Chapter 314 – Side Story Episode 1
It may be obvious if it is obvious, but when you live life, there is always a moment that cannot be avoided.
For example, in the case of my previous life, it was like enlisting in the military.
Perhaps this is not only me, but those who have experienced similar situations will express sympathy.
That feeling when you come back from having fun with your friends and find a post with the word ‘Military Manpower Administration’ sitting on the living room table or in the mailbox with the number engraved on it.
I want to deny the reality, but nothing changes even if I pinch my cheeks, and the feeling of ‘something has come’ along with vague fear welling up from the depths of my heart is really…
‘Oh, sir… Goosebumps…’
In any case, in that sense, the act of parenting could be said to be a series of inevitable moments.
The period commonly called the ugly four years old was like that, and the period called the ugly seven year old was also like that.
And… It still is.
It must have been the middle of the day, as always, sitting around and having dinner.
“Sweep…! Yoo Bomi! Dad said you shouldn’t eat unbalanced!”
“I wasn’t picky eating!”
“Then, what are those green, round things left on the plate over there? Huh?”
To be honest, I was amazed at how they picked and ate only the peas.
Anyway, as I spoke while poking the remaining peas on the plate with my fingers, I wondered if I was momentarily at a loss for words.
“This, this…”
Bomi, who had been stuttering her words, immediately shouted with her eyes sparkling.
“Se, Sehan! Sehan left it for you!”
“···What?”
“Gina’s mother said it! Eating beans makes you strong!”
“So?”
“But! I’m already strong!”
“So you were trying to make a concession to Sehan?”
“Yes! That’s right!”
Did you like the logic you created?
He twitched his chubby cheeks to the point where he wanted to reach out and pinch them right away, but he laughed and said, “Hee-oo.” This was also subtly logical, so I didn’t know where to begin with a refutation.
In the meantime, what made me even more crazy was the image of Yeoreum, who had already started acting while my nerves were focused on Bomi.
What if Bomi is the type who enjoys talking?
Yeoreum could be said to be an activist.
As proof, when Bomi tried to persuade me with her words, she was already using her Pocar Lock to transfer her beans to Sehan’s tray sitting next to her.
And speaking of Sehan, who suddenly became a victim…
“I don’t like beans… Huh…”
Every time she blinked, she looked at the growing peas and cried as if she would burst into tears any moment.
And in a way, as for the other three, who could be said to be the ones who triggered this whole situation… I was watching the three of them scuffle with a cute expression that I was going to die.
After the kids started expressing their opinions in earnest, for us, meals generally felt like this.
So I thought this day would pass like any other…
It happened while I was feeding the babies a glass of milk after a meal.
“Dad!”
“Huh? Why summer? Do you have any questions?”
“Huh!”
“What the hell is that? Should I just tell my dad?”
“Umm… That’s it… How do I get a baby?”
To be honest?
At first I doubted my ears.
He also expected that the day would come when he would be asked this question from children, but he never dreamed that it would be today.
No, even if it wasn’t me, honestly, who would have imagined it.
That such a philosophical (?) Question would flow from the mouth of a child who is only seven years old.
Thanks to that, there were other people who were as embarrassed as I was after eating a lot of embarrassment, it was none other than Gayoung, Gina, and Senna.
And among the three, Senna’s reaction was especially dramatic… The reason was simple.
As Ga-young blushed slightly with an ‘oh my’ expression, and Gina cleared her throat in embarrassment, Sena was gubbing milk to show her children a demonstration of herself.
But, of course, I heard such a question at that timing, and I was just blown away…
“Collock, it’s so black…!”
That was the result.
“Ugh… Are you okay?”
Thanks to that, Gayoung, who had been keeping her silent in a strangely awkward atmosphere, cautiously opened her mouth while I went over to Sena and carefully patted her on the back.
“Why did our Yeoreum suddenly become curious about that?”
“That’s… Actually Izzy…”
Easy?
Lee Ji-myeon was the name of a girl who went to the same kindergarten as the three of us.
Every time we bumped into each other, he greeted me with the world’s most polite belly button bows, so I thought there was another kid who was so polite besides my kids.
Who would have known that it would turn out this way?
Anyway, if we had to reserve Yeoreum’s story, it was like this.
She said that Izzy had a little brother, and she boasted that Izzy boasted about it and said that you guys know how babies are made.
“So she was wondering about that?”
“Yes···”
And did such a series of conversations even capture the attention of the other two children, who had been listening to them from earlier?
In the end, Ga-young ended up giving a lecture on ‘how children are born’ to her three children.
“Well, as for how babies are born…”
Compared to me, Sena, and Gina, she is Ga-young, whose experience with parenting is overwhelming.
I don’t know if it’s because of that, but Ga-young, who had a feeling of embarrassment floating on her polite-looking face, soon spoke in a cautious voice.
“It happens when people who love each other hold hands and sleep.”
As expected, even Ga-young, who had a superior parenting experience, could not explain specific actions to children who were only seven years old.
Instead, an expression appeared on Ga-young’s face as if she had passed one of her hurdles.
Of course… It didn’t last very long.
The reason was simple.
After hearing Gayoung’s explanation, Bomi and Yeoreum shouted in unison.
“Lie···”
“Right! It’s a lie!”
And the intense reaction of the two children was enough to push Ga-young, who was just entering the safety stage, into a feeling of embarrassment again.
“What do you mean lie?”
“That’s right…! Sehan always sleeps holding hands with other girls, but he’s not having babies!”
And how did you respond to Bomi’s cry?
It was Gina and Sena who were watching the situation with excited expressions on their faces.
“Who?”
“What…?! What year?”
Ga-yeong, who had been taken aback by the unexpected answer while I hugged her from behind and tried to tear them apart, who seemed to be clinging to Bomi and making a list if left alone, regained her composure and continued.
“That’s because you guys aren’t adults yet. Not now, but later when you become adults…”
“That’s a lie…”
Of course, I couldn’t get over it easily this time either.
What if Bomi had been arguing before?
This time, it was summer.
“Then why don’t moms and dads have babies when they sleep together all the time?”
Could it be that she never expected to hear such a logical rebuttal from a seven-year-old?
While Gayoung stood still with her eyes wide open in her embarrassment, she stepped out in place of Gayoung.
“That’s because… The baby is that precious.”
Fortunately, the children seemed to have lost interest again, and they convinced me with that.
“Well then, since I drank milk too, everyone should go to sleep? What did Dad say?”
“They say you’ll grow taller if you go to bed early!”
“That’s right. So let’s go to bed.”
After putting the kids to bed, do you go into the room you’re using as a shared bedroom?
“Are you here?”
“I’m here?”
“What about the kids?”
The three greeted me in pajamas.
“Sleep. Everyone seemed to be tired and fell asleep right away.”
Every time I see it, I lie down on the bed with a smile on my face at the scenery that makes my heart soar.
“Anyway, really… Now that you’re only seven years old, you’ve heard that kind of thing somewhere else, and you’ve come…”
Gina, who naturally occupied my left side and lay down, tickled my chest with her fingers, then made a ridiculous expression as if she had just remembered.
The sound of laughter that seemed to be tired and windy was a bonus.
“What… Can’t you be curious?”
“But that’s true. Isn’t seven years old too early…?”
“Kids these days are fast. Or…”
“Or not?”
“Isn’t Bomi or Yeoreum simply what her sister wanted from her point of view?”
Gina, who was already lying next to me, and Gayoung, who were just getting ready to lie down on the bed,’s eyes changed slightly right after the guess came out of Sena’s mouth.
“Brother···”
“Well… Even though Sehan feels like a younger brother, strictly speaking, he’s the same age…”
And the place where those eyes settled… Was none other than me.
“In that sense… What do you think, Yuhan?”
“Yeah, Yuhan, what do you think?”
“Yes? That’s right…”
If I had one more person, I would have been happier if I was happier than I am now, but I will never be less.
The question is… After all, who gave birth?
That would be the case, too, because Bomi and Yeoreum wanted to avoid a situation where she had to take care of several people at the same time, like when she was raising Sehan.
It had no choice but to be.
I’m not joking that she had to do that, for real.
Being happy is happy, but is it that hard?
So, I was hesitant to answer, but-
“You don’t like it?”
“It can’t be that you don’t like it…!”
“That’s it. The rest—”
Passing along with those words, he used the hand he had placed on my chest and rode on top of me.
“Because I can decide from now on…”
And starting with Gina’s declaration of war, the second ‘Who will get pregnant first’ situation has risen.
