Chapter 62 – Episode 62. Angry Bear God -1
(Recollection from Na Hyo-jin’s point of view corresponding to Jin-hyeok’s reminiscence day)
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My boyfriend went to the army.
He was from another department and was the same age as me.
I learned about it through a liberal arts class.
It’s not really good to say he’s handsome, but I could hear that he would take a handsome guy with him, and he was a bit tall.
He had a good external image and had a big-hearted personality.
My boyfriend liked to hang out with people.
He was also good at sports, to the extent that he played well in sports department competitions such as basketball and soccer.
At first, I didn’t understand how difficult it was to wait for a boyfriend while in the military.
He thought we’d wait and see.
Even if the body is far away, the mental bond or relationship that you have with that person is maintained, but it is because it is difficult for me to understand that breaking up just because of being far away.
However, as time passed, it became increasingly difficult.
It was okay at first to visit only me and keep visiting, but the more this piled up, the more my body got tired.
After one visit, my body was damp as if I had stayed up all night studying for an exam.
There are things that are difficult with that body, but even if it is difficult, I wish it was worth it, but there is no such thing.
The visitation itself was not enough to satisfy what I wanted.
A visit was literally a visit.
There was nothing we could do together.
There are many other eyes in a shabby and isolated space, so you can only come after talking about the recent situation in an unwanted space for a few hours.
If you’re going to meet there, it’s a hundred times better to just call.
I’d rather have a conversation on the phone while I’m doing my job.
Inside the meeting room, I felt as if I was visiting someone in prison.
From the moment I entered the military base for a visit, it was hard to say that I liked it very much from the unique smell of sand dust that somehow seemed to brush the tip of my nose.
That’s not what I want to be with my boyfriend.
I also wanted to go on a trip with my boyfriend to a place with a nice view, go on a date like other sweet-looking couples, and have sex every night that comes every day.
However, what can be done in the meeting room is extremely limited.
At the meeting place, of course, I couldn’t do the trip I wanted or anything like that.
Around the meeting room, which is allowed to move, there is nothing to do but look at the weeds and piles of dirt in the flower bed behind the meeting room.
Once, my boyfriend asked me to go in with him in the bathroom of the meeting room and do it.
At that time, I hated it.
I don’t know if you have a good stomach, but even if I go to a motel, I can’t sleep in a bad place.
However, the restrooms in the meeting hall are worse than toilets in old shopping malls, let alone department store toilets.
It’s not to the extent that the smell of ammonia just rises, but it still feels like a bathroom that’s a little stinky.
When I go to visit, I still make up my mind and go with the determination to blow the whole day, but when I go to the meeting place, all I can do is order a cheesy pizza from the neighborhood and sit down and talk for a few hours.
So it was hard.
Meanwhile, my time was passing.
Military service is not the most golden time for men.
It is the same for women.
Even if I just go out on the street, men from all over the world ask for my number.
My seniors and juniors, older brothers from other departments, meeting people, and friends ask me to go on a blind date…
The time on the university campus is the peak of my life.
Kids who can’t reach this peak period may waste less time, but I really regret it because the opportunity cost is high.
I already know that people call me Queen behind my back.
At a time like this, you’re dumping all the men who come to you to wait for your boyfriend while in the military.
Thoughts of the nonsense that I was spending my golden years on a college campus waiting for my boyfriend in the army often ran through my head.
My close department classmates and friends talk to me as if they were all conspiring together.
‘Goodbye!’, ‘Goodbye!’, ‘Goodbye!’
No, did these guys get stuck with dead ghosts because they couldn’t part?
Others around me are anxious because they couldn’t eat my boyfriend who went to the army when they see me.
They do a lot of bad things.
Didn’t I tell you to break up from the old days? If you wait for the military, the majority of men wear boots backwards, it’s because you have pods in your eyes, he’s nothing special, I miss you so much, other good men are scattered all over the place…
I don’t know how it’s so consistent.
I am not swayed by such stories.
Rather, there were even more comebacks.
I didn’t know that when I was young, but now that I’ve become an adult, many of the people around me don’t see how others are doing well and often like to gossip.
Many of them were relieved to see someone close to them drop out of a job application, enjoyed watching best friends part ways, and longed for pretty couples to bite each other as enemies.
There are people who don’t.
But most were like that.
That’s why I’ve never tried to break up because I’ve listened to what others have said.
It’s just that I was having a hard time.
For several reasons.
My heart was so confused, but I calmed myself little by little while waiting for the day I met my boyfriend.
The day I was waiting for was this birthday.
On my birthday, my boyfriend said he could go on vacation.
It wasn’t just a day or two, but a few months ago, we decided to meet on that day and go hang out.
Other days are fine, but I asked him to be with me on my birthday, and my boyfriend said he could come out that day.
That’s why I rejected many people’s proposals to celebrate my birthday in order to go out with my boyfriend.
In addition, I provided the travel expenses for both of them.
Where is the money for a boyfriend who is a soldier… Thinking of it, I saved money by doing a part-time job so that I had enough to cover my boyfriend’s expenses to go on a trip together.
After he saved up money, he spent it.
I made reservations for lodging, bought all the necessary items for the trip, and packed all my suitcases.
However.
On the morning of my birthday, I got a call from my boyfriend.
He said he couldn’t come out of the military base because his vacation was cancelled.
I couldn’t help but be angry with my boyfriend who called me from the army.
Under.
What kind of crazy is that?
“Does that make sense now? No. What if I let you know on the same day, that!”
It’s ridiculous.
To cancel On the same day that it was supposed to come out.
The place where I made the phone call was the women’s bathroom at the university.
With the bathroom door closed, I made a phone call in front of the sink mirror.
I came to school a little early, so there was still some time left for the first period to begin.
-Ah, I’m sorry~! It’s not like I don’t want to go out either, right?
“That’s why you don’t have to tell me in advance!”
– There was no way.
“Ha. It’s like that every time. Why isn’t there a way?”
When I shoot him, he also gets angry at me through his phone.
-Recently, I went to training for a few days and now I’m back. Uh? During training, of course, you cannot use a phone or cell phone. And this is, the vacation schedule changed in the middle of training, so there’s nothing you can do about it, right?
Even if you say that, I don’t know what it is.
And I don’t even want to know that much about the military situation.
I was just angry that I couldn’t meet you even though I had everything prepared on the day I promised a few months ago.
I said.
“Do you know how many months I haven’t seen you?”
-Do you want to go out too?
“The other kids are doing well? Why can’t you take a vacation!”
I also wondered if he wasn’t doing well in the army.
I even wondered if my vacation was delayed every time because I was a big fan at university, but I couldn’t adapt well in the military.
It seemed like it didn’t come out too well.
-Each unit is different, that’s it! It’s not that I can’t ride because I can’t! I’m a super warrior!
“What do you do if you’re a special warrior? You can’t come on vacation! I’ve been waiting for months. I can’t come. And there’s no promise after this. You’re saying that, right now!”
-Under…
My boyfriend took a deep breath and said.
-At the training ground, the company commander talked about vacation with the personnel officer, but when I said that I was going out for my girlfriend’s birthday, he asked what the reason for the vacation was and cut it off. I’m dumbfounded too. Vacation is to go out on your own… A lot of kids with urgent reasons were pushed back, so don’t go out with something like this and ask me to go out next time, what should I do? Oh, I’m so fucking annoyed!
Even if you talk about it in such detail, it’s rare that I can understand it.
A company commander was managing the vacation, and a report was made to him saying that he was going out to see his girlfriend’s birth.
Frustrated, I raised my voice to him again.
“Did you tell me about it right away? You shouldn’t have made a good excuse~! Are you stupid?”
-Do you know how easy it is to be in the military? What excuse do you make? Even if you try to cover it up with something like someone passed away, they tell you to bring a bunch of documents to prove it!
It’s not coming out anyway.
By the way, seeing what other kids are doing, it seems like they meet much more often than I do.
Why are they like that?
It seems to come out boring.
“Other kids just came out, so what’s that? Are they all the company commander’s sons?”
-Ah! Seed! Then what do you say to me! Are you telling me to desert, now?
As we raised our voices at each other, I felt like I was about to burst into tears.
I haven’t told my boyfriend yet to make it a surprise trip, but I did a part-time job and earned enough money for a trip for two.
Memories of struggling to earn money while thinking about going on a trip with my boyfriend while working part-time and university life passed through my mind.
Wait. Waiting without promise.
No, there is a promise, but it is a wait that seems to take away all my best time.
“Don’t you think about my position? I waited for several months after you came out on vacation last time. You also made it clear that you can come out on my birthday. How long do I have to wait then?”
I shouted and my boyfriend hit me again.
– Why do you only think about your position? I’m harder I couldn’t sleep well during training and rolled down the mountain. Do I have to hear this as soon as I return?
“You only think about what’s hard for you? What do you think I am?”
-Hyojin. It’s not that I’m not leaving. Can you really go out next month? This, it’s not that it’s gone, it’s that I got fired this month and it’s been delayed a bit.
“Ha… I broke all the other people’s appointments to wish me a happy birthday so that you and I could meet, and there’s absolutely nothing today. But you say you’re not coming? Then what am I supposed to do, alone?”
-Is your birthday that big? You are free all day long outside. I’m going crazy, there’s no paradise here. It’s the same even if I return, I work all day, and if I go out at night, I can’t sleep properly. Sleeping here is the most fun. Do you know how much
Birthdays may not be algebraic.
However, due to Lee Ja-sik not being able to come out, all the plans I made while waiting for today evaporated.
Since you canceled the accommodation on the same day, the refund amount will also be greatly different, and you are just throwing money away.
Also canceled the car rental.
All the things I received by courier as preparations to take when traveling are useless.
Anger rises to the top of your head.
“I’m not doing this to listen to your complaints, and whatever the reason, you didn’t keep your promise, right?
I finally exploded and screamed.
My boyfriend answered me over the phone.
-Isn’t it like that? I’ve tried everything, but what if it doesn’t work? And, since you’re going to study abroad anyway, can’t you come early? So you come and go, and I’m discharged, shouldn’t it be okay to meet?
“Why do you decide my study abroad? I have all the dates!”
I was screaming for a while, and I thought I could hear people coming closer as they were talking across the bathroom.
It looked like someone might come into the bathroom soon.
I couldn’t show them fighting like this, so I decided to finish the call soon.
“Ha… It’s okay. Come out or rot there for the rest of your life, do as you like. Anyway, if you have something to say about class soon, do it again in the evening. I’ll hang up.”
-Hey. Hyojin, Na Hyojin!
After hanging up the phone, I looked in the mirror by the sink for a while.
And I looked to the right once.
University toilets.
It’s pretty neat.
Even if it was just a bathroom like this, maybe we could have sex if you persuaded me a little, but the bathrooms in military bases are ridiculous.
I look at my face again in the large mirror on the sink.
But it’s so pretty
If you look in the mirror, you can see why so many men are seduced like bees, whether they know their subject or not.
I am a natural beauty who has not been modified at all.
In addition, he took good care of himself, so his body is perfect.
But to be rotting while waiting for a boyfriend who went to the army like this.
As I thought about that, the bathroom door opened after the conversation of the people talking outside got closer.
I could see through the washbasin mirror the person who opened the door and came in.
‘Uh?’
I was a little surprised.
She was the first woman I had ever seen.
It’s very pretty too.
When a woman sees a handsome man, she instinctively scans her from the tips of her toes to the top of her head.
Someone I don’t know… The building where our department is located. Has there ever been a girl this pretty in another department here?
It is a style that is subtly decorated.
The top looks like a normal red sweatshirt, but that one was made by a fairly famous designer, and the pants are perfectly tailored to fit even the finer details of what color jeans suit you best.
Sneakers in particular stood out.
At first glance, they look like white women’s sneakers that an ordinary college student would wear, but those are Balenciaga’s new shoes that cost over 1 million won.
She pretends to be wearing a tee and jeans, but she’s actually pretty fancy.
If a normal kid went around like that, he wouldn’t have noticed.
However, because he had a great face, body, and everything, those items shined even more.
It wasn’t as beautiful as mine, which can be said to be the pinnacle of innocence, but depending on my taste, I could fall for her, and on rare occasions, it was enough to give me a sense of danger.
‘Are you going to be in the first or second grade?’
I walked to one of the stalls in her bathroom, leaving her behind her, I looked in her mirror a little more, and then left her bathroom.
There is some time before class starts.
In the meantime, I was thinking of getting a refund for canceling what I had sat down and prepared for the trip.
But as soon as I left the bathroom, I was startled.
It was because I ran into a man at the same time I left the bathroom.
“Ah! What a surprise!”
But my surprise turned to delight within seconds of seeing him.
It was because the man who surprised me was none other than Jinhyeok.
Jinhyeok has that feeling when he meets him.
Stylish.
Jinhyeok’s whole body tells me that.
It’s cool.
Tall with perfect proportions and perfect face, Jinhyeok, even if you don’t meet him out of the blue, there are times when you’re surprised to the point where your mouth just drops open when you meet him at school.
When I look at the model in real life, I wonder if this is how the body feels.
There’s a full face… Looking at Jinhyeok’s face, it seems like a white lily in full bloom is smiling at me.
So handsome.
Jinhyeok smiled and spoke to me.
“I’m sorry, Hyojin-nee. Were you surprised?”
I thought as I looked at his smile.
‘No? Why are you sorry Even just looking at you makes me feel better and smile, right?’
I looked at his face for a moment.
And he answered, unable to contain the laughter that erupted.
As soon as he sees Jin-hyeok, the friction with his boyfriend fades away like a blue star.
Haha! Uh. I was surprised. What are you doing here?”
“Wait junior.”
Jinhyeok’s words naturally reminded me of the kid who had just entered.
No one was in the bathroom until he came.
I pretended not to know, well, pretended not to know, and I really did not know, and I was curious, so I asked Jinhyeok.
“Who is your junior?”
“My older sister wouldn’t know. Even though she was in the arts and physical education department, she said she was thinking about double majoring in our department, so I told the professor and came to audition.”
“Okay?”
You sound like a double major.
It must be a ploy to seduce him, Bona or Jinhyeok.
Hey, it’s like a fox.
I was a little pissed off.
Still, Jinhyeok is in our department, but I felt like the best boy in our department was taken away by another department.
But I can’t do anything
I’m not Jinhyeok’s girlfriend either.
Hmm…
I’m Jinhyeok’s girlfriend…
