episode_0008
by fnovelpiaThere was a quiet atmosphere for a while.
In that atmosphere, we did not try to break the first one.
Just let the atmosphere flow.
Even though we didn’t like each other, we didn’t want to fight as we were no longer a couple, so where on earth did it go wrong?
From the moment I looked at the woman? Or from when I couldn’t take Shin Yu-jin’s words lightly?
Either that or…
From the one word I said before returning?
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t find the starting point.
When the quiet atmosphere was going on, Kim Ye-rim and Ho-jin arrived and created the usual atmosphere.
“We are here.”
“Are you here? You’re really just 10 minutes late.”
“Perhaps because it was work time, the traffic was extremely congested. Hello to you too, Eugene.”
“Hello, oppa.”
When we first met, we treated each other awkwardly, but now we are comfortable with each other to create a natural atmosphere.
Everything is the same as 14 years ago.
Except for my relationship with Shin Yujin.
“Why were you two so awkward?”
“You really had a fight?!”
“What are you fighting for? It’s because I’m still a little awkward.”
“Ah, we should become friends now. Yujin goes and sits next to Yuchan.”
“Ah, yes. I understand.”
Shin Yu-jin, who was sitting across from me, got up and sat next to me.
I could not help but see Shin Yu-jin coming closer to me, even though anyone else would have kept her distance.
Is there really a need to fool the eyes of those two people by doing this?
“I have a question. When are Yu-chan and Yu-jin going to date?”
“… Huh?!”
“Sa, are you dating?”
“We have feelings for each other. So, Yu-chan went to Yu-jin’s house today to change a light bulb.”
There was one thing I had forgotten.
Even 14 years ago, Kim Ye-rim was busy urging our romance every time the four of us saw each other like this.
Because of that, the atmosphere went strangely.
We hung out in that atmosphere and became closer faster than we should have.
In a word, Kim Ye-rim.
It is a tremendous evil.
A villain who was hell-bent on somehow getting the two of us together as a couple.
I couldn’t think of anything to get over this mood.
“Food has arrived.”
The tteokgalbi came out at just the right time. Thanks to that, I naturally got over the mood…
“So when are you going to date?”
I couldn’t get over it. Well, there is no way that evil will go away this easily.
I tried to lead a similar conversation using my memories of that time as much as possible, and Shin Yu-jin seemed to have the same thoughts as me.
“Jo, a little later… ”
“Um, you don’t want to date yet?”
“There is, but I want to know a little more about you.”
“Ugh, yes. I also want to date Yujin after I know everything about her.”
“Don’t you already know everything?”
“Yerim, it’s just the two of us. Let’s stop asking.”
“I understand, oppa!!”
Fortunately, I was able to get through it easily thanks to Hojin’s checks.
Whether it was past or present, he is quicker than anyone else in accepting the situation.
Now, when I was about to pour alcohol to eat, I saw Kim Ye-rim’s actions of pouring soju into a glass.
Me, Yu-jin, and Ho-jin rushed in without worrying about who would go first and grabbed the soju bottle in Kim Ye-rim’s hand.
“Ugh!! Yerim, let’s put down our drinks.”
“Why? I want to drink too.”
“Yerim is not good at drinking.”
“Still, I can drink at least one glass.”
There is a reason why an adult child is stopped like this.
This is because when Kim Ye-rim gets drunk, no one can stop her. Originally, I wouldn’t have been the only one here who didn’t know, but since I returned with my memories, of course I knew.
“I understand… You have to drink it while saying that!!”
“Yes, Yerim!!”
In the end, something irreversible happened.
They say you can easily get by with just one drink…
Yerim Kim’s face turns red and she gets drunk with just one glass of soju.
The problem is that the habit of drinking is to drink more. It means the beginning of a runaway.
***
“Hehe!! I feel bad!!”
“Oh my, I’m really drunk.”
“Sure. This is why I told you not to drink alcohol.”
“What should I do if I already drank it? I’ll take Yerim for a while and get some fresh air.”
“Yes, oppa.”
After that, Kim Ye-rim, who drank half a bottle of soju, became drunk and was led out by Ho-jin.
As the two left, silence naturally came.
Shin Yu-jin, who had been clinging to me, distanced herself like a ghost as soon as the two people disappeared.
I didn’t think it was strange because I did that too.
“From what I remember, the two of you went to a motel like that.”
“Yes, that’s right. And we too… ”
“Did we go too?”
“To be exact, I went to your house.”
“Ah, I see.”
“Don’t you remember?”
“It’s amazing how you remember all that.”
Even though 14 years had passed, Shin Yujin remembered many things.
I remember it to some extent, but not in such detail.
I was fooled by the familiarity and ended up forgetting all the little things.
“Let me ask you something. Did we date back then or not?”
“Uh… I don’t think we dated.”
“To be exact, we started dating tonight.”
“Yes, of course I remember that. We sent them away first and then we went too.”
“I went to your house and you confessed and I accepted it and we started dating.”
While we were talking about trivial things, Yerim Kim and Hojin returned.
And so far as we remember.
“Yerim is so drunk that I think we should go in first.”
“Oppa!! Let’s be together today and sipper!!”
“Really? If Eugene says it’s okay, let’s do it.”
“I’m fine. You don’t have to worry about me.”
“Heehee. Eugenie says it’s okay!!”
“Thank you, Eugene. I’ll send you in after feeding you lunch tomorrow.”
“Yes, I do that.”
As expected, Kim Ye-rim seems to be going to spend some alone time with Ho-jin.
After that conversation, I paid the bill and parted ways with the couple.
Since the direction from Tteokgalbi House to Shin Yujin and my house was the same, we walked together at night.
I definitely remember walking down the street at night without any conversation back then, just like now.
But of course I could see that the atmosphere was completely different from then.
It’s not a conversation we can’t have because we’re still too cautious about dealing with each other.
That’s because they didn’t talk because of their antipathy toward each other.
“… Is it worth going to school?”
“Yes, it’s worth going. What about you?”
“I can go too. The problem is that it’s boring because you know everything.”
“Me too. I knew all about English back then, but it was my first time learning education.”
“You know all that now.”
“So it wasn’t very fun.”
“I think the professor is watching the kidnapping angle.”
“Graduate student?”
“Yes, I keep feeling that strange coolness every time you look at me.”
Still, walking without conversation felt a little empty, so we started talking little by little.
Fortunately, even though I had to raise my voice, Shin Yujin accepted my conversation well.
We never had a fight until the beginning of our marriage, but we started fighting less than two weeks after we found out.
“Why not just get kidnapped and become a graduate student?”
“Don’t say horrible things.”
“Why? It might be better to be a graduate student than to rot at a company.”
“You’re the same slave. What’s different?”
“Well, I might vomit on the professor’s clothes during a company dinner.”
“… Hey, why did you say that all of a sudden?”
“It’s funny even thinking about it again. How can you vomit on your boss’s clothes during a company dinner? So I got caught and worked overtime all day.”
He wasn’t the type of person who enjoyed making fun of me like this, but at some point, Shin Yujin was constantly showing me a side of myself that I didn’t know about.
Isn’t it for nothing that people say you can’t spit on a smiling face?
I couldn’t bear to say anything to that face.
What happened a little while ago was something I couldn’t do anything about because my emotions got so intense.
As we walked, we arrived in front of our house.
At that time, Shin Yu-jin was walking in front of me and stopped, and I also stopped.
“Ha, how did I end up calculating the price of tteokgalbi and drinks for 4 people.”
“So I said I would calculate half.”
“It would be nice if you buy everything I buy for you. Go in.”
“Yes, I will go in. Go carefully.”
“But you still worry that much?”
“I’ve heard all the good and bad feelings, but I have to do this.”
“That’s right. We really heard all kinds of feelings. I’ll go.”
After saying our final goodbyes, I went home and Shin Yu-jin headed to her house.
I came in right away, washed up, and lay down on the bed.
While the four of us were eating dinner together, Shin Yujin’s never-ending smile passed through our minds.
Has there ever been a time when we returned with memories together and smiled so brightly?
I think it was probably the first time.
“Your smiling face is always pretty.”
Shin Yu-jin’s smile was so intensely embedded in my mind that I found myself talking to myself like this.
I was just about to turn off the light and go to sleep.
-Wheee!!
I received a call from Shin Yujin.
About 30 minutes had passed, so I probably arrived home. I guess this phone call is to let me know that you’ve arrived home.
I answered the phone without thinking.
[Ha, Han Yu-chan… me… I can’t sleep at your house… ?]
Shin Yujin’s voice, which seemed to be trembling, was heard.
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