Chapter 7 – Episode 7. Gaze, Difficulty.
“Have a good look and be sure to contact me!”
Lee Yoo-rim’s cry draws attention from the surroundings.
“What is your voice?”
“I thought it was a girlfriend.”
“Aren’t I more handsome than him?”
‘What the fuck?’
It’s not a good feeling to be jealous of a man. They look at me and judge each other, but what kind of guys are they? I turned my head towards the sound, but when I saw the face, I involuntarily cringed.
“Kuhm…”
A kid who looks like a Malayan bear says I’m not more handsome, but how are you looking at me? I turned my head again because I thought it would be a big problem if I really got it wrong.
‘Dogs are scary.’
I missed Lee Yu-rim. With big busty legs and well-toned legs for her height. Because she can’t be that reassuring that she just wants to be her man and protects her by her side.
‘It was so damn cute.’
She sticks by and pretends to be her girlfriend but turns to stone when I approach her. Even so, he closed her lips and nodded her head, telling her to contact her after finishing the test ⋯ It seems like she was trying to skip something in the middle.
I sat with my chin resting on my head, thinking of Yoo Rim.
‘Has it all been solved?’
Since I was still, the cluttered atmosphere calmed down a bit. It was still the case that girls from afar would sometimes point at me and glance at me as they passed by.
“Look, trouble.”
“Oh, yes, yes. Sorry⋯.”
I said a word and turned my head. It’s because my eyes have grown too high in the morning to be accepted as good.
It wasn’t long before the teacher in charge came with the test paper.
“Class 1 is English, class 2 is math. Have you all turned off your electronics?”
I lived because I only watched two subjects.
“If the person in front gives out the test papers, keep them, and when the bell rings, pass them over and start. No, don’t skip it now.”
“Yes? Ah… Yes, yes.”
The student who was about to pass back hesitates. No matter how grown-up I am, will I become stupid if I put on student status? In fact, the desk and chair I was sitting on was uncomfortable enough to distract me.
‘Why are the chairs and desks next to each other?’
Even if I shake my back, it doesn’t feel comfortable at all. I hope other classrooms don’t use desks like this. It’s really ergonomic.
‘Still, I don’t care about real men.’
A craftsman does not blame his tools. Heroes don’t study. As soon as the bell rang, the idea was to solve the problem.
Ding dong dang dong-
The test paper came across from the front seat. She was a girl, but she didn’t stretch out her arm so it couldn’t reach me.
‘I’m sorry for being small.’
I lift her butt slightly and only then do I reach her hand. She waved her hand as if snatching it up to get it quickly.
“Heh, hehe.”
When her hand touches her, she makes a strange noise and refuses to let go of the test paper. Her shoulders shrugged and her voice trembled, her long bangs covering her face. I shook her hand and urged her to take her test paper.
“Quickly, please.”
“Sorry…”
Her girl held her hand and bowed her head, but she was busy. As she sighed, the girl startled and she then raised her hips and stretched out her arms.
Exam papers on the desk. I got up from the chair to hand it to the back.
“Here you go.”
“Thank you. Hee hee.”
Seeing my face, the corner of her mouth rises and covers it with her hand. But now it’s exam time. I immediately turned my back and looked at the test paper lying on the desk.
‘Just what, would it be easy?’
Could it be that this is a world that has been embodied in detail? As I catch my breath, I feel relieved for some reason. I relaxed her body once and opened the test paper with a comfortable mind.
‘Now, let’s go.’
*
“⋯”
Uh, um⋯
Even after the test was over, he held her face and bowed his head.
A feast of super long sentences and difficult words that started from the first time.
‘Is this right?’
Even if I don’t study well, I wonder if someone will take me there, I sighed and shook my head.
‘⋯Should I even study?’
Other people did it well. I had to cover my ears to the sound of others turning papers throughout the exam. Shak shak shak… The painful memories made me shudder.
I am belatedly packing my things and trying to get up, but a shadow forms around me. When I turned around, several women surrounded me.
“Hey.”
“⋯I’m busy.”
He glanced at her face, waved his hand, and left.
‘Yurim, I miss you.’
I want to see how long it’s been since we broke up. But since I’ve finished my exams, I’ll just send a text message and wait here. I took out her cell phone to contact Lee Yoo-rim and hesitated.
There was a buzz around and the crowd splitting in the middle.
Kirik⋯
It was a girl in a wheelchair. The sun was shining through the window and dazzling the eyes. I opened my eyes and looked at the girl.
‘Silver hair?’
Hair color is unique Pale and sick impression. But before I could see all my features, he passed me, and the hallway was again bustling with people.
‘What.’
Standing in a daze of deja vu, I was lost in thought. But I don’t remember seeing a girl like that. I stared blankly across the hallway where the girl had disappeared.
“Um…”
My head is blank. After all, seeing that it doesn’t come to mind, it’s because of my mood. She shook her head and took out her phone again.
‘I should send a text message.’
I unlocked it and tapped the screen.
(B) [Shum ends]
I sent a cool text. It was an unmanly text message because there was no aegyo, but on the contrary, Lee Yoo-rim responded right away like a woman.
Yu-rim Lee
‘That’s fast.’
For some reason, I have a hunch that he must have been waiting for me to text him. Did I not study and kept holding on to my phone? If it wasn’t like that, the reply was too fast.
And the speed at which his eyes were focused on me was fast, even though I had been standing for a while. A girl approaches me and sticks her head out in front of me.
“Hey?”
“Yes?”
I met golden eyes. A lightly tanned girl. It was a side-up ponytail with her beige hair tied to the side.
‘Is it cheap?’
In the back, a group of girls looked at us and giggled.
“Yayaya, I said, I said.”
“Can I?”
“One vote for no.”
“If he can’t do it, what will we be?”
They are betting on something. The girl who came up to me looked over from her and nodded.
“Why did you call me?”
“That, number…”
He hesitated, so he raised his eyebrows and waited. Then she patted her cheek and shook her head. This time she laughs and pours out her words with brisk briskness.
“Hee hee, if it’s okay, let’s exchange numbers. I also had a test today, so if you don’t feel uncomfortable, you can be friends…”
“Yes.”
Said the girl with her beige hair, putting her hand to her mouth in surprise.
“Oh, really?”
“Here.”
It was a feeling. It was the first time I got a number after coming here, and the girl in front of me was as striking as Lee Yoo-rim.
‘I really like it.’
Her eyes widen and she smiles while giving me the line number. The girls are screaming in the background. Fortunately, she didn’t laugh in a voice that she begged to be a woman from this world.
‘I would have woken up if I did…’
From far away, Lee Yoo-rim was approaching with the momentum to break the women around me.
“Yang Dajuwoon!”
She runs through the people gathered in the hallway, as before the exam, and this time again, she draws attention with her voice. Naturally, people took turns looking at Lee Yu-rim and me. It was fortunate that the girls who got her number left without noticing.
“Huh, Hak, Yang Dajuun…”
“I’m going to run out of breath.”
“They, what are they doing!”
He was a suspicious childhood friend.
“Nothing.”
“What, they came to you in droves?”
“It’s just a number given.”
Number?
Give your number to a girl you don’t know?
Lee Yoo-rim’s expression became frightened.
“Why?”
“Give me your number, do you know what will happen to you?”
“I’m sorry…”
Once apologized. Dogs are scary, really. I thought she was just a cute little girl, but she has a side like this. Lee Yoo-rim put her hand on her waist and looked at me and she let out a sigh.
“Ha, that’s it.”
“I’m really sorry…”
“Okay, what do you know?”
Lee Yu-rim waved her hand. What was she thinking and giving up? I wonder what’s going on in her head
‘Ah.’
I need to check my head a bit too. I brought up the story of her exam to Lee Yu-rim while laughing.
“Rather than that, today’s test, Dita, is difficult?”
“Difficult?”
“Ok. It’s been like that since the first time.”
“Okay?”
Lee Yoo-rim’s expression became serious. Whether the objective difficulty was easy or difficult, if it was difficult for me to solve, I had to come up with a countermeasure.
‘Oh, shouldn’t I just study?’
I would be able to have fun even if only her face was illuminated. Even in this short moment, arrogant thoughts tempt me. The one who saved me was, of course, Lee Yoo-rim. She let out a drool and snapped her fingers in agreement.
“Ah, then I should study at least.”
“With who?”
“With me. Call?”
“Call.”
There was no hesitation. Lee Yu-rim was also delighted and clapped his hands. Is hanging out with me that good? I feel like Lee Yoo-rim gave me what I wanted so easily, so I want to play a joke.
Lee Yoo-rim didn’t even know her intentions, so she asked me.
“Where do you do it?”
“I know.”
He made a face like a miser and answered in an unflattering way. Lee Yoo-rim sees me like that and pats her on the floor while twisting her hair. She just stared at her lips as she couldn’t move, but when she put on a bored expression, she finally spoke to me.
“Hey, don’t you hear that… Strangely?”
“Tell me.”
“If you have nowhere else to go…”
A choice appeared before her eyes. She was in the middle of Lee Yoo-rim talking.
[Where are you going to study?]
▷ “Of course I have to go to the Toju reading room.”
▷ “My house.”
▷ “Rather than that, don’t you want to study about me?”
▷ I know even if you don’t say it.
‘Am I crazy?’
Don’t you want to study about me?
▷ “Of course I have to go to the Toju reading room.”
I cut off Lee Yoo-rim and hit the ball.
“Let’s go to the Toju reading room. It’s a group study.”
“Ah…”
Lee Yoo-rim let her shoulders droop.
‘Hehe, I’m disappointed.’
But I know what Lee Yu-rim was expecting.
She ran away from her self-study at best and came to pick me up, so I decided to stop her pranks here. I said with a smile.
“I’m kidding.”
“Eh.”
Lee Yoo-rim shook her head and listened.
“Let’s go to your house. Are you fine?”
“Everything… Of course? It’s okay, I’m fine!”
Lee Yoo-rim creaked excitedly at the thought of what she would do at her house.
Hehe.”
‘Cute.’
*
The street outside the school was full of people gathering in groups of threes and threes after exams.
The more the cold wind blows, the more they make a fuss and howl.
We also decided to go home and rest today. I decided to drop by a cafe on the way. I set up a study schedule while walking with Lee Yoo-rim.
“Let’s do it for about a week from tomorrow.”
“Okay.”
Lee Yu-rim said, “She is good at studying, so she is trustworthy. Let’s do it for a week and get the basics, but even while walking on the street and talking, he didn’t fall away from my side. She was to imitate her girlfriend.
“Why are you stuck here?”
“Yang Da-joon, biological stove, warmth. Hehe.”
“Eh…”
Why don’t you hug at all? For Lee Yoo-rim to be that courageous, I must be quick to push myself.
Right now, I can see that you are hesitant to hold hands, but there is still a long way to go.
‘Wouldn’t that be a cunning thought in my heart?’
Since she hasn’t confessed to her and stayed with her childhood friend for over ten years, there’s a high possibility that she’s pure love.
On the other hand, my sister, Yang Dami, was a jiralpa.
Jiying.
Jiying.
I ignored the text message earlier, and her cell phone rang incessantly.
‘No, this bitch?’
When I opened my phone, the notifications piled up and I was very upset.
Yang Da-mi [House?]
Dami Yang [Where have you gone?]
Yang Dami [Hey]
Yang Da-mi [Where did you go, asshole.]
Yang Da-mi [Yang Da-jun. Did you leave the house?]
Yang Da-mi [I told you to quietly stay at home?]
Dami Yang [A gift has arrived.]
Yang Da-mi [Let me text]
Yang Dami [Come in quickly when I say nice things]
Dami Yang [Ask me one last time? Where are you?]
Yang Dami [Hey.]
Yang Da-mi [Two-headed]
Dami Yang [Take it away, just…]
“Eh.”
Why are you grinding like this, really?
She hates her older brother for being her original sister, but there aren’t many families that are as ruthless as she is.
I was thinking about whether to reply or not, but for some reason it seemed to be looking at me from the side.
‘What.’
She peeked at Lee Yoo-rim and saw that she was spying on her cell phone. When I turn her head to the side, she turns along and takes off her pretense.
He said as he hid her phone in her arms.
“What you looking at.”
“I haven’t seen it.”
‘Heh heh⋯.’
You hear this often today.
Lee Yoo-rim looked away from her and blew her whistle, as if she had always been like that.
It doesn’t feel bad though. If I think about it by my standards, a girl is curious about something on her phone because she is interested in a guy.
‘Really, I must be eaten.’
How would she come out if the fidgety kid at me got her eyes rolling. It’s a thing of the future, but her heart was already pounding.
*
The cafe Lee Yoo-rim took was a popular local spot for men and women to go on a date.
Under the golden lighting, the pretty exterior is decorated with cute mini tiles and dark blue.
She glanced at Lee Yu-rim as her lover entered her arm in arm. Lee Yoo-rim avoided my gaze and looked away from her as if she didn’t know it would be like this.
“Why, what, what.”
