Chapter 124 – Park Jong-Pil and Baek Ha-Yoon (3)
Baek Ha-yoon and Park Jong-pil returned to the neighborhood after finishing their part-time flyer job.
Baek Ha-yoon went to the supermarket to buy two cans of beer and took Park Jong-pil to the playground.
“Drink. I’m buying it because you did a good job.”
Baek Ha-yoon throws a beer can while sitting on a swing.
Park Jong-pil, after receiving her flying can of beer, looked at her with her puzzled eyes.
“You don’t like drinking, do you?”
“Hmm? Why?”
She takes a sip of her beer and replies.
Park Jong-pil looked at the beer can in his hand and said.
“You know. Your dad or my dad Both of you drinking and talking shit.”
“Oh~”
She nods her head as if she understands what I mean.
She sipped another beer and said.
“But it’s not the alcohol that’s the problem, it’s the people. Just what is alcohol A device that exposes a person’s weak nature? That’s about it.”
That person’s weak nature just came out.
At those words, Park Jong-pil felt as if a corner of his chest had been stabbed.
“What, is that…”
Park Jong-pil grabbed the swinging swing next to Baek Ha-yoon and sat there.
Then he opened a can of beer and added the following words.
“That’s right. Alcohol is not the problem.”
Park Jong-pil muttered that and took a sip of beer.
In the end, the problem wasn’t because my dad drank alcohol, but because he couldn’t overcome his inner wounds, and he had fallen to that point.
A father was just a weak human being who could not overcome the fact that his wife had abandoned him, so he poured out his anger by resorting to alcohol while ignoring the child he was responsible for.
In the end, the problem was you.
‘I’m no different.’
He was the one who poured out his anger indiscriminately with his anger towards the world.
In the end, because of that, the relationship was further strained, and he was expelled from society.
It’s not the world’s fault, it’s your own karma.
“Ha-. It’s cool.”
He was extremely averse to alcohol.
However, the first sip of beer that I drank had a distinctive taste that was both refreshing and pungent.
Maybe the world that I thought would be fucked up would have this special taste.
Like the kid named Baek Ha-yoon next to me right now.
“So, are you going to pay for the treatment? There’s nothing wrong with working part-time, right? I also won the bet.”
She is still talking about the cost of her treatment.
Park Jong-pil smiled and nodded his head.
“You really can’t stand it. I’ll give. Banging every morning is fucking annoying.”
“Don’t pretend you don’t know later? Did you really promise this time?”
“Okay. I’ll give you real Are you okay?”
“Well, I’ll believe it for now.”
The two of them sat on the swaying swing for a while, sipping beers and talking.
Eventually, as time passed and they drank most of their beer, they became very drunk, and the topic of conversation between the two began to become serious before they knew it.
“How do you work so hard? Housework, school life, and part-time jobs. Why are you working so hard?”
“Because I don’t want to be miserable like my dad. I have a dream I want to come true.”
“Dream?”
“Huh. I want to be a singer.”
Hehe, a singer? Are you good at singing?”
“Then. When you go to a festival, you always get first place? I also have a dance club.”
“I will make a lot of money later”
“Of course. Next year, this fucking town is going to open too.”
It’s a fucking town
Park Jong-pil looked at her as if she was surprised by her rather radical expression.
But she didn’t bother to mention it.
“Well, is that so? I’m in my third year of high school next year, how are you going to get there?”
“I will go to Seoul and enter an agency. Accommodation is all provided if an agency is attached.”
“What about school?”
“I’m going to quit if the agency gets attached. I’m not very good at studying.”
“Ah-. Still, don’t you need some money to live in Seoul?”
“Of course not. If a big agency doesn’t join, even a small agency has to join. They say that they don’t support everything for free, but you have to pay some money first.”
“How much do you need?”
“At least…500? I don’t know the details either.”
500.
It’s never a small amount of money for a student.
Even more so if it was Baek Ha-yoon, who did not receive parental support.
“It is not easy. How much do you have now?”
“About 300 now? But I just need to spend a little more on my living expenses and work part-time during vacation.”
“Is that so? You’re close.”
“Huh. But what do you want to do later? Talk to you Aren’t there any dreams?”
“Me?”
“Huh.”
Something you want to do later.
A dream I want to come true.
Of course, there was none of that.
I just wish the world would end.
I wish my dad died.
I just lived the way I lived thinking that.
When she was younger, there were times when she wished her mother would come back.
However, as time passed, that hope only faded.
Now she only hates the woman who abandoned her.
“Just what, a happy family.”
So Park Jong-pil spit out the most universal view of happiness.
And here, in the form of adding a little more flesh, he continued the following words.
“Well, there is something like that. She’s the wife who sets the table for breakfast. My wife who sees me off when I go to work. Well, after work, we have dinner together. Play with the kids a bit.”
“Are you two drinking beer like this?”
“Uh? Uh uh While drinking beer… Watching TV…”
Park Jong-pil muttered that while dreaming of living in the same house with Baek Ha-yoon.
Then his face turned red, and a smile broke out spontaneously.
“Puhh. Did you imagine?”
Suddenly, she points a finger at herself and smiles at her eyes.
Park Jong-pil hurriedly shook his hand and replied.
“It’s not?”
“Did I see you all laughing? Who did you imagine? Could it be me?”
“Mi, are you crazy! Ah, the bitch knocking on the door every morning, what.”
“Miss~? Then you are the one who shamelessly did not pay the treatment fee.”
“Under-. Go, you said you would pay it back.”
“Khehehe. Then why don’t you apologize?”
“Apologize? What apology?”
“You hit me and my uncle. I haven’t received an apology yet. I’ll really believe you when you say that if you apologize, you’ll pay back the medical bills.”
Apologize.
I had never done anything so strange.
Because she never felt sorry for anyone.
Even if I felt sorry, I just ignored it.
“…Sorry.”
Maybe that’s why, I was surprised at myself for easily handing over an apology.
Was it that easy to apologize?
“Actually, I still regret it. And hit you kicked it that you cursed ignored I’m sorry for everything.”
It was sincere.
Park Jong-pil calmly conveyed his sincere heart to Baek Ha-yoon.
Then Baek Ha-yoon put on a teary-eyed expression, then smiled.
“Huh-ah. Okay. I think we can be real friends now. Nice to meet you”
Saying that, Baek Ha-yoon held out a hand.
Park Jong-pil blushed and took her hand.
“Uh… Me too, what. Nice to meet. By the way… If they are real friends now, were they fake friends before?”
“Uh. Actually, I pretended to be cool, but I really hated you.”
“Ah-. Haha… Well, that’s worth it.”
Park Jong-pil acknowledged it meekly and nodded his head.
Then Baek Ja-yoon waved his hand up and down and said.
“But it’s fine now. It’s all over. Do you really want to apologize to Uncle later?”
“Uh… Look.”
Late night.
The two became friends and talked for a long time even after emptying their beers.
On this day, Park Jong-pil made up his mind to set the goal of his life as a “Happy family,” Which he had casually spit out.
And at the center of a happy family, he wished Baek Ha-yoon was there.
***
Time passed quickly.
Park Jong-pil, who was expelled from school, started working at least three part-time jobs a day to save money for treatment.
As a result, he was able to pay for all the treatment in one week.
“I am really sorry about what happened that day. I will reflect so that this will never happen again.”
Park Jong-pil apologized by directly handing over the treatment fee to the owner of the meat restaurant.
After hearing about Park Jong-pil’s circumstances from Baek Ha-yoon, the meat house owner forgave Park Jong-pil, saying that he was sorry if what he said hurt him.
“Hey, do you have any plans to deliver?”
“Yes?”
“It’s next door. They say they’re looking for a delivery man. Hourly wages are also paid hard, so think about it carefully.”
Park Jong-pil was able to find a delivery part-time job through the introduction of the meat restaurant owner.
At that time, the delivery part-time job was the part-time job that gave the most hourly wages, except for Nogada.
-Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Hey~ Park Jong-pil~”
“Ah-. Please don’t do that.”
Park Jong-pil and Baek Ha-yoon quickly became close.
Baek Ha-yoon often knocked on Park Jong-pil’s front door and came to his house to play, and before he knew it, Park Jong-pil’s house became their hideout.
“Big-. After all, beer kills after work.”
“…Was it difficult today?”
“Lol. Tina?”
“You know just by looking at it. What is it?”
“No- what. Because of the true guest. Even if it’s pretty, it’s a problem.”
“…A guest in truth? What about you which bastard?”
“I am afraid to open my eyes again! I told you to fix my anger.”
“…You’re hot. I’m pissed off like this, but you…”
Park Jong-pil clenching his fists tightly.
Baek Ha-yoon, who was looking at him with a happy expression, said while bumping his shoulder.
“Are you okay. Because you can solve it like this. In the past, no one had ever been able to release something like this.”
“You have friends from school.”
“I can’t talk to them. I don’t want to appear weak.”
Hearing Baek Ha-yoon’s words, Park Jong-pil was in a good mood.
It’s because you only showed yourself a weak side that you wouldn’t show to others.
If there were more days when she leaned on herself like today, she would become greedy for what she did.
“But are you still alone in this house? Hasn’t it been a while since your father came?”
“Uh. I hope you never come here like this.”
Dad left home for a gambling expedition.
He usually creeps back into the house in a month, but this time he seemed to be a little late.
If you look at it already a month and two weeks have passed.
“Hmm. Isn’t that a lot of money? Since I keep winning, what if I fall for it and come late?”
“Well, that’s not going to happen. I hope so. I’d rather have a whole bunch of spears, never come here again, and go somewhere.”
“…Me too.”
Baek Ha-yoon nodded his head with a look of deep sympathy.
Then he suddenly raised his beer glass high and proposed a toast.
“Come- let’s do it. For our independence.”
Independent.
Getting out of this damn house.
Park Jong-pil laughed and bumped his beer can into Baek Ha-yoon’s beer can.
The two drank beer while looking at the dream of the distant future.
***
-Ahhhhh …
That day was a rainy day.
It was thundering outside and the wind was blowing hard.
Park Jong-pil was crouching in his house, his shoulders shaking.
The day her mother left was also a day of thunder and lightning and rain like this.
-Bang. Bang. Bang…
It was then.
There was someone knocking on the front door.
The first thing Park Jong-pil thought of was his father.
My father was the only one who knocked on the front door helplessly, as if drunk.
‘Shit.’
It was a short but sweet happiness.
The moment came when we had to put the disgusting human in this space again.
– Knocked up.
Park Jong-pil hid the money he had collected and opened the door.
But the man outside the door wasn’t his father.
There was Baek Ha-yoon, with his hair disheveled and his face covered in bruises.
