There Is Nothing to Enjoy in a Small Rural Town 8

Chapter 8 – 2. Time Together (3)

There is nothing to enjoy in a small rural town.

2. Time together (3)

It’s all good Well, although there are some truths mixed in. It is true that my parents divorced and it is true that I grew up without love, but I have never been bullied. Lee Yul was rather bullying and bullying others. You have no intention of going to school like everyone else, just normal? I have no interest in that. However, this false personal history and weak packaging of oneself works for women. The forced weeping is a bit ugly and out of shape, but in the end, no one could refuse.

“If possible, let’s talk through this app. Because the message is volatile, it cannot be saved and disappears immediately.”

Chae-kyung installed the app Lee Yul told her about. Lee Yool’s friend request came through a chat application that didn’t seem universal at first glance.

“I like that I don’t have to find out about my worries, and I like that you don’t have to see me involved. Is it a win-win?”

Chaekyung didn’t answer, but accepted her friend request. Perhaps by now she’s rationalizing that she can’t help it because she’s the only support for Lee Yul here. Those who had crawled into the trap without knowing what they were doing out of trivial sympathy from before eventually opened themselves up to him.

“When can I see you again?”
“That…”
“No, don’t tell me now. I will contact you through the app.”

Lee Yul naturally stood in front of the checkout counter. She said that the food cost Chae-kyung did not touch was a whopping 70,000 won. However, he paid the interest rate casually, as if he did not know what the price might be.

“Thank you for today. See you again tomorrow.”

Lee Yul, who escorted her to her bus stop, waves her hand. Chaekyung gave her a slight nod and got on her bus. A complex evaluation of her interest rate must now be taking place inside her. Whichever way it went, there was nothing wrong with Lee Yul. Anyway, because I put the most difficult first button.

Tens of minutes ago, Junhyung was in a really difficult situation. After going to the bathroom after her class, he ran into the young female professor and greeted her, but she passed by without seeing him. Her troubles seemed so serious on her passing face that he became interested and followed her stealthily.

“What if I come to work!”
“You didn’t hear from me!”

As soon as we went to the parking lot, the professor started an argument with a man. Secretly listening to the contents, it seems that the man did something wrong and begged the professor for forgiveness, but the professor refused to contact him at all.

“You shouldn’t give me a chance to explain!”
“How can people be so shameless? Is this once or twice? Don’t you understand that I have been told not to contact you anymore?”
“It’s all a mistake, the only thing I love is you, Yoon-jung.”

The man fell to his knees and begged the professor. Well, the professor deserves to get down on his knees and beg. Besides, according to what I hear, the man has cheated on me several times, so I wonder if I can beg him with his head instead of his knees.

“You always say that, always! Now… Now I’m tired too!”

Tears fall from the teacher’s eyes. Hearing the sound and people starting to gather, the professor ran back into the school building crying and the man remained devastated. Thinking that there was no need to get involved in this, Junhyung quietly went back to his negligence.

[Smart]
“Yes?”

As I was killing time in negligence, someone knocked on the door. Usually, if you are a student in our department, you will just come in, so it must be an outsider, but when I opened the door myself, Gahye was standing there.

“Uh? What?”
“Didn’t you go home?”

Ga-Hye looked around the hallway and inside her room, then grabbed her by the arm and led her to the emergency exit.

“Why?”
“You, help me.”

Even at her emergency exit, she checked once to see if anyone was around and said in a low voice.

“You remember that bastard from last time?”
“Ah oh. What did you do then?”
“What do you do? I couldn’t do anything, but when I tried again later, it seemed like I had already erased everything. But that’s not the problem now.”

She wasn’t talking about school, but about the swimming pool she’s been attending lately. Recently, she felt a little strange when swimming, so she went to the pool at a time when there were as few people as possible. However, one day, when entering the pool, the man who came after her was not visible in the pool. She says she didn’t go home right after she came out of the pool, but hid briefly at the exit and saw the man she went in with come out a few minutes later, she says.

“Are you sure? You can check it in the pool, right?”
“Not 100%. Wearing a bathing suit and a swimming cap is a must. But the number of people doesn’t match and the physique looks rough.”

She suspects the man may have sneaked into the women’s locker room. Recently, there have been several cases of theft in the women’s locker room, but according to the external cctv on the pool side, there is no evidence that a man entered the women’s locker room, and cctv shooting is prohibited inside the pool and in the locker room, so there was no evidence.

“What if I set up a security guard in the women’s locker room?”
“Then I won’t do it. But it’s not like you’re going to keep paying for it. That’s why I usually go at night and in the morning these days. Then, when you go to the night time, go together and look at the men’s locker room.”
“It shouldn’t be difficult, but is there a guarantee that it will come? And even when he comes, he won’t do anything if I’m watching him in the dressing room.”

Ga-hye smiled and gave me a strong slap on the back.

“Let me see you once. See if anyone is doing anything suspicious, if possible, take a look at your belongings, as well as your cell phone, there might be a voyeur camera or something.”
I thought it was a very cruel world. There are criminals everywhere and in every era, but the idea that the target is someone close to me was so terrifying.
“Okay. What time are you going?”
“About 9 o’clock? Let’s kill some time at a cafe and then go right away.”

Nodding her head, she went back to her negligence, packed her things, and followed her.

“Ah, don’t tell Chaegyeong. Because of his personality, he will probably be very worried and scared.”
“Why am I telling Chae-kyung this? Above all, if you can catch it today, you don’t have to.”

After 9pm, we arrived at the pool entrance. I didn’t pay a membership fee, but I had followed Gahye a few times before, so I was able to get in with just a one-day fee.

“Come back in about 30 minutes.”

After parting in front of the locker room, I entered a locker room larger than I remembered. The facilities were clean and well maintained. Maybe because it’s time, there weren’t many people, so I was playing with my cell phone, but the door opened and a man came in. He seemed to be shorter than me, but he had a lot of flesh. Well, swimming is a good exercise for obese people with less joint strain and a lot of exercise. Swimming reminds me of a swimsuit, and a swimsuit reminds me of my body, so I naturally thought that overweight people wouldn’t swim.
The man took off his clothes, took off his underwear, and put it in the locker as if he didn’t care about his cell phone. The size of the clothes was large, so the luggage seemed bigger than before. However, as it is obviously rude to see people of the same gender changing clothes, I was concentrating on my phone again, and he walked past me in tight swimming shorts and went into the shower.

‘I don’t think there’s anything suspicious about it.’

The locker is locked with a key, and there is no luggage outside. I was staring at my phone again, helplessly.

I came out of the locker room not after 30 minutes, but after 15 minutes, which is half of that. Even that was not voluntarily, but was pulled out unwillingly. What Gahye and I didn’t think of was that I was an outsider here, and the suspicious things were the same. I didn’t even bring a swimsuit, so I was holding my cell phone in the changing room, so it’s assumed that I’m the most suspicious in the eyes of some people passing by. I complained to the pool staff and called for Ga-hye, and with Ga-hye’s testimony, I was finally released.

“Hey man, what is this?”
“I am really sorry. I didn’t even think of your swimsuit.”
“Ha~ Shidang. To live and to be misunderstood as a sex offender.”

Ga-hye put her arm on my shoulder as I lightly kicked the ground for no reason.

“Hey, I’ll buy you a drink. I was in bad shape, but thank you nonetheless, really. I have only you.”

Contrary to her mouth talking like some kind of Chinese swordsman, her breasts lightly touching her body were those of a woman who was so soft. I answered her without her expression.

“Let’s eat next time, next time. I’m tired today, really.”
“So is it. Okay, I’ll walk you to the bus stop.”

After another small talk, we headed to our respective homes.

If you ask for dating advice on the Internet, the answer that comes up most often is, ‘Why do you keep dating that kind of person? Break up quickly.’ No matter how big or small a person’s flaws are, those words always come out. Whether it is a woman who is cheating with another man, a man who is kind to a part-timer passing by, a lover who throws away his lover’s things, or a person whose parents are strict, the Internet always tells them to break up. However, regardless of the size of the flaws, breaking up is not easy. You can have a deep affection for a really bad person, and you can meet for 10 years while arguing. Love and hate are not a relationship of addition and subtraction, so it is not that the result of the calculation is -, but it does not go to the end of breaking up unconditionally.

“Huh… Hmmmm…”

So she couldn’t break up either. Everyone who knows her curses at her, asking why she met such an asshole, but she still couldn’t break up with her. She doesn’t know how to break up, doesn’t know how to break her affection, doesn’t know how to be resentful or hated. She has a clear distinction between business and personal relationships, but her coolness that she can maintain in her business relationships does not even shadow her personal relationships.

“Bad… Bad bastard.”

The result is like this. After graduating, she went straight to graduate school to get her master’s degree, and as a so-called ‘talent’ in the academic world, she was cheated on and cried by a trashy man alone in this local college town. There was.

“Me, professor?”

How many times have you been down on your knees and empty? How many times have you promised to be different now? After that, they meet again and spend a hot night, and then he betrays them again. Again he betrayed her. The only difference from before is that this time he and she are not in the same city.

“Professor Kang? Are you okay?”

Wiping her tears, she lifted her head and saw a young face in front of her. She was like a child in her academia, but the students she taught were like real children. Among her children, a boy who had been taking her own lessons with her eyes full of sympathy all the time stood in front of her.

“Oh, sorry. Who is it? Jonghyuk?”
“I’m Junhyung, Lee Junhyung. I am taking a liberal arts class.”
“Oh yeah. Okay. That’s right. With that other girlfriend.”
“Not until girlfriend… I am a high school classmate.”

I wondered if it was necessary to tell such a detailed inside story in the current situation. And when that thought came to mind, it suddenly became funny, and Yoon-jung laughed with tears that had not yet been wiped off her face.

“Is that so. But what’s going on? Even if you don’t know anything?”
“It’s not like that. I was just passing by and I was wondering if you were okay.”

After wiping away her tears, Yoon-jung answered.

“Are you okay. Because it’s just windy.”

Caught the wind Well, it may not really be a big deal. Because there was only one broken promise that was not seriously public. However, there may be nothing bigger than this for the feelings of the victim. It would be more than a simple breach of promise, more than a betrayal.

“I-I’ll buy you a cup of coffee if you don’t mind.”

Make a bold proposal. It was funny and thankful that her baby, who had barely reached adulthood at the very least, was trying to comfort her.

“No. It can’t be.”
“I’m really fine. I really like that professor’s class, and I respect him too.”

He has no other intentions. I can feel that you genuinely like me and want to help me. It’s been a long time since Yoon-jung has always been clinging to him and longing for affection, so it’s been a long time since she received such clean feelings.

“Are you really okay?”
“Yes! I always wanted to talk to the professor about class or something.”
“Whoop, whoop whoop. Ahahaha.”

I felt slightly better. I was so happy that someone liked and thought of me in the midst of the feeling of being alone in the world.

“Then do this. I buy coffee, and I have two tickets here so I can watch a movie. And then, if it’s okay, I’ll listen to you.”
“Yes!”

The grinning smile made me feel like a small glass box was created in one corner of my heart. A box that has no color in this dull and painted heart, and reflects the colors outside, but is completely transparent inside.