Don't You Need an Omega Lucky Charm - Chapter 16.2
Ears that were uninhibited by alcohol added their own random interpretations. Whispering voices traveled rapidly between the tables.
Cha Jeongwon looked down at Ha-on silently for a moment.
His arm hung down limply. Meanwhile, his eyes were completely closed.
“Cha Seojun.”
At Cha Jeongwon’s call, Cha Seojun sprang right up.
“Call a taxi.”
***
The first thing to open its eyes was not his head, but his body.
While feeling hollow as if empty inside, it felt heavy.
As Ha-on slowly raised his eyelids, white light blurred across his vision.
“…Uh.”
He didn’t recognize it at first, only realizing belatedly that the ceiling wasn’t the one he saw every day. It was wider than his room, and there was a track lighting rail he had never seen before.
“Where… is this?”
His voice was raspy. The taste of alcohol remaining on his tongue had not yet dissipated.
There was neither the smell of fabric softener nor the dust-mixed air peculiar to his studio apartment.
From the bedding, there was only a nice smell like dry sunlight.
When he tried to push the duvet aside and get up, he felt a human presence down below.
A regular breathing sound could be heard. Holding his breath, Ha-on slowly bent his upper body to look down below the bed.
The moment he saw a man sleeping on the bare floor with one arm pillowed under his head, Ha-on desperately bit his lips to hold back a scream that was about to come out.
Because these were facial features that could be recognized from a hundred meters away, he couldn’t possibly pretend not to know.
“Cha Jeongwon…”
Words closer to a gasp than a sound leaked out. The inside of his throat went bone dry.
‘What did I do yesterday?’
The welcome party. The corner table. Beer.
After saying that Senior always treats me like a strange person…
I got drunk.
After that, his memory was cut off.
He couldn’t even grasp how to fill in the severed part.
“My phone…”
Almost reflexively, he looked for his phone.
That was the only evidence that would tell him what had happened yesterday.
Ha-on pulled the duvet further to cover his upper body and very carefully groped along the edge of the bed.
Is it not here?
Then where could it be? While looking around, he discovered two phones placed side by side on the nightstand.
Even when he brought over his phone among them and pressed the button, there was no reaction.
‘Ah…’
It seemed the battery was drained. It looked like he wasn’t the only one exhausted.
“Charger…”
Ha-on swallowed a breath and lowered his feet over the edge of the bed.
His toes touching the floor were cautious. He gathered strength into the soles of his feet to try coming down quietly.
“…Mm.”
Following a low groan, the sound of a body turning over was heard. Ha-on froze as he was.
He even stopped breathing.
In dramas, people fall back asleep at times like this, though…
Regrettably, no such thing happened to him.
Cha Jeongwon opened his eyes.
With eyes that were not fully awake, he looked at the ceiling once and then looked up at the person standing directly above him.
Ha-on’s eyes met Cha Jeongwon’s.
“After suspecting me as the culprit like that yesterday, why did you drag me here!”
At times like this, the best defense is an immediate attack.
Before the dazed air could even break, Ha-on shouted first.
His voice trembled slightly.
Cha Jeongwon blinked his eyes once.
His face had the dazed look characteristic of someone not fully awake, but soon an expression of utter absurdity surfaced.
“I wasn’t going to say things like this, but…”
Ha-on poured out his aggrieved feelings in a streak.
If Cha Jeongwon hadn’t come yesterday, he would have drunk moderately and gone home. So there was no way he would face a morning like this.
Yesterday morning, I met Cha Jeongwon and the elevator stopped too.
Last time, I even tumbled down the stairs.
I even took those unnecessary suppressants out of vigilance against Cha Jeongwon.
His blackout was entirely caused by Cha Jeongwon.
“I am not a man who falls so easily over a single peck.”
“…”
“That was an accident, I am absolutely not conscious of it as a kiss.”
“…You seem pretty conscious of it, though.”
Ignoring Cha Jeongwon’s low murmur, he placed his hands on his waist.
“Rather, I am the one who feels wronged. I avoided you like that because I didn’t want to meet you, Senior, so why do we keep running into each other? It almost felt like an invisible hand was making us meet! In dramas, they would call something like this fate, but it’s not.”
Ha-on already knew all about what the original work’s plot was.
“We are an ill-fated match!”
“First of all, hear me out…”
“So don’t bring along a drunk person like this.”
“It wasn’t me.”
Cha Jeongwon spoke calmly without raising his voice.
“You are the one who grabbed onto me and wouldn’t let go.”
Not me, but you.
