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EP.01_Woong's Story - 03

It's 4 a.m., a little over three hours since I arrived here. Suhan is working on his homework next to me, trying not to doze off.

The dawn sky outside the convenience store window looked especially beautiful today. Wanting to take in more of it, I told Suhan I was going out for a moment and headed to the park next to the store.

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The moon was shining brightly in the clear sky without a single cloud.

Walking along the quiet, secluded path of the park at dawn, illuminated only by moonlight and streetlights, gave me a strange sense of liberation.

I dragged the slippers I had put on at the store on my still sore feet, took a deep breath of the dawn air, and exhaled again.

White steam rose from my mouth and quickly vanished before my eyes. The cool air felt as if it were cleansing my entire body. Looking at the moon, I felt a sense of comfort I hadn't felt in a long time.

Something cold settled on my head as I walked down the street, and I looked up at the sky once again.

Clouds that had not been there before gradually began to form, forming a thick layer and falling clear, clean snow.

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I feel empty

When it snowed when I was young, even though I was busy, I would always come home early, hold my hand, and go outside. We would walk together, stepping on the softly piled snow and feeling the falling snow, with happy faces.

I felt a pang of sadness in my chest, missing my parents, thinking that I would never be able to do something like that again.

The ball warmed for a moment, then quickly cooled again by the winter wind. It was the first time in my life that I'd cried alone, so heartlessly, at this age.

A flat smile escapes between slightly parted lips.

I felt like I would just cry all day if I stayed in the park any longer, so I gathered my thoughts and headed back to the convenience store.

Just before arriving at the store, two black passenger cars parked right in front of the store catch the eye.

If it were me, I would have just let it go, thinking that a customer had stopped by for a moment and gone in, but it was barely past 4:30 in the morning.

Even the most diligent person, the one who worked late into the night, would be resting at this hour. There was no way there would be any customers at this hour.

As I approached the store, hiding my body as much as possible, I heard a sound.

"Where is Woong?"

Kwaang-!

"Where are you!!!"

I hear a large man yelling and throwing things. It's my fault that innocent Suhan has been harmed.

I should have immediately called 112 or gone into the store to protect Suhan. After all, Suhan had done that before.

But... my feet didn't move easily. I heard a loud thud and something fell, and my head started spinning and my legs started shaking.

I can't muster the strength to be around those people. I can't protect Suhan. All I can do is wait for them to leave...

All I could do was prevent things from getting worse because of me.

At this moment, I couldn't have felt more pathetic and miserable. I felt sorry for Suhan.

※I think the next episode will be the last episode of Woong!