chan Woo, joked loudly.

“You know that the competition rate for the freshman department representative and vice-representative was also high because of the senior, right?”

“You’re exaggerating.”

“Even if it’s an exaggeration, it’s not untrue.”

Narrowing his eyes, Chan Woo asked a bold question under the influence of alcohol.

“Joo, did you also run for the department representative because you like senior Do Hyun?”

The people sitting in a circle in the living room focused their attention on Joo.

Only Nam Do Hyun, the person in question, was tilting his glass with an uninterested face.

“I have no interest in senior Do Hyun. I applied for the department representative position to add a line to my resume.”

She tried to say it as plainly as possible, but it seemed to come across as lacking affection.

Even Chan Woo, who had asked, looked awkward and glanced at Do Hyun.

Do Hyun lowered the glass he had brought to his lips and raised one corner of his mouth.

“Why are you saying it so seriously again? It’s disappointing.”

At his playful words, the senior girls sitting next to him made a fuss.

“Joo is probably the only one here who has no interest in Do Hyun.”

“The other girls must be happy to have one less competitor.”

As the atmosphere heated up again, Joo quietly closed her mouth.

She was worried that she had hurt Nam Do Hyun’s feelings with her excessive reaction. Joo, who was observing Do Hyun’s reaction, picked up her bag and stood up.

“Where are you going?”

She tried to leave quietly, but Chan Woo noticed and spoke.

“I’m going to leave first.”

“Stay and hang out a little longer. Please?”

Chan Woo grabbed Joo’s wrist and looked up at her, whining.

As Chan Woo tried to force Joo to sit down, Do Hyun spoke first.

“Go ahead. Let’s meet again if there’s an opportunity next time.”

As Chan Woo’s hand that was holding onto her let go, Joo bowed her head briefly and left Do Hyun’s house.

When she got out to the main road and hailed a taxi, Joo headed home.

Her shoulders, which had been raised without her realizing that she was tense, finally slumped down.

“Ah, my cell phone.”

Joo, who was leaning against the seat, realized that her cell phone was missing when she was almost home.

After rummaging through her bag, even the inside, Joo leaned towards the driver.

“Excuse me, driver, could you take me back to where I came from?”

“It’s possible. But it will be congested because it’s rush hour.”

“Yes. Please do so.”

She thought it would be difficult to go back and retrieve her cell phone if not today, as she rarely came to the school.

Why did she make a mistake she rarely made?

She closed her eyelids, fatigued by the slow-moving car.

She ended up wasting an hour on the road trying to get through the congested traffic.

Joo got out of the taxi and took the elevator. She thought that by now, the student council members might have all left.

As she stepped out of the elevator, she ran into the student council members walking down the hallway.

The senior girl who noticed Joo first spoke to her cheerfully.

“Joo, you came back?”

“I left my cell phone behind.”

“Oh, really? I didn’t see it when I was cleaning up the living room. Look carefully in every corner.”

“Yes. Have a good day.”

Joo passed by the seniors, closed the doorstop that was propped open, and entered the house.

She took off the sneakers she was wearing and left them in the entryway, then walked quickly through the hallway. But her feet, which were about to enter the living room, wouldn’t move readily.

It was because of Do Hyun lying on the long living room couch.

“Senior.”

She called out to Do Hyun cautiously, but there was no movement at all.

Joo hesitated for a moment, then decided to just find her cell phone and leave, looking around the living room.

It seemed that the senior girl was telling the truth about not seeing the cell phone, as it was nowhere to be seen no matter where she looked.

‘Could it have fallen under the couch?’

Since it couldn’t have gone anywhere else, the only answer was under the couch.

Joo walked towards the couch on tiptoe like a thief, debating whether to wake up Do Hyun who was lying on it.

Joo knelt down and lowered her head under the couch.

At that moment, she spotted her cell phone glinting in the dim space under the couch.

Relieved of one worry, Joo reached out and retrieved the cell phone that had gone inside the couch.

“Got it.”

It was the moment she raised her upper body that had been lowered.

Nam Do Hyun, who was clearly lying on the couch, was now sitting up and looking down at Joo.

Joo pushed the couch away with both hands and tried to stand up on her knees.

“Shin Joo.”

Suddenly, Nam Do Hyun called out to Joo.

Was he drunk on alcohol?

Or was he drunk on sleep?

His eyelids, which slowly closed and opened, carried weight.

She was focused on how his black eyes were hidden behind his eyelids.

Touch.

Something that shouldn’t touch her lips touched them.

Joo pulled her head back.

She covered her lips with both hands.

Thud.

Nam Do Hyun’s forehead heavily rested on her shoulder.

Do Hyun, who slid down Joo’s stiff shoulders, collapsed onto the couch.

In the silent living room, only the sound of her own heart pounding could be heard.

It seemed like her heart might stop, and it wouldn’t be surprising.

Startled, Joo clutched her cell phone in her hand, quickly got up from her spot, and ran out of the house.

“Haa, haa.”

Joo, who had been running around the sidewalk frantically to the point where she could taste blood in her throat, bent her waist forward.

Holding her knees and panting, she eventually squatted down on the ground.

Joo, who was dumbfounded, mumbled while burying her face in her knees.

“What do I do?”

It touched.

It definitely touched.

Nam Do Hyun’s lips on my lips.