Reunion Is Just a Distraction

Won Hyun-min was a returning student with a rough look and a bad reputation that followed him around.

To Ina, he looked like the kind of person her parents would shake their heads at—someone rough in how he talked and acted, someone who didn’t know how to treat money with care… basically, a troublemaker.

Geun-muk-ja-heuk.

Stay close to ink, and you turn black.

In other words, hang around bad people long enough, and you start picking up their habits.

Every time she saw Hyun-min, that saying—one her father had repeated to her since she was young—came back to her. So even though she found this guy, who seemed like her total opposite, kind of interesting, Ina tried to stay away from him.

“Are you going to keep avoiding me? You should get along with your classmates, Ina.”

From that day on, Won Hyun-min suddenly started sticking close to her, acting way too friendly.

“I’ll do it. I’ll be your first friend.”

And the guy who grabbed the title of her “first friend” then said—

“If you don’t want to call me by my name, I’ll just call me noona instead.”

“…Noona?”

Somehow, he felt like a pretty weird guy.