8 – Episode 8
Yesterday’s big news, I got confes…not confessed, but became friends with Seo-ah.
At the same time
“The last day.. Why didn’t he talk to me? How shy is he?”
I had a friend, Seokho, who was single until the last day of confession day.
“He won’t come if you keep shouting ‘girl, girl'”
I looked at Seokho with pity. He was a good friend, but when I thought about his future without a girl.. Ahem
“Well, then, did you get a girl?”
A girl.. I had a girlfriend, but someone else came in between us.
“Oh, you look like you got one?”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Hey, don’t lie. You did, right? I know everything!”
What kind of brother are you?
“Pfft.. Don’t talk like a brother. The class is about to start. Go to your seat and sit down.”
“Huh? What? Did you really get one? Why did you suddenly become so positive?”
“No, what positive? Stop talking nonsense and go.”
“Oh, you didn’t. hehehe, sorry.”
He was my real friend, but I wanted to hit him once.
The class started and I began to study hard as usual.
“Hey! Wake up!”
“Uh..uhh?!”
That’s strange. I was sure I was in class until a moment ago.
“You sleep so well in class.”
Ah?
“Why”
“I don’t know what you did, but confess”
“Huh..?”
“Confess.. do you have something like a hypnosis app or something?”
Suddenly..? What kind of novel is this?
“No, f*ck, what are you talking about!!”
He’s making some nonsense as soon as he wakes up
Seokho lowered his head and pointed to the back door of the classroom
“…”
“Uh.. Seoah?”
“Yeah, why did Seoah come to our class, and that too to see you?”
“Ah?”
“Hey! Answer the question!!”
I ignored Seokho and approached Seoah.
“Uh.. hi?”
Buzz buzz
“Yeah, I came to see you”
Buzz buzz
“That.. why no, come with me”
There were too many people around, so I had no choice but to take Seo-ah to another place.
“This place should be fine.”
It was one of the few places in the school where no one was. Of course, neither the bullies nor the other students came to this kind of place.
“Wow? How did you find this place?”
“Well.. just.”
It was hard to explain because I found it by chance.
“Then do you want to meet here next time? I saw people staring at us too much earlier.”
Come to think of it, it was like that when I dated Seo-ah before we got married.
Because of her face, Seo-ah attracted people’s attention wherever she went. Seo-ah was used to it, but I couldn’t, so I had some embarrassing moments.
Some people even asked us to take a picture.
“No one comes here much.”
But teachers do come here often. But I don’t care about the annoying ones. I’m just here to talk, what are they going to say?
“Hmm~”
But Seo-ah looked at me with a strange eye.. For a moment, a man and a woman in a place where no one comes..
“No, no, I didn’t bring you here for that. It’s just that there were too many people around, so I brought you to a place where no one is. Actually, this is where the teachers often walk around?! So even when I was here last time..”
“It’s okay. I was just pretending to doubt you.”
Seo-ah smiled and said it was okay.
“So.. why did you call me earlier?”
“Um.. just?”
“Just?”
“Isn’t it just a casual thing between friends?”
But why do you come as soon as the break time starts?
“Th..that’s right?”
“I saw you sleeping earlier, are you okay with skipping class?”
“Ah.. uh.. I’m fine for now..”
Seo-a, who saw me lying down earlier, seemed to have figured out that I slept during class.
“You have to study hard, that’s the only way I can enjoy teaching you”
“Study..?”
“Yeah, I’ll teach you, you have no interest in studying, right?”
As Seo-a said, I have no interest in studying. It’s like someone among the pirates has no interest in treasure.
“No, I can’t.. not do it!”
But I didn’t want to show her my bad side.
“Pfft, don’t lie, I taught you physics last time, remember?”
But Seo-a didn’t seem to care about that.
“It’s not that I can’t..”
“Yeah, yeah~ sure”
Seo-a imitated my tone from last time and laughed.
“Um.. break time will be over soon, do you have a watch?”
“Yeah, just a sec”
I looked at the watch and there was only one minute left.
“I have to go.”
Seo-ah said regretfully as she went down the stairs.
“Yeah, let’s meet here again next time.”
I agreed to her suggestion and Seo-ah smiled and said,
“Yeah, see you later~”
We waved our hands and parted ways, and I went straight to my class.
“I’m here!!!”
“Hey, hey! What’s going on!”
“What did you do!!”
“How did you get close to the Queen?”
As soon as I entered, the class was noisy. It was an obvious story if I thought of Seo-ah’s face.
“What’s wrong with you guys? Sit down.”
But the teacher came in and the kids quickly dispersed. Seok-ho looked at me with a betrayed expression until the end. Why did he look like that?
“Hey, so what happened?”
Seok-ho asked me as soon as the class was over.
“What do you mean what happened? Can’t I be friends with Seo-ah?”
“Wow.. Look at this guy. He’s saying the opposite of what he said before. He used to look at her like a fan looking at an idol.”
I didn’t expect to get close to Seo-ah either.
“Anyway, I’m going.”
“…Don’t tell me, the Queen?”
“Alright, I’m going to meet the queen”
“…Can I call you big brother? You’re amazing”
“Sure”
And so I went to meet Seo-ah
“Are you here?”
Seo-ah was already waiting for me.
“Sorry, I’m late? The kids held me up”
“No, it’s fine. I also got asked by a few people hahahaha”
Seo-ah must have been questioned by the girls and I by the boys.
“Really~ Don’t they pay too much attention to me?”
“Is it.. not hard? Having people interested in you”
One of the things that Seo-ah had said was hard for her was that people paid too much attention to her.
“Um.. it’s hard but I try to take it positively”
“Positively?”
“Yeah, if someone is interested in me, that means they think about me, right? I hated that at first”
She paused and thought for a moment
“But then I thought, maybe it’s because someone was interested in me that I could live”
“…”
“Sorry, sorry. That was a bit hard to understand, right?”
“No, it’s fine. I’m glad”
As long as Seo-a is not having a hard time, it’s fine.
“…”
Come to think of it, there’s nothing to talk about.
Before, we used to talk about everything, from work to old stories to world affairs.
Among them, the one that I or rather, I talked a lot about was..
“What’s your hobby?”
“Uh.. ho..hobby?”
“Yeah, I’m curious what you do in your spare time.”
I started to think nervously.
‘A hobby that.. girls would also.. be okay with’
Many thoughts came to my mind, but
“Uh.. that ga..game?”
“Really?”
The most harmless thing that any guy would say, I talked about games.
“Uh.. that I just play games when I’m bored, yeah..”
If Seo-a comes to my house, how should I clean up my room? Throw them away.. ugh.. that’s a bit too much.
“Really? Hmm~ I like reading books as a hobby. Do you have any books that you’re reading or like these days?”
Are.. are light novels books..?
“I do, I’ll show you next time.”
“Uh..”
I sighed with relief as I saw Seo-a return to the classroom.
“Phew..”
I just said that I couldn’t remember the book I read a long time ago.
How can I tell a girl, especially the one I like, that I like light novels?
If she sees me looking for them at the bookstore… hmm
I came back to the class like that. Seok-ho stared at me sharply, but the others didn’t notice.
“What?”
“Can you introduce me to Seo-a’s friend..”
“Really?”
“Yes”
After the boring class was over, I left the class as it was time for the next moving class.
“Huh..”
Come to think of it, this subject was also the same as Seo-a’s
As I entered the class, Seo-a was sitting in the seat where I sat last time.
She smiled and waved at me as soon as she saw me.
At the same time, the eyes of the surrounding kids went to us, but I went to my seat and sat down.
“I saved the seat for you”
“Thanks”
“No problem, we’re going to sit together anyway, right?”
I nodded at her words.
“Okay, let’s start the class”
The teacher came in and started the class.
“Hmm, this time we are going to learn about liberalism and communitarianism”
The teacher’s class began and I listened attentively without falling asleep because Seo-a was next to me.
“Okay, so who was the person who advocated the theory of minimal state? Hmm.. yes, Yoon Seo-a”
“Yes, it’s Nozick”
“Yes, that’s right. Let’s see.. are you over there today? Here, have a candy”
The teacher sometimes gave us questions and rewarded us with candy if we answered correctly. It seemed like today was one of those days.
“Ugh!”
But the teacher threw the candy too high and Seo-a couldn’t catch it properly and I ended up catching it for her.
“Ah, thank you”
“Here”
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“So..”
The teacher continued the class but Seo-a and I exchanged a glance and handed over the candy.
“Do you want to eat this?”
“But you caught it”
“Yeah, but I don’t like it much so you can eat it if you want”
I was wondering whether to accept it or not when Seo-a put the candy in my hand.
“..!!”
“Take it~”
I nodded and looked at the book again, but I seemed to focus more on the warmth of Seo-a’s hand that remained in mine.