Chapter 173 – Chapter 173
“Uuuuu~, that’s unfortunate. Is it cheap outside?”
“What if you get pregnant too, I don’t have much money.”
It was a real problem. Since Go Min-jung and Seo Hye-jung already had their own children, they already had two children.
In such a state, if Joo Seo-yeon had a child, there was no answer.
I couldn’t afford to raise three children with my money, which was less than 200 per month.
“Huh~, who told you to raise it? I can raise it myself.”
“Anyway, it is.”
Joo Seo-yeon sat on her chair and crossed her legs.
“You know. What do you do when you have parents? Everyone is busy and wanders around.”
“…”
“When I was a student, they came in once a month and gave me money. It was as if they weren’t there.”
“I gave you the money, though.”
As if my words were funny, I leaned back against the backrest and closed my eyes.
“Yeah, at least they gave me money. I understand my parents’ situation now that I’m older~.”
After evading the end, he opened his eyes again and looked at me.
“Aren’t elementary school students too young to understand that?”
“It’s not like that.”
“It’s like that when I became a teacher. It’s like how I came without saying anything even when I was assigned to the countryside.”
As for why she became a teacher, she said.
“I wonder if there are kids who live alone like me. They don’t have an adult they can lean on.”
I stood still and listened to her talk.
“If there is a teacher who takes care of you, there is a space where you can play after school.”
“Hmm. I didn’t know you thought that far.”
Even when I saw her for the first time earlier this year, there were parts where I was misunderstood because of her face, which was difficult to get close to because she was wearing revealing clothes.
“It’s just what I think.”
After dismissing it, she got up from her seat and went to her bed and lay down next to her and looked at me.
“Come this way.”
“…”
She came over and lay down beside her and put her hand on me and patted her.
“So who wants to leave me?”
She raised her hand, which had been patting her, and stroked my cheek.
Joo Seo-yeon smiles as she touches my eyebrows, the bridge of my nose, and my earlobes past my cheeks.
Deep red lips smiling with raised eyebrows, half-closed eyes, and a sharp, pointed nose.
She said, putting her body in her hands.
“If you see it for the first time, it will look very strong.”
“Put, me?”
“Ok.”
Joo Seo-yeon pulled my cheek, but she wasn’t that sick. I put my hand on her waist and slowly met her eyes.
We could hear each other’s breathing, but it didn’t feel like it was erotic or anything.
It was as natural as breathing in sync with the other person’s breathing.
“To be honest, when I was young, all my memories were things I wanted to erase.”
“Huh.”
“But you always caught me.”
“…Me? I don’t know.”
A phrase often said when the two of you are together.
It wasn’t where I was or what I’ve been through, so I can’t sympathize with it very much, but it seemed to be very close to Joo Seo-yeon.
“Um~, that’s why I never talked about anything before high school or even when I was in college.”
“Is it so?”
Her lips were quivering as if it was a memory she didn’t want to even think about.
She was always assertive and active in everything, so I thought she was strong and tough, but that was a misunderstanding.
Everyone has their own scars, and Joo Seo-yeon just didn’t reveal them.
“Bad guy.”
“Suddenly again?”
“Yes man. How are you wrong?”
She was just about to start tearing up in her big eyes when she suddenly cursed at me.
“How could you marry me without giving me a chance?”
“Ummm. I didn’t expect to get married this fast either. No, I’m 30 years old, isn’t it quick?”
At those words, Joo Seo-yeon suddenly climbed on top of me and looked down at me.
“Hey, shouldn’t you give a chance to a childhood friend you haven’t seen in a while?”
“…You’re my friend… I didn’t know you liked me… You didn’t show it.”
“Still.”
As if she was tired, Joo Seo-yeon leaned over to me and put her ear to my heart.
“But I’ll give you one chance.”
I was feeling down a lot. He paused for a moment, then patted her back.
“Okay, I’m sorry.”
It was a relationship between the two of us made from resumes, so I couldn’t really focus on it at first.
It was just a small situational drama.
Me and Joo Seo-yeon are childhood friends.
This is just a situational play entered into a program called Resume with strange abilities.
It was nothing more and nothing less.
The weight of just one scenario for sex.
However, as human beings continue and deepen their relationships, even false relationships tend to become truth before they know it.
Seeing Joo Seo-yeon come out so serious, I felt apologetic before I knew it.
Pat Pat.
He patted her on the back without saying a word.
“Was it that hard? I didn’t know.”
“…Huh.”
Her sighs contained tears.
“So I guess I like you.”
After a moment of her sighing, she raised her head, looked at me, and said.
I tilted her head because I didn’t know why she liked me.
Joo Seo-yeon opened her mouth for me.
“Even if I didn’t know, you always took a kid like me with you. No matter where I went.”
If her thoughts had been buffering in the past, now she was completely thinking that way.
“Yes, it was.”
I chimed in with her words.
Instead of having sex this time, I just focused on listening to her childhood memories.
When she spoke to her, she just made eye contact with her and gave her a pat on the back.
“…”
After she finished talking, she glanced at me, then came over to me and closed her eyes as she held me tight like a baby.
“Cut.”
“…Yes.”
“…Thank you.”
Although it was an old motel, I thought it would be the most comfortable place for Joo Seo-yeon.
§
Ordinary days began again.
Autumn, also called the season of paralysis, also passed quickly.
“Brother~, padding~.”
“Yeah, wait a minute.”
With rice in her mouth, she entered the living room and put on the padding that Go Min-jung took care of.
“Brother, is this the only padding?”
“Yep.”
It was a glossy padding. There was not even long padding.
“I really need to catch me and go buy some winter clothes.”
“Uuu~, I’m warm just wearing this~.”
“But~. It’s too old, my armpit is bursting, so I put rubber tape on it and go around!”
Ko Min-jung put on a pitiful expression as if she didn’t like me wearing old clothes.
I stroked her bulging belly and kissed her on the forehead.
“You didn’t wipe the kimchi soup from your mouth.”
“Right.”
Now I was used to worrying about it.
“Uh~.”
Ko Min-jung patted my butt, and then she put on her clothes herself.
When she came with her to her living room, Seo Hye-Jung was getting ready for her work.
Unlike us, who were comfortably padded, Seo Hye-jung was wearing a light blue coat and organizing her materials.
“Divorce doesn’t happen overnight.”
“That’s right. The lawyer will prepare everything, but I think it’s right for me to prepare too.”
“Wow…”
I keep getting calls from her husband, but she doesn’t answer at all.
It seemed that no one could open Seo Hye-jung’s heart, which had already hardened her heart.
Seo Hye-jung’s problem wasn’t with her resume, so she didn’t even think about changing it.
“I’m going to work.”
“Yes, I will be leaving soon.”
Ko Min-jung and I arrived at school as usual and smiled and hugged each other.
“Oppa, fighting today too.”
“Yeah~.”
“Ehehe.”
She was still Go Min-jung with a lot of aegyo. She smiled and climbed her stairs, clutching her big belly.
As soon as I came to the warehouse, I put a cigarette in my mouth and organized my work.
“Sueup, hoo. It will snow soon.”
It’s rural, and since it’s north of Seoul, snow tends to fall early.
There were only mountains all around, so there were times when it snowed earlier.
“Oh, you like me.”
I smoked cigarettes and stared at the white clouds high in the sky, then picked up the toolbox.
“Oh, I need to get paid.”
I put down the tool box I had picked up, grabbed the approval documents, and headed to the administrative office.
I didn’t see any kids on the street because I was in class.
Drooling.
When I opened the wooden sliding door and went inside, I saw people working.
I passed between them and headed for Seo Hye-jung.
“Hyejeong-ssi~. This payment…”
“Yes, I will.”
He was usually full of venom, but at least he smiled often at me.
As I was about to leave, Hyejeong Seo grabbed me.
“Let’s talk for a minute.”
“Yes yes.”
When I came out of the office, a cold wind blew.
“It’s a very cold day.”
Seo Hye-jung, who opened her mouth first, looked at me and said.
“What do you want to eat for dinner?”
“…Yeah? You didn’t call me for something important, did you?”
Hearing those words, Seo Hye-jung must have been embarrassed, so she looked away and said.
“This, too, is important.”
She was Seo Hye-jung, who has recently been feeling rewarded by cooking for me.
