Chapter 10
With a wide smile, Jun replied, "mom, I did it. I'm going to debut."
Hearing the news, his mother taken aback in surprise, "really? you sure it's confirmed?" Jun looked at her, "yeah, I even signed the contract today. It's a five-member group." But, then, Jun didn't get to see the reaction he wanted. Instead of being happy, she just sighed and sat on the sofa.
Jun went to her and asked, "Mom, aren't you happy?" His mother touched his face and shook her head with a smile, "no, I'm happy, Jun. It's just that everything in your life is going too soon and sigh..." Jun asked her in a worry, "what happened, Mom? You never kept anything away from me. Just tell me, mom. What is worrying you?"
His mother replied, "you know, five years ago, it is a full-moon night like this. Then at around 2 to 3 o'clock, I woke up suddenly and was about to go to your room but I didn't find you. I thought that maybe you slept at the company or at the company's dorm. It's not the first time you did that, so, I just slept.
Only in the morning, I got a call from the hospital and found out about your accident. I blamed myself for a while, for letting you go into this Kpop industry. But then, a year later, after Yungja got an offer from ZC, even though I was extremely unwilling to send my daughter to that company, I still accepted it in a hope that maybe she can live your dream.
And three years pa.s.sed away in a blink of an eye, then just when the doctors were about to give up, you came back to life. I was so
As his mother started crying, Jun sighed and hugged her and said, "don't worry, mom. Nothing's going to happen to me. Mom, can I ask something?" She looked at him and asked, "what is it?" Jun then said, "but first, you have to promise me that you will say yes." His mother replied, "whenever you say that you always ask for something expensive. Fine, I promise. What do you need me to buy?"
Jun asked, "can you move out and live at my grandfather's house? I also need to move to the dorm, anyway. You will be alone, again and I get worried something might get happen to you, again. I know you had to live alone because of me, until now but I'm extremely healthy. Now, there will be also a manager to look after me. So, you don't need to worry. Please, mom. Even if you don't want to, please do it for me and Yungja."
Hearing his request made his mother surprised but still nodded as she never broke the promise to her son. Later, going to his room, Jun thought, "I already realized that I won't ever able to say I'm not your son but a different soul in your son's body. That's why I already accepted you and Yungja as my family, long ago. I will also make sure that you will live happily without any stress and also I will make sure Yungja will reach the top in her career. Come to think of it, I forgot to tell Yungja about it. Hmm, I think it's better to tell her in person."
The next day morning, as he was leaving for Incheon, he called her, thinking she might be in practice. But to his surprise, she lifted up quickly, "h.e.l.lo, Oppa?" "Yungja, you aren't busy, right?" "I just arrived at our training center. What is it, Oppa?" "Come home when you have free time. We need to talk about something important. We can't talk on the phone."
She replied, "ok, I'll ask SeongGi-Oppa about our schedule." Jun then said, "inform me, when you are free. I also had to take leave on that day." As she put her mobile down, "Sparkle's" leader and her roommate, Nayoung asked her, "your brother?" Yungja nodded, "yeah, he said to come home to talk about something important directly."
Nayoung asked her seriously, "perhaps, is it about your mother?" Yungja immediately looked at her in a surprise and in a panic, "what?" Nayoung continued, "no, I don't mean that way. Maybe your mother was just missing you and he was just kidding by saying something important, stuff like that, to let her see you? I mean he was probably worried about her."
Yungja nodded with a smile, "I got what you meant. Well, it doesn't matter either way. I will also get to take a break, this way." Yunseo and maknae Yunji who were walking slowly before them, turned back as they heard the last sentence, "what are you two talking about? You are getting a break, Yungja?"
As Yunseo asked her, Nayoung answered her in place of Yungja, "it's nothing. Her brother called her, that's it. She was thinking of visiting her home." Yunseo asked her curiously, "oh, that handsome Oppa from the hospital? I remember you saying that he's a trainee at Echo Entertainment."
Forgetting the topic, Nayoung asked her, "oh, is Yungja's Oppa handsome?" Yunseo nodded firmly, "very much." Yungja then interrupted them, "hey, our company has a lot of them. Just go and jump on them. Leave my Oppa." Yunseo looked at her slyly, "oh, our dear Yungja has a brother complex." Nayoung immediately put her hands around her shoulder, "C'mon Yungja, she was just kidding. We aren't allowed to date anyone, anyway. By the way, how about we come and visit your house with you? Maybe you can introduce us to him."
Yungja pushed her hand away and looked away while pouting, "no thanks." Just then, their manager, who managed to catch up with them spoke suddenly, "Hey girls, don't tease Yungja around, okay?" As they turned around, they saw SeongGi manage to catch up after parking the vehicle away.