Chapter 135 – #35_Stealing a Childhood Friend (2)
One.
Gyu-tae’s physical condition when he woke up in the morning was a mess.
The temples he had hit with his elbows swelled up like bumps, and the pits he had kicked left a blue bruise.
In addition, the dislocated shoulders his throbbed when the range of motion of the joint increased even slightly, as if there was inflammation.
She had been awake for almost two nights in a row, and the dark shadows under her eyes stretched.
Nevertheless, Gyu-tae put on his coat as if he were armed.
Forcibly dragging his reluctant steps, he headed for the lighthouse where Seohae would be waiting.
He has reason to fight his fears his.
Whatever the circumstances, the lighthouse was beautiful. And the appearance of Seohae waiting for Gyu-tae in front of him was even more beautiful.
Wearing a comfortable dress like yesterday.
Kyu-tae felt his eyes grow red.
Last night when she left her and ran away, what else should Seohae have gone through?
“Kyu-tae… Kyaa!”
Gyu-tae approached with quick steps and hugged Seo-hae, who was about to greet her. Very tight as if he would never let go again. I could not let go of her because of her regret, her guilt, and her regret her.
“This… Don’t do this… “
Gyu-tae lost sight of her because of the force of Seo-hae pushing her chest hard. Seohae, about a step away, put on a puzzled expression and wrapped her arms around her. He can’t even look at him. Do you care about the album you saw yesterday?
No, these trivial things are not important now.
“Let’s run away right now. Is that why you asked me to come here?”
As soon as the words, let’s run away, were dropped, Seohae’s expression became frightened. Gyu-tae stiffened his body at that sign. The expression Seohae was making was that of a person who had heard something he shouldn’t have heard.
“I’ll pretend I just didn’t hear it. It was clearly against the rules.”
As the wind changed direction, puffs of cigarette smoke enveloped the two of them.
Shadows cast behind the lighthouse.
It was Yoo-chan, putting cigarette butts in a case with a calm expression.
As soon as he saw Yoo-chan, Kyu-tae felt his legs loosen up. The fear that had been carved into his body her only yesterday flashed back.
Why didn’t I think of the possibility that Yu-chan would be here?
As soon as he saw him, he wanted to turn around and run away.
“Let’s see. Because it’s 9 o’clock now. Exactly until 9 am on Friday. It’s a game. A close friend of the West Sea.”
Yu-chan’s expression is very soft and full of affection.
The difference, on the contrary, amplifies the strangeness.
I felt like I was facing a monster that changed its mask quickly.
“What exactly do you mean by game?”
“It is very simple. It’s OK as long as you do what I tell you to do. I won’t ask you to die or make unreasonable demands. All you have to do is fit in a bit with the role play I supervised. That’s all.”
Even at first glance, I couldn’t understand it properly.
“If I listen well for three days, will you really release Seohae?”
“Of course, I always keep my promises.”
No matter how credible his words were, it was a choice Kyu-tae could not refuse. Taking away Seohae from Yuchan by force is unimaginable.
“Then let’s take a simple example. Did you confess to Seohae yesterday? Now confess in front of me again.”
“Why is that… “
“The game has already begun.”
Gyu-tae clenched his fists at Yoo-chan’s easy-going way of humiliating him.
However, he soon feels the strength in his arm and his slip away. It’s best to follow his advice to him anyway.
It must be the intention to observe the difference in front and laugh at it.
Perhaps he is trying to boast that the West Sea is his property through it.
Gyu-tae cautiously asked Seo-hae.
“You have to be in the west… Do you want to go out with me?”
There was no heart trembling and excitement like yesterday. You have already heard the answer to this question. Because Seohae rejected his confession of her.
He felt ashamed of having to make a confession that would have been rejected in front of Yoo-chan, whom he hated more than anyone else.
“Great.”
And the words of Seohae that followed were different from yesterday.
Positive meaning.
Gyu-tae is surprised to see Seo-hae’s face her. However, the expression of the West Sea is not bright at all.
I guessed that this was also because her Yuchan had ordered her.
“Congratulation. It is the first day from today.”
After that, Yu-chan could be seen sarcastically clapping insincerely. Gyu-tae became more and more unable to know what Yu-chan wanted.
“Then, shall we go on a date together to commemorate becoming a couple?”
No one answered, but Yu-chan nodded his head satisfactorily and held Seo-hae’s hand to Gyu-tae.
Seo-hae looks at Yoo-chan for a while and wiggles his fingers her, then grabs Gyu-tae’s hand her as he tells him to.
“What are you doing? Let’s go.”
2.
It was a strange date.
Kyu-tae, who joined hands with Seo-hae, walked around the island like yesterday. Seohae’s hand Her was still small and warm. The scenery of the island is also peaceful, just like yesterday.
And after that, Yu-chan slowly followed at some distance.
Gyu-tae glanced back and whispered to Seo-hae.
“You have to stand. It’s ok?”
There were many things I wanted to ask.
What happened to Yuchan, what the album meant, how things are going now, etc.
I wanted to ask Seohae right away about the countless questions that kept him awake last night.
However, the reason why Kyu-tae couldn’t open his mouth easily was because of the anxiety that any question would hurt Seo-hae.
Because in Gyu-tae’s memory of her, Seo-hae was a very pure and innocent child.
I thought it would be considerate for her to pretend that she did n’t know anything about her.
“Yes I’m fine. You are? Doesn’t your shoulder hurt?”
“I am so strong. I’ve been hurt a lot while exercising.”
Seohae squeezed Kyu-tae’s hand with force. Gyu-tae gained a little courage from the voice of concern and worry.
Although now under Yuchan’s rule, the fact that Seohae was on the same side gave him strength.
“It’s Gyu-tae.”
“Yes?”
“Leave now. Never mind me.”
Seohae still looked ahead and said. He couldn’t understand the true meaning of those words.
“There’s no way you can do that. It’s obvious that you’re having such a hard time…”
It is absurd to run away leaving the person you love. I had to do whatever I could now.
Seohae looked up at Gyu-tae’s answer with sad eyes and then looked forward again.
Her heart ached
On the other hand, Yu-chan, who was leisurely chasing after the two, could not overhear their conversation.
You might think that this was a bit of a complacency, but Yoo-chan had confidence.
Seo-hae will not break his promise of her with Yoo-chan, and Gyu-tae will not be able to leave Seo-hae.
If you are bound by human emotions, you will make such unreasonable judgments.
Even in the obvious tragedy, the remorse of conscience cannot be avoided for a fleeting reason, and there is no choice but to become more and more unhappy.
To steal someone else’s.
It was licorice that always engrossed Yu-chan.
Rather than simply embracing Seohae, rather than giving up Gyu-tae by telling Seo-hae all the facts.
It’s much more fun to give despair and insult innocent love.
Much more curious about the ending.
Therefore, he ordered Gyu-tae to confess to Seo-hae.
To give him a stronger sense of being taken away. It was created to enjoy the feeling of a couple through a confession like playing house.
There is an awareness that it is a childish idea.
But what?
This is the nature Yu-chan was born with.
I felt my lungs tickle and laughter was about to burst out again and again.
He covers the corners of his mouth and hides a vulgar grin.
“It’s always like this.”
3.
Contrary to Kyu-tae’s expectation that he would intervene immediately.
Yu-chan hasn’t done anything. They are so far away that they cannot hear their conversation, and they just follow them.
Isn’t the difficulty of the game Yu-chan suggested easier than expected? I thought.
I could n’t ask Seohae about her album until the end. She hadn’t even heard what she had been through.
Instead, what Gyu-tae and Seo-hae took as the subject matter was trivial things that were good.
Curiosities about each other that have been piling up until now, such as the drama that I enjoyed recently. Songs that have left an impression on you over the past 3 years.
Gyu-tae did his best to look at the despair that had to come like a meteorite falling to the earth.
Let’s not think Let’s not make the atmosphere awkward and make it difficult for the West Sea. It’s just a simple date.
There are only onlookers.
I had no choice but to calm myself down in order to maintain my composure.
So, after walking for more than two hours, the place I passed was the arcade in the city.
The facility itself is nothing special.
The game consoles were also outdated by several versions, and there was no advantage other than the low price.
Maybe that’s why there were only Gyu-tae and Seo-hae.
At that time, Seohae’s gaze is stuck in one place.
It was a dollhouse with lots of dolls piled up.
“Shall I pick one up?”
“No, it’s just a waste of money. I’ve tried a few times, but they all failed.”
Seohae and Gyu-tae speak a little louder because of the noise of the game machines around them.
Kyu-tae said confidently to Seo-hae, who was about to pull her hand her and leave the arcade.
“Look there. There was a time when I worked hard at drawing dolls. This isn’t just a selection, there are tricks to everything.”
Gyu-tae stood close to the machine stacked with dolls to see which would be the easiest to draw.
What Seohae drew attention to was a doll with a cat holding a fish. I thought I could pull it out in 10 rounds.
I put in a 1,000-won bill and carefully adjusted the stick to pull out the doll.
“Uh? I guess it will. Oh! What a waste!”
Seohae, who was staring at the cat doll with a curious expression on her face with Gyu-tae, exclaimed as she watched the tongs slowly move the doll towards the exit.
Whenever they regretfully miss a doll, they let out a pitiful exclamation, and when it seems like the doll will be pulled out, they run wild with excitement.
Gyu-tae, who had been watching with a smile as he held back his joys and sorrows, moved the doll to a good location and was able to get a cat doll only after spending 5,000 won.
He takes out her doll her and gives it to Seo-hae.
“Here.”
“Wow… Thank you so much. It was really good… I’ll keep it. So cute.”
Seohae, happily hugging the doll, smiled lively for the first time today.
Until a while ago, it was a smile I barely made up because I didn’t want to make the atmosphere awkward, but now I’m happy with my eyes sparkling.
Just by looking at that expression, Kyu-tae didn’t think that 5,000 won was a waste.
Somehow, it seemed to be enjoying a normal relationship.
“It is pretty.”
At that time, when she approached, Yoo-chan brought her up. Yoo-chan snatched the doll from Seo-hae’s hand, looked around for it, and returned it to Gyu-tae.
Gyu-tae was speechless at the sudden appearance of Yu-chan.
The despair I consciously tried to forget stands right here.
“Gyu-tae, can I borrow your girlfriend for a second?”
Yu-chan asks for permission one by one. It was a blunt voice as usual, but Gyu-tae did not dare to refuse it.
Anyway, for the sake of the game, Gyu-tae had to follow Yu-chan’s words to her.
“Why?”
However, the reason he had no choice but to say something was because he felt uneasiness welling up in his heart her.
“I don’t know about that.”
“…I know.”
Gyu-tae tried to avoid looking at Seo-hae’s face her. She was afraid to see what expression she would make her and how she looked at her.
She doesn’t know what Yu-chan will do by taking Seo-hae, but she gives permission because she is afraid of violence.
No matter how much the West Sea is, I will resent it. I’ll laugh at this ugly look.
“You have to stand and follow me.”
“Uh…Uh…!”
Yoo-chan grabbed Seo-hae’s wrist and headed somewhere. Kyu-tae, who lowered his head and tinkered with the doll for no reason, looks in the corner where Yoo-chan has disappeared.
It was in the hallway where the bathroom was.
Why do you take Seohae with you when you go to the bathroom?
The memory of yesterday, which I tried to ignore all along, overlaps.
Maybe they are dragged into the men’s bathroom and forced to be terribly like the photos in the album.
However, since he did not have the courage to follow and confirm, Gyu-tae stood in the dark and chased after the backs of Yu-chan and Seo-hae, who had disappeared.
