No parent wins over the child.
No matter how hard-hearted parents are, when they see their children weakened, they will melt away as if they had ever been.
Of course, as always, there are few exceptions, and my mother was one of those few.
“Idasom.”
The mother looked at her sister with an expressionless face.
“Your words, I never stopped. I listen and speak correctly from one to ten.”
“Then why!”
said her sister screaming.
“You don’t even know why I’m doing this⋯⋯!”
“Yeah, okay. My daughter will never be able to live a normal life.”
“What⋯⋯what?”
The older sister was so startled that she began to stutter, at a loss for words. However, Mother still spoke calmly without even blinking an eye.
“Dasom said you thought you were the one who killed Dajun?”
The atmosphere froze at the embarrassingly direct words.
“I’m not going to tell you if that statement is right or wrong. Because that’s not what’s important here. The important thing is that someone who thinks that way can’t accept anyone else.”
Because I’m afraid of getting hurt again.
The older sister heard her mother’s words and moaned softly.
“Now do you understand? Dasom, how absurd did you say? Of course, you can imitate it, so Mom and Dad must have been fooled. So I misunderstood it in a strange way. It’s a shame because I knew it even now, if you think that you went home without knowing anything, it’s really⋯⋯.”
Mother rubbed her forehead for a moment, then spoke with a firm voice.
“Anyway, for this time, you too, listen to your mother. Because Dasom is doing it for you.”
“For me?”
“okay.”
A clear answer resounds without any harshness. That overly calm attitude was stimulating her sister.
“Where is it for me? It’s just for mom. Because even Mom couldn’t shake it off!”
“Yeah, it’s for mom too. I cannot afford to see my daughter suffer because of her guilt.”
My mother pointed at me with her finger.
“So, aren’t you trying to get someone to confide in now? My mother knows best that my daughter is not in that situation, so she is going to do it for me. Still, why do you have a mother’s heart?”
“Yeah, I couldn’t shake it off!”
The older sister, who shouted with all her might, looked straight at her mother with those eyes and opened her mouth.
“And I won’t be able to shake it off in the future.”
“You speak proudly of the collapse of your parents’ billionaires.”
“I don’t understand my mother any more. Why are you trying to brush off something you can’t even brush off?”
“therefore? Are you going to keep living like that?”
No, that’s not it.
“It’s not like that, that’s why I’m here. You are standing here and here and talking⋯⋯!”
Obsession narrows the field of vision, and when the field of vision narrows, we cannot see when opportunities come our way.
Rather than stopping to shake off the dust she couldn’t shake, she chose to move forward, even if it got a little dirty.
“I⋯⋯.”
She took a deep breath and opened her mouth.
“I am not Da-Jun Lee.”
My sister continued to say.
“Neither mother nor father.”
The older sister’s eyelashes were trembling thinly, but her eyes were more determined than ever.
“I am Dasom.”
No more words were needed.
“mother.”
I handed the tissue box to my sister and spoke to my mother as it was.
“I’m sorry, but I’m going to decline what you said a while ago.”
“Didn’t you say you apologized?”
“If there is any other way, I will do anything.”
“No. other than that.”
“Then there is nothing I can do.”
Mother’s eyebrows fluttered again.
“I’m not on my mother’s side, I’m on my sister’s side. No matter how much I am a mother, I have no intention of listening to my sister forcing me to do something she does not want. And there are people who like ⋯⋯.”
“okay? I didn’t see people very well.”
The mother, who smiled bitterly, began to stare at me with her cold, subdued eyes.
“coercion? Coercion? There’s no one else who can pretend to be absurd ⋯⋯.”
Soon, sharply forged words resounded throughout the house.
“I am this kid’s mother. How dare you pretend to know something about the bright red man topic?”
“Because I actually know more.”
“I beg your pardon?”
Mother’s lips twitched and trembled when she accepted it as if it was no big deal.
It really wasn’t a big deal.
“I know a lot more about Dasomi noona than my mother. In the last few years, it was me, not my mother, who watched my sister from the closest place.”
Mother only licked her lips as if she was speechless at the absurd remarks.
“So, if I dare say, you don’t have to worry. Because she’s stronger than anyone I’ve ever seen.”
strong. It was an unfamiliar word, but it didn’t matter. Words that have entered the heart are always unfamiliar.
Besides, what other words are there to describe her?
A person who tries hard to find something that can be done even in situations where it is not strange to give up. That was the woman I knew called Dasom, and that’s why I can say that she is strong.
Looking back, my relationship with my sister was able to come this far because she did not give up and stepped forward.
“Of course, there may be days when I go the wrong way. If a suspicious person approaches, I will shoot you directly. No, other people won’t stand still if it’s not me.”
“Looking at the ⋯⋯ talking bird, those people seem to know Dasomi better than I do.”
Mother, who had her arms crossed, spoke sarcastically, but for some reason, there was no poison like before in her voice.
“Yeah, maybe more than me.”
Finally, I decided to spit out one more unfamiliar word.
“So, you can trust me with confidence.”
After he finished speaking, while he was carefully examining the faces of the two of them, a chorus of laughter came out.
it was my mother
“You say?”
Mother, with a smile on her face, poked and stabbed her father in the waist.
“how about it? Isn’t this enough?”
Just like that, around the time my mother’s finger poked her back four or five times, my father opened his mouth.
“Stop it.”
“Child, if you just say that, the kids get confused again. You have no complaints, right? You got it right, right?”
“⋯⋯Yes.”
My mother and I opened our mouths blankly, bewildered by the sudden situation.
“Sorry. It was all acting.”
“Yes?”
“No ⋯⋯. It took me a lot of courage to bring this up, but I can see that we are still paying attention. Of course, it’s me, anything that comes out of my daughter’s mouth is ok. But my dad is different. On the surface, if you say you want to know, then when you go back, you’ll have to worry about it needlessly again. No, I would too. Anyway, I’m really sorry.”
The mother, who bowed her head as if she had nothing to do with it, immediately spoke to her sister.
“Daughter, I’m sorry for being harsh a little while ago. I started this because I wanted you to be a little more honest, but it was too much. And ⋯⋯ I’m sorry that I didn’t trust you until now.”
“What is ⋯⋯?”
Soon there was a sound of sneezing and sneezing.
“What is it really⋯⋯Please don’t do that⋯⋯!”
The older sister hugged her mother’s neck and began to cry profusely.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Dasom-ah. It was because my mother was afraid. I should have said it earlier, but I’m afraid I’ll only hurt you if I bring up all that has passed.”
“Why is it like this⋯⋯How scared I and myself were before⋯⋯Why is my mother always ⋯⋯!”
“I’m sorry, I won’t do that again. Mom was all wrong.”
As I sat down on the desk in despair and looked at him, I felt a tingling sensation on my buttocks.
Father fidgeted with his hair as if hesitantly, and then opened his mouth.
“I feel sorry for you too.”
“⋯⋯No. I was so excited that I said something out of manners. sorry.”
“Okay, I have to say that much, but I’m so excited.”
I was scratching my head not knowing what to say in the somber atmosphere, so I decided to open my mouth to clear up my doubts.
“Hey, Father.”
“I’m listening.”
“Can I ask you one question?”
“I know.”
“⋯⋯Did you plan this in advance?”
“No, can it be?”
Father shook his head and answered with a bitter smile.
“It was real until your wife intervened. It’s a shame. Even at this age, I can’t understand the feelings of my daughter, so I just whimper like a child.”
“no. It was because my father was worried too.”
“Words.”
Father smiled and looked up at the ceiling without saying a word. It was time to stop talking.
“⋯⋯No, then.”
However, my mouth was already wide open with its greedy jaws, unable to hold back the questions that came out of my mouth.
“How did you know that your mother was acting?”
“Oh, that?”
Father stretched out and continued talking.
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“I’m not the kind of woman who would do that for no reason.”