Childhood Friend Who Sees the Future Utters Nonsense

11 – Visitor in the Rain

After school, Yuna Han and I walked together to a crossroads in the city.

Hanyu, who had been acting like she was taking pills until her lunch break. I was nowhere to be found, and she was back to normal, but the silence made me more anxious. I’d say she reminds me of the night before the storm.

Anyway, what was that morning, a daydream? Was it because he was so tormented by Han Yuna that he even had a brief hallucination? Seeing as Hanyu went out and quickly returned to her original state, she definitely wasn’t taking drugs. I don’t know.

“Park Si-yoon, what are you doing tonight?”

While waiting for her traffic lights, Hanyu Na suddenly asked about the evening schedule. Come to think of it, he doesn’t know what kind of Satan happened yesterday. It was truly hell.

“I have to work. Since you left yesterday, everything I worked on was lost, so I have to start over from the middle.”

“Did it fly? Didn’t you save?”

“I saved it once in the middle, so it would have been a real mess if it wasn’t for that.”

It was an accident that gave me the adage that people who work in this field should always make Control + S a habit.

When I turned my back and checked the black screen facing me, I still vividly felt the despondency, so I involuntarily smiled bitterly.

I didn’t know that I would get that kind of look from Yuna Han, who is no one else…. A sense of bewilderment rushes in.

“… Surely it’s not my fault?”

“Is it your fault? Computer-sama died suddenly.”

Hanyu asked with a little bit of anxiety if she remembered what I had interrupted while working yesterday, and she shrugged her shoulders at me. I wonder how she would have reacted if she had expressed her affirmation here, but she decided not to play around because she feared it would become a scratch.

Above all, this guy is usually so shameless, but he’s the type to keep things in his heart in strange places, so when he realizes that he’s had a big accident, he can’t even see a person’s face properly for a while because he’s sorry. I know this well because I broke a bone once because of him.

Ah, by the way, I shouldn’t tell you about my schedule. Conversely, I should ask about Han Yuna’s schedule. This is essential if you want to be picked up at the end of practice. I forgot about that.

“Rather than that, when will your practice end today? As usual?”

Simultaneously with my question, Han Yuna’s face flashed “Why are you curious about that?” If you ask, they’ll just tell you in silence, what a great thing.

“I don’t know, I have to start to find out. It usually ends at that time, but when the teacher is a little hard on it, it’s past 11 o’clock.”

11:00? Oh, come to think of it, I heard that there were quite a few times when I came back then. I forgot about it because I don’t always pick up Han Yuna.

“Teachers must be having a hard time too.”

“That’s right, because of student trainees like us, you’re staying up late on purpose.”

Well, if you want to do it at the same time as your schoolwork, practice will naturally be after school, but an hour or two won’t show off. After all, in order to catch both the effects of schoolwork and practice, teachers must also suffer. After all, there is no easy way to earn money.

“Anyway, if I don’t have anything more to say, I’ll go first? Good work.”

“Thank you…. Ouch! Han Yuna!”

Hanyu went out and waved her hand lightly and crossed the crosswalk to her left. She remembered that she hadn’t been able to tell her that she would pick her up today.

But in that moment, Hanyu crossed her crosswalk and hid among the crowd, and it seemed that my voice could no longer reach her, perhaps because the people around her acted as a sound barrier.

I can’t help it. I have no choice but to talk to you later. I’ve been told that she can’t even look at her phone during practice, but I’ll see you later if you leave a message.

“… The weather is cloudy for some reason.”

The moment I took my phone out of my pocket and was about to tap the keyboard that appeared on the screen, I realized that the sky I was looking at was quite dark for this time of day, and I muttered to myself as if possessed.

But there was no word that it would rain today, so it should be fine. If it ever rains, all you have to do is go there and curse the Korea Meteorological Administration.

***

The sound of gasping for breath echoes everywhere.

Around the time when the bodies of several trainees who were watching through the full-length mirrors that filled one side of the practice room collapsed, and the thing on my forehead was so thick that I was confused whether it was sweat or water.

Pair. Match.

Teacher Haram, who came in today as the head of the dance training class, clapped enough to fill the practice room and yelled at me as if telling me not to give up yet.

“Guys, let’s finish with this song! Don’t fall behind!”

“Yes, four!”

One by one, the trainees’ bodies, which had been slanting, stood up again like puppets pulled by strings, and sweated again, copying the suggested movements to the rhythm. I was included in the crowd.

Huh, huh…. I’m going to die like this, really. Teacher Haram, did you catch a real day today?

Originally, he’s the type to drive hard, but today it’s toxic. This is dance training, be smart. I’ll be glad if I don’t fall.

Still, in order to somehow endure this hellish last song, I moved my arms and legs that didn’t follow properly and followed the teacher’s movements, and finally the end came.

♬

After the last song ended with a heavy bass sound, no more songs were played from the audio system in the practice room.

Are you finished? Is it really over? The moment the teacher plays even one more song here, I will really protest. Of course, I’ll just say that and when the song starts playing, I’ll be scared and follow what I’m told.

“Okay! Let’s finish today’s class here, and next time, let’s do girls hip hop. Understand?”

“Yes!”

“Okay, everyone remember to hydrate, and today’s class ends with this, so go home safely.”

“Sue, thank you for your hard work… !”

At the end, I could feel everyone’s voices shaking, not just me. And as if to prove this, as soon as Sam left the practice room, he started to fall on the floor like a bamboo with the bottom cut off.

“Hey, pass!”

But perhaps there are exceptions, Soeun, who is famous for having the best stamina among the trainees in class with me, immediately went to the corner of the practice room and started tossing her mineral water bottles at the trainees one by one. I tend to bring a tumbler, so I didn’t receive one.

“Thank you soeun.”

“What?”

When Yerin, a blonde trainee who had broken her body on the floor, immediately drank her bottled water and expressed her gratitude, Soeun’s older sister responded with a cool gesture, as if asking her to put it away. She is also the person in charge of Jane Entertainment’s Next Generation Girl Crush.

For reference, Yerin and I are the same age, her sister and her sister are one year older, but Yerin has seen her sister since she joined her company and has been like her friend, so she just calls her name. , She says. Thanks to this, when the three of us meet, it sometimes creates a bewildering sight for a third person to see.

“Haa….”

After the practice was over, I remembered the conversation I had with Subin today and inadvertently let out a worried sigh. At the time, it sounded pretty plausible, so I accepted it, but I couldn’t quite grasp what Subin was talking about.

“What’s wrong with Yuna? You look bad from the vocal training earlier.”

While her head was rotting away, Seungyeon unnie, who was drinking water from the tumbler like a squirrel drinking morning dew from her corner, approached her.

Among the private rooms that are said to be the closest to the debut group, including me, Seungyeon is the eldest.

Oh, come to think of it, if it was Seungyeon unnie, wouldn’t she be able to give a clear answer to this? For some reason, she seems to have a lot of dating experience.

“Sister Yi, I’m sorry for asking such a sudden question, but has she ever dated a lot?”

“Love? Before she became a trainee, she did it a few times, how old is she?”

To her sister, Seungyeon, who asked, ‘Are you stabbing yourself today?’, She denied it, saying that she never meant it that way. She wondered if it was a joke, and she immediately giggled and asked what I wanted to ask.

“So why love? Does she even have someone she likes?”

“What? Person I like? Yuna, did you forget the company rules?”

“I-I didn’t ask in that sense!? I was out of my mind… !”

Lee Ye-rin strides toward me and starts scolding me without asking in detail, as if that voice reached the ears of the two people who were talking from afar.

Please listen to what people say!

“Actually, a friend of mine was giving dating advice to someone else today, and I interrupted briefly and heard this.”

Even if the reason I asked Subin didn’t mean that, I decided to disguise it as someone else’s story because it could be scratched and scalded for nothing if it was my story.

Somehow, I feel like Seungyeon unnie’s expression doesn’t believe me at all, but she has no other place to lean on. That’s why she can’t ask Han Yu-jin.

“What do you mean?”

“If you want a man who is not self-conscious to be conscious, he should act as usual, but only occasionally change his appearance. But I couldn’t understand what you meant.”

Seungyeon’s eyes and the corners of her mouth curved slightly as she relayed what Soobin had said without making a single mistake.

I don’t know what the feelings are in it, but somehow I felt like it resembled the look in Subin’s eyes that I felt today. To put it bluntly, it’s like looking at me cutely.

“Oh, that’s right. I think you know roughly what unnie means?”

“Really? Also sister… !”

To give an answer so quickly, it seems like I was the last savior I chose. As expected, it was a good idea to ask Seungyeon unnie.

“If you suddenly change the atmosphere because you want to make them self-conscious, the other person will be embarrassed, right? Especially when it comes to someone you’ve been seeing for a long time.”

“Right, right.”

These are exactly what Subin said. After all, do masters of love have anything in common?

“So I guess that means act like you normally do, but with a little bit of a change. When a trivial but unexpected action pops up, people tend to be conscious of it. Yuna doesn’t have that kind of experience?”

“Any experience like that?”

There can be no such thing. In the first place, except for Siyoon Park, it is difficult to sympathize with men because they are at the level of walled up. To be honest, I still don’t quite understand what her sister is trying to say.

“Why, when my friend of the opposite s*x, whom I hang out with often, did something that I wouldn’t normally do, my heart fluttered. I think he might be once.”

“Well, I’m fine…. What?”

I was about to express my skeptical opinion, but a scene popped out in my head! Passed with a shout. That was the memory of yesterday. The scene when I first met Park Si-yoon, who was waiting for me in the hallway in front of the house, not at the gate of the apartment complex.

And as if there was more to show there, the next thing that was played was the scene when I went to a karaoke room with Park Si-yoon. Even back then, if you think about it, Park Si-yoon was no different than usual, but he had a problem with one line he uttered right before he sang. It shakes me….

“… Uh uh, I don’t think there is!?”

I hurriedly waved my hand as I regained my composure that could have led me into a strange place.

Yes, yes! Obviously, depending on the day, Park Si-yoon sometimes behaved differently than usual, but he wasn’t particularly nervous! That, what He was just doing something he wasn’t even good at, so he just looked at me for no reason!

Like the past scholars who believed in the geocentric theory when they first heard of the heliocentric theory, Seungyoun unnie only gave me a unique soft smile to me, who roughly denied it as if denying the truth of the world.

“Really? There is no Then there is nothing you can do But I think you know roughly how it feels, don’t you?”

“A little…. I think I might know.”

Feeling defeated for some reason, she answered with a pout of her lips that she still didn’t want to lie to her sister, who wholeheartedly helped her. Then she looked at Seungyeon with an expression of understanding.

Knock.

Just as she was about to say thank you to her unnie, the door to her practice room opened with a heavy sound and a person who appeared to be a security guard appeared from beyond.

“Ah, is Hanyu or a trainee here? She said her cousin was waiting outside….”

“A cousin?”

I tilted my head at the unexpected word, then suddenly opened my eyes when I remembered the person I could guess.

… A cousin, by any chance?

“Uh, sister, I’m sorry! I’ll go first today! Someone came to pick me up….”

I suddenly remembered a person, so I hurriedly cleaned up my seat and got up.

When I checked the number written on my phone, it was already 10:30. I thought that maybe the other person had waited longer than I thought.

“Yes, take care and see you tomorrow.”

“Bye, Yuna.”

“Goodbye.”

After being greeted by the other two, I left the practice room, thanked the security guard, and ran to the entrance. I could see an unnecessarily large figure under the drooping sunshade.

The other party, who was looking away as if appreciating the rain pounding outside, turned around only then, perhaps feeling the presence. In one hand, he held a small umbrella that did not fit his size.

“Oh, are you done? Effort.”

“… ….”

Park Si-yoon casually raised his hand as he brushed off his wet hair with an embarrassing face, as if he had been hit by rain.

If you always contacted me before coming, why did you just come today? It’s raining like this, so why didn’t you bring an umbrella like an idiot? Then, what is that umbrella in your hand?

My head was confused because it was a mountain with nothing to ask or criticize, but it was quickly washed away by the sound of rain that wet my ears.

Heart pounding.

However, by the time the sound of the rain had subsided, I had to struggle to calm my broken heart again just like yesterday. It was also a job to restrain the corners of his lips that kept trying to rise.

Anyway, in case someone isn’t Park Si-yoon, there’s nothing helpful. This idiot

But, since you came to pick me up here today, I’ll be patient with you.