-Swish
In that state, Heena gently stroked my hair, and I took advantage of a break in the conversation to put one hand on Heena’s cheek.
Then, a slight weight began to settle on my palm. Heena tilted her head slightly, pressing her cheek against it.
At the same time, the soft and smooth texture I felt on my hand never got old.
After a while of gently kneading Heena’s cheek, she slowly began to lower her face.
-Chu!
She was flexible, so she bent her waist without much difficulty and kissed my lips.
“Come to think of it, we haven’t even done it ten times today.”
“Yeah. I’m sleeping over today, so I’ll do it a thousand times when we sleep.”
“Um… can’t we just do it a hundred times? I’ll be super sleepy around that time.”
“It’s okay~ I’ll do the other nine hundred while you’re sleeping.”
“Wow.”
I had nothing to say to my girlfriend’s confident appearance as she innocently smiled and predicted a thousand kisses.
She said she’d do that many when we sleep because she’s sleeping over today. If she wasn’t sleeping over, my lips would already be blocked by Heena’s lips, and I wouldn’t even have time to talk.
From the start, there was no story more important than physical affection. We were together for at least 12 hours out of 24 hours a day.
Of course, since we had returned to the past, we could use our future knowledge to prepare diligently for the future, but we had already agreed not to rush things too much.
Leisurely.
Just whispering love to each other.
That’s how we decided to spend our time.
Besides, we didn’t have any knowledge that we could use right away. It would be nice if we knew some stock information, but Heena practically lived in the hospital, and I was only focused on studying except when I went to visit her.
I roughly knew that large-cap stocks had risen overall, but I didn’t know the details, such as which ones had risen by how much.
Even if I did know, we didn’t have any funds, and I didn’t have the confidence to naturally persuade my parents by saying, ‘How about investing because this stock is going to rise?’
Since neither my family nor Heena’s family was particularly lacking, we abandoned the idea of trying to do something too radically.
Our dream was just to live normally like others. To study normally, go to college, get a job, and then, someday, get married and create our own lives.
That was our goal. A normal life that we couldn’t achieve in the future we had already lived through.
“Umm~”
While I was lost in thought, Heena, who had been steadily bowing and kissing me once in a while as if knocking, frowned.
I guess this isn’t enough.
Now I could see what Heena was thinking just by looking at her face.
“Yeon-hoo, can you get up for a second?”
“Okay.”
Knowing what she was planning to do, Heena got me up and immediately went into my room to get a pillow. Then, she put it on the living room floor and laid me down on the floor again.
“Hehehe…”
At the same time, Heena let out a sly laugh and climbed on top of me, who was lying down, hugged my neck, and began to kiss me.
“Chup…”
I accepted the kiss and hugged Heena tightly so she wouldn’t fall off me.
“Chu! Chu!”
“Oh my, Heena.”
“Yes, tell me~ Chu!”
As if she liked my response, she began to diligently attach her lips not only to my lips but also to my nose, cheeks, forehead, and neck. I didn’t stop her and continued to speak.
“Wouldn’t it be better to go to the room? The bed seems more comfortable.”
“Chook… If we do this on the bed, I think I’ll end up taking a nap.”
“Ah, yeah. I think we’ll definitely sleep.”
And I immediately agreed with that. We were already 8 years old, but we still couldn’t resist the temptation of a nap.
If our bodies became comfortable around this time, our eyes would slowly close. It wasn’t something we could stop with willpower.
I wonder if it will get better when our bodies grow up a bit more.
“We don’t have much time to be alone, so it would be a waste to spend it napping~”
“Yeah, yeah. Do you want more kisses?”
“Yes!”
After that, Heena’s kisses continued endlessly. If you ask why we’re only doing this and not playing something else, it’s because there’s not much to play.
I, who have mastered the games that will come out 10 years from now, couldn’t really immerse myself in the games of this era. It just felt like enjoying them with a bit of retro sensibility.
Going to the playground or park wasn’t a great idea either. Actually, sitting on the swing and talking or taking a walk around the neighborhood was quite enjoyable. But if we met our classmates, we would be immediately caught.
Once we were caught, it wasn’t play but labor that started. It’s not easy to deal with the kids every break time at school, and I wanted to avoid doing that after school as well.
“Ugh… Yeon-hoo.”
“Why?”
Around the time my entire face was covered with Heena’s saliva, she stopped kissing and called me. And what she said was one of my biggest concerns these days.
“Are you… going to take a bath with me later?”
It was about taking a bath together.
“Um… we’re elementary school students now…”
“We’re still in first grade~ It’s okay, right? You’re going to say you’ll do it with me, right?”
“Um…”
I couldn’t answer Heena right away, who was demanding as if it was a must.
In fact, there were quite a few days when we took a bath together. We met again at the age of 4 and now we are 8 years old. Because we were so young, our families would wash us together when they went on trips or when we went to sleep at one of our houses.
Of course, since we weren’t at an age where we had sexual desires, we just washed together, even though I felt a little embarrassed.
To be honest, I was a little embarrassed. But it was weird for a kid in daycare to say they were embarrassed and wanted to wash separately, so I couldn’t refuse.
Even now, at the age of 8, I wasn’t having any physical reactions, but I was starting to think it was getting dangerous.
Because when we went into the bathroom together, Heena would not only wash her body but also cling to me naked.
Besides.
“Heena, you stare at me too much when you wash.”
“Why~ We’re going to get married, so what’s wrong with it! Yeon-hoo, you look at me too~”
This is my girlfriend who boldly asks me to look at her body.
Did Heena lose her sense of shame when she returned to the past? Am I the weird one?
Anyway, when Heena acts cute like this, I always lose. I had to cut it off firmly this time.
“Then it’s only until this year. From next year, we’ll wash separately.”
“No!”
“…Then the year after next?”
“No~”
“Until when are you going to wash together?”
“Can’t we just keep taking baths together?”
“No.”
If we still take baths together the year after next, won’t I get killed by her dad?
—
While bickering with Heena about taking a bath, Heesung hyung [older brother/male friend] and Sunhoo hyung came home, and the four of us played together. And as evening approached, Junghoo hyung, who became a middle school student this year, also came back.
“Daughter-in-law, is it delicious?”
“Yes! It’s so delicious!”
“Okay. Eat a lot.”
“Yes, Mother!”
A large group, including Heesung hyung and Heena, had dinner with my family. It was so common for these two to have dinner with my family that there was nothing special about it.
We even had separate tableware for Heena and Heesung hyung at home.
“You said you’re sleeping over, right? I’m going home~ Uncle! Auntie! Goodbye!”
“Heesung, I’ll give you a ride.”
After dinner, my dad drove Heesung hyung home.
“Rub me with soap~”
“Oh my, okay.”
“Are you going to do it with your hands?”
“No. With a shower towel.”
“I want you to do it with your hands… hehehe…”
“……”
In the end, I took a bath with Heena, who was full of desire.
“Eep! Yaap!”
“Oh my, it’s so refreshing to have my daughter-in-law massage me.”
“Honey, is it that refreshing?”
“I’ll do it for Father next time!”
“Hehe, really?”
“Yes! Yaap!”
Only after Heena massaged my mom and dad’s backs with her small hands.
Another day was coming to an end.
11 PM. Heena and I were lying on the bed, facing each other, talking.
“You worked hard. Was it tough?”
“Yeon-hoo… I think I’m too weak…”
“Pfft, did you really hit with all your might?”
“Yeah…”
Even from the side, it looked like my mom and dad just liked that Heena was doing it, and it didn’t seem like they felt anything from the massage.
Well, they were happy, so isn’t that enough?
“Don’t worry too much. Mom and Dad seemed really happy, so.”
“I hope so…”
“By the way, are we just going to sleep? If you’re tired, should we just hug?”
“No!”
I said that to cheer up Heena, who was feeling down because she couldn’t massage properly, and a strong answer immediately came back.
At the same time, she started climbing on top of me, just like she did on the living room floor during the day.
And she looked down at me with shining eyes.
“Yeon-hoo, you can sleep if you’re tired. Okay?”
“How can I sleep when you’re kissing me?”
“Then do it with me!”
“Okay… Woop.”
We came back to the past almost 20 years ago and became childhood friends, but there weren’t any incredibly special things happening every day. We weren’t trying to do anything special ourselves either.
Just, in our ordinary daily lives.
We were living like this, feeling each other’s presence.
Experiencing the increasing number of kisses every year with our bodies.
Next episode
It was an 8-year-old life that wasn’t boring because Heena was with me, and there was nothing else that caught my interest other than being with Heena, but there were some fun things.
For example, sports day.
Actually, it wasn’t that sports day itself was fun, but the atmosphere of the day stimulated childhood and nostalgia. The noisy atmosphere, with so many parents and even neighborhood residents coming to watch, touched my heart.
Besides, I liked that there were many activities that involved moving my body, such as rhythmic exercises, jump rope, and running. It was a thousand times better than taking classes like Wise Life in class.
“Did you see? I got first place!”
“Yeah, yeah! You’re so fast~ You’re so cool!”
When we practiced running during PE class, I didn’t hold back and crushed the boys in the same class. Well, it’s not because I came back to the past that I’m fast, but I was originally fast when I was young. From middle school onwards, I gradually became average.
Heena wasn’t very athletic, so she mostly worked as my exclusive cheerleader. She only looked at me when she ran, and when she wasn’t running, she came near me and cheered me on.
However, that didn’t mean that Heena didn’t participate in any events. She ended up doing the three-legged race with me.
Originally, there was another fast girl who wasn’t Heena, and she was paired with that girl as the class representative.
“Teacher. I want to do it with Yeon-hoo.”
“Heena, let’s have your friends cheer for Seyeon and Yeon-hoo together~ Okay?”
“I want to do it.”
“The teacher worked hard to make sure that friends can each do one fairly~ Heena didn’t really like running─”
“I’m going to do it.”
“Um… Seyeon also wanted to do it, so Heena, can you give way just this once…”
“Seyeon~ Can I do the three-legged race with Yeon-hoo? Huh? It’s okay, right? Thank you~”
“……”
“Seyeon said it’s okay. I’ll do it with Yeon-hoo.”
“Okay… do that…”
Heena was very unhappy that I was holding another girl’s waist and running, so she insisted on taking the spot from the teacher for the first time.
The teacher initially tried to persuade Heena, but when Heena snatched the spot from her friend Seyeon… no, won it, she eventually gave her permission. Fortunately, Seyeon was a fool for looks and liked Heena a lot, so there were no problems.
Rather, she felt proud that she had given something up to Heena. As expected of our Heena.
Anyway, in the first grade three-legged race, if you don’t fall or dawdle, you’re almost guaranteed to get first place, so we practiced hard together during class with that goal in mind.
And then came the day of the sports day.
It was a three-legged race spot that she had almost forcibly taken, but I had no desire to win against Heena at all.
“Yeon-hoo! Over here, over here! Let’s say cheese together~”
“Heena…! We’re in the middle of the race! If we just keep going like this, we’ll get first place…”
“Mom! Take a picture!!”
“Hehe, what are you doing stopping there~ Really… I’m sorry because of my daughter~”
“Son. Is taking pictures with your daughter-in-law more important than running?”
While the two of us were running, matching our breaths, we stopped in the middle of the track, near where our parents were.
And she hugged my waist tightly with both arms and smiled, asking to take a picture.
“What are they doing~ They’re so cute~”
“Isn’t that girl really pretty?”
Since they were first grade kids, the surrounding parents were more amused and laughed, saying they were cute, rather than reacting like, ‘What are they doing now?’
I couldn’t force Heena to run in this situation, so I just gave up neatly and took a pose with her. Anyway, even if we started again now, we would be last.
It’s not like they give out prize money for getting first place in sports day, so what does it matter?
Sorry! Classmates!
“Cheese~”
“Cheese~”
-Click!
—
In addition to big events like sports day, the math competition that Heena and I got to see by selling our friends also made my heart flutter.
The reason why these exams can be fun is probably because I’m confident in myself. Confidence that I will naturally do well.
Math competitions are more about thinking ability than simple calculation skills, but there was no way I wouldn’t get a perfect score on a math competition for lower elementary school students.
Of course, that’s how it should have been.
“……”
“You can do it calmly next time~”
“What next time for someone like me…”
“Oh, why are you like this~ I’ll give you a kiss, so cheer up~”
Heena got a hundred points. But I got one question wrong. It wasn’t because it was a difficult question, but because it was easy, I rushed through it and made a mistake in one addition.
A guy who was studying hard in college, even if he had emptied his head for about 4 or 5 years, got a math problem wrong in the first grade of elementary school? Is this even human?
I was feeling MAX self-loathing for that absurd mistake, but our parents were going crazy when they saw our grades.
“Oh my gosh~ You both did so well! Sister, shouldn’t we send them to a gifted school?”
“What gifted school… Still, it’s amazing.”
“It’s super amazing!”
Heena’s parents and our parents liked us growing up healthy and happy more than our grades, but there was no reason not to be happy when we got good grades on the exam.
Especially since we hadn’t shown them that we were studying, and the kids who were always hugging and kissing did so well on the exam.
Seeing my mom and even my dad visibly happy, my self-loathing melted away.
Rather than thinking that I had done something filial, my heart just tingled when I saw my parents happy. Before returning to the past, I wondered if I had ever done anything that made them so happy.
Oh, I did.
They were so happy when I first brought Heena. They liked her so much.
“Yeon-hoo. Do you enjoy math? Should I send you to a academy?”
When the talk of academy even came up, I shook my head and said to my dad.
“No. I want to study with Heena.”
“Really?”
I was already bored and struggling with school classes, so if I went to academy, my mind might be destroyed.
My dad didn’t seem to want to force me to go, so he nodded and stared intently at my report card with a grin.
I guess I’ll have to pretend to study a bit from now on and take all the exams.
“Hey, I want to take another exam with Yeon-hoo!”
“If you want to do it, you should do it! I’ll have to find out what other exams there are!”
Heena also told the uncle, who was hugging her and expressing his joy, what she had promised in advance.
It was also to make our parents happy, but I was planning to do everything I could to prepare for when I went to middle school later.
Middle school is basically a lottery, but I thought that if we had a lot of these awards, the school might secretly pick us.
It always feels like Heena is clinging to me, but I can’t stand it if Heena isn’t by my side.
“Dad~ Let go of me! I’m going to go kiss Yeon-hoo!”
“…You won’t give Dad one?”
“Let go of me!”
“Okay…”
Heena’s answer was firm, and the uncle suddenly became depressed. Regardless, Heena ran to my side, linked arms with me, and started kissing my cheek.
“Woong~ Chu!”
There’s no reason for Heena’s kisses. She probably just wanted to do it.
By the way.
“Daughter… It’s no use raising them…”
I’m sorry, Uncle…
—
During sports day, when going to various math competitions, when going on picnics.
We were always holding hands like that.
And that didn’t change even during Christmas, which was the end of the year.
“Santa Claus gave Yeon-hoo a present again this year~! What did Yeon-hoo wish for?”
“A game console!”
“I see~ Then shall we look at the present? I wonder if it’s the game console that Yeon-hoo wanted~ or not~”
The aunt created a lively atmosphere and watched me unpack. The other family members were also watching me.
In fact, I knew that there was a PlayO Station 2 inside, but I pretended to be as excited as possible and carefully untied the ribbon and unwrapped the wrapping paper.
There’s no way it couldn’t be this, because a few days ago, my dad and uncle got a big sock. They said that if I wrote what I wanted on a note and put it in there, Santa Claus would give me a present.