“I understand the situation.”
I got up and headed to the kitchen with the excuse of refilling my drink. It was a short time, but it was enough time to organize my thoughts.
“Then are you coming tomorrow?”
As I put down my coffee cup and asked that question, Dasomi noona shook her head.
“Next Friday. If you listen to what you say, I think you will be there for about a week… … .”
“I see.”
There is a fork in the road.
One stretched out neatly, but it was not enough for the other one to go back to the outside, so it was difficult to see the trees and vines intertwined on the inside.
But anyway, it was the same that I didn’t know what was at the end.
then.
I drank my coffee and opened my mouth.
“Okay, I will. Boyfriend role.”
Breathing faded, and silence entered between my sister and I. I spoke to the older sister who was blankly licking her lips.
“So, let’s go in today. Isn’t it the day you go to work tomorrow? Did you bring tea?”
“Uh, yes… … .”
After turning on the surrogate driving app and finishing the call, I got Dasom’s sister to stand up.
“Sister, you’ll be coming in 15 minutes, so let’s go out early. Come on, grab your bag. I’ll bring the clothes you’ve been wearing as soon as they dry. And ha… no oh summer you are here I have something to say.”
“Yes, it is.”
Midsummer, who answered with a sighing voice, immediately began to chew the fruit on the plate with a dignified expression.
“Sister, let’s go.”
“Come on, wait!”
Dasomi noona, who was taking her steps led by my hand, came to a standstill.
The older sister, who had been rummaging through the handbag on her shoulder with urgent hand gestures, took out a thick envelope.
“Ah, here, you should get this… … . Isn’t that enough? I’ll get more from the bank tomorrow.”
The envelopes were packed with bills that glowed yellow.
“sister.”
“Ah, Mimimi, I’m sorry. Wasn’t that? Come on, here. Hit it all you want.”
The older sister, who had uttered bloody words while pointing her right cheek, jumped up as if she had regained consciousness.
“No, that’s right. If you hit it with your fist, Dojin’s fist will hurt. Wait a moment! wait for a while. Knuckles, where did I put the knuckles… … .”
With a pale face, I grabbed my sister’s wrist as she was poking through her handbag.
“just… … can’t you?”
“Yes?”
“Do you have to get something to help your sister?”
My sister’s movements suddenly stopped. With a little force, I pulled my sister’s hand out of the bag.
The back of her sister’s hand was pale red, probably because she had been rubbed off by various things.
“I thought I would have listened to my sister a while ago.”
“… … .”
“I’m sure your sister will know.”
I am not the type of person who will come to you without thinking about it. On the contrary, I’ve been thinking too much, so I guess it’s only now.
I brought a first aid kit and continued talking while applying ointment to the back of my sister’s hand.
“You still came.”
The older sister, who was suppressed by a strong sense of guilt that had written dozens of reflection letters, slapped her cheeks and smashed her nails, came to lean on me, nobody else.
“I think it’s natural to want to help when you see that kind of figure, but I do.”
“… … It can’t be. Dojin, who is no one else, you to me.”
“Yeah, I can’t help it if you feel that way.”
Because there is an unsealed conflict between us. Appealing only to the theory of emotions without solving that part will not give you the persuasive power it did not have.
“Still, it’s more convincing than saying that money moved you.”
The material price can make the body move, but not the mind. And you probably know better than me what the end of a heartless relationship is like.
I carefully put the band-aid on the back of my sister’s hand and added more words.
“First, let’s think about how to put out the fire. It’s okay to cover the good and the bad later.”
It was quiet in the car on the way back. Eventually, the older sister got out of the car, leaving only the words that she was sorry and hurried into the villa.
After much deliberation, I came to ask for help, but when I heard that they were actually helping, I was confused.
Convincing him is what I have to do from now on.
I sat down in the pavilion at the nearby playground, closed my eyes for a moment, and listened to the sound of the rain.
Then he took out his cell phone and made a call.
“hello.”
“Ah, brother, what are you doing all of a sudden? Did you leave anything behind?”
As I listened to the lovely voice coming out of the receiver, I felt like my head, which was once foggy, was clearing a little.
I squeezed my lips and managed to swallow the laughter that was about to come out, as I continued speaking.
“Can’t I call you if you don’t have a business?”
“yes?”
“Are you going to be scolded if I say that Ga-ryun just called because she wanted to hear your voice?”
“No, that, so suddenly, what… … .”
“no?”
“Well, it’s not like that… … .”
I smiled and opened my mouth.
“I’m sorry, I have something I want to discuss with you. Are you busy right now?”
I told Yu Ga-ryun everything about what happened with Dasom’s sister a while ago.
Yu Ga-ryun, who had listened to me with a serious attitude, spoke to me as soon as I finished speaking.
“You didn’t say no, did you?”
“No, I did.”
“Good job! Ugh, it went really well. I’m really happy.”
I was speechless for a moment at the very cool answer.
“But in the end, what was it that you wanted to consult with me? I don’t think there’s anything to discuss about the story you’re talking about… … .”
“Oh, that’s it. that.”
As I was biting my lips, Yu Ga-ryun spoke up first.
“… … Are you sure you’re calling for permission? Do you think I’m having an affair like this?”
“… … Would you be lying if I said no?”
“brother!”
Yu Ga-ryun over the receiver shouted in anger.
“You said it. I don’t have the qualifications to be your brother’s girlfriend yet. And if it happened now, I wouldn’t be happy at all. Now, in the midst of a situation where even if you pay attention to Dasom unnie, it is not enough, why do you care about such strange things? Then did you think I would be happy?”
“right. I’m sorry, I know, but I’m just a little frustrated.”
“… … Well, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t happy at all.”
Yu Ga-ryeon coughed a few times before continuing.
“Oppa, what if the person who stayed with you on the island that day was Dasom unnie, and if it were me who asked for help from you now. What do you think Dasomi unnie said?”
Yu Ga-ryun paused for a moment, then spoke again.
“I must have said the same thing as what I said a little while ago, without making a single mistake.”
It was an undeniable word.
“So, do your best to help. I will do what I can do where I am.”
“okay.”
After hearing my words, Yu Ga-ryun sighed as if relieved.
“I… … I’m sorry I got angry earlier. Actually, I was happy. My brother leaned on me.”
“It might get boring soon. From now on, I’m going to lean heavily on it.”
“I will wait with open arms.”
“Okay, sleep well.”
“Yes, my brother too.”
After the call, I stretched out once and got into the taxi.
* * *
“… … So I’m going to be going over there from next week.”
“yes.”
Hearing my words, Midsummer yawned with a sad expression on her face.
“Did you tell me to stay with you to talk about that?”
“Uh, yes.”
“It’s not a big deal, and you have to know that you’re trembling at all costs.”
“Are you okay?”
“Dojin plus fuss.”
“… … Where did you learn those words?”
“Me Tube.”
Midsummer answered while shaking her phone, leaving her seat and getting up.
“If there is nothing more to say, let’s eat. Haven’t you had dinner too?”
“uh. Do you have anything to eat?”
“Jumuluk and chicken ribs. I bought it because I wanted to take care of it.”
“rice is?”
“It was posted a while ago.”
“good.”
I took the pot and put it on the gas stove.
“what are you doing?”
“You cooked the rice, so I have to bake it.”
“If you do that, you did everything the last time you came, so this time I just do it.”
I whispered to Midsummer, who was waving my hands and pretending to go away.
“Call me if anything happens. Don’t suffer alone.”
“Oh, yes. I’ll figure it out, so stop nagging me, Mom.”
“If you were a kid like that, your mom wouldn’t even say that.”
“Yeah, now I have someone to talk to besides you. Don’t be nice.”
The tone of midsummer’s tone was strangely stretched out, and it felt very weak.
I reflexively opened my mouth, forgetting to continue the situational drama.
“… … If you keep talking to me like that, I will limit the time you use Me Tube.”
“Yeah, limit it. Factory reset is enough.”
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That day, I installed a smartphone addiction prevention program on my mobile phone in midsummer. It is a paid program that cannot be erased even after factory reset.
