Chapter 1: He’s Got Great Technique

There were two lines.

Those two red lines were wonderful news to some and horrific news to others.

“Ugh! This can’t be. This can’t be true.” Heewon muffled her terrified scream and yanked on her hair.

“I need to try again. I can’t believe this.”

Just as she sprung up from her bed to head outside, she saw the pile of pregnancy tests on her dressing table. Letting out a long, deep sigh, she flopped back down on her bed.

She had already taken the test numerous times. There was no way that the entire pile on her dressing table were all defective. They say an average human sperm is about 0.05 millimeters. Yet these tiny little punks diligently swayed its tail and swam 10 centimeters.

‘Only ten?’ Some might say. But if assuming that sperm is about the size of an average human, that means those 10 centimeters were equal to a formidable 4 kilometers of unpaved road. Moreover, the road to a female’s egg is an unpaved road with no lights and directions to guide your way.Heewon wanted to know which persistent little guy lasted until the very end and reached the destination.

The obvious rules state that her egg would have given off a bewitching scent, but if the sperm was half alike its owner, it should have been indifferent to such allurement.Why on earth did that sperm headbutt into her precious little egg?

Heewon met the owner of the sperm on the same memorable night when she lost her virginity. That man was cold and indifferent to all the little flirtatious acts that others gave him.

His figure was like a work of art and that made Heewon feel better about her dangerous venture.On top of that, he was such an intelligent man and so well-versed in various topics, that she was about to orgasm just from their conversation alone, even though she only knew what orgasm theoretically meant.It was extremely difficult to look away when he intimately stared at her with his round handsome eyes as he carefully listened to her every word.Even his scent was marvelous. The soft and delicate scent emanating from his body lingered under her nostrils and was not irritating one bit.

In other words, this man was a masterpiece of masterpieces, a luxury to the eyes, ears, and nose.Heewon gave him a generous score, but this wily man secretly had tenacious little soldiers in his body.She should’ve known when they were engulfed in darkness by her request to turn off the lights, but it didn’t stop the man from finding all the parts of her body that could send her to heaven.

Now that she thought back on it, she realized that that was the work of a pro. But now she was going to have to pay for selling her soul to the devil as she was blinded by the unfamiliar euphoria.

“Wait, no. If he was a pro, he should’ve controlled himself. How could he do this to me?!”

“Heewon, what are you doing?”

“Ah! Ugh. Hey, can’t you knock?”

Surprised by the door that swung open without a warning, Heewon did her best to cover the pile of pregnancy tests sitting on her dressing table as she instantly lay over the stack.

“Since when have we ever knocked? What are you even doing?”

“C-can we start respecting each other’s privacy now?”

“What are you talking about? And why are you in that hideous posture?”

“Oh, this? I-it’s a new workout. You can lose your belly fat if you lie on your face like this and stick your butt out.”

“Oh, really? Then good luck on losing that belly fat… is that what you wanted me to say? Now, show me why you’re acting so suspicious!”

Miran leaned on Heewon whose body was attached to the table and tried to forcefully pull her off.

“Stop! I’m not doing anything suspicious. Go away! Don’t- ugh!” But no matter how hard Heewon struggled, she couldn’t get her friend off her back.Miran stared at the tests with two lines that were revealed after pushing Heewon to the bed.“So, um…. Miran, let me explain this to you. You see… I had no idea one persistent sperm could create these two lines….”

“Are you pregnant? Congrats,” the girl replied, unsympathetically giving her congratulations to her friend who might become a single mom.

Her reaction was something the sassy and nonchalant Miran Hwang would say.“Oh, thanks, I guess.”

“Who’s the daddy?”

The matter regarding the baby’s father was one of the things that troubled Heewon.

“Um…. I don’t know.”

Miran raised one eyebrow when Heewon hesitantly mumbled her answer.

“What? Look at you, girl. They do say it’s always the quiet ones who climb to adulthood first, but when did you become such a slut that you don’t even know who the father is? When did this happen? Home and schools are the only places you go to.”

Heewon gave her a threatening glare.

“Stop, it’s nothing like that. I know who he is, it’s just that I don’t know who he is.”

“What kind of ridiculous answer is that? You know who he is, but you don’t? Wait... did you have a one-night stand?”

Heewon twisted her lips into a pained smile as Miran raised the pitch of the last word. “I guess that’s what it is.”

“Oh, my goodness. Then did it happen on that night from about a month ago? Is it the same night when you came back home with those huge bags under your eyes?”

Yes, it was that night. There was a good reason for those eye bags. That mysterious man had stamina and libido that wouldn’t run out. That night, Heewon thought she was off in another world. She didn’t get to sleep until the crack of dawn, and a brief one on top of that. She was even proud of herself for standing on her feet when she left the room after that short nap.“Girl, I didn’t know you had the guts.”

Heewon too did not know how bold she could be.“Even if it was a one-night stand, why didn’t you ask for his name?”

“You’re allowed to do that? I thought that was forbidden during one-night stands.”

Miran’s jaw dropped in shock.“You know what they say, experience is the way to learn. You would’ve known the rules of a one-night stand if you weren’t such a prude. You’ve never had a one-night stand or a one-time thing, have you? But looks like the quiet, innocent girl decided to create a huge mess... Tsk.”

‘Ugh… And whose fault do you think this is?!’

Heewon gave Miran a short, sidelong scowl while she wasn’t looking.Heewon, Miran, and Minwook were friends since middle school. To be exact, Heewon and Minwook were friends long before that while Miran joined them later on. But being friends for a long time, they forgot who became friends with whom first.Heewon thought they were going to be friends forever until Miran suddenly said “we started dating today”, with her usual nonchalant attitude. Those words made Heewon’s ears numb and her head spin. If she knew that love between friends was possible back then, she would have at least confessed her feelings before her friends started dating. It was such a shame because she had a long unrequited love for Minwook even before Miran came into the picture.

Heewon had been hiding her aching heart and feelings for Minwook to protect the trio’s friendship. Consequently, not only did she think it was unfair, but she also felt betrayed.

All unrequited love has a bitter ending and such heartbreak was expected. However, that didn’t mean Heewon wasn’t thoughtless enough to seek a one-night stand just because of this.

It all started when Miran, the vixen, showed extreme brazenness mixed with her forthright and sassy attitude one night. After spending a Friday night out more than two months ago, Miran came back home at midnight. She squinted at Heewon, and said something horrifying with her sweet smile and dreamy voice.

“Heewon. My boy Minwook’s got great technique. I would’ve done this sooner if I knew this was the deal. Ha… he’s grown up to be a fine man.”

It was obvious to Heewon that the technique Miran mentioned wasn’t ‘the skill or ability to play an instrument, or a sport’ defined in the dictionary.

“Wow…. You’re such a…. How can you two….”

Heewon spat out words in disbelief and she had almost fallen to her knees because she felt so breathless. Yet Miran was in a dreamy state all day long, as if she didn’t care about her perplexed friend.

That was how Heewon ended up making her decision. She was going to put an end to the burdensome virginity that she had kept for the past 27 years. Even so, she didn’t mean to live a reckless life. Her social status required her to consider her reputation and a reckless life was a dangerous thought and huge deviance.

All she had wanted was to get a taste of what Miran was talking about when she said, ‘great technique.’

Heewon was going to execute her plans out of spite because she wasn’t going to be the only one to be left out.If it wasn’t for Miran, she wouldn’t have had the chance to go to that high-end members-only bar and meet the problematic guy with the tenacious sperm.

“So where did you meet Doojool’s daddy?”

“What’s that?”

“You said you don’t know his name, so what are we going to call him? I called him Doojool because it means two lines, like your pregnancy test result. Do you want me to call him the one-shot, one-kill daddy instead?”

“Hmph… it wasn’t one-shot, one-kill.”

“Huh?! What do you mean?! You met him a second time?”

“No, I meant, it happened many times that night….” Heewon felt even guiltier.

She didn’t like the fact that Miran was interrogating her like she had committed a crime when she was the one who instigated her deviant night by proudly boasting Minwook’s technique.

“Look at you. You must’ve had a fun night. Was it good, sweetie? I thought you were a virgin and now you’re saying it happened multiple times?”

“Well, you see… his technique was…. Ow!”

Miran slapped her in the back.

“Stop glaring at me. Technique, my ass. It’s not like that’s important. Regardless of how many times it happened that night, we have Doojool, the baby, and that’s what matters. So where did you meet this guy?”

“Time.”

“Don’t tell me it’s the Time I know.”

Miran glared at Heewon with her arms crossed and a frown on her face. Heewon couldn’t help but put on an innocent smile.

“I believe it’s the Time you know.”

“Okay, I get it. I’m the bad one, aren’t I?! I’m the one who pushed you into a pit. You think I got you a membership there so you could do this?!”

“At least I made use of it somehow. I figured the men there would be better than the ones you meet at a cheap bar….”

Miran looked like she was going to get a heart attack when she heard what Heewon mumbled.

“Fu…. All right. Let’s stay calm, Heewon Jang.”

“It’s all good as long as you stay calm….”

“Shut up. Anyways, just because you don’t know his name doesn’t mean you know nothing about him, right?”

“You mean his face? Body? Or his hairstyle?”

Heewon cupped her face with the palm of her hands and then brushed her hair up from her petite face, batting her eyelashes teasingly at Miran.

“Do you want me to kill you? Didn’t you ask what he does for a living, or what his hobbies are?”

“There wasn’t any time to ask about hobbies….”

Before Heewon had the chance to finish her sentence, Miran interrupted her with a death glare. “Are you seriously giving me that shit?”

“But I’m not shitting you.”“You really want to die, don’t you, Heewon?!”

At first, Heewon was grinning at her own witty remark, but she obediently sat back down as she didn’t want to get killed by the hands of her friend.

“Is there anything you talked about? Anything that could help you figure out who this man is?”

“Hmm... I remember him saying how keeping watch is mainly what his job is about.”

That was the obscure answer Doojool’s daddy gave her when Heewon asked what he did for a living.

Back then, she thought that was a clever answer, along with being astonished by his broad knowledge in an array of topics… She even chimed in and said her work mainly consisted of keeping watch too, but now that she thought back on it…

“Keep watch? Like the surveillance or monitoring kind? Is he a security guard? And you’re telling me he frequents a high-end bar?”

“He didn’t say he was a security guard. He just said keeping watch is mainly his job.”

“Same difference! I don’t even need to see this man to know what he’s like. I mean, he goes to a luxurious bar on his puny salary as a security guard!”

“Maybe he’s a security guard at a really big company. Ow… Ow!”

“You think this is funny? I’m going to kill you!”

Miran started spanking her like a mom who caught her unmarried daughter in a terrible mess.

“Hey, Miran! Ow! That hurts. You can’t beat a pregnant woman like this!”

It didn’t seem like Miran was going to stop, but she did. Then she pitifully looked at Heewon’s drooped body.

“When do you get off work tomorrow?”

“I think I’m getting off early. Why?”

“We need to get you to the hospital, don’t we? I’ll come to your school when you finish.”

“Thank you, Miran…. To be honest, I was really scared, and I was afraid you would turn your back on me and that I would be left alone to deal with this mess…. What am I going to do with Doojool, Miran?!”

“Worry about yourself, hun.”

Miran grumbled at Heewon and softly patted her back as Heewon began crying in her arms.

* * *

“What’s up with those shades?”

Heewon didn’t have anything on her face before walking into the hospital, but now she was wearing huge sunglasses that covered half her face. Miran looked at her pathetically.

“As you know, my job requires me to be a model citizen for our society. Obviously, I’m being careful about people spotting me.”

“Didn’t the same thought cross your mind when you had that one-night stand?”

“I do have my fingers crossed for what’s to come.”

“Fingers crossed or whatever. Take those ginormous sunglasses off if you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.”

“Do you think this is making me stand out more?”

“Are you kidding me?”

Heewon pouted and put her sunglasses back in her bag.Miran wasn’t lying about coming to a luxurious hospital where she wouldn’t have to worry about running into someone she knew. The hospital had comfy and high-class leather sofas in softly lit rooms. Classical music played from the speakers and an aromatic scent of coffee filled the air. If it weren’t for the ladies with big bellies scattered around, calling it a café would’ve been believable too.

Heewon looked around the hospital in awe, forgetting for a moment what she came for. Suddenly she gasped with her eyes widening when she saw someone familiar.

“H-hey, Miran…. W-why is he here?”

Miran answered like it was no big deal when she looked over at where Heewon’s trembling finger was pointing.

“Oh, Minwook’s here.”

“Y-yeah…. That’s Minwook, right? I’m not hallucinating, am I? Why on earth is he here?!”

“I called him. I thought it’d be better to have the three of us here, instead of two.”

‘What?! Are you kidding me? Oh, Miran Hwang, let’s die today. I’ll kill you with my own two hands and end my life and Doojool’s even though this baby didn’t even get the chance to see a minute of daylight!’

“Are you kidding me? I mean…. Why would you call him here?!”

“I’m not kidding you. I told you, I thought it’d be better to have the three of us here.”

Minwook started waving his hand with a gentle smile when he saw Heewon and Miran.

“Ugh…. Come on! Couldn’t you have been more considerate? Why did you have to throw me under the bus?”

“Hey, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. We’ve known each other for years. Minwook’s not going to treat you any differently, so don’t worry.”

‘No, you’re wrong. I’m more than embarrassed right now! Who would want to tell their crush that they’re about to become a single mother?’

Heewon loathed Miran for her indifferent and nonchalant attitude. Although some say that husbands and wives are a single soul dwelling in two bodies, that didn’t mean they had to be here together for such an occasion. For heaven’s sake, they weren’t even married.Heewon sternly took out her sunglasses from her bag and covered half her face again. She didn’t want to be bare faced as she was about to face her crush and the crushing embarrassment by meeting him at the clinic to get a pregnancy test.