Chapter 229 – The Twins Make Love.
“Mom!”
Seho returns home after afternoon class at Eoyoung and Booyoung.
Seho looked at Naeun with a slightly angry face.
“Why. It’s Seho.”
She welcomed her son back from school as usual, but he seemed upset about something.
“Why didn’t you keep the secret?”
“What secret?”
“…A turtle.”
“Turtle?”
“Mom told Aunt Sujin about the turtle!”
I wondered what this was all about, but Naeun tried to calm her son down by sitting her on the sofa.
“It’s Seho. Are you talking about the egg-laying numbers you told me yesterday about the turtle?”
“Huh.”
“But mom says Sujin has never met her aunt and she doesn’t even know her phone number?”
When his prediction went wrong, Seho looked at Naeun with a face that said it couldn’t be.
“Then there’s no way Sujin would do that to me…!”
“It’s Seho. Can you tell your mother what’s going on?”
When Na Na-eun, who had an uneasy feeling, asked her son, Se-ho shook her head.
Su-jin suddenly becomes strangely cold to herself.
But no matter how much he thought about it, he was Seho who couldn’t understand why he was mad at him.
“Mom. You know… I used to be really close with Sujin…”
An adult seen through the eyes of a child is a great being.
In the end, Seho, who could not guess the answer himself, asked his mother for an SOS.
“Today at school, Sujin didn’t even accept my greetings and didn’t wear her clothes as I told her to.”
It was a really strange sentence.
I thought the pouty girl could ignore her greetings, but she wouldn’t dress the way she wanted.
What the hell is this story about?
“Could you elaborate a bit more? Our seho? You don’t wear the clothes you want?”
Naeun diagnosed that in order to hear more honest stories, it is important to appease the child rather than push him.
Naeun induced Seho to speak in the softest voice possible.
“Because I told Sujin what kind of clothes look good on her?”
“Huh.”
“And what hairstyles look good on you?”
“Huh.”
Up to this point, she thought that there would be no problem with Sujin if she had been wearing it after referring to Seho’s words.
But the important thing is the next sentence.
“So whenever you listened to me, I gave you a sticker.”
“…Sticker?”
“You know that number you gave to your mother.”
“Wasn’t that just a one-time gift?”
A drop of cold sweat ran down Naeun’s forehead, who thought she was just giving a present to the girl she liked.
“No? She only gives gifts when she does something well.”
“Then did Sujin give you one every time Seho listened to you?”
“Yes! Sujin also likes it whenever she receives it.”
After giving a rough estimate, Naeun slapped her forehead.
“Then, to wrap things up, you gave Sujin a sticker every time Seho listened to what you wanted, right?”
“Yes! But now I only have 3 left.”
“3?”
“Ah. Every time I did well, I raised the number one by one.”
The more she talked to Seho, the more Naeun felt dizzy.
What, where and how should I do this?
I knew that it was a desperate moment for discipline, but it seemed very difficult to correct the behavior in a way that the child could easily understand.
The problem became even more complicated if the child named Sujin voluntarily followed Seho’s will, not Seho’s coercion.
So, I have to tell you that it’s not…
“Ha… No. Wait for a sec.”
Even so, I was about to say that I shouldn’t act like that.
A question passed through Naeun’s mind.
If Seho heard that he was trying to teach a girl his age through the medium of stickers, why did Sujin ignore Seho at school today?
It was already decided that it was an embarrassing situation, but it was clear that her son had an accident beyond that.
“It’s Seho. Did Sujin ignore you from today?”
“Yes. It was fine until yesterday…”
Show the dog, and eat tteokbokki together.
Even Su-jin’s auntie said that she was welcome to visit again next time.
“It’s Seho. Her mother will help her reconcile with Sujin. Can you tell me in detail what happened yesterday?”
“But that’s almost everything you said yesterday?”
I should have watched the dog, looked at the house, ate tteokbokki, and then watched the cartoon, but I couldn’t do that.
“No no. She thinks the conversation she had with Sujin is important.”
Na-eun, who inferred that there was probably a conflict in the conversation with a high probability, was able to get a hint from her son’s words.
“Um… The story I didn’t tell my mom… What could be… Um…”
After pondering for a while, Seho looked at her mother with a slightly uneasy look.
“This isn’t really a big deal, though.”
“Huh.”
“Before Sujin revealed the tortoise’s secret, she told me it was a secret as a joke.”
“What?”
“Soojin likes me.”
“Oh my god…”
Honey.
It seems like the real fuckin’ ignorant thing resembles you.
Because it was in front of her young son, she couldn’t spit out slang, but Na-eun screamed inwardly.
“That… So. What did you answer It’s Seho.”
“Um… Other than that, do you want me to tell you a really big secret?”
Na-eun began to seriously consider what to give Su-jin’s mother as a gift of apology.
* * *
For the first time in her life, Su-jin was feeling contradictory emotions.
I like Seho, but she hates him.
How can she say that she is like Pori in her own confession.
To him, Pori could have been a family member, but to Seho, Pori was just a puppy he had never seen before.
It was nothing more and nothing less.
I was so upset that I went to school without wearing any of the clothes Seho recommended.
He even broke his promise to Seho and didn’t even accept his greeting.
However, it was also true that his heart was choking because he really thought of becoming Nam with Se-ho.
Su-jin thought that she was strange when she thought this way.
I felt like I had to choose one of the two, but I couldn’t let go of either.
Seho’s face came to mind.
As he passed by, ignoring his greeting, he looked at himself with a slightly hurt look.
He thought it was embarrassing, but when he remembered his face, he wondered if it was too much.
When Soo-jin, who had been sitting absent-mindedly, opened the pencil case, the stickers she had collected so far were stuck on the inside of the lid like plaques.
Numbers arranged in a row from 10 to 4.
It was something that I worked hard to collect.
If you hate Seho, then of course you have to take this off too…
“Soojin. Let’s go eat.”
When Mi-yeon, her partner, called her Su-jin, Su-jin answered with a bright smile.
“Okay!”
It seemed like I could forget Seho if I had a delicious lunch while talking with my friends.
“So it is. My dad~”
Inside the cafeteria where the sound of laughter can be heard.
The children were talking about what was so interesting while eating their rice.
“Ah. It’s so funny.”
“Yes? Did my sister really like it too?”
When she couldn’t think of Seho for a moment, Sujin felt better and went up to the classroom with the children.
It was the moment when I was about to pass the 3rd class where Seho was and enter the 4th class.
“…Soojin!”
I stop at the familiar voice.
I didn’t want to see his face, so I didn’t turn his head, but as I stood tall, my friends next to me called for Sujin.
“Soojin. Is he calling you?”
“What. Is that Seho Lee? Sujin, are you close with Lee Seho?”
Sujin bit her lip without saying anything.
“But why don’t you answer me?”
“Baek Soo-jin!”
Seho ran towards Sujin, who had stopped.
“…Why.”
In the end, Sujin faced Seho head-on, who had come right in front of her.
Seho glanced around her once and whispered to her in her low voice.
“Can I talk to you for a second?”
“Sun.”
I had no intention of talking for so long.
The wound in Sujin’s heart was deep, and her affection was still flowing from her unhealed wound.
“Is it okay if we do it somewhere other than here?”
Sujin confirmed that her own friends were staring blankly at her and nodded her head.
The place where the boy and girl arrived was always the place where they had their tryst.
It was the stairs under the roof.
“Soojin.”
“Huh.”
“I’m sorry.”
“What are you sorry about?”
Just wanting to get out of the situation, Sujin, who wanted to look at it like that, asked Seho.
He honestly should have apologized right on the spot if he had known that was mean.
“You told me you liked me, but I must have passed you by too quickly.”
I know.
But just knowing about it couldn’t melt Sujin’s heart.
“So?”
Sujin crossed her arms and asked Seho.
“I’ll try to answer properly this time.”
Seho took one more step towards Sujin.
“I like you the most. Sujin.”
Her heart, which had been frozen in her heart, flowed so easily.
