But she doesn’t see an errant breeze blow her note away.ĭong-man wakes to find a note that Hye-ran slipped under his door, asking him to meet her outside. She finds Hye-ran sleeping on his stoop and tiptoes past her, and when Dong-man doesn’t answer her knock, she leaves the pot of porridge on his doorstep. The next morning, Ae-ra takes a pot of hangover porridge to Dong-man’s place, with a note saying that she’ll wait for him to come home from the army. She assures him that he’ll forget all about Hye-ran once he’s away, but Dong-man argues that guys think about their girlfriends even more at times like these. Ae-ra says haughtily that he left out her real first love, whom Dong-man only knows as “Wrist Guy.” Ae-ra says that her arm still hurts when it rains because of Wrist Guy, and Dong-man grumbles that he’s another loser.Īe-ra gets lost in a memory from 2011, when she and Dong-man had gone out to eat before he did his army duty. He asks Ae-ra why she keeps dating such awful guys, which is apparently a habit that goes all the way back to middle school, when the boy Ae-ra was dating stole her phone and changed schools.ĭong-man also remembers the guy in the band (Ae-ra: “We didn’t date!”), Moo-ki who got another woman pregnant, and now Moo-bin. They’re saved from themselves when Joo-man and Seol-hee show up, but Seol-hee goes straight home, then Joo-man heads up to his place, neither of them in the mood to drink.Īlone again, Dong-man and Ae-ra go to the roof to drink, and Dong-man promises to handle Moo-bin. It’s too late, so Dong-man desperately comments on the stars, of which there are none, hee. Dong-man tells her that he’s fine, so she can act like she normally does. Eventually Dong-man asks if Ae-ra will come to his match in two days, and she starts to yell at him for fighting but then trails off when the awkwardness returns. She tells him that she’ll handle the slug from here on out.ĭong-man and Ae-ra’s walk home is a lot quieter, both of them feeling awkward and uncomfortable. Seol-hee takes exception to his description of the kiss being like a slug on his lips, disbelieving that he didn’t like it at least a little. Pfft, he deserves that head-butt she gives him in retaliation.Īs they walk home, Joo-man tries to explain to Seol-hee that his kiss with Ye-jin was nothing. She says it’s so he can concentrate on driving, but he quips that his back can’t feel something so small, meaning her chest. Dong-man stiffens when he feels Ae-ra’s purse wedged between her chest and his back, ha. She gives Dong-man his shoes back so he can drive them home on the borrowed scooter, then she climbs on behind him. Dong-man stammers in confusion, and she warns him that she’s close to biting, so they’d better both be careful. When he comforts her as she cries, Ae-ra tells him to stop and blurts, “It’s because you make my heart flutter!”Īs Dong-man stares at her, Ae-ra tells him to be careful because she’s not cool or sophisticated, and that like a dog, once she bites she’ll never let go. Still upset, she tells him to stay out of her love life, but he yells that he has to get involved because she’s always screwing it up. When Dong-man hears from an old classmate that Moo-bin is engaged, he rushes to find Ae-ra. But it’s getting harder for them to hide their feelings, and soon someone is going to have to step up and be honest, even at the risk of losing their friendship forever. They’re so painfully awkward, I love it! Something about Dong-man and Ae-ra getting all twisted up around each other just makes me grin uncontrollably, because they’re so adorable in their refusal to admit that they love each other. 313 JJFight My Way: Episode 8 by LollyPip