Chapter 547: Chapter 547
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‘Mom!’ I cried, begging her desperately, but she just took my hand off her with no hesitance.
Pointing at the apartnt hallway, she told , ‘I don’t know what you said to her, but go apologize to Yeo Ryung. Co on, it’s not her fault to get straight A’s at school and have better grades than yours.’
‘Ah...’
‘If you don’t go to her and apologize, you’re being the sa kind of person that you always blad for hating Yeo Ryung.’
Standing there still on the spot, I remained silent, then, instead of going outside to follow what my mom urged to do, I just went into my room and slamd the door shut.
My mom pounded on the door like crazy and shouted, ‘Donnie! Ham Donnie!’ but I didn’t respond and just rolled myself up in the blanket, closing my ears. Violent impulses surrounded , so I stayed still like a human burrito, or else, I couldn’t bear the urge to break and rip out things into pieces.
Then I suddenly stood up and flung open the closet door. In the corner of it, there was a rolled paper. I took it out.
A bunch of ssages was written on it with all kinds of colored markers and pens. Although my na was there on top of it, almost half of the ssages weren’t about .
[Donnie! I envy you for being Yeo Ryung’s best friend.]
[Good job–always being there for Yeo Ryung.]
[Donnie, a friend of the perfect Yeo Ryung!]
And among those ssages, a note written with a light pencil ca into view.
[Leave Yeo Ryung alone.]
The little Donnie wept aloud in sorrow, shoving her face on the blanket. And the next day, when I bumped into Yeo Ryung, I started off my day by ignoring her who said hi to .
My mom beca bewildered. Holding my hand, she pulled to a place where Yeo Ryung couldn’t see us.
She shouted, ‘Donnie! I told you to stop being jealous of Yeo Ryung! That doesn’t make you get accepted to the school!’
I even neglected my mom as well. The more I got to disregard Yeo Ryung intentionally, the more ti my mom spent comparing with the perfect girl next door. Even that couldn’t put down. The little Donnie endured it with a strong will.
When the admission letter finally arrived, informing my acceptance, my mom seed relieved probably because she thought that I wouldn’t misbehave anymore. However, I still didn’t say anything to Yeo Ryung. Perhaps I was determined to utterly end our relationship.
Then one day, in the morning of March 2nd, I woke up from bed. When the white school uniform ca into my sight, I murmured to myself in surprise, wondering what it was. While my mom slapped on the back, I barely finished eating breakfast, wore the uniform, and stepped outside to our apartnt hallway. And there stood Ban Yeo Ryung, greeting with a dazzling smile.
Having no idea about the promise I’d made to myself in this world, I just stared blankly at the beautiful girl, then carefully replied–
‘Um, hi...’
As her smile beca richer, it made my heart flutter like crazy. I thought it was because I’d never seen such a drop-dead gorgeous before, but now I had co to think of it, that could have been a warning sound that I, in the past, was sending as an alert.
‘No, not that way. You must not go in that direction!’
‘Don’t ss up the things I’ve struggled to keep this way.’
But instead of responding to those warnings, I grabbed Ban Yeo Ryung’s hand.
Waiting for Ban Yeo Ryung to bring her yearbook ssages, I spend a little more ti browsing mine again. It still looked pathetic, making sigh.
The whole surroundings at that ti seed like they were pushing to hate Yeo Ryung. The hatred I had about myself, who wasn’t always good enough in everything, was now targeting her as I felt so sick and tired of being compared to her.
Then let’s say, what if I, who shifted to the Ham Donnie in this world at fourteen, also inherited her mories? In so movies or TV dramas, I saw characters being switched into soone else’s bodies and naturally receiving their mories.
If that also happened to , would I be able to keep our friendship no matter what? Could I walk a different path from the destined future? The more I beca doubtful about those questions, a much deeper sigh I heaved.
Since my mind was full of negative thoughts for hours, I felt dizzy and a bit painful. Closing my eyes, I shook my head a couple of tis, but as long as I was staying at this house, I knew that these thoughts wouldn’t leave alone.
The emotions and thoughts that the previous owner of this room had seed to have stuck everywhere, which were now criticizing for living indifferently in peace until now.
All kinds of things I’d gone through in this world felt like a drop in the bucket when being compared to those I’d learned just now. Well, that’s true. I smiled bitterly.
I wasn’t actually the center of the things that happened so far. If I tried, I could always step away from those events or incidents, but this happening was completely about . It was derived from my emotions and behaviors.
I folded my hands together. Although this thing was incomparable to those that happened to Eun Hyung, Jooin, and other kids, I still couldn’t clear my mind and get out of the thoughts.
Closing my eyes tightly for quite a while, I, at last, got up, feeling unbearable to just stay put. Above all, I wasn’t sure how to face my parents who would soon co ho from work in the evening.
Wearing a hoodie, I pulled it over my head and left the house.
I had nowhere to go but just decided to follow anywhere my feet would lead .
The trip was originally planned to return ho in the evening. However, it just ended within two or three hours. Having sothing in mind, Woo Jooin changed his clothes and directly headed to a cafe, instead of going back ho.
As he sensed his phone vibrating in his pocket, Jooin took it out and put it beside his ear.
“Hello? Jooin?” the person over the phone asked.
He replied, “Oh, Yeo Ryung.”
Throwing a glance across the table, Woo Jooin slightly sat in a different position and tossed a question.
“Are you doing okay after your mories ca back? Dizzy or confused, no?”
“I’m doing fine, but Donnie...” she said in a tearful voice.
Woo Jooin opened his eyes wide and directed them to the other side again. The person whom his eyes reached flinched in surprise. Then he switched his hand to hold the phone and continued to speak, looking subdued.
“Mama? What’s about her?”
“You know, when Donnie told that she doesn’t have her mories of the past, I got angry,” replied Yeo Ryung.
“Ah... yeah, you did.”
She continued, “But after I thought about it at ho, Donnie seed to have lost her mories around the ti when we had a big fight... so perhaps it’s my fault that she confronted a mory loss. You know, the stress and pain she had after the fight could have disrupted and impaired her mories.”
“Yeo Ryung, co on, why are you exaggerating? You don’t have to push yourself too hard every ti.”
“But what if it’s really because of ...? Ah, anyway, so I sorted out my mind and went to Donnie to apologize. I told her that her mory loss could actually be my fault. Then I confessed a few things that she forgot...”
“Uh-huh.”
“As if those things called forth so mories, Donnie roughly guessed with whom it was related to and what she had said. So, I thought perhaps her mories were also coming back, but Donnie looked sohow disturbed and upset, not refreshed. Well, maybe because she’s been living without those mories for a long ti, she could respond that way. Anyway, then she told to bring her sothing, so I did, and right now...”
“Right now?” Woo Jooin slightly raised his voice, listening to her story.
“No matter how many tis I rang the bell, she doesn’t co out. Not even answering the phone. I have no idea where she is. Is she outside for a while? Should I call the police?”
At that mont, Woo Jooin covered the speaker mic with his thumb and turned his head, then he asked a question to the person sitting across the table.
“What should we do?”
The person rolled her eyes for a mont then replied determinedly, “If the lost mories that Ham Donnie has found are what I have in my mind right now... it isn’t the right ti now for Ham Donnie and Ban Yeo Ryung to see each other.”
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