Chapter 617 (2/2)

“Let’s just get to eating.”

After a moment of silence, everyone in the clubroom reached out to the food in front of them.

“Let’s eat!”

“Thanks for the food!”

Maru grinned at Sora, who glared at him, before reaching out to some snacks.

“Raw ramyun? This looks terrible.”

“There are uncooked wiener sausages here too.”

“Should we just bring a pot and cook some budae-jjigae[1]?”

“I’m sure the teachers would love to see that.”

Since the food was brought by students who didn’t have deep pockets, most of the items were snacks or cheap frozen foods. Maru checked the time on his phone before calling a few of his juniors from the acting club and leaving the classroom.

“What is it, seonbae?”

“Go to the fast food restaurant in front of the school and buy everything you want. You should buy about 30 people’s worth of food.”

He gave his credit card to his juniors. After accepting the card, the junior hesitated before asking,

“Really?”

“Don’t hold back and get everything you want. I’m going to make you run a lap around the school field if the receipt is shorter than your face, so buy a lot of things. If you want to eat something else, you can buy those too. But you have to hurry.”

“Yes!”

The juniors seemed to have thought that refusing once out of politeness was enough and ran down the stairs without even looking back. Seeing that, Maru was a little scared of the soon-to-be-coming receipt, but he decided not to mind since the bus had already left.

Oh, I had a missed call - when he opened his phone, he saw that he had a missed call. It was from Jiseok. He pressed the call button before waiting a little.

-Are you on break from your shoot?

“No, I’m at school because there’s no shoot today.”

-Oh, really? I thought you were shooting because you weren’t picking up.

“I turn it off completely when I’m shooting. Anyways, what’s up?”

-I was just checking if you were alive or dead.

“You want me to die?”

-If I say yes here, is that a scenario for a movie?

“A third-rate one, maybe.”

-Hey, third-rate is going a little too far. I just called because I was reminded of you. I was talking about Gaeul, and thought that it’s been quite a while since I saw you. Do you have time this weekend[2]? Let’s eat out together. Of course, you’ll be the one buying since you have a job right now.

“But my plan is to stay at home for the entire day tomorrow.”

-Even though it’s Sunday? Aren’t you going to meet Gaeul?

“I have something to do.”

-What is it?

“Watching videotapes.”

-Wow, so your love has finally cooled down. I was wondering when it would happen.

“It’s nothing like that, so stop talking nonsense.”

-Haha, but what videotapes are you talking about? Aren’t we past the era of watching films on videotapes?

“They’re records of old times. It’s for studying, mostly.”

-Studying acting?

“If it wasn’t that, then I wouldn’t have a reason to watch them.”

-Let me in then. I’d like to visit a friend’s house too.

“The seats are already full though.”

-Is someone else coming?

“A friend of mine.”

-Then let me in as well as one of your friends.

“I’ll ask first. He’s someone who’s not good around strangers, so he wouldn’t want a weird guy to be invited all of a sudden. He’s a good guy, so he should probably be understanding, but it would definitely not be polite of me to decide by myself.”

-I’m a weird guy?

“A maniac is definitely a weird guy. Anyway, I’ll call you back once I tell him about it. He’ll probably accept though.”

-Should I buy some toilet rolls?

“It’s not a housewarming party. Just bring some things to eat. If you do come, anyway.”

-Got it. I’ll be waiting so call me back quickly.

“Hey, why don’t you have anything to do on the weekend? Don’t you have a shoot?”

-I’m completely jobless right now. I’m going to meet everyone I can before I start working.

Call me back - Jiseok added energetically before hanging up.

“A high school student is not jobless….”

Maru chuckled before closing his phone.

[1] A.K.A (Korean) Army stew. Link for more details.

[2] Students went to schools on Saturdays (every Saturday), until 2006 (though, schools ended before noon on Saturdays), when it was changed to going once every two weeks and eventually just five days a week in 2012. So Saturday(the day in this chapter) was technically not a ‘weekend’ in the sense that it was a resting day.