Ep. 55
After staring at Heena’s face for a moment, I finally mustered the courage to look around and below.
Just as I was about to turn and explore the amusement park, leaving Heena behind, she grabbed me and held up her phone.
“We have to take a picture, Yeon-hoo.”
“Is there even a good spot for pictures around here?”
Since this whole setup is based on a Japanese manga, the background should be Japan, but do they really have equipment hanging from the ceiling indoors like this over there?
“Normally, you’d take it on a Ferris wheel, but there isn’t one here. So, we’ll take it here instead.”
“Ferris wheel? Ah, I remember.”
A scene I saw in a manga yesterday flashed through my mind. It was a scene where they were sitting in a Ferris wheel car, hugging and kissing.
Was it like, the male lead sits with his legs open, and the female lead sits between them, turning her head back? Like we did at my house before.
However, this equipment didn’t have separate seats. It’s basically just a standing platform.
“Stand here and hug me. I’ll turn my head, so just kiss me, okay?”
Following her instructions, I wrapped my arms around Heena’s waist. I could feel the softness of her body even through her slightly thick sweatshirt.
The scent of her hair is so fragrant. It’s the familiar scent of Heena’s shampoo.
It feels a bit perverted, but as I waited for a moment, savoring that scent, Heena, who had turned on the camera, slightly turned her head.
Then she pouted her lips.
“Kiss!”
“Yes, kiss.”
This time, without closing my eyes, I pressed my lips to hers as she kept looking at me.
-Click, click, click
Again, as soon as our lips touched, I heard a series of shutter sounds, and she quickly pulled away to check the photos.
Even though photos are important for today’s plan, doing it so casually each time made me feel like something was missing.
So, I turned Heena’s face, who was checking the photos while still hugging me, back towards me.
“Huh? Yeon-hoo, why…”
I silenced Heena’s question with a kiss. It was also a gesture of gratitude for calming me down earlier.
As always, I naturally inserted my tongue and explored her mouth.
“Ugh… haa… Yeon-hoo… hug me tighter…”
When our lips parted for a moment, she asked with dazed eyes. In response, I hugged her tighter and left my mark again on her lips, cheeks, and face.
“Hiss- Hooo… Did the picture come out well?”
“Haa… No… it didn’t capture this… what a shame…”
She opened her mouth, still looking at my lips, while trying to control her rapid breathing.
Both Heena and I seemed to want more, but since the ride was probably about to start, I briefly kissed Heena on the cheek once more to soothe the disappointment.
“Where should we go next?”
“The parade is starting soon, so let’s go see that.”
“Okay~”
As we came out of the building where the rides were, barricades were already being set up on the street for the parade, and preparations were in full swing.
Since traffic was also restricted, it seemed difficult to walk around anyway, so we held hands and talked while watching the preparations for a while.
“It’s different from the one in the evening, right? I wonder if we can see that one too.”
If I had come with my friends, no matter how many people there were, time would have flown by while waiting in lines and riding rides, but.
With Heena, it was more about taking it easy and riding what we could, so being here for a few hours seemed a bit tiring.
Actually, spending time together isn’t a problem, but I was worried Heena might get tired.
Moreover, there were so many people that it seemed difficult to eat inside the amusement park. Maybe we’ll have to leave early because we’re hungry.
“Let’s play some more and see if we want to stay longer.”
Heena also seemed unsure how long we would stay, leaving room for possibilities.
“I guess so. Ah, is it starting?”
The parade, which started during our conversation, was a format where performers passed by in order, showcasing performances that matched the themes of each ride, along with music.
It was still bright, so the parade didn’t quite have the same magical feel as it would at night, but it was still worth watching. I see it once every year, and even though I don’t remember it well, it feels almost the same.
“Isn’t that princess pretty?”
Heena said, pointing to a beautiful blonde foreign actress performing in a transparent circular cage.
I was about to thoughtlessly agree, “Oh, she’s pretty,” but I barely stopped myself right before it came out.
“Is she? You’re much prettier.”
“Really~?”
Fortunately, it seemed to be the right answer. Seeing her smile happily as she focused on the parade again.
I also blankly watched the parade with Heena for a while, but soon the performance ended, and people started bustling again, so we moved on.
There wasn’t really a destination, and since there were so many people, it was hard to just ride the rides like crazy, so we decided to take a walk and look around.
And because of my unchanging taste for cheap snacks even in a place like this, Heena sharply caught on when I kept smacking my lips at things like churros and tried to buy them for me.
“I said I’ll buy it.”
“No~ I already got you a free pass, so just eat quietly. Okay?”
“That’s my brother’s money.”
“Oppa [older brother] is your family.”
The logic was strangely unreasonable, so I wondered what to do.
“You’re going to be family later too.”
“……..”
Since Heena had always expressed her desire for things like living together, I thought this joke-like counterattack might work. As expected, her body started to stiffen like a robot at those words.
Not missing the opportunity, I continued the attack.
“Then we’re a prospective family, so it’s okay if I buy it, right?”
“Yeon-hoo.”
” 인정 [Injeong – acknowledgement/approval]?”
“Now… no, isn’t it a bit much when there are so many people? Let’s go over to that corner for a second.”
No, why to a secluded corner?
Heena urged me, who was standing still with a question mark in my head, and pulled me.
“Come on quickly!”
“Why are we suddenly going there?”
“Were you going to say pretty things and just move on?”
“I said pretty things, so why does it feel like I’m being scolded?”
It started with wondering whose money to buy the churros with, so the smell kept stimulating my nose, and I kept looking in that direction.
I was wondering if we could eat that first and then talk.
“Han Yeon-hoo, come here quickly.”
In the end, I followed her and was able to come back and buy churros again 10 minutes later.
With my money.
And there was a red mark left on my neck, but I gave up because there was no way to hide it.
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Judging that it would be difficult to eat outside, we bought different kinds of snacks to eat while walking around.
Following the churros and chicken popcorn from earlier, we also ate a tornado potato and a hot dog each.
Personally, it was a very happy time, but Heena has a small appetite and doesn’t usually eat these kinds of things. So, I was a bit worried because she only tasted a little bit of each.
I have to feed her something when we go home later.
After eating this and that, we only rode relatively peaceful rides such as the spinning baskets, monorail, and French Revolution.
There were a lot of long lines for the extreme and popular ones, but I felt like Heena was avoiding them out of consideration for me.
It’s not that I can’t ride those things at all, but I was a little scared. I originally liked this amusement park atmosphere.
But when I said, “Are you not going to ride them since we came all this way?”
“It’s okay if we don’t ride them since it’ll mess up my hair~”, she said.
Then she still focuses on walking around or taking pictures.
I don’t know if that’s what she really means, or if it’s just my imagination, but I don’t know if she’s really being considerate of me. Honestly, she even tied her hair up for a moment to ride the French Revolution, so she must have just been considerate.
Thanks to the mix of gratitude and apology, I participated more enthusiastically in Heena’s photo-taking.
Photos of cotton candy kisses or photos of holding onto mascot dolls and drawing hearts together.
While walking around and taking pictures like that, we went outside again and rode the Gyro Spin and the rotating swing once each.
After that, there were still a lot of people, and it was getting difficult to squeeze in and ride more rides, so the current time was ambiguous.
“Should we watch the evening parade since we came all this way?”
“Should we? Then… let’s take one more picture before that.”
Then, after moving to a relatively quiet place so as not to obstruct traffic, she made me sit down.
And then she wrapped her arms around my neck from behind and pressed her body against me.
“Are you going to piggyback?”
“Yeah! There was a female lead who hurt her ankle while playing and took a commemorative photo while being piggybacked~”
“Really?”
I agreed to her words and quietly got into position for a piggyback ride.
Come to think of it, it’s my first time piggybacking someone. There’s never really been a reason to.
I’m not particularly strong, but I thought it would be enough to piggyback Heena for a short time.
I was thinking that it was nothing special for a moment.
Thanks to Heena really sticking her body completely, I could feel Heena’s chest area directly on my shoulder blades.
Of course, I’ve hugged Heena a lot and she’s clung to me a lot, so it’s not like I haven’t felt this before.
I tried to clear my head and put my hands on Heena’s thighs and lifted her up.
“…..Wow.”
“What’s wrong? Am I heavy?”
“No, it’s nothing. You’re not heavy at all.”
The sensation I felt on my back was somewhat familiar, but the soft feeling I felt in my hands was not familiar at all.
Moreover, since it was a skirt, her bare skin was directly touching my hands and arms.
It was a different feeling from when I applied sunscreen to Heena when we went to the beach.
This time, it was really bare skin and bare hands touching.
The softness that felt like my hands were sinking into it made me feel like my mind was flying away.
“Heena, the picture?”
“Just a moment~”
Barely holding on to my sanity, I said to Heena, and just as she was slowly lifting her phone in front of my face to take a selfie.
“Heuung~”
Heena made a strange noise for a moment, then tapped my cheek and said.
“Yeon-hoo, I’m sorry to say this while you’re giving me a piggyback ride, but… the part you’re holding seems a little painful.”
“Oh, really? Should I put you down for a second?”
Am I holding it wrong? I don’t know since I’ve never given anyone a piggyback ride before, but it seems normal.
“No, would you rather I support a different part?”
“Different part?”
I was holding her thighs near the back of her knees. I wondered which part she was talking about, so I asked back, and Heena whispered softly in my ear.
“I think it would be better if you grabbed the inside… around my butt.”