Arena Chapter 94:
Arena Chapter 94 – What happened when I got back (Part 2)
‘Why haven’t I heard from her?’
The time had passed by and it was now past 10 pm . Even so, there was no word from Min-jeong .
‘She’s not a kid or anything, nothing wrong with her staying late to drink but……’
I had told her that I would come pick her up and not hearing back by now left a bad taste in my mouth .
I sent her a text .
[Me: you having fun? When should I come get you?]
Just then, I got a phone call from Min-jeong .
“Hello? You in Cheonan?”
-Hehe, my honey! Were you waiting eagerly for me to call? Aww baby .
Hmm, yup, this was her drunk voice .
“I was waiting eagerly . ”
-Whhhy? Why?
“Cuz I miss you . ”
-Hehehe, you missed me? Aww, booboo, I know!
“Where are you?”
-Hehe, my handsome honey .
“…… I am good looking . ”
-Lots of money and a good body and a handsome face, my baby has got it all!
“Okay, okay, your rich pushover boyfriend oppa is here . ”
-Hehehehehe!
Min-jeong giggled loudly . She’s way beyond drunk .
“Where are you, Min-jeong . ”
-This is Arpeggio .
“Arpeggio? Where is that?”
-Arpeggio is…… Arpeggio, hehe!”
It’s probably the name of a bar .
“Is it in Cheonan?”
-Yup!
“I’ll come now, wait there . ”
-Hehe, my baby’s coming to get me . I was missing him but he’s coming here . Hehehe .
‘Wow . ’
After I hung up the phone, I changed my clothes and went down to the parking garage .
I search for “Arpeggio in Cheonan” in my GPS and there was indeed a bar named that .
How could she drink herself into such oblivion! Some guy could just pick her up and take her .
I followed the highway and raced over . I think I probably should have gotten a couple speeding tickets .
Oh, I had forgot . My car is a good car . It’s an SUV so the outside doesn’t look that luxurious but everyone always takes notice because it is a Porsche .
‘That’s right, Min-jeong’s friends will be there too . How do I look?’
I glanced over my outfit . I just threw stuff on but it wasn’t bad .
They were the clothes that the stewardess Lee Soo-hyun had picked out for me in Copenhagen .
After coming into so much money, even at the basic level I was still buying expensive and good things so no matter what I wore, I would always look pretty good .
More than anything, now that my body is so athletic and buff, no matter what it is, everything looks good .
‘This is more than good enough . ’
I complimented myself as I drive towards the bar .
With my guider skill, I was able to find Min-jeong easily .
But……
‘What the **** is that guy?’
I was at a loss for words .
Isn’t this just a drinking party? Where are all the friends?
A guy that looks like he barely just turned 20 was lending his shoulder to Min-jeong and was just sitting there .
‘What kind of situation was this?’
It was even more maddening because he was tall and handsome .
To have to see a thing like this when it has been a year since I have reunited with Min-jeong .
“Oh, are you Min-jeong noona’s boyfriend?”
The young man seemed to recognize me and asked me .
He looked over to Min-jeong resting on his shoulder and seemed embarrassed by it .
“I’m sorry . It’s just she is quite drunk . ”
“Where is everyone?”
I was so baffled by it all, that’s what I asked after some silence .
“They all left already . ”
“Oh? I see . ”
I took Min-jeong’s arms . I tried to shake her shoulders and rouse her awake but she wouldn’t wake up .
I tsk tsk-ed her and piggy baked her .
“We’ll be going . ”
I said a light farewell but then .
The young man grabbed a hold of me .
“Hold on please . ”
“Yes?”
I was already in a bad mood and the annoyance could be heard in my voice .
The young man looked like he was thinking something then said .
“I’ve heard a lot about you . I heard you have a lot of money and are very well off . ”
“Oh really?”
“You drive a nice car and all the clothes and shoes you’re wearing are luxury brand labels, you’re good looking, you must have lots of girls around you . ”
What’s this **** trying to get at?
“So? What do you want me to do about it?”
Now my voice could no longer stay amicable .
“If your feelings aren’t sincere, could you give up Min-jeong noona to me?”
“What?”
“I am being very sincere right now . I like her so much I think I’ll go crazy . I know that is no excuse but I beg you, please . ”
He said that and gave a 90 degree bow at the hip, it was quite a scene .
I was so flustered, I just looked at him .
“Hey . ”
“Yes . ”
“You seem like you’ve always had people tell you that you are nice and respectful and well mannered . Your looks are good and you probably got lots of love growing up . ”
I kept talking to the confused young man .
“But pretending to be that nice, that respectful, that desperately in love, did you think saying those things would make me forgive you?”
“……?!”
The young man’s face became frozen .
“You want me to guess more? Did you expect that after something like this I would get in a big fight with Min-jeong and we would break up? Lending your shoulder to a girl who’s already taken, you guys sure made a pretty picture . You wanna die?”
“Ah, no, I was just……!”
“If I see you again, I’ll rip your mouth right out of your face . ”
I stared at him head on and the young man’s face turned white .
He seemed like a gentle kid, how disappointing . If he was even a bit of a **** he would have picked a fight with me . In which case, I would have beat the **** out of him .
I asked for the bill at the counter and was told that the friends who left already paid it .
I put Min-jeong in the passenger seat and put the seat belt on her .
I turned on the car and angrily slammed on the pedal . The car is good and sped up in a few seconds .
My insides were bubbling and it was hard to stay calm .
‘How am I supposed to handle this?’
A guy like that was lingering around her? And she went out drinking with him?
I glanced over at Min-jeong .
She had no idea how I was feeling and was just sleeping peacefully . She looked pretty even when she was sleeping and it just made me angrier .
I came back after a year and in my absence, that guy shows up .
And suddenly I exploded in laughter .
I laughed hard .
‘What the **** am I doing?’
Why am I getting so worked up and upset over dating?
I was in a war with lots of lives at stake and even returned after getting revenge for my dead friends .
Only after doing all of that did I get a rest period of 100 days, so why!
Compared to that, this wasn’t even much of a problem so why was I getting so stressed!
I couldn’t handle how angry this was making me .
I took out my smartphone and called Hyun-ji .
-Hey, oppa, what’s up?
“Let Min-jeong sleep at your place tonight . ”
-Why?
“I don’t want to see her . ”
-Why are you being like that…… did something happen?
“She was passed out drunk and the guy she was with asked me to let him have her . ”
-Oh **** .
“I’m heading to you now . ”
-Oh, okay .
I dropped Min-jeong off at Hyun-ji’s studio that was close to my place .
“You okay, oppa?”
“Yeah . ”
“You don’t look okay . ”
“Nah . I’m just annoyed is all . It’s tiresome . What’s the point . ”
“But still oppa, calm down . Min-jeong isn’t the type to cheat . ”
“I know that too . ”
“If you know, you should let it slide . ”
“Why do I have to hold in that kind of stress while I date? Is dating that important?”
“……”
“Never mind . I’m going . ”
“Mm . ”
I returned home and haphazardly threw my clothes off and laid down in bed .
**
“Oooh, oppa . ”
Min-jeong turned around in bed and reflexively cuddled into the arms of the person next to her .
But the sudden female voice she heard…
“Eww gross, **** . Who are you calling oppa?”
“……?”
Min-jeong eyes shot open .
With an empty stare, she looked at Hyun-ji .
Having come out of Hyun-ji’s embrace, Min-jeong clumsily looked around .
What came into view was a studio that was a little less than 400 square feet .
“Where is this?”
“My room, where else . ”
“Why am I here?”
“Oppa dropped you off here and left . ”
“Hyun-ho oppa?”
“You got a different oppa?”
Only then did Min-jeong remember .
“Oh, right! Did I call oppa?”
“He said you did . That’s probably why he went to pick you up . ”
Min-jeong quickly took out her smartphone and checked her call history .
Thankfully, there was a call record of her and hyun-ho . But seeing that, Min-jeong was confused .
“But why did oppa drop me off here?”
Hyun-ji just made tsk tsk noises at her .
“You don’t remember anything?”
“Well, I drank too much……”
“Tsk tsk, I thought you were curbing your drinking lately but you friggin’ drank till you blacked out . ”
“It was the last day with the cooking academy people…… but what happened? Why didn’t oppa take me home and instead left me here?”
“You **** up, girl . ”
“What? How?”
Min-jeong looked scared . What mistake did she make?
“Who is the guy you were alone with?”
“A-alone with?”
“That’s what he said . When he got there, there were no friends, just you and the guy . ”
“What, what do you mean . Everyone else had left?”
“Yep . ”
“Oh shit, what do I do! So what happened?”
“He asked oppa to give you up . Who is that improper guy?”
Min-jeong face lost all color .
“What do I do! Is oppa really mad?”
“He must be really mad if he left you here . ”
“Um, how mad?”
“He said it’s all very tiresome . He said he doesn’t know what it’s all for . He said dating isn’t so important to him that he would be willing to bear this kind of stress for . If you play this wrong, you’ll lose everything at once . ”
Min-jeong was scared .
Min-jeong hurried and got dressed .
“Where are you going, at this hour?”
“I have to go home!”
“It’s dawn right now . ”
“Doesn’t matter, I have to go! It’ll be too late if I don’t get there and beg right now!”
“So you do know . Want me to call you a taxi?”
“Yeah!”
Hyun-ji made a call and gets a taxi .
Min-jeong was anxious and didn’t know what to do and kept asking Hyun-ji if oppa was really mad .
“It would be a good thing is he was just mad . Then you can appease him . ”
“But?”
“He looked like he was sick of it and just wanted to call it quits . ”
“Oh my God! What am I going to do! I’m totally screwed!”
“Well who told you it’d be a good idea to around flirting? Were you still doing that here and there?”
“It’s not like that!”
Min-jeong shouted, on the verge of tears .
“My cooking school friends just were pranking me for fun! Oh my God, what am I going to do!”
“What do you mean, if begging doesn’t work, that’s it . ”
“Are you going to keep talking like that just cuz this isn’t you?”
Min-jeong let out her anger too .
Hyun-ji asked in a surprised voice .
“Were you guys that serious?”
“Yes! Did it look like I was fooling around with Hyun-ho oppa to you?”
“Yeah, that’s how you’ve always been . Isn’t that all stuff oppa knew too before he dated you?”
At those words, Min-jeong went blank .
Because of this, that was how Hyun-ho might start seeing her now too .
Hyun-ho liked girls that were demure and well behaved . That was why Min-jeong looked to Hyun-ho while she tried hard and gained his trust .
Because Hyun-ho knew she used to go around with Hyun-ji to play around, she tried so hard to absolve herself of that image .
But because of this one incident, she might lose all her efforts in an instant .
As soon as the taxi arrived, Min-jeong frantically sped over .