1st in Class Hides Regression - Chapter 69

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Ranked 1st in School Hides Her Regression
Episode 69
“How?”
“Next week, when parents come to observe at School, right?”
They tour the whole place to see what we eat, what the facilities are like, sit in on classes, and have consultations with the homeroom teacher.
“Tell them when the parents are here?”
“But even then, if they just deny it, won’t that be the end of it?”
“That’s true, though.”
She glanced around before lowering her head.
Whisper, whisper. Hushed murmurs.
“…What do you think?”
“I’m for it.”
The friend who’d first reported this raised her hand.
“Worst case, we lose nothing. Let’s try it.”
“Right. We can always think of something else later if it doesn’t work.”
“I’m in.”
Su-a, who’d passed the lookout duty to another friend, flopped onto the bench and added her voice. They had to blow this wide open in front of everyone’s parents—only then would they stop pulling this kind of stunt. “So we talk details in the girls’ group chat?”
“We can’t use Kakao Talk.”
Kim Ga-eun frowned, jerking her chin toward the Schoolyard.
“We’ve got one traitor among us.”
…
…
The reason the other girls didn’t push back against such a harsh word was…….
“Eesh! Whew~”
All the girls of second-year class two were gathered at the Wisteria Bench, and there was one sitting alone over at the Stands.
Eyeliner sharp enough to rival Bang Eun-ji’s. Blush like Peking Opera. Lips the color of a bright red GGV part-timer from that era.
Wearing a Hoodie far too large for her frame, with only three fingers peeking out past the sleeves…….
“Go baby, go!”
She was cheering on her boyfriend playing basketball.
“How long is she gonna keep wearing that Hoodie? Isn’t she hot? It’s May already.”
“It’s her boyfriend’s. She says her body’s weak, and wearing it keeps her grounded. It makes her feel like she’s being held by him.”
“But her boyfriend’s not even that big.”
“I dunno…….”
Jang Ji-won.
She was the girlfriend of one of Park Soo-hwan’s circle.
She and Yeon-hui were best friends, but she seemed oblivious to her own friend crying here, too absorbed in cheering on her boyfriend.
“That’s my milky-white baby!”
……
……
Yeon-hui offered an excuse.
“It’s Ji-won’s first relationship, so she was worried she’d never get to date before graduation. She kept saying the years in uniform only come once in your life.”
“Ah, so that’s why she shares everything we say in our girls’ chat with her boyfriend?”
Kim Ga-eun said it with a sneer.
Exactly.
The reason Ga-eun calls Jang Ji-won a traitor.
When Do Ha-jun threw a dodgeball at the girls’ faces and got it thrown back at him by Do Yeon, starting a fight. When the boys ran through the back of the Classroom and accidentally hit Yeon-hui, making her cry, and didn’t apologize.
Every time something like that happened—when the entire class chat was too awkward to discuss, the girls’ group chat exploded with just-among-us conversations.
And she’d show it all to her boyfriend. Then he’d bring it up in front of everyone: “So you guys did that, huh?” And then he’d say things like,
‘My boyfriend says you’re all too worked up right now, and you should do it like this~’
Meanwhile Ji-won herself never caught a clue and kept spouting nonsense.
Ga-eun had already been waiting for a chance to get back at her over it.
“So what do we do? Dissolve the chat and kick her out?”
“Wouldn’t that be too harsh? Isolating her?”
“But if we let her in, it’s ruined.”
“Right. Last time when we were talking trash about Do Ha-jun, she just sat there quiet, and I was like, what’s she doing? Turns out she was live-streaming everything to her boyfriend.”
“Isn’t it more like Ji-won’s the one excluding us, not the other way around?”
“But still.”
“We’re not trying to exclude Jang Ji-won. We just want to do this one thing without her. We wanted to include her, but she’s not even here right now. What can we do? She’s not here.”
“Ugh!”

“Oof!”
Right on cue, a collision erupted among the boys shooting hoops.
“Seo! You okay?!”
Jang Ji-won rushed over at lightning speed and helped her boyfriend to his feet.
“Hey, Ji-won, what are you doing? Get out of here!”
“You’re breaking our rhythm!”
“What? My husband fell, so I came to help!”
…….
…….
A cold silence fell among the girls watching the spectacle.
Even the ones who’d been standing up for Jang Ji-won shook their heads.
“Let’s just play without Ji-won.”
“Yeah, let’s do that.”
As the girls made their pact, my mind was elsewhere.
The thought that I might actually be able to use Jang Ji-won to my advantage.
That’s when the memory clicked into place—what happened around this time. Hearing her call him “my husband” sent chills racing across my skin, and suddenly I remembered things I thought I’d buried. ‘My husband,’ she’d said!
‘My husband?!’
That’s not from ten years ago—that’s practically 1990s sentiment!
I handed a tissue to Yeon-hui, who’d started crying again out of embarrassment at her friend’s antics, and spoke quietly.
“First, let’s find out if those kids’ parents are actually coming to the Observation Class next week.”
* * *
“Park Soo-hwan.”
“What?”
“Are your parents coming to Parent Observation Day next week?”
“Why?”
“The homeroom teacher wants to know who’s attending.”
A complete lie.
Fortunately, Park Soo-hwan answered without much suspicion.
“Nope.”
Why not?!
“Got it.”
I replied coolly, pretending to jot something down on my phone. Really, I was scribbling something like why aren’t they coming, ugh, this sucks, chicken chicken—nonsense.
Park Soo-hwan touched his hair and then,
“Blegh, ptooey.”
made a spitting gesture before leaving the classroom.
My friends, who’d been pretending to do other things while listening carefully, exchanged meaningful glances. A girl from table 2 volunteered the information.
“Park Soo-hwan’s mom probably doesn’t even know there’s a Parent Observation Day. Supposedly, at the start of the semester he turned in his tablet number instead of his parents’ phone number or whatever—to make sure they can’t reach his mom.”
“Can you even do that?”
“Apparently, yes.”
“Wow.”
His mind works fast when it comes to the wrong things.
“He forges his report cards all the time too. Says his mom’s unemployed anyway, so she wouldn’t understand them even if she saw them.”
“Psycho.”
Completely disrespecting the woman who gave birth to him.
But this time, he won’t be able to weasel out.
“If she just knew the Parent Observation Day was happening, she’d probably come……”
“Does anyone know where Park Soo-hwan lives?”
At my question, Kim Ga-eun’s hand shot up.
“We live in the same Apartment.”
“Do you know which building?”
She nodded.
“Then I’ll give you the School Notice for Parent Observation Day, and you can post it on the bulletin board in his building, yeah?”
“Sure. There’s a board in the Elevator—I can just put it there.”
“Better yet, let’s also slip it into a school envelope and stick it in his Mailbox.”
“I don’t know his unit number yet…… but I’ll find out today.”
Kim Ga-eun nodded solemnly.
That evening.
Kim Ga-eun
Park Soo-hwan intercepted the notice she’d placed in his Mailbox
20:21
Kim Ga-eun
She’d torn down the one stuck in the Elevator too
Haha so I brought another one
20:28
20:46
Hahahahahaha
The next day.
Park Soo-hwan arrived at School in high spirits and told his homeroom teacher that his parents would be visiting next week as well.
“Oh, okay.”
The bewildered teacher nodded.
Later, overhearing the others talk about it, I gathered that Park Soo-hwan had gotten annoyed when his mother brought the School Notice home and asked what it was, muttering “Nothing to worry about” — and then his father had scolded him soundly for it.
So Park Soo-hwan’s father would be coming to the Observation Class.
Interesting.
‘Do Ha-jun… your parents will definitely come, of course.’
I remember seeing Do Ha-jun’s mother. She wore a pink tennis skirt that looked almost identical to our School uniform, which is how I remember her.
The rest of them were on track.
The problem was Jang Ji-won’s boyfriend.
(He does have a name, sure, but do I really need to know the name of some random guy like that? Ji-won’s Boyfriend is good enough, so that’s what I’ll call him.)
“Jang Ji-won’s boyfriend is the owner of that USB?”
“Yeah. I saw him pull it out of his School Bag earlier.”
Everyone gathered at my desk, sharing updates, turned their attention toward Jang Ji-won and her boyfriend.
“Ugh! …you bastard, you scared? I’m just messing with you~”
Ji-won’s Boyfriend raised his hand as if to swat Do Ha-jun, then ruffled his hair with a laugh. Jang Ji-won wrapped her arm around her boyfriend’s side and pouted cutely.
“You’re so cute.”
Su-a, sitting beside her, silently made a gesture of clawing out her own eyes.
“Her parents really need to come.”
“But didn’t you say her mom went down to the countryside?”
“Yeah. Someone in the family’s sick.”
“So couldn’t they at least call her dad?”
“How would they?”
“Right.”
“That bastard’s parents really have to show up.”
Kim Ga-eun ground her teeth.
Seo Jae-gyeom, entering the Classroom and spotting the crowd of girls clustered around my desk, hesitated.
“Should I come back later?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay….”
“Baby, you know this Saturday is our 200th day, right?”
That’s when Jang Ji-won dropped information that made everyone’s ears perk up.
“You knew?”
“Oh. Yeah.”
I watched Ji-won’s Boyfriend’s expression grow uncertain while Jang Ji-won’s brightened, then spoke to the others.
“I think we’re good. Let’s stick with the plan for now.”
Right — if it’s like before the Regression, then after this weekend it’ll definitely…….

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