The Fool's

I Do n't Like You

The weather was getting colder as Ara glanced at the clock on her wrist, at eight p.m. The girl had just walked out of the minimarket across from the apartment building when her gaze was fixed on someone standing behind her, the man was seen rubbing both of her cooling palms after opening her gloves, the man's gaze was fixed on the glass window covering a corner of the room above which the curtains were open, the room featuring a brown sofa and dim yellowish lights.

Ara took a breath and exhaled violently, she rubbed her forehead for a moment and then decided to step foot across the not-so-broad road.

The sound of his footsteps could not be heard clearly because the road was already full of snow but strangely the man turned his head as if he had even heard who was walking behind him.

Their views clashed, both of them pegged without saying any words. The man who was waiting for him from earlier was running out of words like he was exposed to magic.

"why are you here?"

Finally the girl started the conversation first

But the man before him remained silent, he had no intention of saying anything the man just wanted to see Ara, making sure she was okay.

"i don't want to talk about anything personal with you!"

Ara then walked past the man while tightening her coat, but a hug arrived - arriving from the man made Ara startled and her eyes bulged, his mouth almost shouted cursing the act but his lips were silenced by the gentle kiss of the man. Jae Hwan's.

Ara was still pecking when Jae Hwan cupped her cheeks with both hands and deepened their kiss, although it was originally a compulsion but Ara finally enjoyed what the man was doing.

This time alone, he wanted his misses to be treated.

The kiss ended with Jae Hwan hugging Ara getting warmer, holding both his arms on the girl's shoulders and a kiss on the top of her head.

"i can't help myself, I'm sorry to surprise you."

Said Jae Hwan between his arms

But Ara remained silent, for a while Jane's face appeared in her mind making Ara violently push Jae Hwan away while the man just looked at her in surprise.

"Ara-yah!"

Said the man softly

"Stop. I need some time!"

Ara's words make Jae Hwan feel sad but he also regrets what he did just now maybe too soon when he saw his girl shed tears. Jae Hwan wants to hug her again but he remembers that he does not want to exceed the limit.

"i just want to make sure you're okay, all right,"

"you kept avoiding me in the office and it was excruciating,"

"Ara-ya jebal (I beg you),"

"You must forget the past, you must see how I am now."

Jae Hwan's voice sounded frustrated, how not the problem with Ara to this day never ends even after three years.

"not now!"

Then Ara actually passed Jae Hwan without a fight like before.

He had no energy to cry bitterly - his tears did not stop dripping even though he removed his tracks on the cheeks.

The girl was sitting on the floor when the door of her apartment opened, somehow thinking but just for a moment she wanted to forgive Jae Hwan just like that and return her embrace but the shadow came back to make her realize.

Ara walked towards the glass in the corner of her living room that Jae Hwan was looking at. There was no man there Ara breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed her tears again.

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Ara continued to stare out the corner of the window from her brown sofa, looking out where the snow was getting thick, even more, beside him there were already more than five cans of beer that had been dented clearly when the contents of the can were crushed by the girl's hand which actually looked too tiny.

The girl was not satisfied, she took two bottles of soju from the freezer in her left and right hands, then sat back on the sofa with a view out the window. The day was late the road in front of him was also only illuminated by dim lights but the falling snow was still clearly visible.

Ara remembers the day Jae Hwan approached her during the introductory campus event, Ara smiled as she took her soju straight from the bottle, recalling the day she danced on stage and Jae Hwan approached her, for a while Ara was fascinated but realized when the man showed who he was.

The next day, Jae Hwan enters the same class as Ara. Ara smiles cynically, the man who has a playboy stamp, it turns out that he has to repeat one course where the fact that Ara is a new student and Jae Hwan is his senior. It is not perfect as people say to Ara.

The girl doesn't understand all the women on campus even look happy just because she can be in one room with Jae Hwan, in addition because he has a handsome visual man is also the heir to one of the largest telecommunications companies in Korea, he is also good at playing guitar and his voice can captivate anyone, he said, especially when he also did eye contact with 'prospective victims'

Jae Hwan looked at Ara who was sitting in front of him making all the women look annoyed at Ara while the girl where caring.

"I didn't know we were one class".

Jae Hwan started the conversation when the class was over

"you have another class?".

said Jae Hwan who realized Ara was in a hurry and ignored him

"eungbeen".

Ara's speech is short

"i also didn't know you didn't graduate one course, SUNBAENIM (senior)".

Ara emphasized on the last word and smiled cynically just to make the man feel embarrassed, she said, then Ara slightly bent over to leave first leaving Jae Hwan agape and could not believe that any woman dared to ignore him but it made Jae Hwan feel challenged

"You're serious?"

Said a woman standing beside Ara

"mwos?"

Ara asked indifferently

"You just ignored Kim Jae Hwan, everyone wants to be close to him even the men get close to him."

"You mean they're gay?"

said Ara while brandishing her two fingers giving quotes

"malldo andwe."

Said the short-haired girl

"of course Jae Hwan will benefit their parents' company, or to simply raise their class in front of others."

"Wait a minute, you mean he's clearly aware of their purpose in approaching him?"

Ara looked at her friend with a frowning forehead and a curious face.

"Of course, such an environment was common to him."

"Then my actions were right to ignore it, right? I don't want to be involved in a fake relationship."

Ara's

"You're not interested?"

they continued the conversation while sitting in the cafeteria

Ara shook her head while drinking the cold cappuccinno she was carrying. Ara had no interest in making her new world uncomfortable by letting the man into her life. He was only 19 years old too young to think of anything complicated.