episode_0171

The atmosphere at the academy after the college entrance exam was truly different.

The third graders enjoyed the sense of liberation, joy, and freedom that they had finally been liberated, and the chatter and laughter continued in the classrooms and hallways.

Even when they came to class, they read comic books, watched videos on their cell phones to kill time, or brought portable game consoles and played games with others, and the teachers didn’t really touch them.

After finishing the 3rd period, we went home again, and everyone enjoyed the vacation that wasn’t a vacation and thought, ‘If this is going to be like this, there’s no need to come to the academy, right? ‘Tell me to rest at home.’ In the meantime, he wanted to enjoy a more comfortable life.

On the other hand, the second graders only sighed at the fact that it was now their turn to go through the hell we went through, and were busy looking with crazy envy at the third graders who were returning home in the early morning.

Needless to say, they are freshmen who still have two years left.

Yuri was now handing over the duties of student council president to her juniors in preparation for graduation, and Eunji had rested enough since the National Sports Festival, so she returned to practice and ran on the court despite the cold weather.

Yumin was whining because she couldn’t make time for dates as often as before because final exams were just around the corner, and lastly, Suyeon…

Ding dong-

After returning home early, I was warming up a convenience store lunch box when my doorbell rang.

I quickly went out and opened the door, and Suyeon, who had packed a bag, was waiting in front of the door smiling.

“Hihi, senior, I’m here!”

“Have you moved all your luggage now?”

“Yes. Anyway, there are now textbooks and workbooks, so I don’t need them all, and surprisingly, there isn’t much else to take care of.”

After the CSAT was over, Suyeon had been packing up her belongings and moving them to my room.

From everyday blankets and pillows to shoes and clothes… In fact, most of the luggage was clothes and underwear, so unexpectedly the house didn’t explode.

As she said, Sooyeon’s parents seemed completely uninterested in what their daughter was doing, even though she had been moving her belongings into my room over the course of several days.

So Sooyeon gradually prepared to run away from home, and after moving her belongings for a few days, she settled down in our house.

And Sooyeon took one last deep breath and called her mother.

When Soo-yeon answered the phone on the other end, she opened her mouth.

“Mom, I called because I have something to tell you.”

-What should I say? Why are you calling at this hour? You can just text me. After school, grab a meal and quickly prepare for the essay you need to enter college.

‘That’s amazing.’

I only heard about it from Suyeon, but I didn’t know what kind of people her parents were because I never met them, but the conversation I heard through the cell phone was truly spectacular.

Su-yeon’s mother can’t tell her daughter to rest after the college entrance exam, but she tells her to start preparing for college essays right away.

Suyeon sighed softly and said something else.

“Mom, do you know what food I like?”

-What do you want me to buy you? Mom, since I don’t have time, I order whatever I want to eat.

“… Do you know what I usually watch?”

– He’s been saying something strange since a while ago!

“…… Do you know what I want to do in the future?”

– Sooyeon Choi! If you keep talking nonsense, hang up the phone!

Suyeon’s mother’s voice was so loud that it was uncomfortable to listen to.

When I heard Sooyeon’s mother say that she had no interest in her daughter and did not respond properly to her daughter’s hobbies and preferences, I felt frustrated for no reason.

It’s the same as having no family to rely on either there or here, but I thought that it might be better to not have a family like that or to not have any contact with them at all.

Suyeon sighed longer and finally got to the point.

“… I’m going to leave the house.”

– …… what?

“If I stay in that corner of his house, I can’t breathe because I can’t live. Ever since I was little, my mom and dad have been holding me down like a rat and suffocating me, controlling every single thing. I’m tired of it. Thanks to Mom and Dad, I couldn’t make friends as I wanted, my school life was all messed up because they sent me to study abroad, and everything was done the way Mom and Dad wanted.

Did you think I didn’t know that you were treating me like a useless child because I intentionally ruined your grades? And then, because it seems like I’m studying with my mind on it, I’m busy showing off to other ladies. How about it? I skipped a grade, so did you feel relieved?”

– Sooyeon Choi! What kind of habit are you talking to your mom about now? Where are you going to leave the house?

“Anyway, I am an adult and have now graduated from a higher education academy and did well on the CSAT. Are you satisfied because you did well on the college entrance exam after torturing people like that? I lived my whole life like a tool for my mom and dad, but now I feel like I’ll die if I live like that any longer, so I can’t do that.

I packed up all my luggage and left. I will never go to that house again. It feels good to be able to do well on the college entrance exam and go to a good college just as Mom and Dad wanted, right?”

– You two bastards… Where are you now!!!

‘Even though her daughter confessed that she was thinking like that, she didn’t give me a word of comfort and scolded me like that.’

As I listened to the phone call, it was difficult to imagine how depressed Sooyeon must have been, having lived her whole life with parents like that.

“I will go to a good university on my own and receive a scholarship. I won’t ask my mom and dad to pay my tuition or anything like that, and I won’t even look for my mom and dad. Mom and Dad, don’t look for me. I can go find Mom and Dad if their minds are fixed… That’s not going to happen, right?

I have very few good memories… no, I don’t have any, but anyway, thank you for raising me until now. Stop.”

-Choi Soo…

Pop-

“Haa…haa…”

Suyeon hung up the phone and took a deep breath.

It was a short call, but she must have been under a lot of mental stress, so she started shaking and showed mild symptoms of hyperventilation.

I sat next to Suyeon, hugged her tightly, and patted her on the back.

“Uuuu…

Suyeon, who was shaking, eventually cried into my arms, tears streaming down her face.

By announcing that she was running away from her mother and hanging up the phone, Sooyeon was now completely leaving the home she had grown up in all her life in an instant.

Now I can no longer see the bed in my room where I used to sleep every day, or the view of the living room or kitchen that I would have seen when I woke up in the morning.

I’ve never been to Sooyeon’s house, but from what I heard, it seemed like a fairly wealthy family, but it can’t be compared to my house, where I’ll be living from now on.

I did not prepare thoroughly for independence, nor did I become independent with encouragement from my parents; I literally ran away from home.

He ran away from home because he could no longer bear the pressure from his parents who were suffocating him at home.

And the despair of having to be truly alone from now on, and the pain I must have felt as I directly announced to my parents that I was running away from home, no matter how much I hated them.

All of that stimulated Suyeon and made her cry.

I comforted Suyeon by rubbing her back as if to take away her worries.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. From now on, I will be there for you.”

“Ugh… Ugh… Come on, senior… Now… you really have to take responsibility for me…”

The sight of Suyeon, who was unusually weak, stimulated my protective instinct even more.

“Okay. Let’s do our best together first.”

“Sniff… Yes…”

After crying for a while, Suyeon seemed to have calmed down a bit and nodded and hugged me.

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Suyeon came to her senses again, unpacked her belongings and placed her pillow and blanket next to my pillow on the mattress, preparing to live together.

“That’s it! I roughly solved everything I needed… Senior, do you have enough space in the cabinet? Would you like me to put my clothes in? Oh, I put my cosmetics, skin, and lotion on the bathroom shelf…”

I also went back and forth and helped Suyeon put away her things.

Since we didn’t have that much luggage to begin with, the clean-up was completed quickly and we sat with our backs against the wall, wiping our sweat and taking a break.

“Ha… Now you’re actually living with a senior. Something feels strange.”

“You don’t regret it, do you?”

“Not at all? If anything, I would have regretted it more if I hadn’t made a decision. Oh! Would you like to take a picture to commemorate the fact that we are now living together? You said you were going to start something like that Instagram anyway?”

“Uh, right. I’m not the type to dress up too much, so I don’t know if it will turn out well.”

“You have to make corrections, make corrections! Give me your cell phone. First, get the correction app here…”

Su-yeon got the correction app she used and used it to turn on the camera and focus on us.

“I’m good at taking pictures again, right? Now, look here~ Kimchi~”

Sooyeon took a two-shot with me and then edited the photo with various filters.

Then, a photo that looked quite plausible was born.

Or maybe it was just that Sooyeon was so pretty that it created an optical illusion where she looked good in photos no matter what she did.

“How are you? ”

“Well, when I took a few pictures by myself for practice, it was dull and not that good, so why is it so different?”

“Hehehehe. This is the power of correction! Last time, Yumin uploaded a video of us grading, and I heard that the reaction was quite funny and the response was quite positive. You will be able to do well in the future. Because he’s my boyfriend!”

“Okay, thank you. Thanks to having good girlfriends, I can somehow survive. I have to do it right.”

While we were laughing and chatting, our eyes met for a moment.

When we made eye contact with each other smiling, we both became speechless.

We looked at each other for a moment, then without anyone knowing, we rushed at each other and gave each other a deep kiss.

And at the same time, I checked the watch on my phone.

There were still a few hours left before I had to go to my part-time job at the convenience store.

After checking the time, we hugged each other tighter and our tongues intertwined.

Now was the time for couples who had just started living together to do the things they do every day at home.