One Step More 4

by Jiheun Hong, J. Seo (Translator), Kirk Diaz (Translator)

Soo-in, an ordinary girl and model student, encounters several changes in her life: Her mother starts working in place of her father, who has recently lost his job. She notices herself blushing in front of a boy who has always been her rival. And she starts sharing secrets with a troublemaker whom she always considered from another world. This is a story not only about Soo-in’s everyday life, which is calm and quiet, but also about the hidden hardships she goes through—the happy days as well as the sad.

Episode 4. A Not-So-Ordinary Evening
Soo-in feels like the world is against her for some reason.
“Boys are more logical than girls, like I always expected.”
“Boys work harder than girls without complaining, don't you think?”
Soo-in turns in an essay as the representative of her class, but the reviews she gets are disappointing. She runs an errand with Se-jin for their homeroom teacher after school, and when they get trapped in the empty school building by accident, the school guard only scolds Soo-in. “What is a girl doing in a place like this!” Soo-in’s father also makes a similar remark when he comes to pick her up, “A girl must not be out so late.” And all the anger Soo-in has been holding in explodes. She yells at her dad, “I am not going to hold your hand anymore!!”

64 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 28, 2014