251 – EP.10. Dissonance-1
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“Have you reconciled?”
A few days later. When he heard the bell ringing indicating lunch time and was about to pack his crutches, Jeong Sang-hoon, who was sitting next to him, asked him.
Compared to how difficult it was to even talk to him at first, he seemed to have become quite friendly with him.
“Reconciliation?”
As In-ho tilted his head in response to the repeated question, Jeong Sang-hoon pointed to Shin Jeong-ah with his chin.
In-ho and Sang-hoon’s eyes quickly turned to Shin Jeong-ah.
Her expression had brightened recently and she was just closing her textbook.
After putting her textbook full of meaningless scribbles in her desk drawer, she turned her body towards him.
The two men withdrew their gaze and looked at each other.
“Well, that’s what happened….”
Inho laughed awkwardly.
“It would be good if we reconciled. Shall we have lunch with Jeong-ah today again?”
Sang-hoon asked as if reaffirming the obvious, and In-ho slowly nodded his head.
“Eat deliciously.”
Sang-hoon Jeong went out to hang out with his friends, and In-ho looked at the door he left through with regret.
“Inho~”
Without time to ruminate over his regrets, Shin Jeong-ah suddenly came next to him.
Inho stumbled under the weight.
“I’ll help you.”
Although it was much easier for her to do it on her own, he couldn’t reject her as strongly as before.
He pouted with a reluctant face, and Shin Jeong-ah grabbed one of his shoulders and whined, pulling him up.
He stood up hesitantly, receiving help that was not enough to keep him still, and was able to leave the classroom using his crutches.
“What’s for lunch today?”
Shin Jeong-ah asked refreshingly, as if it were a quiz show.
Kang In-ho felt like he was back in the military and recalled his menu.
“I only remember Gondre Namulbap.”
“The dog tastes bad.”
As Shin Jeong-ah grumbled at her, Kang In-ho narrowed his eyes and glared at her.
How delicious Gondre Namulbap is, of course, I started eating it in my 30s…
He felt upset because his favorite food was undervalued.
Anyway, Shin Jeong-ah smiled.
“Do you want to just go to the snack bar or the convenience store?”
As if I really didn’t like lunch, Shin Jeong-ah suggested another option.
“Can’t you see my legs?”
It was natural for Kang In-ho to make a bewildered expression.
Even with the concession stand, going to the convenience store… It was clear that it was quite a hassle for him with an injured leg.
“Then let’s go to the snack bar. Let’s eat bread, bread.”
Shin Jeong-ah dragged his hand.
While being dragged by that feeble force, In-ho did not hide his complicated face.
The canteen was located in a separate building away from the teacher.
Correction, rather than a building, they roughly decorated a container and did business there.
It was originally a warehouse for storing miscellaneous facility items, but it was transformed into a more useful facility.
Like the front of the emergency room, the cafeteria was crowded with people.
It was not easy for a student with casts on his arms and legs to fit into the gap.
“Stay here. I’ll come back.”
Shin Jeong-ah clenched her hands as if telling her to trust only herself and threw herself directly into the tangled thread of students.
It was a few seconds before I could see the back of him struggling to squeeze through the group of male students.
While I was about to worry about Shin Jeong-ah, who had disappeared into the midst of it all, Shin Jeong-ah stuck out her face from the huge mass.
“Take me out!!”
Shin Jeong-ah shouted in a hurry, and In-ho grabbed her and dragged her out with a sigh.
It was already difficult for her to keep her stance, and her friend muttered dissatisfied as he pulled her out.
“Ugh! Here.”
Anyway, Shin Jeong-ah smiled and handed him a bag of bread.
It was a little crushed, but the contents didn’t come out, so he accepted it without saying anything.
He and she found a suitable bench and sat down.
Located under the shade of a tree, it was the perfect spot to watch people playing soccer on the playground.
When the soccer-mad students who had inhaled their food and ran out onto the playground began to divide into groups and run around, In-ho opened the bag of bread.
It was a chocolate roll cake.
“If you don’t collect stickers, give them to me.”
It seemed like it was bread with a character sticker inside, and there was a square paper wrapper included with the bread.
“Now.”
In-ho handed it over, and Shin Jeong-ah took it with a smile.
She checked the sticker with her bright eyes and then frowned.
“Ah… There is one.”
Her disappointment seemed great, and she threw the sticker on the ground.
Inho looked at that and brought the bread to his mouth.
When the softly cut bread entered my mouth, the sweetness spread throughout my mouth.
Perhaps because the party entered, In-ho watched the scene unfolding before his eyes with a slightly more relaxed expression than before.
The student dribbled alone, passed four students, and scored a goal with a mid-range shot. He then somersaulted four times in a row in celebration.
How the f*ck do you do this?
He thought to himself.
“It’s cloudy, right?”
While I was quietly chewing bread, I heard Jeong-ah’s words.
Inho raised his head.
They say the autumn sky is high, but today the clouds were thick.
“Is it going to rain? It wasn’t in the forecast.”
“That’s right… It’ll be a bit cold if it rains in the fall.”
Shin Jeong-ah agreed.
“…….”
Inho chewed the bread without saying any more.
‘Let’s buy some milk too.’
He grumbled to himself.
Time passed at school like that.
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“Wow… It’s raining a lot.”
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As class was ending, it started to rain at a scary rate.
“Sure.”
In-ho, whose thoughts about Shin Jeong-ah have been troubling lately, responded appropriately.
“Can I borrow your umbrella?”
“It’ll be at the front door. I’ll give it to you when I leave.”
“Okay, thank you. Now… Shall we stop here for today?”
Yun Sia glanced at the clock and said.
“Yes. Thank you for your hard work.”
“You did the hard work.”
Yoon Shia looked at Kang In-ho with wonder.
In-ho found an umbrella at the entrance and handed it to Yoon Sia.
“Don’t come out.”
Despite Yoon Si-ah’s refusal, In-ho came out to see her off at her front door.
“It’s in front of me.”
He opened his share of the umbrella and followed behind Yun Sia, carefully moving her feet.
Yoon Shia opened the huge iron door and came out.
“The taxi will be here soon. So listen….”
Yoon Sia was speechless and was so shocked that she screamed.
Inho also hurried out the front door due to her strange behavior.
And what he saw was
“Inho….”
It was Shin Jeong-ah crouching in front of the gate, looking like a drowned rat.
“Jeong-ya. Why are you…?”
When he asked with her eyes wide, Shin Jeong-ah said with a weak smile.
“I got caught. My parents caught me.”