My Confession Was Ruined Because of a Zombie 3

If he asks shortly to spare just 1 minute, kind Taewoong will probably say okay. And when Taewoong comes, he’ll give him a bouquet and confess that he always liked him while congratulating him on graduation! Yeoul nodded, thinking it was a pretty good plan, and clenched his fists.

The precious bouquet for confession was carefully stored in the locker in case someone touched it. Then, while Taewoong was playing soccer, he had the graduation speech he would read at the upcoming ceremony checked by the teacher and visited the auditorium.

“Why are you taking it so gravely?”

No matter how busy he moved, he felt so nervous that he thought he would throw up at the thought of confessing for the first time in his life. As he was taking the Woohwangcheongsimhwan (herbal medicine) he brought to eat before going on stage as the representative of the graduates, Jeonghyun who sat next to him clicked his tongue. Yeoul gulped down the bitter medicine in his mouth.

“I’m so nervous thinking about the speech……”

“Then why do you keep getting 1st place. You should get 2nd or 3rd sometimes.”

“How can I……”

“Hey, are you okay?”

As he laughed at Jeonghyun’s absurd words, he saw a friend in the very front row shaking his upper body and coughing again, and another friend comforting him.

“Choi Yeoul, don’t even think about going close.”

As soon as he got up from his seat to ask if he was okay, Jeonghyun grabbed Yeoul’s wrist and made him stand up.

“What if you catch it when your lungs are already weak. Wear a mask.”

Yeoul had weak lungs since he was young. He suffered greatly even from a simple cold. Jeonghyun, who had been close with Yeoul for a long time and knew this well, told him to ignore it and sit down again. Yeoul had no choice but to sit down unsteadily.

As he worriedly looked at his friend covering his mouth and coughing, he turned his head and looked out the window. Perhaps because it was graduation day, there were many people wearing casual clothes unlike usual.

From a child holding hands with his mother to an elderly person in a suit, and a woman who seemed to be someone’s older sister. As he was looking at various people, suddenly he saw a person with a pale face running as if being chased among the people. He also saw someone screaming and running out of the school.

“…… What is it?”

“Hey, look at this. It’s awesome.”

“What is it?”

Wondering what’s going on, did they forget to buy a bouquet. Why are they going out in such a hurry? In the midst of his doubt, the friend sitting in front of Jeonghyun handed over the cell phone he had been looking at. Jeonghyun and Yeoul looked at the phone screen. A short-form video platform video played.

[Th, this is the isolation room of ○○ Hospital. The country is hiding the condition of the patients, so I’m making it public like this.]

“○○ Hospital? That’s the hospital right behind our school, isn’t it?”

As Jeonghyun said, the hospital in the video was located on the opposite side of the same mountain as the school.

Yeoul nodded, and as the subtitles appeared, a CCTV screen showing four people lying on beds in the same white clothes continued.

What’s so awesome about this, he thought. At that very moment, one of the people who had been coughing particularly badly since earlier suddenly began to shake his whole body as if having a seizure. Then, as if he had never shaken, he went limp. Not long after, a doctor and a nurse came in.

They stood next to the person who had just had a seizure and were talking to each other, when the person who had been lying limp suddenly lunged at the nurse like a carnivore.

“Yeoul.”

As he watched the nurse’s pained face and trembling body, his name was suddenly called. Yeoul was startled and raised his head.

“Oh, yes?”

“The student who said he’s the student representative is here.”

When he looked back, the 2nd year student standing at the back door of the classroom bowed briefly to greet him. Yeoul got up from his seat and approached, listening to his friends say “Is this a movie trailer? It’s so realistic, so what happened to the nurse noona?”

“What’s up?”

“It’s nothing else, but the eulogy content has changed a bit.”

While looking at the eulogy content handed over by the 2nd year student, he belatedly noticed that Taewoong and his friends were not outside the window. He became anxious.

“Sunbae-nim, congratulations on your graduation.”

“Yeah, yeah. Thanks!”

Once the graduation ceremony started, it would be difficult to meet Taewoong. I have to meet him quickly! He roughly answered the underclassman’s greeting and hurriedly checked his condition before going up to the 5th floor where Taewoong’s class 9 was.

“Taewoong sunbae-nim, congratulations on your graduation!!”

“Oh, yeah. Yeah. Thank you.”

The greeting sound echoed in the 5th floor hallway. He flinched at the name he heard, and when he looked at the end of the hallway, he saw Taewoong standing in front of the kids doing greetings at attention.

The kids who seemed to be from the same soccer team as Taewoong handed over bouquets and gifts, and Taewoong thanked them and patted their heads. Seeing that, he regretted that he should have brought the bouquet in advance if he had known this would happen! As Yeoul was regretting while hitting his chest, the soccer team members who finished greeting passed by Yeoul’s side.

It was too late to go back and get the bouquet. Thinking about the upcoming graduation ceremony, Yeoul eventually headed to Taewoong’s class 9 with heavy steps.

“Look at Nam Taewoong’s popularity!”

“It’s awesome!!”

“Ah, I didn’t live my life in vain. I’m so cool. I’m very proud of myself!”

As soon as he quietly went and hid next to the back door of Taewoong’s class, he heard a noisy sound. When he poked his head out and looked inside the classroom, Taewoong was holding his chin up and being cocky, and his friends nearby were swearing and throwing snacks at him.

“I like it even if you hit me! Throw more!”

“I’m so sick of seeing that annoying look, why won’t the graduation ceremony start!!”

“Di, sgusting…….”

Now that I see it, Taewoong’s desk is full of cakes, bouquets, and gift boxes. I thought our Taewoong really seems popular, but the lively atmosphere of the class suddenly died down.

Everyone’s eyes were drawn to the classmate who slowly raised his head while coughing, cough, cough! at the small dissatisfied voice that came from somewhere. Jaeseong’s eyebrows narrowed.

“Hey, what did you say?”

Jaeseong’s body was completely turned towards the classmate. The eyes of the friend who had been coughing without a mask also fixed on Jaeseong.

“I said it’s di, sgu, sting……”

The kid who was usually quiet with almost no presence talks back to Jaeseong. Everyone looked at the classmate with a dumbfounded face and then watched Jaeseong’s reaction.

“Did you suddenly become brave because it’s the graduation ceremony.”

Jaeseong, who had been sitting on the desk with his legs dangling, stood on the floor with a dumbfounded face. He muttered loudly so that the classmate staring blankly at him could hear and tried to move.

“Why be annoying on a good day…”

“Whoa, whoa! Why are you acting like this on a good day!”

It seemed like something might happen on graduation day. As Yeoul thought that might be the case, Taewoong, who was in the middle of the commotion, belatedly grabbed Jaeseong’s shoulder, soothed him with a smile, and apologized to the classmate staring at them.

“Sorry for being noisy. I got too excited.”

“…Oh, hey! Why are you so sensitive today too?!”

Starting with Taewoong’s apology, the tension and anticipation quickly dissipated. The classmates continued what they were doing as if they had never been wary. Watching them, Yeoul exclaimed silently to himself.

How can our Taewoong not only be handsome but have a great personality too? He thought he was falling for him all over again, when his gaze collided with someone coming out the back door. Yeoul quickly stood up straight.

“Um… Can you call Nam Taewoong for me?”

As if he had just arrived and seen nothing, he tried to ask casually, and the kid coming out the back door turned his body.

“Nam Taewoong!!”

He thought he would go quietly and call him, but he shouted loudly out of the blue. Yeoul was startled without realizing it.

Hey, if you call him like that, everyone will look! As expected, everyone in the class looked at the back door. Suddenly becoming the center of attention, Yeoul flinched and took a step back.

“He’s really too popular that it’s tiring, so tiring. Who’s looking for me again…”

Taewoong, who had been sitting at his desk chatting with friends, joked around then spotted Yeoul standing by the back door. He looked visibly surprised. Soon he awkwardly got down from his desk.

“Are you hurting a lot? This bastard is lying face down now.”

Through Taewoong slowly approaching, Yeoul saw the classmate who had dampened the mood earlier lying face down, and someone shaking his shoulder to wake him up.

Before he knew it, Taewoong got closer step by step. His heart pounded frighteningly. Yeoul gulped down his saliva and clasped his trembling hands.