Chapter 55 – Episode 55
“Are you on vacation?”
Inside the office, while I was fiddling with the blueprint for a while, the boss said to me.
“Okay. Vacation. About a week, how about?”
When I heard my boss say that he would give me vacation out of the blue, anxiety struck me first.
The reason why I am so happy just because they give me a vacation is uneasy.
Why all of a sudden? Did something happen? Am I going to be fired soon?
“Has something happened?”
“No, nothing happened.”
“Then why…”
“I wanted to go on vacation.”
The boss smiles while saying that.
“Right now, coincidentally, it’s a time when I’m a little free from work, you understand that, right?”
“Yes.”
It was just as the boss said.
Perhaps because the office had just been opened, there wasn’t much to do.
Work would have been done only when a design request came in, but that request was not available at the moment.
“And this is my personal matter, but you know I came to Korea on vacation, right?”
“Uh… Yes.”
I don’t understand why you started a company just to rest while on vacation.
“So, I’d like to hang out for a week now. How do you think?”
“Well… I follow the boss’s choice.”
“Junseok, please tell me your opinion. I’m not used to the culture of following what superiors tell me to do.”
Even if it’s a foreign country, shouldn’t you follow what the boss says…
I crossed my arms and thought for a moment.
I don’t think there will be any problem if I just honestly tell this boss how I feel.
So, there is no need to think about the answer before speaking.
“I like it.”
“Good, then it’s decided. I’ll be on vacation starting tomorrow. For a week.”
“I understand.”
The boss smiled as if he was satisfied and returned to his seat.
Then he took out his cell phone and started calling someone.
As soon as they decided it was a vacation, they immediately decided what to do and play.
‘Um… What should I do?’
Let’s finish all the work and think about it.
If you want to have a good vacation, it would be better to take care of this chore and go.
***
Coincidentally, coincidences overlap in a strange way.
No, it’s not a strange coincidence… Should I say this is good timing for my vacation?
“Has class ended?”
“Yes! It’s finished!”
When she returned home from work, she had been tidying up the house for a while when Hye said that.
“Ah, so I’ve been studying for the past few days…”
“Yeah! Junseok wasn’t interested in me~?”
“No, that’s not it…”
“Hehe, just kidding! How would you know if I didn’t tell you?”
“Uhm… Anyway, what are you doing now?”
“This? A doll!”
“I know it’s a doll… But… How many are there…”
Inside the large house, Gahye was filling the house with all kinds of strange things, saying it was empty and boring.
The new house they lived in consisted of two large rooms and a living room, and Ga-hye was decorating the house with all kinds of miscellaneous items.
What I was looking at right now was a bunch of dolls standing in a corner of the living room.
“I pulled out a lot! How awesome!”
“I really relieved my exam stress.”
“Yes!”
Ga-hye smiles brightly and continues to place her doll.
I looked at the dolls one by one next to him.
Um… PocketXster, this is a game… And this is just animals…
“I thought it would be less lonely if I did this.”
While putting down her doll, Hye muttered as if she was making an excuse.
“Yeah… Well, that’s good.”
Personally, I didn’t like the house becoming too messy, but I didn’t have any intention of objecting because I liked Gahye.
“What are you going to do during vacation now?”
“I’m going home.”
“Oh, that’s right. I guess I’ll go home. Hmm…”
Do you want to spend your vacation at home?
I’ll be bored if Gahye disappears.
“What’s wrong?”
“College students have a long vacation, right? About two months? I think I’ll be bored without you for two months.”
“Two months? I don’t plan on staying that long?”
“Huh? Weren’t you planning on spending your vacation at home?”
Gahye smiled brightly while looking at me.
“I feel more like home here now.”
“Really…?”
Something made my heart tremble.
Wow, I’m so touched, Gahye.
“If I stay for a long time, wouldn’t it be about a week? I was planning on coming just to see my dad~”
“I see…”
“Do you want to go too, Junseok?”
“Me too?”
“Yeah! Don’t you want to see my house?”
No, but what will the father think if my daughter goes to college and comes back with a man after the first semester?
Won’t you just take out the shotgun and blow my head off?
‘Um, wait a minute?’
Anyway, Ga-hye’s father knows that I’m staying with Ga-hye.
He is the one who sent my daughter away and left her in my care from the beginning.
In that case, there is no problem even if I go down together.
You just have to be careful about things like overtly appealing between lovers…
“I want to go home with Junseok.”
Saying that, Gahye clung to me.
I was a desperate fool who didn’t want to go alone.
‘I need to come down.’
Suddenly, I realized one more thing.
I have to go down.
You must go down and learn about Gahye’s father.
Why?
Because it’s necessary to have both Gahye and Nayu!
‘The three of us succeeded in dating, but other people’s opinions are another matter.’
And if you marry Ga-hye or Na-yu… Your family will inevitably become involved.
Even if you deceive others and just live in a common-law relationship, it would be good if you could at least convince their families.
It would be difficult to lie to your family.
Huh? Have you already thought about marriage?
Of course.
I plan to take responsibility for both.
I was going to have both, and they both succeeded to the point of dating together.
Let’s stop here and say bye-bye? It’s a garbage idea.
Isn’t it completely edible?
Since I have succeeded in dating both of them, I will continue to maintain a relationship with them as long as I can.
If possible, we both want to get married!
‘No, now that I think about it, it’s really just a meaningless dream…’
Well, wasn’t it a far-fetched dream for the three of us to succeed in dating together?
I did that too, so maybe I can do this too.
“What’s wrong, Junseok?”
“Uh, no. Okay, let’s go too.”
“Ah! Oh, but is Junseok’s company okay?”
“I also got a week’s vacation.”
“Wow!”
With those words, Gahye hugged me.
“As expected, Junseok and I have some sort of fate in common~”
“That’s it…”
“No, really.”
Ga-hye’s eyes were so clear as she looked at me while saying that.
“Gahye…”
“Junseok…”
Just as I was about to kiss her.
“I’ve been there… Uh, what is it?”
Nayu returned to her home after finishing her part-time job.
“I told you not to have fun without me.”
“Well… I just happened to have an atmosphere, hehe.”
Gahye laughed as if she was embarrassed.
“Hmph.”
“Shall we have dinner first?”
If things continue like this, the two women stand the chance of being picked on.
That’s good, but I’m hungry, so I don’t have the confidence to shake my waist for a long time.
I said that, helped Ga-hye stand up, and the three of us started preparing a meal together.
***
The next day, Gahye and I took a bus and left for the train station.
‘I’m going to stay home because of my part-time job. The two of you left.’
Yesterday, I asked Nayu if she wanted to go to Gahye’s house with me, and Gahye answered that way.
It was fortunate because it was very burdensome for me to go to Ga-hye’s house with two women in my arms.
“I bought a ticket. What is that?”
“Walnut snacks! Delicious!”
While buying her train ticket, Ga-hye bought and ate walnut snacks.
“Uh… Are we still in the boat?”
“Yes!”
The kid is eating a lot today.
Before eating these walnut snacks, I had breakfast, bought snacks at a convenience store, and ate a hamburger as soon as I got to the train station…
“You never ate like this before, right?”
“I’m hungry today. Is it because you went home?”
“Hmm…”
Is it because I’m excited?
I nodded and headed to the train platform with Gahye.
Since I bought the ticket for the fastest route, I had to get on the train 10 minutes later.
***
The road to Gahye’s hometown wasn’t that far.
KTX delivered us quickly.
“Hmm…”
As I got off at a station that I remembered something about, I looked around.
“What’s wrong?”
“Ugh, no.”
A long time ago, I came to this station once for work.
It would be better not to talk about things like that.
It’s especially true if it’s something like, ‘The student I was tutoring called me to this role to seduce me.’
Well, that was a lie. Now it’s a memory we laugh about.
“Have you ever been here?”
“Uh, uh…”
No, it’s a surprise.
For a moment, I was surprised to think that my thoughts had been read.
“You came here to meet the girl, right?”
“Cough!”
I almost spewed out the coffee I was drinking.
“Giggles, look at you panicking!”
“Oh, no, you suddenly said something like that…”
“As expected, Junseok is a total Casanova~ He’s been hitting on all kinds of women~?”
“Cough, cough! No, I wasn’t that kind of person…”
“Really?”
“It wasn’t particularly popular.”
“Hmm… Well, Junseok isn’t the particularly popular type.”
If I say that, I feel hurt for no reason.
“But I like it.”
And just by adding one word like that, the hurt disappears in no time.
“And that kid would have liked Junseok too.”
“Cluck! Cough! Cough! Cluck…!”
It sounded right.
My throat hurts so much.
“Ahaha, I was completely confused, completely!”
“Oh, no, it’s just… This suddenly turns into coffee…”
“Isn’t it because it reminds me of a girl I met a long time ago? She was a student she used to teach~”
“You, you…”
Now I understand.
He knows why I came here.
“Giggles, are you surprised?”
“Of course I’m surprised! He suddenly says something like that…”
“Aren’t you surprised because I know about Jun-seok’s past?”
Uh…
“I came all the way to this station because of a student I used to teach, but I just returned without any income and couldn’t contact him again.”
“How much do you know? No, why did you know that before? I didn’t tell anyone about that… Ah.”
It wasn’t until I said this that I noticed it.
“Fool. I finally figured it out.”
Gahye was looking at me with innocent eyes.
“That’s me. Mmm.”
“You… Were you?”
“Yes.”
A student I used to teach.
He unilaterally told me to come find him, and when I did, I ended up having to go through a lot of trouble before returning home.
And then the contact was cut off, and the relationship ended on an unpleasant note without even being able to apologize.
“That was you…”
I could only look at Ga-hye’s face while muttering in a daze.
Her face looks a little different.
“Ehehe, I finally said it.”
And Gahye looked at me and smiled.
It was the same expression he always gave.
