Chapter 179 – 179. Even if You Get Caught
Time doesn’t stop, it just flows.
In honor of my mother’s birthday, I hold a party at my hometown,
She held hands just once before the vacation was over and went to the water park to play.
Wearing a mask and walking around wasn’t one or two uncomfortable things, but it was quite a satisfying game to wear a thin coat in the bathing suit that I used to wear in the bathroom and on the bed and drag Winter, who was clinging to me.
It’s not that I don’t want to be famous, it’s not that I don’t want to enjoy people’s eyes, so the fun of going into the water and gently touching, hugging, and kissing was also very good.
Even if it’s salting, what are you going to do?
Is there any other reason to come here wearing a mask?
Her brother, Gaul Kim, who was kind enough to take her sister to the water park out of pure kindness as before, is dead.
Now, only Kim Ga-eul, the owner and butler of Kim Winter, remains.
After making fun of Winter, I could understand why he had a crush on me here in the past.
Of course, I gained more muscle now, but even then, I had a body worth showing off.
To borrow an expression from Winter, would you say, ‘My brother, who used to study in the corner of the room all of a sudden, suddenly put on a swimsuit and… Do you know how I felt?’.
If I hadn’t developed that kind of relationship with my younger sister, and had been a normal brother and sister like before, I think I would have reacted similarly to the current winter.
‘Uh, um… Winter Do you exercise?’
‘Often. Her mom told her to take care of her body.’
‘Is that so?’
‘Oh that. Brother. ⋯Can you put some sunscreen on your back?’
‘Uh? Uh uh wait.’
Uncharacteristically for an older brother, he must have memorized Buddhist scriptures or the Bible while applying sunscreen to his soft skin.
When I managed to shake off the intoxication and play in the water, it is clear that I couldn’t take my eyes off the chest bone beyond that white cloth that became translucent from wetness.
If I follow you behind your back, wanting to catch your eye, you will think I’m crazy as I stare at the flesh under your hips.
Then, when they went to ride the water slide together and lay down hugging each other on the tube, she must have had to admit that she had fallen for her sister.
If you think about it like that, even if love started from today, wouldn’t it have ended up like this?
Maybe it was determined at the genetic level.
It’s like the curse of falling in love the moment you see each other’s masculinity and femininity.
Although it was rather a blessing that her mother lifted her curse with her saintly touch.
If there are such happy days, there will be days when you are solemn in return.
Her grandmother’s death day approached, and all her aunts gathered to see her grandmother instead of her ancestral rite.
Until she stood in front of a tomb in the arboretum, she drank coffee, laughed and chatted, and looked happy, but when she stood in front of her grandmother, everyone fell silent and shed tears drop by drop.
I also wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, and after regulating her breathing, I talked to her mother and went back to her big brother recruitment and got a beer for the first time in a long time.
I don’t think it’s been that long since I drank it, but it felt very strong, so I drank just one drink and sneaked out.
After going outside to get some fresh air, she met her cousin, who was also secretly away, and got a can of coffee to drink.
She had heard a lot about the fight with her aunt the other day, so she wondered if she should ask something, but she decided to stop.
Even if it’s a relative, it’s someone else’s family business.
If hyung had picked up the story of winter from somewhere and asked me, I wouldn’t have thought of thanking him for caring about me.
Instead, they talked about meaningless things and just played the role of younger cousins for the first time in a while.
These days, I live alone with winter.
Even if the two of us shared, the housework was quite demanding.
I’m going to college, but it doesn’t seem like I’m going to school, so I’m going to die of tuition.
These days, grilling meat seems to be less expensive than buying vegetables.
I used to eat instant rice, but after buying a rice cooker and cooking it, the freshly cooked rice definitely tasted better.
Because I didn’t order delivery and cooked meals, my living expenses were subtly lower.
As we chatted about every little thing, the words flowed well, and the older brother, who had been silently listening, seemed to have loosened up and poured out complaints.
My girlfriend prepares breakfast for me these days.
When I was sick, I asked to buy porridge, so I bought kimchi octopus porridge. No consideration for patients
But it was surprisingly delicious, so I bought it again the next day.
Look at that, and act like you know everything about my taste. It makes me very angry.
If you know, I’ll prepare breakfast like that. It’s more shameful not to know.
When we started living together, I set the table on the table in time for when I returned home, but now, when I come back, I only start making stew.
I know that soybean paste stew is delicious, and I praised it, but isn’t it too much to just boil soybean paste stew all week?
When I asked to grill some meat, he said that it would be difficult to clean up the oil splatter, so he boiled it. This is an obvious declaration of war.
He listened to unknown stories whether it was gossiping or boasting about his gold, and continued chatting with those who lived with their loved ones but did not marry.
I was so excited that I was talking about it, so maybe my brother noticed it roughly.
I thought they would ask me why I was living without face-to-face contact during vacation, but my brother didn’t ask me a word about that.
It’s not that I’m not worried, but I have to repay my older brother for taking me to the taekwondo gym when I was young.
I tried my best to make my older brother laugh who seemed tired and exhausted.
He’s a person who can’t hold back his smile when he talks about his girlfriend.
What is that marriage? Why did I curse and fight with my parents?
Everyone has their own circumstances, but I hoped it would work out.
You and I live well in winter.
He’s a hyung who has continued a love that’s more noble and pure than ours, so he’ll be able to solve it somehow.
Everything will be fine.
Because it’s a warm world.
***
The vacation is over and the school year has started again.
Because it was still a school where I didn’t have to go, there were many times when I was more relaxed than during vacation.
Of course, since I was determined to live a busy life, there was no time to be bored as I exercised all day, cleaned my room and bathroom, and looked through books whenever I had free time.
Similarly, Miss Kim Gyeo-gyeol in our house has begun to show more intelligent faces these days.
I liked the look of Gye-ryeol’s face as he slightly furrowed his eyes and glared at the typeface, so I used it as my phone’s wallpaper, and I was beaten five or six times for telling me not to do it.
It could be like this, but I lived well without any major accidents.
Winter often went out to meet friends, and while I bought food for my friend who was on vacation, I also solved the military affairs for the first time in a long time.
How nice it would be if I could live like this forever.
Satisfied with a regular life in which pleasure and happiness are mixed and balanced, and preparing for the future day by day, Chuseok is quickly approaching.
In front of relatives gathered after a long time since Grandma’s death,
My brother tossed the glass in an empty place.
“⋯Let’s not look forward. Father.”
As soon as I heard the sound of glass breaking, my older brother let out a deep sigh and ran out of the house.
I thought countless times about fighting like that over that marriage.
When I felt this atmosphere myself, I realized that I had taken it too lightly.
It’s just that my mother was an angel.
No matter how wrong her children are, she understands,
To keep you from going down a worse path,
I could feel how precious the mother who trusted her to be happy was.
“Hey, you…”
The eldest uncle, unable to accept the reality with a bewildered face, as if he could not have imagined his son’s rebellion.
My eldest aunt stopped standing still.
A mother who closed her eyes and looked up at her ceiling.
My youngest aunt, looking around her head like a meerkat, sweeping up broken glass.
At that time, when she was dumbfounded and no one said anything,
“⋯Dad.”
“Uh, uh. Daughter.”
“What are you doing?”
“⋯What?”
“What are you doing on Chuseok? Dad.”
Her cousin sighed as she pressed her forehead with the palm of her hand and looked down at her floor with her frightened eyes.
A voice I had heard before.
Was it the day I was caught sleeping with Winter?
Never thought the opportunity to hear the voice of her angry cousin would come again.
“Her brother is not getting married. How many times have you told daddy that you’re not going to live with her sister?”
“No, Dad…”
“To the very end… Ha ha. It’s done, go down now. Dad.”
“Now John is…”
“Get down, fuck! Dad, are you really going to never see your oppa? Shall I go home too? Fuck my brother⋯, always to me! Do you know that he calls me every day saying he wants to die?”
It’s so fierce and aggressive, but it’s warmer than anyone else.
Anyone inside could quickly tell that she was saying this because she was worried about her older cousin.
My older sister clearly hated her older brother.
Is this what it means to be bound by blood?
Although the direction is different from ours, it might be more affectionate to have a brother and sister like this.
“Do you know that I can’t talk to my girlfriend because I’m afraid she’ll be anxious, and I cry all the time because I called my younger sister, whom I don’t get along with, to buy her a drink?”
“⋯.”
“If you don’t want to see your brother die, go down now. Go ahead and apologize. Break the ties Let my brother take care of himself. Uh? Will you come to your senses when a real person dies? Do you know that my brother went to a psychiatrist because of my father?”
“⋯.”
“⋯Mom also listen to oppa. Don’t just listen to your dad every day. Because I feel like I’m going to die of boredom.”
Overwhelmed by her sister’s outpouring of words, her eldest uncle stood there in a daze.
In terms of experience, after quite a long time, the three of them returned home together with stern faces.
Then, the four of us, including our aunt, apologized to the other relatives, saying that they were sorry.
I got into the back seat of my father’s car and whispered about what happened earlier with Winter.
What you said was very cool.
I want my brother to be happy too.
⋯Maybe that day, how would it have worked out even if my sister had completely caught us?
Such stories.
There are many people around us who care as much as they do for themselves.
Even if the day comes when my brother or sister notices our relationship someday later,
I was sure that he would understand us.
As you are sure,
Before long, my cousin brother and sister took us to a decent restaurant, saying that they would be celebrating my birthday, albeit belatedly.
This time, he didn’t give me a single word of advice about dating a girlfriend or dating a boyfriend.
We were able to part with a smile like last year,
I was able to smile and thank the world.
Even after graduating and immigrating,
I should visit Korea often.
You don’t have to eat rice.
I have to buy one too.
