Chapter 106 – 106. House View
She was late, so she ate lunch close to dinner and waited for her mother to come back.
She pretends to be a normal brother and sister again, lying on the couch and watching TV.
“Brother, the sofa is narrow, so go down.”
“It’s okay if you don’t lie down and sit down.”
“What are you talking about while lying down?”
“If you sit down, I will sit too.”
“No. Go down.”
Her sister has kicked me out by beating me with her legs, so she has no choice but to get down from the top and sit with her back against the bottom edge of the sofa.
She’ll tickle and tease her ears as usual, she thought naively.
“⋯What are you doing?”
“Did my brother sit down?”
Winter pretended to sit on the couch and strangled me with her thighs as if riding her wooden horse.
⋯ The power is useless.
Did you exercise for nothing?
“I’m out of breath. Release it.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Do you hate being choked?”
I looked up at her and saw Gye-gyeol pulling a curtain with her hair and looking down at me.
… That expression again.
The face you make when you tease me every day.
I want to scold you a lot, but it’s not long before mom comes.
Relax your thighs with a simple bird kiss,
For a moment, I gently tickled the soles of the inattentive winter with my hand.
“Oh, it tickles! Don’t do it!”
Tickled, Winter threw her body back and struggled, but her legs didn’t relax at all, and she tightened my neck even more.
…If I leave this alone, it will really suffocate?
Desperate to stop tickling him, I grabbed his knees and forced them apart to escape from Winter.
Actually, I was thinking of just getting on and tickling it…
As soon as I climbed onto the sofa, the bell rang.
“… Are you mom?”
“Ah… , The time is like that.”
In an instant, there was a truce, and I grabbed my phone that was crying loudly.
Mom… , Is not the phone number of my eldest aunt.
What?
… No way?
Let’s accept the receiver with awkward doubts,
“Son! How are you?”
My mother’s voice came out as if it were natural.
“Mom? Why is my aunt on the phone…”
“Mom, my phone was broken when I got off the plane, so I called my aunt!”
“No, what are you doing?”
… I hope you don’t surprise people.
Even if it was a bad thing, you knew it was me and you were cold.
“Not even mom knows! Suddenly no phone or data. Wi-Fi works.”
“What, isn’t your mind broken?”
“Mom doesn’t even know. It happened all of a sudden.”
“⋯Yes. Where are you now?”
“Your cousin is riding in the car with your eldest aunt.”
“Yes.”
“Did you both eat lunch? Where did Winter go?”
“Yes.”
“Try to change it.”
Winter, who was eavesdropping next to me, took my cell phone and sat down on my lap to answer the phone instead.
⋯ Ha.
If it wasn’t for my mother’s phone call, I would have really tickled her.
“Oh, Mom. I am with you.”
“Yes, my daughter. Did you eat well?”
“Huh. Yesterday I cooked soft tofu stew, and today I ordered it.”
“Okay. What did you do yesterday?”
“⋯I was at home. With my brother Both of them just… Studied and then took a break.”
“Okay. Do you have any appointments today?”
“Yes.”
“Why don’t you wait for dinner with your older brother? Mom will buy some meat for you.”
“Huh.”
“Yes, yes. Change your brother back.”
Winter reached out her hand and handed the phone back to me.
As soon as she accepted it, she turned and looked at me,
He started stroking my hair roughly.
⋯Am I a dog?
“Oh, Mom.”
“Yes, son. Stop eating dinner and wait!”
“What, how delicious are you going to buy me?”
“Seeing you have a son later.”
“⋯Yes.”
“I’ll call you when I arrive, come out when I call. I have to go upstairs with my mother’s luggage, and I have to go shopping.”
“Jang?”
“Then take your mom’s suitcase and go grocery shopping? I have to leave my luggage I need to buy something to eat, so could your son act as a porter?”
“Hey, don’t do it.”
“⋯Son?”
It didn’t stop at stroking the head, but now it started poking at the side, and honestly, it was hard to bear anymore.
She picked up her brother and threw her on the couch, barely continuing the call.
⋯ Let’s see when it’s over.
“Ah, Winter keeps bothering me.”
“What did you do to bother me?”
“It’s just… If you’re bored, you tickle me all the time. ⋯Hair because of me⋯, because there is such a thing.”
“⋯Please accept it for the time being. It will be difficult for him too.”
“⋯Yes.”
There was a degree of indulgence for the younger brother who pretended to be neutralizing the pain of a broken heart by tormenting me.
⋯It’s because it’s a problem that I’ve never lost heart.
“Anyway, can I call you later? I’m waiting for you?”
“Yes.”
“Yeah, I’ll stop~”
The phone is disconnected.
Winter opens his eyes and looks at me.
An hour and a half.
An hour even if you think it’s safe.
… Oh, actually, it shouldn’t be like this.
How long is the exam?
“Don’t tickle me while I’m on the phone.”
“⋯Why?”
“Why not?”
“It’s okay because mom doesn’t say anything anyway, right? ⋯ I’m poor Ann who broke up with her boyfriend because of her brother, can’t you bother me that much?”
It’s not wrong.
I also broke up with her girlfriend because of you?
⋯Of course, that girlfriend is you.
Well ⋯, her sister or girlfriend or whatever.
I’m doing everything
“… You can’t be naughty, brother.”
“What are you talking about. I don’t think so.”
Of course, right or wrong,
There was not enough time to retaliate, so there was plenty left.
I just can’t get over it.
“Do not lie to me. Oppa is making a very sinister expression right now.”
“That’s what…”
I push the wintery sitting on the sofa and lay it down.
And touch her breasts…
“Kyaaak, brother! Tickle… Oh!”
While pretending to be a baby, he tickles his armpit in an instant.
It’s the fault of Gye-gyeol who squeals like this every time he’s tickled.
How can you not bother me when you respond so well?
“You didn’t do anything naughty.”
“Tickle… ! At least…!”
Now he crossed his arms and tried to block my fingers, but he couldn’t help it.
To be honest, it tickles me everywhere other than the armpit.
It makes no difference whether he pokes her side or ribs.
“Surrender?”
“Ha… Ah… Ha… Stop…”
“Shall I continue to tickle you?”
“Surrender⋯. Because I will surrender…”
“Is it surrender?”
“Yes.”
I pick up the exhausted winter in that moment and head to my room.
I won’t do anything dirty
I’m just thinking of cuddling and touching here and there and closing my eyes.
⋯Really,
If the two of us live together like this, I think we will be happier than ever.
I don’t want to think about ethics or morality anymore.
What do you know, something like that.
Fuck.
***
After laying side by side on the bed and squatting on her chest for an hour, the phone rang again.
This time with my mother’s number.
“Are you Mom?”
“Uh.”
“⋯Why aren’t you moving, oppa?”
“⋯Let’s just stay like this while answering the phone.”
Not wanting to let go of the fat mass in her hand, she took her phone with one hand, switched it to her speakerphone, put it at her bedside, and then tucked her hand under her t-shirt.
⋯I know it’s crazy,
In fact, it is true that we are crazy.
“Oh, Mom. Did you fix your phone?”
“Uh. Fixed it As her son said, it worked because she changed her mind.”
“I see. Where are you?”
“In front of the house.”
“Are you going down now?”
“Yeah, come down alone.”
“What about winter?”
“Winter… Let it rest. For a while.”
“⋯Yes. I’ll go down.”
As soon as her phone hung up, she removed her hand from her T-shirt with regret, opened her closet, and began putting on her outerwear.
⋯ Ha.
When will you have time like this again?
Her summer seems so far away.
“⋯Brother.”
“Uh.”
“I want to go down too.”
“Your mom wants you to rest?”
“⋯ Still.”
“⋯ Then put on her coat.”
Is it because you don’t want to be away from me even for a moment?
I don’t know if it’s because I’m uncomfortable being cared for by my mother.
Winter also got out of bed and started stealing my coat.
⋯It’s not the right size.
Wear your clothes when you go out.
“Why are you feeling down all of a sudden?”
“⋯Actually, it’s not difficult, and I’m very happy⋯. I feel very strange because my mother takes care of me.”
“I see.”
“It’s because my brother just… Set a strange setting. It’s my brother’s fault ⋯Is it your brother’s job to turn your little sister into a person who has just been tricked by a strange man?”
“It wouldn’t have happened if you weren’t wearing weird clothes.”
Both put on clothes close to matting, and left the house and walked down the stairs.
⋯ Ha, that’s strange.
I was doing such a suspicious thing until just now, but when I look at it like this, anyone can see that it’s brother and sister.
They look the same, and the atmosphere is the same.
“⋯I bought it because of you, so it’s your brother’s fault.”
“Okay, ⋯don’t throw it away and show me later.”
“Yes.”
It’s not at all just looking at what you say.
When we stop talking and go down to the first floor, her mother is waiting for her holding the handle of her suitcase in front of the common entrance.
“Oh, Mom. What about your brother?”
“Brother?”
“Didn’t Yohan come in his brother’s car?”
“That, of course, only drove my aunt. Mom came by train.”
While having a silly conversation with my mother, I notice Winter following me behind me.
⋯ He was startled for a moment.
“Is my daughter here too? She should have been taking care of her brother and resting.”
“⋯I came because I wanted to see my mother quickly.”
“⋯Really?”
Winter trudged and walked to her mother and hugged her.
Really good-looking mother and daughter.
⋯ Oh, really.
My heart is complicated
Up until now, I was just happy.
“⋯I’ll pick up my suitcase and put it at home.”
“Son.”
“Yes?”
“My son also comes to work. ⋯ Let’s hug.”
“⋯Suddenly?”
“Come to work. ⋯You should give your son a hug.”
I couldn’t understand her mother’s sudden emotional change,
She couldn’t refuse, so she obediently followed and fell into her mother’s arms.
Ha⋯.
The guilt that I thought I was dead wriggles in my heart.
⋯It’s not easy.
“⋯Son.”
And even in a whisper,
“Winter is sending it up. I have something to talk about with my son. ⋯Let’s talk winter.”
She realized that there was something important going on.
Something I shouldn’t have told Winter.
