1 – Episode 1
“Uaaak?!”
“Huk..huk what is this place”
Bang
“This kid is so energetic in the morning, let’s go to school”
“Uh..mom? Why are you here?”
“Why am I here, this is my house, hurry up and wash up”
I woke up, rubbing my head.
“What.. I was traveling with Seo-a… and we collided with a truck.. Ah! Seo-a!!”
I hastily searched for my phone.
“What.. this is my old phone.. wait, why is there no”
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Company contact, college friend’s phone, and.. Seo-a’s phone number was missing.
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“…”
Everything felt like a dream.
The first time I talked to her, the first time I met her, and.. the time I married her
“Sniff.. Seo-a”
Her last image flashed in my mind. She was covered in blood, sobbing and reaching out to me.
“Hurry up.. son?! Why are you crying”
For a while, I couldn’t help but shed tears for losing her.
“I’ll be back..”
“Hmm.. okay, call me if anything happens at school”
My mom and I always fought, but she was family and she cared about me.
“I really.. went back to the past”
Seo-a always said that these stories were nonsense, but I couldn’t believe it when it became reality.
All the people I met, friends, people, and my wife
“Sigh…”
“`text
Whether it was a dream or a regression, it was hopeless.
“What do I do?”
I knew which high school class I was in, but I didn’t know anything else. How could I remember after 10 years?
“Is Seo-Ah here?”
She said she went to the same high school as me, so she must be somewhere.
“…”
But until then, the time I met Seo-Ah was in the far future when I worked at a company.
I got in with a parachute-like recommendation from my dad, but honestly, I was no different from a newbie and I had a hard time. That’s when I met Seo-Ah.
When I first saw her, I thought she was pretty, but more than that, I thought she looked like she was going to die.
I don’t know why, but I gathered up my courage and talked to her, but what came back was… cursing.
“Ha.. I should have been more romantic.. No, maybe Seo-Ah would hate that?”
Seo-Ah was a child with a lot of scars in her heart. The eyes of others, her own emotions, her life, everything was tangled up like chains around her.
“Hey! Lee Ji-Hoon!”
“Huh?”
“What’s with that face of someone you’ve never seen before? Do you have amnesia or something?”
One of the friends who became close to me ran up to me and gave me a shoulder hug.
“Yeah, right, I have amnesia. Who are you?”
“Puha! Crazy guy, yeah, yeah, I’m Alfred.”
“What kind of Alfred are you, Seok-Ho?”
Honestly, I was flustered by the situation, but Seok-Ho was still Seok-Ho.
“`
“Hey, what kind of amnesia do you have? Did something bad happen to you?”
Seok-ho was worried about me, maybe he saw my expression earlier.
“No.. it’s just that the dream was too sad.”
I wouldn’t have told this to anyone else, but I trusted Seok-ho enough to talk to him.
“Dream? What kind of dream?”
“I had a dream where I got married and then died in an accident.”
“Oh.. wow, that’s really sad.”
He was a true friend, showing concern like this.
“I’m not even planning to get married, but I was happy in the dream.”
“You son of a b*tch?!”
Only a best friend could say that.
We went to school together like that. I realized I was in second grade. It was a bit awkward to go back to school from the first grade, but I had a goal in mind.
“What’s this? Why are you studying?”
There was no guarantee that I would meet Seo-a. But no matter how much the future changed, I wanted to be a better person for her if I ever met her again at work.
“Well, I have a dream now.”
“Really?”
Before that, I had no dream and just lived as it went. Even if others told me to study hard, it didn’t mean anything to me and I didn’t have to do much to get good grades.
“Yeah, it’s a dream that I can’t tell you right now.”
How could I say that marrying Seo-a was my dream?
“Well, good luck with that.”
After saying that, Seokho moved away and turned on his phone. Did that guy not answer his phone?
After that, a boring and tedious class time passed.
I said I would start studying, but my memory was so vague that I couldn’t remember everything properly.
“You’re really working hard. Impressive.”
The guy who came with Seokho praised me as he looked at me. His name was definitely..
“Oh, Hyunsik, you’re here.”
“Yeah, I almost was late, but luckily I was safe.”
His name was Jang Hyunsik. He was a close friend of mine like Seokho, but unfortunately, I didn’t contact him and we became distant after he entered the company.
“Hey, do you know what happened this morning?”
“What happened?”
This school was a school that ran to the extreme of being ordinary. Nothing big ever happened in three years.
“You know, the queen in the class in front of us.”
The queen.. I haven’t heard that in a long time.
“The queen? You mean Yoon Seo-ah?”
“Yeah, Yoon Seo-ah cried this morning.”
Yoon Seo-ah cried…
“Really?”
“Yeah, why are you interested?”
Of course I was interested. Yesterday.. or was it the future? I married Seo-ah in the future, so of course I was interested in her crying.
But it was also strange. It was natural for him to be like that.
“But she never cried like that before, right?”
One of the reasons why Yoon Seo-ah got the nickname of Queen was because she only smiled slightly and had no other expressions, so it looked like she was a queen.
“Well, she can cry, she’s human”
I retorted.
“What, are you defending the queen now?”
“Ow”
These guys were high school students, but they teased me like elementary school students.
“Sigh..”
I missed Seo-ah.
The next class time came and I took out a book.
“Hey, let’s play”
Seok-ho came suddenly and said to play during class time.
“Hey, what are you playing during class time?”
“Our elective is self-study until next week”
Elective..? Oh, right, I had to move to another class during elective time.
“You play, I’ll study”
“Wow.. are you serious?”
I left Seok-ho alone and immersed myself in studying.
After the boring school was over, I came out of the class and went to Seo-ah’s class. Hoping for a possible connection
“Hey, hey, let’s go to the PC room”
“I want to do P.I.”
As the kids went their separate ways, I looked for Seo-a.
It was a meaningless thing to do. Seo-a didn’t know me and she would put up a wall against everyone now.
“Was it here?”
I didn’t know which class Seo-a was in, but I could find out by following the rumors.
“Sigh”
As I looked around the class, I saw that many kids had already left and so had Seo-a.
At this age, Seo-a hated going home and she would wander around the house or go as far as possible from home and then walk back.
“Who are you looking for?”
But maybe because I was in front of the class for too long, someone asked me.
“…Uh, no, I came to look for a friend, but they’re not here. hahahaha.”
“Hmm.. If you’re looking for Seo-a, don’t bother. She’s in a bad mood today.”
Seo-a..? Why all of a sudden?
When he saw my expression, he sighed and said.
“Ha.. Really, you and all the other guys, leave Seo-a alone. She has eyes too. She was muttering earlier about confessions and stuff.”
Confessions..? And how do you know so well?
“Are you.. Seo-a’s friend?”
“What, do you have a problem?”
He glared at me and waved his hand.
“Whatever.”
Why are you threatening me…
Anyway, I walked home without any benefit.
“…”
I was going to walk. But I couldn’t forget Seo-a and I changed direction and started to go near her house.
She was a soft-hearted person and talked a lot. She told me a lot of stories from that time. Once, she told me about a painful memory and when I asked if she was okay, she said it hurt more and asked me to listen more.
“Right, right, so..”
“Wow! Look over there..”
As I walked listening to the happiness of people, I wondered how Seo-a felt.
Seo-a, who was abandoned by her parents, closed her heart, and struggled with reality, was very anxious mentally.
That’s why she relied on me a lot after she told me she liked me.
So, before that, she was like a lone wolf who didn’t rely on anyone.
“Ha.. What’s the point”
When I reached near Seo-a’s neighborhood, it was already evening. It was natural since school ended at 5 o’clock.
I wandered around and went back home. My mom was worried when I came in later than usual, but
“…Ha”
I hated everything. Seo-a didn’t know me now and I was also uncertain about my future.
If I summarize today, I think I regressed? It was too realistic and I remembered everything to be a dream.
And the other thing was my life ahead. There was no guarantee that the future would be the same, so I had to pioneer it myself, whether it was Seo-a, college, or company.
“If I confess.. will she accept me?”
Confessing to Seo-a was also an option, but it was the last resort. Because she was too troubled to accept a confession right now.
The Seo-ah I saw now was not the Seo-ah I knew who clung to me like a koala.
“Eat up~”
At my mom’s words, I cleared my thoughts and came outside.
“Today I made you your favorite party noodles”
Maybe it was because I cried in the morning, but mom made me party noodles, which she rarely does.
“Thanks, mom.”
“Are you suddenly acting polite?”
I guess it’s inevitable that it shows in my behavior.
I went into my room and looked around.
I thought it was the old memories and I had a lot of thoughts as I looked around.
Pictures taken with family, pictures taken on trips, pictures taken with friends, game figures, Gundam. Anyone would say it was a teenager’s room.
I picked up a picture that didn’t look gloomy at all.
“Seo-ah…”
I felt a pain in my chest thinking that she must be suffering right now. I wanted to run to her and save her, but I didn’t even know her exact address, and even if I went, she wouldn’t know me.
It was a situation where I could only sigh, but I still had to get through it.
So that she wouldn’t be more sad.