CHAPTER 7

"Nice girl"

"Mom you are awake."

"How are you feeling mom? Do you need anything?" Yi jung asked

"A coffee would be great."

"In a minute Ga eul will come back with the coffee."

"Ga eul, nice name is she your girl friend? She doesn't look like your type." So kyung ja said to her son.

"Friend and woo bin's fiancée." She could hear the longing in his voice while saying the name before she get a chance to comment on that door opened and Ga eul came with two coffees in her hand.

"Yi jung I will stay with your mom you can go home and have some sleep." Ga eul said without looking at the patient.

" Hello"

"Sorry madam I didn't know you woke up." Ga eul said in a rushed tune mentally slapping for not knocking.

"It is okay."

"I will visit you later you guys must have many things to talk" Ga eul went to both Yi jung and his mother hands coffee to both of them. Kyung ja realized her son is totally in love this girl. Before getting into her son's love she needs to confess something.

"Why are you still doing this, you know he don't care. Don't except me next time. Good bye mom."

Yi jung got up to leave and she knew if she won't tell the truth now the cycle will repeat. Her son will start ignore until he hear about a new suicide attempt. It is time she should let things go and come clean.

"He was in love with her" Yi jung stopped in his track.

"Who?"

"Your father, when I first met him he was is in love with his then girl friend, a girl with brown eyes who still hold his heart." It still pained her to talk about it but So Kyung ja that her one decision made this much destruction.

"Are you making excuses for his behavior now?" Anger in his son's voice is visible.

"I went to an art show and people were praising this upcoming artist, and there were a lot of world class artists. I saw this beautiful painting and waited to see the person who painted it. He was so handsome still is. He said it is his master piece."

"Brown eyes," yes Yi jung knew that painting, his father's master piece work which still placed in one of the important part of their museum. He remembered spending a lot of time in front of it thinking who will be the owner of those beautiful eyes not to forget the fact he couldn't find any data regarding the model of that painting, eventually he thought it must be some random person.

"I was star struck when your dad started to talk about that paining passionately and I fell in love with him that moment. So I made my father to make business deal with Woo seung museum so it leads us to be friends. I thought he liked be but he was just being polite."

"How did you know about her?" Yi jung asked with doubt in his voice. He can't picture his father a loving and passionate person.

Kyung ja smiled despite it is killing inside, her son had a hard time believing his father is a warm person once.

"When I asked him out he told me he had girlfriend and that I am just a friend that he is sorry if I thought that these outing are dates. I felt humiliated and rejected, in that anger I told my father I would like to marry him".

"Mom"

"I know and I am not proud of it, one decision which destroyed many lives. My dad had a talk with his father, next day there is it our engagement went public news. My dad had our photos of us going out so they twisted story to we are going out for quite some time and this is not an arranged marriage."

"And her ?" Yi jung asked. He felt anger towards his mother and pity for his father and that nameless woman.

"That woman she thought he was cheating the entire time left without giving him a chance to explain. We got married next month I thought we had happy life, had your brother and you. But he was fooling me just like I fooled him, showed me what a great life we can have and took it away. I caught him first with your nanny then maid, secretary, co workers, random girls from bar. He had never discreet about made sure I will know about every one of them. In the end I became the desperate wife of a play boy, a laughing stock in the society. "

Yi jung hated his father with a passion now knowing his story yi jung felt conflicted he needed to get out of the room before it will suffocate him more. Before that he had to tell something to his mom.

"I am angry but I don't hate you mom." He knew how much it took his mother to admit this to her own son.


Ga eul looked around there are more kids than they can handle. At first she started working in the orphanage it is for her college application but now it more than that. She came here in evenings and thought the little kids

"We really need more volunteers here. Do you know anyone who will be interest in working here on their free time" Asked the director of orphanage, who is more of a nanny to kids than a director.

Ga eul shrugged her shoulders even though her friends are interested in community service she is sure none of them will spend it in the small orphanage, they will go to prestige places which will give more color to their resume.

"I will ask my friends, I have to leave now."

"Bye Ga eul. Congrats for your engagement."

"Bye and thank you."