"Shall we meet for a moment?"
I was taken aback when Jeon Jungkook asked to meet briefly. He said he wanted to talk for five minutes, and that he would go to my house and that I should come back in ten minutes. My answer to his question was, "Okay."
* * *
"You didn't come here because you had something to say?"
" ···I feel like I didn't greet you properly earlier.
" ... "
"It's been a long time, huh?"
"Do you have a child?"
My curiosity got the better of me. Hearing those words, Jeon Jungkook couldn't hide his bewilderment. His expression said it all.
" ··· what? "
"I thought I saw you walking with some kid."
"You are wrongI saw it. "
"Why are you so angry?"
" ... "
This made me realize it more clearly. It was Jeon Jungkook's child, and for some reason, Jeon Jungkook was trying to hide it. Why did he try to hide it?
"Have you said everything you wanted to say?"
" ··· Would you like to eat together later?"
"I'm busy because I came into the annex. And why did you come all the way here instead of talking about this over text or phone? You live far away."
"No, it's close."
"When we were dating, it was 40 minutes away from here, but I think he moved in the meantime. With another woman."
"That's not it."
"Okay, I got it. Go in."
I felt a strange sense of envy. It was my fault for breaking up, but I was jealous at the thought that there was already another woman by his side.
* * *
"Sir, I'm on menstrual leave. I have severe menstrual cramps."
My period pain had cleared up a while ago thanks to medication. But I didn't want to go to work. No, I didn't have the confidence to say that yesterday and face Jeon Jungkook.
"Oh my, is something going wrong?"
I was watching the kids play at the playground in front of my house, sucking on an ice cream bar. After a while, as I was finishing my ice cream, a kid stared at me, as if he wanted to eat ice cream.
"I ate it all...
"Honey, should I buy you one?"
" ... (Nod) "
I couldn't just buy it for him, so I looked around to see if there were any parents for him. But there wasn't anyone around who looked like a parent.
At that moment, a man from far away called out, "Transfer rate!" and the baby in front of me ran towards him, shouting, "Daddy!" It seemed like the man was the child's father.
"Excuse me, are you this child's father?"
"Yes. What's going on, Se-eun?"
" jungkook jeon? "
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