Golden Time Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Chapter 4

After confirming the three students’ na plates, Suhyuk looked up at them. ‘They were you guys.’ His diary was full of contents about his self-deprecation, or words of abuse and cursing toward others. However, their nas were ntioned most often in the diary: Choi Inbae, Kim Insoo, Kim Donghyuk. These were the very nas. What kind of harassnt did he get from them? Suhyuk opened his mouth,

“It’s been ages since we t last ti?”

“Yeah, three months.”

Choi Inbae, who kept a close eye on his hands while touching his horn-rimd glasses, opened his mouth again, “Can’t you really rember us?”

When Suhyuk, smiling bitterly, nodded his head, Kim Donghyuk, who looked like a mischief, asked, “Have you forgotten everything you studied?”

“Well...”

He wasn’t sure because he did not study in earnest. Maybe what he had learned might have been erased from his mory.

Why are these guys approaching him in a kind manner? Because they want to harass him in a different way this ti? Not only they, but also the rest of the classmates ca to inquire after him with a worried look. Were all the classmates trying to deceive him? He didn’t feel that way. Obviously they had a sincere look. He felt confused with all the complicated thoughts again.

“I think I have to introduce myself again. I’m Kim Donghyuk, let’s pal around like before.”

Donghyuk reached out his hands to Suhyuk. Suhyuk did not hesitate to grab his hand. The Lee Suhyuk, who had been harassed and behaved like a loser in the past, had died a long ti ago. Suhyuk wore a dry smile, looking at Donghyuk. ‘That stupid guy of in the past could have suffered a lot, but I’m not that type anymore.’

“I’m Suhyuk at your service.”

Using recess ti, Suhyuk exchanged a brief and clear conversation with them, and he heard from them sothing he could not understand. Naly, the four of them, including him, studied together, and did that every day, including on the weekends, without skipping. More dumbfounding to him was that it was Suhyuk himself that made the study group. He could not believe it.

“When are you coming back to the study eting?”

He did not think long before answering, “After I take about ten days’ rest”.

Just like a bridle that can not be separated, it keeps spinning round and round on the sa spot if you try to avoid the answer. What if they harass with bullying? He’d given up such a stupid idea long before. Fighting with them? Winning is simple. You do not have to think hard. You win if you go to the extre. With his normal two eyes opened wide, Suhyuk had no intention at all to get the harassnt like before.

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One week had passed since Suhyuk ca back to school. In the anti, there was no one who harassed him. On the contrary, so students ca to see him with math textbooks or workbooks for help. Fortunately, he still could teach them easily with so of the knowledge he obtained before. But there were so problems he could not solve. When Suhyuk shook his head, saying he did not know how to solve them, they said in unison,

“You look the sa as ever.”

This is what happened before he lost mory: Suhyuk consistently said that to those asking him to teach math formulas that he did not know. Nonetheless, he belonged to the top tier whenever he took math exams. They were right in thinking Suhyuuk did not teach them on purpose. Of course, that was sothing Suhyuk could not rember now..

“Is there anything you can recall about this?”

Suhyuk shook his head when Donghyuk questioned. Spending ti together at the sa study group, they often ca to see him at recess. Funnily, all three belonged to different classrooms? He must have been such a big pushover; enough to bring them back even if they belonged to different classes.

“I still can’t recall anything yet.”

When Suhyuk replied, they expressed regret, but did not forget to offer encouragent.

“Recess ti is up. We have to go.”

Waving their hands, the three turned back. At that mont Suhyuk raised his eyebrows a bit because he felt his head throbbed painfully. When he saw them leaving the classroom, with waving hands, there was sothing very familiar to him about their appearance from behind. Sothing Suhyuk must have seen before. It was really a brief mont that a certain scene from the past went through his mind like a flash. The appearance of soone turning back, waving at him in the street. Suhyuk laughed silently, looking at them. And he could feel the sa feeling that he had had at the ti.

A sense of relief, a sense of victory. What does it an? Suhyuk intensely focused not to miss any mory that ca to his mind like puzzle pieces. It seed as if this could act as a starting point from which all his mories locked up so deep inside could burst out like dam water. But it turned out a vain wish. Even though all the classes were over and the day’s last class eting was approaching, he could not recall any more.

“Hi guys, go straight ho instead of hanging around at the PC rooms.”

As soon as the horoom teacher said that, the students went out the classroom like a tide. Soohyuk, who had been thinking about sothing, also moved his body. His thinking did stop until he arrived ho and changed his clothes. Why? Why did he wear a victorious smile when he should find himself shuddering at them like before? No matter how he tried to understand, there were too many things incomprehensible to him.

“Hah...”

With a long sigh, Suhyuk gave up such thoughts completely. If he had anything he could recall with utmost efforts, he could have done so very easily. He felt he could recall so more if he felt more relaxed.

Suhyuk checked the wall clock. It was heading for 7 o’clock pm. It was ti for his mother to co back after her building cleaning work. As soon as he thought of it, he heard Kim Myonghee opening the door.

As Suhyuk went out into the living room, she was returning with a smile as expected. Instead of a proper padding jumper, she was dressed in several suits of cloth, which made Suhyuk’s mind bittersweet.

“Son, did you go to school well today?”

“Yes Mom...”

Embarrassed, Suhyuk cast his eye down at her. Although his mom smiled, she was limping severely.