Chapter 144 – 144 – Surprise
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Saturday, May 4th.
“Are you leaving in a month and a half?”
Woojin went on vacation.
The number of vacation days is 3 nights and 4 days.
It was a loss in many ways to go out so short because there was no vacation, but Woojin had to go out.
Because tomorrow, May 5th, is Woojin and Sia’s anniversary.
What are you celebrating?
It is a day to commemorate the day the two met.
Except for their birthdays, these two aren’t the type to take care of anniversaries. Every year, I brought this day.
There’s something a little more special about this year…
It’s been 5 years since we started dating, and on May 5th.
To put it together, it could be said to be a more commemorative day than ever before.
Even if it’s an anniversary, I usually don’t give gifts, but as I just said, since this year was a special year, Woojin thought he should give Shia a present.
“I’m thankful for waiting for you all this time, and I’m not losing face just by receiving it.”
Most of them said it was the end of the day, but Sia had waited for her until now.
And since she had only received so far, she decided to give as a gift to Sia.
So today I decided to go to the department store to buy a gift for Sia.
We planned to deliver the purchased gifts tomorrow, the day of the anniversary, on May 5th.
“Since Sia gave her a couple ring as a present during our last visit, should I use her necklace?”
Sia was not a person who was in need of her money, and she was rather burdened with expensive things compared to what she had, so she was Woojin trying to buy something suitable.
He has the face of a man.
Still, she decided to present a necklace with a bit of a price.
“Are you surprised? Did you come out without talking?”
Woojin did not contact Shia that she was going on her vacation.
These days, Sia was busy with her modeling and school work, so she couldn’t talk to her because she had less contact than before, and she also had the intention of sneaking out and surprising Sia.
So Woo-jin waits for the bus in front of her unit…
[Diri-ri-ring-]
Suddenly the cell phone started ringing.
“Who is it?”
I got a call from an unknown number.
First of all, it was a number starting with 010 that was not spam.
Woojin decides to take it for now.
“Hello?”
[Woojin is calling, right? Don’t get on the bus, wait in front.]
“Yes?”
Woo-jin is dumbfounded when he hears strange noises from someone he has never met.
I decided to ask who he was.
[Who is it? I am your platoon leader.]
“Platoon commander?”
Woojin is dumbfounded.
[Got it? Wait for it to arrive soon.]
Ddu-doo-
When he came to his senses, the phone was disconnected, and Woo-jin had no choice but to send the bus and stand still as Seo-yeon said.
…
…
After a while.
Bread bread-
A car arrived in front of Woojin, who was left alone at the bus stop.
The passenger side window opens…
“Get on.”
Seoyeon told Woojin to get into the car.
Woojin looks at Seoyeon with a suspicious gaze.
“…”
Woojin wondered why this person wanted to do that.
“Why? Aren’t you going to ride?”
“Get on.”
Woo-jin reluctantly gets into Seo-yeon’s car.
Woojin was seated in the front passenger seat.
…
Seoyeon said that she had to go to Chuncheon for the weekend, and today Woojin remembered that she was on vacation.
That’s why she said to wait with the thought of giving a ride…
Certainly, riding in a city like Chuncheon was much better than taking a bus in a place like a small town.
The number of buses was also every hour at Hwacheon Terminal and every 10 to 20 minutes at Chuncheon, so it was right for Woojin to follow Seoyeon.
By the way…
‘I think it’s the first time I’ve seen Platoon Commander in plain clothes today…’
Seoyeon now looked like a completely different person, as if she hadn’t put on makeup in the base.
“Platoon commander, it seems that you decorated a little today?”
“Yes?!”
“Is the place you are going on a blind date?”
“No. Don’t get me wrong, I’m leaving because I have something to do with a friend.”
Woojin was just staring straight ahead, wanting to see what was going on…
“So how is it? Suited?”
Even if you say that, are you really going on a blind date?
Suddenly, Seo-yeon asks Woo-jin to give her a good review.
“Yes, it suits you.”
“Really? How? Can you elaborate?”
Woojin doesn’t mind if I say a comment.
Woojin started talking about what he felt… No, a little more than that.
“I think it goes well with the platoon leader’s unique sharp look. In particular, it seems that maturity can be felt in lively yet slightly understated outfits. Personally, I think the platoon leader should have been a celebrity rather than a soldier. If I had to pick another suitable job…”
“Stop it!”
Seoyeon blushed as she shouted “Stop” As if she was embarrassed.
They were close to each other, and rather, inside the unit, Seoyeon was making remarks similar to sexual harassment toward her, so I wondered if it was okay to tease her to this extent.
“Stop it… I was wrong…”
But seeing this reaction, I wonder if I was wrong…
“Are you sure you want to stop?”
“Yeah, stop… Stop…”
“All right.”
So much time passed…
I had nothing to do, I was looking at my phone.
I could feel an awkward current flowing through the car.
To be precise, Woo-jin himself was fine, but Seo-yeon was restless.
Wanting to say something, Woo-jin suddenly decided to ask a question.
“Can I ask a question, Platoon Commander?”
“Sister.”
“Yeah?… Did I hear you wrong?”
“Call me sister. It’s not here, it’s outside.”
Although they are close friends in the unit, calling her older sister.
Woojin was a little reluctant.
“No… Isn’t that a bit like that?”
“How are you? They are people who will be discharged soon anyway.”
“…”
Woo-jin is worried about what to do.
Well, Seoyeon was right, so she decided that it didn’t matter.
There was only a bit of a barrier because of the rank and position within the unit, but now we were like close sisters and brothers.
“Seoyeon noona?… Can I call you?”
“Oh~ Didn’t I tell you to stop talking?”
Seo-yeon shows a ridiculous attitude.
I don’t know what kind of disadvantage I’ll get if I keep my language like this, so I ask if I want to change it back…
“No. Just talk nonsense Because it is convenient.”
But Seo-yeon is also better on this side, she just told me to use short words.
I hope there are no disadvantages later…
“So what are you curious about?”
“So, Platoon Commander…”
Seoyeon frowned.
Seo-yeon seems to hate the word platoon leader.
“How did your sister come to join our unit? It’s the first time I’ve heard of a person who has just finished being discharged and suddenly moves to a unit.”
“Oh that…”
Seoyeon put on a slightly embarrassed expression.
It was kind of awkward to talk about.
“So… It doesn’t matter… Because of the assault?”
“What? So, what’s the worst?!”
Woo-jin is surprised by Seo-yeon’s words.
According to Woo-jin, Seo-yeon’s words were that the unit was moved due to an accident.
But Seoyeon, a woman, was assaulted? No, she said that she could serve like this even if she did a bad job?
“It is! Listen to me!”
Seoyeon’s story was a few months ago. She starts working in the former unit, not the one she belongs to now.
Seoyeon was quite pretty.
She says that because she was an all-male group, she received a lot of work from people around her.
However, she says that from a certain point on, she began to look at herself with sly eyes or to attract her attention with nonsensical words.
“It’s always been like that, but it gets worse and worse as the days go by.”
From her point of view, she had no choice but to put up with it, but it got worse and worse.
Seo-yeon, who lived a stressful life day after day, said that she asked for advice from a senior officer she could rely on.
“Is that senior officer a male?”
“Yes. He was my direct supervisor, and he was a senior I depended on because he informed me well about the work.”
If we continue the explanation…
Was it very difficult at the time?
Seo-yeon said that she saw things like numbers above people’s heads.
She said that she consulted with her seniors on even the smallest things, including what she was going through in the unit.
“The incident I mentioned earlier happened during this consultation.”
Just the two of us were consulting. Suddenly, a person named her senior started touching her body.
At first, she was embarrassed because she didn’t know what was going on, but Seo-yeon, who decided that it was because of her drinking, said that she calmly tried to get rid of the senior.
However, Seo-yeon eventually inflicted violence on the senior who continued to dig in without listening.
“Therefore?…”
“I won.”
No, I don’t want to know that, and is it something to brag about?…
Anyway, the story didn’t seem to end there.
The next day, he was investigated for violating military law and was brought to the military police station…
“The same thing happened there…”
“What?”
During the investigation, it is said that a person called an investigator was crazy and sexually harassed him, and in the end, he escaped the crisis by using his fist again.
“Does that make sense?”
“I mean…”
After that, the situation got complicated, and he almost received a more severe punishment, but he was just ordered to stay at home for about a week.
“It’s called home confinement, but in reality it’s a vacation.”
“How does it go like that?”
“I made a deal.”
“Dil?”
“I asked him to drop the sexual harassment case. The person called the investigator must have been awkward, and the person called the senior didn’t seem to be like that on purpose. No ill feelings.”
“You didn’t do that on purpose? How do you know?”
“Ah… There is something like that. Don’t think that’s weird. I’m not flirting or anything like that. Anyway, I passed it over nicely, so it’s okay, right?”
“Well… Okay, let’s move on.”
So, Seo-yeon made a deal with a senior, an investigator, and a vice-captain, and asked for a vacation instead of doing things that didn’t exist.
And it was difficult to work face-to-face together, so he asked to be transferred to another unit.
“If I blow away all the absurd things I’ve experienced in the base? Then the unit would go into chaos, and the unit commander didn’t like making noise, so he didn’t reject my proposal.”
“Is that why you came to our unit?”
“Yes.”
It was a very spectacular story development.
“The talk ends here. Is there anything else you want to hear?”
“No… No…”
It was Woojin who was curious, but with this story as an opportunity, I thought it would be better not to touch Seoyeon’s planting.
Because if I did something wrong, I wouldn’t even break her bones…
…
After talking about so many things, I arrived at the terminal.
Woojin thanked Seoyeon and got off.
“Thank you for the ride. Platoon commander.”
“OK. Go carefully.”
“Platoon commander, let’s go on a blind date too.”
“Because it’s not a blind date!”
Woojin made fun of Seoyeon and moved her to her terminal.
Seoyeon, who was looking at Woojin like that, got back in her car and drove off somewhere.
…
As soon as she arrived in Seoul, Woo-jin changed her clothes and headed to the department store.
She bought Sia her necklace as a gift, and bought her perfume, etc.
A perfect combination gift.
People around me say that it’s good to give flowers as a gift, but why? Thinking so, she didn’t buy it.
It may even wither away quickly.
Woo-jin returns home around evening.
Woojin tried to resist contacting Sia for her tomorrow’s surprise, but…
“Because I haven’t heard your voice for days…”
Eventually, she couldn’t stand it and called.
[I’m not answering the phone right now…]
However, Sia didn’t answer the phone even on the weekend, probably because she was busy.
Just in case, she tried calling at night, but the result was the same.
“I don’t get…”
It was a pity that I couldn’t hear Sia’s voice, but she didn’t care.
It was because I was planning to go home tomorrow.
The slightly strange thing is, I would have sent a message like I can’t answer the phone through a normal message… Just that nothing came?
I decided not to pay attention to this since we will talk face-to-face tomorrow anyway.
“Let’s just sleep.”
Woojin went to bed looking forward to tomorrow.
…
…
May 5th. Sunday.
It was a bit like visiting from the early morning of the puppet, so I left the house near lunchtime.
The place Woo-jin headed was Sia’s house.
With presents for Sia.
A villa that goes through a subway station, enters an alley, and exits through a convenience store.
“Were you there?”
I remember going there once before, so it wasn’t difficult to find.
In front of the building of the villa where Sia lives.
I couldn’t get inside because I didn’t know the password for the front door of the building, so I decided to call outside.
[…Hello.]
Sia answered the phone.
Sia must have just woken up, her voice locked.
“Is she still sleeping?”
[Oh, it’s Woojin. Yes. After work yesterday, I came in a little late for a dinner. Sorry, I checked the phone call yesterday when I got home.]
Dinner late at night?
She was a bit intrusive, but she was a Shia who had a lot of outside activities, so she agreed to understand.
He could be seen as a narrow-minded man.
But I had to check one thing.
“Didn’t anything special happen at the party? A man… A man…”
[No. I came here after drinking with her friends.]
“It doesn’t matter if you drank with your friends.”
Woojin felt fortunate.
It seems that nothing of concern has happened.
[Who is this?]
A man’s voice suddenly came through the receiver.
Woojin caught it correctly.
“Who is beside you?”
[What did you hear?]
“It must have been a male voice saying, ‘Who is it?’…”
I won’t bother to tell you about Woojin’s state of mind right now.
[Ah! TV sound, TV sound.]
“…”
Woojin decides to believe in Shia’s words rather than doubting them.
If anything, you should go in now and check it out.
Woojin calmed down and continued talking.
“Aha. Was it the TV sound? I again.”
[Again and again. I think it’s strange. It’s just that I haven’t been able to contact you because I’m busy these days. Are you suspicious again?]
“No, this… Honestly, Sia, if you hear a woman next to you while talking on the phone, you wouldn’t be suspicious.”
[That’s true, but…]
Sia was speechless as well, as if she had nothing to say.
With Saddam at this point, Woojin began to get to the point.
“But do you know what day it is today?”
[Today? Uh… Today is…]
Sia seemed to be thinking of something, perhaps still awake.
[May 5th… Oh, it’s an anniversary! Sorry, I couldn’t think of it.]
“What are you sorry about? I can be busy.”
It was a little shocking, but I could understand.
Shia had a busy life different from hers, so she wouldn’t have time to spare.
[I can’t spend this year with you. Ah! Shall we leave right now?]
“If you leave now, when are you going to arrive? And only you are having a hard time, so you don’t have to come looking for it.”
It was just words, but I didn’t feel bad because I didn’t seem to have forgotten the importance of her anniversary.
[Then shall we go next week? What do you want? I’ll buy it.]
“What are you trying to buy me? I have to buy something from you now.”
[Can you afford that?]
“Uh… You don’t have to come anyway.”
[Really? Aren’t you pissed off?]
Sia’s playful voice.
Picking out her Uzin seemed like fun.
However, such a playful voice did not last long.
“Really. Because I am in front of your house right now.”
[What?!]
“Open the window and look. I’m in an alley right now.”
[Cudang Tang Tang-]
A crackling sound came from the receiver,
And after a while, I saw Shia looking down at him from above.
Woojin continued the call and waved her arm in the air.
It was an act of appealing that she was here.
“Did I tell you? You said you don’t have to come. So I came here myself.”
[Ha…Haha… I didn’t expect you to come to the front of the house… Didn’t you?]
“Then. I didn’t say it on purpose to give it a sense of surprise, ah! But if you answered the phone yesterday, you might have found out. Haha.”
Sia seemed really surprised, and the playful voice from before went in.
“I can’t keep talking on the phone here… Can I come into your house?”
[Ah…Haha… I don’t think it’ll work for a bit now…]
“Why?”
[Should I say the house is dirty… I just woke up too soon… I think I need to get ready…]
“Ah, what between us.”
Although they are lovers, they have had frequent family exchanges since they were young, so they did not have fantasies about each other.
So I thought it wouldn’t matter if I went in…
[But privacy…]
I don’t think it’s Sia.
‘Am I lacking in consideration?’
[My condition is a bit ugly… My house is dirty… And… And…]
Shia evades her words as if she was taken aback.
“Could it be that the man’s voice…”
This time, Woojin played a joke on Shia, who was flustered.
A man who gives back what he receives. He couldn’t be beaten by Shia forever.
[It’s not like that!! 5 minutes… No, just wait for 10 minutes!]
“Okay. Just 10 minutes. After that, open the door unconditionally? Then start!”
