episode_0270

Late at night.

Even my eyelids, which were slowly closing due to fatigue, felt refreshed after getting some fresh air.

I thought it wouldn’t be particularly cold because it’s summer, but the wind is blowing harder than I thought.

‘I think it might be because the altitude is a bit high.’

Is this because the mansion was built high up? I never really felt this way when I was staying in the dorms.

The smell of cigarettes gently wafts into my nose on the wind.

Like Hansel and Gretel following the candy, I followed the smell of cigarettes all the way to the front gate, where I saw Senior Joohee smoking a cigarette.

“Ugh.”

I wonder if he thought he got caught smoking in front of his employer’s house.

He smiles and gestures while looking at his senior who is hastily trying to put out his cigarette.

“Hey, what are you turning off? There’s no one around anyway.”

“Sorry.”

“It doesn’t matter. I should have left work a long time ago, but I was held back by my sister-in-law. Do I get overtime pay?”

“No, I won’t accept it. It’s not work to hang out with Eunbyeol unnie.”

They call me Unnie Eunbyeol.

It’s a bit awkward when senior Joohee calls me unnie.

“That won’t work. It’ll make me late for work. Please accept it. I’ll tell you.”

“You don’t have to worry about that. Even now, my seniors often pick on me, saying I’m a parachute.”

“That’s ridiculous. Who said that?”

“Why? What did you call me and say?”

“Let’s have a showdown. The senior always wins.”

“Hehe, I think about it sometimes.”

Even though he says that, it doesn’t seem like working is that bad. His expression is better than when he was at Gold One.

“Hoo.”

The senior, who had finished smoking a cigarette, put the butt back in his cigarette case and then tapped his body.

“I’m going now. Is everyone asleep?”

“Yes, I’m asleep. My sister-in-law went to bed a long time ago. Jin-ah was excited because it was her first time staying up all night, and then passed out on the sofa.”

By the way, it’s still midnight.

If an adult can’t stay up until midnight, isn’t there something wrong with that?

“Senior, you should go to sleep too. It’s hard to get to the dorm from here.”

“Okay, how about sleeping at your employer’s house?”

“You can think of it as your junior’s house. It’s because you look tired.”

“… … Do you have something to say?”

Senior Joohee, who was about to turn back, looked at me and asked.

The calm gaze and atmosphere suited to the dawn moment left me speechless.

“That, it happened last time, right?”

Finally, I mustered up the courage to ask.

“Last time?”

“That’s what the hospital said. I was drunk and did something weird.”

“Ah.”

Senior Joohee also nodded as if she remembered.

I clearly told you that if the people who would become your wives found out, it would be a big problem.

“Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.”

Senior Joo-hee responds calmly.

But I couldn’t just let it go that easily.

“It was my mistake. I did something to my senior… … that I feel sorry about.”

“… … .”

“I’m scared that the kids will find out, because I honestly don’t know what I did, but there’s nothing I can do about it. But more than that, I’m worried that I might have done something… the worst… to my senior.”

Getting caught by the kids?

Of course it’s scary.

But more than that, I wanted to apologize to my seniors for the mistakes I made and the hurt or confusion they may have felt as a result.

“Anyway, Seo, senior said that it was your first love… ”

A situation where I pushed away, and then gave room again.

Isn’t this really the worst of the worst?

The senior who had been blankly looking at me took another cigarette in his mouth.

When you’re with me normally, you don’t avoid me first because of the smell.

The senior, who seemed deeply troubled, stared at me.

“I was moving the kids from the bar to their car when you suddenly hugged me from behind.”

He opened his mouth with a puff of cigarette smoke.

“And then he just started touching my body. As if nothing happened.”

“… … .”

“I tried to tell him to stop, but I was momentarily pushed back without realizing it.”

“… … .”

“My back got hit by a car, and you ran straight into me.”

“… … .”

“He grabbed my wrist, and suddenly kissed me while I was still drunk, and then suddenly his hand-.”

“Okay, shut up! Wait a minute!”

I was embarrassed and called my senior urgently, but he didn’t show any sign of it and just put his cigarette in his mouth again.

“Hoo.”

“Me, me? Really?! You did that to your senior?”

“There’s more behind, can you tell me?”

“There’s more…?”

My senior didn’t really answer. He just stared at me with the same gaze as before.

It seems like there’s something he really doesn’t like.

first.

Slap.

Let’s get on our knees.

“I’m sorry! ”

I immediately got down on my knees and apologized to my senior.

This was a problem that could not be solved in any way, so it was necessary to apologize wholeheartedly from the beginning.

A senior with his arms linked and his legs crossed.

If someone saw me, they would think I was being ripped off.

“I really don’t remember at all! I’m so so sorry! I, I’ll do anything if I can be forgiven! ”

“Hoo.”

Senior Joohee blew out smoke several times as if she was thinking about something.

“Okay.”

He just answered like that.

The somewhat resigned voice made my heart ache.

“I didn’t do it on purpose. It was an accident, so I’ll just let it go.”

“Senior… … .”

“Let’s pretend it never happened. There’s no need to apologize. Sexual harassment in the workplace is surprisingly common.”

“Ugh!”

As I clutched my chest as if I had been hit, my senior turned his back to me.

“I’m going, sleep well. I won’t come tomorrow because it’s my day off.”

“Yes, yes! Take a look, brother! Oh, no! Sister!”

Senior Joo-hee waves her hand and leaves without even looking at me.

Looking at that senior, I return home with a sad face.

‘I’m trash. I’m… I’m trash!’

What do the children’s faces look like?

* * *

“After… ….”

Minjuhee stopped walking and was smoking a cigarette again in the corner of the alley.

I don’t normally smoke this often. What I learned while working at the factory is that it’s harder to quit than you might think.

‘I have to stop this now.’

I had to quit for health reasons and money reasons.

I couldn’t put it down today.

There was only one reason.

Self-loathing.

Was he exhaling smoky cigarette smoke to hide his disgusting self?

I don’t know what it was, but Min Joo-hee couldn’t help but feel ashamed of herself for being in a different state than usual.

That night.

Yeah, that day I went to Kim Woojin’s class reunion.

Everyone was drunk, so I put them in the car to take them to Kim Woo-jin’s home.

I burned Choi Jin-ah.

Seo Ye-rin was burned.

Lastly, Kim Woo-jin was trying to sit in the front seat.

‘Wow! I feel great!’

The guy leaning on my shoulder was touching my shoulder and arm, saying that my body was firm.

Honestly, if it had been someone else, I wouldn’t have cared, but hearing those words from Kim Woo-jin made me feel a bit uneasy.

‘Sleep at my house! Sleep at my house!’

I heard that the injection brings trouble to other people’s homes, and it was true.

The moment Min Joo-hee was about to sit in the front seat while thinking like that.

He suddenly pushed Min Joo-hee hard and pushed her into the car, then grabbed her shoulder.

‘… … Woojin?’

‘Sleep at my house, gooo! Sleep at my house, gooo!’

‘Huh, Woojin?’

‘Go to sleep!’

Then, Kim Woojin’s face came closer to him. His face was red from being extremely drunk.

This is the first time I’ve seen it this close, except when I secretly slept with it in Gold One’s arms.

‘There’s Yerin in the back seat-.’

The conversation couldn’t continue.

Kim Woo-jin’s face was getting closer and closer, and in fact, Min Joo-hee could easily push away a drunkard if she applied her strength.

Before I knew it.

I realized that I was relaxing and closing my eyes.

As if accepting it.

She was looking forward to the sensation of her first kiss.

‘ah.’

Breath full of alcohol.

However, it never reached Minjuhee’s lips.

‘No.’

Kim Woo-jin muttered like that.

‘Yerin too.’

‘… … .’

‘This too.’

‘… … .’

‘You’re not even a child.’

‘… … .’

‘I’m sorry! I have someone who is very kind to me!’

‘… … .’

‘If it weren’t for them! You shouldn’t do this!’

okay.

That’s a given.

Of course so.

What did you expect?

‘It’s in the back seat.’

‘Yerinaaaa!’

It ended with them sitting together in the back seat.

“Hoo.”

I know.

Everything I said to Kim Woo-jin was a lie.

It was a kind of tantrum that I did because I was annoyed, envious, and angry.

Nothing happened.

Kim Woo-jin was so drunk that he couldn’t even recognize his own face.

Still, nothing happened.

He restrained himself from acts that were close to instinct for the sake of those he loved.

That was it for me.

I knew it.

So I gave up.

Now I’m going to stop and try to find my own way.

“Ha.”

Min Joo-hee was angry because she felt ashamed and pathetic as she was.

I don’t particularly like alcohol, but I feel like I have to drink today.

To be honest,

It’s not that I hadn’t imagined it.

The first love that she fell in love with despite not having any parents was actually the son of a wealthy family.

Living happily with someone you love, you don’t have to worry about money.

That kind of future.

Isn’t this just like a princess from a fairy tale?

I thought that something like that could happen to me, who had always lived a rough life.

‘it’s okay.’

A fairy tale is still a fairy tale.

He was still a broke college student and the head of a household responsible for his younger siblings.

Because she was always supposed to be a dependable and trustworthy person, not a feminine being from a fairy tale.

‘Yes, yes! Take a look, brother! Oh, no! Sister!’

Kim Woo-jin’s last greeting lingers in my ears.

The fact that I mistakenly called him ‘hyung’ felt a lot worse than I thought.

Although it didn’t bother me to other people, I was hurt when I heard it from Kim Woo-jin.

Okay.

‘Now, really… … let’s stop.’

I told myself to stop several times last time, but I still had this foolish thought.

but.

Now, really.

I guess I should stop.

I made up my mind.

She threw the cigarette butt into the trash can, took a deep breath, and walked down the night street again.

Minjuhee had returned to her usual self before anyone knew it.