Tomboy and Me / nam woohyun (#9)

Episode 6

Ji Na

We released the hug. He looked at me. "We never met for 10 years and you have become even more beautiful."

"SungKyu Oppa, I am not that beautiful," I said shyly.

"She is Ji Na noona??" Sungjong said.

"The one and only. She changed a lot in taste in her clothes but she is still the little girl that I have seen since young. How's life??"

"Good!! I have never thought that I would see you again, SungKyu Oppa!!" I hugged him again.

"Let's go home now or Omma will be complaining why Joo dongsaeng is not home with us yet," SungYeol complained.

"Right, get into the car." I went into the car.

"Is the car nice, noona?" Sungjong said. He sat next to me while Sungyeol is in the front seat next to SungKyu Oppa.

"It is quite okay... What do you major in, SungJong-ah?"

"Fashion... Noona, you are in the same major as Sungyeol hyung right??" I nodded.

"Wow, you are daebak!! Noona, so you are on the same team as SungYeol hyung right?"

"Yea....."

"You don't seem so happy." SungKyu hyung said.

"I am not chosen as the main lead this time...." I pouted.

"The female lead?? It is taken by Song AhYeon of course, the most beautiful girl in the whole school." SungKyu Oppa exclaimed.

"Hyung, she meant the male lead." Sungyeol explained.

"The male lead?? Ji Na, you wanted to be the male lead? But you are a girl...."

"She is one but you see.....She doesn't even act like one girl. Look at how she dresses." I pinched his arm, making him yell in pain.

"Yah!! Joo dongsaeng!"

"I don't know what is with the teacher this time. I have been always been the male lead for the past 2 years and now I am acting as a girl for the first time."

"So if you are given a choice, would you be a guy in your next lifetime?"

"I bet Ji Na noona would say yes."

"How do you know??" We hi-fived.

"I don't know what Mr. Joo taught you over the years but I don't know how Omma would react." SungKyu hyung said in disappointment.

He must have expected that I would grow up to be a very feminine woman.

"Noona also couldn't help it. All her older siblings are hyungs, it is natural that she acts like that too."

"If only I had a sister..." I also sighed. Why did I only have older brothers and not older sisters?

"But it is also good to dress like this, you would never get targeted by perverts."

"Really? Noona, how??"

"In my whole life, I have never been targeted by perverts or kidnappers. Never ever."

"Maybe they thought that you were a guy from the back." They nodded to what SungYeol said. Maybe that's why.

"We're here..." He parked at the family's parking lot. I got out of the car with the two of them beside me, Sungyeol on the left and Sungjong on the right. I wonder how Omma looked like after all these years...

I stood beside the two while SungKyu oppa went to open the door for the three of us. "We're home!!!" SungKyu hyung shouted. We entered the living room. I think Omma is in the kitchen still preparing.

"Make yourselves at home, I think Omma will be done in a while." SungKyu oppa said to me while he went up to his room.

"We will be going up to our rooms first. See you in a while, noona." Why are they leaving me here alone one by one?? Don't leave me......

"Ji Na!!!!" I heard a very familiar and friendly voice coming behind me. A middle-aged woman came to me and held my hands. She looks familiar for some reason. Is she...

"Don't remember me?? I'm your Omma, the 3 sung's Omma."

"Omma??" I said hesitantly.

"Ji Na, I almost couldn't recognize you as you have changed so much in the past 10 years. How are you and your father doing??" She smiled as if there is no tomorrow.

"Fine, I guess... I moved here to study 2 years ago while Appa is still in Incheon. He is busy with his work and all. It is good that I am here."

"Of course he is, I have seen him on the news all the time. Glad that he is successful with his business over the years. I am thinking of inviting you guys over for dinner someday, would it be okay?? Would your Oppas and Appa be free?"

"Whenever they are free, I will call them down," I reassured her.

"Good. Glad that you have come to see me. Come more often if you don't have any dinner at home."

"Ne, Omma...."

"Aigoo, Ji Na. You are such a beauty, like your mom. How good would it be if your mom was around to witness it."

"I'm sure Omma in the heavens will be happy too." I smiled faintly.

The reason why I called her Omma is that she is the one that raised me as my real mom passed away from a sudden disease when I was 4. She was the one that taught me a lot of things when Appa is on his job and his frequent business trips.

My brothers are all grown up and didn't know how to take care of me very well so Appa begged Omma to take care of me when he goes on his business trips. That made me grow even closer to Omma and her children.

"Omma?"

"Hmm???"

"I smell something burning..."

"Burning? Aigoo, I left the stew on at high heat. It must have overflowed. Aigoo!!" She ran to the kitchen when I saw the pot of stew overflowed. She turned off the stove and brought them to the dining table with the kitchen mitts.

She opened the lid and the strong aroma of kimchi chigae filled the whole house.

"Smell so nice," I said smelling the kimchi chigae.

"Don't just stand there smelling the food. Go take some rice."

"Ne, Omma....."

"Ye Deul Ra, time for dinner!!!" She shouted. Her voice is still as strong as ever. Even though she shouted that loudly, her children didn't respond to it at all, no one went out of their rooms.

"Ji Na-yah, can you do me a favor and get those guys down for dinner?? They are not moving even an inch."

"But the food...They are going to turn cold. I better eat first, they will smell the food and come down soon."

"Ji Na??" She glared at me, I was going to dig in but her glare stopped me from eating. I immediately put down my utensils and got up from my seat.

"That's my girl, make sure to drag them if they are unwilling to move."

"Ne..." Why do I have such a scary mother??