chapter 23
23 – Freshman
“Hey, I like you. So will you be my girlfriend…?”
Ha, he looks like a nerd, but his confession is very reckless.
He’s a real man.
Lee Jin-ah’s brown eyes blink. I don’t think I understand what’s going on right now…
“I have a boyfriend?”
“..Oh, uh..? Uh..? That… You have a boyfriend..? Hey.. You sure don’t have me..”
You seem more flustered than before. That… I’m a bit embarrassed too. She never thought she’d have a boyfriend for Lee Jin-ah.
Actually. I don’t know much about her Lee Jin-ah. All of the information I knew about Lee Jin-ah was elementary school. Because she hasn’t been updated since.
But in that situation, she asks Jin-ah what… Does she have a boyfriend- I don’t think she’s even asking about that.
I don’t think it’s anything to say in a situation where the situation has flowed this far. I still don’t think I’m close with Lee Jin-ah.
She was very uncomfortable even in middle school, but since it was revealed that she is the granddaughter of Mirae Group, I don’t want to be involved with it if possible.
Honestly, I thought it was going to be completely different after high school, but I didn’t know that things would turn out like this.
“There he is. My boyfriend”
Jinah Lee points her finger at me.
“…You’re obviously not in a relationship..”
“…Uh..? Uhh… I’m not like that kind of guy friend..?
“Isn’t it?”
The air froze in an instant.
I know the cold spring is over.
It seems that even time has frozen.
Jinah Lee.
Her brown eyes narrowed as she looked at me and the student council president. That… Just- like anything would happen.
“No.. That.. To be honest.. Middle school..”
The words won’t run out. I have to say it properly, but honestly, I wanted to keep saying this. But I just didn’t have a chance.
She had to say her words to Jinah Lee one day…Should…She was thinking about it, but she couldn’t help but drop her mouth.
It’s cold.
“Yoo Seon-ah, what’s your relationship with that person?”
“I. That student council…”
“I didn’t ask you…? Yoo Seon-ah. I’m asking.”
“..That. Student President”
“Did he just hit you… To introduce me..? Or threatened..?”
Things took a strange twist.
“That… It’s not like that…! I just introduced him because he likes you..!”
“With those big guys in the back?”
“Hey! No, that’s…”
“No, to be honest, the student council president. Yes… I brought him with that intention. I didn’t mean to threaten him.”
“Right. That… We came to this meeting through peaceful conversations and discussions. That… Staking the honor of my student president, threatening or harassing Yoo Seon didn’t happen. “
“…I think the story will be long. Shall we go out and talk separately? Chairman..?”
“Oh, yes. What a good conversation..!”
“Yoo Seon is here..”
“Huh..?”
Isn’t this supposed to follow? Leaving me alone and talking with just the two of us..?
“Ah.. It seems like there was a misunderstanding between us. I think we just have to solve it and come back. Don’t worry about that… Yoo Seon-gun.”
Jinah Lee and her student council president started walking towards the back mountain at the back of the dormitory. I’m sure if you’re in the back, you can talk quietly without looking at anyone.
2)
“Yoo Seon-ah… Is here..!”
A bright and cheery voice. An old braid that held her gun-brown hair together was visible. That’s what I gave you as a gift.
I still think that way. The Jinah I knew in the first year of middle school lost her life in an accident, and didn’t another Jinah Lee come to our middle school..? What do you mean?
Like the shadow samurai of the Warring States period in Japan, it was replaced with a new Lee Jin-ah.
But that’s not going to happen…? That would also be the case because I gave it to Jinah Lee as a gift when she was in elementary school.
If it were a different person, I wouldn’t have that hair tie.
The atmosphere was different from when I was with the student council president earlier.
She has turned 180 degrees and is bright and cheerful.
“What do you think?”
“No, nothing…”
“I only thought of Yoo Seon!”
-hehehehe..!
Lee Jin-ah smiles brightly.
You can’t even find a hair tie like that. Because I made it…
I don’t like the look of walking around with bongduranbal, so I have to do something. At that time, volunteers came to the facility and said that it would be nice to have a tour of the workshop where clothes are made with natural dyes.
I made clothes for myself to wear in that studio once… And then- I was told that I could make anything with scraps of fabric at that time.
I also made a hair tie for Jin-ah because I remembered Jin-ah wandering around with a bongdu.
At that time, she burned the dye too thick, so it was closer to black than indigo. Jin-ah likes that too, and she laughs hehehehe.
Thinking about it, I made that hair tie that Jinah Lee wears when I was in elementary school, but I’m still wearing it. That’s too old.
Even after elementary school, when a murder case broke out in Mirae-ga, and when she became a mess – and grew up under her grandfather, Jin-ah always wore that braid.
Of course, a lot of time has passed now… Maybe it’s because the dye has lost a lot, so it’s not black, but sky blue, and the edges and things like that are worn out and worn out.
Jinah was still wearing that headband.
You must have a lot of money- Why… You…
If you think about it, Lee Jin-ah always had a strong attachment to her things. Even when she had no money, she was very fond of her things, and when she had a lot of money, as she does now.
That hair tie, pencil, and sharpie. And she continued to use the little accessories without throwing them away.
And, those things that her Lee Jin-ah is using for her… All of those things I gave her as gifts.
My heart is heavy.
“What do you think?”
-Hee hee!
Every time I see Lee Jin-ah, how I make eye contact with her, revealing her white teeth and smiling at her, it reminds me of the snowball fights at the playground in her childhood.
Her heart throbbed.
The days we can’t go back now. We shouldn’t play like that anymore, but Jina is back like before. Because she was hoping that our relationship would return to the way it was before.
Different statuses, different gaps.
Jinah that simple fact. She was the only one who didn’t know. Although I can’t do that. Just because I like and love Jina… Will it seem like a normal relationship between us..?
With an orphan who has nothing. She says that rich people who can have everything can really be in love…?
The world is not that romantic. The story of the poor guard and the princess living in the palace is just a fairy tale.
This way would only hurt each other.
Right now, people don’t have the courage, so they only gossip behind my back. What if Jina goes well and then falls down and shows her weakness…?
Obviously, other than me, people’s fingers may point toward Jina. I don’t want to hurt Jina that much.
If you don’t get involved in the first place, you won’t be attacked, and you won’t fall over worrying about me.
“Because the two of us walk side by side like this. It’s good! Yoo Seon-ah, today’s first class was art…?! It’s an outdoor class today…!”
3)
The art class was simple. Walk around and draw whatever you want to draw. It doesn’t matter if it’s watercolor. Oil painting doesn’t matter. You don’t even have to draw well.
It doesn’t matter if you draw just one line on the drawing paper, or you can use a white sheet of paper. That’s the expression of his own image of seeing this scenery he’s looking at now. Because I admitted it.
Honey lessons.
No one said anything even if we were huddled together, and I didn’t care if I ate breakfast or… I took a nap.
An art teacher has to have a rich inner world to do creative activities, and well- Anyway, there was a lot of talk about Greek and Roman philosophers.
I don’t know about that.
“Yoo Seon-ah, you didn’t eat breakfast..? I prepared something for Yoo Seon to eat today!”
Actually, it’s not an art class, it’s like having a picnic.
Not a bag needed for class, but a small basket in my hand.
“It’s forbidden to cook in the dormitory, so I bought it at the canteen!”
Definitely, it didn’t look like Lee Jin-ah made it.
“So, I should stop living in a dormitory and buy a house nearby! You can cook there.”
Ah-Today, Jinah Lee said she was buying a house in a tone similar to “I have to eat chocolate milk.” She seemed to lose her mind.
If you have a lot of money, you can really do whatever you want.
“I’ll cook there, and…Just, I’ll sleep in..! My grandfather said we couldn’t live together…”
“…”
“Yoo Seon-ah, but you don’t eat..?”
“Uh…?”
I didn’t even feel hungry. I didn’t eat breakfast, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like going through Lee Jin-ah’s lunchbox or getting attention from people for doing something like that.
She said that… She already got attention from people she didn’t want even though she was attracted to this school.
She didn’t want to get a sandwich’s worth of attention there.
And…If I ate this, I felt like I would have to pay the price to Lee Jin-ah for some reason.
“I wish I could eat Yoo Seon too?” Aang…!”
However, unaware of my heart, Lee Jin-ah keeps pushing the sandwich toward my mouth, and she urges me to eat the sandwich quickly.