When I Returned, a High School Romantic Comedy Began - Chapter 42



42. Midterm exam (5)

“Did you talk to Chaerin?”

Hayan asked while we were studying together in the library after school.

She was worried about what happened yesterday.

Since we didn’t greet each other like we normally did in the morning or see each other face to face, I was worried that they might not have made up even after school.

Jaune answered.

“No, I didn’t say a word today.”

Yesterday, I received a lot of advice from Hani, but since this was my first time experiencing an argument like this, I had no idea how to talk to her.

The message is left alone without being checked.

I saw him chatting with his friends when he came in this morning, but we didn’t make eye contact because the timing wasn’t right.

‘It might be okay if I just approach it like normal, but I can’t remember the picture at all after that.’

If I apologize, I have to say what I did wrong and what I’m reflecting on.

Honestly, I have no idea right now.

If I just threw out a meaningless apology, it was obvious that my sincerity would be buried.

That was a foolish thing to do, ending yesterday’s fight simply through emotional exhaustion.

‘I was just concentrating on my studies and ignoring it.’

Memories of yesterday come back to me.

As agony overtook his head, Jaune sighed and put down the pen.

“I think I need to organize my thoughts properly and speak.”

“…”

Hayan looked at me with a serious face.

Even though I had no idea what he was thinking, I could tell that it was not light.

She twirled the ballpoint pen in her right hand for a moment and then spoke to me.

“Joun usually seems light-hearted, but sometimes he gets this serious.”

“… When it comes to things like this, you have no choice but to be serious.”

No matter how young Jaune was, he always faced these issues seriously.

If I had a fight with a friend over something appropriate, it would have been a matter of saying sorry first and ending it, but that wasn’t the case now.

‘It would be rude to take it lightly.’

It was not a trivial dispute, but something that had been building up from before and would become an obstacle in the future.

I couldn’t help but treat him seriously, which was different from his original personality.

“But since yesterday was my first time experiencing something like this, no matter how much I think about it, I have no idea what to do.”

“…”

Jaune raises his head towards the ceiling, overcome with worries.

Hayan looked at him quietly and then spoke softly.

“I think Jaune can just do it the way he is now.”

“like now?”

“Yes, if I were Chae-rin, I would feel relieved just by seeing you think so seriously.”

“… Yes, that would be nice.”

Chae-rin is not the type of person who is generous like Haya, so I am not sure if she can be easily ignored.

‘Even if he gets over it, I can’t get over it, so it’s ultimately a useless assumption.’

Jaune recalled what she said yesterday.

[Who the f*ck do you think I’m doing this because I feel sorry for?]

[Is going out with you every day and contacting me from the morning just an act of guilt?]

Chaerin’s angry tone made me feel like I had made a huge mistake.

No, maybe it’s a big misunderstanding.

‘It could have been because it was Mosol’s first time receiving attention from someone.’

Moreover, it was not an ordinary situation that you would easily see anywhere, so it was natural.

Still, I kept having doubts.

‘Would he have attacked me even if I hadn’t saved him?’

What if it had been someone other than Lee Joo-woon who pushed her out of the oncoming truck?

Wouldn’t she have felt the same way about him?

Jaune continued to suffer alone, building a useless family.

Because I didn’t know what love was.

Even though I received serious advice from Hani yesterday, I still didn’t understand it.

He kept defining her by being trapped in a delusion of his own making.

Hayan looked at Jaune’s distraught face and closed the notebook.

“We did quite a bit today, so shall we stop here?”

“already?”

“You won’t say that when you look at the time, right?”

After hearing her words, Jaune turned on his phone and checked the time.

The clock on the desktop showed 7 o’clock.

After school, I studied at the library without eating dinner, so I sat at my desk in the library and studied for two hours.

In fact, for him who had not studied until now, it was not enough time to catch up with the progress.

“If you haven’t done it for a few years and suddenly do it all at once, you won’t be able to do it for long.”

“…”

Jaune, who had abandoned his studies, burned all the firewood at once, and what little persistence he had could have been instantly reduced to ashes.

Hayan took her notebook and stood up.

“The library is closing, so go home first.”

“huh? No, you just have to wait.”

Hayanyi glanced at me as she was organizing her bag and then said.

“I’m planning to meet with the librarian later. It’ll take a while, so don’t wait.”

“… okay.”

Jaune grabbed her writing utensil and notebook and opened the library door, leaving her alone.

“See you tomorrow.”

*

“pup…”

A rice burger restaurant in front of the academy that’s great for a quick meal.

When she stopped by to have dinner with Jimin, she didn’t see anything like a rice burger.

‘Are you sure you didn’t tell me not to contact you?’

Today at school, you didn’t even say hello first.

Occasionally, I looked to the side to see something, but even though Jaune was dead, he didn’t even give me a single glance.

Jimin spoke to Chae-rin, who was only looking at the conversation window with Ja-woon for a long time.

“Chaerin-chan, stop looking at your phone and eat something.”

Chae-rin shows no interest in the rice burger in front of her, as if she were performing a ancestral rite for the dinner she bought to eat.

Jimin sighed because of that appearance, and Chae-rin asked her a little angrily.

“Hey, am I weird? “Are men really not telling you not to contact them?”

“… There are often kids who don’t have that kind of tact.”

How should a man react when he has a fight with his girlfriend and then goes home, abandoning the rest of his schedule?

Anyone who has ever been in a relationship or has feelings embedded in the frontal lobe of the brain will naturally catch it.

No matter how angry she looks, if she really catches her, even if she tries to kill her, she still manages to catch her, even if only slightly.

But what can I do?

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“He’s the type of guy who didn’t even talk to girls until middle school, let alone date, so of course he doesn’t notice.”

Lee Joo-un is a motherless man who has never had any interaction with women until now.

It’s strange that anyone would expect someone like that to notice.

Chaerin sighed at Jimin’s words.

“Ha… I understand that you don’t contact me, but isn’t it too much to not even read your messages?”

Chaerin showed Jimin her cell phone screen.

What you see there is a single text that says, ‘Class is now over.’

As soon as Jimin saw the message, he automatically frowned.

“Chaerin, did I see something wrong?”

“right? “You think it’s strange too, right?”

Thanks to her friend who sympathizes with her, she responds with a confident face.

But what Jimin said was not empathy.

“What is this way of talking!”

“…Why are you talking like that?”

The reason for her outburst was because the comment was so lame that it made me want to turn a blind eye.

“Are you asking because you don’t know that?”

Jimin was offended by the sour tone of his words, as if he were going out to do gymnastics at any moment.

‘Crazy b*tch, crazy b*tch…’

When Chae-rin contacted Jimin, most of the time she would call him with short answers or if she had a long story to tell, saying that she didn’t feel like typing.

Of course, it wouldn’t be nice to see a short reply while exchanging messages with a boy you like…

“This isn’t it…”

Instead of sending it like this, it would have been a hundred times better to give a short answer.

Jimin scrolled up and looked through the conversation he had with Jaune.

‘But you didn’t send much message.’

Luckily, despite my misfortune, I haven’t had too much contact with him yet in a bullsh*t tone.

Jimin asked in a more angry tone than Chae-rin, who had been angry just a moment ago.

“Where on earth did you learn this way of speaking?”

“this…? “Mom said if I do this when I’m dating a boy, everyone will like it.”

“…”

It was after he was discharged from the hospital.

Jaune was always watching cartoons on his cell phone, so it was easy to contact him because he always answered the phone, but because he was a human, there were times when he didn’t answer right away.

At first, I waited for Jaune to contact me first.

As the days passed, even waiting for that time became too much for me, so I wanted to leave a message.

[But how do you text a boy?]

The warm heart of an adolescent girl that remained in her did not allow her to give a short answer to the person she liked.

I’m a bit embarrassed to ask my friends, and the internet is a place for idiots.

By the method of elimination, there is only one thing left.

[… mom.]

It was her mother.

As an entertainer, she would be somewhat sensitive to trends and know how to treat men quite well… This was the answer I arrived at after reasonable reasoning.

That was a reason worth nodding.

[Kids these days like to add hemp to the end of their words, right?]

Of course, that doesn’t mean I got a good answer.

As an actress, Nahee lived her life being called young-looking, but in the end, she was almost 40 years old.

I’m not particularly sensitive to trends, so I didn’t know much about it.

Chae-rin told Jimin all of her mother’s advice.

“So I used it right away.”

“…”

Jimin was speechless and couldn’t come up with any answer.

‘There is no difference between you and your mother.’

I definitely thought Jaune was a clueless guy until now.

Seeing as how he kindly passed over the girl who sent this message without any warning, he was just an angel.

“Is it that strange?”

“Oh, it’s amazing that he didn’t swear at you right away.”

“…”

Chae-rin’s heart seemed to sink when she heard Jimin’s words.

“Well, then it couldn’t be because of this…”

Was the reason you didn’t contact me because of the way you spoke so far?

When Chaerin shakes her pupils at a momentary thought that makes no sense.

Jimin answered as firmly and quickly as a knife.

“Do you think this is all you need? I heard everything you said yesterday.”

“still…”

They say that a person can completely break down with just one flaw in the other person.

Chae-rin wondered if she might be in such a situation right now.

In contrast to her angry appearance just now, Chaerin has become slightly timid and her eyes have become kind.

Jimin said, holding back laughter at a sight he had never seen before.

“Well, it could be that the affection has run out.”

“ah.”

At her words, Chae-rin showed great shock on her face, as if she had heard a death sentence.

Seeing her nervous expression, Jimin later consoled her by saying it was a joke.

‘Everything was ruined because of my mom…’

In Chae-rin’s mind, the delusion that he had already left her heart because of the mistake she had made was constantly recurring.