Chapter 164 – Part 1
“Oh, when did you come?
Responding to the apologetic voice, I turned around and saw a person who seemed to have been in the middle of the past was standing there.
Of course, it wasn’t a fighting meaning, it was a physical meaning.
If he was going to be old, he was entering the store through the back door, a specimen that made him think that he would like to grow old like that.
She glanced at Ga-young, wondering if it might be a familiar face, and sure enough, she was wearing a slightly surprised expression.
Could it be a case of doing business only in this place for decades?
“I’m sorry. I’ll just wipe my hands and take your order.”
“No, that, you don’t have to hurry…”
After saying that to the owner, no, to the owner’s grandfather, who smiled benevolently, he reached out under her table and poked Gayoung’s leg.
Did he come to his senses after that?
Ga-young, who was looking at her owner, her grandfather, with a feeling of ‘huh…’, Trembled and trembled and regained her consciousness, so she didn’t miss the timing and asked quickly.
“He was very popular in the past, wasn’t he?”
“Yes?”
Then, what came back from Gayoung was a gaze that seemed to ask how you knew that.
I thought it would be like that anyway.
Maybe it’s still quite popular.
Since it has a face value, it may not be as much as it used to be, but instead, it will be a direct hit for women who like unusual tastes.
Anyway, at this point, if there’s one thing I’m curious about,
“Well, maybe you liked it in the past or something like that…”
Yes, that was whether or not it was.
I didn’t have to go far, just thinking about my high school days, I would quickly fall in love with my heart pounding even if the older eyes showed me a little favor under the influence of overflowing hormones.
Just because she was Ga-yeong, it doesn’t seem like she would have passed through her high-spirited days without incident.
“What…? Oh, no!”
“Really?”
“···Huh.”
Since she is the unmistakable truth, she pretended to be relieved by the look on her face that seemed to be begging to be believed. She let out a slight sigh and immediately threw her breaking ball.
“And what about now?”
“What···?”
Maybe you didn’t understand the meaning of my question?
Ga-young opened her eyes wide, as if asking what that meant, so she kindly pointed her finger at her.
Pointing alternately at me and at the shopkeeper, who is preoccupied with washing her hands.
Which of the two do you like better?
Ga-young’s face brightened up at my hand gesture with such explicit meaning.
“Gee…”
I wonder if Gayoung was already aware that her own face was in that state.
After making her pained voice, Gayoung lowered her head, as if to hide her flushed face, and she began wiggling her fingers.
“Yuhan, you…”
Then, almost squeezing her voice, she spat it out.
But it was just there.
I wonder if the preparation of the heart has not yet been completed to complete her words.
But to be honest, those words were enough.
I can’t accept my feelings yet, but I’ve been told for sure that I have no intention of seeing anyone other than me as a member of the opposite sex.
“Really?”
“···Huh.”
Although she was very embarrassed, Gayoung could not easily lift her head.
Suddenly, not only her face, but also the nape of her neck turned bright red.
The look was lovely.
So it felt like I had to reach her right now.
That’s why she put her hand on top of her table as if to show off to Gayoung.
Even in the midst of embarrassing and embarrassing moments, did I still have the spirit to recognize the meaning of my gestures?
Gina secretly borrowed her school uniform skirt and took one of her hands out of her grasp. Gayoung used it to grab my hand.
As if she didn’t dare to openly hold her hand, she carefully wrapped her index finger around her index finger. Seeing that, I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I placed my hand over Gayoung’s hesitant hand while holding her finger tightly. Wrapped around it
Then, as she smiled contentedly, Gayoung bit her soft lip and gently turned her head to her side.
It was shortly thereafter that the store owner, who was standing in front of the sink and was meticulously wiping his hands, approached us.
“Now, what would you like?”
She was thrown with him. In response to the question, she slightly tightened her hand that was wrapping Gayoung’s.
Of course, that meant you had to order.
If it was Ga-young’s order, I did it because she really didn’t care about anything, but Ga-young seemed to have a different idea.
Still, did she think that she couldn’t do it on her own without listening to my opinion?
As I turned to look at her menu board and at my face, Ga-young matched her timing as she looked back at me, making eye contact with her and smiling at me.
“I’ll eat as the senior recommends.”
Now that we have come to the snack bar of our memories, shouldn’t we adjust the menu to match our memories?
So I said that, but she nodded her head slowly to see if my meaning was conveyed safely to Ga-young.
Then, it was the store owner who spoke on behalf of Ga-young, who had fixed her eyes on the menu board hanging on the wall of the store.
“Huh? Have the students ever been to our store? Come to think of it, the student here seems strangely familiar with her face…”
He had been looking at Ga-yeong from before and kept tilting her head, so he wondered why.
Anyway, at the owner’s remarks, Ga-young, who had her eyes fixed on the menu board, showed a puzzled reaction with her shoulders flinching and trembling.
Of course, I was also confused.
It would not have been more than a year since Ga-young had been attending her Seo High School, but she would never have thought that she would remember Ga-young’s face.
“Are you a student…”
“···Yes?”
“Are your mother or father from Seohago?”
Still, she didn’t seem to think that the Ga-young that remained vaguely in her head and the Ga-young in her school uniform now in front of her were the same person.
‘Well, is that normal…’
Anyway, the situation turned out like this unexpectedly, so I couldn’t help but wonder about Ga-yeong’s response.
How will Ga-young get out of this embarrassing situation?
As soon as she thought about it, Gayoung made her decision.
Ga-young’s choice was a white lie.
“Ah yes···”
“Isn’t that right? Huh, somehow the face looks familiar…”
“Um…”
“Well, if it’s difficult to choose a menu, can I pick one in moderation? There’s a way for students and students to eat.”
“Well, then I’ll ask you that.”
“Yes. I’ll do it quickly, so sit down.”
And not long after, the green plates that come to mind when you think of a snack bar in front of the school started appearing on the table one by one.
It was said that there is a way that only students around here have their own way of eating, so I honestly thought it was an appropriate comment, but seeing Ga-young’s face sinking in longing every time the food was served, it didn’t seem like that was the case.
Anyway, why did you bring her vinyl gloves?
Ga-yeong smiled as if I was cute when I tried to tilt her head while holding the item that seemed to me out of the blue in her hand and put it in her hand.
Then she began to fiddle with what she had just in time to do with her gloved hand.
“In this way, you can make rice balls by rubbing them with her hands and eat them.”
“Aha···”
It’s just a self-made rice ball or something.
Meaning that she understood, she nodded her head appropriately, then opened her mouth slightly towards Gayoung.
It was a moment of embarrassment, as if she hadn’t expected to ask for food so quickly. Gayoung glanced in the direction of the shopkeeper, and with an expression that she couldn’t help it, she removed a little bit of what was in her bowl and put it together into a round ball.
In response, she opened her mouth a little wider, which had only been slightly open, and Ga-young’s instant-made rice ball came in through it.
Rice balls were delicious.
In particular, the taste was excellent.
Flying fish roe and pickled radish were included at the same time, so it was quite fun to chew it even though it exploded every time I chewed it.
‘Did you add dried radish instead of pickled radish?’
Well, that’s also the case, but the fact that Gayoung made it herself and even fed it seemed to play a big role.
“It’s delicious.”
“So?”
Did you like my answer?
A smile spread across Gayoung’s face, as if saying she was glad.
Well, not only the rice balls, but all the other menu items were good too.
There were a lot of menu items I had never seen before, but I was able to eat them all. The taste was so good that I wondered if I would have stopped by this place every day if I had gone to the same school as Ga-yeong.
“Now, and this is a service that students give because they like it.”
With those words, Gayoung’s expression suddenly brightened the moment the boiled egg appeared on the table.
It should be said that it was a face as if she had met her best friend after a really long time.
Before I could say anything, Ga-yeong, who quickly transferred the food from the service to a bowl of tteokbokki with only the soup left, began to crush it mercilessly with a spoon.
It was very tempting to see the well-boiled whites and yolks change into red clothes.
“Now, try it.”
Ga-yeong, who put an appropriate amount of it into her bowl, transferred the rest to her own bowl as if she couldn’t concede this much.
Then, as if demonstrating that this is eating, he uses a spoon and puts it into her mouth…
“Ummm…!”
It was just cute in my eyes.
It was more so because the tip of my lips was slightly smeared with tteokbokki soup.
“And now, if you just drink this to finish—”
Tteokbokki’s friend is, of course, Calpis.
The sight of Ga-young gulping down a glass of apricot-colored liquid with a gurgling sound made her feel as if she had gone back to her high school days.
It was only after completing the combo of memories like that that he realized that he was a little bit trembling.
“Yes…”
He made a cute noise and made her smile even more hearty without turning her face red.
“You just have to finish as the senior showed you, right?”
If you live like that, people can tremble and be like that. Was that so embarrassing?
After saying that to Ga-young, who was at a loss for what to do with her, I tried to copy what she had just shown.
‘Indeed···’
They say that if you cook well, you know the taste well, but Gayoung was right about the taste.
Because I finished it the way Ga-young did, it felt like I had a full meal and a clean dessert.
Her slightly tingling tongue also subsided as if it had never happened.
“It’s delicious.”
“That’s right?”
That’s how her meal was finished, but she didn’t want to take her butt off her chair.
That’s because it was a bit unfortunate.
Ga-young came to the place in her memories after a long time, but shouldn’t we leave a trace of her coming and going?
‘Can I use it…’
Seeing that she even put magic on it, it seemed like she could use it freely, but she didn’t know what to do, so she took advantage of Gayoung’s momentary trip to the bathroom to ask the store owner.
Then she said that she could do as much as she wanted, and she readily agreed.
“If you do, it’s better for me. Wouldn’t you like to listen to it one more time later, even if it reminds you of what you wrote on the wall?”
She wondered how she had been in business for so long in one place, but she was also someone who knew how to do business.
She must have gotten the shopkeeper’s permission too. She didn’t feel the need to hesitate any longer, so she quickly grabbed her pen.
Then, as soon as Ga-young, who had left for her bathroom, returned to her shop, he stopped her from trying to pay her bill, and dragged her towards the place she had been paying attention to.
“Yu, Yoo Yu-ah…?!”
It was not enough to take out the magic right away, and it was not enough to rush it straight toward the wall, so Ga-young had no choice but to be embarrassed.
She glanced at the owner of the store, then she hurriedly grabbed my hand, so she grinned and patted Gayoung’s hand that was holding my arm.
“It’s okay. You allowed it.”
“Well, if you do this recklessly… Huh?”
“I’ve come this far, but I’m just going to hide it… I feel a bit regretful.”
So, he said he wanted to leave a trace of his visit, and wrote his name in a relatively clean place unlike other places densely covered with graffiti.
Of course, it wasn’t my name, it was Gayoung’s name.
Then, next to the letter ‘young’, he drew a half-heart and passed the pen he was holding to Ga-young.
“Okay, now it’s your turn.”
It’s obvious, but I already knew.
That Gayoung would have no choice but to hesitate.
That’s why she even put her pen in her hand.
Gayoung bit her lip and looked at my face and the part where I had just written her name exactly once, alternating between looking down at the pen that had been handed over like that for a while.
Jjiik ··· Take ···
She began to fill the other half with a slight but trembling movement of her hand.
There was no problem until the letter of my name.
Ga-young stopped when she placed the half heart in front of her eyes.
The tip of the pen, which had reached a point almost touching the wall, trembled more violently than when writing the name.
Is that why?
The lines extending to complete the heart were crooked and precarious.
That’s why the finished thing was also clumsy.
It had a clumsy look, as if an immature child had drawn it according to her hand, but it was definitely a heart with black hatching.
It was an unmistakable sign of love, even if it was crooked and clumsy.
