53 – Nursery School
“Uh…That…Good morning…?”
At 4:00 in the morning, the hill behind. I hold a shovel in one hand and say an awkward greeting to Yoo Seon-i, whose clothes are all covered with dirt.
And Yoo Seon who accepts it again.
What the hell are you doing here?
Why are you digging in the mountains like this since dawn?
Looking at the puffy eyes, I don’t think I could sleep well.
Perhaps… The reason why I slept helplessly every morning, wasn’t it because I was doing this every night at night?
“Yoo Seon-ah. What are you doing here?”
“Huh..? That… It’s not that important”
“…Can I tell you if it’s not important?”
One step towards Seon Yoo. One step closer.
It’s common sense to run away without looking back if a strange person is digging in the back mountain at dawn.
Because Yoo Seon is not a killer from the movies.
He looks a bit savage, but his heart is kinder and more innocent than anyone else, and he listens to me well.
If you check what you’re burying right now, it may just be a trivial thing that makes you laugh.
That’s why I’m curious. Why didn’t you sleep at dawn and dig the ground and bury something there..?
Before Seon Yoo got in my way, I rushed over like a rabbit to see what was in the pit.
“…Clothes?”
“No. That.. This.. That’s it!”
– Prada. Hermes. Gucci.
You know what?
Friends who might be in the first floor of a department store.
I thought this would be worn by models in magazines.
I never imagined that I would see the real thing like this. Even the vinyl used to wrap clothes and the price tag telling them how much they cost were still attached, so they were things I had never worn.
“Yoo Seon-ah, what is all this..?”
“It has nothing to do with you”
“I’ll tell the director everything.”
“Uh..??”
“I’m going to tell the director everything. Where did you get all this from?”
When the wind from the mountain brushed past us, I realized that this was not a dream, but a reality.
Boxes with wires scattered around them.
These are obviously boxes from Future High School.
I don’t know why, where do the clothes I gave you go, and why these expensive luxury items are crammed full?
“…A friend…A friend gave it to me”
“Which friend?”
“That’s none of your business!”
“…Okay, that’s wired right.”
A friend.
Well, that school is where kids with a lot of money go.
Well… There might be some kids like Yoo Seon-i who don’t feel it’s a waste even if they pour tens of millions of won on them.
A friend I’ve only known for a month or two is giving such a gift to Yoo Seon-i
When Yu Seon came to the nursery school, it is highly likely that her friend bought all the clothes she was wearing that seemed incredibly expensive.
Where do all the clothes I bought go?
Why are there only such luxury items?
That’s important, but there’s one thing I don’t understand.
“Are you burying the clothes your friend gave you?”
“That’s… Not important!”
“Yoo Seon-ah. Be honest. Did you steal it?”
“…!!!”
A friend bought me clothes worth tens of millions of won.
Rather than believing it- Yoo Seon stole the school kids’ clothes.
I hate to admit it, but that’s more realistic.
That makes sense. Why are you wired, why don’t you go to school, and why do you bury all these clothes in the ground? All of that is explained.
The reason I don’t go to school is, of course, they stole their stuff, but if I go back, it’ll be a big deal.
And… Burying them in the ground, of course, stole so many clothes.
Because if you open the closet later and think there is Gucci or something like that, the director and other teachers will surely be suspicious.
If dozens of luxury goods are found in the closet of a child with no other income, it is obvious that they will be questioned… Then Yoo Seon-i has no choice but to confess his faults. Maybe it’s hidden like this…?
I don’t want to believe that Yoo Sun did this, either. The truth is that
Burying clothes in the back mountain. Later, when you can afford it and calm down, like a squirrel taking out a squirrel buried in winter and eating it, I would take out the buried clothes one by one and sell them as stolen goods or something..?
These days, it’s hard for the police to track you down if you sell for cash at second-hand countries or carrot markets.
“I didn’t steal”
“…Then what is this all about?”
“…I can’t tell you that. You won’t believe me if I tell you the truth, you…”
“… Ha”
A little bit… I felt a bit disappointed by Yoo Sun’s words. Why, why does Yoo Seon think I can’t believe what he said?
I can believe that Yoo Seon-i made soybean paste with red beans.
“…So what are you doing here? You can tell me that much.”
“It’s just… Because these clothes aren’t supposed to be here.”
This is… My head is pounding. I don’t understand what Yoo Seon is talking about.
I had never seen anything like this before I went to high school…
I took out all the clothes in the pit and put them back in the box one by one.
“Just… Let’s return this to the high school. Then, won’t they take care of it there?
I don’t need this. Please take care of it..! If you say so, I’ll take care of everything there. Yoo Seon-ah It’s not like this was stolen.
If it’s the gift that Yoo Seon said, can I return it to the owner? What would you do if you left it like this? Did you intend to dig it up and bury it in the mountain?”
“What if I get retaliated against..??”
“Retaliation..?”
“I don’t think it’s polite to just give back a gift.. He cares a lot about that…”
“Then are you going to bury it all in the ground like this? I think this will feel more like an insult to the friend who gave you this gift?
Yoo Seon-ah? Are you okay. Are you okay. No one feels bad about that. And I will tell the director separately. Yoo Seon needs clothes”
And again… I thought for a while about what to say to Yoo Seon.
Maybe it’s summer, the days seem to be getting hotter little by little.
I seem to be sweating profusely as I keep moving hard in the back mountain. I want to wash up a little, and I want to go down and rest.
I think we need to help sort out the clothes in the pit and go downstairs.
“Yoo Seon-ah… You’re hiding something”
“…Yeah”
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As expected, Yoo Seon had something to hide from me.
But pushing Yoo Seon more will only stress him out, so I didn’t want to stimulate him any more.
It’s just… The bruises all over my body, and the fact that I received a bunch of presents from a friend. No way. That..
“Did you even have a girlfriend?”
“…!”
Flinch.
“Ah”
I see. It feels like all the puzzles are fitting together in your head.
Yoo Seon met a certain girlfriend at Mirae High School.
The girlfriend gave Yu Seon a variety of presents… Or was it because she felt the pressure?
I don’t know if it’s because she’s out of character. She has a bad relationship with her girlfriend, and her vindictive girlfriend is abusive to her.
I can’t believe that Yoo Seon gets beaten up and bullied by a girl my age for her size, but anyway. Is that why she couldn’t stand it and came back to the nursery school…?
“Seonah Yoo”
“…Yeah”
Wrinkle. Wrinkled.
Looking at Yoo Seon-i shrunken in fear that I might say something again. The anger that was there seems to subside.
How hard was it? I think so. Because she felt sorry and bad.
“..Let’s go down first… The director will be surprised to see the two of us gone”
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Come to think of it, I thought I knew what Yuseon likes, what she disliked, and what she had in her head.
Now I wonder if I really know Yoo Seon. I do not know.
The food she likes, the food she doesn’t like, the clothes she usually wears, and… The places she often goes to hang out. What should I do to find out about that..?
I don’t know what happened to Seon Yoo or anything like that.
A small incident that happened in the back mountain. Even now, roughly a few years after the incident happened, I still wonder.
I wanted to ask many times why Seon Yoo did such a thing. Each time she held it tight.
Everyone has a secret they want to keep..!
Sometimes I feel that way.
No, it’s just that she sent back the package that came to the nursery school, but Yoo Seon, who has been biting her fingernails looking anxious for months, is also very strange.
It’s strange that the girl who gave tens of millions of won to Yoo Seon at the nursery school never contacted her.
I didn’t go to that school for several months- I didn’t hear from the administrative class or the teachers’ office, and it’s very suspicious that I dropped out naturally.
I don’t know much about administrative procedures because I didn’t go to middle school or high school. No matter how you think about it, this doesn’t seem like it.
There were many things I wanted to ask about, but none of the truths I wanted to know were revealed.
Although the first digit has changed from 1 to 2, my life hasn’t changed that dramatically.
Every day is always the same. Not much has changed with age.
If there’s one thing that’s changed, it’s important that Yoo Seon-i is in a similar situation to me now, and we’ve become friends with each other sitting on the swings in the playground while playing after the college entrance exam.
To be honest, when Yoo Seon went to Mirae High School, I thought I would never spend time chatting like this…
This moment of spending time sitting on the playground swing again is so happy and meaningful to me. Also, I really liked the fact that Yoo Seon was by my side.