72 – Motel
I pulled up the tent hanging over the entrance and entered the parking lot.
On the left side of the parking lot, I saw a door leading into the motel. It was the same as entering the parking lot, and the entrance was cold, so it seemed that we entered through the back door rather than the front door.
… Before going inside the motel, I took a look around the neighborhood where the motel is located.
Twinkle Twinkle – This street is full of motels full of neon signs.
When I thought about it, this place is in the middle of downtown Gangneung.
At the pub near the motel, there were people who seemed to be locals here drinking – the whole revelry. A lot of drunken people went around.
“…The only place I could borrow it was here”
“No, I didn’t say anything.”
“If you didn’t want to come to a place like this, you should have told me earlier! The mail came to my house last weekend, too..! I also wanted to find a quiet pension!”
“…I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…!”
That… I was wrong.
To be honest, I had nothing to say about this part.
I went into the motel with Yoo-jung, who was very angry. After checking where the room was, I took the elevator to the 6th floor.
The elevator was extremely narrow. That… It’s just me and Yoojung riding together. I already felt cramped.
Rather than a place for people to ride, it felt like the right purpose of carrying cleaning tools up and down…
“It’s all over”
Open the door with the motel key. I heard the sound of an old hinge and went into the room.
“Wow- It’s better than I thought.”
The outside, the entrance here, and the elevator. Everything… It looked like it was built at least 10 years ago.
So when I entered the room, I thought it was an extremely old and shabby place, so I was worried inside. It wasn’t.
Clean black and white wallpaper. The bed is wide, the bathroom has a bathtub, and… The bathroom is big, and there’s a TV…
There is also a hair dryer and lotion. The facility is much better than it looks from the outside. That… Kept coming and coming- I just made noise like an idiot.
“I got 60,000 won a night here, did I choose well…? It’s not overpriced!”
“Wow… That’s great. How did you even think of getting a place like this…?”
I heard it while training at Shinkyo University. When it was time for the graduation ceremony, I was told that it was a guard area, so soldiers could only play in that area when they went outside.
So, on days like graduation ceremonies or weekends, local merchants make a secret agreement and raise the price exorbitantly.
I was worried that Yoojung would end up spending a lot of money after saying that, but when it came out, everything was okay.
I don’t know if this is a remote area like Yang or Cheorwon- Gangneung has a lot of tourists, so you can’t be overpriced.
Maybe they set such a reasonable price.
No matter how it is, it seems like a really good choice for 60,000 won.
“I’m hungry, let’s eat!”
“…Huh…? Yeah… That sounds delicious!”
We broke the sashimi and soju we bought.
“…Come to think of it, I didn’t bring a cup”
“…That’s right”
I brought my chopsticks. I didn’t get the cup. Should I have bought it at a convenience store?
By the way, going down again is troublesome. And even if you go to a convenience store, they don’t sell just 2 paper cups.
Over there, in the corner of the room, there is luggage that Yoo-jung brought with him- Judging from the fact that it was the size of a backpack… Really- I only brought clothes for tomorrow, just today, with the intention of going home immediately after seeing me go back to the base tomorrow. It seems.
It looks like you have a lot of luggage, but you buy a fragile mug, and be careful not to break it – I can’t say that.
“Yoo Seon-ah! Let’s just eat!”
“Yeah, well… I don’t think this is bad either!”
If you don’t have it, you have to live without it. Also – because this has its own romance.
-Kirik!
After removing another bottle of soju, Yujeong and I made a toast with the whole bottle, and then blew the bottle.
This is… It seems that I can’t control the amount of alcohol more than I thought. Still, she can’t help it. There are no paper cups. I don’t even know how much I drank, and the bitter taste of soju spread in my mouth.
And the sharp scent of soju was already making my head dizzy.
It’s been a while since I haven’t had a drink in a month, so my body didn’t seem to be able to adapt well to the alcohol I had been drinking in a long time.
“It’s so… Bitter..! Let’s try the trout!”
“It looks delicious!”
I picked up a fish with chopsticks and dipped it in soy sauce and tried it once.
Odok ok ok- the feeling of eating even the bones being chewed was unique- and the savory flavor lingered on the inside of the tongue.
There is a saying that even daughters-in-law who have left the house come back during the fall season, and that is not for nothing.
-Odok-oh-dog
Garlic in lettuce, and seared in chojang.
I bought 50,000 won worth of food, so the two of us ate together, and there was no shortage at all.
It’s a waste to eat something like raw sashimi, so one piece at a time. I eat like that, but today I pick up a few pieces at a time with chopsticks and eat like that.
To the extent that both cheeks burst – After eating the sashimi deliciously – And after that…
“Yoo Seon-ah, another drink!”
“Good!”
– Crack!
As bottles collided with each other, the trumpets were blown again.
With a gurgling sound, the soju began to decrease rapidly.
“So delicious!”
“Eat a lot, Yoo Seon-ah”
It’s delicious. Really delicious.
Strange kodari seasoning all the time. And I was so happy to eat this delicious fish, after eating only strange fish like fried fish.
This is a fish. This is the roundabout this is cooking
Odok ohdok- The feeling of chewing gizzards. Accuse. I didn’t even sprinkle anything on the fish, but it was amazing that the savory taste came out just by chewing it.
“Thank you…”
“It’s okay!”
“…Sorry”
“…..”
“…I’m sorry for being so selfish. I always think of myself, and… I do what I want to do.
Yoojung, I know that you are worried about me. Don’t even talk about your worries…”
“…It’s okay. I’m fine, Yoo Seon-ah”
“…Couldn’t help it. But… It really couldn’t be helped.”
I took a deep breath. …Now there is no turning back. Because people can’t live alone.
Because human beings have to constantly interact with and depend on others, give and receive help, and live.
It won’t have any effect if I keep hiding the secrets of the past and tell you that I’m sick in my heart alone.
If you think like that, nothing will change in the end.
On the contrary, I hurt people who tried to help me, and again- I just isolated myself more.
So- In order for me to become a better person in the future… I felt the need to be a little more honest from now on.
“…Once upon a time, when you were in nursery school, there was a certain girl.”
“…Yeah”
“When I was in elementary school, I couldn’t leave him alone because he had no friends and always went around alone, and at home I didn’t know who he was, but he was always beaten with a cane, so I could see the red and swollen wounds.
I was bullied by my friends too… I couldn’t just watch it. So I stood by and helped him. He became a friend, a teacher who taught him his studies, and also – a bodyguard who protected him from the bad guys.”
“…So…?”
“Becoming a middle school student, that child has changed..?”
“…..? In what sense did it change?”
“In a good way. Originally… Their grandfather is very rich… Until now, the grandfather has not been interested in the friend..?
But something big happened at home, so instead of Mom and Dad, he ended up living at his grandfather’s house. So… Her grandfather took care of her from then on. Incredibly expensive…”
“Wearing expensive clothes and wearing expensive things- I became such a child..?”
“Ah. Something like that. Anyway, at that time, Kang Yoo-seon and I had a hard time accepting that child’s change.
Of course I thought you were similar to me. She thought I and she went through the same pain. Turns out- he was just- the ugly swan, and I was just a duckling.
So… Just being next to you was already a wound, pain, and pain for me. But he seems to have a hard time accepting it.
He wanted to be close to me, but the fact that I distanced himself from him is a great sadness and pain for him.
He liked and loved me much more than I thought.”
“Yoo Seon-ah, what do you think of that child?”
“…I… Just thought that I just wanted to be good friends, as I was and now, and we’re not as close as he thinks.
That’s why I was very embarrassed. I’m so happy that he thinks of me as special.”
“…Is it burdensome?”
“Uh… Well that’s right”
“Yoo Seon-ah, then what do I think? What am I to Yoo Seon-i?”
“…Uh…? Uh…”
Now… Yes. It feels like my head is spinning round and round. My whole body is hot as if a boiler has turned on.
Yoojung is also good at drinking. You seemed a little tired today.
“…Wait a minute…? For a moment, my head was dizzy, so I couldn’t hear what you were saying.”
“….Okay. Then I’ll ask that next time, so… Yoo Seon-i keeps talking about friends- sometimes he, and other times friends.
I’m also dizzy, so I wonder if Yoo Seon-i’s friend and he’s always the same person? I think about it, but it makes me so uncomfortable.”
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“Unify titles?”
“So what’s his name…? It can’t be someone’s name! It doesn’t matter if I tell you his name…?”
-Hee hee!
Yoo-jung laughs after she says what is so funny.
…Name. Jinah Lee. I thought for a moment about whether I should tell Yoo-jung or not. That… I decided to say it in the end.
Anyway, well… Yu-jeong doesn’t even have anything to do with Lee Jin-ah, so shouldn’t it be okay to say this much?
“Lee Jin-ah. The friend’s name was Lee Jin-ah.”
“…..”
For a moment, Yoojung’s giggling laughter stopped.
He blinked at me once and twice with his big eyes… And looked at me without a word.
“…Ah, well. It’s a girl’s name. It’s just a normal girl’s name. So. What happened after that…? What did he do to you…?”
I found Yoo-jung’s sudden change in attitude strange, but what’s going to happen is too serious a topic to talk about while laughing.
If you look at it as a game, it would be a change of about 2 phases. I had to speak well from now on.
“That’s because Jin-ah’s family is a little better. They put me in an expensive private school…?
By the way, Gina wants to stick with me there. It was so burdensome and uncomfortable that I wanted to stay away from Lee Jin-ah.”
“I like it very much, but because Yoo Seon keeps hating me- he’s been harassing me! What’s that like..?”
“…Huh? Uh uh what is that?”
“…No big deal. By the way. You’ve been keeping that…As if it were some big secret…? For how many years?”
A problem that seems never to be solved can be easily solved if you change your point of view.
The time each person drank two bottles of soju. During that time, I was able to briefly explain to Yoo-jung what I had been through, well… Something like that.
To be honest, I drank a lot and talked too much, as if I had confessed my confession, but that was the problem.
Yeah… Just now, at Hamburger Queen, I thought to myself that I would definitely never tell Lee Jin-ah’s name. Does it matter…?
We both drank too much anyway- I might not remember it tomorrow morning.
“…Well, well… At that age, being bullied is the biggest concern and worry. Besides, Yoo Seon-i suffered severely..!”
“But, I’m fine now!”
“Yoo Seon-ah, that’s it! It’s okay now…! I think I drank too quickly. I’m tired. Shall we go to sleep now…? Yoo Seon-ah. I’m taking a shower. I’ll wash up a bit in the room…!”
“Oh, I see!”