Chapter 4: The sense of distance (1)
…I never thought I would be scolded for sleeping in a bed at this age. I slept in a bed even in the army…
Lying next to her brother, she took a few breaths and passed out.
I was still hugging the blanket and sleeping soundly… To plug in the charger, my eldest aunt came in.
I woke up with his younger brother and heard the elders saying what they were doing while all the elders were sleeping in the restaurant.
… It must have been my uncle's oldest son who slept in the bed before my brother and me.
More than anything, he said he went home and slept.
I was going to die of sleep, but when they made me a kusari, my high school personality almost came out in an instant.
I put up with it because my mother and my aunts covered for it... Even thinking about it now makes me angry.
I really wonder if I have to blush her until the funeral.
Thanks to that, you were stigmatized as someone who stole her sister's blanket and covered it herself.
Otherwise, the funeral went off without a hitch.
After attending to his grandmother with his grandfather, having dinner at his great-aunt's house, he called the delegate and went home.
The three of them lay down as soon as they arrived and, after sleeping for more than fifteen hours, the sun was heading towards the middle of the sky.
Grabbing the vibrating cell phone, he heard a call from his mother.
—Oh, mom.
—Are you awake yet?
—Oh, yes. Where is your mom?
—It's just a school. I missed three days, but I can't stop going to work.
It is surprising to see that the person who drank so much yesterday, cried and laughed, returned to normal after simply closing his eyes for a while.
"Do you sleep in winter?"
"…I don't know, you didn't call?"
"He always puts the phone on silent so he doesn't pick it up."
"Is that so?"
Other than that, he answered the phone perfectly when I called him.
He woke up wanting to sleep and knocked on the next door, but there was no answer.
"It looks like you're sleeping."
"Then wake me up and make some rice."
"… Yeah."
"My mom is going home late today, so she's going to dinner too."
"Yeah."
…It seems that my treatment is slowly becoming a babysitter for my little brother.
He cautiously turned the doorknob and entered his brother's room to find a lump on his bed.
Seeing my little brother sleeping soundly, hugging a dolphin-shaped cushion, made me feel very sorry for waking him up.
He patted his cheeks, but there was no sign of getting up, so he covered himself with the half-rolled blanket and left the room.
I have to cook or order food anyway.
He briefly washed his body and went out to open the refrigerator.
He was a little sad, probably because he had been neglected for three days.
There are a lot of pickles, but... As much as I love comfort food, I need to organize a main menu.
I wrote that the other day I was steaming eggs.
I wanted to order something, so I picked up my phone and just then the phone rang again.
Someone said he was a friend from high school.
When I was in the army, I didn't even make a single phone call, but when I got out, I called right away.
"Is that Kim Ga-eul's cell phone?"
"Then it wouldn't be?"
"If you get hit, you get discharged, so why are you diving? Will you stay behind?"
"What kind of diving? "I was busy and didn't have time to look at my phone."
"What are you doing when you get discharged? Are you busy?"
"What… I was packing some things."
Anyway, she wasn't in a situation where anyone other than her relatives could come visit her to offer their condolences, so she didn't bother telling her friends that she was a maternal grandmother.
He didn't even share a deep enough friendship to let her know.
"Are you coming to Hongdae? I heard that Man-shik and Jeong-hyeon are coming."
"What time?"
"At one. After lunch, I will go to the board game room."
Umm... Right now, the belly skin is sticking to the shell.
It would be difficult to wait here for an hour or more.
I'm soooo tired. It's annoying to go out.
—I'm sorry, I can't come today because I have a prior appointment.
—Even if it's a sentence, treat it as something fucking reliable.
-Oh really. I have to buy food for my brother.
—Did you have a brother?
—Uh.
—If it's a promise I made you, you can break it.
—No, only my sister took care of me when they were chatting on KakaoTalk. Do you think twice? —I'm sorry about that.
.
—Well, see you later. I can't go today.
—So, let's see it next Friday or Saturday.
—Draw.
…First of all, I didn't lie.
He's arrogant and not nice, but anyway, I hung up on my friend and went to her brother's room.
You're still sleeping.
I had to ask her what to eat, so I grabbed her shoulder and shook her awake.
—Hey, Kim Winter, wake up.
-… Yeah…
My brother buried his head in the cushion and