Chapter 26 – Unromantic First Sleepover
I was worried about how to get her drunk Sua Hwang home, but the problem was surprisingly easily solved.
“Your house is right next door?”
Sua’s house was next door to the same apartment building.
There must have been a reason why the meeting place was chosen as a nearby restaurant.
“Oh. Didn’t I tell you?”
“Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t move because of Seonhoo.”
“Ha…”
It wasn’t normal to go after two drunken women. Even though she was a famous actress, the drunkard was a drunkard.
I was able to put the two of them in the car and drive home after a battle. Let’s omit the story of the tearful struggle for the sake of the image of the person concerned.
“Then I’ll take Sua home first and come back, so mom waits in the car for a while.”
Having barely reached the parking lot of the apartment, I tried to take Sua home first.
But while helping Sua in the passenger seat, her mother, who was riding in the back seat, got out of her car and staggered toward the elevator.
“Mom can go alone. Afterwards, talk to the young people amicably.”
“Mom!”
No matter how quick it was to get home from the parking lot, I couldn’t leave my drunk mother alone. I had no choice but to put Sua back in her seat and go after her mother.
“I’m sorry, Sua. I’ll take her mom first and then come. Please wait for her in the car.”
“Oh ho ho. Mother, take a look.”
As a bonus, the title that Sua calls her mother has become a mother from a teacher before she knows it. Thinking about the meaning is scary, so I stopped thinking deeply.
I got into the elevator after her mother, who got into her elevator first. Mom, dazed by her alcohol, looked at me and widened her eyes.
“Oh my goodness? After all, why are you here? What about Sua?”
“My mother came out alone and followed me. Sua is in the car.”
“No. If you leave the girl alone. Mom can go alone.”
“It’s okay. To me, my mother is more important than Sua.”
She tried to tear me away from support, saying that only my mother could walk on her own. Of course, I had no intention of giving up.
“My son, it’s a big deal still looking for his mother. Thank you for thinking of her mother, but aren’t you old enough to be independent from her mother?”
A mother who secretly rejects me. I guess my mother was thinking of taking me away.
Was she trying to attach that woman to me instead? There’s no such thing as a woman who can replace her mom.
Of course, the mother must have made the decision after much consideration, but she couldn’t help but feel slightly twisted inside.
“I don’t know what my mom thinks, but I won’t be far from her.”
“Seonhu.”
My mother scolds me for talking in a pouty tone.
I put my arms around her waist and pulled her into her arms, pretending to support her drunk mother.
A mother about to fall in surprise. But I held her mother tighter so she couldn’t escape.
She is my mother who brought me up to where I couldn’t do anything on my own. It is no exaggeration to say that I grew up in her mother’s arms.
But now the situation was reversed and her mother was in my arms.
The mother’s body heat is transmitted through her clothes. The emotions she had endured all day surged uncontrollably.
Only the sound of the elevator operating was echoing in the enclosed space. Neither I nor my mother said anything.
Soon the elevator stopped at our floor.
“Kyaa.”
I just hugged my mother.
And then I went home with my mother in my arms.
It seems like something like this happened a while ago.
However, if there is anything different from then, it is that now I have crossed a lot of lines with my mother.
… Is your mother regretting it?
Why is my mother looking at me with such uneasy eyes?
It was a step forward. With one last step left, my mother hit a wall against me.
I know that her mother must have had a lot of troubles as well. There must have been so many worries that it was incomparable to me, who just followed my sexual desire.
When I got home, I went into her mother’s room. Lay her mother on the bed as it is.
A composition was created in which the mother lying on the bed naturally and I attacked the mother from above.
The slightly reddened skin from drunkenness, the anxiously swaying eyes, and the warmly heated breath seduce me.
There is no one in the house now.
If I put my mind to it, I will be able to take the last step even if I am forced to.
Even my mother was sure that she wouldn’t resist that much.
“Seonhu. I can’t do this…”
How would I look in my mother’s eyes now?
Could it be that you are distorted by desire?
Wouldn’t she look like a beast?
I don’t want my mother to look ugly.
“I love you, Mom.”
My mother’s eyes, shaken by her anxiety, widened at my confession.
“I don’t want to make her mother sad. But I can’t give up. So I’ll wait until her mother approves.”
“Seonhu-ya…”
I hope you have conveyed what I mean.
I fell out of bed after kissing her mother on the cheek.
“Mom is resting. I’ll even bring Su-ah back.”
“…”
I left the room with only those words.
“Whoa…”
Coming out the door, I sighed deeply as I pressed my chest to calm my racing heart.
My feelings were complicated as I rode the elevator down alone.
I don’t know if this was the best. If you are a man, there may be times when you have to force yourself to take a step.
But if I did that, I’m sure it would have hurt my mother. I will become the younger son who repays the kindness he raised with his enemies.
That’s not what I want. It may be an empty dream, but I want everyone in my family to be happy.
Especially mom.
So I’m going to wait until her mother’s mind is sorted out.
What if you don’t allow it to the end? So how long do you have to wait?
“Mr. Sua. Sorry. To make you wait.”
When I returned to the underground parking lot, Sua was quietly sleeping in the back seat of the car.
Perhaps because of the alcohol, Sua fell asleep too deeply. He didn’t even think about waking him up.
“Mr. Sua. Wake up for a second. Can you lift it up?”
Called several times, but there was no response.
I took the elevator next door, carrying the completely sprawled Sua on my back. It was fortunate that I had received the card key in advance.
“Eww… Mr. After…”
“Mr. Sua. Calm down.”
While going up in the elevator, Sua came to her senses. No, he wasn’t enough to say he came to his senses. Because I was barely able to communicate.
“Mr. … You seem to be on good terms with your mother?”
“Yes? Ah yes. Thats what… I think it’s much better than between the hats.”
“… After, after. I can’t, me. I didn’t know I was such a simple girl. I never thought I’d be able to do as I said from the first day I heard the story… Besides, being jealous of your mother.”
Sua’s arm wrapped around my neck tightened.
I can’t boast enough about my love for her mom, but I kept my mouth shut. If there are any strange rumors in the entertainment industry, she will be a nuisance to her mother.
“Didn’t Sua’s house say number 703?”
When she got off the 7th floor, Sua suddenly started to struggle.
“Ugh… Just drop me I can go alone…”
“What are you talking about? Being drunk like that.”
“Just drop me off at the front door. I’ll come in when I wake up…”
“What kind of nonsense.”
However, after being stubborn for a while, Sua fell asleep again like a doll whose batteries ran out.
Apparently Sua doesn’t want to bring me into the house. As expected, he would be reluctant to bring a man he met for the first time into the house.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t just leave it in the hallway like you said.
“Sorry. Mr. Sua. I swear I won’t do anything, so please allow me.”
When I went to room 703 and put the card key on the door lock, the door opened.
I stepped into the front door with Sua on my back.
“Under. Under?”
I was speechless when I saw the scenery of the house reflected under the automatically turned on lights.
There was an apartment with no common interior furniture, just as it looked at first.
There were only a few large cardboard boxes stacked in each room.
It could hardly be seen as an inhabited house.
“… Let’s start by looking for a bedroom.”
I decided to put down the burden I was carrying on my back first.
But even if you search all the rooms in the house, you can’t find a bed.
“… Could it be that you are here?”
The smallest of the 6 rooms.
There was a shabby pink blanket on the floor in the only room with curtains.
It was a retro duvet that I could believe even though I had been using it since I was in middle school.
Contextually, this is probably the bedroom. I put Sua on the shabby blanket and supported her head with an equally shabby pillow.
Then I took off my coat and hung it on a hanger. I swear I didn’t touch anything else.
I should have done this. I think I’ve done everything I was supposed to do.
But when I looked around the house, for some reason, I couldn’t get out of my way.
What kind of house is this?
It was the first time I had ever seen such a desolate house with nothing.
Does it make sense that there is no TV or PC in the famous actor’s house? At least there was a refrigerator running in the kitchen, but the contents were only a bottle of bottled water that I don’t know how long it had been there.
She said that an actress who only showed such a glamorous appearance on TV actually lives a poor life like this. What is her replacement agency or manager doing? Can we manage our actors like this?
Living in such an unhealthy environment, I thought that there was no way I could do anything right, be it acting.
I slumped down on the spot. And I turned on my smartphone and searched for Hwang Su-ah.
Suah Hwang. She is 25 years old. She is a Korean actress.
And the empty family section under it was especially conspicuous.
“Ha…”
I turned off my smartphone and lay down on my bed.
What do we do. To be honest, my steps didn’t go down at this rate.
If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know, wouldn’t it be wrong to pretend you didn’t know even though you knew? I also ate meat.
I rubbed the floor with the palm of my hand in a feeling of awkwardness. Then, the dust that I don’t know how long it has accumulated on my palm came out.
“This… I need to start cleaning.”
I hit my phone again and texted my mom.
“Mom. I think I’ll be a little late today. Don’t wait, go to bed first.”
I guess tonight will be a long night.
* * *
After all, I spent the whole night in the house that day.
To stay up all night in a house where a woman lives alone. It would be a big deal if someone heard it, but there was nothing romantic about it.
All I did all night was cleaning and packing up.
Most of the contents of the cardboard box were movers. I don’t know how long it’s been piling up, but I think I brought it when I moved in and left it alone until now.
I opened all the boxes and organized as much stuff as I could.
After cleaning, the remaining boxes were piled up in the recycling bin at the emergency exit.
There was no vacuum cleaner to clean the floor, so I replaced it with a mop. I couldn’t afford to clean the entire house, so I had to be content with securing a minimum radius of activity.
“Oh oh… Dazzling sun!”
After clearing out most of the boxes and clearing out the kitchen at least to a usable level, the sun was rising outside the window.
There are no curtains on the living room window, so the only advantage is that you can see the outside scenery better.
“What about breakfast?”
I left the house and headed to the convenience store.
For the items I bought, I chose instant rice and instant bean sprout soup, and for side dishes, I chose kimchi in small packs and jang-jorim quail eggs in a glass bottle. As a bonus, I bought an ion drink, water, and a hangover cure drink.
It is an infinitely instant list, but even this can be said to be domestic for that house.
“I’ll use the microwave.”
Cook instant rice and instant soup in a convenience store microwave. It would all cool down on the way back home anyway, but there was no other way as the house had no cooking utensils, let alone a microwave.
After finishing all the work at the convenience store, I went back to Sua’s house.
“Mr. Sua. It’s me. Woke up?”
When I knocked on the door, I heard a rustle from inside the room, then it was quiet.
Hmm. What is Sua thinking? Would he be surprised too?
Come to think of it, there was a feeling that I was too far-fetched. I didn’t ask for it, but I cleaned the house, organized my luggage, or cooked rice on my own. Besides, I wasn’t a person who was a stranger until yesterday.
Maybe Sua is drunk and doesn’t even remember who I am. Maybe he’s quietly calling the police right now…
“Sua, I am Jin Seon-hu. Son of actor Im Im-hye, who is filming a drama together this time. Did you meet yesterday? Do you remember?”
“… Mr. Seonhu?”
A small voice came from inside.
Phew. Fortunately, he seems to remember.
“Yes. I asked Sua to take care of her mother because she drank a lot. So I made some breakfast, can I open the door?”
After waiting for a while, the door opened slightly, and Sua poked her head out through the crack. It was a little disheveled, but still that face was shining to the point of death.
“Have breakfast.”
When he shook the convenience store envelope in his hand, Soo-ah, embarrassed, opened the door.
“Bean sprout soup and rice. Since there is no table, I will use this for now.”
I took one of the strongest cardboard boxes I had left for the dining table and set the table on it.
Rice, bean sprout soup, and side dishes were a simple table consisting of kimchi and jang-jorim quail eggs. It seemed even more absent because of the cardboard table.
“It’s already cooled down, but eat it before it gets too cold. If the rice is hard, roll it in soup and eat it.”
Sua sat down and looked down at the table in a daze.
It was like someone seeing Bob for the first time.
Well, a human who is the size of Hwang Su-ah must have never received a meal like this in his life.
Sua couldn’t help but hold up her spoon while hesitantly, unable to overcome my eyes telling her to eat it quickly.
“How is it? Is it worth eating?”
“… Taste… There is…”
“Really?”
I just opened my mouth, but can I taste it? That’s what I asked too.
“It is delicious… Really.”
“Eh.”
Tears like chicken droppings fell from Sua’s eyes, who repeatedly said that the food was delicious.
At first, she wondered if she had seen it wrong, but Sua’s eyes were flowing with tears as if a dam had burst.
“No, hey, if you can’t eat, don’t force yourself to eat.”
“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh…”
Mr. Sua shook his head and scooped the steamed rice and bean sprout soup into his mouth. I couldn’t help but be terrified of such an unexpected reaction.
Mr. Sua stuffs rice into her mouth while sobbing. It felt like a scene from a drama. Is this what a born actress is?
“Uh, um… I’ll let you know how to throw away the leftover food after you finish eating. There is a food waste bin next to the sink, so all you have to do is throw it in there, uh… Enjoy your meal.”
I tried to give you the basic information necessary to live as a resident of the same apartment, but I don’t think I’m going to hold on to the crying person.
I ran out of the room as if I was running away from Sua.
Under… I really don’t know English.
Even if I said it was because I was drunk yesterday, I would have sobered up today.
Women’s minds are complicated, but maybe this is a bit harsh.
I don’t think I’ll understand that I’m a woman until the day I die.
Looking at the sun shining outside the window, I sighed for the number of times today.
