Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

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Yongguk

I heard my alarm clock went off and I opened my eyes to find a dried up towel on top of my forehead, Han Yiyeong must have put it on my forehead to bring down my temperature and she didn't bring me to the doctors like what I didn't want to and she stayed by my side the whole time. I turned around to see her presence in my room and I was disappointed that she is not around at all, she broke her promise and didn't stay next to me and she went back home after putting a wet towel on top of my forehead.

I let out a sigh. She said that she will give herself some time and that would mean that she will think about it for a few days and she will even have the option to reject me, why would she want to think about that now? And I am a fully grown adult with a full-time job as a CEO at my own company, I have three children ranging from the ages of 4 to 17 and all of them are in school, and they don't have a mother and they are used to not having a mother figure by their side. They don't need Han Yiyeong in their lives just yet and I don't need her in my life as well, I can live my life perfectly without her and I had lived 35 years without this woman.

I opened the door to hear my kids running around the house and I immediately smelt the food coming from the kitchen, there is someone cooking in my kitchen and I remember none of my children knew how to cook, SeJeong begged me to allow him to go for cooking classes but I told him to just focus on his studies and Sena is lazy to do anything so she never learned how to cook even when her mother is still around in the family.

Of course, I am not even going to assume my youngest child, Bang Sehyun is only a toddler and he only knows to eat and eat without stopping to take a break.

"Good morning, Appa!" Bang Sehyun runs to me and I picked him up, carrying him in my arms.

"Good morning..." I said to my son and I turned towards the right, Han Yiyeong and Sena is in the kitchen, both wearing matching aprons and they are cooking. "Please tell me that it is a dream..."

"What dream?" Sena said to me. "Are you feeling better now, Appa?" She asked me and I nodded my head. "That's great then, you can go take a shower while Omma and I finish cooking."

Omma? Did she just address Han Yiyeong as her mother? Or she is hallucinating that her mother is still here? Nothing makes sense at all and I find myself getting so confused, they are the people that you never see them talking together, they are about 8 years apart and they are more like siblings and they don't exactly see eye to eye, that was the relationship between the two of us but why do I see something else between the two of them?

Did I missed an episode of their relationship? I wondered to myself, thinking of all the possibilities that might lead to this outcome. "Appa, you are not going to work today?" My other son comes around and I see him in his pajamas, I thought that he would be up early but I guess that he can sleep in once in a while, he is still a teenager and he needs to get enough sleep for his well-being.

"I have an important question to ask you and I want you to answer me honestly, can you tell me what is wrong with this?" I directed him to the two women cooking and he looked at me with a blank expression on his face, is he not awake yet? "Because I can't understand whatever it is going on with the two of them, you guys are supposed to be fighting, not cooking with each other in the kitchen."

"They made up." He replied. "I saw Bang Sena apologize to Yiyeong Omma for what she had done to her and they both made up, and she considers Yiyeong Omma to be her mother now, not the other woman."

I was shocked to hear this but at the same time, I am happy to know that they have made up with each other and they won't be fighting with each other anymore, no one crying about anything and everything will be a happy ending. "Just like that?" Han Yiyeong nodded while smiling and I smiled back, it is rare to see her smile and she hasn't smiled like that in a while.

"Mr Bang, do you actually want to take a shower? Because the kids are going out for a picnic and they want you to come along with them, they said that they haven't had a picnic in 2 years and they want to have a good time with you." Han Yiyeong said to me and the rest of the kids nodded their heads, including Bang SeJeong who seemed to have no idea but he just went along with it.

"Are you coming along with us as well?" I asked her and she shook her head, the three of them groaned in unison. "Why not?"

"Because I am not part of your family, so I am naturally not invited to the picnic." They groaned even more. "Only the people with 'Bang' as their surname gets to go for the picnic and my surname is Han."

"But you are our Yiyeong Omma, you are definitely coming with us." Bang Sehyun cried.

"I think that it is because our father hasn't actually married Yiyeong Omma so she is not a part of our family yet." Bang Sena said.

"Then quickly propose to her and marry her before we go for the picnic, Appa!" Bang Sehyun yelled and the other two siblings went with it as well and I am somewhat made to marry Han Yiyeong so that she can come to the picnic with us. I wish that I could actually marry her...