episode_0252

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It’s been a week since the day it rained like a monsoon rain.

She, who had recently started walking again, sighed as she climbed the hill.

Her physical strength was not weak enough for the steep road to be difficult.

There was no particular reason for her sighing.

It was because of a female student who had recently been sitting at Inho’s house.

Shin Jeong-ah.

I thought she was someone I would just pass by once, but I had been hooking up with her ever since, starting with what happened at the park last time.

To be precise, it would be correct to say that he is involved with Kang In-ho. Yoon Shia: She is just an observer watching it from the side.

And that fact was gnawing at her heart little by little.

“Why is he doing that…”

I felt bloated, as if I had eaten a lot of fatty food.

The environment is very important for students in their growing years.

Just as when you get close to something black, it becomes black, and when you get close to something white, it becomes white.

It is not for no reason that parents who are polarized are going out of their way to change school districts.

But having to live with such an insincere student…

Even though it was not her fault, Yoon Sia felt at a loss.

That night when Shin Jeong-ah came to In-ho’s house.

Whether she failed to avoid the rain or did not avoid it on purpose, she appeared soaking wet.

[I got caught. To my parents.]

Yun Sia couldn’t accept the meaning right away.

However, Inho seemed to know. What those words mean.

Thinking back to Inho’s face, which was getting stiffer and turning blue by the minute, Yuncia chewed her lip hard without realizing it.

In-ho brought Shin Jeong-ah into the house without hesitation.

Yun Sia had to leave the house alone without even being able to go back in.

And a few days later, when she arrived at his house for tutoring, Shin Jeong-ah, dressed in comfortable clothes, greeted her.

[Me? Do you live here?]

Seeing Shin Jeong-ah’s face smiling brightly at her for the first time, Yoon Sia had to feel a strange sense of discomfort.

After that, things got a little complicated.

While we were happily having dinner face to face with In-ho, Shin Jeong-ah intervened.

Shin Jeong-ah’s self-centered behavior made him angry, but for some reason, In-ho obediently followed her words.

It was the same when I was in class.

Not only did he linger in front of the door every 20 minutes, disrupting class, but he also came into his room during break time and lay down on his bed to sleep.

[What happened?]

After barely sending her out, Yun Shia pressed down her pen and left a question at the end of her notebook.

Kang In-ho paused when he saw the words, then sighed and explained his situation on a piece of notebook paper.

I also added that you should not tell your parents.

pregnancy. I’m pregnant.

Yoon Sia’s head was spinning.

[Are you sane?]

Forgetting to even write a conversation, Yoon Si-ah raised her voice and reprimanded him.

[I’m sane now, so I have to take responsibility.]

He sighed and said, as if exhaling cigarette smoke.

[But it’s a little better now that I’ve told the teacher. I was distraught because I had nowhere to talk.]

Seeing In-ho smiling so much that his gums were exposed, Yun-sia felt an inexplicable emotion.

Is it sympathy or anger?

***

As I climbed the hill, reminiscing about memories from a while ago, I arrived at his house.

Yun Sia rang the bell, and after a short wait, the door opened.

When she opened the front door, it was Shin Jeong-ah, not Kang In-ho, who greeted her.

“Sister, are you here?”

She is so happy that she now calls me sister.

That soft sound was so scary that Yoon Sia wrinkled her face slightly.

“What about Inho?”

“Inho is cooking in the kitchen.”

As soon as Shin Jeong-ah finished speaking, Yoon Sia passed her and headed toward the kitchen.

“Ah, teacher, are you here?”

He, who was wearing an apron and cooking, looks back.

Yoon Sia smiled bitterly at that bright smile.

I wondered what kind of ordeal this would be for a child who was now trying to live a good life.

“The meat was delayed in thawing… Please wait a moment.”

The smell of sizzling spicy seasoning and meat hit my nose.

When she nodded, swallowing the saliva that welled up, Shin Jeong-ah approached Kang In-ho and clung to him.

“Wow… I always feel this way, aren’t you really good at cooking? Of course he’s my boyfriend!”

Shin Jeong-ah hugged him from behind and rubbed her face against his back.

“Hey, I’m cooking. It takes a long time to prepare, so you should get some rest.”

Inho tried to shake his body to get it off, but the force wasn’t strong.

“I’m going to be next to Inho?”

When she smiled brightly and tried to show her affection, Yoon Sia turned around.

“I’ll leave my luggage in my room.”

Since it was a day of solving mock test problems, my bag was quite heavy.

Yoon Sia came up to his room on the second floor.

She put the bag on the chair and unzipped it.

She took out the workbooks one by one and sighed again as if she was losing strength.

It wasn’t about her situation, it was about someone else’s situation.

While I was putting my hand on the backrest and making up my mind, I heard footsteps approaching the room.

“Ah, you are here.”

It was Shin Jeong-ah. She entered his room without hesitation.

Although it wasn’t her room, Yoon Sia felt something was being invaded.

“I heard it took about 20 minutes. I came here to get some rest.”

“So?”

Yun Shia answered mechanically and turned and headed toward the door.

It would be more comfortable to sit at the table than to be in the same space as that child.

“Are you going out? Tskcha~ I’ll be back later.”

Shin Jeong-ah threw herself onto the bed.

Her light body fell to the bed, and she fell on her face as if feeling the soft texture of the blanket.

“…….”

Yun Sia watched this for a moment, then turned around and left the room.

Even while going down to the first floor, while eating, and while taking class with In-ho,

The image of Shin Jeong-ah lying face down on the bed could not be erased.