Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

십사

SeNa

Ever since my father mentioned that he was going to hire babysitters for our family, I was kind of relieved because I didn't have to pick Sehyun up after school anymore. I was finally free of my role as an older sister, I was finally allowed to go home at any time that I want if he allows me to.

But I wasn't happy to know that he hired the babysitter to take care of me and SeJeong as well, there is no use taking care of teenagers and we could take care of ourselves pretty well without anyone's help. It is ridiculous for a babysitter to take care of teenagers of our age. There is a reason why babysitters are called babysitters, they take care of babies, not teenagers. My father must be crazy to think that a babysitter will be able to control me and SeJeong.

It has been a year since our mother left me and things have been quite messy, it was clear that we didn't know how to take care of ourselves properly, the three of us will do just fine but Sehyun, he is just a kid and he needs a lot of care and attention to keep him alive. It is a very tedious job and my father has agreed that the three of us, my father, SeJeong and I would take turns to take care of Sehyun's needs until he is able to take care of himself.

SeJeong and I are mainly in charge of picking him up after school and then preparing lunch for him, helping him shower and tuck him in bed for his nap time. It seems like a very easy job but it is very hard once you start doing it, picking up Sehyun is tiring as the weather is very hot and you will have to endure such hot weather and waiting for Sehyun to take his time to come out of the kindergarten. Sometimes I have a class scheduled at the last minute and I am not able to pick up at the right timing, and SeJeong is not available as well due to his endless training. It is not like he will ever get gold...

And being a babysitter to your baby brother is such an embarrassing job, I couldn't even tell my classmates the truth that I am taking care of my brother after school and I will not be available to hang out with them. I would make up stories, telling them that I am going for piano lessons so that I would be a great pianist in the future.

That isn't a complete lie either, I used to play the piano a lot when I was younger and my father paid for my lessons, I was apparently very good at piano but I stopped playing it when I was 12 because I didn't have time and playing piano is a very expensive hobby. My father sold the piano last year after my mother left the family and we had to move in a smaller apartment, he said that there isn't much space for the piano and it would be better if it were to be sold since I already stopped playing it.

I loved the previous house because it was bigger and it was filled with love, my mother was there and she made everything better, in this house I could feel nothing but emptiness, there is no warmth in this house and everyone in this house is so busy with their lives that the house isn't occupied until dinner time when all the members of the family are back.

And now there is a babysitter occupying the space as well, one who is mainly in charge of taking care of Sehyun and nothing else if my father didn't change the rules. She is a very young babysitter, by her looks and she looks very familiar for some reason. Isn't she the one who I bumped into earlier this afternoon? "Why are you here? Don't tell me that you are Han YiYeong, the new babysitter."

My father mentioned that she is a childcare teacher who is looking for a job and my father gave her the job since she has taken care of Sehyun once when all of us were not there to take care of him, she was the one that Sehyun couldn't stop talking about since that day.

"Welcome home... You are home 30 minutes late, Miss Bang SeNa..." She glanced over at the clock at the wall. "Didn't you say that you will be home at 3.30pm?"

I gulped down my saliva. Did she know that I lied about having lessons? "Class was cancelled and I was at a friend's house, we were studying."

"Are you sure?" She asked. She is only 8 years older than me but why does she seem so much like a mother? My mother isn't that bossy if I could remember correctly.

"Of course, it is a one-time thing and I will make sure that it doesn't happen ever again," I reassured her with a smile. I will make sure that she doesn't know that I skipped school all day to have fun, to spend time with him. "Sorry, YiYeong ssi..."

She slightly nodded which made me feel so much relieved, I guess all adults are like that. "Have you have any lunch yet? I have cooked some lunch if you hadn't."

She can't do anything much to me, she is just a babysitter to me no matter what. "I have eaten, thank you. If your mind, I am going to my room and I will be in there until dinner time." I can't let her boss me around too much, I am still the daughter of her employer and she has to do her job well. She will be leaving after dinner time anyways, her shift ends at that time and she is back to being our neighbour after that.

She is only going to be here for 1 month and she will be gone for good, my life will go back to normal and no one will boss me around except for my father because he is my father. She is just a babysitter, she can't force me to do the things that I don't want to do. 

I walked back into my room and found out that everything has been cleaned up and it is back to its original places, did she just decide to clean up the whole house without my permission? What is she? A monster? No one can clean up my room that fast and she is the first one that did that.