NOVEL NEXT chapter 34
34 – I really don’t know you
It’s the third year of high school.
I stopped practicing boxing in March to study for the entrance exam, but I am continuing my part-time job at the gym.
Chief Lee didn’t force me to do it, it was because I was needed at this gym.
As I was wiping the gym floor with a rolling pin, one of my top customers rustled over.
“Hello Hansol~”
“Hello, go to bed and jump rope, noona. Did you miss the lesson yesterday because you were drinking too? The manager is waiting for you.”
“Ah~ Then our Hansol can teach my sister, right? I don’t want to learn from a rugged old man like that either.”
“Because I am an examinee, right? Don’t try to waste time like that, go quickly.”
“Chit… When he first registered, he acted as if he was in charge of everything. I was fooled, this is a scam! … I don’t like that guy because he always screams, but really. “
Our customer, who was grumbling like that, trudged toward Manager Lee.
She is a customer I’ve been fishing for at a women’s university before me, and as a trial version for the first week, she has signed up for a year’s worth of diet boxing lessons.
But after registering, I only teach one lesson out of four lessons a week, and Director Lee or other coaches take care of the rest.
She almost cheated, but she never left the gym, even though I was in charge once a week.
In this way, there were more than 20 customers I caught in front of the women’s college.
By the way, can I be so unkind to you?
This is the concept. I am good-looking to our customers, but I am fulfilling their fantasy by playing the role of a younger man.
I’m doing something like a host, but this is all for gym management.
Director Lee, who was yelling at the woman I sent and watching her posture, approached me. She also has a face full of displeasure.
“I can’t eat it. What is diet boxing in a martial arts dojo where men have to sweat and devote themselves… I’m tired of hearing girls whining.”
“Then were you good at management from the beginning? I have to do this at least to pay the coaches’ salaries.”
“… The boxing gym I thought was not like this.”
“No matter how hard it is, no one comes seriously to learn at the gym run by a man who has never played professionally.”
“Kuhmm… “
I roughly expected it when I was just going to exercise here, but when I saw it while working part-time, Lee’s gym was always in the red. That too for 6 years in a row.
Boxing is a hobby, and in the past, Chief Lee, who won several amateur competitions, opened a boxing gym that was his dream, but… As expected, self-employment must have been impossible due to his stubborn personality.
At most, no matter who came to sign up, they would stir-fry them and make them run away after less than a month.
Even if the severance pay you received from Yoo Jae-joon has been left for a while, it can’t last forever.
Then I’ll have to do something a little bit out of line. Originally, business is not the president’s mind, but to meet the needs of customers.
After I finished mopping, I changed clothes in the changing room and told the landlord, Chief Lee.
“I will be a little late today. I’m going to eat dinner too.”
“Because of studying?”
“No, I have a date today.”
That was also a date after a long time.
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When I entered the cinema, no one was waiting for me. Because i did it
I bought popcorn and two cokes before entering the theater. As many people eat a lot, it is caramel flavored and oversized.
Holding a huge box of popcorn in her arms and drinking cups in both hands, she entered a deserted theater and saw a woman wearing a hat and sunglasses.
Looks like I’m in disguise. I sat down next to her.
“Meeting like this, meeting secretly, and wearing clothes, so you really look like a celebrity.”
“A celebrity, then. Didn’t you see it somewhere like you tube? They say she’s the prettiest among the 4th generation idols.”
“… He speaks with his own mouth.”
The date was, of course, Mina. Minah made her debut earlier this year.
It’s a group that has gathered a lot of pretty faces, but since the songs were well chosen, Mina’s group became a trending girl group at once, monopolizing the number one spot on music charts and music shows as soon as she debuted.
“I didn’t know that idol debuts would happen so quickly. It seems like yesterday when I heard she was a trainee.”
“It must be fast for you, how long for me. We rolled really tight for two years.”
“No, but I heard that there are people who have been trainees for 6 or 7 years.”
“Well, I was lucky. It was because I joined a group that was preparing. Our members, at first, they probably didn’t like me, right?”
I guess so. A rolled stone is not welcome anywhere.
I think I was too indifferent to Mina.
She doesn’t want to give Mina any expectations, so she doesn’t usually contact Mina first… I’ll ask for your regards.
We haven’t even exchanged text messages since the day Ara dumped us.
Because we’ve been pretty busy with each other. Especially Minah, who is about to debut.
“… Do the members bully you a lot?”
“No, it was just a little awkward at first. How are you now? I’m the youngest in our group even though I’m 19, right? Now, the unnies say how pretty I am.”
“Really… ?”
“Or what, let Sol come find you? Are you coming to tell me not to bully my girl?”
“She’s not my girl, and I’m going to tell her not to bully my friend.”
“Whoops, where is that?”
I felt a soft sensation on the back of my hand resting on the seat armrest. Mina put her hand on top of mine.
This is what we are going to do now. Turning her head to the side, Mina seemed to be focusing only on the movie, as if nothing had happened.
… Yes, would you like to see this? Can friends hold hands?
“But you debuted after working so hard, can I meet you? If you get caught somewhere, you’ll hurt the members too.”
“Why is the damage done? I just came to see a movie by myself and accidentally sat next to a man I didn’t know.”
“… Yes it was I forgot.”
“But, by coincidence, a man who is my type sat down? I’m curious How about a girl like me over there?”
“… Not bad.”
We laughed and chatted, exchanging trivial jokes.
I asked cautiously near the end of the movie.
“… How is Ara these days?”
“… I’m not sure. I was too busy… More than that, I’m also a little awkward with Ara these days.”
“You? Why?”
Since I was young, I had never seen Ara and Mina fight.
Mina followed Ara’s words almost like a knight who swore allegiance, and even though she was Ara, she didn’t do anything Mina didn’t like.
Putting strength into their clasped hands, Mina answered.
“That’s right, you bullied the person I love, Ara. The first time I hated him.”
“… Did Ara tell you everything?”
“Roughly. Cha Ye-jin, the girl Ara introduced. You said he dumped you? She said shortly after that she cried at school.”
“The kick is… I just refused because it wasn’t my type.”
I met Cha Ye-jin just once more after that day, and immediately expressed rejection. It’s a burden, so let’s not meet anymore.
She thought of Ara’s position in the first place and only grabbed her after, so she didn’t have to drag it on.
“But… How much do you talk about Arrang? By any chance, where does Yooara go to college?”
“… I’m not sure Why don’t you ask yourself?”
She asked cautiously, but the answer that came back was cold.
I guess so. Who would like to see the man he likes clinging to another woman in such a miserable way.
Nevertheless, I asked Mina one more time.
“I decided not to contact Yuara first. Mina, do you really not know? Even if you cross over and listen… “
“You really do too much.”
“… Sorry.”
“Do you like Ara that much even after being introduced to other girls, getting dumped, and even leaving the house? Still can’t I?”
“…… “
“… Yes, I guess I should wait a little longer.”
“Actually, I… “
Because I promised. With Arawa and Han Seung-ah. I wanted to say that, but Mina wouldn’t allow it.
“Stop talking. I really want to hit you on the cheek right now, but I’m holding back.”
“… Sorry.”
“I really thought you would come to me now… “
After sighing with her sad face, Mina got up from her seat first.
I tried to get up, but I was blocked by her hand on my shoulder.
Mina lowered her head and whispered in my ear.
“… Korea University Gandae. It’s a kid who ranks in several places in the country, so of course he’ll go to the highest school. Can you follow me there?”
“It has nothing to do with it. You just have to go to the same school.”
“… I really don’t know you.”
After saying that, Minah left the theater first without saying goodbye.
By the time Mina’s back was no longer visible and her scent had disappeared, the surroundings of her brightened and the ending credits of the movie were lit.
I couldn’t remember anything about the movie.