Chapter 442 – Friends (2)
Seo Joo-hwan blinked his eyes, wondering if he had heard it wrong.
“Ha-yeon said you forgot too?”
“… Uh.”
Jeong Ha-yeon nodded her head with a clear embarrassed face. She seemed dazed, as if she couldn’t believe it even after answering herself.
Seo Joo-hwan met her gaze with her, who was losing her sense of humor, then opened her mouth with an awkward smile.
“Well. He, we……”
“…….”
“Should I wash up first? I’ll go over there and wash up.”
“… Okay.”
Jeong Ha-yeon nodded her head helplessly, and then she went back into her bathroom. For some reason, her complexion her, disappearing through the crack in the door, looked whiter than before. The fact that she forgot her mother’s death date seemed to come as a bigger shock than she thought.
Seo Joo-hwan stood there for a moment and scratched the corner of her eye before moving on to another bathroom.
*
After Seo Joo-hwan hurriedly washed up and came out, he checked the bathroom where Jung Ha-yeon was. Judging from the monotonous sound of running water in the bathroom, she seemed to be taking a long time to get out. It’s probably not just because he sweated a lot.
He went to her kitchen, recalling the behavior patterns of Jung Ha-yeon he had seen so far.
‘I’m sure he’s digging a hole again.’
By now, I pictured her in the bathroom, blaming herself while being bathed in cold water like a heroine of tragic love.
Seo Joo-hwan’s appearance was so clear that a laugh that didn’t fit the situation flowed out.
“It just doesn’t match the way it looks.”
Looking at her from the outside, she is a cold beauty that seems like a cold wind is blowing, but the inner core of her is weak and soft. She was a very annoying woman who would get hurt and suffered by herself if she didn’t take care of her on a regular basis.
[It’s not a bothersome expression at all.]
He smiled at Lucy’s words to her.
To some extent, it is necessary to have a cumbersome and cumbersome taste to develop more attachment. It’s similar to the fact that the hard times are more memorable than the times spent smoothly.
‘In that sense, I love Lucy very much.’
[?!]
Seo Joo-hwan ignored Lucy, who seemed shocked, and put on an apron. And he checked the ingredients in the refrigerator.
“Well. Is it about the leftover beef and bean sprouts?”
Unfortunately, it was time to go grocery shopping, so there weren’t many ingredients. However, there are enough seasonings, so breakfast is not a problem.
“I’m sure you won’t have an appetite, so let’s make it spicy.”
Seo Joo-hwan added leftover beef scraps, bean sprouts, chili peppers, and green onions to a spicy soup. She deliberately sprinkled it generously with red pepper powder and black pepper to bring out the spiciness that whetted her appetite her.
He turned down the light and went to the bathroom where Jung Ha-yeon was.
Smart.
“Ha Yeon-ah, come out soon. Let’s eat.”
“…….”
“Jeong Ha-yeon! If you don’t come out soon, I’m going to attack you!”
As I shouted loudly as if I was going to attack at once, I heard a crackling sound from inside.
Seo Joo-hwan was surprised and opened the door. Looking inside him, he saw Jeong Ha-yeon, who was soaked from head to toe, bending over in a strange pose. A lump without a single hair was visible.
“Are you okay?”
“Uh, uh. Are you okay. I just dropped something.”
When he said that, he looked on the bathroom floor and saw body wash and shampoo rolling around.
He chuckled and clicked his tongue.
“Not being careful.”
“What? No, it’s because I was surprised by you!
“Looking at you screaming, it doesn’t look like you’re hurt. Stop washing up and come out quickly.”
“Okay, so quickly close the door. How long are you going to watch?”
“What’s wrong with not getting tired of watching it over and over again? Kya Whose girlfriend is she, her body is so good… Ugh!”
Seo Joo-hwan smiled and said, then quickly closed the door. Smack! The towel hit the bathroom door and fell to the floor.
After a while, Jung Ha-yeon came out after taking a shower and said.
“I’m sorry, Joo-hwan, but I’ll just dry my hair and eat…….”
“Uh, I’ll dry it, so come to work.”
He tapped the chair as if he had been waiting. In his hand he was a hair dryer and comb.
Jeong Ha-yeon widened her eyes.
“How did you know I washed my hair?”
I usually don’t wash my hair like this in the morning. All you have to do is wash your bangs. Now, in a daze, he was bathed in water and was all wet.
Seo Joo-hwan smiled and tapped the chair again.
“I know because I saw it before. Come quickly and sit down.”
“I can do it alone.”
“Write. Sit down without bouncing?”
“… Huh.”
Jung Ha-yeon snorted meaninglessly and sat down in her chair.
Wheein~.
Seo Joo-hwan skillfully arranged her hair in her. Jeong Ha-yeon also accustomed to accepting his touch of her.
Seo Joo-hwan said as if he had suddenly remembered.
“I know that? The woman I dried my hair, Hayeon, are you the first?”
At those words, Jeong Ha-yeon gave a meaningful snort.
“What did you say. I hear you dried Juhee’s hair a lot when she was younger.”
“Is she a girl? He is my brother.”
“You also have Sua.”
Seo Joo-hwan hesitated for a moment. Come to think of it, I also dried Han Soo-ah’s hair a lot. But he made excuses because he didn’t want to lose.
“At that time, Sua didn’t look like a woman. So no count.”
“Wow. If Sua had heard those words now, she would have been really disappointed. She might have cried.”
“… Keep it a secret I could not speak.”
Hwan’s brother is an idiot! Hwan’s brother is an idiot!
There seemed to be an auditory hallucination somewhere. I made an excuse for nothing, but I couldn’t even find it.
Jung Ha-yeon giggled and then spoke.
“Joo Hwan-ah.”
“Yes.”
“If you confuse me with another woman, I will break all your limbs. Understand?”
“… Yes.”
“The answer is late.”
“Sorry.”
“I mean, be careful what you say to the other kids. Even if you know everything, you will get hurt.”
“Okay. I’ll be careful.”
Seo Joo-hwan answered a little sullenly. He tried to comfort me, but somehow he was getting scolded.
As soon as he finished combing, Jeong Ha-yeon stood up and stared at him. Then he hugged me and said.
“Hwan-ah, thank you.”
It’s a nickname from when we first met.
Seo Joo-hwan twitched the corners of his mouth and nodded his head with an arrogant face.
“OK.”
“Tooth. You’ll soon become complacent.”
She smiled and kissed her cheek.
Seo Joo-hwan kissed her on the cheek, then lifted her boiling pot and moved it to her table.
‘Is it a bit salty?’
I should have poured some water, but I decided to follow the adage that spicy, salty, and sweet are the best when you don’t have an appetite.
Fortunately, Jeong Ha-yeon tasted her soup and emptied her rice bowl clean.
He brought macaroons and coffee beans for dessert.
Jeong Ha-yeon took a bite of the sweet macaron and asked.
“Did you buy macarons?”
“Yes.”
“You don’t like sweets, do you?”
“It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s not that I hate it. You and the kids come over to my house often, so if I come and see you, I tend to live there once in a while.”
“Okay? Anyway, this is delicious.”
Seo Joo-hwan let out a sigh of relief.
[I almost got into trouble. It passed smoothly.]
‘I know.’
In fact, he didn’t buy the macaron or even the coffee beans.
Joo Kyung-eun, whom I met at the leadership camp in the first year. He was a lecturer in the past who gave him a comforting poem. A woman who gave up her acting dream after the death of her parents her and wasted years. She is one of the people he points her way to.
The macarons and coffee beans she is eating now were gifts she sent as a token of gratitude after she passed the voice actor recruitment not too long ago.
‘I almost got into trouble.’
It’s a situation where you treat her girlfriend with a gift you received from another woman and you’re almost caught. At least, the atmosphere almost went cold before a proper conversation could begin.
“Well.”
Seo Joo-hwan looked at Jeong Ha-yeon to start talking. Then her eyes met her, and she smiled bitterly, then she hurried off first.
“Thank you for your consideration.”
“Ten thousand words.”
“No, really. Thanks to you, I am much better.”
“Okay? I thought you would be more depressed for a while.”
When I deliberately said it as if it were teasing, Jeong Ha-yeon replied with a dumbfounded expression.
“… Am I not like that anymore?”
“Oh, our friendship has improved a lot, right?”
“This… Yes, thanks to someone, I was suffering so much that I continued to develop. Why, do you have anything more to say?”
Seo Joo-hwan lowered his head as if he was going to crash into the table.
“Sorry. I have no face.”
“Huh. I’m messing around. Mr. Pax.”
Jeong Ha-yeon playfully shook her fist. She’s a cute yet scary move. He knew very well how spicy those white hands were.
“I mean, do well.”
“Yes, Mama.”
“OK.”
Jeong Ha-yeon smiled and imitated Seo Ju-hwan’s tone of her. I couldn’t be serious because the opponent kept coming out playfully. It was strange that he wasn’t angry because he didn’t deviate from seriousness.
She took a small breath and said.
“Oh, I was really surprised. It’s the first time I’ve forgotten my mother’s anniversary.”
“The weather has been clear this summer. It was said to be the worst drought ever and there was no rain.”
Rain and thunderstorms are triggers that remind us of Jeong Ha-yeon’s trauma. She was depressed on her rainy days and physically negative on her thunderstorm days.
Jeong Ha-yeon smiled bitterly and shook her head.
“Forgetting my mother’s anniversary has nothing to do with the weather. Even when she wasn’t due, she used to go looking for her by herself. My birthday or my mother’s birthday. Also, when I had a hard time or suddenly felt lonely, I went to see her mother her.”
“…….”
“But lately it hasn’t. I didn’t even notice, but I don’t think she’s been thinking about her mother her much lately.”
“I see.”
“Yes. Ever since college… No, it would be more correct to say since I met you. Especially this year, I almost forgot about it… I didn’t know you would forget until the due date.”
Jeong Ha-yeon continued her words with a complicated expression. Instead of exchanging conversations with her, Seo Joo-hwan said, “That’s right, that’s how it was,” And just nodded her head.
Jeong Ha-yeon was rather comfortable with her attitude her, so she could say whatever came to her mind her without matching her words her. She liked the random whispers that sometimes she didn’t organize.
“I got a call from my father last month… At the time, I thought it was just a phone call, right? But now that I think about it, I don’t know if he was trying to tell her to go see her mother her.”
“It could be.”
“I think my father is still having a hard time with me. Actually, me too. She built a wall for a long time, but now it’s hard to be nice to her.”
“If you suddenly become friendly, that might be weird. Will your father be very embarrassed?”
As if imagining it, Jeong Ha-yeon giggled. Her laugh her soon stopped, and she spoke again.
“Anyway, better than before. In the old days, when I saw her father’s face her, she was angry at her mother her. Because she thought her father abandoned her mother her.”
“But wasn’t it?”
“Right. It was all a misunderstanding, and it was my mistake. If I really want to resent it, I have to resent my grandfather, but I don’t even know his face. I don’t even want to know.”
“I don’t need to know. Your father doesn’t even ask you to meet him.”
“Yes. I think I’m trying to avoid encountering them. Because there is nothing good to see. Anyway, the important thing is that I don’t get angry when I see my father now. I guess it’s because I’m not resentful.”
“I’m glad.”
It has been several months since the misunderstanding between Jeong Ha-yeon and Lee Ju-cheol was resolved. The two were slowly becoming father and daughter, exchanging hello calls from time to time. It’s fortunate.
However, Jeong Ha-yeon’s expression suddenly darkened. She said with a slightly dazed look.
“By the way… But there is Instead of not being angry, when I see my father, I don’t think about my mother. In the past, when I saw my father, I thought of my mother, but now… Just a father On the contrary, I feel sorry for having made it difficult because of my stubbornness until now…….”
I was talking gibberish for a long time.
Jeong Ha-yeon suddenly had this idea.
“Maybe it’s a good thing…….”
She blurted out her words and opened her eyes wide in surprise. She looked surprised, as if she couldn’t believe it even though she said it herself.
Seo Joo-hwan got up from his chair and moved next to her. And he said holding onto his trembling hand her.
“We’ve just poured out so far, so let’s clean it up now. Why do you think that… No, what did you think was good?”
Jeong Ha-yeon replied with a dark face.
“… She forgot her mother her.”
Jeong Ha-yeon’s mouth twisted her sadly when she said that.
Seo Joo-hwan used her ‘her stabilizing hand her’ to calm her down so she would n’t go deeper. Deeply engraved trauma submerges people unconsciously. If you think deeply and immerse yourself in such a submerged state, it is easy to be buried only in negative answers. I knew it well because I had been through it.
Seo Joo-hwan added strength to his joined hands to her and opened his mouth.
“Didn’t I say let’s make things right? Now, Ha-yeon, it’s not good that you don’t think of your mother. It’s good that I can’t think of my mother ‘because of the painful things’.”
Jeong Ha-yeon raised her head and looked at him.
Seo Joo-hwan met his gaze with her and spoke using ‘whisper’.
“You know what I mean? They both mean the same thing, but have completely different meanings. Ha Yeon-ah, did you say you went to see her mother her earlier? You said you visited often even when it wasn’t due.”
“My birthday. And mom’s birthday.”
“And?”
“When things are tough.”
“In addition.”
“When you are lonely.”
Seo Joo-hwan organized her words her.
“You must have been sad because you didn’t have a mother to congratulate you on your birthday, and you must have been sad because you didn’t have a mother to congratulate you on your birthday.”
“… Yes.”
“I went to see my mother when everything was difficult, lonely, and sad. She must have been worried about her daughter and her.”
“I know.”
Come to think of it, it really was. I don’t remember saying anything happy or enjoyable. I don’t know how many times it happened, but it was so few that I can’t remember. She felt more guilty because she seemed to have worried about her mother her, who had just passed away.
Seo Joo-hwan said.
“Fortunately, I’m relieved now.”
“… Uh?”
“No news is good news. What would you think of your daughter, who always came to visit you when you were having a hard time and was lonely? Oh, my daughter is not having a hard time these days. She must have thought that she would not be lonely and she would not be sad.”
Seo Joo-hwan did not even spit on his mouth and lined up plausible words in a confident tone.
It seems that those words sounded quite good to Jeong Ha-yeon. She mumbled, blinking her black and white eyes.
“You can think of it that way.”
“It must be.”
The most important thing when persuading others is the confidence of the speaker. If you say it with certainty, the other person is also confused. He smiled and patted the back of Jeong Ha-yeon’s hand to her.
Jeong Ha-yeon laughed as if it was absurd. Surprisingly, her stomach felt a little relieved.
At that time, Seo Ju-hwan suddenly said.
“Let’s go.”
“Where?”
“To see my mother.”
Jeong Ha-yeon blinked her cat-like eyes.
“Now?”
“I need to reassure my worried mother.
“… She said she would be safe a while ago.”
Seo Joo-hwan shook his head.
“No. Now that I think about it, there is something I said to my mother the other day.”
“Oh, a trash declaration?”
Jung Ha-yeon’s words made Seo Joo-hwan feel uncomfortable. However, since he had known for a long time that he was trash, he nodded his head with a shameless face.
“How worried must you be when your beloved daughter got stabbed by someone like me? She should go and reassure her that she is doing well.”
Jeong Ha-yeon laughed at her self-harming gag her.
“I think I’ll be more concerned when I see you. Wouldn’t it be better if I just went alone?”
“Then you must be worried that you are messing around alone again.”
“What?”
“Then let’s call the kids and come along.”
“Uh? Any other kids?”
Jeong Ha-yeon asked with a puzzled face.
Seo Joo-hwan immediately picked up his phone and opened a KakaoTalk chat room.
“You should be relieved if I introduce you to her friends who are fine as well as the bad ones.”
“Are you all right?”
Jeong Ha-yeon tilted her head with an ambiguous expression.
Seo Joo-hwan also blinked at something strange. Come to think of it, most of the people Jeong Ha-yeon was close with were his women his, Lee Seok-chan, or Jang Deok-hoon, so he was never in a good state.
He followed Ha-yeon Jeong and said with an ambiguous expression.
“Anyway. Seokchan is calling too?”
“… Yes.”
Jeong Ha-yeon nodded her head. She didn’t even express it in her own words, but she knew very well that Lee Seok-chan had taken care of her since before.
Seo Joo-hwan posted a message in the group chat room.
– Me: Someone who has time now, please come to my house.
At different times, different answers came up.
– Yoo Ji-kyung: I’m busy editing!
– Deokhun Jang: I’m sorry, brother. I have one stockpile left. It’s almost a live serial, so I don’t have time…….
– Lee Seok-chan: I am at work now. If you’re going to see it, in the evening
– Seo Joo-hee: Play alone
– Han Soo-ah: Does Hwan-i have any friends? Can I play?
Seo Joo-hwan sent another KakaoTalk message.
– Me: I’m going to see Ha-yeon’s mother. Let’s go together with people who have time.
This time the answer came right away.
– Han Soo-ah: Can I go to Hwan-i’s brother’s now?
– Deokhun Jang: I’ll be right there.
– Seo Joo-hee: I’ll be there in 30 minutes.
The next door neighbor, Han Soo-ah, was on the verge of coming over at any moment, and Jang Deok-hun and Seo Ju-hee seemed likely to come soon.
Meanwhile, Yoo Ji-kyung, who is working part-time as an editor at “Nobel Dice,” Said to Lee Seok-chan.
– Yoo Ji-kyung: Seok-chan oppa, CEO, let me go. If not, let me go
– Lee Seok-chan: Let’s wait and see. Hey, I’m taking him with me.
– Me: Do you know the place?
– Lee Seok-chan: ㅇㅇ I know. But is it true that Jung Ha-yeon asked me to go with you?
Seo Joo-hwan looked back at Jeong Ha-yeon, who was sitting next to him.
She replied to her KakaoTalk message with an expression that she didn’t know if she was crying or laughing.
– Jeong Ha-yeon: Thank you everyone.
That day, more flowers than usual were placed on Jeong Seon-ae’s grave, and in the evening, heavy rain poured down as if signaling the end of the drought.
However, Jeong Ha-yeon was no longer afraid of rain and thunderstorms.
