My Girlfriend Is Very Good to Me

TL/Editor: looloo

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Life as an 8-year-old wasn't boring with Heena by my side, and although nothing else piqued my interest besides being with her, there were still some fun moments.

Take the sports day, for example.

In truth, it wasn't the event itself that was fun, but rather the atmosphere that stirred up nostalgia and childhood memories. The bustling excitement of countless parents and even neighborhood residents coming to watch touched something deep within me.

Plus, I enjoyed the activities that involved moving our bodies, like dance routines, jump rope, and running. It was a thousand times better than sitting through classes like "Wise Living" in the classroom.

"Did you see? I got first place!"

During PE class, I didn't hold back and absolutely crushed the boys in our class when we practiced running. It's not like I became faster by coming back to the past; I was just naturally quick on my feet as a kid. Around middle school, I started becoming more average.

Heena wasn't particularly athletic, so she mainly acted as my personal cheerleader. She'd watch me intently during her own races and come over to cheer me on when she wasn't participating.

That's not to say Heena didn't take part in any events. In fact, we ended up doing the three-legged race together.

Originally, I was paired with another fast girl as our class representatives, but...

"Teacher, I want to do it with Yeonho."

"Heena, why don't you cheer for Seoyeon and Yeonho with the other friends? Okay?"

"I want to do it."

"The teacher thought hard about how to let everyone have a fair chance to participate~ Heena, you didn't really like running-"

"I'm going to do it."

"Well... Seoyeon was looking forward to it too, so Heena, could you just this once..."

"Seoyeon~ Can I do the three-legged race with Yeonho? Hm? Is that okay? Right? Thanks~"

"......"

"Seoyeon said it's fine. I'll do it with Yeonho."

"Alright... Go ahead then..."

Apparently, the idea of me holding another girl's waist as we ran was extremely distasteful to Heena. For the first time, she stubbornly insisted to the teacher and snatched... no, won the position.

The teacher initially tried to persuade Heena but eventually gave in when Heena stol- I mean, secured the spot from her friend Seoyeon. Thankfully, Seoyeon was a bit of an airhead and really liked Heena, so it didn't cause any problems.

If anything, she seemed proud of herself for giving something up for Heena. As expected of our Heena.

Anyway, since first graders' three-legged race is basically guaranteed first place as long as you don't fall or dawdle, we practiced hard during class time with that goal in mind.

Then came the day of the sports festival.

Despite practically forcing her way into the three-legged race spot, Heena had absolutely no desire to win.

"Yeonho! Over here, over here! Let's do a kimchi smile~"

"Heena...! We're in the middle of a race! If we keep going like this, we'll get first pla-"

"Mom! Take a picture!!"

"Hehe, how can you stop there~ I'm so sorry because of our daughter~"

"Son, isn't taking a picture with your future daughter-in-law more important than running?"

Right in the middle of the track, just as we were syncing our steps and making good progress, she suddenly stopped at the spot where our parents were standing.

And then, with both arms tightly wrapped around my waist, she smiled and demanded a photo.

"What are they doing~ They're so cute~"

"Isn't the little girl just adorable?"

I guess since we were just first-grade kids, the parents around us were too busy cooing over how cute we were instead of wondering what on earth we were doing.

I couldn't exactly drag Heena along forcefully in this situation, so I simply gave up and struck a pose with her. There was no way we could catch up now even if we started running again.

It's not like we'd get prize money for winning the sports day anyway.

Sorry, classmates!

"Kimchi~"

"Kimchi~"

-Click!

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Apart from big events like the sports day, the various competitions Heena and I participated in by leveraging our friendship also made my heart race.

The reason such tests can be fun is probably because of the confidence in oneself. The confidence that you'll do well, of course.

Although math competitions require more reasoning skills than simple calculation abilities, there was no way I wouldn't get a perfect score in an elementary school lower grade math competition.

Of course, that's how it should have been, but...

"......"

"You can do better next time if you stay calm~"

"What next time for someone like me..."

"Aw, don't be like that~ I'll give you a kiss to cheer you up~"

Heena got a perfect score. But I made a mistake on one problem. It wasn't because the question was difficult, but because I rushed through it thinking it was easy and made a simple addition error.

A guy who was studying hard in university, even if he had emptied his head for 4-5 years, making a mistake on a first-grade elementary school math problem? Is this even human?

While I was feeling utterly disgusted with myself over this ridiculous blunder, our parents were going wild over our scores.

"Oh my goodness~ You both did so well! Sis, don't you think we should send them to a gifted school?"

"Gifted school? That's a bit much... But they are impressive."

"They're incredibly impressive!"

Whether it was Heena's parents or mine, they were the type to care more about us growing up healthy and happy than our grades, but there was no reason not to be pleased when we brought home good test scores.

Especially since we hadn't shown them how we usually study, and here we were, kids who were always hugging and kissing, doing so well on a test.

Seeing even Dad, not just Mom, visibly delighted, my self-loathing melted away like snow.

Rather than thinking I had done my filial duty, I just felt a tingling warmth seeing my parents so happy. I wondered if I had ever made them this happy before coming back to the past.

Ah, I had.

They were overjoyed when I first brought Heena home. They absolutely adored her.

"Yeonho. Do you enjoy math? Should we send you to an academy?"

In this situation where even talk of academies had come up, I shook my head and told Dad,

"No. I want to study with Heena, just the two of us."

"Is that so?"

I'm already dying of boredom with just school classes, if I go to an academy on top of that, my mind might just break.

Dad didn't seem intent on forcing me to go either, nodding his head with a grin as he stared intently at my report card again.

I guess I'll have to pretend to study a bit and take all these tests from now on, huh?

"Hey, I want to take another test with Yeonho!"

"If you want to, you should! Dad will look into what other tests are available!"

Heena also relayed what we had previously agreed upon to the uncle who was hugging her tightly and expressing his joy.

It wasn't just to make our parents happy, but also in preparation for when we enter middle school later.

Middle school admissions are basically a lottery, but I thought if we had a lot of these award records, the school might be inclined to pick us.

It always feels like Heena is clinging to me, but I can't bear to be without her either.

"Dad~ Let go! I want to go kiss Yeonho!"

"...Won't you give Dad one too?"

"Let go!"

"Alright..."

Uncle became visibly dejected at Heena's firm response. Regardless, Heena ran to my side, linked arms with me, and started kissing my cheek.

"Mmm~ Chu!"

Heena's kisses have no reason. She probably just felt like it and came over.

By the way.

"Daughters... there's no point in raising them..."

I'm sorry, uncle...

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Whether it was during the sports day, various academic competitions, or field trips.

We were always holding hands like that.

And that remained unchanged even at Christmas, the tail end of the year.

"Santa Claus brought a present for Yeonho this year too~ What did you wish for, Yeonho?"

"A game console!"

"I see~ Then shall we look at the present? I wonder if it's the game console Yeonho wanted~ Or not~"

Aunty built up the excitement as she watched me unwrap the gift. The rest of the family was also focused on me.

To be honest, it was obvious that it would be a PlayStation 2 inside, but I acted as excited as I could while carefully untying the ribbon and peeling off the wrapping paper.

It couldn't be anything else because a few days ago, Dad and Uncle had brought home a huge stocking. They said if we wrote what we wanted on a note and put it inside, Santa would bring us a present.

It happened last year too, and the year before that. It had already become an annual event.

Sure enough, inside the wrapping was a game console. Including a few game titles.

"Wow! Thank you so much!"

My response was a mix of acting and genuine gratitude. While I couldn't fully immerse myself in these games that were old news to me, some fun titles would gradually come out.

After my gift-opening time ended and my brothers received their appropriate gifts or pocket money.

"Shall we try this out now? Yeonho, can I set up this game console?"

"Sure. Go ahead, Jeongwoo hyung."

"I want to play too! Han Sunhoo, look at this! There's Tekken here too!"

"You're right. I'll be player one."

"Then I'm player two!"

Beside me, Jeongwoo hyung, who's in middle school, was eyeing my PlayStation along with Sunhoo hyung and Heeseong hyung, the elementary school game addicts.

I just pretended not to know and left everything to Jeongwoo hyung. Anyway, I'll always be with Heena, so I won't have much time to play games. My brothers will probably use it most of the time.

Our parents must have known this when they bought it for all of us to use together.

While my brothers were noisily setting up the game console in front of the TV, Mom and Aunty were bringing out various snacks, and Dad and Uncle had somehow already started drinking.

It was a lively Christmas.

It was the same last year and this year. And probably next year we'll have a Christmas just like this.

As usual, I was sitting quietly right next to Heena, side by side, feeling each other's warmth.

"Yeonho, Yeonho."

"Yeah?"

"Do you like me or the game more?"

"I like you way more."

"Right? Don't look at the game console more than me. Got it?"

"Yeah. I got it."

I gave a perfect answer to Heena's slightly jealous question.

By the way, I wonder if we'll be able to bathe separately next year?

Author's Note:

I should write the 'after' part too...

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