252 – EP.10 Dissonance-2
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A week since the day it rained like a monsoon rain.
She had recently started walking again and sighed as she climbed her hill.
Her physical strength was not weak enough for the steep road to be difficult.
There was no particular reason for her sighing.
It was because of a female student who had recently been sitting at Inho’s house.
Shin Jeong-ah.
I thought she was someone I would pass by once, but I have been hooking up with her ever since, starting with her last time at the park.
To be precise, it would be correct to say that he is related to Kang In-ho. Yoon Shia: She is just an observer watching it from the side.
And that fact was gnawing at her heart little by little.
“What is he doing like that…?”
I felt bloated, as if I had eaten a lot of fatty food.
The environment is very important for growing students.
Just as when you get close to something black, it becomes black, and when you get close to something white, it becomes white.
It is not for no reason that parents who are polarized are going out of their way to change school districts.
But I have to live with such an insincere student…
Even though it was not her job, Yoon Sia felt at a loss.
The night Shin Jeong-ah came to In-ho’s house.
Perhaps she failed to avoid the rain or did not avoid it on purpose, but she appeared soaking wet.
[I got caught. To my parents.]
Yun Sia could not accept the meaning right away.
But, Inho seemed to know. What those words mean.
As she remembered In-ho’s face getting stiffer and turning blue by the minute, Yoon Sia chewed her lip hard without realizing it.
In-ho let Shin Jeong-ah into his house without hesitation.
Without even being able to enter the house again, Yun Sia had to leave the house alone.
And a few days later, when she arrived at his house to tutor her, Shin Jeong-ah, dressed in comfortable clothes, greeted her.
[Me? Do you live here?]
Yoon Si-ah had to feel a strange sense of discomfort as she saw Shin Jeong-ah’s face smiling brightly at her for the first time.
After that, things got a little complicated.
While we were happily having dinner face to face with In-ho, Shin Jeong-ah intervened.
Shin Jeong-ah’s self-centered behavior made In-ho very angry, but for some reason, In-ho obediently followed her words.
She was the same even when she was giving class.
Not only did she pace in front of the door once every 20 minutes, disrupting class, but she also came into his room during recess and lay down on his bed to sleep.
[What happened?]
After barely sending her out, Yoon Sia tapped her pen and left her question at the end of her notebook.
Kang In-ho paused when he saw the words, and then she sighed and explained her situation on a page of notebook.
I also added that she should not tell her parents.
Pregnancy. I’m pregnant.
Yoon Sia’s head was spinning.
[Are you out of your mind?]
Forgetting to share her written conversation, Yoon Sia used her voice to reprimand him.
[I am sane now, so I must take responsibility.]
He sighed and said, as if exhaling cigarette smoke.
[But it feels a bit better after I told the teacher. I was distraught because I had nowhere to talk.]
Seeing In-ho smiling so that her gums were exposed, Yun-sia felt an inexplicable emotion.
Is it sympathy or anger?
***
She climbed the hill, recalling her memories from a while ago, and before she knew it, she had arrived at his house.
Yoon Sia rang her bell, and after a short wait, the door opened.
When she opened the front door, it was Shin Jeong-ah, not Kang In-ho, who greeted her.
“Sister, are you here?”
She is so happy with Mu that she now calls her sister.
That soft sound was very scary. Yoon Sia’s face wrinkled slightly.
“What about Inho?”
“Inho is cooking in the kitchen.”
As soon as Shin Jeong-ah finished speaking, Yoon Sia passed her and headed toward her kitchen.
“Ah, teacher, are you here?”
The man wearing an apron while cooking looks back.
Yoon Sia smiled bitterly at her bright smile.
I wondered what kind of ordeal this would be for a child who was now trying to live a good life.
“The meat is defrosting late… Please wait a little longer.”
The smell of sizzling spicy seasoning and meat hit her nose.
As she nodded her head, swallowing her saliva that was welling up in her mouth, Shin Jeong-ah came up to Kang In-ho and clung to him.
“Wow… I feel this every time, but isn’t he really good at cooking? After all, he’s my boyfriend!”
Shin Jeong-ah rubbed her face against his back as she hugged him from behind.
“Hey, I’m cooking. It takes a long time to prepare, so take a break.”
In-ho tried to shake his body off, but the force was not strong.
“I’m going to be next to Inho?”
As she smiled brightly and tried to show her affection, Yoon Sia turned her body around.
“I’ll leave my luggage in the room.”
Because it was the day of solving mock exam problems, my bag was quite heavy.
Yun Sia came up to his room on the second floor.
She put her bag on the chair and unzipped it.
She took out the workbooks one by one and sighed again as if she was losing strength.
She did not do it for herself, but for someone else.
While she was putting her hand on the rest of her back and making up her mind, she heard footsteps approaching her room.
“Oh, you’re here.”
It was Shin Jeong-ah. She entered his room without hesitation.
Although it was not her room, Yoon Sia felt something was being invaded.
“I heard it took about 20 minutes. I came to take a break.”
“So?”
Yun Shia answered mechanically and turned on her heel and headed toward her door.
It would be more comfortable to sit at the table than to be in the same space as that child.
“Are you leaving? Tsk~ I’ll be there in a bit.”
Shin Jeong-ah threw her body onto her bed.
Her light body fell to the bed, and she fell on her face as if feeling the soft texture of the blanket.
“…….”
Yun Sia watched that scene for a moment, then turned on her heel and left her room.
Even while she was going down to the first floor, while eating, and while taking class with In-ho,
The image of Shin Jeong-ah lying face down on the bed could not be erased.