My Silver Star's
Random Street
... It turns out that the sun no longer wants to smile
Senior Jo looks shocked at what I just said, as if he can't believe I just said that. He was silent for a moment and laughed, he still did not say a word, and then he smiled and looked at me.
"Is that entertainment? Or did you declare love?" Senior Jo said
"Huh? Does that sound like a love statement?" I asked in surprise and disbelief
"You are so funny."
I managed to make senior Jo smile back, the heavy rain this time by looking at senior Jo instead did not feel cold. Even though it was so cold that it was bone-chilling, I who was wearing a jacket still felt cold especially senior Jo who did not wear a jacket just school uniform. Shortly after that Appa's car came and parked closer to the stop.
"Dear, let's go home." Take Appa to me
"But what about ..."
"It's okay, soon the last bus will come. You go home first, yeah." Said senior Jo who cut off my conversation earlier
"Hey boy, just go home with us. It's a little uncomfortable leaving you here alone." My Appa says
Senior Jo looks a little riled up before she approves my Appa invitation. We got into the car, me and senior Jo sat in the backseat.
"If you know what your name is, boy?" Ask me in the car while driving
"My name is Jo Eunbyul, I live in Gangnam district, apgujeong-dong."
"Well, how old are you, boy?"
"I'm 18 years old."
"You live alone boy?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"Goddess ..."
After that brief conversation we were silent all the way through the heavy rain to get to senior Jo's apartment. His apartment looks luxurious, it can be guessed that senior Jo is from the upper class. Maybe if we buy an apartment we will choose an apartment similar to the apartment owned by senior Jo.
.....
About 15 minutes later, Appa and I returned home. The rain was not too heavy, drizzling from the rain water that sounded so clear. After finishing the bath I tried to review the subject matter at school, these eyes already feel sleepy especially in this weather like this it does not want to be far from the pillows and friends. The material presented in the class was actually learned earlier, precisely at the tutoring place before I moved to Seoul.
Speaking of which is senior Jo why? It's such an interesting thing when I get to the land of people, ah, not really but this is my country too. Rebahan like this is fun, when I almost fell asleep suddenly my phone rang. Aish! just interrupt, who these nights call. I looked at my phone screen and it turned out to be Sora, this afternoon after lunch we exchanged numbers to get in touch with each other.
"Hello?" sora
"Hi .." I replied briefly
"It turns out this is your number! You disappeared in the library, I've been looking everywhere for you. Have you gone home yet?"
"Hm .. I was in the library. Now that I'm home, I wasn't alone anyway."
"Do you have any friends besides me?"
"There's someone .. Guess what!"
"Chairman class? Vice class president? Hyejin?"
"Not ... let's play your smart brain Sora~"
"What don't-don't ... Senior Jo?"
"...."
"L!!!!"
"If I'm silent, then your answer is correct. Congratulations to you!"
Sora's voice seemed choked, he couldn't believe I was with senior Jo. Should have been with me, maybe we would have been there.
"Good .." said Sora
"What do you mean?"
"Senior Jo .. she's a little antisocial ..."
Senior doesn't look like that! He doesn't look antisocial, he's comfortable talking to me. He's just normal!
"Vivi, tomorrow I'll tell you about last year's incident, I think I'm the one who gave up and told you about this. But if you're close to senior Jo, I think you should know this from the start. Take a break and don't think too much ... Good night."
"Good night." I replied to Sora while hanging up the phone.
From the beginning I wondered why people were so indifferent to senior Jo, when she tried not to look different. Senior said earlier as well, I can't do this. I look at the clock and it shows at 00.40 AM I am tired too, than I forced to find out today maybe better tomorrow, I want to rest.
.....
At 05.00 AM I woke up and was standing by in front of the laptop. I started the search by typing the name of my school, then came up so many articles about the school, but it was a bit difficult to find articles about last year. I kept searching for keywords and scrolling to find what I was looking for, until finally ....
"An Athlete From High School B 'Killed' His Opponent During a Match"
Crazy one! What kind of news is this! I tried to open the article, and I never thought the athlete was senior Jo! Maybe the title of the article was made cruel like this so that many read but this is really outrageous, indeed in the newsmakers feel that senior Jo feels? Just crazy! In the article it is said that his opponent did have a back injury before, dings from senior Jo made him faint immediately on the spot. After being examined by the medical team, the medical team immediately took him to the hospital and found the opponent was in a coma.
10 Days in the hospital, then his opponent breathed his last. His back injury apparently injured his spinal cord nerves. And because of that, Jo's senior was suspended from matches and sports clubs. From the results of the investigation it is purely not the fault of senior Jo, but there are some parties who blame it for being considered careless.
Injuries in matches are commonplace, moreover this is a martial art match we can not blame any party, it could be that this is a fate that has been set. From this case I can see people's views towards senior Jo. Maybe this will be told by Sora later, from this case also we can take life lessons, that the reality of the world is cruel.
.....
"Open, I seem to take the bus alone, while it's still early in the morning it must still be overtaken, I won't be late."
"Well then, be careful my dear."
"Dear, if you really want to go to an additional class just call Eomma, today Appa will be home a little long" said Eomma while giving me a snack
"Arasseoyo, Gomawoyo Eomma."
The journey from home to the stop is not so far away, it only takes a few minutes. In addition, many children from my school were also on the bus. After arriving at the school stop, it turns out the atmosphere is still quiet. I saw a bench at this stop where last night Jo and I were sitting here waiting for Appa. Remains of puddles due to yesterday's rain are still visible, quite a lot as well. The road looks wet and the weather feels humid, there are some bench stops that are also wet. This morning's dew felt so cool and the sunshine this morning was so warm.
I set foot into the school and entered the classroom, inside were some people I had just met yesterday. I sat on my bench and looked out the window. The warm rays of the sun this morning illuminate the traces of the former rain yesterday, beautiful especially the trees. Shortly after I sat down the class started to get crowded and Sora also came.
"Hey! Good mornings!" Sapaku on Sora who this morning looks very happy because the weather today must be warm.
"Morning too!" reply to me
"By the way, while it's still not in I'll tell you about ...."
"... Later at lunch." said I cut Sora's talk, maybe I'm not ready or rather I feel the cash room is not the right place to talk about this.
During the class, Sora remained as usual who was busy and chatty, but Sora's personality was known to classmates. Some are not too comfortable but some are just as comfortable as I am.
.....
It didn't feel like it was time for lunch, as we usually had lunch in the school cafeteria because the food was provided by the school. I looked around looking for a familiar figure who was with me last night but did not see the trunk of his nose.
"So .." said Sora starting the conversation
"What?"
"A year ago this school sent a hapkido athlete to a national sports match, one of the athletes who excelled and was sent at the time was ..."
"... senior Jo." Again I cut off Sora's talk and Sora didn't bother about it
"Yes, everyone put their hopes on him as the bearer of the school's name. But who would have thought, his opponent had a medical problem at that time no one knew. Like hapkido matches in general, slamming moves are common. But on that day, the movement was a disaster. His opponent collapsed on the spot, and was immediately taken to the hospital. After that we got word that his opponent was in a coma, all surprised that guilty looks were also on senior Jo, and people's gazes seemed to say that senior was the cause. Since then, Jo's senior attitude began to change, which he was originally a person who easily socialized, now closed off from the outside world including school. Reportedly his family also took him to a psychiatrist, you could say at that time he was very shaken, now it is better especially if he was willing to chat with others."
"It must be very heavy .. accused of being an indirect killer. How did the other party's family react?"
"They filed a lawsuit but Jo's senior side appealed, and fortunately the two sides reconciled."
"That's so ..."
After hearing that I had no appetite, my lunch was just a stir and was partially eaten by Sora. Today I saw senior Nam and some of his friends but did not look senior Jo, as Sora said, he withdrew from social. The media is so bad, making an article stating that a martial art athlete is a killer, let alone he is still a student, very cruel.
Lunch is over, it just so happens that today after lunch there is an empty hour, most will go to the library and spend time there. Sora took me to the library but I wanted to relax my mind, I walked in a hallway on the 2nd floor overlooking the old unused basketball court. Near the basketball court grew wildflowers that are small, small and have many colors, very beautiful. Right on the unused basketball court looks a familiar figure that looks like it is shiny. One familiar figure who had not had lunch in the cafeteria, on the edge of the field there was an army-colored backpack and lunch supplies that looked empty.
The figure wearing a school gym suit seems to be practicing hapkido alone. Occasionally he took a break and drank from his red tumblr, he also looked up at the sky while closing his eyes and sunlight shone on his body wet from the sweat. There was another side of him, as if there were no burdens, and .. he also smiled. That smile was a happy, happy smile, for the first time without seeing the crowd. It must be hard, I hope you keep smiling like that, don't need to know that someone is watching you from up here.
"But keep smiling like that Jo Eunbyul."
