Too Much That it Hurts

Sweet Awkwardness

Mrs. Jung’s POV

“Eunji-yah! You better wash up your body and wake your baby up before we have breakfast! Your breath still smells like soju.” Minah says as she sees I’m yawning while sitting on the dining chair. She is now busy making our breakfast in the kitchen. “I just realize that Jessica gets her eternal love to sleep from your blood.”

“Alright, alright..” I stand up and start walking leaving that nagging best friend of mine.

As I climb up the stairs, I met the tall charming girl whom I believe is Choi Sooyoung, the daughter of Minah. She is neat in her school uniform and bringing her backpack on one shoulder. Noticing me, she stops her track and bows.

“Good morning, Aunty Jung.” Such a polite kid.

“Morning, Sooyoung. You are so neat already in this early morning. You’re a very opposite with my daughter which I believe still be snoring right now.”

Sooyoung chuckles a bit hearing my words. “I’ll help eomma and wait for you two in the dining room then.” She says, bowing to me again while smiling.

“Neh. We’ll follow after you later.” She nods and continues walking downstairs. And by that, I also continue walking to Jessica’s room.

As I open her door, as I’ve expected, Jessica is still in her deep slumber hugging a pillow. I slowly sit on the side of her bed and caress her cheek.

“Darling, wake up..”

But being Jessica, she ignores that and turns her back to my face.

I then decide to lay down on the bed beside her and back hug her from behind. To my surprise, she turns around and circles her arms around my waist, hugging me back, but of course still in her closed eyes. But what surprise me more are the words she mumble after.

“Don’t leave me, Soo..”

What?

“Yah, Jessica Jung!” I cup her cheeks and tap them softly try to wake her.”

She opens her eyes slowly while still hugging me tightly. Still not realizing who I am, she continues mumbling, “Soo….”

“Yah!” I say again.

Her eyes widen as she fully wake up. “Eomma???!”

“I thought you are Sooyoung.” She blurts out, then immediately blushes and zips her lips.

“What? So you are saying that every morning Sooyoung hugs you to wake you up like this?”

“N-No! O-Of course no!” She stutters with her eyes wondering everywhere else but my eyes.

“Don’t tell me that you already have a crush on your housemate??” I tease her.

She quickly gets up from the bed and grabs her towel, “I-I will take a bath first. I am late already.” Then she walks fast towards the bathroom. But before she can enter the bathroom, I call her.

“Jessica..” She turns her head to me. “Sooyoung is a nice girl.”

I can see the completely confused face on her as she asks, “….And?”

“I won’t mind to have a daughter in law like her.”

Her face quickly turns as red as tomato as I said that. She then turns to enter the bathroom fast and slams the door, let me laugh at her gestures.

Jessica’s POV

“So you’re saying that you came here to have a meeting with some clients in Korea today, and will be leave to States again in the night?” I ask to my mother who is now munching her sandwich in the cross side of me in the dining table. She nods.