Chapter 109 – Episode 109. A Little Strange Triangle
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“Jinhyuk, aren’t you studying well today?”
“Uh. That’s right.”
It was a little past 3:50.
Since it was time for her to take a break, she went to the bathroom to urinate and talked to Ho-chang, who just happened to be standing next to her in the bathroom.
After lunch, she studied hard in the afternoon, and after a few hours, she saw her good luck again.
Hochang talked to me while peeing in the seat next to me.
“Jinhyuk-ah, there’s nothing to be thankful for. It’s true that I lead the group so well that teacher Kwon Se-ah takes care of it separately, but you also have a good image as a teaching assistant, so you must have called along.”
Hochang seemed to be thinking a little wrong.
Ho-chang seemed to think that he was managing the study group so well that Kwon Se-ah was impressed with him and bought him a meal.
I’m a teaching assistant, so it’s a bonus.
Hochang was indirectly showing condescension to me with such thoughts.
It’s the same as saying, ‘I got a meal because of me’.
But the truth is quite the opposite.
Kwon Se-ah just called Hochang to meet me using Hochang.
Having an additional meeting with a management study there is also to see more of me.
It was a situation where I had to hold back laughter while listening to Hochang, who was condescending, thinking that it was his merit to meet and dine separately.
The academy’s break time is limited and the class we take is the main class, so there are a lot of students.
The toilets are not small and there are many floors, so there are many toilets, but the break time is short. So, during breaks, you inevitably line up to buy tickets.
In the urinal that Hochang and I were using, the other people in line behind us started to use it, and Hochang and I washed our hands side by side at two sinks and came out.
Hochang talked to me on the way out of the bathroom.
“Jinhyeok, can we talk for a while on the roof?”
“Uh, what.”
After all, break time had just begun, so there was time.
At Hochang’s suggestion, Hochang and I went up to the roof together.
Going to the rooftop wasn’t that special.
The academy rooftop is not as good as the bathroom, but it is also a place where many smokers visit during break time, and some students come to get some fresh air or make phone calls.
When I and Hochang went up to the rooftop, the entrance to the rooftop was crowded with many smokers with a large ashtray in the middle, as always, and to the left, two large red vending machines that seemed to be enjoyed with cigarettes were lined up in a row. There is.
The sky was a bit overcast.
I couldn’t tell if it was because of the fine dust or because it was cloudy.
As soon as I came up, I took out an e-cigarette.
“I need to light a cigarette.”
“Um~.”
I smoked a cigarette and talked to Hochang.
The location was a little crowded.
There are a lot of people on the rooftop because of the large ashtray and vending machine at the entrance, but there are few people when you go to the corner of the outskirts, and people who make phone calls often go to the outskirts.
It was a bit chilly because it was overcast, but it was fine for the recent weather, and it wasn’t too late, so it didn’t matter too much.
The outer side of the rooftop where Hochang and I came was a large academy, so the view from the rooftop was quite nice.
The railing was quite high, so it wasn’t dangerous at all, and the view was good.
Hochang tends to start and stop smoking, but today seemed to be a bit of a break.
He didn’t smoke, but he looked like someone who was suffering from something, just like when he smoked.
Hochang spoke to me while looking at the scenery over the railing.
“Ha… Jinhyeok. I’m talking about you because I’m you.”
“Hmm.”
“Sir Kwon Sae-ah…Do you think she has feelings for me?”
“Hmm?”
I heard Hochang’s words and wanted to say something.
When I responded as if I was talking about something, Hochang looked at me and asked.
“Did you not feel anything?”
“Um~.”
I didn’t feel that Kwon Se-ah had feelings for Ho-chang at all.
It wasn’t even 1, it was 0.
Then Hochang waved his hand toward him and said his words.
Haha, ah, Jinhyeok-ah. Originally, if you weren’t in the position of the person receiving this directly, you might not feel it. Well, you’re the type to notice, but you didn’t know this either.”
Hochang smiled and continued.
“It was a little too obvious to me.”
As I was thinking about it for a while, Hochang told me what he was thinking.
“You may not have known, but Teacher Sae-ah, do you know how it was for me earlier? Even though I’m eating pizza, I’ll ask you to eat more, I’ll try to wrap a new one, and even if I joke with you, you’ll laugh… Ha… To talk about everything. That’s too much. Didn’t you feel a bit left out, Jinhyeok?”
Hmm…
Hearing Hochang’s words, it seemed that he could understand Hochang’s thoughts.
But that wasn’t Kwon Se-ah’s intention.
The reason I made more pizza for Hochang was to tell him to eat quickly and go home.
The reason I tried to get the new pizza to go was to send it home and be alone with me.
And the laugh at the joke was a kind of sales smile? This is because Kwon Se-ah has a bad personality, but is kind to students.
‘I think I’m firmly mistaken…’
I couldn’t tell you all of them, so I just tried to get past Hochang’s words.
“No, well. It’s fine if you enjoyed the meal.”
Ho Chang nodded his head and looked at me.
Hochang asked me if I felt left out, but when I said I didn’t feel like that, it seemed to put my mind at ease.
“Then I’m glad.”
Hochang tapped my shoulder a couple of times and then lowered his hand again.
Then, Hochang put his hands in his pockets and looked at the expansive view outside the rooftop again as he spoke to me.
“Oh… I’m worried. Honestly, I thought Yoon-gyeong was really good?”
“Ah.”
“But again, teacher Se-ah intervenes like this. This is a complete love triangle. Ah… I’m worried a lot. This happens while I’m getting closer to Yoon-kyung.”
“…”
Hochang seemed surprisingly a little pretentious.
Yoon-kyung took off Ho-chang saying he was taking herbal medicine a while ago and tried to have a meal with me alone, but Ho-chang said he was trying to get closer to Yoon-gyeong.
Besides, to think that Yoon-kyung and Se-ah are in a love triangle with Ho-chang himself… I couldn’t figure out where I went wrong.
It was a little, no, quite a strange love triangle.
However, Hochang turned his face toward me, apparently believing so firmly, and spoke to me seriously.
“Ha~, Jinhyeok. Even though the age difference isn’t much, I’m still a teacher with Sae-ah. Isn’t that a bit like that? Should I just push Yoon-gyeong?”
The moment I heard Hochang’s words, it seemed that the future of Hochang’s hardships was unfolding before my eyes.
The more Ho-chang aims at Yoon-gyeong, the more Yun-gyeong will avoid Ho-chang and run away.
If it goes too far, as I talked about with Yoon-kyung, I will block it, but I don’t want it to go to the stage where we need to consume that kind of emotion.
And if Hochang was aiming for Kwon Se-ah, it would be difficult to easily predict the future.
It was unknown whether Ho-chang would shed tears like chicken poop after being seduced by the original Kwon Se-ah, or whether he would have regrets after being rejected sweetly by the sales smile teacher Kwon Se-ah.
In any case, Hochang had only a bleak future, so I just wanted Hochang to focus on his studies.
“Hochang-ah. He~, why don’t we study a bit more together? Seah-sensei’s idea, anyway, isn’t passing the exam first?”
In fact, it’s not uncommon for a beautiful woman to come to work first unless you’re a handsome guy like me.
There are a lot of men who approach me, but unless you really want them, like when you see me, it’s because I’m overflowing with men who just come.
Hochang didn’t seem to think much about those principles, and seemed to see Yun-kyung and Se-ah as hopeful.
And when I said to study, Hochang answered.
“So. I mean. I have to study too, and this is what happened. Ah… I’m going crazy… Jinhyeok-ah. What would you do?”
“Hmm. I think I’ll be studying.”
I pushed through my studies.
I hoped that Hochang would not waste time, money, and emotions on other things.
However, Hochang shook his head while looking at me with a relaxed smile.
“Jinhyuk. You can study anytime, but timing is very important when it comes to affection like this.”
Timing of love…
It seemed like pretty bad timing.
If you think about it, it seems that from the time Ho-chang confessed to Eun-hee-noona while kissing the back of his hand, Ho-chang has been consistently taking the wrong timing.
It’s a shame because Eunhee noona is nice, but I thought that if Hochang did it to Kwon Seah like he did to Eunhee noona, if he had the real Kwon Seah personality, even if he paid for it, he would slash Hochang’s crown with a high heel, so I wanted to stop that.
“You’re not going to confess to teacher Sae-ah or anything like that, are you?”
I asked a little worried, but Hochang’s face was still relaxed.
“Still, when I see teacher Sae-ah calling me and taking care of me so that I can be compared to you… Didn’t she try hard on me in her own way?
“Hmm…”
I wondered what to say.
In the meantime, the relief window continued.
“If things go well with me and teacher Sae-ah and we get married, come to the buffet, haha! Ah~, that’s how it works.”
“Oh~.”
Hochang’s answer seems to have been decided.
There are quite a few cases like that when I talk to people.
Hochang seems to have been such a mentality when he had something to worry about, when there was a more inclined answer, but just in case, he wanted to hear the opinions of others.
But for me, the story of Eunhee sunbaenim giving me pepero while writing me a note carefully, the story of meeting Yoongyeong at night and having a fun date, the story of Saeah chasing me to work the night together, all of these things, of course, I can’t do. There was no
‘Ho Chang-ah, please just study…’
I couldn’t help but wish that.
Ho-chang was thinking that Kwon Se-ah, a beauty who was a popular idol, liked him, so she seemed happy all the time, but when she got to know the real Kwon Se-ah, she seemed more likely to get beaten up.
After returning to the classroom with the delighted Hochang after a short break, I fell into the world of studying again.
I enter the crowded classroom again, and the next lecturer comes in through the front door and grabs the microphone.
– Hello everyone, let’s start class. The page…
I rubbed my eyes once and sat in a chair with a pen in my grip and focused super-focused.
In the end, I have to do my studies.
There is not a single person in this world who can study for me.
This is neither physical nor emotional labor, but brain labor?
If I have to do it anyway, I think it would be better to do it a little faster.
I won’t become a master of the 9th grade civil service exam just by listening to the two-month problem-solving lectures that follow in November and December.
However, I do not know when I will be in a state of learning saturation, so I try to work harder when I am.
I think there is a saturation in learning as well.
Just as office workers who have been constantly under stress at work set aside a day and go on a long overseas trip, it seems that they need to clear up to some extent when they reach saturation.
I don’t know if the day will come when I also need such a long vacation.
Now, I’m over half of the classes I took at the academy, but to be honest, it’s still a bit difficult to go to the academy every day, take classes diligently, and do self-study at night.
At least I have good habits, so I am doing what I do without thinking about anything else, but I still wanted to prepare for such variables.
For now though, today, until the afternoon class, I was able to spend the lecture time well by maintaining intense concentration.
