Chapter 80 – Forever (1)

Forever (1)

A space that is too large to be called a ‘room’.

Cha Ha-yan slowly captured the first reading room illuminated by the soft mood lights on his retina again.

Neat and tidy interior decorates the space between the wide spaces.

The atmosphere was so familiar that you could tell at a glance who had arranged and decorated the furniture.

“…”

The warm body temperature gently gripped her hand as she looked around her sister and Han Se-gye’s bedroom.

“… I’m sleepy?”

Cha Ha-in hurriedly shook her head at her sister’s question, full of her concern and love.

At the same time, she gave a soft smile to her older sister, who filled her eyes with her self, telling her not to worry.

Strangely enough, the smile she always gave her sister was so awkward and unfamiliar.

Come to think of it, she hadn’t seen her sister again in such a long time.

It was only a short time of about 1-2 months, not a year…

Cha Ha-in was so awkward in her soft silk pajamas instead of her damp sweatpants.

The scent of body wash and shampoo is soft and not stinky and lightly damp.

Not a cot that creaks easily, but a soft matrix and an overly soft duvet-

And on top of that, facing her older sister, whom she had missed so much, this moment was so awkward.

She’s not better than this in Agricultural Sciences, but she’s definitely never had an uncomfortable life…

Her feelings for her inability to specify the exact reason for her continued to make her not easily let go.

“… Lie.”

At her sister’s low words, her head, which had been staring down at her for a moment, lifted again.

Cha Seol-hee’s face with her eyes squinting as she lowered her head to herself a little more.

“You can see it all from his expression, but he’s laughing like a gom-tang, uh-huh- he’s really, really, really white.”

Squeak-

Tea Seol-hee sighed as if she couldn’t stop her and stood up from the bed.

After Cha Ha-yeon shook her head and turned off her mood light, she quietly stared at Cha Seol-hee as she returned to her bed.

The first reading room was dark with the faint light turned off.

“… Really-. In a world that has become so scary, what should I really do with such a kind little brother who can’t even say a thing about falling asleep-“

Cha Ha-in did not reject her touch, which approached her with a grunt full of affection.

Swoop-

A soft mattress gently wrapped around her right shoulder, following her sister’s caress.

The meticulous touch of checking the softness of the pillow and the blanket that he carefully wrapped himself in after a long time.

Soon, tea Seol-hee, who finished arranging her by evenly spreading the blanket covering the white tea several times, gently laid her body on the seat opposite her.

And then again – holding Cha Ha-yan’s hand, bringing the already close distance a little closer.

Swish – Swish –

With one hand, Cha Ha-yeon’s hand was tightly grasped, and a precious touch that restlessly brushed her Cha Ha-yeon’s face and her hair.

Cha Ha-in accepted the touch quietly and remembered the owner of the pillow she was holding.

If she was originally, she would have to lie opposite her sister, not her…

“… Sister.”
“Yes?”

Family, members, and people from the agency.

It was a subject she deliberately avoided in the conversations she had been having with her sister since they met again.

Words that can only be uttered after having a premonition that the end of the day is finally approaching.

“… Ha, where is Han Se-gye?”
“Ah—that person?”

However, Cha Seol-hee answered her question in a much plainer tone than expected.

“Perhaps you are dealing with some kind of overdue things with Goja-san by now, right?”
“… Goja? Do you want to know the person’s name?”
“Ah—poof—! I’m sorry, maybe because that person was always talking to me, I got stuck on it too.”

There is one person named Go Jang-Hoon who is trustworthy and who is passionate and lively.

My sister’s voice can be heard so clearly even in the dim darkness.

Cha Ha-in, for some reason, felt awkward with her sister’s answer, which was slightly raised in tone.

“You have to deal with the backlog of work in the student center and other places, and above all, the fact that he hasn’t come in so far is because he’s being considerate of us…”

… Her awkwardness did not leave her easily.

Like a thorn in her tongue, it continued to pierce her clearly.

From a certain moment, Cha Ha-in looked at the smile that was deeply engraved on her sister’s mouth and blurted out the following words.

“He keeps calling me brother-in-law.”
“… Brother-in-law?”

Cha Seol-hee’s delicate voice only leaks out long after Cha Ha-yan’s grumbling.

“… Me, really?”
“Huh.”

Cha Ha-yeon vomited out a short sentence of hers, feeling the sudden twitching of her hands that were clasping her.

“… Uh, that’s not right Ha, to Hayani, that person is a brother-in-law—”
“Isn’t it too fast?”

Cha Ha-yeon held her twitching tea Seol-hee’s hand tightly and met her eyes with hers.

Cha Seol-hee’s eyes, which had been shaking here and there, stopped their noisy wandering at Cha Ha-yan’s gaze.

“You haven’t even gotten permission from mom and dad yet.”
“… She didn’t need her mother’s opinion anyway. And don’t you think Dad would be so against it?”
“…”
“Th-But when I think about it, you seem to be going too fast-.”
“…”

She was definitely a sister who agreed with her own opinions.

But— Cha Hayan couldn’t easily connect the next words.

There are things that are so easy to know because it is a family.

Her slender fingers twitching again, freeing her own hands that she clenched as if to put up with her shyness.

Even in the dark, the blush that was so clear and a smile that constantly spread across her mouth and disappeared.

“Well, but— if that person calls it that, shouldn’t it be that?”

She was her sister’s face that she had never seen before, even though she had been with her sister for such a long time.

“… Really?”

Even so, she didn’t know why the words that asked for confirmation came out again, even to herself.

“… Should I really call you brother-in-law?”

Parr—he suppressed the trembling voice and gripped her sister’s wriggling hand tighter.

Unknowingly, I stared into Cha Seol-hee’s eyes with my gaze a little closer to her sister’s face.

“… Huh.”

Her older sister only nodded her head with a small smile at that look.

“…”

She didn’t know what else to say after that bright affirmation.

“Ouch-!”

At that moment, Cha Seol-hee’s fingers gently pinched Cha Ha-yan’s cheeks.

Seol-hee gave a mischievous smile as she gently wiggled her cheeks with his fingers.

“You mean you’re going to die of awkwardness because you suddenly have a new family?”

What our introverted gomtang wants to say.

After a few pinches, Cha Seol-hee, who had moved closer to Cha Ha-yan, stroked her face again.

“But White will be able to make friends with you right away. She’s a really nice person…”

Sisters close enough to touch each other’s breath.

Cha Ha-in stared into the eyes of her sister, who was stroking her own face so dearly.

“… I couldn’t even imagine when I first saw it.”

Her pupils were blurry, as if they were somewhere other than here.

“… More than anything, he’s the person I’m so very grateful for for letting us meet again.”

Soon, Cha Seol-hee’s voice, which had returned to Cha Ha-yan, began to tremble.

“… White.”

Small drops of water trickled down from her eyes and formed on the bridge of her nose.

“… Huh.”

Cha Hae-in came a little closer, and she carefully held the warm body heat of her sister, who held her tightly.

“… I was really, really scared because I thought I would never see him again.”

There was only one way to repay this overflowing love.

Cha Ha-yeon felt her sister hugging her tightly with her trembling hands and caressed her trembling with her own arms.

Took-!

Tea Seol-hee hugging Cha Ha-in in her arms, which crossed her sister’s back cautiously.

“If you go through bad things, good things will come.”
“…”
“Now that we’ve been through so much bad things, we’re left with only happy things.”

… Got it?

Her sister’s question filled with her crying.

Cha Ha-yeon gently closed her eyes at the earnest question and nodded her head.

“… Huh.”

Tok- tok- tok-

And her sister’s hand gently patting her brother’s back as if she knew she had closed her eyes.

Cha Ha-yeon held her sister’s affectionate pat, and she didn’t open her eyes for a long time.

Tok- tok- tok-

A continuous, long pat-

“… New liquid- new liquid-“

Soon, the sound of even breathing quietly escaped from the corner of Cha Ha-yan’s mouth.

Only after hearing that sound did Cha Seol-hee stop patting her and hug her sister tighter again.

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Tea Seol-hee closed her eyes as a lullaby to her brother’s calm breathing, which she hadn’t heard in a long time.

“…”

However, even after a long time passed, she quietly opened her eyes, feeling herself unable to fall asleep.

Swish – Swish –

The sound of constantly flowing blankets and pajamas brushing by, changing positions slightly.

Cha Seol-hee moved her pupils who had been staring at the darkness in a daze because of the awkwardness of not leaving her body.

The iron door to the bedroom dimly entered her pupils.

“New fluid—new fluid—”

Thus, her sister’s eyes slowly opened, feeling that her older sister had not been able to sleep for a long time.

Such a warm body temperature and a fine breath exhaled while being embraced by love.

However, it was so strange that I couldn’t fall asleep easily.

“New fluid—new fluid—”

The more you breathe, the more clearly you feel the awkwardness and stuffiness.

Even though Cha Hae-in knew that it shouldn’t be, the hug with her beloved sister was a bit cramped.

“New fluid—new fluid—”

The more I try to endure it, the more I feel that it stabs me like an awl.

Cha Ha-yan could only vaguely know it thanks to the long silence that allowed him to focus only on that sense.

The cause of her feelings is that she doesn’t know who she is, which has been tormenting her so far.

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‘Straight-. Straight-.’

In the thick and deep silence, Cha Ha-in quietly groped for her voice, which flowed like an auditory hallucination.

“…”

The window that comes into her open eyes, not breathing at all.

Her eyes, looking at the bright moonlight by the window, gazed a little farther away.

Toduk – Toduk –

The windows where the raindrops rained incessantly and the partitions that were strangely clear to the eye even in the thick darkness.

And beyond that partition—

‘… Chaseolha.’

Cha Ha-yan stared at the transparent window again, listening to his voice full of playfulness.

Drops of water that are not condensed there.

It rains here-

There was no sound of dripping water.