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◈ My Platinum-Blonde Childhood Friend Is Too Pretty ◈

Chapter 85: 33. Sweet Cohabitation with My Platinum-Blonde Girlfriend -3

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Not once in my entire life had I ever looked at any woman other than Elli.

She was my ideal, and being loved by that same Elli left me with nothing more to want.

Of course, I understood that even so, the heart can still feel uneasy sometimes.

As Chae-hwan had said, the freshman orientation camp was famous as a social event where everyone drank heavily every single night.

Drinking meant getting drunk, and getting drunk meant people could make mistakes.

But.

"You know I can hold my liquor, right? I'm not going to slip up. Ever."

I was a solid drinker. The only time I'd properly drunk had been at that dinner with the adults, but I was strong enough with alcohol that even our parents had acknowledged it.

So at the very least, I was sure I wouldn't do anything stupid while drunk.

"Sure, but what if you stay sober and some drunk girl latches onto you? What then?"

"Mm..."

She had a point, and it was hard to argue against. I couldn't control what other people did when they were drunk.

Elli herself was proof of that. Even with our parents right there, the moment alcohol hit her she'd cling to me like nothing else existed.

Sure, people who'd never met me probably wouldn't go that far, but physical contact that they'd normally hold back on would definitely come more easily.

I lost my counter-argument and could only murmur vaguely.

"So what are you going to do?"

"Well..."

"Well what."

"I'll just... dodge them..."

"Ha."

-click!

"Elli, that's a beer..."

"I know!"

-gulp, gulp...!

Apparently my answer wasn't good enough, because Elli grabbed the beer she hadn't touched until now and started drinking out of sheer frustration.

The mood froze over in an instant.

"Elli~ Don't worry too much."

Lee So-yeon jumped in like a relief pitcher.

She called Elli's name in that same bright voice as always, and I quietly breathed a sigh of relief, silently begging her to please defuse this situation.

She didn't.

"You really think Do-yoon would do that? This isn't some guy who ignored everyone in middle school. He's been like this since elementary school, never giving any other girl the time of day, only ever looking at you. You really think he's going to give other girls an opening now? Right?"

"......"

There was a bit of a bite buried in that. She'd even let a hint of roughness into her voice, which was a little frightening.

Then Joo Hye-ryeong, too.

"Yeah. It's not like Do-yoon looking only at you is anything new. He gave nobody an inch in high school either. You think he'd start now? With. other. women."

"......"

She was still smiling that soft, pure smile of hers, but she said it with something cold quietly drifting through her expression.

"......"

I kept my mouth shut.

I hadn't done anything wrong. But this was not the moment to speak up.

I just drank my beer in silence.

Beside me, Minjae and Jin-woo had edged slightly away from the girls and were trading glances, silently blaming Chae-hwan with their eyes.

"Why'd you have to say that in front of Elli..."

"This lunatic has zero situational awareness. There's nothing but beer here, how drunk did he even get, what the hell."

"God, I'm so sorry..."

I could read every word just from their expressions.

While we exchanged those silent looks like a bunch of corpses, the girls clustered together and launched into an animated conversation of their own.

All three of them with beer cans in hand.

"Ugh, seriously."

"Don't stress. I'll stick right next to Do-yoon over there, and the second I see him give any other girl so much as a glance or leave an opening, I'll message you right away."

"I'll help too. Even if I believe in you, there's no way I could watch some other girl hanging off him."

"But you're all in different departments. Can you even do that?"

"I mean, when people are drinking, don't they mix together?"

"Oh, actually, I think I heard that once you're there, each group does activities by their own class and department..."

"Oh right! That's how it was... sorry. Keeping watch won't work then."

"Ugh, this is so frustrating. I'm done for today."

"...Are you going to kill him? Like, tonight...? Elli, how are you going to do it? Hm? Hm? What are you going to do to him?"

"Hold on, I don't want to hear any more of that. Just what I read in the chat was already rough enough..."

"Then go away. I want to hear it alone."

"........no, I mean... okay but... h-how are you going to punish him...?"

Their voices gradually dropped to murmurs and whispers, deep in their own world, a full girls-only conversation.

I moved over and joined the guys.

We sat at a distance from the girls, huddled together, drinking beer and talking.

"Do-yoon, sorry man. Damn, I said something I really didn't need to say..."

"It's fine. She'll get over it fast even if she says stuff like that. Anyway, can you two hold your drink? You said you all got together at Minjae's place and drank before."

"I'm so-so. Chae-hwan doesn't go down quick either. Though he does start acting like an idiot fast, like earlier."

"Oh~ What about you, Minjae?"

"I really don't know. It tastes bad so I just sip it and stop... Coke is way better."

"Same, honestly. Anyway, let's all go together next time. I want to try going to an actual bar."

"Fine by me, but go get Alisha's permission first."

"Mm... if it's somewhere close to home, wouldn't she let me?"

"You'd know that better than us. But can't you just bring her along?"

"Elli can't handle alcohol well..."

"If she can't, she just drinks soda. And if she gets drunk, you take care of her."

"Mm... it's hard to explain, but Elli doesn't really like how she acts when she's drunk."

"What does she do?"

"...You'd probably both feel sorry for me if you saw."

"??"

* * *

From talk of university to talk of drinking. Then small talk about other friends and trips before the semester started.

About an hour had passed with us split into two groups in the living room, guys and girls, drinking the beers everyone had brought over.

"You think money for the ski resort is going to dig itself out of the ground? Lee Jin-woo, you're paying. Seong Minjae, you got any?"

"If I tell my sister I'm going on a trip with friends, she'd probably help out..."

"Damn, I'm so jealous. No money, no sister, no girlfriend... what do I even have."

"So Minjae's in, and Do-yoon's never been short on money. Oh, and that Chae-hwan, the one who's always complaining that he goes out drinking but can't hold his liquor... look at him now, not a single won on hi..."

"What's wrong?"

"No, just, behind you..."

"Behind me?"

Jin-woo was staring past me with a startled look on his face in the middle of our conversation. I naturally started to turn around.

-squeeze...

Thin arms wrapped around my waist from behind, and something warm and soft pressed against my back.

A faint smell of beer mixed with a familiar warmth drifted up and hit my nose. Silky platinum-blonde hair tickled the back of my neck.

I knew instantly that Elli was drunk. There was no other reason she'd be this physically affectionate in front of friends.

"Why aren't you coming to my side... wanna die?"

"Elli? You're already drunk?"

"I'm not drunk, okay? Wanna die?"

She wasn't as completely wasted as last time, fortunately, but her words were slurring pretty noticeably.

Had she just been drinking steadily this whole time? I figured she'd put the can down after one and stop.

Still wrapped in Elli's arms, I glanced over toward Lee So-yeon and Joo Hye-ryeong. The explanation came immediately.

"Oh, um... in the middle of talking, we kind of didn't notice that Elli had finished four cans? And then she just suddenly did this? Not our fault, okay?"

"She was saying to herself that beer is meh but not that bad, and just drank on her own. We didn't make her drink."

"Right! She literally said that while drinking!"

"Anyway, we'd heard she couldn't hold her drink, but she really, really can't... haa... and she's so cute about it. Ugh, it's annoying."

"Pfft. Our Hye-ryeong can knock back two bottles of soju no problem, it's just a shame she can't be cute about it the way Elli is, huh?"

"Shut it. You're about to make me tell everyone about the time the two of us were drinking and you got drunk and crawled all over me..."

"EEEEK!! Shh!! We promised to keep that secret!!"

Well. I had a pretty clear picture of what had happened.

Come to think of it, the first time Elli ever drank, she'd gulped down even bitter soju like it tasted perfectly fine. She'd always had that problem.

Couldn't hold her drink, just like Auntie Ye-rin. Loved drinking anyway, just like Uncle Mark.

A true daughter of both of them.

Still, I hadn't expected four cans of beer to do it. Nobody had brought soju to begin with, so I'd figured beer wouldn't get her that far and had left her to it.

"mmm... nice... warm..."

Elli, who was almost certainly going to wake up tomorrow morning and die of embarrassment, rubbed her face against my back and put on her most affectionate display.

A little while after that.

She let go of my waist, shifted to sit beside me, and pushed her face up against my cheek.

"...I want a Bisou."

"Wait... just a little, just a little later!"

"I'm gonna give you a Bisou...!"

She pushed herself at me anyway, the word Bisou already on her lips, ignoring my protests.

Half-lidded, slightly unfocused eyes. Red lips inching toward my cheek.

-whoosh

"Hey. We're leaving."

"Next time you drink, just come by yourself. I want to kill myself."

"Yeah, me too. I'm heading out."

The guys stood up all at once, faces scrunched like they'd witnessed something they absolutely should not have.

Even so they were gathering trash and trying to clean up, which was genuinely thoughtful. I called out to them while simultaneously trying to hold Elli back from the kissing she was dead set on doing.

"Elli, can you please hold on just a little? Guys! Just leave it! We were pretty well-behaved so there's not that much to clean up, it's fine! Thanks for coming, everyone!"

Elli looked about three seconds away from pouncing on me, so getting them out first was the priority. I couldn't let them see that.

Mostly for Elli's sake.

"God... fine. Clean up after yourselves. Let's go."

They'd already caught a glimpse of Elli reaching for me with her lips and left with their faces even more pained than before.

"Hye-ryeong and I are heading out too~ Sorry we can't help clean up, but getting out of your way quickly is probably the right call here?"

"Hah... yeah. So. Let's get a drink on the way, I need one. Do-yoon. See you next time."

"Thanks for coming, you two! See you!"

-click!

Lee So-yeon and Joo Hye-ryeong read the room perfectly and were out the door in moments.

I felt genuinely sorry for rushing everyone out so suddenly. The living room was left in a mess of snacks and beer cans, just me and Elli.

"Phew... mph...!"

"haup... smack, smooch..."

I'd barely let out a sigh of relief, the tension just starting to leave my body, when Elli was already on top of me.

My girlfriend, smelling faintly of beer, pressed her small lips all over my face, leaving a trail of kisses everywhere she landed.

She pinned me to the living room floor and showered me in kisses, and then she slowly started to.

Move.

"mmm... smack..."

Lower.

"Phh... Elli? What are you doing?"

"smack... I'm doing a Bisou."

"Wasn't that what you were just doing?"

"Lower too."

"...Lower too?"

"Lower too... Bisou... I'm going to do it."

"......"

For just a brief moment my mind stalled completely and I didn't understand what she meant. Then it clicked, and I understood exactly what Elli was trying to do.

And since I was not the kind of terrible boyfriend who would reject his adorable girlfriend's affection.

I quietly accepted Elli's Bisou.

Above.

And below.

* * *

The next morning, in the early hours before dawn.

"...Lee Do-yoon."

"mmm... yeah, Elli...?"

"Next time... next time I'm drinking and you don't stop me..."

"Yeah...?"

"We're both dying for real... you understand...?"

Elli had woken me up, and she said it in a trembling voice.

Half-asleep, I thought vaguely about how my girlfriend standing there in just panties and a T-shirt was sexy and cute.

"Elli... come here..."

I lay back down on the bed and called out to her.

"......"

She crawled back into my arms. Still trembling with embarrassment and something close to self-loathing.

I wrapped my arms firmly around her soft, warm body.

Not thinking about anything else. Just so she could feel safe here.

-pat, pat

I gently patted her on the back and whispered in her ear.

"It's okay... you were cute... so don't worry about it and... let's go back to sleep together... okay...?"

"...It's not okay... I'm so embarrassed..."

"It is okay..."

"It's not okay..."

"I love you..."

"......"

"I love you... mmm... Elli..."

"... You... tomorrow morning... I'm going to wash you."

"Hmm...?"

"Because, b-before we fell asleep yesterday... I was drunk and... you washed me everywhere... so tomorrow I'm going to wash you..."

"Yeah... please..."

"Hmph..."

"......"

"...I love you."

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