Reborn: The Unexpected Twist

"How many times do I need to explain to you the same thing? Are you actually playing with me? With that IQ of yours, you don't even need me to explain to you! Are you actually trying to waste my time and irritate me!?"

"If you're in an animated movie, Jinhee-ah, smoke would come out of your ears at this moment," Taehyun commented as he pointed at Jinhee's ears.

"Ah!" Lee Jinhee groaned.

"You know what? I don't want to study any longer. So, if you want to, do it on your own," Jinhee stated.

Silence— This is what that was present within them for five minutes, and for this entire five minutes, Lee Jinhee stared at Han Taehyun— blinking her eyes at times. Han Taehyun stared at Lee Jinhee with the same intensity.

Breaking their eye contact, Han Taehyun's lips broke out into a wide grin, and he questioned, "So, are you bored now, Jinhee-ah?"

A realization hit Lee Jinhee. Han Taehyun had asked her the same question about two hours earlier, and that's when, Lee Jinhee gave Han Taehyun the excuse that she wanted to study.

'Ah! This entire time that was what his intention was! He wanted to make me reluctant to study, so that I can be bored, and he could take me to do whatever he wants.'

Lee Jinhee yawned. 

There was no way that she was going to play along with him. Han Taehyun would simply bring trouble to her, and Lee Jinhee didn't want to deal with those at this moment.

"I'm feeling quite sleepy at this moment," Lee Jinhee spoke out.

Han Taehyun laughed and commented, "No wonder you're gaining weight recently. You sleep quite a lot, Jinhee-ah. You should see how chubby your cheeks had become."

Subconsciously, Lee Jinhee's left hand touched both of her cheeks, and pushing them inwards slightly, Lee Jinhee realized that Han Taehyun was indeed right.

'This cheeks of mine had truly become chubby. Do I really eat and sleep this much recently? Ah! He even said the same thing previously! This stress will make me gain five kilograms per month!'

Nonetheless, not wanting to give Han Taehyun the pleasure, Lee Jinhee said, "So what? I want to become fat. If that's what makes you leave me alone, then I'll gladly put on more than twenty kilograms within a month."

"Really?" Han Taehyun questioned.

He then continued, "I don't exactly like chubby girls, and since you want to get rid of me, let's fatten you up."

That wasn't what Lee Jinhee had expected. A cheesy line similar to 'I'll like you even if you're chubby' wouldn't have surprised her. If it was that, Lee Jinhee would've been able to retort, but now, she was unable to retaliate with words.

"Let's go to the kitchen, and I'll cook for you something with lots of fat," Taehyun said.

"Wait! I don't want to," Lee Jinhee replied.

Even if she wanted to get rid of Han Taehyun, she did not want to gain twenty kilograms of weight for that. Moreover, what if Han Taehyun still continued to pester her?

"Does that mean you don't want to get fat and stay away from me?" Han Taehyun arched his eyebrows.

"If you don't want to go away from me, I won't send you away or leave—"

"Hold on!" Lee Jinhee raised her hand in front of Han Taehyun to stop him from continuing.

She then voiced out, "That's not what I meant. I can eat and get fat on my own. Your assistance is not required."

"Well, you will be staying at this place for an uncertain period of time, and you can't even go out with your condition for at least a month—"

"It's less than a month," Lee Jinhee interrupted.

"Same thing. Anyways, you won't be able to go out or buy food on your own. Foods can't be ordered at Han Mansion, and therefore, you'd have to rely on me to feed you—"

"That's not true," Lee Jinhee interrupted once again.

Ignoring Lee Jinhee's comment once again, Han Taehyun said, "It is said that delicious food increase your urge to eat more, and eating more would result you in gaining more weight. The food I cook are absolutely delicious, and they are the fastest way for you to gain weight at this moment—"

"Not necessarily. There are many other people who cook better than you."

"Hush! Don't interrupt me! Anyways, so I'll cook for you many times daily and then, you can gain enough weight to make me hate you. How does that sound?"

Lee Jinhee stared at Han Taehyun with a bored expression.

Before she could open her mouth to say something, Han Taehyun added, "If you reject, it either means that you don't want to get rid of me or you're afraid that you'll fall for me."

Provoked, Lee Jinhee stated, "Fuck it! You know what, I always wanted to get fat! So, just bring me all of the food you can and just fatten me up!"

Folding her hands over her chest, Lee Jinhee stared straight at Han Taehyun.

"Heol! Lee Jinhee, you just cursed!"

°°°

Two of them were currently in the kitchen, and the maids were dismissed at this moment so that Taehyun's gender could be hidden to them.

Looking at the lemon cake in front of her, Lee Jinhee's mouth was close to drooling although her stomach was completely full. Although Lee Jinhee tried to mind her manners and tried to look unaffected towards the food, her stomach growled.

Light red covered Lee Jinhee's cheeks. 

'This stomach was as much as treacherous as this heart of mine! Why doesn't anything go as I planned when Han Taehyun was present? Most definitely he placed some kind of curse on me!'

"What are you thinking so hard about, Jinhee-ah? Don't glare at cake just because your stomach growled at its scent," Han Taehyun commented.

Putting on a neutral expression, Lee Jinhee said, "My stomach growled because I didn't have enough for breakfast today, not because of the lemon cake."

"Alright! Alright! Eat up this slice quickly," Han Taehyun stated, "You have to finish the entire cake after all."

Staring at the medium sized cake in front of her, Jinhee questioned, "What are you talking about?"

"This cake," Taehyun, pointing at the cake, said, "You've got to finish it entirely right now."

Looking at medium sized cake in front of her, Lee Jinhee's eyes widened in horror. Although the cake appeared to be appetizing and the scent that wafted from it made Jinhee tempted to take a bite from it, it was not possible for her to finish the entire thing.

"Are you kidding me!? I can't finish the entire thing!" Lee Jinhee exclaimed.

"No wonder you have no man liking you. With how you act, nobody would call you a girl," Han Taehyun commented.

Lee Jinhee scoffed.

"Judging by how much good you're when it comes to acting as a girl, I'm pretty sure no one would think that you're actually a boy," Jinhee retorted.

She then added, "Even after spending a room with you for a month, I couldn't tell that you're a boy."

"Isn't that because how dense and idiotic you're?" Han Taehyun questioned.

With a smile on his face, he continued, "Don't worry! I won't neglect you for the deficiency of intelligence. Now, eat up the cake quickly. I have more to feed you after this."

"You have a deficiency when it comes to maturity," Lee Jinhee voiced out, "Try to act your age, and how do you even expect me to eat up the entire thing? My stomach can't even hold that much food!"

"When there's a will, there is a way." Han Taehyun winked.

"However, if you don't want to eat and want to stay thin to be with me, then sure; Don't eat it."

Han Taehyun shrugged.