Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

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YiYeong

"Good morning, Yiyeong Omma!" I was greeted by this little rascal as soon as I entered their apartment, it is a little over 7 am and all of the family members are already up and getting ready for their day. There is nothing prepared on the table and I was told by Mr Bang that I would come in every morning at 7 am to prepare breakfast for the entire family and as well for lunch and dinner but they seemed more ready than me.

He came out of his room, adjusting his tie midway. "Oh, you are here already. Could you lay out some bread for us and set aside some jam and peanut butter? It is in the cupboard, I'm sure that you can find them yourself." I nodded, going over to the cupboard, taking out the bread spreads and the loaf of bread.

"Yiyeong Omma, can I get two slices of bread with strawberry jam?" I responded to Sehyun's voice and I did his order, giving him what he wanted and he beamed in delight. "Thanks, Omma!"

His older sister comes out of her bedroom at this time and I asked her what she wanted, while I was still toasting bread. "No thanks, I will just have a glass of juice before I go to school."

"But you didn't have dinner and you are going to school without having breakfast, are you doing one of your crazy diets again? Didn't you promised that you wouldn't go on a diet again?" Her father snapped at her as she reaches over for a jar of orange juice.

"I'm not dieting, I don't have much appetite and I am not feeling that well either." She told her father. "And I will be back slightly later than usual today, it will be around dinner time. I'm going to study with a friend."

"Which friend? Is it a boy or a girl? I better not catch you going on a date with some guy that you met in school or I'll have you grounded for the whole school year." With that tone, he definitely reminds me of my own mother, she used to nag at me like that all the time.

Just because I dolled up a little while going to school and going home slightly later, she thinks that I am fooling around and dating some teenage boy when I am actually going to the library to study with a close friend. Mothers around the world are all the same, they get worked up over their daughters no matter what age they are. My mother still calls me every now and then, asking me about my love life and I finally told him that I have broken up with Cha Eunwoo, I could hear that joyfulness in her voice when she knew about it and I guess that she was thrilled that I was finally single after 5 long years and she would be able to set me up on a blind date and arrange a marriage for me when I turn close to 30 years old.

"No, I'm not dating anyone, I don't have any interest in dating either and I don't have any time to date anyone. Appa, I better go to school now or I'll be late." She prompted her own father to finish up on his breakfast so that he can send her to school.

Sehyun told me that all 3 of them would usually go to school in their father's car every single morning but now SeJeong had opted to take the subway himself, Sehyun said that he is trying to be more independent by travelling to school on his own and I think that it is a smart move done by a 13-year-old.

Sehyun was scooped up into his arms and was brought along to school by his father after he has given me a full set of instructions to follow and to wake up SeJeong who has again fallen asleep in the bathroom, I thought that he had already gone to school because there was no sight of him. Out of the three, he is the hardest to be woken up and he will take literally a thunderstorm and an earthquake to wake him up. 

I went over to the bathroom and I knocked on the door, careful not to invade his privacy unless he allows me to. "SeJeong, are you in there?"

He didn't respond and so I knocked on the door again. "I heard your knock, I'll be done in a second." But his voice sounds really weak, it is as if he is sick. "Are the others out of the apartment already?"

"Yes, they left quite some time ago," I told him. "You should be getting to school or you will be late in 30 minutes."

"I got it, you can go do all you needed to do and I will be out of the apartment very soon. Did you need to go to the supermarket? I will make sure to lock up the apartment and you can do your work, don't worry about me and I am fine."

"Alright, if you say so." I left him and I went out to the supermarket after dumping all of the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, confirm my shopping list with my boss who has just finished sending his baby boy off to kindergarten and I am good to go to the supermarket.

The supermarket was quite busy with the housewives hovering over the place to get their daily deals and they are experienced as heck, I couldn't even get my hand on these goods, they were swiped off in an instant and into their shopping baskets. But still, I was able to finish my shopping and I got out of the supermarket, feeling much better from all the shoving and pushing that I get from the housewives and this is only the supermarket, I can't imagine how bad would it be if I were to go to market which is located a few buildings away from here.

I spotted a suspicious boy who is in his teens hovering over one of the expensive cars near the supermarket, he looked as if he is trying to steal something valuable from the person's car and I don't have a good feeling about this. I got closer to the target without him knowing and I grabbed his arm, locking him into place so that he has no place to escape. "Got you! What are you trying-- Bang SeJeong?"