Chapter 124 – 124- Story of the Past (3) – Pandora’s Box
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“Collock Coke”
Maybe it was because he was outside in the cold all day yesterday, so eventually Woo-jin caught a cold.
I wanted to meet Eun-seol, so I was already heading to the playground, but my body didn’t follow me, so I had no choice but to stay at home.
“I need to rest today.”
Woojin thought that he should rest comfortably today and recover his condition and visit him again tomorrow.
I put my mind aside for a while and decided to go to sleep to recover my body.
“Can I see you tomorrow?”
…
Four days later.
Contrary to Woojin’s promise to take a day off and meet Eunseol, Woojin lay sick for two more days.
“It’s not that cold today.”
Unlike before, today was warm weather for winter.
The news said that the weather was as good as spring, but as the news said, it was really warm weather.
Of course it gets cold when the sun goes down…
Woojin dressed just in case.
Woo-jin planned to meet Eun-seol even if the sun went down today.
“Today must be.”
Woojin looks at the shopping bag in his right hand.
Inside the shopping bag was a lunchbox that Woojin made himself.
A few weeks ago, Woojin packed his own lunch and headed to the playground.
I was getting tired of convenience store food, and some said my parents seemed to spend a lot of money, so I packed a lunch box as the next best thing.
Should I say that the biggest reason is because I want to show my special side to Eun-seol?
It wasn’t something that was done in a hurry.
Due to the nature of his parents’ job, Woojin, who was often alone, often cooked and ate, and what he brought with him in a separate container was a lunch box.
Of course, the workmanship wasn’t bad either.
Because my parents said it was delicious.
There is a saying that his arms burn inside, but Woojin’s cooking was objectively not bad.
With that confidence, let’s bring a lunch box to Eun-seol a few weeks ago
‘Would Woo-jin want to eat the lunch you packed next time?’
I’ve even heard of it.
Remembering Eun-seol’s words, Woo-jin prepared a little overwork as a commemoration (?) To meet after a long time.
‘I won’t go home until I feed my sister a lunch today!’
Woo-jin decided to feed Eun-seol a lunchbox no matter what.
No matter how cold it is, Woojin’s will can’t be stopped.
It may be seen as foolish, but a middle school boy in his prime did not have the ability to judge such things.
Something that can be called foolish if it is foolish, and pure if it is pure…
Woojin’s heart was pure love itself.
…
Waiting so long
“What is that person?”
Woojin felt the eyes looking at him from afar.
I turned his head to where I could feel his gaze, and when I checked who it was, I saw a skinny, middle-aged man staring at me.
The middle-aged man was characterized by a whitish beard and black sunglasses.
Woo-jin feels bad when he sees such a man staring at him.
Woojin thought about leaving, but decided to just stay still.
The man looked at him for about a minute, then disappeared from the playground as if he was on his way.
“What…”
Woojin, wondering if he had a problem, erased the unpleasant man from his mind.
Then, to preserve the warmth of the lunchbox as much as possible, I hugged my shopping bag tightly and waited for Eun-seol.
…
So time goes by…
By the time the sun starts to set.
I heard someone running.
“?”
Woojin raises his head and wakes up.
When I moved my sight to the place where I heard the sound, I saw the figure of Eun-seol.
“Ha… Ha… Ha…”
Eun-seol exhaled a heavy breath as if she had jumped.
Woo-jin is trying to get closer to the joy of seeing Eun-seol after a long time…
“Eunseol noona!”
“Do not come.”
Eun-seol stopped Woo-jin.
“Uh?”
Woojin is confused.
“Don’t come here again.”
“What are you talking about?”
Woo-jin was taken aback but went up to Eun-seol to see her face.
By the way…
Widely-
Eun-seol cuts off Woo-jin’s hand.
“Uh?…”
Slight tingling pain felt in the hand.
Eun-seol was sincere and rejected Woo-jin.
“What’s wrong with you sister? Could I have done something wrong?”
“…”
Woojin became cautious after understanding Eunseol’s mood.
“I’m hungry… Is it because I’m hungry? I also packed a lunch box that my sister said was delicious…”
Meanwhile, Woojin takes out a lunch box from a shopping bag.
“Wrong? Is there something wrong?”
Eun-seol threw the lunch box Woo-jin had packed onto the floor.
With a loud sound, the food contained in the lid spilled out.
“It’s annoying.”
It was shocking to be rejected, but the current situation was even more shocking.
Even a week ago when we last saw each other, Eun-seol hadn’t been like this…
“Then don’t come now and go away.”
“Sister… What’s wrong? Is that why?”
Woojin denied the reality.
He wanted to believe that it was not his fault, but that something had happened to Eun-seol.
Because if I didn’t think like that, my heart would break.
“No…”
But the reality did not seem to be so.
“I didn’t say anything, I was annoyed and in a bad mood before.”
Eun-seol stepped on Woo-jin’s lunchbox that had fallen to the floor.
“Lunch box? Such a useless thing. Childish…”
And then the rant continued.
“You know why I was with you? I just played with you because you looked pitiful. And if you thought there was something to eat from you, why did you buy me this and that from the convenience store every day?”
“…”
Woo-jin cries after hearing Eun-seol’s venomous words.
“Otherwise, why would I hang out with someone like you? Is not it?”
A drop or two of tears fell from Woojin’s eyes and began to wet the ground.
“I think you liked me, but I didn’t think much of you. As I said right away, I thought there was something else to eat, so I hung out with you.”
“Kuuuuu”
Woojin started to cry at the poisonous words he had heard from Eunseol for the first time.
Still, he cried and cried, saying that he was a man.
“Is a boy just crying over something like this? It’s so damn boring.”
Her voice was different from the normally quiet Eun-seol.
“The talk ends here. Turn off quickly If you don’t, I’ll hit you and make you go.”
Woojin nodded at Eunseol’s words and headed home.
Like that… Woojin’s first love…
—
“Is that how it ended?”
Shia listens to the story and asks questions.
From Woojin’s point of view, Sia’s frown made her look a little angry.
I don’t know if she’s mad at herself for talking about another girl in front of her girlfriend, or if she sympathizes with her own story…
“No. If it had been this far, it wouldn’t have been traumatic.”
Woojin continued her story while fiddling with the paper cup in front of her eyes.
—
Woo-jin is in shock all day long.
There was no crying or fuss at home.
Two days later, she headed back to the playground.
It was because the words Eun-seol had said the other day felt a bit strange.
It felt as if he was deliberately trying to push himself away.
“It must be because something happened to my sister…”
Woojin definitely judged that something had happened to Eunseol.
So we headed back to the playground and waited for Eun-seol to return.
But like last time, Eun-seol didn’t come and she was about to go back.
“Here he is.”
Someone called him
“Who… ?!”
The person who called him was a middle-aged man with a bad mood he saw a few days ago.
Woojin was startled and his body hesitated.
“Heh heh… Don’t be afraid. Even if I look a little scary, I’m not a bad person.”
I thought he was a bit of a problem person, but maybe it was surprising that he said it properly, Woo-jin loosening his guard.
Contrary to his skinny appearance, his voice was profound, which was a bit surprising.
“Are you friends with Eun-seol?”
Woojin didn’t expect Eunseol’s name to come out of a man’s mouth.
Woo-jin wondered if this person was an acquaintance of Eun-seol.
‘Come to think of it…’
It seemed that the man who taught Eun-seol skills was skinny, but I wondered if this was him.
First of all, Woo-jin asks if he knows about Eun-seol.
Then the male
“That’s right. I’m harvesting silver snow. After hearing the story, it seems that you are Eun-seol’s friend. I don’t know what happened yesterday, but I came home crying… What happened to Eun-seol?”
I asked friendly.
Woo-jin was contemplating whether or not to talk about what happened yesterday.
“Actually…”
Woo-jin wondered if he could meet Eun-seol through this person, so she told him about yesterday.
“Hmm… I guess what happened between the two of you.”
“Can I see Eun-seol noona somewhere?”
Woo-jin cuts the front and back and puts his heart forward to meeting Eun-seol.
“I would be working on it right now. Why? Do you want to meet Eunseol?”
Woojin nodded.
“Then follow me.”
Woojin followed the man.
—
“Now that I think about it, I shouldn’t have followed him.”
“Why?”
Woojin answered with a complicated expression.
“What could have been just a painful experience, followed that person and was even more hurt…”
Because I hurt my sister too much.
—
Woojin followed the man to the tattoo shop.
A place where the sun doesn’t shine well in a slightly back alley.
I don’t know why, but it was a place I was a little reluctant to enter.
“Come in.”
“Excuse me.”
Upon entering her, a strange, unknown smell stung Woo-jin’s nose along with the smell of cigarettes.
Woojin looks around to see where Eunseol is.
But the silver lining was nowhere to be seen.
“By any chance, where is Eun-seol’s sister?”
“Hmm… Seeing that you’re not here right now, you must be working on it.”
The man headed somewhere and told Woojin to follow him.
Woo-jin moves from place to place according to the man’s words.
As I went a little deeper in the shop, I started to hear an unknown sound.
[Xx… Xxx…]
Woojin wonders what this means.
The more you walk, the louder the sound gets.
Woojin instinctively recognized what this meant.
“Ahhhhh♡”
It was the sound of a woman’s moaning.
“Stop oppa… I’m having a hard time…”
With each step I took, I heard a distinct voice.
“Can’t you do it with your mouth? If I’m going to use my mouth, I’m confident…”
When I reached the door, I could roughly figure out who the voice was.
‘No way…’
It might feel like a different person because of his unusually raised voice and slightly watery voice. I was able to figure out who Woojin was after talking with him for a long time.
Get it?… No, I wasn’t sure.
Woojin’s heart raced like crazy.
Hehe…”
Woojin exhaled so violently that he wondered if he was overbreathing.
Unlike Woojin, the man has a calm voice.
“Now, here is Eunseol. Open the door and check.”
Said.
Woojin was troubled.
Whether or not the door should be opened.
‘Could it be sister?…’
‘My sister did this without me knowing…’
‘Eh, that’s not right… My sister can’t be like that.’
Several thoughts ran through Woojin’s head…
‘If I open it, wouldn’t Eun-seol be someone other than my sister?’
With false hopes, I decided to open Pandora’s box.
Kiik-
Woojin opens the door.
Woojin’s eyes were fixed on Eunseol, so he didn’t know that well, but now that I think about it, it seems that the man called the president had a fishy smile.
