Chapter 391 – Mamchung

It wasn’t the noisy conversation of passers-by that woke Jena from a sound sleep. It wasn’t because he was stuffy because of the blanket that was up to his neck, and it wasn’t because of the bright sunlight penetrating his eyelids.

“Ugh… Mom, I’m hey hey…”

Yena, who woke up rubbing her eyes, found her mother out of habit. But her mother even remembered that she wasn’t here and that she had an uncle who she liked, Jiheon.

With two factors in mind, she hurriedly looked around.

“Huh? Are you awake?”

“… Ah.”

It was unfortunate that her mother wasn’t here, but she was fortunate that Ji-heon didn’t hear. But there was a dark lady who thought it was scary that she was more unhappy.

“Uh, why?”

The black woman put her smartphone down on her floor, which she was looking at until Jena woke up. Then, with a slightly perplexed look on her face, she asked again.

“What’s the matter? Did you have a bad dream?”

“Oh, that’s it…”

By deliberately slowing down, Yena looked around at her to save some time. However, no matter how much I looked, I couldn’t see Mr. Jiheon, Mina, or White.

“Is it Yena?”

In the meantime, Mrs. Kamang approached while sitting. She asked again as she brought her face, which was as pretty as a snowflake but still cold.

“Yena, why is that?”

“Oh, that’s it… Ah, nothing!”

She almost said it. She was the auntie who Jiheon talked to her uncle freely. Then she couldn’t tell Auntie that she needed to pee.

“Ugh… !”

But no matter how proud she was, there was no way the urine would enter. Yena frowned and twisted her legs in her seat.

“Is it Yena?”

Aunt Black found her legs wriggling under her white jacket. Aunty made her worried face, she asked.

“Yena. Do you want to go to the bathroom?”

I wanted to say it right away. Wanting to show her own rival a weak side,

“Ughhhhh… !”

It was too hard to pee.

“Kka, kkamang lady… ! I need to rest. Oh oh oh… !”

“Okay? Okay, hold on.”

Realizing her current situation, the aunt hurriedly nodded her head. She then stood on her knees and looked around her.

“Uh, here, there’s a bathroom nearby… Oh, over there!”

As she said that, she rose from her seat.

“Yena. Over there, over there is the bathroom!”

“Ugh… !”

Jena groaned and looked at the direction her aunt pointed to. I don’t know, but I thought there might be a bathroom there.

“Let’s get up, Yena.”

Aunt Kamang hurriedly put on her shoes and knelt on her mat. She put away the jacket she was covering instead of the blanket and she held Jena’s hand.

“Yena.”

“Ughhhhh… !”

Jena, she wanted to die. To think she had to get help from her rival. Still, I was glad Jiheon didn’t see this.

Standing up holding her aunt’s hand, Yena was able to put on her shoes with help. She then walked together to the building she pointed to as the bathroom.

It was no exaggeration to say that she walked the path of disgrace while she went. She grimaced from holding her pee, staggered steps because she couldn’t walk properly, even squeezing her aunt’s hand to endure the feeling of leaking.

I’d rather cry. I wanted to forget everything and cry wrapped in my pants like a baby.

“Yena. Arrive in a little while, ah… !”

But there were too many people. In the small building that the lady pointed out earlier, there were men and women standing in a long line.

Auntie Kamang, who saw the same thing as Yena, muttered in annoyance.

“This seed… !”

Like a bad impression, bad words were about to come out of his mouth. But before that, the woman spat out a short exclamation.

“Oh right!”

Aunt Kamang, who had been talking as if she had thought of something, asked Jena.

“Yena. How long can you stand it?”

“Yeah… ?”

“Do you think it will be rice right away? Or can you be more patient?”

“Uh, uh, uh, uh… !”

“It looks like rice. I see I was going to go somewhere else, but I can’t.”

Aunt Kamang muttered in a low voice behind her. Then she grabbed both of her hands.

“Yena. Let’s go.”

The destination was a toilet full of people. She walked to the far end of the women’s bathroom even though Auntie knew she didn’t have time to stand it.

“Ah, lady… !”

When Yena was about to point it out, Mrs. Kamang weakly tapped the shoulder of the person in front of her.

“Hey, hey?”

“Yes?”

As the person in front of her looked at her, Mrs. Kamang pointed at Yena and said,

“Excuse me, can I give up your seat? My baby is in a hurry.”

“Uh, yes. Please.”

“Thank you. Thank you.”

Aunt Kamang, who bowed her head several times and thanked her, took her hand and moved in front of her. And the lady asked the same words to the person in front of her this time.

“Hey. I’m sorry, but I’m in a hurry.”

“I am not writing it, the child will write it. Yes. Baby.”

“I’ll be writing it out really soon. It won’t be long.”

“Can I ask for a seat please?”

“It’s because the child is in a hurry. By any chance, can I go to the front seat? Please.”

Jena did not know how much her auntie had asked for as she was preoccupied with holding her pee. All she knew was that it wasn’t just people who kindly got out of the way.

“Are you a kid? Aren’t you going to use it?”

“Can’t you see all these people are queuing up? All these people are waiting.”

Aunt Kamang kindly asked such people. Even when her face turned blue from holding back her urine, the efforts of the aunt who asked her remained in her memory.

“I’m sorry. Excuse me for a moment.”

After her auntie’s efforts, Yena was able to enter her. Aunty asked the people around her there too, so she barely got into her bathroom stall.

Auntie, who let her inside alone, smiled and asked.

“Yena. Can you rest by yourself?”

“Yes, yes…”

“Then I will be outside of this auntie. Are you resting? Understand?”

“Yeah… ! But, Auntie… !”

“Sorry for talking! See you then!”

The lady who spoke hastily closed the partition door. Before the door could even close, Jena removed her pants and placed her butt on the cold toilet seat cover. As her mother did, she wanted to lay down the toilet paper, but she was in too much of a hurry.

While taking care of the errands she had endured, she regretted the shame she felt upon coming here. She was ashamed that she hated it even though her auntie, or her sister, asked for it.

She regrets having referred to her sister as her auntie just before, but other than a rustle, another auntie’s voice came through her thin partition. Her tone was similar to that of the aunties I often heard at the mart.

“Oh my god. Is having a baby these days a government official? Ignoring people waiting in line?”

Realizing that this was her fault, Yena hurriedly finished her errands. But in the meantime, the voice continued to be heard.

“Are mothers really like this these days? She assumes that all she has to do is ask for her baby and ask for it.”

Yena ripped out her toilet paper and finished cleaning up after her.

“That’s why these mothers are called Mamchung, Mamchung. Do you know what Chung is? It’s full of worms. It behaves like a bug.”

She threw the tissue paper into her trash can and lifted her pants.

“Really, it wasn’t like this when I was raising a baby. Does having a child really feel like a sin?”

As she forgot to lock the Namdaemun Gate and tried to open the closed bathroom door, she heard her sister’s voice. A voice that said very bad things.

“Fuck kid. There lady! A woman talking on the phone in front of a mirror! Yes there! Madame! Shut up!”

Jena couldn’t open the door at the first bad words she heard from her aunt, Kamang. Meanwhile, the aunt who kept complaining raised her voice.

“What is it? What did you just say?”

“I told you to shut up, ma’am. Why?”

“What, why?”

Buck buck buck buck

Urgent footsteps came closer. Then the aunt said.

“Oh, Younggi’s mother. I’ll hang up. Call me later.”

Then she asked her older sister.

“Did you just ask me why?”

“Yes. But.”

“This young man is really… ! Hey!!!”

The woman’s screams echoed through the bathroom. But despite that cry, Kamang-sister laughed and muttered.

“What is the old man saying? It’s terrifying.”

“Mr. Lee, how old are you? Uh! How old are you!”

“It’s as good as your granddaughter. Why.”

“What. I’m forty-nine What kind of 40-year-old has a granddaughter!”

“I didn’t ask you? If you see something, go away. Can’t you see how small the bathroom is?”

“What does that have to do with you!”

“Then what does the aunt care about me having a child?”

“Hey, with you.”

“I’m telling you, old bitch. No, did I even cut in line? Did I use my child as an excuse? The kids were in a hurry, so they asked each and every one for their understanding. But what does the ajumma have to do with it?”

“This year has passed,”

“I’m talking, little. And if you don’t understand, let me ask you something. Are you proud of talking behind others? Is that why she did it in such a booming voice?”

“Damn it,”

“Don’t stop talking, really. No, does it make sense to keep hanging up when I’m talking? And, when you’re done with your business, you should leave. Why are you talking on the phone in front of the sink? The bathroom is so small that it looks like it will explode.”

“No, this bitch”

“If you have business, go out!!! The bathroom is tiny!!!!”

Finally, when Kkamang sister shouted, her aunt’s voice could not be heard in the bathroom. Only the sound of wheezing and the sound of footsteps moving away from the door could be heard.

Soon, the sound of other people in the bathroom came back to the muttering and rustling. When she returned to the same state as when she entered, Jena opened the bathroom door.

“Uh, is it Yena?”

In front of the door stood a red-faced older sister, Kamang. As Jenna stared at her with her frightened eyes, her sister forced a smile and pointed to the bathroom door.

“Ba, did you just hear? Was there a bad lady earlier? She’s nice, but a bad lady came in, and what does she say to that bad lady? So just those, the two of them were fighting, and they just left. Uh. You can rest assured.”

It was an obvious lie that even children younger than Jena would not be fooled by. However, when she saw her sister acting clumsily, Yena smiled.

“Hey, Kkamang sister.”

Jena said cautiously and held out her hand little by little.

“Please, wash your hands.”

“Sese sese, in the cold morning breeze, ah, white sister!”

“Oh, Jena. I was awake.”

“Sister. Where did she go?”

“Ha ha, sorry. I was going to go to the bathroom, but there were a lot of people in front of me. I had a hard time looking elsewhere. By the way, Yena, why don’t you try it with Jim too?”

“No, I do not want! Now, I want to do it with Kkamang!”