130 – 126. Roasted Chestnuts
Meeting Choi Yi-seo out of the blue was more welcome, joyful, and beautiful than I had thought.
Is it because I haven’t seen her in a while?
Her hair had grown a little, and that alone made her look more stylish than before.
“How did you get here?”
I wish there was a place we could go into and talk, but since the area was surrounded by mountains, we just walked along the road.
“Hmm, I took the bus?”
She answered playfully with a small laugh.
I couldn’t help but smile as I watched her breath turn white.
“No, how did you know I was here?”
“Joo-hee sunbae told me. I asked her where you were because I was going to surprise you since you had an appointment with her.”
“Aha.”
I thought it would have been much easier to talk to Seo Ye-rin or Yoo Ah-rin.
Choi Yi-seo didn’t bother to explain in detail, and I didn’t ask any further.
We met anyway, so what did it matter?
“When is the concert?”
“In two days.”
“……I’m glad it’s on my day off. What would you have done if it wasn’t?”
I wondered if Choi Yi-seo had come here without a plan, which was unlike her.
She glanced at me and answered with a smile.
“Then I would have just gone to see you.”
“…….”
I was speechless.
Her gentle smile, as if to say that was enough, was filled with consideration for me.
“What have you been up to?”
“Oh, um…… I’ll tell you later.”
“Huh?”
I heard that she had something to do during the winter break. Yoon-ji had contacted me last time to ask for help.
‘Is it related to Yoon-ji?’
Because it was Choi Yi-seo.
Believing that there must be a reason why she was hiding it, I didn’t ask any further.
“What about you? Isn’t it hard working here?”
“Hey, don’t be silly. What happened this time was…….”
I smiled and began to tell her about what had happened at Gold One in detail.
There were so many things that happened here that the story never ended, and Choi Yi-seo laughed from time to time, keeping the atmosphere pleasant.
Before we knew it, we had arrived at Hotel C.
“Are you using this as your accommodation?”
I nodded with a smile at Choi Yi-seo, who asked in surprise.
“Yeah, they said they didn’t have enough staff accommodation, so they gave me this separately. Thanks to that, I’m living comfortably.”
“Wow.”
“Have you booked a separate place to stay? It’s peak season now, so it’ll be hard to book.”
“Oh, there’s a motel nearby, so I booked that. Like you said, Gold One is a bit expensive.”
“Hmm.”
I don’t think it’s bad.
But I couldn’t help but wonder.
This city is full of gangsters and thugs.
I was worried about Choi Yi-seo because it was a place where trouble could arise at any moment.
But I couldn’t ask her to stay at our accommodation…….
“Ah!”
Yoo Ah-rin’s card key came to mind.
My sister-in-law had given me a spare room, so I thought I could give it to Choi Yi-seo.
“Come on. I have a spare room here.”
I took Choi Yi-seo, who seemed to be regretting leaving, into the hotel.
“A spare room?”
I grabbed Choi Yi-seo’s wrist, who asked what I was talking about, and dragged her along.
There’s a rule that men aren’t allowed in the girls’ room, but it should be okay to go in and talk for a while.
I was able to meet Yoo Ah-rin as soon as I arrived.
“No.”
Yoo Ah-rin crossed her arms and pouted at me. She looked different in her comfortable clothes, but I didn’t have time to care about that.
“You gave that to me. For me to use.”
As Yoo Ah-rin pointed at me and declared, I felt goosebumps.
“…….”
However, Choi Yi-seo, who was standing behind me, didn’t change her expression.
“Yeah, don’t be silly. I have a place booked anyway, so I can stay there.”
‘Hmm?’
It wasn’t like the usual Choi Yi-seo.
I thought she would have said something and lashed out at me, but today, she just let it go.
Normally, I would have felt relieved or thought she had matured.
But today, I felt like she was holding back.
And in a somewhat distorted way.Despite that, Yoo Ah-rin was firm.
“I can’t give you the room. Instead… you can sleep in our room. I’ll tell my roommates separately, so it’ll be fine. You’re only staying for two days anyway.”
A sudden and unexpected suggestion.
It was a possible suggestion because the roommates she shared the room with were all close friends.
However, she looked back at Choi Yi-seo, wondering if he would be uncomfortable.
“Okay, let’s do that.”
Choi Yi-seo said it was a good idea and walked past me into the room.
I stared blankly at the two people who had suddenly started living together.
“Well, Woo-jin. I’ll contact you later.”
“Oh, okay. Tell me if Yoo Ah-rin bothers you.”
“What?”
Choi Yi-seo went inside.
Before Yoo Ah-rin closed the door, I asked her about something that had been bothering me.
“But didn’t you have an appointment with Seo Ye-rin?”
“You don’t need to know!”
Yoo Ah-rin snapped and closed the door.
It was a strange situation, but I thought it was settled for the time being, so I went back to my dorm.
* * *
After Kim Woo-jin left.
Yoo Ah-rin, who had brought Choi Yi-seo into the room, was surprisingly nervous.
In fact, hadn’t she declared that she would take a man who was getting along well with another woman?
From her point of view, it was a meaningful moment after breaking the egg, but from Choi Yi-seo’s point of view, it was just a fling.
She thought it was nothing more or less.
‘I feel a little sorry for him when I see him in person.’
It was a different matter to deal with Choi Yi-seo than to have a crush on Kim Woo-jin.
Choi Yi-seo briefly greeted the people inside.
No one hated him, and even Yi-seo-ah apologized to Choi Yi-seo for some reason, but it was all settled for the time being.
“Ta-da! This is where Yi-seo will sleep!”
Seo Ye-rin, in particular, was close to Choi Yi-seo, so she welcomed him willingly and made a place for him to sleep next to her.
Was that brave or thoughtless?
Whether Yoo Ah-rin felt complicated or not, the three of them ended up sleeping together.
After a simple dinner and chatting with each other, it was already 9 o’clock.
It was time to start getting ready for work tomorrow.
‘Come to think of it, I forgot about today.’
Yoo Ah-rin, who was brushing her teeth, remembered something she had forgotten because of the sudden guest.
She had agreed to talk to Seo Ye-rin about the night market today, but it became impossible because Choi Yi-seo was sharing the same room.
“Ugh.”
Was it better if it had gone well?
Yoo Ah-rin finished brushing her teeth with mixed feelings and entered the room.
Seo Ye-rin and Choi Yi-seo were chattering away.
‘They’re amazing.’
They knew what kind of relationship they were in without having to talk about it, and they were talking casually.
Even.
“So that’s when Woo-jin suddenly said he could pull five carts at the same time!”
They were talking about Kim Woo-jin.
“We all told him not to do it? But he did it anyway and ended up spilling all the carts and getting scolded.”
‘Oh, that time.’
It was when Kim Woo-jin was trying to show off to Seo Ye-rin, who had come to visit.
Thanks to him, I had a hard time cleaning up.
“Ah-rin! Come here!”
Seo Ye-rin patted the seat next to her and called out to Yoo Ah-rin, who had entered the room.
‘She’s really something.’
Isn’t she just stupid rather than sociable?
She thought so, but Yoo Ah-rin sat down next to her awkwardly since she had been called.
The three of them sat in a circle on the floor, facing each other.
Seo Ye-rin was about to say something, but Choi Yi-seo spoke first.
“I came here to see a concert with Woo-jin.”
“I heard! You’re going to a YuAi concert? I’m so jealous.”
“How did you get the tickets?”
Seo Ye-rin was envious, and Yoo Ah-rin pouted.
Choi Yi-seo, who was looking at the two of them alternately, took a deep breath. It seemed like he had something to say, but judging by the shadow on his face, it didn’t seem like it was anything good.
“Do you guys… like Woo-jin?”
“Getting to the point?”
Instead of Seo Ye-rin, who had opened her mouth to answer, Yoo Ah-rin quickly waved her hand and changed the subject.
She didn’t want to waste time on a story with an obvious answer, and she didn’t like confessing it in front of Choi Yi-seo.
Choi Yi-seo didn’t seem to think it was important, so he just skipped over it and continued talking.
“I worked with Yoon-ji during winter break.”
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Oh Yoon-ji.Everyone here knew her name. A girl student who had taken a leave of absence in the first semester and whom they had never seen before.
Kim Woo-jin’s ex-girlfriend.
“There seems to be… some kind of misunderstanding between Yoon-ji and Woo-jin. Yoon-ji left a letter or something, but it seems like it didn’t reach Woo-jin.”
“A letter?”
It would have been much more sincere than leaving a text message on her cell phone, Yoo Ah-rin thought.
“So. Yoon-ji said she would talk to Woo-jin and try to work things out again. She also said that she’s working with Woo-jin’s second older brother because of Woo-jin.”
At those words, Yoo Ah-rin scratched her cheek and interjected.
“Vice President, no… I heard it from Kim Woo-jin’s older brother too. That Oh Yoon-ji might come back to school. That she’s working because of Kim Woo-jin.”
She said, recalling Vice President Kim Jae-woon, who had come to see her while she was on duty at dawn the previous day.
“Oh?”
Seo Ye-rin looked at the two of them alternately, thinking that she was the only one who didn’t know anything.
However, Choi Yi-seo postponed the explanation and continued speaking for the time being.
“I’m Yoon-ji’s friend, so… I got to know the whole story between the two of them. It’s scary to approach them carelessly.”
Choi Yi-seo didn’t seem to like the idea of competing with her friend for the man her friend had been dating.
It seemed to weigh on her mind even more when she found out that they had broken up not just because they had broken up, but because of some kind of misunderstanding.
Even Kim Woo-jin hadn’t completely given up on Oh Yoon-ji yet.
“If the two of them can just clear up the misunderstanding, they’ll get back together. I wanted you to know in advance.”
She had come here in person to tell Seo Ye-rin and Yoo Ah-rin this, even though she had agreed to go to a concert with Kim Woo-jin.
Yoo Ah-rin, who had finally noticed, was speechless for a moment.
“Then, going to the concert…”
“……”
She kept her mouth shut, but no answer came out.
However, there was no one here who didn’t know the answer.
Choi Yi-seo was taking her time to sort out her feelings.
Leaving Seo Ye-rin, who was deeply troubled, alone.
“Hey.”
Yoo Ah-rin, whose face had become much more relaxed, smiled brightly at Choi Yi-seo and said.
“It’s been a year.”
“……”
“You may have been friends with Oh Yoon-ji, but I’m someone you don’t even remember well. Do you really need to back off because of her?”
“Woo-jin still has feelings for Yoon-ji. He called her while he was drunk last time. I heard the recording.”
“I don’t know what you heard, but I understand. I’ll stick with Kim Woo-jin, so you back off.”
“……”
Choi Yi-seo, who had been wearing a complicated expression ever since she arrived here today.
Her expression, which had been as gray as a thundercloud, seemed to have gained some color.
Even though she was frowning.
“What does it matter what feelings that bastard has for Oh Yoon-ji? I’m already prepared to get involved here.”
It didn’t matter if she made one or two enemies here.
Of course, Kim Woo-jin would be a pain in the ass.
“Right, Ye-rin?”
Seo Ye-rin, who was in the same position as her this time, finished her thoughts and shouted with a grin.
“I hope I get pregnant!”
“That’s so reckless!”
Yoo Ah-rin immediately threw a pillow and covered Seo Ye-rin’s face. Choi Yi-seo looked at Seo Ye-rin with a blank expression.
“Ugh! S, save me!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Yoo Ah-rin hit Seo Ye-rin a few more times with the pillow and returned to her original seat, grumbling.
“Hmph, only Woo-jin can get on top of me.”
Seo Ye-rin, who had been lying down and sobbing playfully, also jumped up again.
“But I might already be pregnant, so I said what I said.”
As she caressed her stomach, the two of them turned their gazes back to Seo Ye-rin at the same time.
“What?”
“You, you! You’re not using it?”
At the two of them’s questions, Seo Ye-rin smiled and made a V-sign.
“What are you going to do!”
“You, you could seriously screw up your life?!”
At the two of them’s urgent cries, Seo Ye-rin looked at them blankly and then snorted with a smile of triumph.
“Ah, I’m the only one who did it raw?”
“……”
“……”
“Oh my, I didn’t know Woo-jin would do that.”
“Get that b*tch.”
This time, Choi Yi-seo couldn’t hold back and joined Yoo Ah-rin as she charged at her.
A few minutes later.
The two of them stopped when Seo Ye-rin’s muffled screams and tears soaked the comforter.”Oh, a woman’s jealousy.”
The two people who were catching their breath while looking down at Seo Yerim, who had collapsed as if leaving a will.
Then their eyes met, and Yoo Arin asked with a laugh.
“Look. You’re the same after all.”
“……”
“What are you going to give up by being jealous like this?”
It wasn’t a wrong statement.
Because just by hearing one thing like this, I wanted to run to Kim Woojin right away.
“It’s not jealousy.”
However, Choi Iseul denied it with her lips pursed and her arms crossed. Because if she didn’t deny it like this, she felt like her conscience was being pricked.
“Oh? It’s not jealousy?”
Yoo Arin pulled her pajamas to the side to show her shoulder blade to Choi Iseul, who was like that.
There was a red mark on it.
“Look at this, Kim Woojin left a mark on me last time.”
“……!”
“I had a hard time adjusting because he was so rough. But I like him anyway.”
“Oh, is it a dirty story?”
Seo Yerim, who had been lying down, got up right away and began to explain what had happened to her.
It was a night when Choi Iseul’s face, which had been dark with worry and gray, gradually turned red.
* * *
The next day.
I came to see Choi Iseul right after work.
“Ugh!”
“This! This! You’re crazy!”
There was a woman who suddenly threw a punch.
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