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Episode.60 First love is always in my heart

From the first day of high school entrance ceremony to the end of the first semester, nothing special happened.

The story of an ordinary high school boy who is common everywhere.

All I do is study and play games.

So lethargic I go into summer vacation.

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Summer vacation ended in vain.

Due to the aftermath of summer vacation, day and night changed, and I couldn’t adjust to the morning, so I laid down on my desk and tried to sleep.

However, I was over 180cm tall, and sleeping face down on my school desk was uncomfortable.

Unless you were really tired, you couldn’t fall asleep by lying face down on that school desk.

Fortunately, I was not too tired because I slept at least an hour early the day before the school opening ceremony.

So I just closed my eyes.

After closing my eyes for about 10 minutes, I felt like I was going to fall asleep.

But I had to get up soon.

Because I heard the bell ringing, signaling the time for morning assembly.

I got up and took a quick look around.

Everyone must have had a great summer vacation, and some of us had slightly tanned skin.

It was only for a moment that the noisy classroom became quiet.

My friends and other classmates sat down early after hearing the morning bell.

Why does everyone get nervous when they hear the bell ring?

That’s because our homeroom teacher’s nickname is Teacher Tiger.

It seems like they didn’t want to make the second semester a difficult one by having everyone sit down quickly at the school opening ceremony.

First year, second semester of high school.

After summer vacation is over, the noisy children from other classes hurriedly return to their classrooms.

It’s a pity that such precious vacation time seems to have disappeared in an instant.

‘How will I survive until next winter break?’

I greet my homeroom teacher with this thought.

In his left hand he held an attendance register, and in his right hand he held a cane.

It is strictly prohibited for a teacher to hit a student, but such as hitting the blackboard with an object or hitting the teacher’s table hard.

It’s a good tool to draw attention by making such a threat.

-Tap!

My homeroom teacher hit the table hard, just as I thought.

My friend sitting in front of me was removing dirt from his fingernails with a sharpener.

I ended up dropping my sharpie when the teacher hit the table hard.

At the same time, he complains of pain as if he was stabbed under his fingernail with a sharp knife.

“Ah, Mr..”

Then, Min Seong-i, the friend who was next to the friend who stabbed under the fingernail with a sharp, picked up the sharp for him and said,

“Not being able to come to your senses means you are still ‘bronze’.”

“What? Isn’t it because I don’t have time? If I work hard, I’ll catch up to four tiers in no time?!”

Jun-seok refuted Min-seong’s words.

“There! Be quiet!”

“”Yes, yes!””

The voice was so loud that it must have reached the teacher’s ears.

Minseong, me, and Junseok were in the very back seats near the window on the left side of the classroom.

There are 29 people in our class and there is one empty seat.

When two people sit together, one seat becomes empty.

So now the seat next to me was empty.

“Hmm, hmm. There is a new student today.”

The children suddenly became noisy due to the teacher’s shocking remarks.

Could it be a boy?

Could it be a girl?

There was a high probability that whoever it was would sit next to me.

“Now, come in.”

As the new student opened the door and entered, the classroom was filled with a luxurious and heart-pounding anger.

I couldn’t take my eyes off the transfer student, perhaps because I was wearing good perfume.

The cool summer breeze blowing from the classroom window made her long, straight hair flutter.

Her bangs became an attractive point.

One step, one step.

Every time she walked into class, her stylish summer blouse from our school caught my eye.

The transfer student’s skirt suited her better than any other girl I had ever seen.

I have never had a girlfriend in 17 years.

Well, I wasn’t particularly interested in dating.

Above all, money was too precious.

I just watched the relationships of my friends around me and didn’t feel like I wanted to do it.

So every time I finished school, if it was exam period, I studied, and if not, I played games in the PC room.

“Please introduce yourself. It’s not important, so it’s okay to keep it short.”

The homeroom teacher asked the transfer student to introduce himself.

“… Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Yena Lee. Please take care of me in the future.”

It was a short self-introduction, but her voice rang through my ears.

Beautiful voice and beautiful appearance.

I haven’t had a girlfriend in 17 years, but it’s been 17 years since I first felt love at first sight.

The moment I fell in love at first sight, everything became brighter than I could explain in words, and I had only felt it in my imagination.

The feelings I had imagined when watching other friends’ relationships became reality.

“Um… Okay, first, sit in the spare seat over there.”

Jena approached me.

I was sitting by the window.

However, my textbooks and bag were on the opposite desk, so I quickly made room for them.

Yena looked at me and sighed.

Then Yena sits by the window.

The clear sky without a single cloud reflected in the window, and Yena’s eyes looked even clearer in the sky blue light.

“Hey… don’t you like the window?”

When I saw her sighing, I gathered courage and spoke to her.

“Huh? Why do you think that?”

“No, that’s not it…”

I’m not really this type of personality.

But I don’t know why I can’t make eye contact with Jena, and why I feel so nervous even when I say a single word.

“Because you sighed… is that why you thought that?”

Always open all classroom windows during morning hours.

My homeroom teacher told me to always leave it open for ventilation.

Maybe that’s why, whenever she looks at me, it feels like a light breeze blows that makes my heart tremble.

“Pheup, you… are fun. But don’t worry. It’s just a sigh of relief.”

“Sigh of relief?”

“Okay, do you know how difficult it is to introduce yourself in front of others?”

At this moment when I was talking to her, I could not hear any surrounding sounds, as if we were alone in the world.

Today too, without talking about anything special, the voice of the homeroom teacher telling them not to get into trouble, and the voices of other girls talking while looking at the transfer student, but the girls seemed to have lost interest quickly and started talking about the cosmetics they use.

The male students mainly talked about part-time jobs.

But I felt like he kept glancing at Yena.

But all of that seemed to be blocked by the refreshing breeze blowing through the window.

Junseok and Minseong started writing something on A4 paper.

Perhaps because the teacher scolded us for being noisy, we each took a sharp and wrote letters while talking.

Without words, just writing.

How to have a conversation in a quiet space like a library.

That’s a good idea.

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I blinked once and it was already time for the funeral.

I wanted to know Yena better, so I tried to talk to her using the method used by Junseok and Minseong.

At first, I started.

Starting from the first period, I spoke to Yena in writing in the form of a note, avoiding the eyes of the teachers conducting the class.

The most common conversation starter, ‘What do you like?’

It started well.

I handed over the note and soon after waiting, I received a note from her that she passed under the desk.

When Yena’s fingers touched mine, I flinched a little.

‘It’s my first time feeling like this…’

Yena’s smile, tone of voice, and all of her actions are all special.

I was curious about her feelings as she passed it under the desk.

Why did you pass it under the desk instead of straight up like I did?

It felt like the world had been reborn.

I’ve always wondered what it feels like to be excited.

Although he said on the outside that he was not interested in dating.

Still, you can’t help but wonder, right?

What kind of feeling should it really be to be excited?

What should it really feel like to be nervous?

I put away my random thoughts and opened the note she gave me.

The note Yena returned to me had beautiful, clear handwriting written on it.

How can people be this stupid?

Just looking at the writing makes me shiver.

That’s all.

Read what she wrote.

– I like spicy food. Eating relieves stress, right? By the way, what is your name?

Didn’t I tell you the most basic thing?

I feel excited once again when I see Yena showing interest in me.

I write three letters of my name on the note.

To always be remembered in her heart.

My name is what I wrote with the most concentration in my life.

Yena received my note and smiled softly before handing it back to me.

– Yes, Han Si-woo. That’s a good name.

We talked like this throughout class, except for recess and lunch.

It felt like Yena and I were getting a little closer.

This was my first meeting with her.

As if it was fate or God’s will, they met for the first time and succeeded in conversing flawlessly despite being of different genders.

You may think that Yena is simply friendly and not a shy person.

However, the smile she had when she was talking to me in her handwriting, and the wind that blew at that moment.

It didn’t seem like he hated that moment.

I fell in love with Yena’s innocent and pretty appearance.