Chapter 43 – Episode 43. I Just Threw a Can, but a Fate Was Formed
‘Ha~, going to a club right now, drinking alcohol, and throwing away tomorrow’s life is over pants. What the fuck am I thinking…’
I immediately shook my head.
Even at dinner, and at night after studying is over, my ball friends flirt with me.
That’s why I can’t go to the club at this point.
Maybe, even after studying so intensely, one day there may be a day when you are craving for it and go to a club.
I could see that it wasn’t now.
It was because I thought that it hadn’t been that long since I had studied properly.
It was around the middle of last month that I properly resumed my civil service studies.
It’s hard to say that the period itself has been a long time, and it’s only been a week since the academy classes started.
I already thought that I wasn’t being distracted by myself.
Also, if you go to the club, tomorrow can fly away, but I thought I could rather spend tomorrow in a better condition if I recover my physical strength after sleeping.
I studied very hard today, but I’m not that tired, but even so, there may be some extra fatigue that I don’t feel.
Even if I don’t feel strongly in the present, there will still be some fatigue accumulated from studying all day today.
So I thought that if I went to bed without going to the club, I would fall asleep again soon.
I overcame Joo-Hwan and Jong-Hoon’s temptation and decided not to join the club party.
I made up my mind and sent a message to the group chat room.
[S]
[I sleep first]
I sent a message like this first.
Then, I said one more word to them in a group chat message.
[Hey, bitch, if you go to your club, do it with a smile when you see a girl]
[When you’re hunting at a club, it’s okay at first, but after a while, your expressions aren’t that scary haha]
After sending that message, I announced my intention to rest again.
[Sleep anyway]
After sending it there, I turned off my cell phone.
Then he put the phone back in his pocket.
“Hmm~.”
I looked out the railing on the roof again.
Then, he drank the beer from the beer can he was holding with his right hand.
“Gulp, gulp…”
Having a beer, I plan to go back in and sleep.
Even if I’m not very sleepy, I think it’s better to sleep for tomorrow.
It was only natural that sleeping late today would not create a problem today, but it would hurt tomorrow just as much as sleeping late.
With that in mind, I decided to exclude clubs and quietly enjoyed my own entertainment, drinking a can of beer on the rooftop for a while.
While drinking beer, I heard various thoughts.
What to do if you pass
Would you like to travel abroad?
Where would you go if you were to travel abroad?
Who would you like to travel abroad with?
Should I go with my friends or should I make a girlfriend and go together?
What will the economy be like?
What will happen to the world economy as well as our country’s economy?
There was the IMF 21 years ago and the Lehman Brothers crisis 11 years ago.
Why do we learn things that we don’t need so much in school?
In mathematics, there are times when it is used in cases such as proportional expressions, but there is no place to use it in real life even if it is factoring, which is a secondary course in the same mathematics…
Then, what if we put a subject like car maintenance instead of mathematics as a subject learned at school?
If car maintenance is a common subject in all schools nationwide, wouldn’t it be quite useful since many adults drive cars?
Is it good to live long?
Should I stop drinking and smoking in the future?
On a recent broadcast, a 91-year-old smoker and a 91-year-old smoker both got good health checkups, and they said it was all because of their genes. What about my genes?
Should I quit all of them later, or is it okay if I don’t?
Wouldn’t life be more fun before you had to quit drinking and smoking?
They’re just silly ideas.
Happy imaginations, or guesses about things you’re curious about, and so on.
There were many more besides this.
As I drank beer while thinking about those things, the beer ran out before I knew it.
The thirst seemed to have been quenched.
Also, it seemed that the fatigue of the brain accumulated all day due to studying was also relieved a little.
I stood in front of the railing on the roof a little longer.
The railings on the roof are well constructed to be safe.
It’s almost at my chest level, so there’s almost no chance I’ll fall unless I’m lifted and thrown by a crane.
It was nice to just stare out blankly.
It seemed that the goodness was also relative.
Because studying was relatively difficult, doing something other than that was relatively more fun.
Just as anything during the exam period is more fun than studying for the exam, even drinking beer on the roof like this while preparing for the civil service exam was so much fun.
I stood on the roof a little longer looking out.
Then, at some point, I decided to go down slowly.
It’s because I have to sleep.
Right before I came down from the roof, I took an empty beer can and walked to one corner of the roof.
‘Shall we try shooting?’
On the other side was a bag.
A bag is a trash bag no matter who sees it.
I approached the trash bag.
Then, from some distance away, I shook the can like shooting a basketball and threw it into the open garbage bag.
The distance wasn’t too far, so the can I threw easily slipped into the garbage bag, making a clatter as if it collided with something else already in the bag.
The post-processing was also done well.
So after that I decided to go right down.
I moved my steps towards the place where there were stairs going down from the rooftop.
While walking on the roof before going up the stairs, you step on the smooth floor of the roof.
The roof is meticulously painted with green-based paint that appears to be waterproof.
Even in the dark, the smooth green paint is highly visible.
I was almost on the stairs and was about to go downstairs when I heard a door knock behind me.
I didn’t really care.
But when I went down the stairs and took a step or two, I heard a little sound like a can rattling.
As if unconsciously reacting to the sound, I turned around.
‘Hmm?’
I noticed that the person who had just come out of the room on the roof had gone to the plastic bag and made the rattling sound of the can.
The plastic bag was far away from the plastic I threw away the can.
A woman was squatting there, tidying up.
I immediately thought it might be because of the cans I threw away that she was doing her tidying up.
‘Why is that woman cleaning up the trash I threw away?’
I thought so, so what did I do to go down right away?
Apparently she wasn’t the landlord, of course, she was a tenant like me, but she wasn’t cleaning up my trash.
I took my first step down the stairs, then climbed a few more steps to the top of the roof.
And I walked towards the woman who was sorting out the plastic bags.
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
I didn’t particularly hide her presence and approached her, but because I just trudged along, she must have felt the presence.
But she was just continuing to organize the plastic bags she was doing.
As I approached her, I noticed that she was quite beautiful.
Even though she was sitting, you could tell at a glance that she was tall and that she was very slim.
Plus, her long, straight hair suited her very well.
But it wasn’t because she was beautiful that I approached her.
Her main reason for my coming back was that she was tidying up the plastic bag I had thrown the can I had just finished drinking her beer with.
I got pretty close to her.
Then I leaned over her and tried to talk to her.
“Hello~.”
She looked up at my call as she crouched and tidied up her trash.
She looked up at me and took my words.
“Ah, yes, hello~, I thought you were going down…”
She was a bit innocent, but her impression was a bit strong.
However, since the tone is soft, it was actually a style that seemed to give off a more innocent impression than a strong one.
I sat down beside her and spoke to her.
“Are you trying to sort out this now?”
“Yes.”
She said with a bright face.
It was a kind-looking face.
I suddenly thought that I had made a mistake by throwing away the trash.
Until now, after I ate a can of beer on the roof, I inadvertently threw the can into a plastic bag on the roof every day.
I thought the owner’s house, which managed the building for money, was doing the cleaning of the plastic bag.
There are plastic bags in the trash can on the 1st floor, and there are no trash cans on the roof, but there are always plastic bags.
At the owner’s house, I often saw the collection bins on the first floor being sorted out two or three times a week.
I thought that while the owner’s house was organizing the first floor like that, the vinyl on the roof was also being organized.
However, when I saw a woman organizing the trash on the rooftop vinyl, I came to know that the person who lives on the rooftop is organizing the trash on the roof.
I was sorry to think that she would have organized all the empty candles I had thrown away so far.
I said to the woman
“Ah… I thought that if I threw it away here, the owner would clean it up as well as tidying up the first floor.
I reached for the plastic bag.
Then she shook her head and laughed.
“Ahaha~, no~.”
She laughed and went along with her words.
“It’s no big deal, well. It’s in front of where I live, so it’s okay if I clean it up.”
“It’s a bit… Between the same tenants.
“How about it~, I can’t see it being difficult.”
“Give me this.”
“It’s fine…”
I had her scuffle with her for a while.
Saying that they would take care of each other.
As a result, we ended up together.
A few bags.
And each bag was basically sorted to some extent, but there were also mixed things.
I sorted it out a bit.
The garbage bags on the roof weren’t all that full.
So it didn’t take long to sort it out.
Here’s the process.
General garbage is put in a pay-as-you-go bag purchased by the rooftop girl.
And the rest of the garbage is separated and put into each plastic bag.
Then, take the separated garbage and throw it away at the separate collection point on the first floor.
I went down the stairs with the rooftop girl carrying a few bags like that.
After coming to the first floor, the things separated from the rooftop could be discarded on the first floor by cans by cans, plastics by plastics, and vinyl by plastics.
Then, sooner or later, the landlord will come and pack up the garbage and dump it outside.
As the rooftop girl said, simple things can be simple things.
Still, it wasn’t a big deal for me to have the same tenant, the rooftop girl, clean up the trash I threw away.
After I finished the separate collection right away and threw away all the garbage, the rooftop girl came to talk to me.
“You don’t have to do this.”
I shook my head.
“No, I’m sorry for throwing trash there every day. From now on, I’ll drink beer on the roof and come to the first floor to throw it away.”
“I really didn’t think much of it~, it was fine.”
As she said that, I met her eyes for a moment.
We didn’t avoid each other’s eyes.
And I watched for a while.
Also, above all, the rooftop girl and I didn’t both go straight into our rooms.
Originally, since I had done everything to see, I could just go in.
However, the rooftop girl and I were standing in front of the separate collection point, looking around for nothing.
I think so.
Maybe this is because it’s a little bit sad to say goodbye to each other so straight away.
This cool time didn’t last very long.
Still, it was enough time for me to make any judgments.
I just casually looked at the rooftop girl and said.
“My name is Jinhyeok Lee. I live in a studio here.”
With that said, I held out my hand for a handshake.
The rooftop girl accepted my handshake.
“I’m Song Ji-eun.”
We shook hands lightly.
Then I spoke up.
“It’s been a while. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to talk to someone who lives nearby.”
Many people live around here.
The surrounding area is also a densely populated area, and there are times when I often run into people coming and going to the same building.
Most people don’t make friends with people they encounter that way.
First of all, most of these gosichons come and go quickly anyway.
The basic contract period for one room is one year, but even within that period, there are quite a few cases where you leave the room after the exam is over.
There may be people who thought that this was not the case while studying for civil servants, and there would be cases where they were summoned by their parents after failing the exam.
And most of them are tired of studying for the civil service exam, or even if they don’t study, they live a day under the pressure, so they don’t have that much mental space to socialize with others.
Of course, sometimes when I was smoking, the women would start talking to me and greet me, saying, “Do you live here?”
However, I had just started studying properly, and before that, I was busy meeting many women, so there were things that people didn’t accept even if I pretended to know as much as possible near my house, which could be seen as my resting place.
That’s why there were very few people I knew, and those I knew even a little left right away, so I could say that it’s been a long time since I’ve had a conversation with someone like this rooftop girl.
Song Ji-eun told me.
“Neither do I, I’m not sure who lives in the same building.”
“Well, it could be. People change so often.”
As I nodded, Song Ji-eun spoke to me.
“Even though I lived on the same rent in college, I knew everyone around me. Isn’t the atmosphere a bit different here?”
