Chapter 428 – The End of a Date and the Flower Is Sex. Didn’t You Know?

“Taeyeon. Let’s rest there for a while.”

“Uh? Already?”

“My leg hurts. Can’t we just rest there for a bit?”

“No, they say they want to rest after wandering around for so long.”

“Really soon, soon. Let’s rest there for 30 minutes, no, for an hour.”

“Haaa, really…”

Taeyeon looked at me with a troubled expression as we went to rest. But she noticed my desperate mood and gave her a nod.

“Are you really going to take a break for a while?”

“Uh! Then let’s go.”

“Go slow. I’ll go with you too. What are you going to do if you’re going alone?”

“You can come quickly.”

“What? Am I just going?”

“Ah, sorry! Come on in! Ruler!”

I opened the door for Taeyeon to come in. Taeyeon smiled and went inside, and I followed after her, who looked happy.

So when we arrived at the counter, we ordered from the staff.

“Here, one iced Americano and one caramel macchiato, please.”

“Oh, just do two. Why do you do that?”

“I fell. Craving sweets, really. Then, ah, one cold caramel macchiato.”

The staff who listened to our order, which had been arguing slightly, nodded kindly.

“Yes, one iced americano and one caramel macchiato iced. All right.”

When I paid with 3-pay, she handed me a vibrating bell.

“If it vibrates, please come pick it up.”

“Thank you. Let’s go.”

Quickly receiving her vibrating bell, I grabbed Taeyeon’s wrist and led her to an empty seat.

“Go slow, boy.”

“Then you come quickly.”

“Fuck you.”

I arrived at the empty seat with the grumbling Taeyeon. I tossed the paper bag in her hand to the inside seat and laid her hips on her outside chair.

“Aaaaa… !”

I exclaimed as I felt my legs loosen up after standing for a while. It was as if the pieces of stress that had accumulated between my knee joints were being crumbled into powder.

Taeyeon laughed at me for being happy that I had finally rested and sat across from her.

“If anyone sees it, they’ll think they’ve been taking it all day. Don’t be afraid.”

Even if she was my wife in a previous life, I couldn’t help but refute this inconsiderate comment.

“What is this? How hard I was.”

“What are you struggling with? Did you lift something heavy or did you make a bet?”

“You kept following me. I can’t even sit down.”

“How hard is that? And hey Am I the same age as you? But can you do this for a while? Am I limber?”

“It would be nice, ma’am. It’s up and down.”

“This fucker is real.”

Taeyeon raised her arm as if she were going to hit her. But she didn’t really hit her, and as she lowered her hand, the mischievous face cleared.

“But what are you going to do?”

“What.”

“No, I just bought a wallet, but if it’s this hard, how have you been shopping until now?”

“The only shopping I do is web shopping.”

“What?”

For the first time, she looked shocked.

“Do you buy clothes online then? Why don’t you wear it?”

“Uh. Why?”

“No, stand up for a second.”

“Why?”

“You bastard to see fit. So you’re like Pitt?”

“What.”

I got up from my seat at the tone that said my clothes looked weird. I showed myself like that and asked Taeyeon.

“What. What’s strange?”

“No, just.”

However, instead of looking at me, Taeyeon looked at the vibrating bell that was placed on the table. As I was about to ask why, the vibration bell started to vibrate and glow red.

Ugh! Ugh!

“You bring it while you wake up.”

“No, this happened because you asked me to wake up.”

“Then bring it. Because you are already awake.”

“Oh really.”

Even as she grumbled, she picked up the vibrating bell and headed for the counter. After exchanging it for a tray of drinks, I returned to Taeyeon’s seat.

“Did I tell you to get up for this?”

He sat down with the words still grumbling. Then she said with her impudent face and took her own coffee.

“Uh. Why?”

“Uh, why? Ha, really.”

I laughed out loud because it was so shameless.

“Don’t do that, sit down too. Don’t stand here and do this.”

“Oh, okay.”

First of all, I sat down on the opposite side and grabbed my coffee. He took a sip of his sweet caramel macchiato and continued with his previous question.

“But my fit isn’t strange.”

“What, a little.”

“What. It’s a little weird, or it’s okay.”

“It’s okay. It’s okay because your face is chewed up.”

“… Okay?”

The corner of the mouth went up. But when I heard the next thing Taeyeon said, it went down to her chin.

“Because he’s so ugly he’s fucking eating his clothes.”

“Did you mean that?!”

“Or what? Did you think you were handsome?”

“Uh!”

“You are so shameless, really.”

“Isn’t that too much?!”

Even if he wasn’t handsome at all, I thought he looked normal. Well, if girls were going to like me by looking at my face, I should date a celebrity, not me. Also, men are human beings. Huh. Character.

He soothed his bitter stomach with sweet delusion and caramel macchiato.

… Shit.

Anyway, I sat down at a cafe and loosened up my legs that I had been standing on while shopping. I wondered how Taeyeon was so fine when I was so tired.

When I looked at it curiously, Taeyeon asked me as if I was curious.

“Hey. Then what do you do when shopping with your girlfriends?”

“They didn’t even last this long.”

“Then they are strange. I am normal.”

“It took me over an hour to buy a wallet?”

“Of course not, you bastard.”

Taeyeon, who had been snoring, bit the straw in her coffee cup. She said so as she took a sip of her coffee.

“It’s a few hundred thousand won, but you have to be careful. Are you going to be humiliated?”

“That, by the way.”

“And it’s not my money, it’s Mina’s money. You should save as much as possible. Oh right. I have to say thank you to Mina later.”

Uh, wait a minute.

“I bought the coffee with my own money, so why don’t you thank me?”

But Taeyeon opened her eyes wide as if asking why, and she asked.

“Are you coming here? Of course you have to pay.”

“Hey.”

“Okay. I’ll pay the motel bill later. Little pup.”

“Uh, what?”

“What’s the matter? A date?”

Even when she saw me embarrassed, Taeyeon smiled and said,

“The end of a date and the flower is sex. Didn’t you know?”

“Oh little. What if someone hears it?”

“Listen, yes. I’m past the age to be ashamed of that.”

She said that and took another sip of coffee. Then she didn’t say anything and she looked around her cafe in silence.

I closed my mouth at her silent appearance as if she was thinking about something. Instead, she drank a caramel macchiato. Sweet sugar gave strength to the body, and caffeine energized it.

“Hey.”

When he slowly gained the courage to go to the battle called shopping, Taeyeon asked with a rather serious face.

“Aren’t you curious?”

“Uh? What?”

“What is it, kid?”

She let out a snort and changed her subject.

“Yes, Dad. Aren’t you curious?”

On a serious topic.

“Uh…”

In a different mood than before, I looked around her as she did earlier. Still, she responded with proper eye contact.

“I’m curious, don’t.”

“But why don’t you ask?”

“Just what.”

I scratched her head for no reason and opened my mouth.

“I didn’t ask because you don’t seem to want to talk.”

“Ha, what a caring bastard.”

She muttered as if Taeyeon, who had been laughing at self-help, was talking to herself.

“Both he and them, all of them are just nice bastards, really.”

“Uh?”

“You are good. I said they were good assholes. Why. Do you pick it?”

She seemed to be doing this on purpose. She seemed to be self-hypnotizing as she was being tough.

Then, Taeyeon threw her question again.

“So, can you tell me? Yena, what kind of bastard is your father?”

“Uh, what?”

“What is it?”

Taeyeon was taken aback by my answer that she was not curious.

“You said you were curious?”

“I did.”

“Then ask, kid. I will tell you.”

After taking another sip of coffee, I explained why I wasn’t curious.

“I thought you would be sad if I asked.”

“Ahhh, you fucking bastard…”

Upon hearing my answer, Taeyeon suddenly lowered her head and muttered a curse at her. She then covered her face with both hands and cursed again.

“This isn’t an asshole, really…”

“What’s the matter?”

“It’s okay, you fucking bastard. It’s done.”

Taeyeon, who lowered her head for a moment, raised her face while muttering.

“No, it wasn’t like this before, but why is it like this now?”

“What?”

“Joe. I will not tell you.”

Even if you worry about him, he’s a jerk.

Still, when she saw Taeyeon smiling softly, she seemed to feel a little better. Laughing quietly, she took a sip of her coffee and asked.

“Aren’t you going to ask?”

“Uh.”

“Joe. I will tell you.”

Then she really started telling me about her dad.

“I met her in her freshman year of graduate school. With him At that time, she was a freshman who just came in. And, what I was doing was similar to you. No, not you now, but you when we first met.”

It was the story of when I first met Taeyeon, when she was Olivia. When I met her for the first time, I had just come and didn’t know where I was, and she kindly helped me while tickling me next to her.

“No matter what I did, I was stupid, stupid, and like an idiot.”

“Hey.”

“It’s a compliment, kid. But, well, that was cute back then. So I helped her during my fucking busyness, and then, somehow, she ended up dating me. It was my first time with him, so even when we dated, he was like a fucking idiot.”

“Okay?”

“But I wasn’t the first one either. I was one, two, three, four since high school. Anyway, what I want to say is, he was clumsy at all. I had to let everyone know. No fluff, no dates, no sex.”

“A little.”

“I’m talking, little. But, I told you last time. Remember when he said he was bad at birth control? Well, I ended up with Yena because I was casually dating. You don’t have a period, and you’re experiencing conditions for the first time in your life, you know.”

“How do I know?”

“Shut up. Just shut up and listen You know I had a baby, honestly, did you expect it? You said it earlier. He said he looked like you in the past. So I talked that you have a child while showing the impetus. So, do you know what he did?”

“How did you do it?”

“You already know, asshole. Oh, he’s such a fucking headless bastard.”

Perhaps trying to hide her trembling voice, Taeyeon forced herself into a harsh laugh. Then she sighed and continued her words.

“It’s gone, you fucking bastard. I changed my number, deleted my social media, and took a leave of absence from school. I was trying to get the news from his friend. I told you, he’s a dick. Didn’t have a single friend. So, well, this is how it happened. As a single mother.”

“…”

“The day I told my mom, I was fucking right? Dad hit me too, and oh, he was alive then. And I got slapped on the cheek by my brother too. To be honest, I think I was beaten by everyone except my younger brother. It was so painful.”

Taeyeon gave a self-deprecating laugh as she spoke. She still did not finish the story she started.

“I was sick. Expecting me to take responsibility for being like you was just fucking asshole. So now it’s like this. Abandoning my dreams, I’m getting older day by day, working as a fucking cop.”

She raised the corner of her mouth as she spoke this far.

“It’s not that bad, though. I don’t know if it’s just me and my mom feeding, but Yena is there. Even when I was sleeping, I would wake up thinking about that kid, but that stopped happening after she gave birth to Yena.”

Taeyeon, who had been smiling quietly, drank the last of her coffee and continued her talking.

“Well, she didn’t really think he was that resentful or hateful. She even gave me Jena. Because he’s young too, because he’s still a student. But after hearing the news about him, I hated him so much.”

I quietly listened to what she had to say.

“Because I’m such an asshole, I expected it just in case. If he does well, if he gets a job and settles down, won’t he come to pick me up? Or, at least, wouldn’t you come to see the child’s face… !”

Tears fell from her face as she spoke in a trembling voice. The tears that fell once did not end once.

“But, since I heard that bastard is getting married, I hate him so much. So, you know. I want to show you, Jiheon.”

Taeyeon made eye contact with me as if she was glaring at me. Her face, stained with anger and sorrow, was full of intense will.

“I live well. I forgot about a kid like you, and I live well by catching good men. Young, rich, and, well, not handsome.”

“Hey.”

I, like her, laughed at her and retorted. Then the atmosphere became lighter.

“Still, I want to show that I live well. Jiheon.”

Even though her eyes are moist, Taeyeon, smiling, asked me.

“Can I help you?”

She didn’t even have to worry.

“Huh. I will help you.”

“I knew you would say that.”

Finally, as if Taeyeon had let go of her sigh, she smiled comfortably. She picked up a tissue from the tray and wiped her tears with it, she said.

“Oh sorry. I thought you were fine now.”

“No.”

After answering, I removed the straw and lifted the coffee cup. I drank all the drinks left in the cup and got up from my seat.

“Let’s go.”

“Uh?”

“Let’s go.”

She told her, a puzzled expression on her face that still had her weeping stamina.

“I want to show you that you live well. So let’s go shopping for clothes. Something pretty and nice.”