sediment
‘My room is still the same.’
In addition, it showed signs of being cleaned periodically so that it could be used immediately whenever the son returned. So was the room of her two younger sisters, Serena and Christopher.
‘You don’t have to do this for nothing…’
Contrary to my thoughts, a smile formed on my lips. It always comforted him to have a place to return to. He lay down on the bed for a while, staring blankly at the ceiling.
When Yunjae was 15 years old, his father, Henry Jenkins, carefully called him and apologized, asking permission to marry someone he wanted to marry.
Knowing that Yoon Jae-yi’s psychological state was at risk, he was hiding it from the person he was dating.
[Can I meet him?]
[of course.]
Yoonjae was not sad, but happy. It’s because the happiness of the father who really cared for him comes more. Besides, it was because he thought that if his father decided to marry him, he must be a good person.
And his prediction was right. 3 years until he has a new family and he enlists. It was long if it was long and short if it was short, but my parents did their best for him, who was not blood-mixed.
To be honest, if I had to choose the best memory of my life, I would choose this period.
[hello. I moved in next door yesterday and stopped by to say hello.]
[Oh, thank you. This is our eldest son.]
[hello. Do you have a daughter behind you?]
[yes. Emily. Say hello.]
[······But why is only that person different?]
[Emily!]
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Even though Henry Jenkins took care of him a lot, the shadow of Yoon Jae-hee’s days still remained.
Guilt that my family broke up because of me, so my biological mother died after coming to the United States for no reason. Seen by others, you see yourself as different from your family. He filled out an enlistment application because he felt that his position was floating.
‘I just kept running away.’
My heart was complicated for no reason because I thought of my younger siblings who cried and cried, asking if I should not go.
Turning on his cell phone as a change of mood, he replied to each and every contact from the firefighters who expressed their regret, asking why he had just left.
And when I entered the internet community that Yoon Do-joon told me about, my name just happened to go up and down.
– This year, the male ancestor of Emsad must be Yunjae, right?
-It must have already been engraved on the trophyㅇㅇ
-But Ha Min-woo was good too, but isn’t the fans paying attention to the fact that Yoon-jae is too much?
-You can feel it because YoonJ is in the middle of his rise, aren’t there so few fans?
– First of all, the rookie award is confirmed, right?
I’ve heard that it’s like this during awards season, but it’s more than I thought.
‘But it’s a bit ambiguous…’
He swept awards at many international film festivals as well as the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival during his time as Yoon Je-hee.
Even the domestic award ceremonies, which tried to give a simple child actor award because it was recognized worldwide, noticed it and gave it a big prize.
‘Can you call me a rookie?’
It is said that there are awards given separately for the drama and film divisions, but… I’ll have to ask Han Jin-woo about this later.
Then I fell asleep, but I woke up to the feeling of a commotion downstairs. I looked outside and saw that my father had brought his younger brother. Yunjae went right down.
“brother!”
“long time no see. How is school?”
“I will die because of the assignment.”
Christopher Jenkins, a younger brother with a nine-year age gap with Yunjae, often went to the hospital because he was often sick when he was young. Perhaps because of that influence, I studied hard after being discharged and entered medical school.
“It’s good to see you all after a long time! honey! Is the meat done?”
“yet!”
“I will help you.”
“Sit down.”
“I want to do it.”
At the dinner table with the family, Yoon-jae went out to the terrace and stood across from his father.
“Why did you come out?”
“It’s been a while since we had a barbecue together.”
The father, Henry Jenkins, tried hard to hide his smile pretending to be solemn, but he couldn’t avoid Yunjae’s eyes. It’s been a long time since I’ve been with my children, and it seemed like I was in a good mood.
“Well, I saw earlier that your car’s engine sound was strange.”
“I thought so too. Would you like to see me later?”
“It’s good.”
Henry patted Yunjay on the back. It was his pride that a child who was so young and precarious had grown up like this.
“Jay, Chris. Could you fix the roof some time? Your father sprained his back.”
“Honey, what are you talking about?”
“Okay.”
After preparing a short meal, the whole family sat down at one table and shared their current situation with a smile.
“Oh right. brother. I have a question.”
“what?”
“No, I’m watching Nflix… Wait a minute.”
Chris held out the screen he had captured earlier. Korean dramas were popular thanks to one work that was a hit worldwide.
“Is this your brother?”
What Chris showed me was a thumbnail of ＜Along＞, a poster of a martial artist holding a sword. It was in the Korean drama rankings that I often watched recently.
“Jay, is that you?”
“Are you really my brother?”
“oh.”
Chris entered My Tube and played a scene from ＜Along Together＞. The family members looked at him in surprise at the sight of Yoon J on the screen holding a sword and performing action scenes.
“hmm······.”
“I was going to talk about this too. Did any of our students know your brother?”
“How do you know me? It hasn’t been long since the media came out yet.”
“K-pop is trendy these days.”
Serena, who had a lot of interest in Korea because it was her brother’s country, listened to the students talking about K-pop, but when she saw the screen of a student who liked Do-joon Yoon’s group Buster, she realized that she had a real brother. It’s probably a video from when ‘A Manager’s Day’ came out.
“Did something like that happen?”
Parents were even more surprised. I had only heard that my son met his half-brothers in Korea and started a new job, but suddenly he learned.
“You said I started a new job. This is it.”
“If Seri and Chris hadn’t told me, I would have passed on again.”
“No, I was going to tell you two too.”
Maria, whose expression suddenly deteriorated after seeing Yoon-Ji on the screen, jumped up and shouted.
“When the hell!”
“mom?”
“When were you going to tell me first?”
“…”
“Jay, I am your mother! You may not think of me as your mother…”
Maria, who was furious, held her breath at the thought that she had ruined a good place.
“Mi, I’m sorry.”
“mom.”
There must be a reason why you are angry. Yoonjae jumped up and gently grabbed her mother’s wrist as she tried to run away.
“mom. I would love to hear why you thought that.”
Turning around, Maria’s eyes were red as if they were about to shed tears.
“Jay. You, you were… a wonderful child.”
The time when she met Yunjae was still vivid.
[What if he hates me?]
[He’s a good kid. You’ll probably like it too.]
If it was a child raised by Henry, she could be trusted… But at the time, she thought she was a flawed person.
She was a divorced woman who had managed to get a divorce due to her husband’s violence and had two children, one of whom was sick. Will he really think of me as family?
[hello. Can I call you mom?]
Of course, I didn’t have the heart to hate, but I was a child who didn’t hate. On the contrary, I was moved by the way she was considerate of her stepmother, fearing that she would be uncomfortable.
“As if you didn’t hate me for suddenly appearing, you immediately followed me as a mother.”
“That’s it…”
I thought it was natural. My father is happy, and he was also happy to have a stepmom and younger siblings. It wasn’t that Maria discriminated against my children and me. On the contrary, there were parts of her that cared more about herself than her own children.
But Maria shook her head, asking to listen to herself.
“So that was the problem. Was it the problem that you, you were too self-respecting and we were so busy living that we paid less attention?”
“…”
“You took Serena to school without me asking, and if something happened to the hospital, you went first and acted as Chris’ guardian.”
He said that it always bothered him that he didn’t stop him from doing it because he was busy making a living. I wonder if Yoonjae subconsciously pays less attention to things because he is not like a child of his age and is too grown up to be an adult.
“that······.”
Yunjae tried to say something, but kept his mouth shut. It was not difficult to take care of my younger siblings as much as my parents gave me love, but in fact, there was some influence from my childhood trauma.
Since I once broke up a family, wouldn’t the current happy family not be broken if I acted like this? I mean.
“As a parent, you don’t have to know everything about your child. But you always did! He doesn’t talk about himself well, and since he suddenly said he was enlisting, he hasn’t even discussed it properly with us… that’s why I’m angry…”
“·······”
“I am not mad at you. To me!”
I couldn’t even properly stop the sudden talk. What if you want to do it yourself? She’s not even her own mother.
Maria said that her heart still trembled because she was anxious when someone in uniform came near her house.
I haven’t given him enough love yet, but I’m already wondering what if I get bad news about my son.
“The more you do that, the more I think of the things I couldn’t do to you…”
“honey.”
I kept thinking about the things I couldn’t do, so I cheered and supported Yoon-Ji without betting on anything else. However, he said that he still had a heart that he wanted to believe in himself and rely on him.
The time we spent together was short, but is it the power of parents? I could also vaguely notice Yoonjay’s mask. What are you hiding that makes you feel the distance? I felt bad because I thought the reason was in me.
“ah······.”
Yoonjae stared blankly at his mother in his father’s arms. My father and younger siblings must have felt the sense of incongruity my mother had.
“You’re upset that I seem to have distanced myself.”
“No, it’s my fault.”
“no. Maybe it’s because of my childhood.”
Now, don’t run away and don’t look away. Just like when his father eased his camera phobia, now he has to see the conflict squarely and resolve it.
“Do you like movies?”
***
“Oh my God, is that you?”
“yes.”
＜Children＞ is an old movie, and it was a movie that was mostly on the OTT platform. The family sat in the living room and watched Yoon J’s first movie.
“Did you know?”
“I didn’t know either…”
Henry felt a bit of resentment toward the mother of the deceased Yoonjae.
I only knew that Ai had a camera phobia after getting hurt after acting for a while in Korea, but I didn’t say that she had a lead role in a movie like that.
“Wow… Oppa, when I search, a lot of them come up.”
“The youngest winner of the Cannes Film Festival?!”
Besides, have you received many awards? What is the world’s top 3 film festival? Henry was stunned. Shouldn’t I have known though? Why is he doing this now…
“You’ve been hiding this all along.”
“There are circumstances.”
“Now let’s listen to the matter.”
I’m not used to revealing my insides. So he hesitated a little, but calmly talked about his childhood.
Even though I starred in a great movie, I received unwanted attention because of it, and it was left as a trauma. That’s why I thought that it wasn’t my fault that my biological parents divorced.
“Son, it’s not your fault.”
“i know.”
So when my mother and younger siblings were born, I was careful not to break up the family. It was a family that I was so happy that I didn’t want to let go of it… It just seemed like we had distanced ourselves.
By the time I said everything, the sun was setting.
“I was hiding it because I was worried, there was no other reason.”
“······okay.”
“Thank you for telling me.”
After hearing the story, Henry’s sense of betrayal about his son had long since disappeared. Maria also shed tears.
“Whatever you do, always remember that you are our son.”
“I also never forget that you two are my parents.”
After receiving a warm hug from his parents, he looked at his two younger siblings lying on the sofa.
“What are you guys talking about?”
“Mom is close to menopause, too.”
“Is that all?”
Serena and Chris answered indifferently.
“Actually, I was a bit dissatisfied. It was sad that he suddenly went to the army.”
“me too. Even if we don’t understand, I thought it would be nice if you could tell me something…”
There was also something that was slightly disappointing. However, since Yoon-jae had done a lot for them as an older brother and older brother, he just smiled.
Now that I know it, it’s okay.
“Even so, it doesn’t change that you are my brother.”
“that’s right. me too.”
Yoon Jae smiled brightly at the two younger brothers’ answers.
***
That’s how they shook off their family’s resentments and enjoyed their vacation with a stronger bond. The rest of his vacation passed quickly.
“ruler! Get on! I will take you safely to the airport!”
When I said goodbye to my family and went out, as expected, John had come in advance and was waiting. really come Yunjae let out a laugh .