8 – Middle School Students
1)
“I am the happiest child in the world..!”
Today is a really happy day.
The director personally fried pork cutlet, and also gave me a birthday present, and I was able to receive a really big and soft ball.
If you just throw it, it just bounces all over the place, how fun it is to see that…!
I’m so happy… It’s my birthday, so I get presents, I get a wish ticket, and I’m probably the happiest person in the world..?!
Look at this..! Because I say I’m the happiest in the world..! The director and the man look so good..!
I am… The happiest child in the world..!
2)
“Jinah…! This is Serge Luten…?!”
“Wow- Hermès also makes something like lipstick..? It’s amazing..!”
“Guys I don’t know, my grandfather gave it to me…!”
“Wow- Jinah’s grandfather is so cool..! Buy me something like this..!”
I fell asleep on my desk, and I think I had a dream. …I do not know. I heard a voice beside me, but I just stayed still.
Quietly, just… Until this moment is over.
I really want to quit school.
“…Yoo Seon always comes to school and seems to just sleep…!”
“Hey… I can hear it, leave it alone… Didn’t you hear it…? He’s got a really bad personality..! He even hit the teacher and said that…”
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“Guys, that wasn’t Yoo Seon’s fault…”
I’d rather f*ck. It would have been more comfortable if we had cursed together. Jina always cheapens me.
I hear a bell announcing the start of class, and the teacher tells me to wake up- so.
And I can feel the touch from the side. Raise your head naturally. If you do it too fast, it’s obvious that he… Pretended to be asleep.
The class is boring, I don’t want to understand it. I write something on the blackboard, but I don’t know. Is Hangeul the Korean language? Or society..? Science..?
… I just don’t know. If I fall on my desk, I think I’ll say something else, so I scribble at the end of the textbook.
-Cheerful.
“Should number 5 read this part…? Number 5…! Number 5…!”
“..Seonah Yoo”
“Ah..Yes”
That, damn it..! My body trembles in surprise. So what..
“Here… You just need to read this part…”
Tap to the tip of the sharp- He tells me which part to read, so I slowly start reading that part.
I don’t know- what this is about, what the hell is it talking about. I don’t really want to understand- roughly… Hesitantly hesitantly.
I wouldn’t have been able to say a word if it was in English, but maybe it’s because it’s Korean, so I was able to say it freely.
“Okay… Then next…!”
Class is over. I quickly packed my bag and left the classroom.
“..Yoo Seon-ah…!”
I hear a voice calling me from behind, but I ignore it and quickly… I think about going back to the facility- I just walk towards the library.
…I’m a juvenile delinquent, but the best I can do is go to the library… I was dumbfounded even thinking about it.
No, the facility doesn’t have a computer that I can use freely.
Go to the Digital Information Center on the 1st floor. I roughly reserve a seat and turn on the internet window as I always do.
Clicking the mouse and dragging a few times for no reason. Why can’t we play games in the library?
I also want to be that star, and the League of Legends..? I want to do that too, but unfortunately I don’t have a computer that can do that.
Still, I can use the Internet for now.
…Serge Luten…? I’m just curious, so I hit it once – I’m surprised that a lipstick the size of a dog is over 100,000 won.
Again… That… f*ck… I was so envious of being able to use things like that the way I wanted.
-Part-time job heaven.
Regardless of age, regardless of gender. Post flyers from 15 to 52 years old. Weekend part-time job available… First of all, mark it like.
Again… A meat restaurant…? They say this is really hard, but I’ll have to give it a try. Like this one too.
Ah, this is a recession these days, so I don’t use part-time jobs a lot, … I have to go through a counseling interview over the phone beforehand..? It’s not that difficult…!
I opened my bag and took out a notebook. Sharp… There’s no such thing as a sharp when you don’t f*cking study. Next time I’ll be sure to get one.
“Lend me your sister’s sharp”
I borrowed a sharpener from my older sister, the librarian who was guarding the counter.
“I’ll lend you my cell phone”
“Ah… Thank you..!”
Now that I have seen it several times, my older sister takes out her cell phone from her pocket and lends it to me. No need to write down phone numbers separately in a notebook. Make a call right away on your cell phone.
– Hello..?
-Ah, because I got all the part-time jobs. Call me tomorrow
-Yes, I understand..
…
– Hello..? Is there a meat restaurant there…?
-Oh, that’s right, maybe a grill cleaner..? This is hard, but can you do it? I have to do this all day…?
-Ah yes, just leave it to me
-Seeing how old you are…? You look so young
-I’m a middle or high school student…
-Ah, that high school student can’t. Too young-
Because it’s clear you wouldn’t order it if you were a middle school student. She raised her age as a high school student, but even that was rejected.
Are you happy today…? I do not know. If you watch a drama or something like that, you’re a middle school student, but you earn a living with part-time jobs, right?
But, since I’m trying to copy this, ah- it’s difficult…
“Thank you…!”
Still, I nodded and said hello to my older sister who lent me my cell phone. I go back to my seat and work on the computer.
No, this is… That’s why I reserved 2 hours at most, but returning to the facility after only 30 minutes isn’t it…!
I can’t play games, and um… I don’t even do social media, so I’ll do that. There was only New Tube. Roughly, hit the watermelon chart for this month and connect it to the headset to listen.
Who told you? That music is the only drug the country has to offer. But I guess that’s the right expression. Other than this, I don’t really have any hobbies that I can do.
While listening to the song, I searched for used mobile phones on the Internet.
Hey… This one is very old, but it costs over 100,000 won! The price… Are all smartphones really this expensive?
I don’t need a real smartphone, just a phone call and text message… That’s enough. I heard that in this day and age, mobile phones with only such simple functions are not sold.
I am a second year middle school student, and the fact that I still do not have a cell phone is a big hit.
…I’m hungry.
What. I searched the internet for a while- I just had nothing to do, so I packed my bag… And went out.
What was the menu for tonight…? Was it curry..?
3)
“No… So, our Dong-chul is not the type to steal things… And hit people.. Yes..? He… Is at the police station right now..? If you tell me where the police station is, I’ll go find it. …”
Today is also the start. Among the older brothers who left the nursery school, another one must have had an accident.
If you have an accident in your teens, not legally as an adult, the nursery school will contact you-
…Hurry up – I can see the director running around with only his shoes on.
…How many gold-plated ties do you need to look good for the cops..?
Seeing them running out in a hurry made me feel depressed.
He doesn’t want to do anything. I wanted to lie on the floor and play around, but Yoo-jung opened the door and spoke to me.
“Don’t eat..?”
“You have to eat”
It’s curry for dinner- Hmm… Looking at the color, it’s the color of black bean paste.
“This was originally curry… But it was changed to jajang because there was something sponsored by jajang..!”
“Uh… I see…”
I ate a bite. It’s not terribly tasteless. There’s a burnt smell, and a lot of meaty smell…
“The teachers are busy today… I made it”
“It’s delicious”
It tastes good when you chew it thoroughly.
But I don’t know. My stomach won’t accept food today.
How do you push the leftover jjajang into your mouth and put the bowl in the sink? Then… I put on my slippers and go out of the way…
“Where are you going…?”
“Just go for a walk”
“…Are you going to smoke too..?!”
“No, what..! All of them are listening, but they are saying strange things..!”
What about cigarettes? There are many children of that blood, but I don’t bloom. That… Should I say it’s a personal belief..?
Once upon a time, there was a very famous comedian who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day- before dying of cancer and filming a public service announcement.
Looking at that, I will never smoke. Because I promised
“Are you really going for a walk…?”
“It’s true, trust me”
“…Then I want to go too”
“Sure”
Yoo-Jung also wears flip flops and walks from time to time.
If there’s one thing that has changed since I got older, it’s that teachers don’t say anything even when I walk outside the nursery school in the evening.
When I was young, I would get scolded if I strayed even a little bit, but now… I don’t seem to care much. No, maybe I can’t write it.
You have to have a lot of accidents.
If it were me, I’d put up a guard at the entrance. With that thought in mind, look- Even now, two kids are escaping, but no one catches them.
Isn’t this something I can do if I just want to – stay out overnight somewhere else…?
…Of course, I’ve seen my older brothers do that often- but I didn’t really want to do it.
Just making deliveries on a motorcycle, or carrying flyers. Living like that is noble.
A man who wears a black suit and stirs the streets at night. Walking around with a tattoo on your arm is a bad thing, and there were a lot of people who were imprisoned.
… Looking at it this way, this isn’t an orphanage- it looks like… It’s a gangster training center, but I can’t help it.
Director. And the teachers are getting older and less energetic, but we are just bubbling with energy.
Even if you work hard as if your black hair will turn into green onions, you have to manage more children than you can handle- Later, Dong-chul hyung got into an accident.
Min-jae hit someone again. Are you running out of time trying to sort things out? It’s not like we’re playing some kind of game of catching a mole rat – after one person fixes an accident, another accident over there –
Once again, after I’ve dealt with the accident there, another accident happens somewhere else…
Come to think of it, I had an accident too. I’m not in a position to tell other people what to do. I keep saying one thing at a time.
“…What are you thinking..?”
“… Huh?”
“You keep squatting and staring at the pond”
“Huh…? Uh…Just thinking about the future”
Write down a chair while thinking about other things. As I was walking, I just… Arrived at the pond at the back of the nursery school… And I’m just squatting in a daze.
I mean, it’s a pond… It’s more like a puddle where the rainwater has accumulated and turned completely rotten.
Just… Buzzing and flying mosquitoes… On top of the streetlight-lit water… I see a dead fish with its white belly exposed.
This is…A gutter with no answers.
I’m running out of energy.