Chapter 374 – 42. Undetected (2)
42. Undetected (2)
Her doubts about whether the person I saw was Chae-kyung were cleared without the need to ask her directly. When she reached out to meet me at the front gate of the school, she found Chae-kyung waiting for me sitting in the back seat of her car. Chae-kyung greets me through the window and a man I’ve never seen before. The man, who was quite fat, spoke to me with a friendly smile.
“Are you a junior? Chaekyung is my uncle.”
“Oh, hello.”
“Okay. Chaekyung will be sleeping with you today. Her uncle will take you there.”
“Yes?”
Unexpectedly, Chaekyung is surprised as if he is hearing it for the first time in the back seat of her.
“Did you talk earlier? You didn’t hear me right.”
“Ah… That, was it?”
The uncle said to me again with a smile.
“Get on quickly. My uncle is hungry, so I’m thinking of going out for dinner. Do you want to go with me?”
“Is that okay?”
“Then. Buying food for my nieces and nephews isn’t difficult.”
“Thank you.”
When I get into her car and see Chae-gyeong, she smiles awkwardly, as if embarrassed. Well… To be honest, after Chae-kyung, whom she had known for so long, started dating her parents as well, she felt awkward. Should I say I’m ashamed? Perhaps it was the same with Chae-kyung, but she couldn’t properly look at me or anywhere else, and only her face was blushing.
Chae-Kyung said that her uncle likes meat, so we came to a shabu-shabu house with a tatami room structure. Chae-gyeong and I sat side by side, and her uncle, who comfortably occupied the two seats across from us, always smiled and enjoyed embarrassing us. However, it was not an unpleasant bullying, but the atmosphere was like an adult teasing children, so even though I was embarrassed, I didn’t hate it.
“It was just a newborn baby I saw at the hospital, but she’s already dating her boyfriend… I heard they’ve been together for such a long time?”
“We’ve been dating for a little over half a year now. It’s been a really long time since I’ve known Chaekyung.”
“Yes, yes. Since we usually only meet on holidays, it seems like we are growing up quickly. Now that you’ve seen them dating again, do you think we’ll see them getting married sooner or later?”
I didn’t know what to say, so I just laughed awkwardly. Next to her, Chae-kyung doesn’t even raise her head. Her face is hard to see, but her red-stained ears tell her that she too is to die of shame.
“Excuse me.”
A store clerk comes in with a variety of vegetables and meat. Put them well in a boiling pot, and while waiting for them to cook, pick up the side dishes and eat them. Before she knew it, her uncle had emptied an entire bowl of rice with just the side dishes, so he added new rice as well.
It’s not the first time I’ve met an adult who’s close if close and distant if far. Representatively, my uncle, the adult himself who comes out of the real media. Unlike my uncle, who was well-informed, stern, and armed with preaching, Chae-gyeong’s uncle was a more upbeat and funny person.
Unlike her aunt who always tries to teach them something even when they talk about the same life, Chae-gyeong’s uncle mainly talked about what she goes through while working in society, focusing on funny anecdotes she experienced. Listening to sometimes surprising and sometimes funny stories feels like watching a sitcom or omnibus drama. Meanwhile, her vegetables and meat ran out, and porridge was added at her uncle’s order.
“Just make sure it doesn’t stick to the floor too much. Then enjoy your meal.”
The clerk bows and leaves the room. Said Chae-gyeong, her uncle, holding a ladle in her hand and stirring her pot around to keep the porridge from burning.
“I need to go to the bathroom, where is it?”
“They said to go out and go down the hallway on the right?”
When she entered the store earlier, she had heard the conversation between the customer and the boss. But I don’t remember exactly because I didn’t pay much attention to it.
“I’ll go out and ask. Chaekyung, do you want to go to the bathroom too?”
“Yes? Me?”
“Uh. Shouldn’t you be fixing what you put on her mouth? I had dinner with her boyfriend.”
“Ah…”
As I tried to check her lips at her uncle’s words, Chae-gyeong held up her wet towel and covered her lower body.
“Why cover?”
“Why do you want to see it?”
Sparks fly from the eyes they meet. Actually, it wasn’t that much, but Chae-kyung looked at me and rolled her eyes. But today she came with Chae-kyung putting on lipstick. She’s not usually the type to smear something on her lips. I don’t know if it’s a simple tint type.
“Will Junhyung stir the porridge? Let’s go to the bathroom.”
“Ah yes. Bye.”
My uncle gets up and leaves the room with a body twice my size. Chaekyung also passed me and followed her uncle. The number of people in the room has only changed from three to one, but her uncle was physically and mentally a very strong person, so the space seemed to run out quickly. I just thoughtlessly stirred and waited for her uncle and nephew to return.
5 minutes? 10 minutes? Anyway, after a few minutes, Chae-gyeong’s uncle returned first. It must have been a big deal for a man to take this long. It wasn’t a very good idea to think about that while eating, but these uncles stop eating, work, and come back to eat again…
“Ugh~ It was cheap.”
Ah. Besides, to express it in words. What are you really doing besides eating? There are often people like this. People who don’t keep the line between fun and frivolity. Chae-gyeong’s uncle, who had only seemed like a good person until now, seems like a person who is not very good.
“Seeing that Chae-kyung is late, she must be full.”
“I guess so.”
What does being full have to do with being late from the bathroom? Is it an indication that Chae-kyung also sees her big business? No, no matter how much he is an uncle, it is worthwhile to tell her nephew’s boyfriend that her nephew is looking for work. The evaluation of my uncle is gradually diminishing within me.
“Once the woman has finished her meal, she has a lot to do. If your belly is full, your outline will show through, so you have to organize your clothes and fix your makeup to hide it, and anyway, you don’t want to look ugly in front of your boyfriend.”
Her uncle explained carefully. Did that mean
“Depending on what you ate, you may have something in your mouth, but if your boyfriend sees that, he won’t be very happy.”
“I guess so.”
I held out Chae-kyung, passed her ladle into her uncle’s hand, and replied with a nod of her head. She’s a bit too informal, but I don’t feel bad about it.
[Dripping]
“I’m here?”
“Huh.”
The hanok-style sliding door opens and Chae-kyung enters. Just as she was done with the porridge, her uncle turned off the induction stove and served her porridge on their plates.
“I ate a lot of porridge in the past, but I don’t know why it’s so expensive these days because I’m trying to buy porridge somewhere.”
“Isn’t it because it’s difficult to make?”
“Do you want to? But the store specializes in that, so wouldn’t it be easy to make it well?”
Again, we went to the end of the meal, having a small but interesting conversation.
In the middle of the night, someone appears in the living room of the house where everyone is asleep. He held out his fingers toward the rooms for a moment as if he was figuring out the structure of the house, and muttered, and then moved on as if he had decided on something. I carefully open the doorknob of the closed door so as not to make a sound, push the heavy body through the crack in the door and disappear into the room. After a while, a startled voice close to a scream leaked out from inside the room for a moment, then stopped.
The sound of whispering conversations between men and women. The sound the futon makes as it moves due to other physical factors. When I walk barefoot on the tidal flat, I hear the sound of something moist sticking to it and a small moan. Soon it gave way to the creak of bed springs and warm sighs.
Deepening the night, the repeated sound stops at some point. I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the temperature inside the room seems to be a bit higher than the temperature outside. As if someone was moving, I heard the blanket tossing again, and the sound of shaking the bed leaked out again. This time, the faint sound of a woman’s pain can be heard in the middle of the room, suggesting who the owner of the room was.
The night continues with the sounds of two people who shouldn’t be making this together. When the sun rises, the woman may again make a sound similar to someone else’s. As if he knew that fact, the man who exerted his strength inside moved his fat body more vigorously.
“Oh, hello. My name is… Heejoo Kim. I have two kids in college… Today I came to have sex with my son’s wife, who is the same age as me.”
With a full-fledged camera in front of her eyes, Hee-ju suppresses her shyness and speaks. When she came to Lee Yul’s house today, she was sitting on the bed in her attire, and she glanced at Lee Yul, who was staring intently at her camera screen across from her.
“Hey~ Again. Can’t you see me?”
“I-I’m sorry…”
Her expression of apology still seems reluctant. Lee Yul let out a deep sigh, turned off her camera, and sat down next to her.
“Do not want to do it?”
“…”
Talk like soothing a child. In front of this man, who is the same age as her son, Hee-joo even lamented why she was always swayed like a child by her, but she did not have the slightest desire to reverse this power relationship.
“It’s just us, huh? I just want to keep it. I want to play it together later and have sex while watching it. I said I wanted to take a picture for a long time.”
Hee-joo is in trouble. She’s just shy about taking embarrassing pictures on her cell phone camera, but this time she brought several large cameras that could be used in a real studio and even used a tripod to set them up. One on each side of the bed, one in front, and another portable camera on top of the bed. Yi-yul said that she wanted to take a full-fledged form of pornography.
“If you don’t like it, don’t do it. Don’t do it, damn it.”
“No… It’s not like that…”
“I bought a drink from seniors I knew borrowing this, and I even paid for it. It’s a little embarrassing to say how much, so I won’t tell you, but damn it, okay. I will not.”
Lee Yul jumps up and goes to put away the camera in front of her. Feeling guilty that she hurt him, Hee-joo hurriedly chased after him and clung to her arm.
“I’ll do it again.”
“Upright?”
“Yes.”
Lee Yul’s eyes as she turned her head to look at her were asking if she was serious. It wasn’t until he realized that Hee-joo’s determined expression wasn’t lying that he smiled softly and stroked her cheek.
“Then do this, this time.”
At the same time, the words whispered in her ear were more bold than before, but Hee-ju could do nothing but nod her head.
