Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

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YiYeong

Sehyun thanked me when I placed down his bowl of rice with chopsticks at the side. "Thank you, Omma..."

"You're welcome, Sehyun ssi," I said to him and I sat down opposite him, hands touching my face. "Just YiYeong noona will do, I'm not too old to be a mother to you."

"But you are my mother, my second mother. You are my nanny, are you going to take care of me forever?"

I couldn't immediately answer that question, I didn't know what to answer to that poor boy, I don't know how to explain to him in the least hurtful way, in a way that he would understand more easily. How did my mother use to lie to me about everything?

"Of course, but you need to learn how to take care of yourself as well." I am probably going to stay for a month until I found a suitable job and I will leave, Mr Bang wouldn't allow me to stay longer than 6 months since it is in our agreement.

He nodded naively and I smiled. "How old are your siblings again? I want to know more about them before I get to meet them later." I shifted to a new subject to make the boy forget about what I had just said to him earlier, children don't remember things for a very long time, well most stuff that doesn't really concern them that much.

"I have 2 older siblings, one older sister and one older brother. I am the youngest." He beamed while he speaks about his older siblings, he loves them a lot and it shows in the way that he speaks about them. "My older sister is very pretty and my older brother just looks average, I am the cutest and my father is the most handsome."

"How are they like? Do you have any photos of them?" Of course, I have looked at them while I was cleaning up the place and I just wanted to waste some time by trying to get to know Sehyun well so that it would be easier to take care of him. "Can you show me?"

He nodded and walked to the living room and picked up a picture frame which is strategically placed by me myself, it is at a 45-degree angle placed diagonally on the table. He came back to me and he did a brief introduction of his family to me, it is clear who is who in the picture. "So, this is my father." He pointed to Mr Bang, who is as usual charming and hot. "My older brother SeJeong who is a basketball player, he is 13 years old this year." My eyes zoomed in onto the young female in the picture. "And this is my older sister SeNa who is 17 years old." Isn't she the high schooler that I bumped into earlier?

No wonder that I thought that I had seen her somewhere before, it was in this picture. I hope that she gets a shock when she gets home later... And then I looked at the older female in the picture, she looked really beautiful and all the children have some part of her DNA in them. She was their mother, the supposedly Mrs Bang of the family, the one who left the family a little over a year ago.

I looked over Sehyun who is looking a little sad, he definitely misses his mother. "Do you miss her?" I asked cautiously, afraid that I might trigger him into crying again.

He nodded sadly, pouting a little. "I want her to come back home but it is okay, I have you now as my second mother. You are here to take care of me, and SeJeong Hyung and SeNa Noona and Appa as well."

I smiled, touched that he thought of me this way. To others, I might be just any other babysitter who is hired to take care of the children but to Sehyun, I am his only hope to make himself happy again, I am the new mother figure in his world and I am here to take care of him forever. Taking care of him is easy for now but it would be very devastating if I were to leave this job position, his whole world will crumble down if I am gone and that is how important my presence is to him.

"Sehyun, let's not talk about this anymore. What toys do you play?" I changed the subject again, I have to make him happy no matter what, making him sad is the worst case scenario that I can ever be in. "Or we can watch a cartoon, what cartoons do you even watch?"

He pointed to the blue penguin plushie that he brought out of his own room, it has glasses on top of the head. "This cartoon, please. Can I have a banana as well?"

"Of course, coming up!" I switched on the TV and logged into the application and chose the cartoon that he wanted to watch. "Pororo, here it is." I handed him one banana. "And one banana."

He sat there obediently watching his cartoons and it looked too cute not to snap a photo of it as a keepsake, it would be part of my memories as a babysitter here. I took a few more snaps of it and went back to the kitchen to prepare snacks for the little guy, and also for the princess who is making her way home after school.

But she wasn't home by 3.30pm as what it is stated in my text message, she is supposed to make her way home straight after remedial. Mr Bang told me to give her a call if she still doesn't come home by 4 pm, she isn't supposed to go anywhere else since it is examinations periods and she wants to do well in her exams hence Mr Bang wants her to be in her room so that she can study.

I heard the door open and the young lady walked into the apartment with an arrogant look on her face, she takes a look at Sehyun who is still engrossed in his cartoons and then she stopped in front of me, she is frozen in her steps. "Why are you here? Don't tell me that you are Han YiYeong, the new babysitter."

I smirked. "Welcome home... You are home 30 minutes late, Miss Bang SeNa..." I know exactly how to deal with this kind of bratty girls.