NOVEL NEXT chapter 35
35 – Was it your first kiss?
“I think I’m really going to miss you~ Hey, Hansol, let’s go home now, please. Uh? I think my brain is about to melt… “
“We decided to fill it up with grass by 11 o’clock. If it’s that hard, why don’t you take a walk outside?”
“How do you get around in fear when the lights are off outside? It’s scary as f*ck at our school night.”
“It’s scary… It’s a waste of your size.”
In the self-study room of the special admissions class at Cheonnyeon High School, I am studying alone with Min-seop Gu.
The other kids went home as soon as 10:00, but I and my best friend, Min-seop, are making the most of the time the study room allows.
The only friend who had no two of them made a noise.
“Ah, you’re going to go to college all the time anyway! After all three years of hard work, getting good grades, and even studying for the CSAT, why are you asking me to die?”
“Hankook University also applies the lowest score for student records. They told me to get it within 4th grade with the sum of Kuk Young-soo.”
“Korea University? Hansol Lee What kind of Korea University are you preparing for? A stone head like you.”
This bastard is really… But i can’t argue Because, based on her natural brain, this child is much better than me.
Maybe it’s because her parents are her trashy father who was a soccer player whose name I can’t even remember, and Lee Yoon-ah, who has lived her life believing only in her face. My intelligence is objectively low.
It takes 2 hours for me to memorize and understand the content that Min-seop Ku takes 1 hour to memorize and understand.
Gu Min-seop, both of his parents are elite graduates from prestigious universities, so he must have inherited above-average hair, but even taking that into account, the difference in performance is huge.
I managed to achieve good results with the strength of my low academic level from a thousand years high school, but that was also a result that I managed to achieve by reducing my sleep at night.
This guy who studies only half of me has always had higher scores on mock exams than mine.
It’s a very unfair world. We can’t even choose our parents, so we have to live with this innate intellect or appearance for the rest of our lives.
I can say I inherited my face well, but… In the end, it’s broken, so it’s no use.
On the way home from the palm trees, Min-seop Gu, who was supposed to sleep over at my house today, asked me.
“You are going to Korea University. Are you sure you want to follow Yuara? I thought it was a car. What are you doing after leaving the house?”
“It’s not because of Yoo Ara. What’s strange about a student aiming for the best university?”
“That sucks. Anyway, sometimes you look like a real asshole. No, are you always sick?”
“Stop it.”
“Hogu bastard… Then, if you’re really doing it because of Yooara, would you like to get a girl? Eugene says that there are quite a few of her friends who say you’re okay. All of her friends are pretty.”
The woman Minseop Gu calls Yujin is his girlfriend whom he has been dating for several months.
Gu Min-seop has grown in his own way and is good at sports, so he deserves to have a boyfriend.
But I have no time to think about other girls.
“All right. A stone-headed student like me has no time for dating. I’m busy studying and part-time job.”
“What do you study? It’s because of Yooara.”
“No…. Also, how do you date someone you don’t even like? Excuse me too.”
“I don’t know what this is. Everyone gets better when they meet each other. I don’t have many people I like. You bastard has never been in a relationship before, so don’t say things like this.”
I can’t date. It’s only one person, but I’ve been dating for 3 years.
Besides, this guy talks like he’s been in a lot of relationships since he’s in his first relationship.
If he was going to meet other women so easily in the first place, he wouldn’t have been so cruel to Park Min-ah.
“Ah, okay… Stop talking about women now. I will take care of it.”
“You know what… But then, are you going to major in business administration? Since you’re a kid, you’re not going to go to the highest place. To be honest, your grades and management at Korea University are a bit… “
“I don’t go to the same place as I do.”
“What is that? What do you just watch from afar? I’m really worried that this bastard will be ruined… But then where are you going?”
“Department of Korean Language Education.”
“… Why? If you’re going to be a teacher, do you go to gym? The entry level is low and the practicality seems like it would be f*cking easy for you.”
“I just like state religion.”
Because Soi Kim was in the Department of Korean Language Education.
———-
“Hello bro.”
“Yes, you really came. He didn’t come when it was his birthday… “
“Hi my little brother~”
I went to my parents’ house after a long time, and Yoo Ji-tae and Yoo Hyun-hyun were gathered in the living room.
At the beginning of this year, Yoo Ah-hyun, who returned to Korea, started working at a hotel affiliated with Daehan Group as soon as he graduated from college.
The reason the two independent people are staying at their home is because today is Ara’s birthday.
… Okay. It is also the reason why I came back to my hometown today.
“Ara?”
“I told you you were coming, but… “
Yoo Ji-tae laughed bitterly and couldn’t speak any more. Yoo Hyun is also pouting as if he doesn’t like it.
Yeah, I didn’t expect to come out to meet me either.
Seeing the gift I brought, Yoo Ah-hyeon held out his hand and said.
“Hey, don’t take care of that kid, just go. Give me the macaron you brought. That bastard said it was his birthday and we all came home, do you know what he said? They say you don’t need a party because you’re not a kid? Patience… “
“Originally, I didn’t have a party after I went to Ara middle school, sister.”
“But! It’s been a long time since I came to Korea and we all gathered together! What are you campaigning for as a student taking the exam? We were all going out to eat together.”
“So Ara is in her room?”
“… Uh. He only received a present from us and went back in.”
“I’ll go see it, then.”
“Whew, really… When I came home, my younger brother had left the house, and her younger sister was being treated like a dog. Every corner of the house is running really well.”
Passing by her older brothers and sisters, she arrived in front of Yuara’s room and knocked on the door.
I heard a voice telling me to wait inside, and the door opened only after a minute.
“… You really came.”
“Because I promised to see it unconditionally on my birthday. Am I going in?”
“Okay, come in.”
Ara, who I saw after almost 10 months, seemed a bit emaciated.
I wondered if that was what I wanted to think, but she definitely lost weight in her cheeks, and the dark under her eyes made her sleep deprived.
Entering the room, I first handed out the present I had brought.
“It’s a macaron set. You look very tired. Eat something sweet. You like macarons here.”
“… You didn’t come when it was your birthday, so you’re celebrating my birthday?”
“Aren’t you supposed to come on my birthday? Ara, you didn’t even send me a message, let alone come.”
I had some expectations for her on my birthday last year, but there was no text from Ara.
It was just a gift of clothes that came to Chief Lee’s home address.
Ara was calm even at my harsh words. Rather, she just grins as she checks the contents of the envelope I brought.
“I remembered all my favorite flavors. After all, it’s our Sol.”
“Why am I our Sol? He said he was a hindrance.”
“… Sol, I was so emotional at that time that the words came out in vain. Actually, I didn’t think so.”
I guess so. Emotions prevail The words must have come out a little harsh.
So what’s on your mind? What’s your answer? Why didn’t you catch me when I left?
“… So what about it? Has your answer changed now? Our relationship then… “
“So, by the way, is this my birthday present?”
Ara stopped asking my question and instead asked.
Suddenly, this is all a gift. What is the intention?
As if I was laughing at me with a face that said I didn’t understand English, Ara chuckled.
Why? The smile I always thought was pretty, today feels a bit creepy.
Being repulsive, I raised my voice a little and answered.
“Why are you complaining all of a sudden? You didn’t have any complaints every year. If you want something else, you can get it.”
“Did you forget? We promised I will grant your wish.”
“… Come now?”
This is a promise I made when I was very young. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve forgotten.
When Ara was young, Ara made wishes every year, such as asking her to carry her on her back or going to the zoo together, but after Han Seung-ah died, nothing like that happened.
Ara always received the gifts I randomly buy every year without any complaints, as if it was something that had not been done implicitly.
But what are you thinking about suddenly bringing up that job?
Ara brought a chair in front of the desk and put it in front of me.
“Sol, can you sit here and close your eyes?”
“… Why?”
“It’s a wish.”
“I already gave you a present. I don’t know what… “
“Is this a promise I don’t have to keep?”
“…… “
Of course, sitting in a chair is not difficult. But… I don’t like that attitude of cutting off my questions and just saying what I want to say.
“Answer me first. How are you feeling? Can our relationship change?”
“Sit down first. And close your eyes Then I will answer you.”
“… It’s okay?”
I reluctantly sat down in the chair and closed my eyes. My eyelids trembled as I wondered what this was.
Click-
I closed my eyes to see if the lights in the room were turned off, so my invisible vision got darker.
“Sol.”
“Ah… “
In the slightly darker darkness, the spirit that had been slightly calmed down, the ripples broke out again.
I felt the soft touch of my cheeks, Ara’s touch. As if brushing her pottery, Ara’s careful touch tickled my face and her heart.
“Ji, what are you doing now… town!”
The strength of the hand holding my cheek got a little stronger, and this time something much softer than the hand hit my lips.
Reflexively, my eyes flashed open. In the wide open field of view, Ara’s face, closer than ever, was put into it.
As our eyes met, something soft squeezed between the lips that were touching. As if welcoming the saliva I hadn’t felt in a long time, my tongue met it.
I came to my senses only when they met.
… What am I doing?
“That, stop… !”
“Ugh… “
Unbeknownst to me, I pushed Ara with all my might. Fortunately, there was a bed where she fell, so she wasn’t hurt.
When I jumped up from the chair, Ara smiled and said.
“Sol, you’ve opened your eyes.”
“What does that mean? Is this the answer? Then we… “
“Was it your first kiss?”
“What? Yeah… “
There was no immediate answer. It’s the first kiss in this life, but there was a partner in the previous life.
With no answer from me, Ara hardened her face.
“… Looks like you already did it with Mina. I thought you were familiar with something. When did you say that?”
“No! It’s a first kiss… There was nothing like this with Mina.”
“Huhu, I’m glad. It’s my first kiss, of course.”
Ara looked up at me and smiled, but I couldn’t.
Does the fact that we kissed mean that we are now lovers? No… For some reason, I thought that such an answer would not come from Ara.
And my predictions were correct. Ara lay down on the bed and pulled the blanket over her.
“… Sol, our relationship has not changed. We can’t.”
“Then what about the kiss… ?”
“I just wanted to try it. Will you please leave now? I am a bit tired.”
“Yooara!”
“…… “
There was no further reply. Her whole body was drained of strength.
What the hell are you thinking?
Just tossing out a word, I left her room.
“… I hope you are. Because I am easy.”
I’m having a hard time with you now.
———-
January. University application deadline.
The homeroom teacher who was consulting her for entrance exams is persuading her students with a troubled face.
“Araya, no matter how you look at it, consider it as your grades… Didn’t you say you were thinking about business administration at the beginning of the semester?”
“I was worried a lot. I chose it because I really wanted to study. Because I was interested in what we said.”
“Then why didn’t you choose Korean Literature… ?”
“… I am also interested in education.”
Ara submitted an application to the Department of Korean Language Education at Hankuk University.