Friday at 5pm.
She woke up with her eyes half-open and got out of his arms to go to the bathroom.
-Wow...is it dirty?
Jungkook turns around and looks at Jay, who is lying down at an angle and talking to him, wondering when he woke up.
-Ah...I told you not to do it inside...
-It's flowing... It's a nice sight.
His traces from this morning flow down between her legs.
-Ah! It doesn't matter... I can't get pregnant anyway.
At her words, Jeongguk frowns and gets up from the bed.
-Those words are painful for me to hear.
When he hugs her from behind, she says it's hard and pushes his arm away, then goes into the bathroom.
Jungkook also puts on a robe and comes out of the bathroom in the living room after washing up.
-Aren't you hungry? Should I make it for you or order it for you?
-I'll order it. It's a hassle to clean up. But...why did you come out with all your clothes on?
He asks with a displeased expression as he sees her coming out of the room in her training outfit.
-I'm scared I'll be eaten by a beast. I'll sleep today and go tomorrow. I don't have the energy to move, and every joint in my body hurts. Especially one place.
-Should I apply some medicine?
-Where are you going to put your hands? You pervert!
He approached her with a shy smile as she sat down on the sofa and talked, and gave her a short kiss.
-You rascal... I'm hungry. Order me some kimchi fried rice. I'm old and worn out and don't have any energy, so I can't order it.
Jungkook looks into Jay's eyes as he lies down with his head on his lap and talks.
It's a face that looks like it could die of happiness.
After finishing the meal that had arrived without her noticing, he opened Jeongguk's laptop and handed her a mug full of warmed milk as she was working.
-Drink. Stop working, drink, and go to bed. You're tired.
-I'm scared of that little beast, so I'll sleep alone.
-Absolutely not.
Sigh... I let out a playful sigh, emptying a cup of warm milk and closing my laptop.
I'm really sleepy, I can't do this anymore. I follow her into the room, my mind racing.
-I won't. I absolutely won't. I'll be fine.
He covers Jeong-guk's mouth with both palms as he approaches to kiss him and speaks firmly.
-Fatally. Just a kiss. That's fine.
-No. You're too good. I don't think it'll end with just a kiss.
Jungkook smiles at the words, "I understand," and lies down on the bed.
Jay naturally cuts his arm and goes into his arms.
Saturday at 2pm.
Jungkook, who opened his eyes slightly, looks at Jay, who is still not awake.
This woman was sick, both physically and mentally.
The first time I saw him was in the winter of his 19th year. It was a facility that took in and raised poor children without families. It was commonly called an orphanage.
The 24-year-old girl greeted the director with a bright face, saying it had been a long time.
-It's nothing special... I'm getting married!
My heart sank strangely when I saw her smiling and handing me the invitation with a shy face.
-Oh my gosh!!! Marriage? Oh my gosh!!! Congratulations!!
The face of the director who was hugging her and jumping around.
Footsteps that are drawn without you knowing it.
I just wanted to look a little closer.
The man who got out of the driver's seat greeted her politely, put his arm around her shoulder, and greeted her by saying that he was her future husband.
Jeongguk thinks that her face smiling at him is like sunshine.
-You absolutely must come! Come and see this beauty. I'll be the most beautiful bride in the world that day.
-Okay. I'll definitely go. It's someone's wedding. I'll be the prettiest guardian in the world.
The director holds Jay's hand tightly and speaks with a proud expression.
-Why don't you tell me what you want to ask?
-Huh? Oh... over there... director...
She looks cute when she lowers her head and talks more.
Wow... that guy is lucky. He turns around thinking, but strangely, his eyes are drawn to Jeong-guk.
-Should I do it?
I nod my head at the man's words.
"If it's not too much trouble... could you please sit in the main hall? Jay's been saying this for a while now. He really wants you to sit there. If he's a little more ambitious, he'd like to walk in holding the director's hand. If you'd just give us permission, we'll take care of the preparations."
Her shoulders shook slightly at the man's words.
You're crying...
She, who had been smiling brightly until just a moment ago, lowered her head and shed tears.
The director carefully held her in his arms,
- Then. I should do it. I'm the one who's so grateful that you asked me to do that.
Are you from here...?
Jeong-guk stands right next to the director, his steps leading him without him realizing it.
-I...hello.
He must be crazy... His mouth moved before he could even come to his senses.
-Huh? Ah. This is our Jeongguk.
-nice to meet you.
I take his hand as he asks for a handshake.
-Director, I think it would be difficult to go to Seoul alone... Shall we go together?
Crazy guy...what are you talking about...I scratched my head and the director spoke.
- Really? Since I'm going to be staying in Seoul anyway, I should go check out your place. Is that okay?
-Of course. Then we'll prepare the accommodations and the director's hanbok. It would be nice if you could come a week early and go on a trip with Jay.
To the man's affectionate words, the director replies that she can be so kind to him.
He's so kind. He's polite. He's cool. He's an adult man.
-Jungkook, let's go together. Let's go early and see Seoul together. Sounds good, right?
-Yes, I like it.
-This is Jeon Jungkook. He's graduating this year. He's getting a job in Seoul and moving down next month... It's nice that he's going to Seoul...but I'm also a little worried.
She wipes her tears and smiles at the director's worried words.
"Why worry? They're the director's children. The director's children are all doing well and taking care of themselves. They're all raised so well."
Another thump. My heart sinks.
Polite and pretty words. A kind and gentle face.
Ah... I... have fallen in love with this woman.
This woman, who smiles like sunshine and speaks sweetly, will become my first love. And that's quite painful.
-nice to meet you.
I carefully took her hand as she offered a handshake.
A person with warm hands.
-You've raised him well. He's the best raised kid here, both in terms of character and height. Isn't he handsome?
Jay gives a thumbs up in admiration to the director's words.
It looks so cute.
Jay says goodbye and holds out his hand from the car, saying he's leaving now.
-I'll come pick you up. Take care of your health, Jungkook?
-yes?!
Her own name came out of her mouth.
For the first time, I felt that I was glad that my name was Jungkook. I was glad that I had a name so that that voice could call my name.
-Please take good care of the director. He is truly precious to me.
-Don't worry.
A month later, in January.
Jungkook turned 20, and a week before the wedding, she arrived at the orphanage alone to pick up the director and Jungkook.
Jeong-guk thinks as he watches her chattering on the way to Seoul that her husband-to-be couldn't come because of work.
That's right. Seeing my heart sink again and my thoughts pause, I realize I still like this woman. What a cruel first love.
For a week, he made the director's hanbok and gave Jeong-guk a suit and shoes as a gift to congratulate him on getting a job.
We also provided the necessary living supplies for the studio apartment that Jungkook would be living in and traveled around Seoul and its surrounding areas.
The story I heard was about her past.
I got to know the director because my parents were from this facility.
Both of them were abandoned before they even had 100 days left, and my father, who became an adult three years earlier, left the facility first.
Although they liked each other, the reality was so dark that they couldn't confess their feelings, so Dad became independent and worked day and night to bring Mom back.
The year my mother became an adult and had to leave the facility, my father rented a small villa and bought an old used car.
He went to the orphanage and proposed to his mother out of the blue.
He held out a thin gold ring that could be crushed even if a child pressed it, and said that he would give her a shinier and thicker ring in 10 years, so that she would be with him and cry more often out of joy than out of sadness.
The mother said that instead of crying, she laughed so hard that she was out of breath at her father's sudden proposal.
It was a rattling and noisy used car, but he said he enjoyed the ride to Seoul with his mother.
They say it was the first time they held hands and kissed.
So, a year later, I became confident and grew up without being discouraged even though the environment was tight.
Ten years later, Mom received a thicker gold ring as Dad had promised.
In the summer of his second year of high school, when he was 18, his parents asked him what he wanted to eat most, and Jay answered that it was fried shrimp, which was his dad's favorite.
Half a day filled with anticipation at the news of a celebration party for his father's promotion. That day, Jay lost his family.
A dump truck was driving in the wrong direction due to drowsy driving even though it was broad daylight.
It swallowed the Jay family's small car, and the parents died on the spot.
Upon hearing the news, the director ran from Sokcho to Seoul in one go and became the guardian without hesitation.
Thanks to my parents' diligence, I was able to receive insurance money, and thanks to the director's prompt handling, I received compensation. The director took care of everything. When he told me I couldn't live alone, I sold my house and headed to Sokcho with him.
Thanks to that, I was able to graduate without going astray and go to college, and thanks to the director's careful management of my inheritance, I didn't have any financial difficulties even though I came to Seoul alone.
That's how I met Seokjin at the university I entered.
But Seokjin's parents had no idea about her upbringing.
Just an orphan from an orphanage with no parents.
It didn't matter how long or why I was in the orphanage.
He didn't want his only son, whom he had raised with great care, to marry a pitiful woman with nothing to be proud of.
I admired her for shining brightly despite the wounds she had endured.
She lost her parents, even though she didn't even know they existed. It's amazing how someone who endured all that pain could shine so brightly.
After hearing that story, she didn't like Seokjin even more, but when she saw Seokjin's smiling face next to her, she felt grateful for his presence.
On the wedding day.
She was right.
The most beautiful bride in the world.
I thought it might be because of the daggers in my eyes, so I glanced around the bridal waiting rooms on other floors, but the most beautiful one was Jay.
-You're pretty. You look really pretty today, sis. You look like a princess.
-What is the princess!!!!
Jay, with his face flushed and his head bowed, smiled shyly.
"They've become close over the past week, but it's time to talk later." Jeongguk felt a pang of disappointment at her words, which seemed to draw a line. But he decided to shrug it off, thinking, "Well... if we can just stay close, then so be it."
Jay, who smiled brightly next to Seokjin. From the moment the wedding vows were read and they left the stage, the director was sobbing and wiping away tears, while he was busy taking photos of her.
As expected, Seokjin's mother didn't even come to the bridal waiting room and had a face full of complaints throughout the wedding ceremony.
Seokjin's father hesitates, trying to keep an eye on his wife.
I reluctantly got up when the photographer told me to come take a picture.
A love that was achieved by enduring such humiliation.
It was incredibly tear-jerking.
Even though I loved so hard and promised to be with you forever in front of so many people, in the end, that love was shattered.
Until the very end, he tore himself to pieces and ended that tearful love.
I used her wounds, which were so badly damaged both physically and mentally, as an excuse to stay by her side.
I wanted a relationship that was not just physical but also emotional, but if that wasn't possible, it wouldn't be bad if I could keep her by my side like this.