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by adminChaewon wished that this moment was a dream. She bit her tongue and blinked her eyes to wake up. But no matter what she did, the fact that this moment was reality did not change.
“Bread Shuttle! Long time no see? Wow, I didn’t expect to meet you here. I guess this is our destiny.”
The woman, Lee Ji-yeon, approached Chae-won with a bright smile.
Chaewon, frozen as if standing in front of a giant tiger, could neither run away nor fight back, and just stayed still.
“After entering the academy, they blocked my number?”
“Ji, Jiyeon-ah, hello. Long time no see–”
“Did you buy bread knowing I’d be meeting you? Thank you~”
-Snap
Jiyeon interrupted Chaewon’s words quite naturally and grabbed the bread in her hand.
She naturally assumed that Chaewon would hand over the bread obediently. Because that was the Chaewon she knew all along.
-Kwak···!
But contrary to her expectations, Chaewon did not let go of the bread in her hand.
“Huh?”
The delay in the unexpected situation made a fool of itself.
“Lee, let go of this.”
“What?”
“I’m not your bread shuttle anymore. So let me go···.”
Chaewon was afraid and ashamed of what Sihyuk, who was standing in front of her now, would think when he saw her.
If there had been no Shihyuk, Chaewon would have just handed over the bread like before.
However, Chae-won did not want to show her ugly side to Shi-hyeok anymore, so she rebelled against Ji-yeon for the first time in her life.
“Ha.”
Jiyeon, who didn’t know the details, laughed in vain when Chaewon rebelled against her.
Chaewon, who was nervous that she might get slapped like before, gained confidence when Jiyeon stood still.
‘Yeah, Jiyeon is starting to be afraid of the law now. She used to bully me secretly when she was in high school, but she can’t be hit in a place like this.’
Jiyeon, who was laughing as if she was dumbfounded, scratched her head with her right hand and –
-closely!
“Hey. Are you crazy?”
I grabbed Chaewon’s hair.
“Gyaaak!!”
Chaewon, who felt as if her hair was being ripped off, screamed and put down the bread in her hand.
And then I remembered Jiyeon’s bullying that I had forgotten about for a while.
Jiyeon, who Chaewon met in high school, suddenly started ignoring her one day.
In addition to bullying, he also verbally harassed me.
Even though it may not seem like a big deal when you say she was verbally harassed, Chaewon, the person involved, was in so much pain that she could die.
Because the reason Jiyeon didn’t hit him but only verbally harassed him was so that he wouldn’t leave any evidence to report to the police.
Jiyeon and her gang would come to Chaewon during recess, lunch, and after school, and they would set her up and taunt her with insults.
The saddest thing was that I was bullied without even knowing what was going on, and the most heartbreaking thing was that I became an outcast at school.
The delay made it so that no one could talk to Chaewon.
One day, when Chaewon started chatting in the group chat room and everyone stopped chatting, Chaewon burst into tears in the room.
However, Chaewon couldn’t report it because she was afraid that her parents would think of her as a nuisance.
When Jiyeon realized that Chaewon was someone who couldn’t report to the police, she started to harass her more and more cruelly.
Ordering her to buy bread was basic, and there were also instances of her borrowing money and tearing up books that Chaewon treasured.
After graduating from high school, Chae-won apologized with tears in her eyes to Ji-yeon’s hand that healed the wounds she had forgotten.
“Sorry, sorry!”
“I’m getting a guy’s number. Do you want to make him feel dirty? Hit him like you did when you were playing bread shuttle?”
“I won’t do it again···!”
Chaewon felt so sad, ashamed, and angry at this moment. But there was nothing she could do. Chaewon, who had the bread snatched from her hands, fell to her knees on the floor.
The excited Jiyeon was not satisfied with this and raised her fist to hit Chaewon.
-widely
“Stop it.”
“···Oops.”
At that moment, Sihyuk grabbed Jiyeon’s fist from behind.
Jiyeon made a face that said she made a mistake, remembering that there was a man behind her who was trying to get her number.
Jiyeon, whose old personality had returned, smiled awkwardly, picked up the bread that had fallen on the floor, and turned her head towards the man.
“Hey, do you want some bread?”
However, Sihyuk ignored the delay and quickly approached Chaewon.
“Are you okay?”
“No, I hit it by mistake···.”
Jiyeon reached out to Sihyuk, but Sihyuk pushed her hand away and helped Chaewon up.
“Can you get up?”
“Black···.”
Sihyuk brushed the dirt off Chaewon’s pants and wiped away her tears.
With Sihyuk’s help, Chaewon barely managed to get up from her awkward position.
Jiyeon looked at the two and asked in disbelief.
“What do you two know about each other?”
“Shut up, he’s my boyfriend.”
Jiyeon flinched in fear as Shihyuk glared at her with a murderous gaze.
“Me, a boyfriend? Chaewon said she has a boyfriend?”
“Oh. And I recorded the whole thing you hit me with on video, so get ready to go to the police station.”
“···What?”
“Even the whole thing about ordering a bread shuttle was recorded? You’re screwed now.”
After the ideological war, mankind created or revised many laws in order to avoid fighting each other. And at that time, many laws related to school violence were also changed.
School violence, where students bully other students, is a crime much more serious than ordinary assault.
This is because the ideological war made us realize how much of a negative impact the wounds inflicted during childhood can have on adults.
Jiyeon, who knows how scary the laws related to school violence are, realized that if Shihyuk’s words were true, then she was really screwed.
“Okay, wait a minute! Wait a minute!”
“Get out of here.”
Jiyeon felt anxious as Shihyuk ignored her and started walking towards the pension.
Si-hyuk was holding a cell phone in his left hand, which was not supporting Chae-won. Ji-yeon, who thought he was filming with it, ran to grab it.
Of course, Sihyuk had anticipated the movement and turned around to dodge before the delay could reach him.
-Thud!
“Aaak!!”
As Shihyuk dodged, Jiyeon fell down on purpose and screamed.
Blood flowed from her arm, where she had fallen quite hard.
It seemed like Shihyuk was probably going to pretend to get hurt like a blackmailer.
“It’s no use complaining because everything is being recorded on CCTV.”
Si-hyuk laughed at Ji-yeon for her foolish actions and passed by while supporting Chae-won affectionately.
“Ah.”
Sihyuk, who made a sound as if he had forgotten something, approached Jiyeon for a moment.
Shihyuk snatched the bread from Jiyeon, who was expecting it, wondering if she was forgiving him.
The bread went back to its owner, Chaewon.
“I’m going to sue you, so prepare the settlement money well.”
“Wait a minute, please···!”
After throwing candy at Jiyeon, who was limping along, possibly because she had hurt her leg while falling, Sihyuk left with Chaewon.
Chaewon didn’t open her mouth as if she had a lot to think about, and Sihyuk didn’t say anything out of consideration for Chaewon.
The two just walked slowly and remained silent.
The night air was still chilly, and because it was by the sea, the wind was strong.
Chaewon, who was walking with Sihyuk along a dark road barely lit by streetlights, spoke in a small voice.
“Thank you for helping···.”
“Is your head okay?”
“Yeah. It doesn’t hurt anymore.”
Chaewon, who said thank you first, continued speaking while fidgeting with her hands.
“That···. I won’t report or sue you. Then my parents will know···.”
“Actually I couldn’t film it.”
“Huh?”
“I didn’t know you’d grab my hair and hit me as soon as we met. How could I have filmed you if you suddenly did it? You were just lying.”
Shihyuk had no idea that Jiyeon would suddenly become violent like that.
So, I tried to block it as quickly as possible by intervening before the punch was thrown.
Jiyeon was completely fooled by Shihyuk’s lie that he had videotaped the beating.
“I guess you’ll be shaking in fear for a few months thinking about being reported and sued?”
“Hehe···.”
“And did you see him fall down and bleed earlier? He was really stupid.”
When Shihyuk laughed at Jiyeon’s fall earlier, Chaewon also smiled slightly.
Upon arriving at the pension, Si-hyuk took the remaining soju and went into the room at the end of the pension with Chae-won.
Since there was a bed in the room, the two sat on the bed and had a heartfelt conversation while drinking.
Not long after, Chaewon, who was drunk, started telling old stories that she had never told before.
“After breaking up with you, I transferred to a different elementary school, but I didn’t have any friends there and I was going through puberty, so I just quietly read books.”
Chaewon, who moved to another city, graduated from elementary and middle school in loneliness without making any friends.
Then, my parents changed jobs, so I returned to the neighborhood where I used to live and entered high school.
And there I met Lee Ji-yeon and was bullied.
Chaewon, who was already depressed because of her parents’ indifference, has become much quieter than before.
The one who ended the lonely and painful time when no one spoke to him was none other than Si-hyuk’s older sister, Kim Soo-ah.
She suddenly appeared in Chaewon’s life like Jiyeon and stopped Jiyeon from using violence.
Chaewon, who ended up dating Suah through various circumstances, thought that all her suffering was over.
“After graduating, I forgot all about the bullying and being bullied···. I forgot everything···!”
Chaewon cried sadly, tears streaming down her face.
Sihyuk continued to hug and caress Chaewon.
After a while, Chaewon looked up at Sihyuk, who was hugging her.
The soft light from the ceiling lights warmly enveloped Shihyuk’s face.
Chaewon saw the worry and affection in Shihyuk’s eyes at that fleeting moment.
“Thank you so much···.”
Chaewon, who had been looking up at Sihyuk with moist eyes, closed her eyes and stuck her lips out to him.
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