Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

사십 사

Yiyeong

I carried Sehyun in my arms because he told me that he got tired of walking and his legs are sore, it must have been so tiring for him to spend the whole day outside. I would have carried him throughout the entire day but he insisted that he would walk and not allow me to carry him, he is not trying to rely on me to carry him wherever he wants to go and he wants to go with his own two feet.

And now he is tired from all the walking and he is in my arms, getting some rest before dinner. I hadn't planned for anything to cook for dinner so I am planning to buy a few groceries with my almost empty wallet, I am not feeding me but I am feeding Bang Sehyun's who is now better known as my neighbour's kid and he is hungry and I need to feed him.

"YiYeong Omma, are we going home now?" He asked me as we reached the lift lobby and I nodded my head. "Does it mean that I will not get to see you again?"

"You silly, we live on the same floor and I will get to see you all the time because you are just next door," I told him.

"Then why didn't you come over to my place? Since it is only next door, it should be very fast." He told me.

The elevator arrived and I got in it, pressing the lift button to close and I pressed on the level that my apartment is at. "Yiyeong Omma, why aren't you answering me?"

Because I am trying my best to avoid your father... "I just found a better job and I don't need to work for your father anymore," I told him the lie that I used it all the time.

"But you don't need to work for my father, you are already my Yiyeong Omma and you don't have to find another job. Just stay with me and be my mother, can't you do that?" He asked me.

The elevator dinged and I got the excuse to not answer his question and I got out of the elevator, and I saw a man standing right outside my apartment. It is Bang Yongguk and I don't want to see him right now, I want to turn around and go back to the lift but I don't want to avoid him at this point because I am just so curious why he is standing outside my apartment for.

He turned around and he saw me. "Mr Bang? What are you doing in front of my apartment?" I asked him.

"Appa, why are you back at this timing?" Sehyun asks him while rubbing his eyes at the same time and then he fell asleep, he must have been so tired that he fell asleep before we even got into my apartment.

"Did you pick him up today?" He asked me with such a stern voice that it frightened me a little. Is he angry that I didn't inform him that his son is with me? Has he been searching all over for his son?

"I found him in the convenience store and then he refused to go home so I stayed by his side until he told me that he wanted to return home and so I brought him home, I am sorry that I didn't inform you about this but you should have taken care of your children better so that he doesn't come to me," I said it, I have said it to him that I don't have a responsibility to take care of his child and he should take up that responsibility to take care of his children, it is his duty as a father anyway.

He said nothing and walked to his apartment, unlocked the door and went inside. I stood there staring at him entering his apartment and not closing the door, he comes out again and gestures to me that I should come inside as well. Of course, he would do that, his child is in my arms and Sehyun is not going to sleep in my apartment now that his father is back.

I got into his apartment and I was greeted with the same suffocating stench that greeted me the first time I came here for the first time, he didn't air out his apartment again. The place is a whole mess just like how I saw it for the first time, the dishes were piled up high and it was so smelly. What happened to the previously clean apartment that I used to work in?

"Put Sehyun in his room." He is even ordering me around while ignoring everything around him, I don't think that he ever notices how messy his apartment is because he isn't even showing any signs of disgust on his face.

I carried Sehyun to his face and placed him in his bed before tucking him with his blanket, I switched off the lights and came out of his room to find Bang Yongguk standing outside with his arms crossed. "Mr Bang..." I said to him.

"Let's talk in the living room." He said to me and he walked to the living room, I followed him as well because he is 10 years older than me and I can't disrespect him no matter how much I don't want to talk to him right now.

He sat down on the couch and I stood next to him, he looked up at me. "Sit down, I have something to talk to you about."

"Why? Do you want me back as your babysitter after what you have done to me? I might be jobless at the moment but I will not come back to work for you, Mr Bang." I told him. "And we are only neighbours and nothing else."

I saw a glimpse of his sad face and it was really sad. "I need you back in my life, I mean it. And not as my babysitter but as someone really important to me, Han Yiyeong. I can do anything for you if you return to my side, I could help you find a job and get out of unemployment right away as soon as you stay with me and make me feel normal again." He is pleading for me to come back to his side and he is desperate about it, he would go down on his knees if he wants to but the look on his face tells me that he can't survive like this any longer.