This Damn Love

Part-12: Not you

Jin holds his mother in one hand and managed to drag two suitcases in another as they walks around the lone street of Incheon. They're already out of the premises of Namwon dong. His sister clinging into his mother, her little brain worried for her mother after how see saw her behaving.

"Jinnie, I can't walk anymore. I'm tired." Moon whines as he plop down in the sidewalk.

"Moon baby, just a bit more. I think there's a park just around the corner. Let's rest there for a while." Jin feels like crying. He doesn't know what to do.

He doesn't have a phone with him. His wallet which had money is left in his aunty's house. So basically, they are roaming around a completely unknown town with no money and phone. They are basically fucked up but he won't admit it. He can do it for his family. He needs to do it for his family. So he decided to take a rest before his brain works again.

So when they find an empty bench in the park, Jin settles her mom and sister.

"Jinnie, I'm hungry!" Moon pouts as her stomach grumbles. Jin looks down, contemplating what he should do.

"Jin-ah, what happened?" Jin's mother asks as Jin's distressed face comes into her view.

"Eomma, I- I have no money. You must be thinking I'm so selfish to let my family roam around alone in an unknown place with no planning as to what do we do. Believe me Eomma, I never wanted to make you or moon suffer. But whatever happened back at Namwon, It was too much for me to just sit and watch. I couldn't stop voicing out and look what happened. I'm not even able to provide my family a basic comfort. I'm sorry, Eomma." Jin sobs when his Eomma hugs her breaking Jinnie tightly into her arms.

She pulls the timepiece locket with silver chain wrapped around her finger and kissed it, remembering her husband. She sometimes wishes she would also has her husband's trait of lighting up the moment with great words. So she just holds her son until he calms down.

"If Appa was here, then we don't have to starve. Let's call Appa and ask him to come." Moon's face perks up as Jin goes pale. He thanked God for his luck of not having a cell phone with him. He has an excuse after all.

"I don't have a phone to make call, Moon-ah. I have no money to use public booth either." Jin says, praying in his head that Moon will drop the topic of his appa.

"Jinnie, I've some money. Wait!" Moon says as he pulles some coins out of his pink bear bag hanging on her shoulder.

Jin's eyes widens as he counts those money. They can barely buy one or two meal from it. But he doesn't wanna use his sister's money. It feel extremely wrong. What will he gonna do after he spends those money? He still needs more. Those coins aren't enough.

"Jinnie, it's ok, I know what you're thinking, but right now, your sister needs to eat and your first priority is to feed her. Go buy something for her and for yourself too. As for tomorrow, we'll think about it."

Jin nods at her Eomma and walks towards a store by ensuring her sister to look after their eomma untill he's back.

Jin brings three cup noodles from a Convenience store. Three of them eats and later Jin helps her mother with her medicines which was thankfully inside the suitcase.

It is getting darker and Jin is restless to come up with a plan to proceed. He can't just spend their night in a park. It's dangerous for them.

Her sister has fallen asleep on her mother's lap who also has slept due to the effect of the medicine.

Just to make the situation worse, he hears thunders striking along with small droplets of water on his skin.

He wakes his sister and mother up and takes them under a tree. He wraps them both with a thick sawl and one for himself.