88 – Theater Festival (4)

“The word fun comes out quite well in this situation.”

Lee Da-hye naturally turned her head to where her voice came from.

There was Seo Eun-woo, staring at her intently.

…… Fun.

Lee Da-hye likes to stand on stage.

To be precise, she likes being able to face a lot of people by going on stage, and she feels grateful and happy about it.

In that sense, there is a contradiction in her words, ‘It will be fun’, as the only spectators in this preliminary round were the judges.

However, there was another reason why Lee Da-hye feels joy now.

“That’s right, I am the main character. It’s also from the script you made.”

Actually, Lee Da-hye was surprised when she first read the script written by the person in front of her.

The story is also a story, but it was because there was a role that I was very attracted to.

That’s why she developed an unusually greedy thing.

Of course, at first, I was a little worried that Seol So-young would steal the role. But for some reason, she readily gave up the role to herself.

As if he had a big plan…….

However, that is not so important in the current situation.

Now I just wanted to ask him one thing, despite my shame.

What kind of person did he think of when he made the role of Kim Mi-so?

Lee Da-hye, maybe she is herself? I heard her thoughts instinctively and strongly…….

“Kim Miso… I just think it looks a lot like me. Something keeps feeling like a role for me from the beginning. Is that what I was thinking?”

So she mustered up some courage and decided to speak up.

“… ….”

However, Seo Eun-woo was silent at Lee Da-hye’s question.

This was a difficult question for Seo Eun-woo to answer accurately.

Because, in fact, even he was implicitly feeling it…….

For reference, in this situation, silence also meant affirmation.

Lee Da-hye, who couldn’t help but smile, smiled lightly, and as she went on stage, she passed him and she just reached out in front of her.

You don’t even have to answer.

Just…….

I just want you to watch over me properly.

Just as you imagined while writing the script.

I just want to shine brightly.

Although it’s really just a fleeting moment……

I hope that moment will never be forgotten in your head.

Um…….

But if you think about it, is forever a bit scary?

Lee Da-hye smiled brightly as she headed to the center of the stage.

***

Listening to Lee Da-hye’s words, I couldn’t help but prick her conscience a little.

Actually, as she said, Kim Mi-so and Lee Da-hye have many similarities.

It is not wrong to say that it was made with the idea of Lee Da-hye, starting with her personality, giving bright energy to those around her, and even her dream as a singer.

But I don’t know why.

As I conceived a play called simply dreaming children, I naturally came up with the character Kim Mi-so, and by chance, I found many similarities with Lee Da-hye.

What… However, Kim Mi-so was not unconditionally cast for Lee Da-hye.

As I said when I first decided on the role, even if Seol So-young took on that role, she would have played it well with a different feeling.

That’s why she was silent about Lee Da-hye’s question.

Anyway.

Enough with the rubbish, now is the time to just focus on the play.

On the current stage, Kang Taeyang and Moon Yeonwoo fell into reminiscence, recalling memories with Kim Miso.

Reminiscence means remembering something you have experienced in the past.

In the future, this flashback was to be used often until the final scene.

And the device that allowed the audience to know that they had entered the flashback was the appearance of Kim Mi-so.

Miso Kim.

She is an infinitely bright and positive child, and the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of her is her ‘smile’, as her name suggests.

She makes the viewer smile naturally. Her unique smile.

Remembering that, Taeyang Kang says.

─I will probably never forget it for the rest of my life. I have no intention of forgetting anything.

─Isn’t it because you like it?

At Moon Yeon-woo’s playful question, Kang Tae-yang smiled bitterly.

Kang Taeyang had no reason to deny it.

To some extent, it is true that she had feelings for Kim Mi-so.

Kang Taeyang, Moon Yeon-woo, and Kim Mi-so are childhood friends.

That’s why they know what kind of person Kim Mi-so is better than anyone else.

A little unique person who solves a friend’s troubles together with pure intentions, helps them overcome trauma, and sometimes supports their friend’s dreams.

But that was the charm of Kim Mi-so and the reason why people overflowed around her.

On the one hand, Kang Taeyang also received help from Kim Miso.

She was the one who helped Taeyang Kang get her dream back,

A baseball player.

It was also Kang Taeyang’s dream to succeed as a pitcher.

But there was a moment when she had to give up that dream.

He suffered a major injury to his right shoulder during a tournament and had to undergo surgery. Doctors told him not to throw the ball with his right hand anymore.

For Taeyang Kang, this was practically a death sentence, and Taeyang Kang, who lost his dream in an instant, wandered for a while.

─Then shouldn’t you just throw with your left hand?

And it was Gimmiso who held him back.

─How could that happen with a hand you haven’t used in your entire life? There are many things to adjust…….

─The bottom line is that you can do it.

─After… Kim Mi-so, I’m a freshman in high school now. You know it’s too late to start over now.

─The fastest way is when you originally thought it was late. And Taeyang, you still like baseball as before and now.

— … I’m not sure what you mean.

Kang Taeyang avoids eye contact with Kim Miso and pretends to be silly.

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But Kim Mi-so saw it clearly.

While declaring that he had given up sports, he ran every morning, and on weekends, he desperately saw Taeyang Kang throwing a ball with his left hand in an empty field with a ball and glove.

Kang Taeyang kept repeating the pattern with the feeling of being injured and grabbing at straws.

However, every time he threw a ball with his left hand, alone in an empty field, all he felt was despair.

─What did the smile say to you then…….

─ He said he would watch over me until I threw a ball I was happy with.

Answering Moon Yeon-woo’s question, Kang Tae-yang spat out a laugh.

At that time, Kang Taeyang forcibly ignored Gimmiso, who was approaching him, and pushed him away.

Kim Miso is a person who always keeps her word.

He’ll keep watching until he can throw a ball he’s really happy with.

Just purely for the sake of a friend’s dream.

There is no dark heart or intention there.

Kang Taeyang was rather afraid of that.

If she can’t keep pitching to her satisfaction, she’ll have to keep watching her hopeless pitches to keep her promise.

Of course, no matter how much I tried to explain and push away, Kim Miso didn’t care at all.

—In the end, I got caught up in his intentions within three days.

As expected, Miso Kim kept her word.

Whether it was a weekday or a weekend, I was with Kang Taeyang, and it lasted quite a long time.

It was natural.

It takes a long time to pitch properly with unfamiliar hands.

However, as she threw her ball, Kang Taeyang felt a bit strange.

His heart broke right away when he was throwing alone, but now it’s a little different.

The fact that someone was constantly watching and cheering him on allowed him to keep throwing the ball.

When a month passed, two months passed, and a quarter of a year passed, Kang Taeyang finally threw the ball he wanted with his left hand for the first time.

Kang Taeyang met Gimmisso’s gaze, who was still staring at him.

Kim Miso’s smile makes her happy as if it were her own work…….

Perhaps Kang Taeyang will never forget the light of that moment for the rest of his life.

And…….

Kang Taeyang was not the only student of hers who saw the light in her.

Most of the characters in her plays had a relationship with her, like Taeyang Kang.

However, as soon as the characters in the play finish their flashbacks and return to the present, only emptiness lingers on the stage.

It’s not just the actors who feel that, but the audience as well.

The play, Dreaming Children, has a very bright atmosphere during flashbacks.

It’s probably because of the actions and lines that the main character, Mi-so Kim, does for her friends, and the bright energy she herself gives off.

So when the flashback is over and she returns to the present, her vacancy is felt all the more.

Like a midsummer night’s dream…….

Her vacancy will probably not continue to be filled. In the first place, there is no one who can fill her emptiness on her behalf.

Then this question arises.

Why does Kim Miso only appear in flashback scenes?

…… There was only one answer to this question.

This is also the reason why dreaming children have no choice but to repeat the recollections of the past and the present.

Because, in the present time, the person named Kim Miso no longer exists.

Unfortunately, the girl who was a bright light for everyone passed away in a sudden car accident.

The death of a precious friend that dreaming children will never forget. In other words, it is the story of students who deal with the process of accepting a sudden and somewhat heavy reality during their youth.

Those left behind fall into her sorrow as they reminisce about her memories with her. However, they know.

Kim Mi-so, that she did not want her friends to continue to wallow in her sadness.

I just want you to forget about me and move forward.

In this way, all the stories are revealed, and the play returns to the beginning again.

─Miso, I miss you after a long time. Right?

Taeyang Kang smiled bitterly at Moon Yeon-woo’s words and nodded his head.

─ I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but I think I saw that child in her dream.

— … What was Miso doing in the dream?

─Song.

A song by Miso Kim, who dreamed of becoming a singer.

Kang Taeyang smiled as if he was satisfied with something.

Finally… ….

I felt really fortunate to have seen her bright smile even in my dreams.

— … You also?

But Kang Taeyang wasn’t the only one who had that dream.

Ironically, Moon Yeon-woo and the other students lying face down at their desks, like Kang Tae-yang, also dreamed of Kim Mi-so singing to them.

They realized that they had the same dream at the same time, in the same place, and couldn’t help but smile at each other.

─Really……

It was a special farewell like that child until the end.

At that time, a huge curtain covers the entire stage and the melody of the first song composed by Han Yeo-jin plays.

This is a song that she often sang after her death and wanted her friends to hear it to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer one day.

For a scene change, the huge curtain that covered the entire stage is slowly drawn back.

And for some reason, Lee Da-hye and Kim Miso stood alone in the center of the stage with their eyes closed.

…… This is not a flashback.

Dream.

It was the dream of her friends who said they had seen Kim Miso.

Soon, sweet lyrics flowed from her mouth and I slowly closed my eyes.

There was only one thing I asked Han Yeo-jin for when I was producing this song.

A warm song that warmly embraces a wounded person.

I was curious about that.

I wonder what the judges’ expressions will look like when they’re listening to this song right now.

If the audience heard this song in the finals, how would they react?

I thought of this after watching a play performed by our club today.

It’s a bit of a waste to show this play only to the judges sitting there.

Finals……

I would like to go up if possible.

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