Enamor (JeongMi)

Chapter 4 : Shifting

[2003]

The orphanage where Mina and Jeongyeon are staying have a primary school beside it. It caters the education of the kids staying at the orphanage, and the kids from the nearest towns.

Jamie and some volunteers are the ones who attend about the kids' education and other needs related to that. They monitor the kids' learnings and help them to adjust and improve on the subjects where they are having difficulties.

Jamie is currently talking to the kid who had problems with math. The result of the latest exam arrived and the kid got a better score from the last time. She would like to discuss it to the kid and give her encouragement and praise for doing well.

"Wow, Naeun you did well! You study hard this time, don't you?" Jamie gave the girl a high five which earns giggles from the girl.

"Jeongyeon unnie taught me. She helped me with the lessons." Naeun told her.

That made Jamie confused.

Because according to the records, Jeongyeon's current scores on math subjects is worse than Naeun's.

"Are you sure, Naeun?" Jamie asked Naeun carefully.

"Yes, Jamie Unnie."

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It was an exhausting day for Mina.

Aside from the bulk of papers she read and signed for this day, she also had a total of 5 meetings that lasted for about an hour or two each.

It's been months since she became CEO and she was trained for this kind of responsibility, but sometimes, she can't help but to get overwhelmed.

She's not complaining though. She loves what she is doing because it is for the business which her family, especially her grandfather, truly treasured. She promised to take care of it to show how much she is grateful that her grandfather looked for her.

According to her grandfather, her parents had her at a very young age. They elope at the age of 18 and 19 years old. They are so afraid, confused and having a hard time when Mina arrived in their lives so they chose to drop her in an orphanage secretly.

In their young minds, Mina will be taken care of better if she is there.

Her existence was discovered later after her parents declared missing due to a strong typhoon and flood happened in the town where they are residing. Few belongings were recovered from her parents' house.

Her parents wrote a diary where they confessed about having a baby and leaving it in an orphanage. It was also written in the diary that they had thoughts of getting her out of the orphanage once they are financially stable.

When Mina learned about the story of how she ended up in an orphanage, she thought that her parents' actions are reckless and irresponsible. But she stopped being so sad and angry about it a long time ago.

Her parents are young and inlove and no matter how much she thinks that their life decisions are wrong, what is done is done. She read her parents diary and she knew that her parents loved her. They just can't keep her because of their financial situation. She wished she met them to understand them more.

Her grandfather told her too that he is also at fault. He said that he is too strict and too controlling around her dad so maybe that's the reason why they elope and did the things they've done instead of asking for help.

Mina's aunt told her that her grandfather changed after what happened to her parents and when Mina came. He has become more responsible, open and caring about his family's needs. Mina can testify on that. Her grandfather was nothing but a good grandfather to her. He never forced anything of his decisions on her and he accepted her for who she is.