Entrance Ceremony

I wonder if I’ll be able to make new friends well at University.

If I do, I wonder if I’ll be able to get a pretty girlfriend or a handsome boyfriend.

I wonder if I’ll be able to graduate with good grades and get a good job at the same time, etc.

Even while having negative thoughts, I could easily find people my age who had a positive mindset that everything would go well as planned.

“Are you a freshman? I’m a freshman too. Please take care of me.”

Among them, men who were confident in their looks approached Ji-young, who was standing right next to me, and held out their hands.

“You’re a freshman, right? Hello~! Let’s be friends.”

On the other hand, just like in high school, there were also girls approaching with the bad intention of getting all the advantages they could by sticking to Ji-young, who is a pretty girl.

Some men and women were truly captivated by Ji-young.

“Annoying.”

From freshmen to returning students, even middle-aged men who looked like professors were bothering Ji-young, so she lamented that she had to go through another annoying freshman life.

Unlike high school, I’m her boyfriend now, so it might be a little less, but my heart felt heavy as if Ji-young was reacting this way because I wasn’t trustworthy enough.

“We can’t skip Orientation, can we?”

“They’re even saying to participate as much as possible, so I’d feel awkward skipping it.”

Ji-young leaned her head on my shoulder, who was sitting next to her, and asked weakly.

According to what I found out on the internet, you can freely skip Orientation, but it’s best to participate if you want to have a comfortable University life, as there might be some bad seniors.

They said that if you participate and become close with the seniors, you can get information on specific professors’ exam question styles or past exam papers.

“Haa… Annoying. I want to go home.”

She must really not want to go.

Well, I don’t know all of Ji-young’s feelings, but looking at the freshmen and returning students who are still sitting in their seats and glancing at us, or rather, at Ji-young, I could understand.

“Keung keung.”

“What are you doing.”

“I’m getting happiness from Hoon-ah’s scent.”

Before I knew it, she wasn’t just burying her face in me, but also sniffing like a dog.

When I asked what she was doing, she said she was getting happiness from my scent…

Well, I also get happiness and stability from Ji-young’s scent, so it’s a little hard to tell her not to, but it was a little awkward because she was doing it in front of everyone.

No, no. She’s my girlfriend. Ji-young is just smelling her boyfriend’s scent, so there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it! So, hey you! Don’t look at me like you’re going to kill me! And you, who looks like a senior! Do you know me?! Why are you clenching your fist?! It’s unsettling.

I already feel like I’ve been marked by the seniors. I hoped it was just my imagination.

Fucking bastards.

“Is there anyone among the freshmen who hasn’t arrived yet?”

A young man who went up on the platform asked into the microphone.

Judging by his appearance, he seems to be a student council member, but is he thoughtless? If it were high school, there would be many kids who know the ceremony because they come from nearby middle schools. This is University.

And since it’s a University in Seoul, there are many freshmen from all over the country, so if you ask like that, we can’t answer because it’s not certain.

“Well, it seems like everyone’s here, so we’ll proceed with the entrance ceremony. Waaaah~!”

He tries to induce cheers and applause, but no freshmen follow along, so he awkwardly clears his throat and continues the entrance ceremony.

Some 아저씨 I don’t know came up and spoke, and then, an 아저씨 who seemed to be a high-ranking official came up and spoke.

And now.

“Freshman representative, Yoon Ji-young, please come up.”

“I’ll be back.”

“Okay, have a good one.”

I, I am confident!

As everyone’s eyes were fixed on Ji-young, who stood up from her seat, I boldly grabbed Ji-young’s face and kissed her.

Hehe. At this point, there will be guys who give up, thinking that we’re such an affectionate couple kissing in front of everyone that there’s no room to interfere!

“Cute.”

Ji-young, who realized what I was thinking when I kissed her, said with a bright smile, her previously dying expression gone, and this time, Ji-young bent down and kissed me, then opened her mouth again.

“I’ll be back.”

As the freshman representative… what was it? Oath? Anyway, Ji-young, who went up on the platform to do something meaningless like that, started to shine even more with the light falling from above on her already beautiful face.

“Oath.”

Her clear and refreshing voice echoed and filled this wide space. Just by taking an oath, countless men and women fell in love with my proud girlfriend-nim.

“You worked hard.”

“What do you mean, worked hard.”

When I told Ji-young, who had returned to my side, that she had worked hard, she smiled as if asking if she felt like she had worked hard just by saying a few words.

And then, really meaningless things followed.

The entrance ceremony ended 20 minutes after Ji-young’s oath.

*

“I think that bus is ours.”

A bus with a paper attached to it with the name of the entered department was noticeable.

That bus is probably the bus we have to take.

“Hoon-ah, let’s sit here.”

“Ah… Okay.”

Ji-young grabbed my arm as I got on the bus and passed the people who had already taken their seats, and was habitually moving my unstoppable steps towards the back seat, and told me to sit in the middle seat.

Even in high school, when we got on a bus like this, we would naturally sit in the back seat.

Of course, that’s been the case since I started dating Ji-young, but Ji-young was always fixed in the back seat, and since we started dating, I also sat in the back seat.

Anyway, if we sit in the back seat now, there was a concern that we would be even more marked by the seniors who had unintentionally marked us.

They might be thinking something like this.

Who the fuck is that guy to sit there? Isn’t he a freshman? He’s so bold. Etc.

These are all my subjective thoughts, but just by Ji-young saying to sit in the middle instead of the back, I could guess that she had similar thoughts.

“Hello~! Your name is… Ji-young, right?”

A woman sat right next to us.

She is a freshman who came up to Ji-young and greeted her to become friends before the entrance ceremony started.

“Yeah. That’s right, I’m Ji-young.”

“I remembered correctly. I’m Lee Da-hye. I’m twenty years old. Ah. Are you perhaps twenty-one or older?”

Unlike high school, there were various ages even among the same freshmen in University.

On average, there is a difference of 1-2 years, but occasionally, there were elders who had lived a quarter of their lives longer and were sitting in the lecture room with a freshman name tag, and considering that, Lee Da-hye cautiously asked the question.

However, Lee Da-hye’s appearance was nothing special, and her body wasn’t particularly outstanding either, so she must have asked Ji-young, but she seemed to have no interest in this for these reasons, and was busy sitting by the window and watching the people getting on the bus, so I answered instead.

“We’re both twenty, so let’s speak comfortably.”

“O-Okay?”

She answered with an expression as if asking why the guy sitting next to her keeps answering.

“What’s your relationship?”

Is she asking because she doesn’t know?

Or could it be that she really didn’t see us kissing openly?

That’s right, it’s normal to think we’re dating since we did something like that in front of everyone.

“Can’t you tell just by looking?”

“……”

“……”

It would have been enough to just say one word.

Ji-young said in a sharp tone as if asking why she would bother asking that.

Still looking out the window.

“Ha, hahaha. Is that so? You look so good together.”

“Tsk……”

She’s a female student in the same department, the same age, and has a friendly personality. She could be a good friend to Ji-young, who doesn’t have any friends, but she’s unnecessarily getting angry and pushing away a kid who’s approaching, so it wasn’t a very good sight for me as her boyfriend.

Nevertheless, I had a smile on my face.

Because it seemed like she was expressing her displeasure that she didn’t even think that I, a man, would be her boyfriend.

“Were you… upset?”

“……”

“I’m sorry. I’ll apologize.”

“……”

Ji-young didn’t answer.

She seemed to be in a bad mood today, and Lee Da-hye’s words were the final blow, causing anger to rise and making her not even want to talk.

She seems like a good kid, so I should be a stepping stone to help them become friends, I thought, and was about to say something with an awkward smile.

“Do you have a lot of money?”

A man who didn’t look nervous like a freshman at all came up and asked out of the blue if I had a lot of money.

What is this person.

I felt a little bad.

Still, he seems like a senior, so I should put up with it.

“No.”

“Is your family well-off?”

“Not that we’re poor.”

“Average?”

“Yes.”

“What are you good at?”

“Huh? Why is that?”

If a girl asked me that, I’d think she was interested in me. Hearing it from a guy doesn’t feel good at all.

“You’re not handsome, and you don’t have a lot of money, so why are you dating her?”

This time, he aimed at Ji-young instead of me and asked.

“……”

Only then did Ji-young take her eyes off the window and turn her head.

“You’re even prettier up close?”

He smiled and gently waved his hand.

Seueuk.

Ji-young turned her head back to the window.

“Hmm…..?”

He awkwardly waved his hand, or rather, stroked the luxury brand watch on his wrist and tilted his head.

“Are you childhood friends?”

He came back to me again.

“No. We met for the first time in high school.”

I guess he’s asking so openly because Ji-young and I don’t match.

Honestly, if I were in someone else’s position, I would have thought the same.

But… but. Can’t you just leave us alone? I’m starting to get annoyed.

“Haa… Annoying. Really.”

A deep sigh came from the seat next to me.

“I confessed first. I fell in love at first sight. Why? Is it weird?”

“No. It’s not weird.”

He was clearly flustered by Ji-young’s direct words, and he explained that it wasn’t, but he must be thinking differently inside.

“Really? That’s a relief. There were a lot of bastards who were making all sorts of 개소리, saying that I was being threatened by Hoon to date him, or asking if he had a lot of money, but senior doesn’t see us that way?”

“Th, that’s right.”

“Heeh… I wish everyone would think that way.”

Hehe.

Ji-young finished speaking with a very charming smile.

Oh my. So cool.

“Th, that’s right… Ha, haha.”

He, who was completely overwhelmed, moved his steps to the back seat as if running away, and the bus started moving only when all the students participating in Orientation had gathered.