Chapter 208 – #208. Winter
I thought that the job of a writer is a job that can be infinitely insensitive to change depending on the person’s mind.
It was because I was in such a state, at least until last winter, when I had not crawled out of bed most of the time, confined to the corner of my room.
Even if it was raining, I didn’t even know it was raining on the day I was drawing the curtains, and there were times when I noticed it after looking at the messenger window that snow was falling.
But now the opposite.
It felt like there were too many visible indicators that tell us that time is passing.
“Whoaam~”
When I opened my eyes while yawning, the first thing I saw was my wife’s bulging belly.
As the time to give birth approached, Naeun’s belly was really swollen.
Thinking that it’s really soon, I realized that time really flew by from the morning.
“Look at this. Mr. Naeun.”
When I gently shook her shoulders to wake her up, Naeun looked at me with her half-closed eyes.
“…Woke up?”
“Yes. The professor said let’s go to our house site together today. Do you remember?”
The second piece of proof that time is moving at breakneck speed.
The fact that the house we commissioned has already reached the end of construction.
If I hadn’t written a novel, I wanted to come to this site as the youngest member of the office and learn various things.
“I’m still sleepy…”
It was Naeun who had been sleeping a lot.
Could it be that the two babies are sucking Naeun’s energy?
If before, sleeping for 8 hours was no problem, now she was sleeping for more than 11 hours every day.
“Then shall I go alone?”
“That’s okay too.”
“How can I do it?”
As she reached out and tousled Naeun’s bangs, Naeun threw her arms into the air.
“Wake me up.”
“Let’s do as you command.”
Definitely a different weight than a few months ago.
It was proof that the children were growing up quickly.
“But what has changed since the last time I went?”
“The bathroom was finished and some appliances were added to the kitchen.”
“Oh. That should go.”
The last time we visited, it was already over, but we got ready to go out when the professor told us to come and see for ourselves and tell us if there’s anything you don’t like about the construction.
“Dress warmly. Shall I get you a scarf?”
After summer passed, autumn passed, and before I knew it, winter, the same season as my pen name, returned.
“Um… Take out the beige one.”
“Isn’t red better?”
“Brother. Have you grown up? Are you giving me clothes and instructions now?”
“Still, haven’t I improved a lot?”
She was me who listened to Naeun’s coordination philosophy every time she went shopping.
In fact, she wasn’t very interested in it, but there was a saying that she would recite Poongwol in the third year of Seodang.
Now I had some basic understanding of color and combination.
“But I don’t think red is the color I’m going to wear today.”
Wearing a black coat and wide-legged white pants, Naeun showed off her beauty that doesn’t go anywhere even though she was a pregnant woman.
Rather, I feel like I want to be able to have this kind of visual even if my stomach is out?
“Okay. What about the hat?”
“I’ll use the hat my brother gave me.”
After handing the beige shawl and navy blue beanie to Naeun-yi, Naeun-yi turned her body around in front of the mirror to check her outfit.
“Isn’t there something strange?”
“No. It’s our house, but it’s a construction site. What are you so fancy about?”
I took out a brushed man-to-man from her wardrobe and put on her jeans and said something to her because I was embarrassed.
“No way. But the professor is coming too.”
“You’re going to be evaluated again like a beggar at school anyway.”
When I go back to school, I’m going to go to class with my eyes wide open again while dragging slippers in my sweatpants.
“Brother. Do you remember the construction workers calling me that lady?”
“Yes. Mrs.”
First of all, since we are the owners of the building, of course, the titles we call ourselves are boss and wife.
The people who worked on it called us comfortably without any sense of difference, but in fact, neither I nor Naeun could adapt at all.
It’s not that common to hear your wife at the age of 25.
“I’ll start the car. Come out.”
“Yes.”
After purchasing the vehicle, I had been sucking my fingers and waiting for several months, but I enrolled in a driving school and received training diligently.
I bought it with a lot of money, but I studied it hard because I wanted to scrape it off and use it, but sure enough.
I already had a history of scratching it while parking alone twice.
Of course, it wasn’t that I had scratched other vehicles or damaged property, but it was true that I shed bloody tears.
Residential road width in Korea.
I thought there was a problem. No, I thought the problem was serious.
Beep
I got into the car and turned the ignition on and turned the heater up to maximum.
Since we couldn’t attend her master’s wife because it was cold, I prepared her sheets and prepared to greet her.
When Naeun came out of the entrance of her villa, I moved her car right in front of her.
Widely
“I’m going to buy some bread for the workers on the way.”
“Is the bakery… Has a place to park?”
“It’s only blinking for a second at that intersection.”
Write it down… It’s okay, but I noticed it, but I nodded my head saying I knew it for now.
“You have to go quickly.”
When she secretly expressed that I was nervous, Naeun smiled.
“Shall I run?”
“No no. You can’t run and fall, so don’t run.”
“Then how fast do you go?”
“…Serve the bread quickly. Damn! I’ll pick up two more this time. Go quickly!”
Naeun, who had been giggling, quickly opened the door to her gun gun bakery and entered. I sighed deeply and turned up the volume on the radio.
* * *
“Ruler. This is where the furniture comes in now.”
Building my own house, rather than moving into an already created space, has a lot of corners that require a lot of work.
Especially in the case of a kitchen, we can make a sheet according to the standard we want, but at this time, we had to pay attention to each and every information about what size refrigerator we want.
As the professor guided us as if to see, we exclaimed exclamations.
“Oh… This is…”
“Hey. But really, this is the same as the one we rendered.”
It was an indescribable thrill to see the virtual image we created with our computer almost match the finished look.
“Of course, I put a lot of effort into implementing it as much as possible from the sources you gave me, so that’s why.”
The professor stroked his beard as if he was happy, as if he was satisfied with our reaction.
“Why don’t you go to the bathroom and take a look?”
The last time I came, only pieces of tiles were scattered here and there.
Squeak
After opening the bathroom door and turning on the light, Naeun and I laughed out loud as soon as we saw it.
“I guess the bathtub is a bit big, too.”
“I told you before. Heh heh heh.”
A slightly oversized bathtub compared to the size of the bathroom was requested by Naeun.
There was a point that she wanted to go in and wash with me, but it was because she wanted to see her children playing in the water in a wide area.
“I want you to learn that this is what happens when you put furniture out of scale.”
“No way. Anyway, that’s what we asked for. And it seems that the construction actually went well.”
“Why don’t you turn the water on too?”
When you turn the lever, a cool stream of water gushes out.
“It’s good. Also. The professor must have inspected it, but I believed it.”
“Still, you have to carefully check each one so that you don’t lose money later.”
The professor, who showed the newly completed parts of the construction, clapped his hands.
“Oh right. I brought you a present for you.”
“Yes? A gift?”
“Uh. I brought it to the basement, so go check it out. I’ll make a call for a while.”
“Yes yes.”
Gift…? I think we should rather give you a gift.
I went down the stairs and opened the basement door, thinking that I should discuss it with Eun-yi when it was really completed.
As expected, a space where even a handful of light does not enter.
And in the middle of it…
“Puhhhhh.”
Naeun burst into laughter as soon as she saw the professor’s gift.
“Ah. Really…”
What was placed in front of us was a brand new ping-pong table without a speck of dust.
Apparently, the professor seemed to know that our hobby is table tennis, and prepared it for us.
“Hey. Naeun. Shouldn’t we quit our table tennis academy? At this point.”
As I laughed as if I had collapsed, Naeun crossed her arms around me.
“Well… That’s nice too…”
The corners of her eyes drew a semicircle.
“Let’s try it up there. What.”
Naeun immediately continued the second verse when I made a confused expression.
“Ah~ Oppa, if you do it any more, the net… The net will be messed up…!”
I wish my daughter wasn’t like that.
