Chapter 19

Sleeping was difficult. Maybe Hyun-suk noticed, but I honestly don't care. I'm angry!

In my mind, that message was on a constant loop, making me wonder who "Peach" was. Did Hyun-suk give people nicknames? Was that common?

We lay down, but I didn't want to engage in any couple stuff. I just wished him goodnight and closed my eyes, hoping the universe would make me sleep and thus avoid any questions I wasn't in the mood to answer. Because I knew he would ask about it, and then all that "we're nothing" stuff would happen.

I preferred to protect myself, even though I don't really know how to do that.

Look at me now, I'm preemptively suffering over something that doesn't even make sense. Hyun-suk isn't mine.

He still hugged me, warm and comforting, even though I hadn't given him an explanation for my sudden silence. He didn't seem to care much either.

He fell asleep before I did