Chapter 12 – Episode 12. Nayoung Hannah
Time passed quickly and the weekend came.
It was a golden time for me, who had the correct answer because FX margin trading was active and the volatility was extreme in the early morning of the American morning.
So, after trading all morning on the weekend, I was able to take my eyes off the monitor only in the early morning.
“Haaaaa…”
When the tension was released, the body became languid.
Forgotten fatigue came over me, my eyelids became heavy, and I yawned incessantly.
“Ah… That won’t work… Let’s stop sleeping now.”
I was still active in the morning and could make a lot of money, but my body couldn’t stand it.
FX margin trading is risky enough that you can lose about half of the money you earned with a single mistake, so I decided not to overdo it.
So, I decided to trade only this far today, turned off my computer, and laid down on the bed with my limp body.
Her stiff body relaxed at the touch of the soft bed and immediately finished preparing for sleep.
If it’s just a little bit like this, I’m sure I’ll fall asleep. But it doesn’t seem to allow me to sleep.
The tightly closed door burst open.
“Jihun!”
Nayoung, who had a very bright smile on her lips, finished her preparations for bed and was placed in my arms as she tried to entrust herself to the soma.
Not a small amount of pain followed from that shock, but more than that.
“Nayoung…? When did you come?”
“Just now! I just got in the car with my father and got home!”
By the way, the very next day when Nayoung was supposed to sleep at our house, her father suddenly showed up and took Nayoung away.
A day or two after that, she was worried about Na-young not coming home, so she tried to contact her father, but the reply she got back was that she should wait a bit.
I was just wondering what the hell he was doing and why he didn’t even say hello to Nayoung for four days. Judging by Nayoung’s bright face, she didn’t have to worry.
“Hehe. Jihoonie. It’s Jihoon~!”
I hadn’t seen her for four days, but Na-yeong rubbed her face against her chest, as if she hadn’t seen her in years.
“That’s right! Jihoon-ah!”
Soon, something flashed to Nayoung.
“We are siblings!”
“Uh…?”
What kind of nonsense is it all of a sudden in the dry sky?
I don’t know what happened over the past four days to talk nonsense like this.
She wouldn’t say out of the blue that they were siblings unless her father took her baby and fed her something strange.
If that’s not the case, wouldn’t it be that I’m sleeping with my head on the keyboard right now, unable to overcome my sleep during FX margin trading?
“What are you talking about?”
She blankly waited for her answer at the shocking remark she did not understand.
“Hee hee! Can’t believe it?! I can’t believe it either! Me and Jihoon are siblings!”
Unbelievably, it seems that they mistakenly thought that I was happy.
“Why do you say we are siblings?”
“Sh-you don’t like it? Being brother and sister with me…? Well, then, the realm of wish…!”
“No no. Don’t use the wish ticket.”
Would it be that good to be siblings with me? He was trying to get me to acknowledge him by even writing a wish ticket.
“Whoa… Nayoung-ah. Wait a minute.”
“Huh…”
Not the reaction she wanted, her downcast Nayoung pouted her lips in her pouty face.
Normally, such a cute reaction would have made her laugh and stroke her hair, but now I couldn’t afford it.
It’s an old-fashioned smartphone that is so old that I doubt if anyone will use it by my standards, but now it’s the latest, and I called my mom with a smartphone in my hand that boasts a ridiculous price.
I heard a connection sound in my ears and it wasn’t long before.
[Huh. Jihoon-ah.]
“Mom, Nayoung is home.”
[So?]
“And she says Nayoung said she became her brother and sister with me, can you tell me what that means?”
[What I mean is that the two of them are brother and sister.]
“No, Mom.
[Oh~ It’s been a while~ You’ve become so pretty~! Haha. No. What am I It’s just that I’ve been able to afford it a little lately. It’s not that much~]
Mom must have met someone since morning.
[Jihun. Because mom met her friend after a long time? Call me later I’ll hang up.]
“Uh, Mom…? Mom!”
Pop.
The phone hung up without much success.
“Are you my mother?”
“Yes… It’s your mother.”
Unknowingly since when, Nayoung had been calling my parents by her honorific names.
Just like when her daughter-in-law calls her husband’s parents.
“For a moment.”
If her mom wasn’t in the situation to explain, she should have asked her dad.
It was correct to call her dad from the beginning.
Since her mother knew that Nayoung had suddenly become her brother and sister, she probably heard from her father, so she decided to call her father to get a more accurate answer.
[Uh, son. Is it a bit late to call?]
“Where are you?”
[Isn’t that what you’re curious about? Once I drop Nayoung at home, I’m on my way to her company.]
Because of Nayoung’s work, she must have been busy for four days. She was busier as the company could not survive and expand.
“Dad.”
[Uh.]
“What do you mean Nayoung is her brother and sister?”
[What do you mean? We took away custody of Nayoung.]
“Custody…?”
[Ah. What do you mean?]
“Yes. I know.”
[Oh. My son is smart!]
“How did you get it from me?”
Nayoung must be so pretty and cute. Looking at her now, she could tell that Nayoung’s appearance was unusual.
So, as if she had hit the lottery with the beauty of Na-yeong, who had fully bloomed, they must have been terrible parents who would never let go of Na-young. What magic did she have to do to get custody out of her.
Even if I had planned it, I wouldn’t have been able to bring Nayoung back this quickly.
[Um… It’s a long story. To put it simply, there is nothing that cannot be done with money. Haha!]
That’s right.
There is nothing that cannot be done with money.
Happiness, love, anything else money could buy.
The problem is that Na-young’s custody is transferred, and she is curious about how much money she has poured into it.
[Does she think she might have spent a lot of money?]
Picked up exactly
[Don’t worry.]
Since the house has tilted once, she has no choice but to worry about money.
It was natural for her to be naturally interested in money, even though she was not obsessed with money and at her age to play around with her friends.
Besides, she must have heard from her mother that I had entered the stock market.
[It turns out that they are more trash than I thought. I only took care of the poor rice. Nayoung testified that she even hit her, so it was easier than I thought.]
And. You mean she even abused her even though she knew she was trash?
It is beyond imagination.
I looked at Nayoung with her pitiful eyes.
Sensing my gaze, Nayoung just let out a laugh.
Where is the place to hit this tender child’s body? Oh… That’s too much
[My son worked hard to make it pretty, but I thought of using him without saying thank you. Still, she’s Ji-hoon’s girlfriend, so I tried to edify her somehow, but it didn’t seem possible, so I put her in her hand and brought her back.]
Her father’s anger could be felt over the phone.
[I want to have her as my real daughter, but since Ji-hoon has to marry you later, I only took custody of her. So don’t worry about anything, just know her as formal brother and sister until marriage.]
When I heard that they were her siblings, I thought her father had adopted Nayoung.
Had she been adopted, she becomes a huge stumbling block when she later marries Na-young.
How can I get married, but I will face many difficulties until the process.
But my dad figured it out well.
“I understood.”
[You’re smart because you look like me! Son!]
I’m not smart.
At best, I’m the one with the top-middle level of hair.
[Well, anyway, since things worked out that way, take good care of Nayoung even if she’s confused…]
Pop.
I hung up.
“Nayoung.”
“Huh!”
“When is your birthday?”
“Birthday?”
“Uh. Birthday.”
“Uh… March 20th?”
“March 20…? Bah, isn’t it early?”
They were born in the same year, but they are older than me.
In this case, it would be a bit harsh to ask her to call her brother.
We love each other in the first place and sooner or later we will develop into lovers, but what does an older brother or sister have to do with it?
You just have to get along well.
“Huh.”
When all the questions were answered, the drowsiness that had been put aside for a while came back in an instant.
“Nayoung, it’s nice to see you after a long time and I know there are many things I want to say, but I’m so tired, can I get some sleep?”
“Sleep…? It’s morning?”
“I couldn’t sleep because I had too much work to do at night.”
“Huh…”
Nayoung couldn’t help but feel sorry for her.
We met after four days. How much I missed you for four days, and I wanted to tell you everything about what had happened.
But the person who will listen to me says I’m tired, but I can’t help it.
“I’ll listen to everything when you wake up…”
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“I’ll listen to everything when you wake up…”
The voice gradually faded and then completely cut off.
Soon, Nayoung exhaled a fine breath and saw her sleeping face.
“Jihoon-ah? Ji-hoon-ah? Ji-hoon-ah~!”
The warm sunlight coming through the window poured into Jihoon’s face.
Nayoung’s heart was pounding because her already handsome face looked even more handsome in the sunlight.
I think she used to do this on vacation too.
At that time, Nayoung was still ugly.
She was so ugly that she noticed even secretly kissing her, so she couldn’t do it in the end, but now she was different.
Nayoung said she was prettier and cuter than any other kid, and as if telling her that this wasn’t just her misunderstanding, she was constantly complimented on her appearance.
With no distinction between acquaintances and strangers.
“I like you… Jihoon-ah.”
Nayoung whispered her love shyly, clutching at her flushed face and pounding heart.
She was not sleeping just in case, and after hearing Nayoung’s confession, Jihoon opened her eyes and imagined her warm smile and telling her to come out.
She was happy just thinking about it.
But imagination is just imagination. Can’t be real
She felt a bit disappointed at the sight of Ji-hoon still asleep.
“Jihun-ah? Ji-hoon-ah?”
Jihoon gently shook his body.
She definitely seems to be sleeping.
Nayoung lay down next to her and hugged Jihoon.
“Just like Jihoonie said, I’ve become pretty. I’ve become very pretty too.”
Ji-hoon actually doesn’t know how she knew that Na-yeong was pretty.
Even though she didn’t even know about it. She didn’t even know that she was the mother of Na-yeong, who gave birth to a sick stomach, and her father, who had been watching by her side.
Still, Jihoon was confident and whispered to her that she was always pretty.
And finally. As Jihoon said, the past has become unbelievably pretty.
She got pretty
“Why doesn’t Jihoon say he likes me?”
Because she became prettier, the boys who bullied Nayoung even before vacation shyly approached her and shamelessly confessed that they liked her.
In addition, she has confessed to her children who did not stop Na-yeong from being bullied by her and did not stop her.
Of course, the boy who wanted to be confessed to wasn’t them, and since he wasn’t even interested, he resolutely refused without hesitation.
“I’ve been waiting for this…”
I felt resentful of Jihoon who didn’t tell me that he liked me like the other kids.
Nayoung would be happy to accept that confession if she told her that she liked her.
“Hing.”
I was sad and sad.
She was afraid that maybe she was the only one who had this feeling.
That’s also because she knows Na-young, who was ugly in her past. It seemed to her that the feeling that she liked Na-young kept thinking about her.
I was suddenly terrified at the thought that her relationship with Ji-hoon could be shattered if Na-young confessed to her frustration and got kicked out first.
Even if he decides to confess willingly, in front of Ji-hoon, his head is covered with pure white paint and his confession is canceled.
So I waited endlessly for a confession, but it felt like a futile thing.
“Fool.”
Nayoung put her mouth on Jihoon’s cheek.
Jjook. And her lips touched the soft cheeks and then fell.
“…”
She belatedly realized what she had done and her face blushed.
“Fool…”
It’s embarrassing, but if only she kept her mouth shut, no one would know.
Clung to her body.
After waking up early in the morning and confirming the result of her brother and sister, she wanted to tell Ji-hoon about this happy fact as soon as possible, so she headed straight home, exhausted like Ji-hoon.
Nayoung didn’t resist at the rush of her drowsiness, just gently closed her eyes.
She went to bed, holding on to her small wish that even in her dreams she would confess to Ji-hoon.
