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This short story is serialized from the author's point of view.
(The first part of the talk is from Yoonji's perspective, and the second part is from Yoongi's perspective.)
“What if something happened… I can’t contact you both…”
Yoonji's homeroom teacher is gently stroking her head as she lies in the hospital room receiving an IV drip. Today, Monday, should be her busiest day, but she's been forced to postpone her appointment and is now in Yoonji's hospital room. The doctor said she'll need six stitches in her head and will need to stay in the hospital for a few days due to bruising and a slightly torn ligament. Next to Yoonji, who cries bitterly, saying it's her fault for not taking care of her properly, is her homeroom teacher, her temporary guardian.
"Don't blame yourself too much. Yoonji has a slight head injury, so it'll take some time for her to wake up. If your family arrives, please call them."
“···Yes, thank you, Doctor.”
As the saying goes, time heals all wounds. Ten minutes, thirty minutes, an hour... As time passed, I received text messages from Yoonji's shooting coach, private tutor, and other people, and now I've become indifferent. Of course, I couldn't help but feel a little torn when I saw Yoonji.
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I didn't know when I'd fallen asleep, but the sun was already setting. The homeroom teacher forced a smile at Yoonji, whose complexion had improved slightly since she'd fallen asleep. "I should go now," she said, and was about to get dressed and leave the hospital room when a notification rang on Yoonji's phone.
KakaoTalk, KakaoTalk, KakaoTalk -
He said something like, "We fought, so what?", but Yoon-gi couldn't help but worry about his younger brother. He immediately sent a text message when he found out that his younger brother was really hurt. The homeroom teacher said that he could come to the emergency room here at Cheonhwa. After telling him how his brother was doing, he ended the conversation with Yoon-gi's text message. He ended it by thanking him for taking care of the child.
“Please go to Cheonhwa Hospital as soon as possible.”
Yoon-ki, whose mind was racing, showed signs of anxiety, chewing his fingernails. He should have gone right away when he said he was hurt earlier. He felt sorry that his little sister ended up like this because of his pride. Thanks to the taxi driver's top speed, the 30-minute distance arrived in 15 minutes. He ran breathlessly and quickly went to Yoon-ki's hospital room, saying that he was patient Min Yoon-ji's guardian. After receiving an IV drip, he saw her lying upright and felt sorry, and grabbed Yoon-ki's cold hand.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry, Min Yoonji… Because of me… I’m sorry, really…”
“Tell me what you’re sorry about.”
Yoonji suddenly woke up and burst out laughing at the sight of Yoongi's tears. What... what are you doing? Why are you awake? Yoongi, who was crying, panicked and quickly wiped his tears away. He must have been quite embarrassed, as his face slowly turned red from his ears. Yoonji treated Yoongi like a child, and Yoongi, embarrassed, washed his face dry and told him to shut up. They are typical siblings.
“Min Yoongi, the proudest person in the world, is crying because of me. I should write about it in my diary.”
“Shut up.. X is really annoying. Who’s going to get hurt?”
“Do you think I got hurt because I wanted to hurt someone? Those X’s hit me first..!!”
Ah, crazy. This is X. Like typical siblings, Yoon-gi would tolerate people messing with him, but if you messed with his younger sister, Yoon-ji, he would get angry and become fierce like an ox. Yoon-ji, who knew Yoon-gi's personality well, felt that this was X, and tried to brush it off, but you can't put water back in the bottle. Yoon-gi asks who did this with a different look than before in a hoarse voice. He says he'll kill you if you don't tell.
“I... I just rolled over. I misspoke, I misspoke.”
“Aren’t you going to tell me, Min Yoonji? Do you want me to just go into the classroom and do some fucking shit?”
“No, oppa, calm down.. I’ll tell you everything, okay?”
“No, tell me now. At least keep in touch.”
Even though Yoon-ji and Yoon-gi were at loggerheads, Yoon-gi absolutely couldn't tolerate this. Yoon-ji calmly named the kids who had been bullying her, and Jin Ga-yeon, the instigator of the commotion, said she knew. Perhaps because Jin Ga-yeon was the one who loved Yoon-gi, who was her own blood relative, Yoon-ji couldn't be gentle with him. She just didn't like it.
“··· Oppa, don’t just… say X or anything. Okay?”
"Okay, so let go. I'll text you later. I called Mom."
“The report is so fast... It’s annoying.”
Knock, bang -
I closed the door as much as I could to make sure I wasn't mad, and because I didn't want to hear the voice of the kid who hit my younger sibling, I opened KakaoTalk and sent a message to Jin Ga-yeon.
“He can only harass me, so why are all these people around him being like X? It’s so annoying.”
Yoon-gi, who had calmed down a bit, pushed his hair back and went back into Yoon-ji's hospital room. When he went in, Yoon-ji told him to go home because her mother would be arriving soon.
“I’m the guardian now?”
“My real guardian is my mom, right? Should I go?”
“You don’t just think she’s your mom, do you? She’s my mom too?”
His single word silenced them, and then they both burst out laughing. They dissed each other and laughed as if they had never been so cold before. When their mother came, they lightly slapped Yoonji and Yoongi on the back, and both of them had to take the brunt of their mother's nagging. No matter how much they fought, one of them cared about their younger sibling, and the other cared about their older brother, if not to the point of caring about their older brother, so it seemed that they had to face an issue in the end to make up. With this opportunity, the Min siblings' murderous cold war ended here.
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