end of November.
The last month of the year is approaching again.
The thing that I feel the most while raising Sarang is that time goes by really fast.
Sarang, who struggled in our arms, started crawling, then walked, and now ran into my arms and hugged me.
He was already approaching the age of five. It seemed that entering elementary school would happen in the blink of an eye.
The way Sarang grows day by day was pretty, proud, and thankful. On the other hand, there was also loneliness.
I didn’t even know why I felt that way. Maybe it’s because of what my friends said as a joke a while ago?
“Look at Amman sticking together like gumdrops. Even if you enter middle school, Ms. Dad! You told me not to do laundry with Daddy! It’s like this. By the way, this is a true story of our family.”
“Bagfudge. Sooner or later, love won’t even make it into the room?”
“Shut up… hit it…”
“Damn it~”
Suhwang and Yoonseong, who said that Sarang didn’t show her face, and said such bad things as soon as they met. My body trembled at the teasing, but I knew it in my heart.
The fact that Sarang is a father’s wish is that this is the last time. Usually, even when you are in the upper grades of elementary school, your father tells you that you will graduate soon.
Is my loneliness caused by the imagination of the future that is to come? Of course, I know that it is a natural phenomenon in a normal family.
“Sarang will give you daddy’s sausage!”
“Is that so? Ah~”
The day comes when Sarang, who happily feeds me with side dishes, frowns when she treats me and speaks as if annoyed. It felt like my heart would be ripped apart already.
So, after thinking about it for a few days, I was able to make a decision. If it’s an unavoidable fate, let’s enjoy it to the fullest until that day comes.
To do that, only three more time was needed. Even now, I spend a lot of time like that, but what can I say? It’s quite rare for the three of us to spend time alone without other family members.
So, after I finished eating, I made a declaration to Heena and Sarang.
“Heena! Love! Let’s go on our vacation!”
I exclaimed with excitement, but I didn’t really have any plans. Because it was a decision made in a rush due to the strange anxiety I had recently felt and the teasing of my friends a while ago.
However, my wife was a little puzzled by my sudden remarks, but quickly smiled brightly and agreed.
“Okay~ I have to subtract my annual leave anyway, so I’ll just go with that. But are you okay?”
“Working at the same university is really generous. If it doesn’t overlap with everyone, I’ll let you use it. Besides, it’s only about a day or two on weekends.”
“Yeah? So, if I can talk with my family, will anyone go with me?”
“That’s good too, why don’t the three of us go this time?”
“Three?”
“Yeah. Come to think of it, the three of us didn’t go anywhere far. How about it?”
“Okay! I really like it! Date? Hotel? Have you checked out any places?”
“Uh… no? I was just thinking…”
“Then I’ll find out!”
“Boo, please?”
Besides, when the three of us were told to go, Heena was so excited that she opened her laptop and started investigating. If it’s me, Heena says it’s okay, we’ve been planning to find out together from then on, but seeing that I like him so much, I thought I could leave it to him.
Anyway, since we researched together, I will 100% follow Heena’s opinion. I will have to adjust the annual leave to a day that Heena can use.
I was looking at Heena, who was very focused with such spirit, for a moment, and Sarang came up on my lap.
“Dad. Where are we going?”
“Mom, Dad, and Sarang are going to play with the three of us.”
“Where are you? Norriter?”
“A farther place than the playground. Mom and Dad and I will ride the car and go far.”
“Really! Love is worth it!”
“Yeah, I’m going with love, the three of us.”
Because I like love like this when I say that I go with my mom and dad wherever I go. okay. You should enjoy it to the fullest now. Take lots of photos. It was for this reason that I spoke up.
The love that shines brightly on my lap, I need to engrave it in my eyes a lot more.
With that promise, I gave Sarang a strong hug. Like Heena, a lovely daughter-in-law who happily accepts anything I do with a smile.
However, I did not know at the time.
Even after 1 year, even after 10 years. That love was the same, and that it was all useless worries.
Rather, because my father couldn’t graduate. No, I didn’t graduate, so that’s a problem.
At this moment, I couldn’t even imagine.
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The biggest stumbling block I encountered while preparing for a vacation with Heena was my family, not my schedule.
When I said that only the three of us would go this time, voices of protest came from all over the place.
“How do you guys think of leaving without me? Do you have a conscience? How many times have I teased you guys so far!”
“No… Just this one time, the three of us came and went, so what the hell.”
“Take me too! I’ll drive you?!”
“It’s not the store manager, what about Rin noona?”
“…how can’t it be just my sister?”
“I’ll include them one by one and then take them all.”
Still, as he said, Heesung hyung helped me a lot, so I felt a little weak.
“Oppa. I haven’t forgotten that you flirted with me since then.”
“…that was already a month ago… back then, you nagging for two hours and still worrying…”
“What?”
“Ah, I see. Only with each other in a shameful way…”
Heena shot it down lightly. Hee-seong, who was muttering next to him, turned his gaze to hyung, and the next person he saw was Baro.
“Son-in-law. If you two want to go and play, you need someone to look after you? I’ll go with you too~”
“Uh-huh. How dangerous is the world these days, take care of your children alone. You two should be together.”
It was my mother-in-law and my father-in-law.
however.
“Mom, Dad. The three of us will go on a family trip. The three of us.”
“It’s still Heena~”
“The three of us will go.”
“Heena.”
“Dad. I said the three of us were going.”
“…okay.”
She had no choice but to give up her heart to Heena, who threw away all of her logic and emotions, and continued to recite ‘Threesome’ as if stubbornly.
To be honest, I just want to go all together? While I was doing it, my heart was getting weaker, but Heena showed a firm attitude that she would not tolerate hunchbacks.
Whether it was just us who really wanted to travel alone, I wasn’t even sure I could change Heena’s heart. Because of that, I turned away from the eyes of the two people who secretly asked me for help.
And this situation was no different in our house.
Immediately, my brother-in-law stood up.
“No association! I want to go with you! I want to go on a vacation! I want to go to the hot water pool with Sarang!!!”
“My sister can’t even use the annual leave.”
“I’m going to use it! I’m going to beat the company!”
“Yes. The next overtime worker.”
“Ahhh!!”
Although it is not a large corporation, my brother-in-law, who works for a solid mid-sized company, was so busy with work that he could not easily use his annual leave. It seems that they make more money than any other large corporation, but the war label is not very good.
Even though he knows he won’t be able to, he spends time alone for a while, and eventually bursts into tears in regret.
And next to such a brother-in-law, Junghoo hyung threw out a word.
“I can.”
“My brother-in-law can’t go.”
“If you don’t take it with you. I can.”
“Wow.”
“Hey!!! Hanjeonghuo!!!”
“Driving is possible. Love can pay for accommodation.”
“You, you!! How could you even think of leaving me?!”
“It is possible to match the annual leave for you.”
“hey!!!!”
I was amazed at how he lost his wife without blood or tears. Of course, the brother-in-law immediately grabbed him by the neck and shook him.
After the couple’s fight that started like that, I saw Seon-hoo hyung playing with Sa-rang.
“Little boy, would you like some candy?”
“Yeah! Love is candy jojo!”
“It’s hard to see these days. Lollipops with that old-fashioned feel.”
“Woah! Daddy! Samjoni love give me candy!”
“It will be delicious~”
Well, Seonhoo hyung didn’t seem to have any intention of following. It seemed so. Even though I like Sarang, it was very cumbersome to go far.
The last thing left is our parents. As if she had woven it with her mother-in-law, her mother’s first remarks were very similar to her mother-in-law’s remarks.
“Son. Don’t you need someone to take you to sleep with love at night?”
Of course, it was a little more blatant than my mother-in-law. My dad didn’t even talk to me, but I had an atmosphere where he would agree if I just asked him to go with me.
Since it is our family, I thought it would be difficult for Heena to refuse, so I tried to solve it.
“Mother, Father. We’ve never been on a trip together alone, so I’m taking this opportunity to go there once. Please understand.”
“Yeah… Then I can’t help it.”
“Uhm…”
Hee-na, who is easygoing and yet resolutely refuses. I thought it might be the first time. Heena refusing to do what my parents asked for.
And to Heena’s refusal, the two of them gave up right away without speaking any more. Because in this world, my mother and father were as weak to Heena as I was.
Anyway, after such persuasion, the number of people going on the trip was finally confirmed as the three of us.
Of course, it was very difficult for me after that, thanks to some family members who secretly solicited irregularities from me. Still, Heena wants to go with the three of them, but I can’t ruin it.
And for a few days, we excitedly prepared for the trip. Heena applies for annual leave, and I pay the annual leave accordingly. It was a little late, but I made a hotel reservation. In Sokcho, where our high school days are filled with memories of the beach. It’s a different place from where I went back then.
I was going in the middle of the day, so luckily there were one or two hotel rooms left, so there was no problem getting a room. Of course, it was more expensive than expected. Probably because it’s high season.
It was fortunate that there was still room. If we were going to go to Christmas, we would never have caught it, but our Christmas was supposed to be with both families anyway.
When the preparations for the trip up to that point were finished, it was the evening a few days before departure. Just in time for Heena’s work time, I stopped by the department store with Sarangi.
But as soon as you enter the department store.
“Baby, how do I do this?”
She immediately puts her bikini on her body and asks for my opinion. I go to a place with a hot water pool in Amman, but this is a little.
Is it because I can’t go to the sea this year because of my training camp?