Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

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Sehyun

I immediately jumped up of bed as soon as I am awake from my deep slumber, I have a very good reason for doing that. It is not just a regular Saturday which I would spend the entire day doing my favourite things and not going to school, I do like going to school because I get to see my friends but they are not like my own siblings who live in the same house as me.

They would play with me all day and accompany me to watch my favourite cartoons, we would also get to eat ice cream together that my father purchased from the supermarket and it is always that sweet and cold, it makes me happy that we are always spending time together as a trio.

But sometimes they are way too busy to do that, maybe because they have grown up a little and think that they are too childish playing with their one younger brother. My older sister SeNa now locks herself in her own house most of the time and hardly eats anything for her meals, she told me that she was dieting but I don't get why she has to eat so little for each meal.

My older brother, on the other hand, is always spending most of his time in school because he is involved in his School's badminton team and he is always having tournaments and when he is at home, he would always spend most of his time in his room studying for his tests and examinations because he is not being able to do so during weekdays. Because of that, I had become so lonely and no one is willing to play with me like before anymore.

I started to watch my favourite TV shows on my own and sometimes my grandparents and my mother would be there to accompany me in replacement of my older siblings, they will be the ones who will watch my favourite shows and brings me out to play at the nearby park, they would buy me ice cream but they will not eat it with me because they don't like it and it is too cold for me.

My weekends have always been like this for the past year after my mother is not there for me anymore until Yiyeong Omma appeared in my life. She is the solution to the problem that I have been trying to figure out for the longest time, I was looking for a mother to make my weekends better.

And today is the family fun day that I have been looking forward to for the longest time, it is the one day where I could bring my father and Yiyeong Omma to my kindergarten where I have to spend most of my time at. I have been wanting this day to be here for the longest time, it is the only day that my father will be free and play with me for the entire day without going back to school.

I had told my father about it and he was happy that he got to attend the event with Yiyeong Omma whom I really liked, I am so glad that she is coming along with me and my father and we are going as a family. My older brother and sister will not be going with us to school but I am still happy that Yiyeong Omma is going there like my mother, and all the kids are going to know that I have a mother as well and she is not made up.

I ran into the living room and I spotted Yiyeong Omma in the kitchen wearing her apron and she is preparing lunchboxes for me and my father, I got on the tiny platform and I looked over at what she is cooking for us. I frowned instantly. "You're cooking vegetables, Yiyeong Omma?"

"Yes, because you couldn't go to the toilet for the past few days and you refused to eat all of your vegetables for all of your meals." She commented. "These vegetables are going to do nothing but good to you, you will be able to go to the toilet without any trouble."

I pouted sadly. "But Omma, it is vegetables and I hated it. Can't you replace it something like candy or ice cream?"

"Sehyun, have you ever eaten a candy salad or an ice cream salad?" She asked me and I shook my head, they seemed that it would be delicious. "That is inedible and even if it is possible to have those, it is disgusting. Salads should only be with fruits or vegetables with some meat in it occasionally, anything other that is not called a salad anymore."

"But Omma, vegetables are disgusting and they taste horrible as well. You give it to Appa, he will eat whatever that you give it to him." I smiled.

"Sehyun, you shouldn't be fussy about food or you will grow up to become a grumpy man one day. You want to grow up to be a handsome young man right?" I nodded my head. "Then eat your vegetables or I will stay at home and you will go to the family fun event with only your father."

I puffed my cheeks. "Fine, I will eat my vegetables so that I will grow up to become handsome in the future. I will really become that handsome right?"

"Right, the more vegetables you eat, you will make every woman that you meet fall to her knees because of how handsome you are." She carried me to the chair which is being elevated than all the other chairs at the dining table and placed me down. "Now, let's have your breakfast and then we will make our way to school."

The door to my father's room opened and he walked out of the room with his hair dishevelled and he looked very tired. "Good morning, Mr Bang." I heard Yiyeong Omma greet my father as he makes his way to the dining table and grabbed his glass of milk.

Mr Bang? I wonder why Yiyeong Omma calls my father that way. "Omma, why are you calling my father Mr Bang? Shouldn't you be calling my father 'dear' or 'darling?'" And my father spits out the milk that he just drank.