There Is Nothing to Enjoy in a Small Rural Town 38

Chapter 38 – 7. Getting Closer, Getting Farther Away (5)

There is nothing to enjoy in a small rural town.

7. Closer, farther away (5)

The optical shop, which occupies the entire first floor of the building, displays not only glasses but also various precious metals and ornaments. When the automatic door opened, we were greeted by the pleasant aroma of the shop and the light reflected from the lenses, gold and silver. I was still holding my arm by the professor, so I sprinted into the store, worried that I might show this to someone I knew.

“Welcome. What are you looking for?”

A clerk greets us. The professor grabbed my arm and dragged me in front of the glasses on display.

“My glasses are broken. I want to make a new one.”
“Then, I’ll measure my eyesight first~ This way.”

Since he was still holding on to his arm, I followed the clerk along with him. The clerk said in front of an item that even a layman could see as a sight measuring machine.

“Let your boyfriend go now, and you can sit here.”
“Yes?”
“Maybe? Honey, wait over there for a little while~”

Embarrassed me, the professor who looks happy. Seeing a professor who said such a thing with a playful face made me think denying it wouldn’t be cool.

“Okay, call me when you’re done~”

I deftly answered her in her short language and went to sit on the sofa in the corner of her shop. When I looked to the side, there were drinks, so I poured one and put it on the coffee table and waited for the professor. Surprisingly, the inspection is over soon and I see the professor coming this way, but why can’t I walk well while he keeps waving his arms. I don’t think yesterday was like that.

“Baby~~”

How long are you going to keep doing this? Anyway, being summoned, I went to the professor and offered my arm again. Until we arrived here, if I had only held it for guidance, now the professor held my arm completely like a lover’s arms crossed. I felt a sense of guilt and strange excitement at the touch of my breasts. I realize it all over again, but I touched and sucked this breast.

“Try this out.”

As I put on the exam glasses the clerk had brought, the professor looked like a scientist undergoing some renovation, and I couldn’t help but burst out laughing. When the professor saw himself in the mirror, he slapped me on the shoulder and laughed. However, since her purpose is to match her glasses, she changed her lenses and adjusted them to the best fit for her.

“Your left and right eyesight are slightly different.”

The clerk explained the professor’s current eyesight, talked about suitable lenses, and led us to a display of spectacle frames. From a thick horn frame that stands out at a glance to a thin gold frame that you can’t tell if it exists or not, the professor brought out a few that I liked.

“How about this?”
“Isn’t it similar to the old one?”

A professor trying on several eyeglass frames. To be honest, I don’t have a taste for aesthetics, so any kind of glasses would suit a professor’s level of beauty. The black horn frame she wore 10 or 20 years ago looked intelligent and calm, and the slim gold frame was as pretty as a model wearing glasses. They say that the completion of fashion is the face, and at this point, I am a little envious.

“Just do it with this.”

But overshadowing the clerk’s compliments, which she had so far done every time she put on her glasses, her professor pulled her old frames out of her pocket. Well, the glasses were broken, but the frames were intact.

“Is it okay if I don’t do new ones?”
“Huh. For now, write what you used today and come back to see it later.”

A professor who secretly makes an appointment with me. Well, if that’s the case, there’s nothing you can’t do. As the clerk went to sharpen her lenses, the professor grabbed me and went to the sunglasses this time.

“Take a look at our sunglasses. In fact, I have never used anything like this in my life.”

I never thought there would be so many types of sunglasses that I thought were simply black glasses. Me and the professor joked around putting sunglasses on each other like lovers on a real date.

“Hey~ Fuck it~ Lee Junhyung is amazing!”

However, the happy and sweet atmosphere was quickly dispelled by a man’s voice from behind.

Looking back, I see Lee Yul and Lim Kyu-hang in front of the shop door. All in all, to meet him here right now. In the worst situation, the professor’s expression as well as me became noticeably darker.

“Where are you leaving your pretty girlfriend and going on a date with a professor here? I’m sorry, you too. Ability is good.”
“It’s not like that, so be quiet.”

I tried to intimidate him, but he grinned and continued to be sarcastic.

“The professor is also dizzy. When I say that I only have a different number, I report it, so what do I do? Hey, it’s a good time.”

The professor bowed his face red with shame and displeasure. Everyone in the store is looking at us. At this rate, they may be stigmatized as a real adulterous couple.

“Hey, stop it. Hey, come out for a second.”
“What are you doing, you sick bastard? It’s the first time I’ve seen a bastard who eats with a professor over his college student girlfriend. Did you seduce me, or did the professor seduce you?”
“It’s not like that!”

In a fit of rage, I grabbed his arm and made him turn around. But, of course, he resisted and a scuffle broke out.

“Oh, let go! Fuck you, let go.”
“Let’s go out and talk for a minute, go out.”
“What are you talking about, you bastard? Talk to you or Chaekyung. I will tell you everything now.”

I was instantly angry at him for mentioning Chae-gyeong. Of course, it’s true that I went out shopping with the professor without her knowledge, and it was a bit like a date, but Iyul didn’t intervene anyway. Why are you pretending to be an apostle of justice now that you have thought of interfering in my relationship with Chae-kyung?

“Come out at once!”
Grabbing his arm and forcibly pulling his arm toward the door, Lee Yul is surprisingly strong. His strength to hold on is stronger than my pulling arm, so things don’t go as we want.

“Professor! Why not, why do you only date with this baby? Well, this kid’s face is a bit flat. Is it acceptable to touch a student with a boyfriend if his face is smooth?”
“This bastard is real!”

Eventually, I couldn’t hold back my anger and pushed him with my body. No, I didn’t stick to it and push it as if I were pushing a car that had fallen into a ditch, but I slammed into him with a bang, as if I was throwing my body to break out a blocked door. Then Lee Yul’s body was pushed back, as if he couldn’t stand the strength, but the problem was that neither I nor he expected to be pushed this far.

“Aww!”

Lee Yul twisted his body to hold on and tried to touch the ground with his feet, but his center of gravity had already tilted significantly. After losing his balance, he took a few backward steps and threw his arm around as he fell, which landed on the coffee table where I had placed the juice earlier.

[Puck]

“Ahh!!!!!!!!!!”

His screams echoed through the optician along with the sound of his bones crashing. As he collapsed and grabbed his arm and groaned, I slowly walked over and asked him in a state of fascination.

“Hey hey hey. Gwa, are you okay?”
“You look okay, you fucking bastard!”

People gathered around him as he spat out curse words in pain and anger. The clerks called 119 and tried to help him, but Lee Yul couldn’t even sit up properly in pain. I was surrounded by people, and the professor looked at each other long after that in front of the sunglasses rack. This thing could get very serious. I was so afraid of the terrible consequences of my careless actions.

119 came and took Lee Yul away, and Lim Gyu-hang followed him. The professor bought the glasses anyway and we quietly left the optician. The eyes of the opticians at the optician’s back seemed to see us as trash who had hit someone for an affair. The professor gently held my hand as I said to myself that I would probably never come here again.

“Are you okay?”
“Ah yes.”

Hands were warm. The professor was probably nervous too, but I was sweating a lot, but it wasn’t too much of a problem because my hands were the same. We walked while holding each other’s hands as if to hide our anxiety. As I walked without purpose or context, I continued to worry about how my future life would be twisted. Both the professor and I were really afraid of the current situation in Lee Yul’s hands.

“Sorry. I didn’t think so…”
“No, in hindsight, it was my fault for calling Junhyung. It’s been a while since I had such a time, so I was very excited. I’m sorry, really.”

The professor holds my hand a little harder. Because of this kind of contact, this kind of relationship, even though it’s been this month, we couldn’t think of letting go of our hands. We had no choice but to stay connected because if we were apart now, we felt like worries about tomorrow would swallow us up.

“Hey, let’s have a drink.”

The professor opened his mouth. Before we knew it, we were entering a restaurant alley. It is true that dinnertime is almost over, so I nodded my head in response.

“Cheers!”
“GunBAE~!”

Sodam and Jessica are excited about what they are excited about. Like a comedian duo, Chae-kyung and Jun-hee burst out laughing at the non-stop gags. The four of them played around like drunk people without even drinking a few drinks in a very pleasant atmosphere.

“By the way, Jessica, do you like maratang?”
“Why am I right?”
“Puhahahaha!”

Jun-hee and So-dam laugh at Chae-kyung’s unexpected answer to a question. Sodam is almost unable to breathe. Jessica, who understood only after hearing additional explanations, responded.

“Anyway, there are many Chinese dishes in America. It’s very different, but delicious.”
“Really? Then cheers!”

Sodam that turns a glass. She is usually cheerful, but today she is working hard to raise the atmosphere of her place completely on her own initiative. She probably has a reason if Jun-hee, who is so close to her, is hiding it, so she doesn’t ask, but she’s doing her best to ease her mood, which has seemed depressed lately. Junhee was so grateful for her care.
But did I try to raise the mood too much? Uninvited guests were drawn to their bright atmosphere.

“Is yellow hair malatang delicious? Do you know how to taste what you eat?”

As you can tell from the way he spoke, the man who approached with a glass in one hand was a Korean-Chinese. Of course, since it is a Maratang restaurant run by Korean-Chinese and it is a university street where many people gather, many people gather, but no one has so blatantly aroused prejudice.

“Don’t eat here, let’s go somewhere else with me. You know I’m really good at it, right?”

He walked behind Jessica and pushed her head between them and began to flirt with her. When everyone froze at the sudden threat, the man put his glass on the table and poured them without permission.

“I will buy it. Let’s go out together, okay?”
“Hey! Wang Seyong!!!”

When everyone was terrified and couldn’t refuse, a loud shout was heard from the kitchen. Everyone, including the Korean-Chinese, who had been arguing with a middle-aged, large man striding forward, stiffened in tension. He grabbed the man by the back of the back, who was still sticking his head out toward the table, pulled him out, and hit him hard with his thick palm.

“He asked me to come out and help, what are you doing? If you sit down after drinking, Abby told you to just leave, but to a customer!”

Sodam’s party barely stopped him from trying to catch the fallen man up again and hit him one more time. The party came to the point of pleading for mercy for the person who threatened them, thinking that if they were struck again by the power that came from their seemingly enormous size, they might have to pay a prize here.

“I’m sorry. It’s my son, but he quit his job a while ago, and since nothing’s going on, he just had an accident. Students, I bow my head like this and apologize.”

Contrary to his rambunctious impression, he came to the point of comforting the president by saying that everything was okay with the president’s extremely polite attitude. In fact, Sodam was already a regular at this place, so he had a good impression on the owner and the people there, so he took the initiative to send the owner back to the kitchen. His son, who was lying down, got up and wiped his torn mouth and muttered a curse. Contrary to everyone’s worries that he might get into trouble again, the man luckily left the restaurant.