Don't You Need an Omega Lucky Charm - Chapter 14.2
It got to the point where even Kim Hyeongyu, who was saying something to him, turned his head to look at Ha-on. Then, as if suddenly acknowledging something, he nodded his head and patted Cha Seojun’s shoulder.
‘What are you guys doing behind my back?’
Cha Seojun naturally picked up three beer bottles and a basket of chicken from a nearby table and approached Ha-on.
Why are you bringing stuff from someone else’s table?
While Ha-on was watching with a troubled gaze, Cha Seojun naturally sat down next to Cha Jeongwon.
Normally, a four-person table is set up so that two people can sit facing each other, but with two overly large men sitting squeezed together, it automatically looked suffocating.
“It feels like a wall across the table.”
While he was muttering inaudibly, Cha Seojun replied with a bright voice.
“Why did you leave so quickly at the cafe earlier?”
“…Ah. The person Kim Hyeongyu mentioned was you.”
Only now did Ha-on realize he had misunderstood.
When Kim Hyeongyu suddenly told Ha-on that a welcome face would appear, Ha-on thought he was teasing him about Cha Jeongwon.
Because their reunion back then was so shocking, he didn’t have the leeway to think of anything else, and he hadn’t known Cha Seojun would choose the same university and the exact same major as him.
“Then you should have told me first…”
“Go sit somewhere else.”
Before Cha Seojun could refute Ha-on’s grumbling remark, Cha Jeongwon cut into the conversation.
Ha-on looked back and forth between Cha Seojun and Cha Jeongwon, and Cha Jeongwon cast a displeased look at Cha Seojun.
And Cha Seojun had been looking only at Ha-on ever since he came over here.
“It’s not assigned seating anyway. I want to sit here. Don’t mind me and have some beer here.”
Cha Seojun slyly shifted the topic.
Ha-on narrowed his eyes and glared at Cha Seojun.
“Still the same.”
He still didn’t bend his own will while maintaining a smiling face.
When they met at the academy as an assistant teacher and a student, Ha-on had a lot of time to talk with Cha Seojun for that same reason. Cha Seojun at least followed Ha-on’s words better than other people.
Come to think of it, he felt like Cha Seojun had once mentioned he would enter the same university as him. Having made such a bold declaration, it seemed he had really gotten in.
‘Speaking of which, I think he also asked what I would do for him if he got into the same school.’
Even the fact that he ultimately succeeded in admissions seemed to prove Cha Seojun’s stubbornness.
And it was quite fascinating that such behavior from Cha Seojun worked on Cha Jeongwon.
Because he had thought a prickly person like Cha Jeongwon wouldn’t tolerate a guy like Cha Seojun.
“Forget it.”
Cha Jeongwon gave a short refusal and picked up the water pitcher.
Ah, so he really doesn’t tolerate it.
Well, Cha Jeongwon is a character with a strong presence too.
As Cha Jeongwon poured water into a cup and drank it, the pub grew briefly quiet. Everyone had been paying attention to Cha Jeongwon while pretending not to.
Ha-on also looked at Cha Jeongwon while pretending to drink alcohol.
Every time he swallowed water, his Adam’s apple surged heavily. The nape of his neck exposed under the lighting and the line extending beneath it kept catching his eye.
He averted his gaze to avoid looking, but if he let his guard down even a little, his head turned back again.
Every time that happened, he had to sip his drink while acting as if nothing were wrong.
‘It looks like a commercial.’
Ha-on muttered to himself.
To draw people’s attention just by drinking a glass of water, it seemed he was born with it.
When Cha Jeongwon’s intention not to drink alcohol was clearly displayed, even the adjacent table could no longer strike up a conversation.
The laughter and noisy chatter remained the same, but this small table felt like it was in a different place.
“By the way, Senior Yoon Ha-on. Do you know that they mentioned you, Senior Ha-on, in the Basic Spatial Studio class I took today?”
Ha-on, who was drinking beer, turned back to Cha Seojun.
“The professor said so, praising Senior Ha-on for doing exceptionally well. Didn’t he tell you to try entering a competition too?”
Ha-on nodded his head.
He had received such a contact during the vacation.
“I haven’t said I’ll do it yet. I was contemplating because I thought it might overlap with my graduation project.”
But to think he said that to a freshman who had just entered the university, Ha-on flushed red as if embarrassed.
“If you happen to have time, just once for me…”
“Why were you alone?”
Cha Jeongwon cut through Cha Seojun’s words and interjected.
“Since I was going to drink anyway, it doesn’t matter whether I’m alone or with someone.”
Ha-on shrugged as if it were no big deal.
“Besides, it’s a welcome party. I don’t need to be welcomed.”
After blurting it out, it felt as though his words had come out a bit harshly.
“I thought you weren’t coming, Senior, so I guess everyone was surprised that you came.”
Ha-on also shifted the topic as if rolling his glass around. He mixed in a laugh to ease the awkwardness.
Inwardly, he also mixed in a light reproach asking why he came after saying he wouldn’t catch on?
“You said you weren’t coming, so what brings you all the way here?”
He intended to just think it, but before he knew it, the words slipped right out.
It was a dangerous sign.
