97. Tobacco (3)

1.

I have no idea when the video call started.

Is it like that from the beginning? You wanted something awkward, was there a reason for that?

Then…… Considering that I met eyes with Min Ah-rin on the screen, does that mean that she was already looking at me from the beginning?

In fact, if you think about it considering that it is a reverse world, you can morally criticize Min Ah-rin.

When you think about it backwards, it turns out that she was watching the high school girl taking a shower all the time.

By the way, I didn’t think about morality or anything.

Well, I know best that Min Ah-rin isn’t such a bad person. Thinking back on what she was doing, she seemed to be quite ashamed of herself.

I was also just ashamed.

Wasn’t she showing off her body to the girl she liked?

I don’t have any hobbies like that.

From my point of view, it was because I didn’t know that it was a real video call, but she wanted Mina and Lin not to make strange misunderstandings.

Maybe it’s the first time I like someone, but there are times when my heart is pounding, and there are times when it’s as dry as usual, and there’s a feeling that my reactions are always different.

Still, the fact that I like you doesn’t change.

I also have the idea that I only want to show a good side to people I like.

I also thought that it would be nice not to have a bad perception.

A while ago, when the topic of cigarettes came up at school, I had similar thoughts.

To be honest, I didn’t put a lot of meaning into being caught smoking.

In a previous life, the homeroom teacher caught a cigarette, but because she had the frame of being a model student, she was easily passed over.

She still didn’t think it was a big deal for an adult to find out about it.

If you say you’re scolded, well, you’re scolded.

And I wasn’t interested in finding out about it from my peers.

No matter what their reaction is, it doesn’t help my life in the slightest.

But this time it was different.

It had absolutely nothing to do with whether Min Ah-rin’s opinion on cigarettes was right or wrong.

Just. A little. She wondered if the idea she had of me was completely twisted.

I haven’t seriously thought about developing a romantic relationship with Min Ah-rin.

I wondered if we were going to end our relationship next year.

Still. Regardless of being a lover or something, it wasn’t very pleasant to know that someone you like could get a bad impression.

I came out of the bathroom with that thought in mind.

I thought of many things, but the most important thing right now is probably Min Ah-rin’s health.

She still remembers pouring out her nosebleeds at the end.

I left a KakaoTalk message asking Min Ah-rin how she was doing and covered her phone.

Usually, the reply would have come right away, but it seemed he wasn’t looking at his phone right now.

Then, I started thinking about cigarettes again.

Cigarettes have been responsible for my leisure life along with alcohol.

It was almost the only outlet for stress.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if it was that useful.

Just a short time ago, all sorts of bad things overlapped, so wasn’t there a stress that alcohol and cigarettes couldn’t handle?

How much money has been invested in it, but haven’t I always lived under stress?

Anyway. Maybe now is the time to let go.

It’s not good for your health, and it’s not that it doesn’t cost money at all.

… ….

For now, I’ll have to set my mind in that direction.

2.

Last time, for a while, I thought it would be better to live like a high school student.

Along with him, many other thoughts came and went, and one of them was to give up his obsession with studying.

In the meantime, I’ve been immersed in my studies whenever I had a chance, and I’ve been clinging to it like crazy.

By the way…… , Whether you give up your obsession or not.

Even if I was at home, there was nothing I could do.

It’s not bad to spend time watching YouTube, but I feel embarrassed doing it.

There was a problem with mobile phone games, anyway, because of the mobile phone specifications.

I wasn’t particularly interested in places like the Internet community.

So, the leisure I eventually found was still studying.

I studied until almost noon.

I wondered if it would be okay if I lay down a little earlier, but I also wondered when Min Ah-rin’s reply would come.

Of course, there was no such thing.

I checked that it was past midnight, finished my studies and lay down on the mattress on the floor.

Only the sound of rain could be heard in the darkened house because the lights were off.

It looked like it was about to rain again today.

It rained hard when I came home earlier, and then it rained a little less, but now the sound has gotten stronger again.

Seeing that it was raining like this even though it was still May, I thought global warming must be serious.

It wasn’t that important.

As long as it’s not a heavy rain that spreads the news, my house is fairly safe.

Even if it rains by tomorrow, I’ve already fixed all the umbrellas.

Just enjoy the sound of rain like ASMR.

So I closed my eyes.

Still, I wonder if it didn’t have any effect at all because it rained like this.

I felt cold all over my body. I also coughed a few times. I didn’t feel it when I was studying, but for some reason, my body was tired and I felt weak.

With symptoms that are generally bland to be called a cold, I fell asleep within no time.

There’s nothing to worry about.

3.

While I was sleeping, my eyes suddenly opened.

It was definitely not morning, seeing as the house was dark.

But I felt something strange.

I felt uneasy somewhere.

As I reached for my phone to check the time, an unknown pain came to my body.

A pain like being hit by something.

The symptoms that came along with him were definitely the ones he felt before he fell asleep.

However, the intensity of the symptoms was different. It was so strong that I could feel it.

Even though it was the same temperature as before, my body was cold, I had no strength, and I coughed hard.

Of course, this is a very problematic situation. The anxiety I felt now was separate from that.

I forcibly reached out and picked up the phone.

When I checked the time, it was still 4 in the morning. The time when there is at least 2 hours left before waking up.

After checking the time, I struggled to get up and turned on the light in the room.

And then, I was able to find the source of that uneasiness.

Rainwater had flowed into the room.

More severely than before.

It was still not enough to be called a catastrophe, but it was strange no matter how much I thought about it.

It rained a lot today.

I also fell hard.

But, even so, it wasn’t a level of heavy rain that would be on the news again.

It was a common rain in the monsoon season, and it was clear that it would not compare to the heavy rain that fell while I was in Jeju Island.

It shouldn’t have rained like this.

I could intuitively feel that something was wrong.

I don’t know exactly what caused it, but it was absolutely not a normal situation.

I wanted to figure out the cause, but there seemed to be no time to do so.

I was tired and started cleaning to make sure this situation didn’t turn into a disaster.

I blocked the rainwater that was still flowing little by little as much as possible, and cleaned up the soiled parts of the floor.

I spent almost three hours like that.

After two hours, the rain had already stopped, but the clean-up had accumulated so much that we had to spend another hour.

My body was going to the worst.

No, there are still some good things to call it the worst, but…….

At first, it seemed clear that he caught a cold properly.

I didn’t get much sleep, so I woke up and soaked my hands in rainwater to clean for hours.

It would have been better if it wasn’t obvious.

It’s a pity.

My physical condition was gradually deteriorating, but it was time to prepare for school anyway.

I missed school because of this.

If you’re absent, you’ll have to bring a medical certificate or something later. I didn’t want to spend money on a place like that, and having truant wasn’t such a good thing.

Besides, no matter how long it had been raining, the clear sky was already visible.

I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen a clear sky.

Also, the cleaning is roughly finished. There seemed to be no reason to miss school, as they had taken some precautions in case it rained.

I finished getting ready for school, grabbed an umbrella, and left the house.

And, as soon as I left the house, I could see the neighborhood in poor condition.

It’s not a town where water collects like that, but it was strangely full of water. All sorts of rubbish was rolling on the floor.

Seeing that, I got a rough idea.

One of the reasons why floods occur when it rains is that trash clogs drains.

The garbage referred to here is not simply plastic or something like that, but includes branches and leaves.

In my neighborhood, things like this don’t happen to anyone’s surprise, but the heavy rain during the school trip seemed to have caused a miracle.

Looking at the nearby drains, I found that my hypothesis was correct.

It wasn’t like the trash was full, but it didn’t look fine at all.

People in my neighborhood aren’t great enough to care about these things.

Those who live under the ring may care, but that’s sure to be the end.

If I don’t clean it up anyway, I’m the only one who loses, so I guess I’ll have to take care of it in the end.

… ….

I have to go to school first.

The weather was just fine as if it had been raining a while ago, and it wasn’t something that could be done during school hours.

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I finished my observation and started walking.

I’m going to kill some time with that after school.

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