“You waited a long time.”
A huge brass bowl was placed in front of me with a rattling sound. It was the Sinseon-ro that I had only seen in textbooks.
As I looked at the bowl with curious eyes, Oh Cheong-Myeong, who was setting the tableware right in front of me, opened the lid with a mischievous smile.
Still, it was a shameful appearance to be left only as a bodyguard.
“I struggled to find someone who could do it right. She used a bit of energy.”
“okay.”
Oh Min-seo, who was the real culprit, was fiddling with his cell phone with a grim expression.
“Then, I will go away. We wish you a pleasant meal.”
After bowing and bowing, Oh Cheong-myeong left the dining room with a modest footstep.
As soon as the door closed, Min-seo Oh put down the phone and picked up chopsticks as if waiting.
“Are you hungry from waiting? let’s eat… … .”
I was at Oh Min-seo’s house now. Because I got an invitation from her early in the morning.
“How about it, it’s a little bit right in your mouth… … ?”
As he murmured, carefully examining the taste, Minseo Oh spoke to me.
Whether it fits or not, the quality was so good that even if you had money, you could not buy it.
“Yeah, the soft ones are delicious.”
“Don’t just eat that, eat both… … Ah, these two… … .”
Oh Min-seo said so and pushed the plates with food toward me.
From pasta to sweet and sour pork to lobster. A lot of food was piled up in the mountains.
Even if you go to a buffet, you won’t get so much variety.
“I called you in the morning, so I asked what was going on.”
“Why, I know you’re asking for a strange request again… … ?”
As I was contemplating how to respond, a dry laugh rang out.
Min-seo Oh, who was sitting opposite her, was shrugging her shoulders with an artificial smile.
“Noon… … wall. I just showed you something interesting, so it wouldn’t be polite to repay something like this… … .”
“You saw it too.”
Minseo Oh nodded slightly.
“If you need a recording, tell me… … .”
“There are too many embarrassing scenes to show.”
“Ah, that’s the taste… … .”
Minseo Oh twisted the corners of her lips while sprinkling sugar on the cream pasta.
“It feels like a blockage is opened when I watch the b*tches who didn’t know the sky high and pretended to cry and weave… … .”
If you were really that kind of person, the three of us wouldn’t have to go through that hardship in the hospital after we left the island.
I thought I was going to die of boredom because I was stuck for three days while doing a close inspection.
Oh Cheong-myeong said that he did it arbitrarily, but it was a fact that he was a person far from the word dogmatic.
I inhaled the water, suppressing the horses wriggling from my throat.
“Ahh, that makes me even more sorry… … .”
“what?”
“I couldn’t attend the farewell party… … .”
Her eyes murmuring over pasta were drooping as if she was really sad.
“Seeing only with a camera and seeing with my own eyes are different… … .”
“It was surprising. It’s a little strange that you, not anyone else, can’t come because of the weather.”
To say that it was planned, everything on the island, from basic things such as tents and beds to recreational contents such as room escape, was all set for 6 people.
“Yeah, I actually knew it, so I made an appointment for that day… … . I like that again, what should I say, distress? survival… … ? Anyway, I prepared a lot and it was a perfect plan in every way… … .”
As soon as he finished speaking, he smashed the pasta down with the fork that Minseo Oh was holding.
“I never expected that other companies would make a mistake… … ?”
There was a strange heat in her hands as she rummaged through the pasta noodles.
“What did you say, you entered one more zero… … . How ridiculous it was to look at a topic that I hadn’t even checked properly… … .”
Min-seo Oh sighed and wiggled her fork with a dissatisfied expression before opening her mouth again.
“Well, I guess that’s fine… … .”
The fork she was holding was pointing at me, emitting a cool light.
“In a little while, Dojin will show you something interesting again… … .”
“You knew.”
Min-seo Oh, who put her face on the rest of the hand, answered with a smile.
“Yeah, I’m living for the taste of seeing one, so I have to be careful… … .”
“Did Dasomi have a CCTV installed in her house?”
Of course I thought no, but I deliberately asked with a suspicious look.
“Hey, Dojin, you are so… … . Where are you going to get caught? … .”
Oh Min-seo grabbed his shoulder and pretended to shudder.
“I know how to legally know every inch of a person’s private life… … ?”
Instead of answering, I looked at Minseo Oh with a questioning gaze.
“You’re going to be friends with that person… Then, at some point, he blows away even the things you don’t want to hear… … . It’s also very vivid… … .”
“There is a way to know everything.”
“okay… … . So, don’t worry about Dojin’s weird things, and think about how you can make it fun… … .”
It was absurd.
If she really only wanted stimulation, she wouldn’t have spent a year in that lukewarm club.
But don’t be in a hurry. Because I still don’t know exactly what the heart of a woman named Oh Min-seo is.
Trying to jump to conclusions on such a topic won’t solve anything. That is just arrogance.
“okay.”
So let’s do it that way for now.
Slowly, to get to know her from the side.
* * *
“I… … Do Jin-ah?”
As I was driving through the highway while waving the steering wheel, I heard a soft voice coming from the other side. Dasom was the older sister.
“Oh, my sister. why?”
“Aren’t you dizzy after driving after a long time? That, even now, my sister will do it. There’s a rest stop over there, so go in… … .”
“It’s okay, it’s cool and nice, but what?”
“Oh, that’s right? I do. I’m sorry, my sister was meddling.”
Dasom’s older sister answered in a crawling voice.
“At first, I was the one who stopped Dojin from buying a car, but I didn’t even care what he said… … .”
I decided to turn around before my sister’s self-blame continued.
“Sister, I think I’ll be here in a little while. Just in case you don’t know, let’s guess one more time.”
“Ah, yes.”
“The way we met-.”
“When I was in my sophomore year at university, I got to know each other while doing a group assignment in a videography class, and after that, I got along with you and got jealous when I saw you getting along with other girls, so I couldn’t bear it and confessed first. The anniversary is April 26th, which is the 3rd anniversary this year.”
Even before the question was finished, the older sister, who finished her answer like a rapid-fire gun, muttered, “It’s two seconds late,” and bit her nails.
“Sister, you can speak more slowly.”
“Dojin-ah, the next problem quickly.”
“Okay, so please speak slowly this time. The first date—”
“The first date as a lover was on April 27th, the weather was clear, but in the evening it suddenly started to rain… … .”
In the end, Dasomi noona, who could not find a sharp number until three days before the appointment, asked me to play the role of a fake boyfriend, and so we were going down to Pyeongtaek to meet my sister’s parents.
I spoke to Dasom’s noona, who told her stories like an FM broadcast.
“It’s nice to have frizzy hair resembling a dog—”
“sister.”
“Yeah, Dojin-ah, why? Are you suddenly tired? Will my sister drive?”
“No, not that.”
I continued speaking while shaking my head.
“Are you really okay?”
“uh? what?”
Dasom tilted her head as if in doubt. At the end of the road, a sign that read ‘Pyeongtaek’ was overflowing and coming over this way.
“I’m going to introduce myself.”
said the sister. He pretended to be a fake boyfriend until the last week. After that, I would say that I saw the opportunity in moderation and broke up with him.
But when the balloon that inflated and then exploded as it inflated fell to the ground, she must have known what she was going through.
“If you only want my sister, I will somehow—”
“it’s okay.”
Dasomi noona said while shaking her head.
“Then you can see the line. If that’s not enough, you can get married.”
“… … .”
“It’s not like we’re going to lie without even thinking about that.”
She looked out the window with a very serious expression and bit her lip.
“just… … For now, I want to make you smile without any worries.”
When we arrived, the sun was setting slowly over the reddish clouds.
As I got out of the car, I spoke to my sister while trimming my clothes.
“Doesn’t it look strange?”
“No way! If you say it’s strange for such a pretty girl, I’d rather-“
Dasomi noona, who was pouring out words while rolling her feet as if frustrated, soon covered her mouth.
“Mi, sorry. When I said that it was okay, suddenly… … .”
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“… … Nope. Shall we go?”
Dasomi, who was quietly walking along the road, stopped in front of the black gate after a while.
A small detached house stood over the gate.
Dasomi noona, who was standing in front of the gate and breathing deeply, reached out her finger as if she had made up her mind and rang the doorbell.
-Yes, who are you?
“Mom, I’m here.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was unlocked with a click. As I cleared my voice, I walked along the stone path that lined the grass.
And at the end of the road, a woman was waiting for us.
I narrowed my eyes and looked at the woman carefully.
Eyes that give a warm impression and huge chest fat that pops out and steals attention. Without any further thought, it was clear that Dasom was the sister’s mother, no, the mother.
“Oh, my, my, my, my, my.”
But before I could say anything, my mother exclaimed and ran into the house with the words, “I will call the housekeeper, so please wait.”
Standing so far away, I was rubbing saliva on my parched lips, when I heard a heavy and thumping sound from across the hallway.
At first I thought something had fallen inside the house.
But it wasn’t until a few more beeps that I knew it was a different sound.
And that’s what I thought when I finally saw a muscular man the size of a house with crutches protruding out of the hallway.
f*cked.
