Big Life
< 38 - True Story (5) >
38 - True Story (5)
“What are you talking about? ”
Myeong-seok put on his glasses and asked.
Eugene tapped his phone and looked at it with a crying face.
“It's because your father suddenly · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·. ”
“Give me your phone. Hello, Mother? ”
Myeong-seok, what do we do about this? My heart is pounding so much right now!
“Speak calmly. What do you mean, he's gone?”
- He's been in the library since lunch. I was so worried that I knocked a while ago that you didn't have any answers. So I went inside and I got one letter.
“Calm down, Mother. I'll go home first. ”
Eugene across the street was already getting ready to get up with his coat and bag. The two of them hurried out of the skyline with their backs to the entire meal that had never been touched.
* * *
“Myeong-seok!”
I ran like the wind and ran home to meet him with my mother's wet face.
Myeong-seok embraced her trembling like a thorn bush and calmed her back.
“It's okay, Mother. I'm sure it's nothing. Where is the letter? ”
“I left it in the library · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·. ”
Eugene went to the library and brought Tae-jin's letter.
Myeong-seok stood there and spread the folded letter in two. It was my father's handwriting that I could recognize in an instant. There were tearing traces all over the paper, no matter how hard you pressed it.
- To my son, Myeong-seok.
I didn't want to make my family nervous at this age. But there was no other way. I needed time to look at the traces of my life quietly by myself. I'll be back as soon as I can, so please understand this father and don't look for him.
“ · · · · · ·! ”
The letters in my hand trembled.
My son's guilt flowed out with a hot breath. His eyes were smeared like steam, so he took off his glasses.
“Myung Seok · · · · · · · ·! If your father's wrong, I'm... ”
“It's going to be okay, Mother! ”
My mother was surprised and kept her mouth shut.
For the first time, Myung Seok raised his voice in front of her, took out her phone and turned around.
Where the hell did he go?
I couldn't breathe because there was no place that came up.
* * *
“It's been a while, Lee Soo Hee. I'll forget all your faces. ”
“What a fuss. I haven't seen him in months. ”
“The bride and groom aren't going anywhere with that ice princess attitude. A few short months, then? Maybe I'll see you at the reunion once a year. ”
“I don't want to be picky or picky. Okay, I miss my beautiful Hyo-jin so much. It's been a long time. ”
“You sound soulless. You don't get me on the ground. ”
Hyojin turned his head with a pointed face.
However, when Su-hee grabbed her waist and tickled her, she couldn't wait for a few seconds and burst into laughter.
“Good restaurants are really nice these days. There's a playroom and a nursery. ”
“Yeah, I looked on the Internet for some silver, and there's a new place like this. It's good to bring the babies. ”
Su-hee and Hyo-jin sat down in a spacious Korean restaurant.
The two women quickly regained their college emotions and began chatting.
“You'd still look like a virgin if it wasn't for the silver. ”
Hyo-jin said, looking at the silver in Su-hee's arms.
“No, even with the silver. Are you the oldest sister who takes care of her youngest brother, not her mother? Or a babysitter?”
“Would you rather be my oldest sister than a babysitter? ”
“Look, I'm the only princess Soldier Lee Soo-hee knows. Give me the silver. Give me a hug.”
The silver I held with Hyojin smiled strangely.
Hyojin asked while rubbing his nose on the nose of a well-toned baby.
“When do you think of the second? ”
“We haven't talked in a while. ”
“Isn't the reconstruction rushing? ”
“No, I won't. ”
“Really?"
“Maybe if my first child was a son. She's been wanting her daughter that much since before she had her baby, and it was real. You don't want anything to do with your silver. ”
After eating a mouthful of breadcrumbs, Su-hee asked me a question this time.
“Any news on you and Jinjin? ”
“I want to think after I finish the project that Jinjin is working on now. You've been working so hard on your game lately? You're giving me a boost. ”
“You see, if Jinjin is willing to do it, right? ”
Il-soon Hyojin lets out a sigh as he sags his shoulders.
“But he's under a lot of stress at work. ”
“Why?”
“At night, I'm literally a beast. The strength of the attack will kill me by morning. But I have no choice but to accept it. Hey, don't smile. Jin-jin is surprisingly good at it? ”
“Hey, Hyo-jin. ”
Su-hee turned to the left and to the right, making a red face.
Luckily, no one seemed to have heard it, but the problem was that Hyojin's words were continuing.
“We're contraceptive rubbers, and I didn't think it would cost that much, dear. Why is it so expensive? Recently, Jinjin bought it in bulk on the internet, so it's a bit cheaper. ”
“Lady Cheon Hyo-jin. Will you please stop? ”
“That's right, and it turns out that being a couple might be too much for you without any plans. Sometimes they say it's best if you two don't get drunk. But if I get bored again, I can't refuse it! ”
Su Hee, who was less than that, covered Hyo-jin's mouth with a single rib.
When I looked around with my face as long as I could, the guests at the nearest table were holding back their laughter with evil. It was a comfort to Su-hee because they were all mothers.
“Please keep your voice down. ”
“Was my voice that loud? ”
“You can hear it in Busan. She got married and... ”
“You're even weirder when you don't change. ”
That's when the two women exchange pints.
“Hey, I'm sorry about the meal. ”
A couple of 20-something men and women approached with a straight face. Su Hee straightens her back and opens her mouth at them.
“I'm sorry, I think we were a little loud. ”
“Yes? No, it's not like that · · · · · · · ·. ”
Instead of the man who was speechless, the woman went out laughing.
“You must be Haejeon's wife, right? ”
“Oh, yeah. That's right."
“You're a baby, right? It's so beautiful. I'm a huge fan of your work. We got together because we met at the writer's signing. ”
“Oh, are you sure? If you tell my husband, he'll be happy to know he did something far more valuable than writing a novel. ”
Hyojin took my phone and took a picture. The two couples greeted with a happy face and turned away. Looking at their backs, Hyojin naturally opened his mouth to the story of reconstruction.
“I'm serious. It's work, but I wish the reconstruction were here. ”
“Yes, I do. ”
“Are you still so busy rebuilding? Are you living by yourself, writing all day and all night so you can't come out for a meal together? ”
Su-hee replied with a bitter smile.
It was true that reconstruction was busy.
It was just that she couldn't even sense what she was busy with.
‘Where else have they gone today?' ’
Recently, reconstruction has become more frequent outside.
When I went out in the morning, the placenta was only there until midnight. Even three days ago, I was screaming in the writer's office that I would write all night.
It was always Su Hee who thought about reconstruction first. I tried to understand my husband as he is.
However, I couldn't help but disappoint my husband, who was still newlyweds.
“What makes you think that? ”
“Huh? No, let's eat. Food is getting cold. ”
My phone rang as I was about to lift my chopsticks. As soon as I checked Eun-young's name on the crystal, Su-hee immediately received a call.
“Hello, Writer Jean. ”
- Hohoho, good morning to you, too. Not only that, office writers bought gifts from each other, but they had different opinions. Instead of sending it by courier, I just wanted to pick it up myself.
“You bought something else. Feel free to visit any time separately from gifts. I'll make you a nice dinner. Aren't all you writers great? ”
- Everybody's excited. Minho and the microscope have been smoking hot cakes all day. Yeon-woo doesn't even show up in her office for a lecture. Well, you know our youngest writer, right? He started dating the microscope and Bon. I can't work because I can't watch the two of you play.
Su-hee bursts into laughter.
It seemed to be drawn in front of the writer's office. It was a happy moment because very good people were staying around my husband.
Su-hee said as the laughter subsided.
“I should have followed you when I went to my husband's office yesterday. I wouldn't have spent the night with you, but I wish I'd brought you guys some late-night snacks. ”
Ma'am, what was that?
“Oh, Writer Jang, were you not in the office three days ago? I went to my husband's office and wrote all night. ”
I've been cooped up in my office for two weeks because of that new adult deadline. Three days preaching. Hah, you weren't here.
“ · · · · · ·? ”
Did you stop by during the day? I don't work 24 hours. I take naps straight.
Su-hee dropped her head and was surprised at herself.
Was she such a weak woman who only relied on her husband? I thought it was nothing, but my heart skipped a beat.
- Hello, ma'am? Ma'am?
I didn't have the strength to resist.
My husband was also a man who could lie. When I thought that, I was suddenly scared and tearful Su-hee.
* * *
[This time, celebrity Chabor, who was sentenced to death for threatening a so-called sponsor, was investigated for assault on a manager. It's only been two months since I got back to the adult Variety Show Fixed Panel on Mo Cable. The disappointing reactions of netizens in the news are:]
[It's shocking to hear later that director Woo Jae-hoon has been accused of fraud. Investors have invested about KRW 2 billion in Woo Jae-hoon's latest 'I want to die' production, and there is no compensation · · · · · · ·.]
Click.
Tae Jin turned off the radio and removed the earphones from his ears. I turned on the radio to get rid of the misconceptions, but it felt more complicated in my head.
‘I only have an hour left. ’
It was on a train to Pohang.
The old train jogs along the track, shaking its body in an uproar.
Taejin opened the stained curtain and looked outside. One by one, the raindrops were soaking the car window.
- Thought you'd come by once. I don't mean to upset you. I wish I could go there with you and eat watermelon in a haystack. She talked about you a lot.
What a friend in a hit-and-run accident said just before he died was circling Taejin's ear.
It is a journey to 'there’ which a friend said.
There was only one person who knew about 'there’ throughout the whole world. The path to finding the trail of a friend with tremendous courage was painful and lonely.
Taejin opens his bag and pulls out a bundle of sealed documents with a clip.
It was all crumpled up. Every time I get emotional, my hands get tired without me knowing it.
[Prefabricated Milky Way Retreat 8]
T's appreciation, "It was a blessing that I was able to participate in the process of assembling the dreams of five friends."
And G said, "Where does your sense of fulfillment come from? Deep friendship in my heart, my heart is pounding all morning long.
The 12th regression of his memory.
"If there's not even one hope at the end of solitude," he said, "I'll turn it around before you take off. ’
"Walk alone, walk not alone beside me," replied G. "You are like a shadow.
[Huge unfinished heights]
"I want to share in the darkness of your share."
G's answer, "Only to my eternal friend T."
Another crumpled piece of paper falls to the bottom of the bag.
I read it dozens and dozens of times, but there was no way to deduce this feeling of frenzy.
He couldn't have known that the ‘T’ in each piece was himself. A friend always first showed himself and asked for his opinion.
There was a very limited number of people who showed me the work. After being abandoned by the teacher, the target became even narrower. And finally, the only reader left turned his friend's work into his own.
‘You must blame me a lot. ’
There was no coming back from that.
Taejin closes his eyes and sighs. Pieces by piece, very long.
* * *
“No, you wouldn't be comfortable staying in an old inn like this. ”
“I'm not staying. Maybe. ”
Taejin glances at the old man's face, blurring his words.
Wrinkled skin didn't cover the memory. A long time ago, the face of a good lady was overlapping on top of the old woman.
“Why are you staring at me like that? ”
“No, it's just... ”
Taejin clears his throat and hangs up. I spent a long time here with a friend, but decided to bury him.
“I heard a friend left his luggage here. ”
“Hmmm? Leave your stuff? Which friend?”
“That's a friend of mine called · · · · · · · · · · Seo Gun Woo, who was probably writing here too. ”
I didn't have to explain it anymore.
Elder Pa looks at Taejin's face with a tilted head and asks for the head.
“Are you Oh Tae Jin? ”
“Ahh · · · · · · · · · · ·. ”
“Right? '74 or' 75. You've lived here a long time with Gun Wook. ”
“Correct · · · · · · · ·. You remembered.”
Due to the situation, Taejin's heart was more difficult than pleasure. The old man grabs his hands with pleasure.
“What a naughty man. Yes, I'd give you a message if you were alive and well. I remember everything now. You pulled out all our watermelons. My watermelon is the best. ”
“Yes, I did. It was the best. I'm so glad your wife still seems to fix it. ”
Nora had no idea that Tae Jin was the president of Korea's largest publishing group. Just a few decades later, I continued to laugh as if I were treating an old student.
“Gunu doesn't talk about you. This guy went up to Seoul once, but I can't feel him. So, how's Gunny doing? ”
“Yes, I'm doing well. ”
“Then why did you come alone? ”
“Gunwoo is a little busy at work · · · · · · · · I just got a job in Pohang, so he asked me to pack his luggage. ”
The old woman nods quietly, even with an unfair expression.
Taejin, who inadvertently lied in case she was shocked, kept his mouth shut without saying any more.
“What's the big deal? When I left my luggage here, I felt like Gunu was with me. Come here. We're staying in the same room we used to sleep in today. ”
“Yes, ma'am. ”
Taejin, who was led to a small room, stands dumbfounded in the middle.
There was a faded wallpaper, a torn floor, and a dusty fluorescent lamp in each eye. Soon after, the old man grabs a small bag and squeals.
“Give it to me. Why don't you tell me? ”
“It's not that heavy. I'm getting old. Unpack your things and come out for lunch. ”
“Thank you.”
Taejin sits alone and opens his friend's bag. Other than a lot of necessities, it was all old books or work notes.
I naturally touched the top diary.
I just carelessly skipped a few pages.
A single drop of tears fell and wet a place in the diary.
In the midst of the sadness, there was a 'T’.
Next chapter.
Next chapter.
There was a 'T' everywhere up to the last page.
“I'm sorry! ”
Taejin hugs the diary to his chest and lowers his back.
The only person who noticed the wheezing and shortness of breath was an old man who had started washing his rice.
Knowing how to weigh the lives of countless guests, she didn't ask why.
And the next stop in Taejin.
* * *
“I knew you'd come here. ”
The moonlight alone shines a deep night in the world.
You hear a man's voice from behind the rising tomb. Taejin was not surprised, even though he was strange. I just trembled without pulling out my hand that I put in my arms.
“That's why I've been waiting. ”
“Why did you wait for me? ”
“Is this the best you can do? ”
“Don't stop me. ”
The opposing Pokémon steps to the side of the grave and approaches. A streetlight standing on the far foot helped with the light. You can see the face of the reconstruction under the chin with the rugged beard.
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