Chapter 171 – Third Grade Is Over (4)
The atmosphere at the academy after the college entrance exam was truly different.
The third-graders enjoyed the sense of liberation, joy, and freedom that they had finally been liberated, and the chatter and laughter did not stop in the classroom and hallway.
Even when they came to class, they read comic books, watched videos on their cell phones to kill time, or brought portable game consoles and played games with others, and the teachers didn’t particularly touch them.
After finishing the 3rd period, everyone went home again, and everyone enjoyed the vacation that wasn’t just a vacation and thought, ‘If this is going to be like this, there’s no need to come to the academy, right? ‘Tell me to rest at home.’ In the meantime, he wanted to enjoy a more comfortable life.
On the other hand, the second-graders only sighed at the fact that the hell we went through was now their turn, and were busy looking with crazy envy at the third-graders returning home in the early morning.
Needless to say, there are still two years left for first year students.
Yuri was now handing over the duties of student council president to her juniors in preparation for her graduation, and Eunji had enough rest after the National Sports Festival, so she returned to practice and ran on her court despite the cold weather.
Since Yumin’s final exams were just around the corner, she whined because she couldn’t make time for dates as often as before, and finally, Suyeon…
Ding Dong-
After returning home early, I was warming up a convenience store lunch box when my doorbell rang.
I quickly went out and opened the door, and Suyeon, who had packed a bag, was waiting in front of the door smiling.
“Hehe, senior, I’m here!”
“Have you moved all your luggage now?”
“Yes. Anyway, there are now textbooks and workbooks, so I don’t need them all, and surprisingly, there isn’t much else to take care of.”
After her college entrance exam, Suyeon was packing up her belongings and moving them to her room.
From everyday blankets and pillows to shoes and clothes… In fact, most of the luggage was clothes and underwear, so unexpectedly the house didn’t explode.
As she said, Sooyeon’s parents didn’t seem to care at all what her daughter was doing. Even though she had been moving her belongings around her room for several days, she seemed completely unaware.
So Soo-yeon gradually prepared to run away, and after moving her belongings for several days, she finally settled down in our house.
And Sooyeon took one last deep breath and called her mother.
When Su-yeon answered the phone from the other side, she opened her mouth.
“Mom, I called because I had something to tell you.”
-What should I say? Why are you calling at this hour? You can just text me. After school is over, grab a meal and quickly prepare for the essay you need to enter college.
‘That’s amazing.’
She only heard from Soo-yeon, but she didn’t know what kind of people her parents were, but the conversation she heard through her cell phone was truly spectacular.
Su-yeon’s mother can’t tell her daughter to rest after the college entrance exam, but instead tells her to start preparing for college essays.
Suyeon sighed softly and then said something else.
“Mom, do you know what food I like?”
-What do you want me to buy you? Mom, since I don’t have time, I just order whatever I want.
“… Do you know what I usually watch?”
– He’s been saying something strange since a while ago!
“… Do you know what I want to do in the future?”
– Sooyeon Choi! If you keep talking nonsense, hang up the phone!
Suyeon’s mother’s voice was so loud that it was uncomfortable even for her to hear.
When I heard Sooyeon’s mother say that she was not interested in her daughter and did not respond properly to her daughter’s hobbies and tastes, I felt frustrated for no reason.
It’s the same as having no family to rely on either there or here, but I thought that it might be better to not have a family like that or to not have any contact with them at all.
Suyeon let out a longer sigh and finally got to her point.
“… I’m going to leave the house.”
– … What?
“I can’t live in that corner of that guy’s house because it’s suffocating. Ever since I was little, my mom and dad have been holding me captive and controlling every single thing, suffocating me. Thanks to mom and dad, I can’t make friends as I want, and they sent me to study abroad as I wanted. My school life was all messed up, and everything was done the way my mom and dad wanted.
Did you think I didn’t know that you were treating me like a worthless child because I ruined your grades on purpose? And then, because it seems like I’m studying with my mind on it, I’m busy showing off to other ladies. How about it? I skipped a grade, so did you feel relieved?”
– Sooyeon Choi! What kind of habit are you talking to your mom about now? Where do you go when you leave the house?
“Anyway, I’m an adult, and now I graduated from a higher education academy and did well on the CSAT. Are you satisfied because I did well on the CSAT after harassing people like that? I’ve lived my whole life like a tool for my mom and dad, but I don’t think I can do that anymore because I feel like I’ll die.
I packed up all my luggage and left. I will never go to that house again. “I feel good because I was able to do well on the college entrance exam and go to a good college like Mom and Dad wanted, right?”
– You two-piece bastard… Where are you now!!!
‘Even though I confessed that her daughter had been thinking like that, she didn’t give me a word of comfort and scolded me like that.’
As I listened to the phone call, it was hard to imagine how dark Sooyeon must have felt, having lived her whole life with parents like that.
“I’m going to go to a good college on my own, and I’m going to get a scholarship. I’m not going to ask Mom and Dad to pay tuition, and I’m not going to look for Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad, don’t look for me either. If you change your mind, you can come look for Mom and Dad. … That won’t happen, right?
I have very few good memories… No, I don’t have any, but anyway, thank you for raising me until now. Stop.”
– Choi Soo…
Drop-
“Haa… Haa…”
Suyeon hung up the phone and took a deep breath.
Although the call was brief, she was so mentally stressed that she started shaking and developed mild hyperventilation.
I sat next to Suyeon, hugged her tightly and patted her back.
“Huh… Hmm… Ugh… Huh…”
Soo-yeon, who was trembling, eventually shed her tears and cried into my arms.
By announcing to her mother that she was running away from home and hanging up on her, Soo-yeon was now completely leaving the home she had grown up in all her life.
I can no longer see the bed in my room where I used to sleep every day, or the view of the living room or kitchen that I would have seen when I woke up in the morning.
I’ve never been to Sooyeon’s house, but from what I heard, it seemed like a fairly wealthy family, but it can’t be compared to my house where I’ll be living from now on.
I didn’t prepare thoroughly for independence, nor did I become independent with encouragement from my parents. I literally ran away from home.
I ran away from home because I could no longer bear the pressure from my parents who were suffocating me at home.
And the despair of having to be truly alone from now on, the pain I must have felt as I announced to my parents directly that I was running away from home, no matter how much I hated it.
All of that stimulated Suyeon and made her cry.
I comforted Suyeon by stroking her back as if to take away her worries.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. I’ll be there for you from now on.”
“Ugh… Ugh… Come on, senior… Now… You really have to take responsibility for me…”
Suyeon’s appearance, which was unusually weak, stimulated my protective instinct even more.
“Okay. Let’s do our best together first.”
“Sniff… Yes…”
After crying for a while, Suyeon seemed to have calmed down a bit and nodded and hugged me.
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After coming to her senses again, Soo-yeon unpacked her belongings and placed her pillow and blanket next to my pillow on the mattress, preparing to move in with her.
“That’s it! I roughly unpacked everything I needed… Senior, is there enough space in the cabinet? I’ll put my clothes in it? Oh, put my cosmetics, skin, and lotion on the bathroom shelf…”
I also went back and forth and helped Suyeon put down her things.
Since we didn’t have that much luggage to begin with, we finished cleaning up quickly and sat with our backs against the wall, wiping our sweat and taking a short break.
“Ha… Now you’re really living with a senior. Something feels strange.”
“You don’t regret it, do you?”
“Not at all? If anything, I would have regretted it even more if I hadn’t made a decision. Oh, my! Why don’t we take a picture to commemorate the fact that we’re living together now? I heard you’re going to start doing that Instagram thing anyway, right?”
“Oh, that’s right. I’m not the type to dress up too much, so I don’t know if it will turn out well.”
“I have to correct it, correct it! Give me your phone. First, get the correction app here…”
Su-yeon received the correction app she used and turned on the camera using it to focus on us.
“I’m good at taking pictures again, right? Now, look here~ Kimchi~”
Sooyeon took a two-shot with me and then edited the photo with various filters.
Then, a photo that looked quite plausible was born.
Or maybe it’s just that Sooyeon is so pretty that she created an optical illusion where she looks good in photos no matter what she does.
“How are you?”
“Well, when I took a few pictures by myself for practice, they were dull and not very good, so why is it so different?”
Hehe. That’s the power of correction! Last time, Yumin uploaded a video of us grading, and I heard that the response was quite funny because the senior’s reaction was funny. You’ll be able to do well in the future. Because you’re my boyfriend!”
“Yes, thank you. Thanks to having good girlfriends, I can survive somehow. I have to do it right.”
While we were laughing and chatting, our eyes met for a moment.
When we made eye contact with each other smiling, we both became speechless.
We looked at each other for a moment, then without anyone knowing who would go first, we rushed at each other and kissed each other deeply.
And at the same time, I checked my watch on my cell phone.
There were still a few hours left before I had to go to my part-time job at the convenience store.
After checking the time, we hugged each other tighter and exchanged tongues.
Now was the time for couples who had just started living together to do the things they do every day at home.
