Chapter 380 – 69. Festival (2)
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It’s been a long time since I had some free time.
Of course, the work in the health room has become much more relaxed since the midterm evaluation, but this includes other mental aspects as well.
After a chance meeting with Lee Ha-yoon, I tried to get in touch with Lee Ji-yoon, whom I had been interested in for a long time.
Now I’m well on track without any more effort.
With Yozora’s mysterious help, Han Su-ah was taught misconceptions one by one.
And for the first time, he ‘corrected’ Yozora, who had been expressing affection in a very tiring way for a long time.
These are also nearing completion.
When I first chose my goal at the academy, it wasn’t noticeable, but later on, it came to her mind and I wanted to make it my own.
There is one thing left that I really want to do, but it is still nearing completion.
Therefore, I have been living a really languid daily life for the past few days.
No worries,
Without making any plans.
If there’s anything you’re worried about…,
After meeting Seol Da-bin and her boyfriend briefly on a weekend evening, there wasn’t much contact between them.
I was a bit worried about how Yoo Si-woo would react after hearing someone else’s voice as Baek Seo-yeon’s voice.
Even then, no significant incident occurred.
Seol Da-bin, well, as long as I don’t do anything strange to Lee Ha-yoon, I’ll be quite like now.
Even Yoo Si-woo, who is not particularly surprised even if his reaction is different from what I expected.
… Now that I think about it, I feel like I haven’t seen Yu Si-woo at all for about a week.
In the first place, I’m not the type of person who would come to the health room after getting hurt somewhere.
Even if he gets seriously injured, he’s not the kind of person who would come here.
Since I can’t see you this much, I would say it feels like you’re intentionally avoiding me.
Her crush was taken away from her in the worst possible way, so she deserves it… Even if you want to.
Seeing him so obediently lowering his tail and being quiet, the thought of being a little rude also slowly came to mind.
I think it’s rude to think that he may have had that taste from the beginning.
Well, I’ve heard noises from the room next door once in a motel, so I don’t think that’s necessarily the case.
I guess only the person involved knows the real reason why he’s crouching so calmly like this.
More than that, I want to somehow increase my contact with Seol Da-bin…
“Oh, come on…”
“… Oh, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have done this, but I was thinking about something else for a moment…”
“It’s okay! It hasn’t been long since lunch, right? Besides, it was just the teacher’s fingertips lightly pressing on the wound.”
“Still… It must have hurt a lot.”
“Huh. I’ve been through a lot of more painful things with my boyfriend.”
“…”
“Teacher, teacher. More than that…”
The pointless thoughts end here.
I distracted myself by clearing my throat and started chatting with the student who had been receiving treatment a little while ago.
Because she’s not my type of girl, she’s a face I don’t really remember, and even when I hear her name, I don’t recognize her at all.
Still, judging from the previous conversation, she is a female student who seems to be a second year student.
“Is it true that she saved Hayun when he almost got into a car accident in the beginning?”
“Did Hayun’s sister tell you that far?”
“Wow, crazy. Sister… Oh, sorry. I got a little excited…”
“It’s okay. Just such a small thing.”
After Lee Ha-yoon first started hinting that she was in a relationship on her SNS profile.
The majority of the female students who came to the health room would bring up these stories without hesitation, regardless of their grade.
Out of courtesy, I reacted to the story about their first meeting that I just heard as if it was my first time hearing it, but I had already heard it enough that it was bothersome to count it.
For them, it may be their first time talking to the person in question, but I’ve been hearing the same questions for a week now, so I’m a little tired.
Even so, the opponents were not even beginners in society, but young students who had just taken off their high school uniforms.
In the end, as an older person, it has become a habit these days to listen to it.
“Anyway, I guess that’s what I said. Sister.”
“… Oh, Hayun didn’t tell me everything first! The mood in the class has been a bit like that lately.”
“That feeling?”
“Maybe it’s because Hayun feels like a bit of a puppy, but the kids are asking all sorts of questions, so… I ended up finding out almost everything that happened with Bogan.”
“…”
“Besides, she said that the guys who drank with Hayoon in the past also heard a lot…”
Still, he wouldn’t have confessed what happened to her sister, so he would have only revealed trivial stories.
The story about alcohol was probably when Seol Da-bin called me.
If I had made a mistake at this time, the rumor would have already spread, but seeing as I haven’t done so yet, I think it’s just a story that I don’t need to worry about.
This is also information that I have already roughly grasped since last Monday, when I went to work after doing ‘fun things’ with my two sisters.
But after hearing the whole story, I scratched the back of my neck and sighed.
I think the girl across from her said this because she wanted this kind of response.
What followed after that was where did you fall in love with Hayun? Is she her face after all? How far has her progress gone? Hayun is definitely here with teacher… Just a conversation similar to an interrogation, etc.
Because it was a conversation that had been happening all the time recently, I was answering appropriately, brushing it aside, and was about to finish the treatment.
“Ah, teacher. So, are you going to go around the festival with Hayun this time?”
Festival.
This is a keyword I have often heard recently.
So it looks like the student council, including Seoyeon Baek, is quite busy…
“Probably so, right? I wasn’t asked to stay in the health room at that time. If there’s nothing else to do, I guess I’ll just hang out with my sister.”
The reason is really simple.
Because that’s more natural as a couple.
If you give to a few students who stand out at the same time, you will be able to build a good image.
Moreover, all of these actions.
“Don’t come again. I want you to take care of yourself.”
“Hehe. Thank you, teacher!”
Because it may trickle into the ears of Seol Da-bin, who wants me to be rehabilitated.
Although I can’t say that it will necessarily have a positive impact,
Because there won’t be any bad effects.
After completing the treatment with a simple calculation, I sent the student who nodded his head in gratitude for the treatment to the door of the health room.
*****
For some reason, I thought the weather was nice these past few days.
It was a sign that it was about to rain.
Maybe I should consider myself glad that I got off before enjoying the festival with Lee Ha-yoon.
It’s the festival season in a few days, so what if it rains like this? What should I worry about?
Even though it was morning, I woke up looking out the window in the dark and fumbled to turn off the alarm that was beeping noisily.
Since it’s morning, I can’t help but feel drowsy, but I can’t believe I’m so tired even though it’s already 10 o’clock.
Since it’s like this, I think it would be better to postpone the alarm on the weekend until around 11 o’clock.
Well, if you think about it, the biggest problem would be falling asleep after enjoying it the night before.
“Whoa…”
Yozora came home last night and fell asleep from exhaustion after having her cervix pounded from late at night to early morning.
Maybe it was because of her loud alarm just now, but I let her grunt and stretch like a cat, and I drank down her cold bottled water until her head started to tingle.
It’s pouring down rain outside, but unfortunately, I have an early appointment today.
“Get up quickly. I have to leave quickly.”
“Just 5 minutes… No, 3 minutes…”
“Just in case, don’t stay home all the time. Go back when the sun is up.”
“… Ugh…”
It’s not particularly special.
It’s a weekend date with Lee Ha-yoon.
Let’s just say it’s something special,
Unlike usual, Lee Ji-yoon is not there.
An ordinary yet special date.
*****
“Ah, sir…”
Anyway, I think it would have been better to change to sandals.
As if my mom had installed a CCTV at the front door, I thought, ‘You’re not going out wearing flip-flops when it’s raining, are you?’ When you said that, she probably had to fight off the annoyance even then.
For a moment, I frowned as I felt the rain splashing under the soles of my feet and between my flip-flops.
Seol Da-bin, holding a heavy grocery store bag in his hand, cursed under his breath as he walked in front of a store to avoid the rain.
The falling rain was bouncing off the eaves above her head, making a sound like a musical instrument, but unfortunately I didn’t have the time to enjoy it comfortably.
To indulge in such sentimental things, the feeling of leaves being trampled under my feet felt uncomfortable.
“Why are you asking me to run errands in this weather… Ugh…”
No, yes. I can at least run errands.
I know it very well in my head.
I’m not saying you have to travel very far, but it’s less than a 10-minute walk from my house to the grocery store at most.
However, for no reason, I wanted to blame my mom because rainwater and things like tree branches got mixed under the soles of my feet.
If I were to judge between right and wrong, Seol Da-bin’s fault for pretending not to hear it because it was annoying would be greater than that of her mother who warned her not to go out wearing flip-flops.
… If this is the case, maybe I should get double the allowance for errands.
Delivery apps sometimes charge more when it rains, so shouldn’t they do the same?
She knew very well that she had brought it on herself, but perhaps because she had been doing this since the weekend, she kept getting grumpy.
“…?”
Then, in the distance, I saw a familiar face across the crosswalk.
Beyond the translucent plastic umbrella that looks like something you bought at a convenience store, underneath a very, very large black umbrella that your dad might use.
What you see there is the face of Seo Woo Jin, who has been seen very often recently.
What is so fun? The corners of her mouth are turned up happily,
When viewed objectively, Seo Woo-jin has a handsome face and a bright smile.
Then, the person wearing the plastic umbrella over there is probably Hayun.
I’m sure he wouldn’t smile like that when he’s with another woman.
It was only a moment before I opened my eyes through the steadily falling summer rain.
Seol Da-bin, who confirmed that it was Hayun and not another woman, let down her guard and sighed.
Of course, I’ve only let my guard down, and I have no intention of showing myself in front of those two now that I’m looking so shabby.
Let’s see.
From the looks of it, it looks like they’re on a date.
To be exact, I’m walking to the place where I’m going on a date.
… Use your own car or public transportation, why are you doing that?
Are you doing that on purpose because you two want to walk in the rain together?
Well, I guess that’s the case since it hasn’t been long since we started dating.
Except for those two, other couples around them also stuck around like that at first, as if they would die without each other.
“…”
When I think about it now, I don’t think I’ve ever been like that.
I guess it’s because I got along with Baek Ji-ho very much like a married couple from the beginning.
If I remember correctly, maybe 5 years old. I’ve been seeing her face since she was about 6 years old…
Well, everyone has different ways of dating.
Seol Da-bin, who was continuing her dull thoughts, shook her head wearily and trudged home.
No matter how much it rained, I got scolded by my mom for asking why it was so late and why my flip-flops were so wet. This is a story a little later.