Yeonjun Fanfic | Caramel Popcorn - 01

Caramel Popcorn

01

Thump thump - rattle rattle...

A car running on an unrefined road.

I was looking out the window and quietly opened my mouth.

오여주

"Mom, I can do it, right?"

To my question, my mother quietly answered while holding my hand tightly.

오여주 엄마

"Lady, don't try to do well. Do what you want."

오여주

“Still, isn’t it better to get a job early?”

오여주 엄마

"No one has ever decided that for you. If you want to go to college, go. If you want to go to work, go. No one has ever decided what's better. So don't worry about anything and just do what you want."

Today is the day we finally leave my beloved mother's husband and my father.

It's been a year since the proudest and coolest man in our family passed away in an accident.

My mother, who found it difficult to live in a house that still had traces of my father, decided to move back to her hometown and live there permanently.

Thinking that I should become the head of a poor family, I immediately wanted to get a job, but for some reason, my mother didn't seem to want it...

오여주 엄마

"Mom is the head of the household now. Yeoju is still my daughter."

오여주

"Yeah... Mom"

...

오여주

"Oh my, I can wear it too."

As I was unpacking my belongings in my new house, I pouted when I saw my new school uniform.

Even though the school provides uniforms to be passed down, my mom insisted on buying new ones.

오여주 엄마

"What could be more important than the uniform you'll be wearing until graduation?"

오여주

"Is that so?"

Since I had just moved on the first day of school and had to go to the school I was transferring to the next day, I tried the uniform on in front of my body to see if it suited me.

오여주

"The school uniform is pretty..."

오여주

"This won't work, I want to sleep quickly!"

My mother, who was happily watching me quickly get ready for bed after neatly hanging up my uniform on a hanger, said something as she left my room.

오여주 엄마

"I guess you want to go to the new school quickly~"

Squeak- thud.

Click!

As soon as the door closed, I turned off the lights, lay down on the bed, set the alarm on my phone, and closed my eyes.

'It's only been a year, but I hope to meet good friends.'

...

오여주

"Goodbye, it's only been a year, but let's get along well!"

Clap clap clap clap clap~!

My classmates greeted me with applause, and thus began my exciting school life!

오여주

"..."

I'm embarrassed.

No one talks to me, to the point where I wonder if this is how it is...

It was the first break, and no one had properly greeted me yet except my partner.

오여주

"Hey... do you happen to know what the next class is?"

I mustered up my courage and tried to talk to my partner.

Then, what came back to me was not a word, but a finger.

My classmate pointed toward the blackboard with an outstretched finger. I followed his finger with my eyes, and I saw the schedule.

'You asked because you didn't know...'

오여주

"Thank you...haha"

I smiled awkwardly and turned my head away, but... it felt like rain was pouring down on my heart.

Maybe it's because I had too high expectations...

at that time.

"hi?"

A shadow loomed before me. Startled, I looked up and saw a woman.

A woman with a pretty face and long hair that suited her perfectly was standing there looking down at me.

오여주

"hi?"

When I responded to the woman's greeting, she smiled with a pretty face and spoke to me.

이영서

"You're pretty..."

I was so taken aback by her flirting that she came in without a signal that I opened my mouth, hiding the corners of my lips that kept rising with one hand.

오여주

"No, you're prettier~"

The woman smiled at my words and pointed to her name tag with her right hand.

Looking at the name tag following his hand, I see three letters of the name.

Lee Young-seo

The name was as pretty as the face. In return for showing my friend's name, I told him my own.

오여주

"I am Oh Yeo-ju!"

Yeongseo, who hasn't been able to wear a name tag yet, opens her mouth and claps her hands nicely when I tell her to do so.

이영서

"That's great~ I don't have any friends in class, so I was always out during recess... Do you want to hang out with me?"

She's so pretty and kind, yet she doesn't have any friends...

Just looking at the situation where no one had spoken to me until just now, I thought I could roughly guess what the class atmosphere had been like.

I became friends with Yeongseo, who was so happy that I could barely stand her. From then on, we talked during breaks and got to know each other little by little.