166 – Necklace (2)
After finishing the meal and paying the bill, I went out.
Junghwan smiled brightly and took us to the parking lot.
“I thought Chevrolet only had something like spark…”
“Chevrolet has many SUVs.”
“Really?”
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What I am interested in is a car with a spacious trunk and a comfortable interior.
That’s why I don’t keep things like sports cars in my head in the first place.
In the case of Ara’s Porsche and Bugatti, both are not applicable.
Personally, I would rather go for a car that is ‘not that good’.
Where Jeonghwan brought us and stood, there was a black vehicle standing there.
This is the car I saw earlier when Ara was getting off the car.
It looks so cool that it’s hard to say it’s a domestic car.
“So? How much did you pay for this?”
“It’s used, so about 3,000?”
“Hey…A car like this only costs 3,000? You bought it after looking carefully, right?”
These days, the world is full of con artists who sell things like flooded cars at high prices.
Where did they say it was? Did you say Incheon?
“I bought it after looking carefully, because it was the car that my mother’s friend’s son used to drive.”
“That’s why your mother supported you.”
“Well, there’s something like that.”
Usually he just said he wasn’t that interested and ignored it, but now Junghwan is smiling brightly.
After all, there is a big difference between having a car and not having a car.
Junghwan would also know that well.
“I want to drive it sometime.”
I reached out to Jeonghwan to give him a ride.
When else would you drive a car like this?
Even so, Ara’s racing game machine is good at driving sports cars.
Even in the early days of getting my license, I practiced in Ara’s Porsche Boxster.
“Umm…”
However, Minho cannot hand me the key right away.
Immediately he tilted his head and smiled bitterly.
“What, you don’t trust me?”
“That’s not it…”
Then what is it, you bastard?
Whenever I go out or go somewhere, the guy who drives the car I drive won’t not trust me.
What is this for?
“Look behind you.”
“What?”
“Your master has arrived.”
When I looked back, a Bugatti Chiron was entering the parking lot.
He came to pick me up on time.
It’s unfortunate, but there’s nothing we can do.
I’ll have to ask for a ride next time.
***
“It’s already in…”
I was watching TV in the living room when a bright and clear sound rang from my phone.
It was a deposit/withdrawal notification sound, but in my bank account, which was never going to be withdrawn, it was a notification sound that naturally meant a deposit.
Of course, it was the down payment for filming this commercial.
Excluding QTube profits, a certain amount of profit is shared with the agency, so it is not the full profit, but this is enough money for a family to live on for several years.
The reason why I endured the hassle and hardships and agreed to a CF shoot this time is
To buy Ara a gift.
The only thing I bought for Ara up to this point was a racing game console.
Because I wanted to give the right thing as a gift.
“With this much… I wonder if I can buy something decent.”
Of course, I think I can buy you a decent enough necklace.
But, since I don’t know where to buy such items, my head automatically tilts.
I don’t think it will happen if you go to a regular local Geumeunbang.
“Umm….”
“What are you thinking?”
Looking behind her, Ara was wearing her white gown and drinking her bottled water.
At first, I thought it would be a good idea to surprise them with a surprise gift, but rather than disappointing them by buying something strange for no reason.
She also wonders if it would be better for Ara to choose and even make purchases with her.
Okay…
Anyway, there is no one else to ask about jewelry other than the CEO.
“Sister, is there anything you’d like to have?”
“What do you want? Then, I saw a necklace that came out a while ago…”
“Necklace?”
Well, there is such timing.
It looks like there is a necklace that Ara wants to have.
“But it’s too expensive to just buy it… I think it would be better to add a little more money to the Salva and buy the building.”
“How far are you going to expand the building?”
“hehehe, enough so that my son and daughter won’t starve to death?”
“They say just two houses are enough for that.”
Even if you own just one building in the center of a metropolitan city, you can live comfortably while enjoying unearned income through monthly rent.
In places like Gangnam, Jongno, and Myeongdong, there are places where monthly rent is in the hundreds of millions…
“Anyway, that’s the necklace I want. Shall I buy it for you?”
“Huh? My husband said where is the money?”
“The CF deposit was deposited right away.”
“Really?”
Ara pouted her lips and stroked her chin, lost in thought.
I want it, but I look like I’m wondering if I can ask for it.
“You don’t like it?”
“No? There’s no way you wouldn’t like it.”
“Then I guess I’ll just buy it.”
“Okay~”
Ara then smiled brightly and stroked my head.
Rather than saying thank you, do you feel like a great mother to your grown son?
*
The next day.
Ara and I visited a jewelry shop in Cheongdam-dong.
It is a place that everyone has heard of at least once, and it is located in a very famous building in Cheongdam-dong.
There were many people around.
Thanks to that, Ara’s car was too splashy, so she took my car.
The Porsche Cayenne is also very flashy, but isn’t it still less flashy than the Bugatti Chiron?
I entered the store and told the employee the name of the necklace I was looking for.
The staff was momentarily taken aback as no one was looking for the necklace in question.
When she saw Ara’s face after taking off her mask and sunglasses, she became even more embarrassed and took out her things.
Jewelry shops store items that are too large to handle in a safe.
I learned that the items taken out at the store are the maximum amount that can be insured against theft.
It’s probably not wrong.
“Seonghwan, how are you?”
“It suits you well.”
“Um…Really?”
Ara smiles while stroking the necklace that the employee placed around her neck.
It seems that it is not wrong to say that accessories have owners.
A necklace that would have looked too flashy on anyone else had become a necklace that suited Ara perfectly.
No, should I say that it looks a bit plain?
“You can choose anything other than this.”
“Are you okay?”
“Sister, do you know how much my down payment was?”
I listened to the price with a nervous mind because they made a fuss about the price of the necklace, but it wasn’t as expensive as I thought.
No, of course, it wasn’t that expensive for me and Ara, who had lost sense of money.
In the general sense of money, investing this amount of money in an accessory like this would seem crazy.
“Seonghwan, then how about this?”
“That’s…”
What Ara was holding up was a pair of simple-looking silver rings.
There were slightly different sizes, one for men and one for women, so it looked like a couple ring.
“I think he would be happy if you bought it for him.”
Ara knows who the two people who will be happy to receive that ring are, even if they don’t say it.
Therefore, she quietly nodded her head.
“I guess so.”
“Yes, let’s do this.”
Ara smiled bitterly as she held up a storage box containing a pair of Korean paper.
I felt lonely for a moment due to the happy yet sad look in his eyes.
“Then I guess I’ll have to prepare something else as well.”
“No, I found out about it a while ago, and they said they sell all the products there now.”
“Hoo…”
Since it was operated by the city, it seems to be entrusted to the private sector.
This is a fortunate change for those who are in a hurry.
***
The scent of scented candles used during ancestral rites wafts through the solemn and quiet atmosphere.
This is a place where even children who don’t know anything are so overwhelmed by the atmosphere that they don’t say anything.
This is a charnel house where people who were someone’s family or someone’s friends are buried.
Ara and I stopped at the place where countless remains were kept.
Where Ara and I were looking, there were two jars and a photo frame.
“Mom…Dad…Came out…”
Today is the wedding anniversary of Ara’s parents who passed away.
On the anniversary of her death and her parents’ wedding anniversary, she gave gifts to appease Ara, who was depressed or in tears.
Still, I’m glad that it seems to be less difficult than last time.
Ara’s parents got into an accident while coming up to Seoul to see her daughter, who was working hard as an idol.
So, I had a really hard time for a while.
When I think of Ara crying on the stairs of the apartment,
Her heart still hurts.
“Today is your wedding anniversary, right? So mom and dad’s son-in-law bought you a ring as a gift. Are you happy?”
I opened the inside that the employee had opened slightly earlier.
Then, she took out a ring storage box from her pocket containing the silver ring she had purchased earlier.
“What do you think? It looks just like the rings Mom and Dad used, right? I’m sorry, no matter how hard I searched, I couldn’t find Mom and Dad’s rings.”
The ring could not be found either at the accident scene or at the country house where the two lived.
Ara spent tens of millions of won to find the ring, but she was still disappointed because there was no good result.
The ring storage box opens with a clicking sound.
Ara left the ring storage box open and placed it right under the urn containing her ashes.
“Still, I’ll find it somehow before I die…”
“Sister…”
No matter how much I try to hold back, will I become weak in front of her parents?
I can’t hold it in anymore and I’m shedding tears.
Ara took out her handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the area around her eyes.
“I’m sorry, Seonghwan. I decided not to cry, but it’s hard to hold back.”
“It’s okay. It’s okay to cry at times like this.”
She can cry when she wants to cry.
If you keep holding it in your mind, it can fester and explode.
Me and Ara promised that she would not blame herself and that she would not hate herself.
She didn’t mean to remember or not to remember.
After that, Ara cried for a long time in her heart.
I felt so sorry for myself because all I could do was hug her and pat her on the back.