259 – EP.10 What is Responsibility-2
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“No, what kind of mother is like that?”
Glancing at Shin Jeong-ah, who was sitting in a corner of the police box, the police officer who went to her dispatch grumbled to his senior.
It was nice to know her personal information and even call the student’s mother.
But the student’s mother said it was too much trouble to pick her up herself, so she asked him to bring her home.
[Teacher, we did that…]
As she tried to explain, as this was not the case often, a high-pitched, tearing sound rang through her cell phone.
[You pay taxes! What will be the difference if I do a little bit?]
She thought that compromise would not work, but when she thought of that voice again, her face crumpled.
“That’s usually the case. Is the child going astray on his own? Everyone is having problems at home, so they are going astray.”
The senior muttered with an unimpressed expression while sipping mixed coffee.
The police officer, who was thinking for a moment about the lottery ticket she bought yesterday, glanced at her watch and slurped coffee from her paper cup into her mouth.
“Tsk, I’ll take you with me when I go on patrol. Let’s go with Yudori.”
“Ugh, yes.”
The senior spoke as if it was something that happened all the time, and her junior also sighed softly and nodded.
A few ten minutes later, Shin Jeong-ah got out of the patrol car.
“She’ll be watching until you get in the house, so make sure you go in.”
The police officer sitting in her passenger seat spoke, and Shin Jeong-ah had a meaningless eyeball fight with her.
Shin Jeong-ah saw her own house located at the end of her alley.
On the 5th floor of the shabby villa, the light was still on on the top floor.
11 O’clock. It’s still too early for that person.
Shin Jeong-ah gritted her teeth. She glanced at the police car, then turned around and went into the house.
Climb the stairs to the 2nd and 3rd floors. Every time I go up the stairs, the light turns on.
Beyond the small windows on each floor, the red and blue lights of the police car were still flashing.
“…….”
Should we stay here until we go? A thought occurred to her, but she did not stop her steps.
Like that, the 4th and 5th floors. She stood in front of room 501.
She stood again in front of the familiar yet unpleasant door with peeling paint.
Shin Jeong-ah closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She
And she pressed the code on the door lock, and she entered the house.
And before she could even take off her shoes, something flew past her cheek and hit her door.
When it hit the door, it became fragments and scattered to the floor, and Shin Jeong-ah slowly shifted her gaze to look at her poor victim.
It was a small watch goods with her favorite character drawn on it.
“What has this crazy b*tch been doing? I’m getting a call from the police! A call!!”
Her mother, holding her bottle of liquor in one hand, greeted her with her earthy face.
Her mother, probably happy to see her daughter after such a long time, approached her with long strides.
And then she hit Shin Jeong-ah on the cheek with her thick hand.
– Mate!
With a cheerful sound, Shin Jeong-ah’s body was thrown into the shoe rack.
The shoe cabinet shook with a clatter.
“I gave birth to a b*tch like you and ate seaweed soup, seaweed soup!”
Several more hand strikes followed, and each threshing ended when the bodies of the person striking and the person being hit began to swell.
Is the anger still not resolved, or is it because she’s been drinking and moving her body?
The woman, her face brighter than before, grinned again and returned to her own room.
Shin Jeong-ah sat down on the cold front door and silenced her pain for a while.
Her numb cheek steadily began to swell, and her lip, which had been torn from the blow, began to bleed slightly.
It hurt, but she wasn’t sick.
Even as tears streamed down her face from her pain, all she could think about was Inho.
‘In the end, it’s the right place, Inho.’
She quickly got up and went into her own room.
A room with trash rolling around.
Shin Jeong-ah sat down at her desk and took out her spring notebook that had been pinned inside her drawer.
– Sararak
When I opened it with my index finger, a neat picture was revealed.
Shin Jeong-ah turned her pages a few more times. There were pictures of attractive people on every page.
When she reached the middle of the note, Shin Jeong-ah’s hand stopped.
A picture of a sharp-looking man was drawn with great care.
Shin Jeong-ah swept it with her hand.
“Inho.”
Recalling the day when she fell in love with him at first sight, Shin Jeong-ah called him out loud.
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Silence and stillness. No one answered the call.
Because her body and mind were already too far away to respond to her voice.
“Ah… I just hope it’s all over.”
Pulling her legs together, she muttered.
***
“Teacher?”
The late visitor was Yoon Sia.
She opened the door to see what was going on, and she came running from nowhere and was panting for a while even after entering the house.
“Nothing happened… Right?”
“Police, did you call the teacher?”
“Yeah, I thought I’d be late. I thought she went to your house. You can’t contact me again.”
“Ah…”
The cell phone was in his room.
After the video call, she didn’t even want to look at her phone, so she threw it on the sofa.
Yun Sia reported in detail the situation after the call ended.
“You did something reckless.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Kang In-ho suddenly spoke.
It was a tone that felt like a scolding.
“I still do it for you….”
Yun Si-ah, angry at having her sincerity rejected, raised her voice for a moment and then silenced her.
It was because Kang In-ho’s face was so sunken as he looked at her.
“The fact that she acted like that even after knowing that Jeong-ah was behaving radically doesn’t mean she wasn’t reckless.”
“…….”
He spoke clearly, as if she would not accept any excuses, and Yun Sia did not think of further resistance.
“Okay, I’ll be careful next time. But Inho…”
With Yoon Shia’s obedient attitude, she said yes to his words and secretly smiled.
“Can I sleep here today?”
“Here? Why?”
“As you said… I don’t know how Jeong-ah will act, but she’s a little anxious.”
As she touched her index finger with her index finger, Yun Shia looked at him.
Kang In-ho’s head hurt at that shy yet bold action.
***
“…I should have done this a long time ago.”
Inside the house in disarray. Something red is scattered everywhere.
The girl sitting in the middle of the disaster was holding a lighter she had taken out of her bag.
“Inho.”
Shin Jeong-ah called him out loud.
Death and silence. No one responded.
The man she desperately seeks is too far away.
“Let’s just get this over with. I’m exhausted.”
She moved her thumb.
Click,
Click,
Click,
Click,
The light is on.