Golden Time (JungYong)

24

A quiet classroom tinged with a bloody red sunset. There were the shadows of two people. They were none other than Choi Inbae and Kim Insoo. Insoo was looking out the window with a blank look on his face.

"I'm disappointed"

When Insoo said this, Inbae standing behind him scratched his head.

The bandage on his throat was a reminder of his accident in the past.

"Mom said it was time to stop... and if it was not for first aid, it would have been a close call," said Inbae.

Turning his gaze, he looked at Inbae. Insoo's face was soaked in the light of the sunset.

With a smile, in no time, he said to Inbae, "I must have been a jerk to believe your family."

Though that was an expression cursing both of his parents, Inbae could not say anything.

Insoo looked back out the window. He saw Suhyuk and Hana walking alongside the main gate of the school side by side. He imagined her having hugged him tight. Suhyuk, not just content with being a celebrity, was now taking Hana.

"Huh ..." Insoo calmed down his troubled heart with quiet breathing.

'Premature. It is not the right time yet.'

Insoo found it burdensome to wreak havoc on Suhyuk who had just become a celebrity.

'All this happened because of...'

Insoo, turning back, looked at Inbae again, and said, "Useless motherfucker ..."

Insoo went out of the classroom, thinking of Suhyuk wiggling under his feet.

'Wiggling like an earthworm.'

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After school, they were walking down to the bus stop side by side; Suhyuk, Hana and Dongsu. The trees standing on both sides were as if they were bowing to the three. The trees, dressed in all white, made Hana admire them.

"How pretty!"

Hana, with a red nose, reached out her hands to take snowflakes falling from the sky.

Dongsu shook his head at the appearance of Hana sentimentalized over the falling snowflakes.

"Hey, this is trash falling from the sky. Just trash," said Dongsu.

Hana, narrowing her eyes, retorted sharply, "You are too dumb!"

Even that reproach of hers seemed beautiful.

"Yeah, I'm dumb. By the way, how many questions did you miss in the mock test?" Dongsu asked Suhyuk.

"Five."

"Monster!"

Dongsu again grabbed his head, shaking his head from side to side, because he missed half of the questions even though he burnt the midnight oil. Was he just no good at studying? Or was he really stupid?

"Oh, how much percentage of his brain did you say a man used? 10% or 20%? If I had used only 30%, I would have gotten the first in the whole school," said Dongsu.

Suhyuk laughed at his remark, saying "100%".

Dongsu and Hana looked at him as if they could not figure out what he was talking about.

Certainly they heard about it somewhere. In magazines, newspapers, and on TV, there was something like 'one cannot even use half of his brain'.

"Actually we use our whole brain, but use it differently depending on time and place, and on the situation." Suhyuk said, touching his head with his fingers.