For Your Failed Unrequited Love

It was Flora, the female dormitory supervisor. As soon as she found Lucy, she came running. She is known for her strictness and for protecting the front of the female dormitory looking like a gatekeeper in hell, but now her face was full of worries.

“Are you feeling well? When you have a cold, you should rest well.”

“What? Oh, yes…….”

Lucy, who was asked an unexpected question, answered with a murmur. Flora seemed to think that Lucy had been sick last night. If she had known the truth, Lucy would have been scolded first about the “student dignity” with fierce eyes.

“Here you go,”

Flora handed over a small bag. At the night of literature, Lucy had left it in the library hall unattended.

“Adrian came late last night and left it. Do you know how surprised Felix was when he carried you on his back?”

Lucy stood with her hands neatly clasped together, as if she had been scolded by her mother. It was the first time that she had caused trouble to others since she entered the Academy.

“F…. Felix-sunbae, is he angry?”

“Is he angry!?” Flora tilted her head at Lucy’s question.

“Why would he get angry? He’s just feeling bad because you’re sick.” 

“Yes?”

This time Lucy tilted her head at Flora’s answer.

“How can he not feel bad when his favorite girl is sick?”

Flora’s words were so sudden that Lucy opened her eyes wide. When Flora saw the response, she asked again with a puzzled face.

“Aren’t you two dating?”

“What?”

Lucy shook her hand in the air in astonishment.

“No way!”

“Really? Well, that’s what it looked like to me.”

Flora shrugged her shoulders.

“He took you to your room by himself, laid you in bed, and took off your shoes. Besides, he looked quite shocked when you fell down. Don’t you remember at all?”

At the end of yesterday’s story Flora explained, Lucy looked blank as if she had been hit in the head. Without thinking of answering back, she hurriedly said goodbye to Flora and left the dormitory.

Her steps past the campus to the classroom creaked differently than usual. While walking so busily, she almost tripped over a stone and bumped into another student.

“Did sunbae.…?”

She murmured as she climbed the stairs with a stunned face. No matter how hard she thought about it, Flora’s words didn’t seem to be false.

What about him? There’s no reason for him to do that to me.….

Walking down the hall and arriving at the classroom, her questions never ended.

In fact, one or two of Felix’s attitudes toward Lucy were not strange. One day he stared at her with burdensome eyes, then the next day he treated her like an invisible person. Moreover, he changed his attitude last night and showed kindness to take her to the dorm.

Lucy was at a loss for his capricious behavior.

“Jemima,”

After the lesson, Lucy called Jemima. 

“What does it mean when a man suddenly stares at a woman?”

“What do you mean all of a sudden?”

“So, without saying a word, just like this.” asked Lucy, imitating Felix’s face with wrinkles between her eyes.

“Just staring at you with a serious face?”

“Are you really asking because you don’t know?” Jemima grinned with a stunned look.

“He’s interested?”

“Interested?”

“Yes, rational interest.”

But Lucy shook her head. That’s because he’s not that kind of person at all. Lucy, who had been lost in thought for a moment, asked another question.

“But one day, he ignored her completely. He didn’t look at her, and he deliberately avoided her.”

“He’s interested.” replied Rita, who was sitting next to her this time.

“He’s trying to get your attention by pretending to ignore you.”

Again, Lucy thought it was ridiculous.

“So? Who is it? Don’t tell me it’s……!?” 

Jemima immediately leaned over with a wicked smile.

“Felix-sunbae?”

“What? No!”

Lucy jumped from her seat.

“Does it make sense? He’s Felix Berg!”

“Hmm,”

Jemima looked at her with a suspicious eye and nodded.

“He doesn’t seem to be interested in women. That’s why I was surprised when I heard that you were taken home yesterday by him.”

Jemima folded her arms and said with a confident look,

“Anyway, the boy you described must be interested in you.”

“I’m not talking about me.”

Lucy turned her eyes away. But her heart was beating wildly as if a huge tsunami had hit her.

He’s interested? That sunbae? To me?

“No way,”

Lucy picked up her bag with a puzzled look on her face.

* * *

In front of Jemima and Rita, she pretended to let it go, but in fact Lucy continued to ponder about what they had said. Strange expectations continued to swell.

Is it because you’re really interested in me?

She walked on the campus with a throbbing heart, and what caught her eye was a plant growing here and there.

Oh, he’s allergic to maram vines.

Lucy stopped and stared at the vine. Last fall, she made medicine for the allergy of the Berg twins. And by now, they must be running out of medicine.

Yeah, Felix-sunbae must have had a hard time last night because of me……. I’ll have to make you some allergy medicine.

Lucy walked on, thinking that way as if she were possessed.

This is definitely not because I heard that sunbae is interested in me. I’m just trying to make it up to you because I’ve been helped. And when the medicine is done, I’ll just deliver it through Adrian.

Lucy prepared to make an allergy medicine after giving herself a good reason. An unexpected figure appeared before Lucy. It was none other than Felix himself. He surprised her once again by visiting Lucy before she even started making medicine.

In addition,

“Then it would be better if you just go with me.”

“You’re busy, aren’t you? It’s really all right.”

“Then I’ll go.”

He volunteered to go with Lucy who is going out of town to buy medicine ingredients. 

* * *

“Hey, Lucy. Felix-sunbae, the more I see him, the better he looks”

Inside the Arvena boutique. Colin whispered in her ear as he was trying to find a dress for Lucy to try on. He seemed quite excited to follow Felix out of town, saying he wanted to get along with him.

“At first, I thought he was a blunt senior, but he was rather funny and caring! Well, last time he even pulled my ears, you know? I’m sure he’s comfortable with me!”

She couldn’t quite agree with his last words, but Lucy nodded quietly at Felix’s subtle tenderness.

‘Give it to me. It’s heavy.’

‘Stay close to me and walk.’

‘Be careful you don’t run into it.’

He has always taken care of Lucy so that she does not feel uncomfortable or hurt herself in the shopping district and along crowded streets.

So, it was no wonder that what Jemima and Rita had said automatically rang in her ears.

‘He’s interested.’ 

Lucy pretended to fiddle with her dress and glanced back at Felix. He was standing in front of a shelf of women’s bags and shoes, with a frown on his face.

Is it true? He’s really interested in me… 

“Lucy, try this on!”

From somewhere Colin appeared with another dress. Lucy glanced at Colin with a bewildered look.

“Stop bringing it! I won’t be able to buy it anyway.”

Lucy had spent a lot of money on medicine and could not afford to buy clothes at the boutique. Perhaps aware of the situation, Colin and Rosé bustled about looking for a new dress.

“Hmm”

Lucy took off the hat, Colin and Rosé thought was cute. She was forced to use it, but actually, it looked pretty to Lucy. She glanced over the price list of the hat.

Gasp!

No way! If the hat is this price, how much is the dress?

Lucy jumped from her seat at the price beyond her imagination. She looked down at the dress she was wearing. She didn’t think she should keep wearing such expensive clothes. She hurriedly called the clerk to take off the dress.

On the contrary, Rosé constantly ordered things. If there was a dress she liked, she pointed it with her finger without hesitation.

Wow, I can’t believe Rosé can live without worrying about the price.

Lucy looked at the scene with curious and envious eyes.

“Don’t you think that is enough?”

Then a voice full of displeasure burst in. Felix looked up at Rosé with one eyebrow raised.

“How long are you going to look? They’re all similar clothes.”

“In your eyes, I suppose,” Rosé immediately snapped.

“Why don’t you help me shop instead of standing there?”

“Why should I help you with something like that?”

“Then why did you follow us here? Why did you come if you were going to stand there doing nothing? Are you going to be a mannequin? Then you stand there and wear a dress!”

They growled at each other like a dog and a cat that met on the street. Lucy’s face turned sullen as she looked at it.

It’s like a marital quarrel.

For Lucy, who can’t speak properly when standing in front of Felix for some reason, Rosé, who doesn’t lose to him, looks great. In addition, the appearance of Felix, who always responds short and blunt to her and acts like a ruthless friend, was also new to her.

You two must be really close.