My Girlfriend Is Very Good To Me [EN]: Chapter 24

Ep. 23

The Next Day

It had been a while since I’d met my girlfriend in the city – the first time since we started dating, in fact. We hadn’t seen each other for a whole four days. Even when I was working part-time, Heena would come to see me.

To be honest, four days isn’t really that long, but Heena had been sending me a flurry of texts from early in the morning, telling me how much she missed me, so it felt like an eternity.

“I missed you!”

As if wanting to fully express her feelings, she jumped into my arms as soon as we met. My puppy-like girlfriend enjoyed the hug for a good while.

Needless to say, I hugged her small frame tightly. It had been a few days since I’d seen her face, but we’d been texting and video calling a lot, so I wasn’t overcome with sentimentality.

Still, seeing her after a few days brought a sense of relief that filled a corner of my heart.

I’d never felt this way just because I hadn’t seen someone for a few days, but in the short span of a month, Heena’s presence had grown significantly in my life.

After hugging for a while, Heena took my arm and started leading me somewhere.

We didn’t really have any plans for the day, but did she have a particular place in mind?

“Where are we going?”

“The department store!” she replied, walking ahead with a slightly excited expression, as if anticipating something.

The department store. I’d occasionally stopped by for window shopping, just wandering around and going in once in a while, but this was the first time I’d come here with a specific destination in mind.

There was a large department store not far from where we met, so we arrived quickly and took the escalator to the upper floor.

Her steps were unwavering, so she definitely had a store she wanted to visit. I was very curious.

Heena had never directly expressed wanting to buy something when we met.

But with this atmosphere, it was clear she came here with a purchase in mind. If so, it seemed like I could finally give Heena a gift.

I was grateful for her teaching me, always taking care of me, and buying me things, and just for being with me!

My heart was pounding with anticipation.

What could Heena want to buy….

“…….”

As soon as we arrived, my eyes widened, unable to settle on anything. I was at a loss for words.

We had arrived at a clothing store. Maybe they were selling new items for the current season.

“Yeon-hoo! How about this?”

There, Heena, with the purest and brightest smile, was holding something up to her body, asking for my opinion.

It was…

Except for the fabric that covered her private parts, everything else was made of straps.

However, the area of fabric wasn’t that small, so it didn’t look as revealing as I thought.

Cute patterns were visible here and there.

Black.

It was a bikini.

I didn’t know what to say to Heena, who was showing me the bikini with sparkling eyes. More than that, I wanted to run away from this place.

I knew we were going on a trip soon, so she came to buy a swimsuit, but did I really have to come with her?

Since it was almost midsummer, there were a lot of female customers looking at swimsuits like Heena, and some of them were glancing at us with satisfied expressions.

It was painful. That satisfaction was too painful.

“Would something like this not suit me…?”

However, it was even harder to see Heena, who was immediately discouraged by my silence, so I quickly spoke.

“No… I think it would look great and be pretty, but it’s a bit… difficult for me to be here… Can’t I go out and wait?”

I said that to Heena with sincerity and desperation, but she, who usually responded and agreed to my words, firmly shook her head this time.

“No! Actually, I was thinking of buying it separately and surprising you, but…”

“Wow, that’s a really good idea! In that case, I’m going to get out of here…”

“I want to wear what you like the most. I want you to see it and choose it together.”

She showed such a strong will that she interrupted me. She seemed more determined than usual, when she would always refuse and buy things for me whenever I tried to buy her something.

“I’ll bet both my wrists that you’ll look good in anything. I’m serious.”

All I could do was reveal my true feelings without a single lie.

“Hehehe, thank you~ Should we look at other things? What style do you like?”

My girlfriend, eager for the next step, smiled softly.

I closed my eyes once and braced myself.

The only way for me to escape from here was to quickly pick one, buy it, and leave.

Anyway, she’ll look good in anything, so I could just pick one.

I somehow pushed away the embarrassment that was enveloping my whole body and looked at Heena again.

Then, she came into my view holding a new swimsuit in each hand.

“Yeon-hoo! Which one do you like better, this one or this one?”

“Oh…”

Both were super revealing bikinis. I liked both too much.

I liked them, but I didn’t think I could control myself, and I didn’t like the idea of other people seeing Heena wearing something like that.

“It looks like it would be pretty, but let’s get something else.”

“Huh? Why?”

“…It’s too se… 아니, too revealing…” (The 아니 is Korean for ‘no’, he is stopping himself from saying something)

“Don’t you like that kind of thing more?”

I wanted to shout at Heena, who was tilting her head as if she didn’t understand. I fucking loved it.

“I do, but… um… ah! How about that one?”

Because you’re so pretty, other guys might look at you. Because I can’t control myself.

I was too embarrassed to say either of those things, so I pointed to a swimsuit that was nearby as if to change the subject.

It was a bikini, but it had another piece of cloth like a short skirt on the bottom. It felt like something you would wear at a festival in South America.

Heena’s eyes followed my finger, and she said, “Ah~.”

“With a pareo [a wrap-around skirt]? Do you like that?”

“Yeah. Totally.”

So that’s what they call a pareo. Anyway, I gave her a thumbs up when she asked if I liked it.

I picked it without thinking, but it was better than I thought. It was a bit more covered on the chest than the one Heena was holding, and the bottom was still revealing, but I liked the feeling that the cuteness was a little more prominent than the sexiness thanks to the pareo.

Feeling my sincerity in my reaction, she looked back and forth between what she was holding and what I was pointing at for a while.

No, was that super revealing string bikini, which was just a thin piece of cloth connected with strings, really being considered as a choice?

There wasn’t time to think about it; my choice was more important, so she took the swimsuit I chose and headed inside the store.

I guessed she was going to the fitting room to try it on, so I turned my body a little and stood quietly looking at the wall.

Other customers would be trying things on, so I couldn’t hang around near the fitting room.

But now, there were a lot of people in the store who had seen that I came with my girlfriend, so they wouldn’t say anything, but I felt like I was going crazy being alone.

Please come back quickly.

While I was standing like a totem pole, praying so earnestly, my phone started ringing.

I was glad and looked at the screen, and the person who called was Heena, who had gone inside a little while ago.

“Oh, Heena? What’s wrong?”

[Can you come here for a second? I’m in the leftmost fitting room.]

“What’s wrong?”

[Yeah, I need your help]

“Okay, I’ll go now”

Hung up and headed there as Heena told me, without thinking much. The doors on both sides of the three fitting rooms were closed, except for the middle one.

I stood in front of the left door and knocked lightly.

“Heena, I’m here.”

“You came? Just a moment~”

-Click

The sound of unlocking was heard, and the door slowly began to open.

Soon after, the door opened halfway, and I moved one step to the side to see if there was anything I needed to hold.

And in front of me, I saw Heena’s whole body, wearing the swimsuit she had brought, with a slightly embarrassed look and a blush on her face.

At the same time, I felt breathless.

“How is it…?”

I couldn’t answer her question right away.

I’ve met Heena dozens of times, and there have been opportunities to see her skin.

She sometimes wore dolphin pants [short, tight athletic shorts], and sometimes she wore a sleeveless shirt inside a thin cardigan, so I thought I had seen a lot, but this was on a different level.

Honestly, I had a serious discussion with half-crazy guys about what the difference between underwear and swimwear is, so for me, swimwear was no different from wearing underwear.

A bikini top with white patterns and frills, and bikini bottoms that were tied on both sides with strings.

A pareo the length of a school uniform skirt that gently covered it on the side.

Heena’s skin, which was as white as jade, with not a speck of dust, was not covered at all except for the small area of the swimsuit.

Imagination and images or photos beyond the computer. And it was fundamentally different from seeing women in bikinis who are pretty but have nothing to do with me.

The girl in front of me was my girlfriend.

She only looks at me, always expresses her affection to an excessive degree, and always responds with a smile when I call her.

I was even moved by that fact and couldn’t continue to speak, but Heena, on the other hand, became calmer in my reaction, lowered her eyes even more, and took a step closer.

“You like it?”

Heena, who leaned her upper body slightly and smiled seductively.

“………I’ll wait outside. Let’s get that one. It suits you well.”

I barely managed to get those words out and ran away.

While running away, I pointed to the same swimsuit to the clerk nearby and asked how much it was, and then paid for it right away.

It was more expensive than I thought, but it didn’t matter.

The sense of duty that I had to buy it enveloped me.

—

“But it’s too expensive…”

“It’s okay.”

While leaving the department store, Heena and I were bickering for a while about the problem of me paying for the swimsuit.

I felt sorry that I had only received so much, but I thought it was fortunate that I could give her even this kind of gift, so I lightly dismissed Heena’s grumbling.

Heena’s birthday is at the beginning of the year like mine, so it was hard to buy her a gift under the pretext of her birthday.

“Then I’ll buy you a swimsuit too.”

“I bought one last year. And you wearing that is the biggest reward for me.”

Sincerely.

Heena blushed slightly at those words and spoke softly.

“Okay… Thank you, Yeon-hoo.”

Then she put the paper bag containing the swimsuit she bought a little while ago in her arms.

Feeling pleased with the sight, I opened my mouth, thinking that it would be okay to bring up this story now.

“Come to think of it, my mom wants to meet you. Do you have time tomorrow?”

And, as soon as those words were finished, Heena’s steps stopped.

The smile disappeared from her face.

She slowly turned her head to look at me with a creaking movement like a robot and said in a trembling voice.

“Wh, why are you telling me now?”

“…Because I heard it yesterday?”

“You should have told me even in a text!”

I was embarrassed because I was seeing this side of Heena for the first time.

Objectively, it wasn’t that loud, but I was surprised by the fact that she raised her voice at me.

It was a little refreshing, so my heart was pounding.

Unlike my heart, Heena, who was almost in a panic, muttered to herself.

“What should I do, the clothes… No, that’s enough… I think the one I bought then will be okay… What else do I need… A gift. I have to prepare a gift…!”

“You don’t have to do that much…”

“Yeon-hoo! Let’s go back! I have to buy a gift!”

She grabbed my wrist urgently and went back the way we came.

And I spent several times as much time choosing a gift for my parents as I did shopping for swimsuits, which was shorter than I thought.

After that, Heena first went back to prepare for tomorrow after having a heated debate with me about when to visit tomorrow and what time of day my mom would be comfortable with.

Left alone at the bus stop, I tried to erase the feeling that I had been abandoned.

Yeah, let’s think of today as a shopping date…