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…I’m asking because I’m genuinely curious, but why do you like him? A new semester full of excitement… yeah, right. My mood is just sour because school started again. At least I’m in the same class as my smoking buddy Lim Raehyeon, who I’ve been close with since middle school. After arriving at school, I scanned the faces of my classmates with a strawberry lollipop in my mouth. My mind went blank and my gaze froze. What is this? What’s happening? I’ve never seen someone who was so perfectly my ideal type before. That was the beginning of this agonizing unrequited love. I hovered around her. "Ah, damn it, Han Cheongseo, you idiot! Just say something to her!!" While I was scolding myself, did the world decide to help me? We ended up in the same group for a project. It actually happened. She was a much warmer and kinder person than I expected. She seemed just as shy as I am, but we easily became close because we both loved a popular melodrama. As we got closer, we started joking around… I even got to pat her head and we started eating lunch together. Am I dreaming? I wonder if I saved the country in a past life or something… It was so agonizing that I decided to test the waters once. “Aren’t you going to date anyone?” The answer that came back was that she already liked someone. My palms got sweaty. Does she know that feeling? The hope that it might be me, and the sense of loss if it isn’t? Jealousy? Things like that. I asked who it was. She answered more easily than I expected. You have no idea how my heart raced when she leaned in close to whisper in my ear. But that excitement was short-lived, because the name I heard was… Lim Raehyeon. My best friend. Why does it have to be him? Out of everyone, why does it have to be Lim Raehyeon? Now I can’t even do anything… and in the middle of all that, you asked me to set you two up. You really have no conscience. You mean girl. No, it’s my fault. I don’t know if I can be thick-skinned enough to link you and Lim Raehyeon together. I want you to be happy, but honestly, I hate it if you’re not happy by my side. I kind of want you to notice. I could treat you so much better if you came to me. No matter how much you like Lim Raehyeon, I’m going to like you the most.