Chapter 18 – Mom, It’s Me ③
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I could see my mother panicking as I entered the house out of nowhere.
Well, I entered the house by entering the password for the door lock. It seemed like it was me too.
“Who, who are you? Who are you and you have the password for our house…”
My mother, wary of strangers entering the house, seemed to call the police any minute.
Looking at my mother like that, I scratched my cheek as if I was embarrassed and said,
“Mom, it’s me…”
“Yes? Mother, what does that mean…”
It was my mother who made a puzzled expression when I said that she was a mother.
I can’t believe that a certain woman came inside without even breaking the password, but who in the world wouldn’t be taken aback if that woman looked at him and said she was a mother?
I told my mother, who was flustered, this time, even mentioning my name, Lee Seo-hyun.
“My mother’s son Lee Seo-hyun, that’s me…”
“Yeah? What nonsense are you talking about?”
He still did not dispel his doubts and warned against saying nonsense.
Seeing her mother like that, she opened her mouth again with a tone of frustration.
“No, it’s me…”
“Get out of here before calling the police!”
My mom didn’t listen to me and warned me to leave before calling the police.
“No!! My mother’s son Lee Seo-hyun, that’s me!!”
I was frustrated watching my mother like that, and I screamed out loud because I was annoyed at the moment.
However, in a moment of annoyance, I soon realized that I had made a mistake, because I was the only one at a disadvantage here if I shouted out loud.
But then.
There was a loud noise coming from the front door, so someone came to check what was going on.
“What’s the matter?”
That person was my mother’s husband, that is, my father.
“Honey!”
“Dad!”
Mom and I called out to Dad at the same time.
“Why are you suddenly screaming and who is that…?”
My dad, who suddenly heard a loud voice, pretended to cover his ears while talking, and then started asking my mom about me, perhaps noticing my presence in front of my mom.
He said it was his father, but seeing that he didn’t hear it, it seemed that the word “Father” Was buried in his mother’s booming voice.
“No, he suddenly came into the house and shouted that he was my son? He even entered the password!”
“What? Enter the password and come in? No, what are you talking about now?”
“That’s what I’m talking about! Oh, it’s not like this. I need to call the police quickly!”
“No, wait. In case you didn’t know, Seoyeon could have told you to come in after giving her your password.”
“······If it’s Seoyeon, that might be the case…”
Mom and Dad were chatting with each other, and I just watched them.
But suddenly my dad looked back at me and opened his mouth.
“That… Is Seoyeon your friend…?”
He looked at me and asked a question that didn’t even sound like a question, asking if I was Lee Seo-yeon’s friend who didn’t look like his younger sister.
Just saying that I was a friend of Lee Seo-yeon, whom I didn’t want to see, made me feel annoyed, so I did something more suspicious.
“No, isn’t it too much? To see me as Lee Seo-yeon’s friend! To be the friend of a bitch you don’t even want to see! Me!?”
“······Huh?”
Hearing my words, my dad put on a stunned expression for a moment, but then I realized that I had made a mistake, and I really thought the police would come and take me away.
However.
“Seo, are you Seohyun…?”
“…!”
Wouldn’t it be that my mother suddenly looked at me and asked if I was Seohyun?
So I quickly nodded and said with a bright smile.
“Yes! Are you recognizing me now?”
Still my mother repeated the nonsense with her doubtful look on her face.
My mother, whose expression suddenly changed as if she had come up with a good idea, said to me.
“This is something only the real Seohyun knows. If you really are Seohyun, you will have to answer unconditionally.”
It seemed like he was trying to ask a question that only I could understand, but it was probably a question to convince me that I was exactly Lee Seo-hyun.
“Of course! What’s the question?”
He said confidently with a face that he would agree unconditionally.
Like that.
Her mother’s mouth, which had been closed, opened.
“What caused Seohyun and you and Seoyeon to fall apart?”
“······!”
After thinking about the question for a while, I spoke softly, as if suppressing my anger.
“At that time, there was a 14-year-old middle school student Lee Seo-yeon who had just entered middle school…”
I still get angry when I think of that time, but I managed to hold back my anger and continued.
“Lee Seo-yeon, who had fallen in love with her middle school classmates, suddenly said she was buying cosmetics and stole my pocket money that I had saved for six months…”
Yes.
In order for 14-year-old Lee Seo-yeon to buy something I wanted, she stole all the money she had saved for six months, worth 400,000 won.
That’s how the incident that became irreversible between me and Lee Seo-yeon began.
“Recognizing that fact, I immediately went to Lee Seo-yeon and beat her to death, and she ended up coming to her mother and her father to stop me…”
I beat Lee Seo-yeon to death, and eventually Lee Seo-yeon ended up in her hospital for a while.
Now that I think about it, I don’t think she hit her that hard, but I’m not sure why she ended up in the hospital.
“She even hated her mother when she asked why she fought and when she heard the reason she said, ‘Her brother could have.'”
“······”
“At that time, she thought her mother and her father hated only me. But, as she lived, she did feel that it wasn’t like that. Because she was young, Lee Seo-yeon.”
After her words, her gloomy face loosened and she forced a smile.
Her pupils were trembling so much that she could tell at a glance that her mother, who had been silently listening to me in front of her for a while, was embarrassed.
“Anyway, that’s how Lee Seo-yeon and I fell apart. That means it’s still going on.”
After telling her that it was all over and that she didn’t care, she asked her mother.
“This is enough to be trusted… Ugh!?”
However.
Suddenly, my mother, who had been embarrassed in front of her, hugged me.
She becomes a woman and I don’t know why she is hugged so much, but it felt good to be in her mother’s arms for the first time in a while.
“Really… You really are Seohyun.”
My mother, holding me in her arms, spoke, but her voice seemed to tremble somewhere.
After holding me for a while, she let go of me and looked at me, she looked at my body to be exact and asked cautiously.
“But… How did this happen…?”
“This······.”
As she thought for a moment about where to begin, she heard her father’s voice.
“Why don’t you go in and talk about it.”
“Ah, yes, honey. Seohyun, you should come in quickly.”
Dad suggested that we go inside the house and have a conversation, but it was a little bit like he kept doing this at the front door, so I said I knew and entered the house.
That’s how I’m now inside the house, not the front door, and I’m sitting on a chair at the dining table, and my mom and dad are sitting across from me.
“So, really, how did that happen?”
My dad, not my mom, asked me a question as I was sitting awkwardly.
“That’s… It happened like this when I woke up in the morning…”
“Do you think that makes sense?”
“No, it’s the same thing that I can’t believe right now…”
I was just answering Dad’s question correctly, but I sent a suspicious look somewhere, asking if I was saying something that made sense.
I met those eyes with eyes that clearly opened my eyes and said I hadn’t even lied.
“There are three daughters in our family.”
Unlike such a father, there was a mother who had a smile on her face somewhere. She looked at her mother and her father told me one thing.
“Your mother originally said she wanted to have a daughter, but you came out and the plan goes wrong… Ugh!”
“Oh, what is this nobleman talking about? No matter what, Seohyun is my child?”
Her mother interrupted her by stomping her father’s foot.
At this point, if she added another word, I felt like I would step on her foot, so I shut her mouth, which was trying to keep open, and stopped.
At that time, the mother who was stepping on her father’s foot looked at me and said.
“By the way… What are you going to do now?”
“What?”
“Since I became a woman, I have to live my life as a woman.”
“Ah···.”
They had a conversation about how she was going to live now that she was a woman, and she advised her mother to throw away all thoughts of being a man now that she was a woman.
“But… Can’t we just live as we used to?”
“What are you talking about!”
“Eh, why are you suddenly shouting?”
She doesn’t think there’s a single problem with living her life even if she just lives as she was living it, but her mother said that she would teach her how to live as a woman.
I didn’t know how the hell she was going to tell me, so I just nodded her head while listening to her mother’s words in the back of my ear.
Suddenly.
“Ah, it’s not like this. You should tell your sister and Seoyeon.”
“What? That’s not possible! Especially for Lee Seo-yeon!”
“What are you talking about? Everyone in the family should know, you bastard!”
Saying that her family should know, she and her sister began to walk into Lee Seo-yeon’s room.
I hurriedly got up and tried to stop her mother, but her father suddenly grabbed me and I couldn’t help it.
“Your mother always prays like that… And above all, I agree with her that everyone in her family should know, Seo Hyun-ah.”
“Daddy!!”
Having been betrayed by the father I trusted, I slumped back in the chair, put my head on the table, and quietly closed my eyes.
