"Eww! What the hell is it! This is so frustrating! Oh my god
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My name is Jeong Yeo-ju. I am currently 27 years old.
Growing up as a native of a small rural town in Geochang, I had no idea about the realities of education and just played around, laughing and laughing until I failed my first college entrance exam. However, I pulled myself together and worked hard once I started, so after repeating the college entrance exam twice and three times, I miraculously succeeded in getting into a university in the metropolitan area. On top of that, I guess I used up all my luck and got a job at a small food company in Seoul, and I am currently getting by each day as a new employee.
Still, I can't seem to get around this habit of not listening to my alarm. I missed nine of the ten alarms I set off the day before, barely catching the last one, and now I'm waging war at home with 20 minutes left before work.
I ended up being 10 minutes late for work and got a lot of nagging from my manager. It's so embarrassing. I've only been a new employee for 4 months and I've already been late 5 times... I live each day grateful for my boss's generosity and not firing me outright.
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"Miss, did you get scolded by the manager again?"
"Yeah.... I really have to be late ㅠ I sleep so dark that I can't hear the alarm, really..."
"That's right... you have to be careful. The manager has become really sensitive..."
As I sat down, panting, Kim Ina, who was sitting next to me, asked if I'd been scolded again. She must have been scolded so much that the staff even gave me a wake-up call. I was so grateful to the kind staff, but anyway, once I was labeled a "bad guy," I was called in by the manager for various reasons besides being late, and I felt a tremendous sense of intimacy building inside me.
Currently, our company is focused on making delicious, affordable food using natural ingredients. The very idea of making food is so appealing that the employees are very proud of it. Since every department in the company is mobilizing their resources to research this project, any flaw in one person could impact the entire project, so even if it means working overtime, we're working hard to produce at least one proposal. Today, too, I found myself clicking on and off a document that, despite a week of agonizing, seemed inconclusive. Assistant Manager Seokjin, passing by, chuckled as he saw the final, truly final, finale filling his desktop.
"Miss, I guess you can't think of any ideas?"
"Ah, sir... yes... I guess this is the pain of creation."
"Haha, I'll do it while drinking this."
The agent handed me a strawberry smoothie, saying, "Cheer up, I've only sold one document in a month." I've become quite close with the agent lately, and while this kindness felt a bit burdensome, I also felt secretly happy. Agent Kim Seok-jin is a very personable person, and he's not at all old-fashioned, but he's always polite, making him quite popular within the company.
While I was sipping the strawberry smoothie the manager gave me until the straw was worn out, Kim Ina sent me a message through the company messenger.
-Ask our lunch agent if you want to eat lunch with us today~
Hmm..? I blinked at the sudden request and looked back and forth between Kim Ina and the screen.
I'm not that close with the agent....?.?.
In fact, there was an atmosphere within our company where female employees implicitly kept an eye on Manager Kim Seok-jin.
With that face, those manners, and already being promoted to a deputy manager at that age, it's only natural that hearts would race. But after he defied everyone's expectations and made the shocking announcement that he didn't have a girlfriend, the bloody war between women has only intensified. I'm not that bad...
I just have a crush on her, but it seems like Ms. Kim Ina likes the agent quite a bit...so I had no choice but to open the messenger window.
Just as I was about to send a message to Manager Kim Seok-jin...! With perfect timing, Manager Kim sent me the first message.
-Miss Yeoju, would you like to have lunch together?
Of course, I said okay without hesitation, and before I knew it, I went to a noodle restaurant with Kim Ina, Manager Kim Seok-jin, and other female employees who had heard the news and joined us to have lunch.
Even during lunch, the conversation continued. Most of the questions were from female employees, mostly about Manager Kim Seok-jin, so the topic of conversation inevitably turned to love.
"Oh, sir, at what age did you have your first girlfriend?"
"Oh, that's right. I'm curious too. Since you're such a good person, I bet you were really popular in college."
While the other female employees were twisting their bodies and asking cute questions in a coquettish tone, I, who had become even more speechless in that atmosphere, quietly continued to eat my noodles. I wondered if it was going into my nose or my mouth. Then, suddenly, Assistant Manager Kim Seok-jin asked me that question.
"Miss Yeoju, how are you? When was your first love?"
At the agent's sudden question, all the employees' eyes were focused on me... and in the silence, I kept coughing because I couldn't get used to the atmosphere, so Ms. Kim Ina next to me said, "Are you okay?" and poured me some water.
Actually, the other employees probably wouldn't be curious about my story at all, but Manager Kim Seok-jin asked me when my first love was.
But this is really... When I think of my first love, there's someone I think of, but it's someone I can't bring up because my heart aches. Other people tell stories when they think of their "first love," but strangely, I feel a pang of sadness in my heart and a strange feeling in my stomach, so I can't bring it up. I remember that person's face, their personality, the situation...
"When I was a freshman in high school."
Oh really?? My first love came so late. What's your name??
".....Taehyung."
yes?
"It's Kim Taehyung."
