20 – New Student
“But I’m fine..! Yoo Seon-ah, let’s get along well from now on…?!”
I couldn’t say anything at Lee Jin-ah’s words. I came up to the place where Jin-ah and her grandfather are again…
“Did you talk well..? Can you do well?”
“Yes”
“Then let’s do better in the future”
The bodyguards dropped me off at an orphanage. I was in an air-conditioned place all day, and my whole body was drenched in sweat as if I had been exercising.
-It will be fun…!
Those words still lingered in my ears, buzzing – they were ringing in my ears like an echo.
Get out of the car and enter the nursery. The moon was already floating in the sky, and the sound of a dog barking. And the sound of children crying.
A chattering sound. Well, it was only after entering the facility full of noise that I realized that this was not a nightmare, but a terribly terrible reality.
Practically everything in Korea. The fact that the granddaughter of the chaebol family of Mirae Group thought of me as special made me… Very scared.
-I’m not that great of a person. I’m not as good a person as you think. I am just an ordinary person and there is no one to take responsibility for you.
I didn’t have the courage to say those short words. Even if you do, it won’t be eaten by Lee Jin-ah.
The president of Mirae Group is seen on TV. There is a gap between media and reality.
I’m not such a hard person, but of course soft doesn’t mean easy. Jinah’s grandfather is the most calculating and meticulous person I’ve ever seen.
Because I am also a sensitive person. So this person won’t do anything to me.
I was able to boldly assert my opinion because I was sure that it would not harm me and that it would not cause me any real damage.
Jinah is different.
Like bouncing balls sold at stationery stores, the instability of not knowing where to bounce once you bump into them.
A way of thinking that is different from that of normal people.
Because there were so many distorted, distorted, distorted images…
I was so scared. I don’t know how this guy will turn out.
“…”
“Ah…Yoo Seon-ah…! Where did you go until late tonight…!!! I was worried…!!!!!!”
-I heard the sound of tadada
Yoojeong came out and greeted me.
“…Just, I have something to talk to the teacher about school…”
“Umm… I see..! Come in quickly, I have something to show you..!”
Hesil heshil- What the hell makes me feel so happy?
When I opened the door of the warehouse where consumables such as toilet paper and detergent were usually collected, there were various paper bags. Looking at the brand, it is a clothing store.
“…Everyone there is a dormitory. You need a lot of clothes and stuff! You can’t walk around in school uniforms all the time…!
So I asked the director… I bought some clothes…!”
“…Where’s your money?”
“Yeon Seon didn’t go on the school trip because you were sick…! I remember all of that. Actually, I know that not going on the school trip was a lie…!
Did you just do it because you were embarrassed to walk around in your school uniform? …I didn’t tell you that day, but do you know how upset the director and I are..?
So, to make sure this doesn’t happen next time. I did a lot of part-time jobs in my spare time, and I saved up a lot of pocket money.”
“…You and you…You have to write…!”
“I’m fine! Yoo Seon-i helped me a lot too! So, now, I want to repay Yoo Seon-i for helping me.
Ah..! Just in case, I can’t refund unless the size doesn’t fit…?!
After I check if the size fits or not, I’m going to snip off all the tags with scissors so I can’t even get a refund…
Let’s try on the shirt first! Should I stretch out my arm…?!”
Yoo-jung takes a shirt out of an envelope and puts it on my body. Then I started putting on the shirt like I would dress a doll.
“As expected, Yoo Seon-i’s skin color is a bit dark, so I thought that bright clothes would suit her!
The director doesn’t know anything else. Because you don’t have the sense of choosing clothes.
…? Yoo Seon-ah… What’s wrong with her expression…? Did something bad happen?”
“…In fact”
I tried to tell Yu-jeong about what happened today, but I kept my mouth shut. That… It hurts my mouth to say it.
It’s not a problem that can be solved just by two empty spoons putting their heads together.
Different ranks and different statuses. The gap between Lee Jin-ah and us is as different as the Himalayan peak.
“…It’s just… It’s just… So good… I’ve never gotten a present like this before…”
Aside from an impromptu lie, plausible words came out of my mouth spontaneously. Yujeong’s appearance was blurry – it looked like watercolor smeared in water.
“Yoo Seon-ah…”
Yoojeong’s lips were soft. Soft and warm
Large eyes like the night sky spread out in front of me like the Milky Way.
In those pupils are the universe, the Milky Way, and the moon and sun. And I think I am too.
I feel it all over again, but Yoojung’s eyelashes are quite long.
Little by little, Yoo-jung’s face moved away. My heart feels like it’s going to burst any minute.
“From now on, Yoo Seon-i will also receive many presents!
Yes! I’ll do that!
Instead of that, I hope Yoo Seon will work hard to graduate from high school in the future. Also, I want you to go to a good university, get a good job, and grow up to be a great adult!
I’m not good at studying, I’m not good at sports, I’m not good at anything. Yoo Seon-i is good at anything if he puts his mind to it.
Yes…! That’s why I want Yoo Seon to succeed. …Actually, I don’t even have to be a great person, I just want Yoo Seon to live happily like everyone else.
I really don’t want anything from Yoo Seon-i other than that…”
“……”
“Yoo Seon-ah, you know that…? Until last year, when I was squatting by myself in the pond at the back of the nursery school, I was also extremely depressed…?!
But at some point, all of a sudden, I study hard, exercise hard, and just want to do everything with enthusiasm!
I feel better when I see Yoo Seon-i live hard..!
I don’t know why I was in a good mood then…!
However, Yoo Seon furrows his eyebrows every time he gets a math problem wrong, and Yoo Seon bites the tip of his sharpie while memorizing English words. Mammary glands exercising hard and wiping sweat with a towel.
Every time I see him working so hard, every single expression I see of Yoo Seon-yi and every emotion he expresses comes to me with great meaning.
I hope you will continue to live like this in the future. I like seeing you like an ordinary middle school student whimpering while solving a math problem rather than making a helpless expression while looking at a pond like an old man who has just lived through the world!
Yoo Seon-ah! Wherever you are, I will always support you!
I know, I know that the future high school Yoo Sun is going to attend is a high school where only people who are very good at studying gather and only really great people from all over the country gather..!
Still, I hope that Yoo Seon will persevere hard and become a great person! It must be hard going to that school! I don’t know anyone, so I’ll be very lonely..!
But I want you to know that there is me who always prays for Yoo Seon-yi to study hard and become a person who always works hard!
If all the people at that school hate and hate Yoo Seon, at least I will always cheer and pray that Yoo Seon can do well!
Yes..! So… Stretch your shoulders…! Stop crying…”
2)
When there is darkness, there is also light.
The words Yu-jeong said to me that day in the warehouse were like a ray of light that came down in the darkness.
Yes… People always look for opportunities in times of crisis.
I thought that going to high school could be a turning point that would change my life.
I think I studied harder at this point when I decided to go to a high school in the future.
Every day, I solve workbooks, memorize English words, correct problems, solve them… I sit at my desk in the morning and into the night. Keep going until your new pencil turns into a dull pencil…
Until my hands were covered with graphite and turned black- I studied like crazy, and finally the entrance ceremony for the future high school came.
“…Yoo Seon-ah, what did you do during winter break? Because Yoo Seon-i doesn’t have a cell phone… It’s a pity that I couldn’t contact her every day.
I want to buy you a smartphone, but don’t you hate that? Yoo Seon-a’s sweater is pretty..! Where did you buy it..? I want to buy the same one too!
Jong-Al-Jong-Al, who sits next to me, Lee Jin-Ah keeps making noise next to me.
Did you say that it is the school’s tradition to wear plain clothes on the day of the entrance ceremony, and then the teacher directly distributes the uniform to each student…?
As soon as I sat down, naturally Jinah Lee sat down next to her and started talking to me.
-Drreuk
The door opens, and one by one other students enter. …Definitely not as good as Jin-ah, but probably from well-to-do families.
As soon as I entered the classroom, I looked at Jinah Lee once and then at me. And turn your gaze elsewhere.
The classroom, which had been empty until just now, was full. In terms of university, the kids in this class are in the same department, and they all take separate classes.
Maybe that’s why, he didn’t seem to have much interest in me and Jina. Anyway, if each of them moves according to the given timetable, if they do well, they may not run into each other throughout the school year.
“…Seonah Yoo..! I…I’m sorry…That…Tuesday..I’ll go to the bathroom..! You can’t sit next to me without me…!”
Lee Jin-ah goes outside.
-Tak!
The classroom door is closed
– Drooling…!
Chairs move, desks move.
Dozens of pairs of eyeballs all started to focus on me.