Bamboo Forest Manager

112 – 111. It’S Your Fault

“Ugh.”

Baked bread is basically served with the Western menu. So it was common to have tube-shaped jams of various kinds, but they were on a high shelf.

‘Oh, man.’

Yoo Ah-rin struggled to get the jam. The ones she had taken out from the bottom had all fallen, and she tried to take out the next pack, but she couldn’t reach it.

“Ah, why not?”

“Please! Pleasepleasepleaseplease!”

Yeon-young, Lee Seo-ah, and Kim Woo-jin were chattering among themselves, ignoring her struggle.

Lee Seo-ah was clinging to Kim Woo-jin, pleading with him while holding her cell phone.

“My boyfriend posted a picture of him and his girlfriend on SNS? How shameless can he be?”

“Oh, I guess so. What a jerk.”

“A jerk? A jerk? Are you kidding me? He’s not seeing me right now, but he’s hanging out with his girlfriend?”

“Sigh.”

Come to think of it, Lee Seo-ah had made a big fuss about it at the dorm yesterday.

Thanks to her, I had to drink beer even though I didn’t want to.

“So what. Are you going to do the same? Take a picture with me and make him jealous? What the hell is that?”

‘Oh, my.’

Yoo Ah-rin just laughed at her friend’s nonsense. No matter how annoying her boyfriend was, wouldn’t it be a bit too simplistic to get back at him with the same thing?

“Oh, please! Huh? Just one! Please! Just take one picture!”

“I know a really handsome guy. I’ll introduce you to him. Take a picture with him.”

She’s trying to use Chan-woo.

Sorry, but Lee Seo-ah knows Chan-woo too. They’re high school classmates.

“Oh, not Chan-woo.”

Lee Seo-ah refused right away.

“Why?”

“He’s so handsome that my boyfriend will be really mad.”

“You little…!

“hehehe! Oh, come on! Woo-jin-ah!”

Now Lee Seo-ah was begging him, hanging on him. The playful smile on her lips was pretty, as expected of a theater and film major.

‘Oh, boy.’

Pretending not to see the two of them fooling around, Yoo Ah-rin tried to get the jam again.

Kim Woo-jin, who had dragged Lee Seo-ah away, came next to her and handed her the jam, then complained.

“Oh, why not? What if your boyfriend says something to me? I can’t fight.”

“Hey! I’ll explain everything. Okay?”

“Oh, I don’t know. I’m going to my room.”

Kim Woo-jin ran away, pulling the cart to his room.

“……”

Yoo Ah-rin stared blankly at the jam pack he had left behind, then quickly came to her senses and focused on her work again.

* * *

“Like this?”

“No, like this.”

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

Basically, room service is a bit slow after lunch time. At most, there would be one or two late lunch orders.

So during the slow time.

Kim Woo-jin was attracting people’s attention with his strange steps.

Starting with Lee Seo-ah from the theater and film department and Han-bom from the design department, and even the managers.

They gathered around and watched Kim Woo-jin’s steps as if he were performing some kind of circus act.

“Okay, you saw it. Like this, like this. When the guest comes out, they’ll be happy right away.”

Is he still pushing that joke?

“No, that’s really amazing.”

“Did you practice?”

“Unexpectedly.”

In fact, he didn’t learn it separately, and Kim Woo-jin had only practiced it with his roommates at the dorm yesterday while watching YouTube.Since they only had their phones and nothing else to do, it was natural for the guys to engage in strange behavior in their dorm.

“I’m so bored in the dorm that I’m doing things like this.”

Yoo Ah-rin watched from a distance, wondering why he had suddenly become so interested in dancing, and then checked her watch.

It was time to pick up the washed napkins, so she quietly left her seat and headed to the laundry room with a cart.

‘Why is he dancing all of a sudden?’

He often said he was a homebody, so it was a bit unexpected that he would be interested in dancing.

She had heard stories about guys acting strangely when they were together, but wasn’t this a bit too strange?

Kim Woo-jin and dancing didn’t go together at all.

Anyway, she went to the laundry room and was moving the napkins to the cart.

Kim Woo-jin approached her and stood on the other side, helping her move the napkins to the cart.

“Why are you doing this alone?”

“What… When did you get here?”

“I saw you going alone, so I followed you. You have a lot of napkins this time, so there must be a lot of laundry.”

“I can do it myself.”

“Yes, I’m sure you can.”

“…….”

He was definitely acting colder than he did at school. He had been acting like this especially since he saw her talking to Choi Yi-seo.

Kim Woo-jin was taking care of her in a strange way.

It felt good and bad at the same time.

Yoo Ah-rin didn’t like the ambiguity,

but she continued to accept his kindness.

“Hey, how was my staff? I practiced really hard. I’m the best in our dorm. Do I have talent?”

Yoo Ah-rin found it a bit funny to think that he had practiced with Jung Chan-woo on his phone, but she managed to keep her expression neutral and replied.

“Why are you dancing all of a sudden?”

“Hmm? You showed me the windmill.”

“…….”

Yoo Ah-rin stopped moving the napkins and slowly raised her head.

Kim Woo-jin didn’t seem to notice her gaze and continued to move the napkins while talking.

“The windmill looked cool, so I wanted to try it too. Honestly, isn’t it a guy’s dream?”

“……That’s a really lame reason.”

“Is it?”

Kim Woo-jin had finished loading the napkins onto the cart and started to pull it away. Yoo Ah-rin followed him in a daze.

“It’s almost time to collect the carts from Building B, so we should hurry.”

It was time to collect the carts that the guests had left outside their doors after finishing their meals.

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“I forgot to go last time and got scolded by the manager.”

Yoo Ah-rin kept her mouth shut as she watched Kim Woo-jin talk about getting scolded as if it was nothing.

But he continued to talk without stopping, his steps light.

“It’s understandable to make a mistake once, right?”

“…….”

“But twice is a bit much. If you do it twice, you can be called an idiot.”

“…….”

Yoo Ah-rin stared at Kim Woo-jin, who was asking for her agreement, and finally.

“Hey.”

She couldn’t hold it in any longer and blurted out.

“Do you like me?”

“……Are you crazy all of a sudden?”

Kim Woo-jin asked back, as if to say what was she talking about. Yoo Ah-rin stared at him and suddenly snatched the cart away from him.

“If not, then go. I’ll do it myself.”

“…….”

“You should go to Building B.”

“Oh, right.”

Kim Woo-jin, who had been looking bewildered, stopped for a moment and then turned around.

“Is something difficult?”

“Why?”

“Something about you lately… You’re not acting like yourself.”

He hesitated as if he couldn’t find the right words, and then gave up and left.

“Haah.”Yoo Ah-rin, who couldn’t even answer, just sighed deeply at his back and headed to the office with her cart.

Time passed like that, and it was time to leave work.

They all went up from the basement to the first floor and headed to the bus stop.

“Wow, it’s snowing.”

“Really?”

“I didn’t know because I was only in the basement.”

Lee Se-ah and Han Bom started taking pictures with joy, looking at the snow that had piled up in the meantime.

Yoo Ah-rin was also half-forced to join them.

“Woojin! You too!”

“Take our picture!”

Kim Woo-jin, who was called by Lee Se-ah and Han Bom. Kim Woo-jin, who said he would take a breathtaking picture, was about to join them.

Woo-woong!

“Oh, sorry. I’ll take a call.”

Kim Woo-jin left to take a call on the phone that rang just then.

Han Bom, who was watching him blankly, asked with a giggle.

“Hey, is that your girlfriend?”

“He said he didn’t have a girlfriend? Isn’t she just a fling? His expression is so relaxed.”

“You bastard, he’s a good guy.”

“Was he the one who was at your house that time?”

“……”

The two people who were talking about how Kim Woo-jin’s atmosphere had changed right away. The two of them were immediately interested in the love story.

But Yoo Ah-rin kept her mouth shut between them.

She’s angry.

That bastard is laughing like that.

That bastard is smiling at her, which he doesn’t show her, just because he got a call.

When people around her saw it, they would say that she was obviously a fling.

It made her feel smaller and smaller.

‘It’s not like you.’

Isn’t it funny?

She wanted to ask what was so special about it, since it wasn’t a youth drama.

But Yoo Ah-rin herself knew. She knew that if she had been her usual self, she wouldn’t have worried about this at all.

Why?

Why?

Seo Ye-rin and Choi Yi-seo.

She knew that the two people who had become close already liked Kim Woo-jin.

In the first place, revealing the man you like among women was nothing more than a kind of signal not to touch him.

It was natural to become a bad woman if you broke it.

‘Isn’t it possible to make a mistake once, honestly?’

Suddenly, she remembered what Kim Woo-jin had said earlier. Thanks to the words he had muttered so casually.

‘But twice is a bit much. If you do it twice, you can call it stupid.’

She felt a strange sense of relief.

You can do it once.

But you can’t do it twice.

Because you can’t live as a fool forever.

“Ugh, I can’t help but be stupid.”

“Ah-rin?”

“Where are you going?”

Despite her friends calling her from behind, Yoo Ah-rin walked forward with a heavy step on the snow.

“No, I just finished.”

Kim Woo-jin was laughing and talking on the phone behind the bus stop. It was obvious that it was Choi Yi-seo, as his voice was soft and gentle.

“Hey!”

Yoo Ah-rin, who shouted at Kim Woo-jin, immediately reached out and grabbed Kim Woo-jin’s head with one hand.

“Ugh?!”

Her hands were small, so she could only cover his forehead and eyes, but that was enough.

“Oh, it hurts!”

Kim Woo-jin, who was in pain, struggled and appealed to her.

Yoo Ah-rin snatched the cell phone that Kim Woo-jin was holding.

“Hello?”

– Yoo Ah-rin?

It was the first time in a long time that she had heard Choi Yi-seo’s bewildered voice. As she came this far, Yoo Ah-rin’s lips had a refreshing smile on them, as if she felt a strange sense of relief.”We weren’t close friends from the beginning, right? I’ll feel less betrayed.”

– ……What are you talking about?

“What am I talking about? A declaration of war.”

“Wh, what? I can’t see!”

Yoo Ah-rin let out a chuckle as she watched Kim Woo-jin flailing around.

“I’ll take this pretty boy.”

– …….

“You and Ye-rin can find someone else.”

– Wait a minute!

Click.

Yoo Ah-rin hung up the phone.

She handed Kim Woo-jin his phone with a relieved expression.

“What are you doing?”

Kim Woo-jin looked at his phone blankly, and Yoo Ah-rin smiled.

“I like you.”

She raised her fist.

“So don’t talk to Choi Yi-seo in front of me. I’ll smash your phone.”

“……Are you crazy?”

Kim Woo-jin asked with a look of disbelief, and Yoo Ah-rin immediately crossed her arms and asked back.

“Why, is it weird?”

“No, isn’t it obvious? Why are you suddenly acting like this?”

“Then I’ll let you go.”

Thud.

Yoo Ah-rin tightened her grip on her arms as if she would never let go and blamed him cheerfully.

“I shouldn’t have been nice to you.”