Chapter 104 – Today as Long as You’re Okay

I could feel the light faintly between my closed eyelids.
A broken head that hurts.
A heavy sinking consciousness.
I feel like I’m going to vomit right now.

“…”

As I slowly opened my eyes in the midst of a severe hangover, I began to feel the bright morning sunlight.
Maybe it’s because I have no idea where I am right now.

Unfamiliar ceiling.
And no matter how much I sleep.
Even the new baby who woke up at least once didn’t wake up her mother.
There were so many corners that made me doubt that this wasn’t home, but it was the moment when I thoughtlessly tried to lift my heavy body.

Something soft to hold in a stumbling hand.
At the same time, it felt different from Kim Joo-won’s.

“…?”

Little by little, he calmed down and turned his gaze to the side.
Then the one lying next to me wasn’t the pervert that I always slept with.

“Uh?”

The fact that it was Seoyeon made her mind momentarily dazed.
I definitely remember yesterday that I drank a lot of her alcohol to forget my miserable feelings.
I have no memory of last night, I must say.

“Seo Yeon-ah?”

When I carefully called her name, her eyes, which had been closed, moved slightly as if she heard my voice.
Then she slowly opened her eyes and started looking at me.

“Sister…?”

Her voice sounded like she was still asleep.
The moment I put my hand on her cheek, wanting to see something wrong.
As if Seoyeon found something good, she took my hand and started rubbing her cheek against hers.

“Hehe, it’s your sister’s hand…”
“Seo Yeon-ah, why am I here?”
“Huh? You came to my house after drinking with your sister yesterday.”
“…House?”

At Seoyeon’s words, she looked around.
Her house, which looked even more desolate than the house where I and Kim Joo-won lived without any ornaments, caught my eye.
The only thing in the house is a bed, desk, TV, laptop, tablet, and microwave.

“Is this your house?”
“Huh.”
“There’s nothing like this in the house…”

To really live.
And it hurt my heart to see a house with only the bare minimum needed to go to university.
Seoyeon did everything in her power to find me to this extent, but I didn’t hear those words from her…

“Sister, what’s wrong with your expression?”
“What is a house like? If it’s a girl, live like a girl…”
“Well, I didn’t have time to worry about looking for my sister.”

But this idiot, am I really that good, even though her sister was being so hard on herself.
She grabbed me sitting down and laid me down again, pulling me into her own arms.
He smiled and started rubbing his face against my body.

“Hehe, it’s my older sister.”
“Do you like me that much?”
“Yeah. You know unnie, the thing I like the most in the world is unnie.”

Being kind like an idiot…
If you heard that yesterday, you’d rather be angry with me.
Why do you love me so much that you make me unable to say anything?

“Actually, I hated you a lot yesterday, didn’t you?”
“Huh.”
“But, when I saw my older sister who came to apologize to me because she was drunk at night, her heart melted…”

Only then did I understand why Seoyeon treated me like the old days when she liked me.
Perhaps during the night when the film was cut, he apologized for what happened yesterday.

“I don’t know! Now that I’ve found you, I’m done!”

Seoyeon, as if she didn’t want to hear anything more from me, as if she wouldn’t let go of me with her slender arms.
I put my strength in her arms and held her tightly in my arms.
To the point where you could feel the pressure on her side, her burdensome pressure.

“Here, Seo Yeon-ah.”
“Huh.”
“I think I’m having a little trouble breathing.”
“Hey! You told me that yesterday, did you really think you could just move on?”
“It’s not like that…”

But because of her fault, I couldn’t express my dissatisfaction with being treated like her doll.
Did Seoyeon want to use this moment to fill what she hadn’t been able to fill in the past?

“Hmm, this is my sister who has been feeling this for the first time in a while. Ah, Seo Hanium is fully charged, hehe.”

She said something embarrassing to listen to quietly and hugged her for a while.
The shock of drinking too much last night, losing consciousness.

“Seo, Seo Yeon-ah. Wait a minute.”
“Sister?”
“Oops!”

She ran over me terribly after holding her for a while.
In the end, she had to spur Seo-yeon’s embrace on her and run to her bathroom and shove her face into her toilet.

*        *

“Sister, are you okay?”
“Not good…”

Drinking too much just because she was in a bad mood.
As the condition of her body was not taken into consideration, of course the price was quite harsh.
Is this how it feels when real people die?

“Sister, eat some of this.”
“Thank you…”

Starting with the bean sprout soup that her younger sister cooked herself.
Looking at the table, which was simply prepared, he struggled to lift the spoon.
Even though it’s not that early now.
Still, I wondered if it would be polite to go outside in the morning and eat it even after seeing the hard work of cooking it.

‘Make…’

Of course, I have to swallow my tears while tasting the taste that is not proportional to my sincerity.

Seo-yeon said that since she was a child, she only ate rice that someone else made for her, so she probably didn’t have much time to pick up the cooking utensils herself.
She’s in shape, although she made it after seeing a recipe floating around on the internet, and seemed to have managed to come out.
Anyway it is

“Yeon-ah Seo.”
“Yes, sister.”
“I’m really sorry, but do you have any ingredients left?”

It just wasn’t something that could be pushed into something bad.

“Oh, sister…”
“Sorry. I’ll just eat it for a while, but I can’t help but feel sick…”

Seeing her shocked sister’s expression, my heart felt like it was going to break, but what can I do?
Now I can’t afford to eat this salt soup because of my hangover.

“I’m left behind…”
“I’m glad.”

In the end, she leads her body away from the distance and heads to the kitchen.
Still, with a sigh of relief at the amount of bean sprouts, which was more than enough for two people, I washed it lightly and added water to the pot.

“My sister will tell you. Bean sprouts soup for hangovers should be really bland rather than plain soup.”

Leave the anchovy seasoning aside and season the unboiled water very lightly with seasoning salt.
Then put the washed bean sprouts in the water and set the timer without covering the lid.

“Can you bring it to me when it rings?”
“Is this the end?”
“This is the best for hangover. Oh, there is no Cheongyang pepper, right?”
“Huh…”
“It can’t be helped.”

Then, seizing Seoyeon’s wrist, he dragged her into her room and sat her down next to her.
It must have been quite a shock.
He must have prepared diligently, thinking he would take care of himself.

“Seo Yeon-ah, why?”
“…I thought my hands were shit.”
“No. If you don’t try it, everyone does it at first.”

I lay down on her saggy thighs as a pillow and look at Seoyeon’s face.
He brought her hand to her downcast forehead and snapped her fingers once.

“Ah! Why are you hitting me?”
“It’s just that I’m sulking with that.”
“Sir, that’s all. I’m completely exhausted because the first dish I cooked for my sister was rejected.”

He laughed at Seo-yeon’s dissatisfied voice.
He carefully brought the palm of the hand that had struck her to her cheek.

“Whoa, why are you losing energy over that? You’re not going to do anything for me just this time.”
“…Ah!”
“Ah?”
“As expected, unnie is smart! That’s right, you just have to do better next time.”

It was then.
At the beeping sound of the phone’s alarm, Seoyeon said, “Wait a minute, unnie!” And carefully lowered my head onto the bed, and rushed to her kitchen.
Looking at her brother’s back like that, she laughed for a while.

“Sister, here.”

This time, as I intended, I smiled at her younger sister who had served her bean sprout soup neatly.
She cautiously got down to her seat and carefully drank her broth.

And Seo-yeon wondered if the fact that I was in front of her eyes was that good for herself.
As if she did it herself.
She looks at me with a look that says she’s happy to eat well, and her smile extends.

“I’ll eat well, Seo Yeon-ah.”

Fortunately, this time the soup was boiled to suit her taste, and after saying hello to Seoyeon, she began to drink her broth cautiously.
Although it is a simple breakfast with only soup because of the filling.
Perhaps, it wasn’t the best meal of my life as Seoha Lee.

“Yeon-ah Seo.”

She put down the cleanly emptied bowl and called her name carefully.
For a moment, let her gaze, filled with the last spoonful of rice in her mouth, turn to me.

“Yes, sister.”

Hearing her reply after swallowing her chew, she carefully proceeds to tell her what to say.

“Yesterday, you were very sad because of me.”

After Seo-yeon’s body flinched, her silence continued.
Maybe it’s a memory she doesn’t want to bring out for her.
But, I still have to say what I have to say.

“I’m sorry. I think you were too mean yesterday.”
“…I apologized a lot last night.”
“No. What kind of apology is that when you’re drunk. It’s a real apology if you do it from the bottom of your heart.”

Carefully, he climbed onto the table and grabbed Seoyeon’s hand.
As soon as her gaze turned to me, I jumped ahead and continued her words.

“I’m really sorry, Seo Yeon-ah.”
“I’m really fine.”
“It’s okay. You were probably crying alone yesterday.”

After letting go of her hand, slide her table to her side and approach her.
Carefully, she took her sister, who had been crying alone yesterday, into her arms.

“Really. Whether or not my sister loses her memory, I can’t hide it from her sister…”

Hearing Seoyeon’s low voice, he joked, “Still, my cheek hurts.”
Seo-yeon said, “Oh, that’s …” And showed a parental look, and she smiled.

Maybe, she has a younger sister who only looks after her older sister like this, so it might be me who comforts her.
Why did I do that to her sister yesterday?
However, if I find out that I regret it, I’m sure Seoyeon will hold the incident of yesterday again in her heart.

“Seoyeon-ah, if you’re okay today-“

Sae Ara has a child of her own, so I can’t fully give her today.
Still, it was at that moment that she opened her mouth, determined to give her sister to her sister, who would have sought her sister for that long time, as much as her guilt.

The sound of vibrations on the table.
No matter who said it first, I turned my gaze, and out of the two smartphones on the table, the one that rang was mine.
The three letters in the center of the screen indicating that there was an incoming call.

– Daddy

I was informed that the call was from Kim Joo-won.