until february 28 | jaesung

27. Snowflake Wants To Melt

"Is everything okay Jisungie?"

Jisung heard the feminine voice of his mother behind the phone.

He smiled in please. "Yeah, everyone are so nice here"

"Great, how about your condition? Are you taking care of yourself properly?" She asked.

Jisung chuckled. "You already ask everything from Jaemin hyung, so what's the bother to ask it from me?"

"I'm just worried you kid!" She scolded.

"Okay, I'm sorry" Said Jisung.

If I want to be honest, my condition is even better than what mom thinks it to be

We're reaching the end of May, I've been in here at Jaemin hyung's grandparents house for around three months. Though my plan was to go back to Seoul when spring ends, but hyung's grandma is so insistence about me staying even during summer. And so as Jaemin hyung has no intention to leave, I have no other choice but to stay

Summer is close, weather is too hot. And so people these days tell me that my face doesn't look so soulless under the sun anymore

I don't want to exaggerate but I may have gained some weight as this is what hyung's grandma tells me all the time. And so his grandpa only glares at me and says I'm not a scarecrow anymore and I work harder...even hyung says that I look more handsome

The traits on me that they explain, I don't see them. But I can feel some changes as I don't feel that tired anymore. Sure my body is always weak, but not as worse as what it was three months ago. Maybe I've become used to seven hours of working per days

These days, I don't even have the time to think about the topics that I usually think of

Jaemin hyung says that I have turned into his grandfather. As my morning concern is the work yet again at night I only think about tomorrow's work

Sure it feels exhausting, but it feels new and exciting at the same time

People I've never seen, works I've never done and places I've never went. By staying here for such a time, I can even tell why Jaemin hyung was so angry at that child, Kang Jungsik. Hyung is attached to this town, with all its limits, burden and exhaustion. I may never feel the same as him but I can truly feel his enjoy

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Summer has finally arrived. And just like Jaemin told Jisung once, the rice fields were indeed turned into such golden colour. Now even by letting the door open for a bit, scent of rice would fill the house at complete.

While Jisung was walking around the living room with a tired body as summer hotness was annoying his sweaty skin, little boy was setting the breakfast table with silence. Morning it was, even five minutes before seven a.m and sooner than the time Jaemin that wakes up.

Jisung was woken up by Jaemin's grandfather for enough three months that now poor little boy wakes up by himself naturally. And so he is glad as this given alertness makes the grandpa to be less grumpy and angry by the start of the day.

One other plate he placed on the table. As Jisung raised his head, the sight of outside from the open door stopped him.

Hue of the golden, silver and lavender was shining on the rice field as if sun was melted on the ground in this twilight.

The colour was warm enough to wrap Jisung's chest and approach his breathe with a chuckle and so little boy smiled, its shimmer was shining on his teeth. Such a view that he had never seen before.