Chapter 244 – Snowflakes Are Dyed Black.
20 year old spring.
Everyone dreams of a season dyed with romance at least once.
And me too.
It wasn’t much different from those who were dreaming.
I confessed my feelings to the child under the street lamp with the cherry blossoms in full bloom.
“Na Yeon-ah.”
My throat is burning up.
Despite practicing many times, when I stood in front of Nayeon, I felt my voice tremble.
“Huh?”
Unlike me who is trembling like this, his nonchalant tone.
Nayeon was just scrolling down her phone, as if she couldn’t even imagine what I was talking about.
“Joe… I like it!”
He closed his eyes and confessed his feelings like a man.
It was love at first sight.
I didn’t believe in love like in the movies, but the moment I met Nayeon for the first time, I knew at once that this is love.
Straight black hair that many people consider their first love.
Intricate facial features.
A neckline that looks so thin.
Nayeon made my heart race just by breathing next to her.
I hope Nayeon will accept this confession…
My heart was thumping like crazy as if I had run.
Nayeon put down her phone and looked up at me.
I saw my reflection in his dark brown eyes.
“Sorry.”
It was a bitter spring day.
* * *
“Hey! Jaehyuk!”
I, who had been dozing off during the lecture, woke up at the call of a fellow practitioner.
“Ah…! Uh…”
“Class is over. Let’s go!”
It seemed that he had slept for a while, but his classmates were getting up and escaping from the classroom.
“Today, to commemorate the end of the midterm exam, my alumni are having a party, do you want to go too?”
“Party?”
“Why? Yejin, you have kids. They said they and Woohyuk went to the bar in front of the school like this.”
“Ah…Then I just won’t go.”
Having spent too much money last month, I didn’t have enough money left to go to the party comfortably.
“Why. Let’s drink together Nayeon is coming today too?”
Nayeon’s name made me shudder.
“Why is Nayeon here?”
“Who was it? I heard that Sua seduced me.”
“Okay? Then I will go too.”
“And. Bastard, don’t play because I’m going to play, and watch Nayeon jump out right away when she says she’s coming.”
Dongsu, not knowing that he had already been kicked once, slapped me on the back as if he was upset.
“Yai… It’s not like that.”
“Anyway. Then go to Taeseong Pocha until 7:00!”
“Huh. See you later.”
Dong-soo left the classroom first.
I packed my bags and headed to the first floor of the Business School building.
“Ah… Didn’t you think you should have said you were going?”
[Remaining balance: KRW 96,500]
Less than 100,000 won was left, but I had to live on this money for ten more days.
But I couldn’t help it.
Nayeon is coming, but can I not go?
Although even the word miserable was laughably dry, I was still hanging around Nayeon.
All I knew was that this was a futile hope.
But how can the human heart be turned on and off so easily?
“Whoa… How much will the alcohol cost today?”
I hoped it wouldn’t come out more than 30,000 won.
Even sitting in a cafe and sipping coffee was a waste of money, so I took a seat in a corner of the library and took care of my liberal arts assignments.
Had an hour or two passed like that?
As soon as the sky darkened, I packed my bag and walked towards the downtown area in front of the school.
In front of Taeseong Pocha where the drinking party is held.
I straightened my head and took a short deep breath.
Although no one might be interested in how I look, it didn’t matter.
“Hey! Jaehyuk is here!”
My comrades waved their hands in my direction, as if they had already settled down first.
“Jaehyuk Choi! Here! Here!”
“Uh.”
I roll my eyes around.
Nayeon is… Where is Nayeon…?
I attended because Nayeon said she was coming…
“Nayeon! Jaehyuk is here!”
When I turned my head to the place where Soo-ah, who was the organizer of the meeting, was looking, my first love Na-yeon was walking there.
Tight-fitting jeans.
A white off-shoulder that barely shows the breastbone.
At Sua’s call, Nayeon glanced at me.
“Long time no see?”
Eyes that seemed a little surprised.
Nayeon looked at me with eyes like, ‘It was a car, but did you manage to come here?’.
“Ah. Huh.”
As I scratched her head with an awkward smile, she passed me and took a seat next to Sua, the table opposite me.
“Okay~ Then, to commemorate the end of the midterm exam, let’s all raise a glass!”
When Dong-soo stood up with a glass of soju, everyone’s glasses were filled with soju.
“They worked hard!!”
“Ah~ Today I’m going to drink and search~ Just~”
“Ah. Don’t say you’re going to get drunk and sleep over at my house.”
So the drinking party started.
I wanted to get closer to Nayeon at the table where she was sitting, but I was rarely allowed a chance.
“Hey. Jaehyuk. Why are you so silent? Intoxication?”
“No. Something like that.”
“Ah. Right. What’s so fucking funny about this bastard?”
A fellow practitioner who seemed to be drunk put his hand on my shoulder.
“This bastard didn’t want to come today…”
“Yay! Don’t do it!”
Instinctively, I realized what Dong-soo was trying to say, and I opened his mouth.
“Why. Do you like Reallu Nayeon? It’s so fucking suspicious that this bastard is overreacting, isn’t it?”
“Hey. Nayeon. He says he likes you.”
The classmates giggled among themselves because they were having fun, but I wasn’t going to lie and felt like I was about to cry.
No. Puppies.
Was I really kicked?
Please, for now, I hoped that Nayeon would be chatting with other girls, but God wasn’t on my side this time either.
A face that looks like an insect.
Nayeon frowned at her and was looking this way.
Just looking at it, it seemed as if I could hear the sound of my image going downhill.
“Hey! Let’s have a drink!”
In the end, alcohol is the only thing that can get past this pointless driving topic.
After pouring soju so that my friends’ glasses overflowed, I shouted a toast for the first time today.
“Come on~ Tada~”
I felt like my throat was burning for no reason, so I poured the bitter soju into my mouth at once.
“Hey~ Jaehyuk Choi~ Drinking well~”
“I don’t know~ Let’s drink~”
It was a place where I squeezed money that I didn’t have, but I thought I’d drink hard and go.
1 am.
After frantically moving from bar to bar and celebrating up to the 3rd, we are now in an atmosphere of par.
“Jaehyuk. Where did you say your house was?”
“I’m in Daehan-dong.”
“Hey. Then can Nayeon take me?”
I wasn’t quite sober, but when Nayeon’s name was called, I opened my eyes.
“Why? Is Nayeon over there?”
“Uh. Nayeon is living on her own there, so you can take her away.”
“Ah. I’m not drunk…”
A tongue twisted pronunciation no matter who sees it.
Nayeon didn’t seem to be in a condition to go home alone at all.
“As you can see, he’s in this condition… Are you okay?”
“Me? I’m really fine I think I can take a taxi with Nayeon?”
“Ah. I’m really glad. Ruler. This is Nayeon’s bag.”
All of a sudden, I even carried Nayeon’s bag and supported her.
“Then I think I will have to go with Ji-yeon, so please take good care of me. Jaehyuk.”
“Ah. Huh. Enter carefully.”
“Essi… I’m a jerk… I’m not drunk…”
Nayeon said she wasn’t drunk and stood with my forearms as support. Sadly, she looked so cute.
“Can you walk alone?”
“Uh! Of course!”
After she shouted confidently, she couldn’t take three steps and sat down on the floor.
“…It hurts.”
“Wait. I’ll just call a taxi. Let’s just go to the main road over there.”
Nayeon naturally leans on me and moves forward.
Of course, to her, I would have been no different from the previous nail, but her heart was beating fast.
“Please go to Daehan-dong. Knight.”
The two of us sat side by side.
If it hadn’t been for the difference, I would have said that now is my chance and talked to them kindly.
I didn’t know what to say first, but I blankly looked out the window.
“Hey… Jaehyuk Choi…”
Nayeon tapping the back of my hand.
“Why?”
“You think you’re going to be embarrassed because you’re dumb?”
I’d like to dismiss it as drunken nonsense…
When I thought that this was Nayeon’s true intentions, I felt sad for no reason.
“What did I do?”
“He treats you so well… You take me there.
“I’m just taking you drunk. What are you talking about?”
“Fufu… Ok… Ok…”
The attitude of smiling reluctantly and letting go.
I arrived near Nayeon’s house and got out of the taxi.
The place where Nayeon lived was a villa building not too far from our house.
“Are you here?”
Entering the hallway on the second floor, Nayeon opened her lock and entered her password.
“Hey… Thank you…”
“Uh. Okay. Good night.”
It was the moment when I turned around to leave because I had done my job.
“Kyaaaaang!”
A scream can be heard before the door closes.
When I looked behind her, Nayeon was lying face down, as if her foot had caught on the porch.
“Nayeon. Are you okay?”
Originally, she had no intention of going inside her house, but it was force majeure.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she took off her shoes and went inside to help Nayeon stand up.
“It hurts…”
“Haha… Excuse me for a second.”
She grabbed Nayeon’s arm and tried to lift her up, but she also staggered behind her slightly, probably because her body became twice as heavy from drinking.
Nayeon instinctively waved her arms to grab something of hers, and her hands knocked objects off her desk.
“Nayeon. Let’s lie down for now.”
I had the mindset of letting her go on top of her bed no matter what, and I succeeded in landing her on top of her blanket as if I had thrown her halfway, and I tried to simply clean up the things that had been spilled on her floor and go.
What fell were writing instruments and two notebooks.
I put the fans back in the cup and tried to put the notes away…
[Is there really no such man in the world?]
The first sentence written on the open page.
[How many people have confessed, but how come there is no one like him?]
[The saying that there are no real men’s clothes seems perfect to me.]
I knew that spying on other people’s personal lives was never gentlemanly, but I couldn’t get my hands off the notebook that was supposed to be Nayeon’s diary.
Granny by the way… Who is he?
[Ah… If you really showed up, I would just do it right away…]
I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I read the last line on the page, as if I could get a hint about Nayeon’s ideal type.
[Today, she should sleep more than her confinement.]
She… She’s incarcerated…?
