Chapter 110 – #Sunflowers and Milestones (4)
One.
The shower stopped quickly as it was a shower.
Still, it is the road I took with an umbrella just in case, the sea road where grass seeds sprouted here and there, and the road where I found a bicycle while walking with the West Sea.
The setting sun that trickled down through the clearing dark clouds was purple like an amethyst.
The halo of light, like a spotlight on a stage, gradually fades as the day goes on.
It was hard to believe that Seo Hae had cried before, and with a calm gait, he moved slightly ahead of Yu-chan.
The body of the dead bird was wrapped in a towel and held in her arms.
As we kept our distance, all we could see was her thin back,
Yu-chan couldn’t see her expression.
The place where the West Sea faces is a hill of grass that spreads when you go up Sunflower Hill.
It is a hill on the other side of the lighthouse, overlooking the high school and downtown.
At her request her, Yu-chan dug a shallow hole.
She was able to dig a hole for the bird without too much effort, thanks to the soil that had softened after the rain.
After carefully burying the bird and covering it with soil, Seohae stands up straightening her bent back.
I ask Yoo-chan with a weak expression that does not feel passion anymore.
“Mister, aren’t you sad?”
“Well, mostly.”
“If I die, what expression will you make?”
Her shadow in the setting sun.
Yoo-chan was silent at the ominous shimmer of the West Sea.
2.
What Seohae asked for was simple.
On the way back after burying the bird.
She asked to go to the lighthouse together as usual.
The lighthouse at night had never been seen, and she moved toward her lighthouse, considering her mood her.
It was hard to believe that the sky had been pouring with rain just an hour or two ago.
Standing side by side on the front railing of the lighthouse, the stars visible in the sky are incomparably more numerous in the city.
While looking at the same sky, she suddenly started talking about herself.
It was the beginning of some dreamy words, like telling a fairy tale.
“In the past, I learned from her aunt that one star is one life. He taught me that when a star goes down, someone in this world goes to heaven, and that star never shines again.”
“You’re young,” She replied without much reaction.
At that answer, she laughed.
Her eyes were swollen from crying, but her expression was still shining.
As if it were a rite of passage, this time she had no choice but to avoid his gaze at her.
“So when I was young, my dream was to become an astronomer. Maybe we can stop the stars from falling. After I got older, I realized that being an astronomer was just a job looking at the stars. I still can’t forget the feeling of betrayal she felt towards her aunt her then.”
“So you hate stars now?”
She shook her head and replied.
Her wavy hair her swayed gently.
“Even if it means nothing, isn’t it pretty?”
Seohae, who raised her gaze to the sky again, gazed at the stars as if possessed for a while.
The sadness that makes it hard to even hear her breathing her sways with the night air.
Yoo-chan also looks up at the night sky.
There was certainly something majestic, but from Yuchan’s point of view, seeing with his own eyes his was also seeing through photos.
There is not a big difference.
I was born that way and I grew up that way.
Again with odd timing, she asked a question.
“What was your dream, Uncle?”
“No.”
Dream.
This, too, was an unfamiliar word.
There is no way that you, who cannot understand even basic emotions, can have such a grandiose thing.
“It seemed so. Somehow, from the moment we met, he had been dead.”
The teasing giggles don’t have the usual vigor.
It was a way of speaking that you could tell with just one glance that it was a bluff.
“Still, I don’t think you have to have a dream. People like to make their own answers and put them together. At what age should I get a job and get married?
Wouldn’t words like have a dream be an extension of that?”
That answer was a little surprising, so you? I ask.
Seohae, who seems to be living with a fairytale-like heart more than anyone else, can understand herself.
Would it be more believable if the ignorant princess understood the feelings of a beggar?
“You have to go in soon.”
I didn’t have anything else to add about it.
Seo-hae, who had been walking beside her, put her small hand on the back of Yu-chan, who was resting on her handrail her.
“Shall we go on a date?”
At the end of the proposal, asking as if asking a question, there was a sense of embarrassment.
“Date?”
“You said you would make me your girlfriend if you fixed my bike. When it’s all over, I’ll have to be your girlfriend too.”
“It’s okay to just say you want to date me.”
“Because it isn’t.”
After replying in a calm voice, Seohae playfully tickles the back of her hand and continues her words.
“I still have to keep my promise. I have no choice but to go with you. Be grateful.”
“Then why do you want to date me?”
“That’s because he’s the most complacent…”
“Tell me the real reason.”
Hearing Yuchan’s voice, Seohae removed her hand from her.
I stare at Yoo-chan’s expressionless face with her cautious eyes.
Then she smiled as pitifully as a withering sunflower.
“…I’ll tell you when the date is over.”
She says she’ll tell you, but there’s no need to bother.
Yu-chan also made a concession.
“Blast furnace! The date is confirmed! Fix the bike within a week. Because her ass her is itching to ride.”
“I don’t think it will be possible in a week.”
“Make it possible. And how do you do this look? Even on a date, I know you won’t let go if you have such a gruff face.”
She walked over to Yoo-chan and pulled her cheeks her, trying to make her smile.
One of her heads was small enough that she couldn’t do it easily.
Her moderately shook her hand her and dropped her her.
“Do it in moderation, it’s uncomfortable to smile in front of you.”
“Who is the smiling face? It is a command to smile sincerely.”
Suddenly, a girl with a serious expression.
I squeezed her collar tightly, swallowed one breath, and met her eyes straight on this side.
She inadvertently thought that her eyelashes were so long.
“So you have to do it.”
She replied moderately that she had no choice but to try.
2.
About a month has passed since I met Seohae.
Her time her passed so quickly that it could be said that her relationship her with her her became as close as her her close brother and sister her.
Seohae still insists on the title of uncle.
As for her small change her, she was supposed to ride her bike with her her for a lap around her town, but she was given a grace period of about a week because the bike was more messed up than expected.
She even seriously considered buying a new bike.
A boring daily life with nothing else.
Yu-chan still goes to her lighthouse to see her, and occasionally Seo-hae also stops by her camper her.
Due to the time passing much more slowly than when she was busy with Shin Harin’s schedule and event schedule,
Did you have time to save each one of them?
She remembered these times so clearly that if she kept a month’s worth of diary, she could write roughly everything.
Today, as usual, after breakfast, I was about to start my daily life with an after-meal cigarette when I heard a knock on the door.
A time that would not normally come, the clock hanging on the wall now only points to 8:00.
Knocking is only a courtesy, as the door has always been left open since she frequented her camper.
Before Yu-chan could stand up, the door burst open.
“Good morning.”
“Okay, did you sleep well?”
As if it were natural, the conversation that asked and answered each other reminded me of the morning conversation of a newlywed couple.
Of course, I have no intention of spouting these embarrassing fantasies out of my mouth.
“Huh, it’s like a newlywed couple. Shall we say hello again?”
Although Seohae was an idiot who spit out whatever came to mind.
She sleeps a lot in the morning and usually wakes up after 11 o’clock.
But looking at her energetic image of her now, it does n’t seem like that.
Today’s Seohae outfit is a sapphire blue dress.
Next to the wrinkled dress, a wide-brimmed hat dangles from a white cross-body bag.
Her hair her was tied up and her neck her looked much cooler.
“I have already eaten breakfast. I thought we’d eat together.”
“Have you not eaten?”
“It’s hard to get up, so I’m going to die. My bones are just sore.”
Come to think of it, there must be a reason why she slept so much and woke up early.
“What are you doing today?”
To that question she answered.
3.
“Ugh, I really don’t want to go to the hospital… Can’t you get the test done instead?”
Originally a train station with few human beings, it is even worse in the morning.
To some extent… There are only two passengers.
The train station, illuminated by the morning sunlight, was so sophisticated and modern that it could not be thought of as an outdated tourist destination.
It must be because even though it was a failed pilot project, it had its own assortment.
After 15 minutes without a single train arriving, Yoo-chan asked indirectly.
This must be the end point and the starting point.
The reason she’s been waiting like this is because today is the day of her regular overhaul her.
It seems impossible to pretend not to know her now, and I decided to invest in her today.
She saved the despair of so many people that she herself was now a babysitter.
It’s about to make you laugh
At the same time, it was also an unknown territory for Yu-chan.
He based most of his actions her on rationality.
However, he did not have the confidence to explain the appearance of himself staying in an ambiguous distance around the West Sea with any basis.
“When is the train coming?”
Seohae answered while fiddling with the train ticket he pulled from the ticket vending machine.
“The train that came in here doesn’t go out right away, but the waiting train goes out every two hours.”
Seo Hae taught her kind voice her, and while she was fixing her hat her, she asked Yu-chan how he looked.
“How about a hat?”
“It’s okay, so how long do I have to wait?”
As soon as the question was finished, a train that seemed to have been operating for quite some time entered the station.
4.
“There are no people.”
Just like when I came here, the inside of the train was very quiet.
Only rattling and up and down vibrations resonated regularly.
“It’s a remote island.”
Even though it was something he said to himself, Seohae, who was sitting in the front seat, replied.
“A lot of fishing, camping, painters and photographers come during the holiday season, but there are very few people when the holiday season is over like now. Besides, school is on vacation these days, so there are no students going out of the island.”
There was a hint of desolation and envy in her voice as she rested her chin on the window sill.
Although she was mostly lively, she found that underneath it was a subtle melancholy.
“Do you want to go to school?”
She kindly nodded her head.
“Of course I want to go, but I can’t because it’s during vacation anyway.”
“When is the vacation over?”
After thinking for a while, Seohae smiled and said as if she was acting cute.
“Because I think it would be more fun to be with you.”
It was completely different from what I expected, so I felt a sense of incongruity.
“Are you lying?”
Perhaps because of this, I said this subconsciously.
Despite his words of her, Seo Hae’s smiling expression of her did not change, and she did not respond.
She just laughed and pointed to the window opposite her own.
“Mister, there is a lighthouse.”
She followed her fingertips and looked out of her window, where there was a lighthouse she always visited.
The lighthouse standing precariously on the cliff looked like it would fall apart with just a gust of wind.
I noticed her sudden words to divert her words to her, but decided to let them go quietly.
Let’s make the train go until we can’t see the lighthouse.
Seohae, who clung to the window frame, calmly sat down on the train’s seat like a cat.
Then she tilted her head.
“Modern man, how old are you?”
“Twenty-seven years old, too young to be called a man.”
Even when he conveyed his usual complaints, he responded calmly without raising an eyebrow.
“I thought you were older than that.”
“You’re not even that long.”
I took it out of her mouth and realized, but it was an obvious mistake to say this kind of thing to a woman.
As expected, she gave a slightly horny expression with her lips pouting.
Obviously, Seohae started this conversation first, but I forgot for a while that it was not only important to choose a fire when having a conversation, but also to turn a sensitive fire properly.
“Then how old do you look?”
Her eyes flashed her and she leaned her neck against the backrest to get away from her asking her.
“You just look like a kid.”
“What, you look young, right?”
The girl whined without a hint of displeasure.
Besides, the sparkling voice her seems to be happy for some reason.
Running out of answers, she just closed her eyes.
