Chapter 45 – The Difference Between You and Me
On Thursday, the April written exam, which lasted for four days, came to an end with tests on social studies subjects.
“Han Seong-jin, how many points did you get? 40 points? 30 points?”
“Well, I don’t remember what I wrote in the answer, so I guess the provisional score is meaningless. But why do you keep talking as if you already won?”
“Pfft, I don’t want to be embarrassed, so I’m trying to postpone it somehow? Anyway, the tags will come out next week. That’s right, enjoy the last days until the public execution. The day the tags come out will be the day you drop out of school out of shame. “
Jeong Eun-ji smiled bitterly, confident of her victory, then took her bag and gym clothes and left.
Her exams were over, but she still had track and field, which was a more important career path for her, so it looked like she was going to start practicing in the afternoon.
A few minutes after Eunji Jeong left the classroom, Lee Yu-ri, who had finished grading her, came up to me and asked.
“Did you do well on the test?”
“Okay? I studied hard too. So what are you going to give me as a reward?”
“You don’t even know what your score is yet, but that’s all you’re interested in, right?”
“No, you’re the one I’m interested in.”
“Ugh… You’re saying that again…”
“I don’t like it?”
“… No.”
Although Lee Yu-ri was embarrassed, she no longer hated or was reluctant to see me behave like this.
At that moment, Gong Young-bae in the row in front of me kept changing his posture as if he was really worried…
She wanted to make her Yuri sit on my lap to show off, but she’s still too shy and won’t do it around her other kids.
Should we do that after we finish marking Yuri?
Even though my classmates were packing up their bags and going home one by one, Yuri Lee still hadn’t left my seat.
I grinned when I saw Yu-ri Lee fidgeting and looking at me like a puppy wanting something.
“Why are you still like this?”
“Hey, our exams are over, so today-“
“Sun~Bae~♥ Is it still there? Oh, there it is!”
However, before Yu-ri Lee could say anything about her business, an intruder appeared.
The owner of a blonde side ponytail, slightly tanned skin, and wild breasts that bounce up and down every time she moves.
Soo-yeon Choi smiled at me and came towards me waving her hand, and Yu-ri Lee’s expression, on the other hand, became quite grim.
However, before Choi Su-yeon could approach her, Gong Young-bae stood up from her seat and approached her first.
“Suyeon, the exam is over. Should we go out today for the first time in a while? You said you were sick last time, so we went midway.”
His voice seems somewhat urgent.
You may have already seen Choi Soo-yeon cling to me, but Gong Young-bae seemed to believe that he still had a chance. Pathetic and shameless.
Wouldn’t you faint if you knew how much Choi Soo-yeon and I have already groped each other’s bodies and how much our tongues have been intertwined?
… Yuri Lee will faint too.
When Gong Young-bae suddenly jumped forward, Choi Su-yeon stopped walking for a moment.
And he smiled brightly at Gong Young-bae.
“I’m sorry, Senpai. I guess I have a prior engagement today. Hehe.”
…
If there is a prior promise, it exists, but if it does not exist, it does not exist. The word ‘likely to exist’ was an impossible word.
Nevertheless, Soo-yeon Choi rejected Gong Young-bae’s offer for such a strange and ridiculous reason.
Choi Soo-yeon had already become Han Seong-jin’s woman in her heart, and Gong Young-bae no longer had any meaning to her.
Choi Su-yeon had more lingering feelings for Gong Young-bae than Lee Yu-ri, who still did not make eye contact with Gong Young-bae and did not mix her words.
Her smile towards Gong Young-bae was not forced, nor was it a smile filled with malice to screw him over.
Because her feelings for him had completely died to the point where she did not feel any resentment, anger, or even hatred, she was able to treat him more normally than she could.
Choi Soo-yeon, who lightly rejected Gong Young-bae’s offer, approached Han Seong-jin and slightly sneered at her.
Then she laid her chest on his desk and opened her eyes brightly.
“Seongjin, it’s been a while since you have some time during the day. How are you feeling? Do you want to go out and have lunch together?”
“Hey, I was talking first.”
Immediately, Lee Yu-ri’s check began again, but Choi Soo-yeon smiled and looked down at Lee Yu-ri with an open look of disdain.
“You weren’t saying anything? So I brought it up first, so what’s wrong?”
“Huh… Ha, Seongjin Han! Do you want to go eat… With me?”
Han Seong-jin looked at the two for a moment and smiled before answering.
“They both want to have lunch with me, but I feel like if I go out to eat with just one of them, the other one will be really hurt. It’s quite difficult to choose. So, should we all go together today? I finally got my paycheck. I have a lot of things to owe me today. “I buy lunch.”
Neither Lee Yu-ri nor Choi Su-yeon liked the idea of each other accompanying them, but he decided that it was better than being abandoned and nodded.
And the next moment, Han Seong-jin made a strange proposal that everyone didn’t expect.
“Hey, Gong Young-bae, you were talking about something with Soo-yeon earlier. Are you going too? If you want to go, I’ll let you go. Instead, you pay for what’s yours. How about that?”
“?!”
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Not only Lee Yu-ri and Choi Su-yeon, but even Gong Young-bae himself looked quite surprised by my suggestion.
“Hey, Han Seongjin!”
Surprised, Yuri Lee punched me, but it was already too late.
“I-I… Want you to come too?”
“I’m not saying you have to come unconditionally. If you want to come.”
Gong Young-bae thought for a while and then answered in a hushed voice.
“… I’ll go.”
Baby, you have no pride.
Yuri pinched her arm with a scary expression, and I gently winked at her to calm her down.
Yuri Lee whispered in a low voice.
“Hey, why are you doing this when you know that Gong Young-bae and I fought?!”
“You’ve seen that bastard keep clinging to his regrets and not letting go of them. Rather than bothering you like this every time, I think it would be better to just hang out with him for a day and make you stop bothering him. I’m sorry for making the decision on my own.”
Of course, I didn’t prepare this place just to like Gong Young-bae.
What I want is Lee Yu-ri.
I felt a clear difference in the attitudes of Choi Su-yeon and Lee Yu-ri towards Gong Young-bae.
Even though Choi Soo-yeon suffered such a dirty situation, her relationship with Gong Young-bae was still good.
Like now, I didn’t avoid talking to people, and I was able to have normal conversations.
Not because she still likes Gong Young-bae, but because she was quite the opposite.
However, Lee Yu-ri still couldn’t hide her anger at Gong Young-bae, and when he came, she blatantly turned away or avoided his gaze.
Almost all barriers to her feelings for me have already been broken, and we have become quite intimate with each other, but the lingering feelings that remain in her heart have not yet disappeared.
Unlike Choi Soo-yeon, whose affection had completely evaporated and there was nothing left, the 10-year childhood friend relationship still remained in Yu-ri Lee’s heart, so she was not sure about ending it like Choi Soo-yeon.
Today, I planned to completely shake off even the slightest lingering regret that remained in Yu-ri Lee’s heart.
By letting you know who will really like you and who is superior as a male.
…
We ate at a restaurant in a downtown area near the subway station and then went to the arcade.
“No, this place… It’s a place where a lot of delinquents come…”
Gong Young-bae, who had never been to a place like this before, hesitated and hesitated, but Lee Yu-ri, who had already become addicted to it, smiled brightly and entered the arcade.
In fact, it is a place where a lot of delinquent children come, but it is not an opening venue like the neighborhood near where I live.
In fact, couples often come.
I slapped Gong Young-bae, who was trying to back out, on the back and pushed him inside.
“Hey, what fun is it if you don’t come to a place like this? Go and have some fun.”
“Here? What fun is there in wasting time in a place like this?”
“Son, don’t do that, just go over there and give it a try.”
I sent Gong Young-bae up to the DDR board, and at almost the same time, Yuri Lee also went up.
When Lee Yu-ri saw that Gong Young-bae was standing next to her instead of me, she turned her head to me with a shocked expression.
“You don’t?”
“I’ll do it after that game. I’m playing first.”
Before Lee Yu-ri could say anything, I put the coin in, and soon a song started flowing out of it and countless arrows came pouring down.
Lee Yu-ri was excitedly taking steps as usual, jumping here and there, but Gong Young-bae…
“Huh? What is this? No, what’s so funny about something like this…”
Gong Young-bae, who is full of prejudice against these types of entertainment facilities and doesn’t even like them in the first place, just didn’t like it and played around with his feet a few times before getting game over, and even though Yu-ri Lee was dancing next to him, he just came down.
“What, are you dead already?”
“Uh, I don’t know how to do it well, and it’s not very fun… I don’t understand kids who like this kind of thing.”
After hearing those words, Lee Yu-ri glared at Gong Yeong-bae with horror and missed the arrow and died.
“Huh? Ah, lady…”
I was getting annoyed by Gong Young-bae who kept breaking the mood next to me, but when the game was over, Lee Yu-ri came off the stage with an irritated sigh.
Sooyeon Choi and I were next in line, and the two of us played DDR while having fun taking steps.
Meanwhile, I heard Yu-ri Lee and Young-bae Gong talking from behind.
“Yuri, let’s talk now. I was wrong-“
“You don’t understand kids who like this kind of thing?”
Lee Yu-ri interrupted Gong Yeong-bae and asked in a low tone.
“Huh? No, the person wasting time in a place like this probably isn’t okay.”
“Oh, really? I’m sorry about that.”
“…?”
Even if you saw Yuri stepping excitedly, you wouldn’t notice, you idiot.
Youngbae, I can hear it.
The sound of even a handful of regrets in Yuri Lee’s heart being swept away.
And when all those regrets are gone, Yuri Lee will be under my boat.
I think that time will come really soon.
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