Lee Se-ah likes it rough (1) [Start of Part 2]

I’m tired.

I scratched my body and greeted the weakly shining sunlight.

I remember putting Ji-hye to sleep in Ji-hye’s room and lying down myself, but I don’t remember anything after that.

Looking at Ji-hye’s phone, it’s only a little past 6 o’clock.

I don’t know if I took a monthly leave, so I went to the kitchen to prepare food for my two younger siblings.

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I made a simple meal in about an hour with the ingredients in the refrigerator.

From stew to simple stir-fries.

I’m not good at cooking, but cooking itself is easy to make.

However, adjusting the seasoning in the process is quite difficult.

I followed the internet instructions, so at least the seasoning suited my taste.

I didn’t usually do it well, and I did it suddenly, so the appearance wasn’t great.

If I had to say it was sudden, it was just because I thought Ji-hye would be relieved if I showed her that I was doing something on my own.

If her oppa, who usually just made do with the side dishes at home, suddenly cooked a meal, she’d ask if I was sick, but she wouldn’t dislike it.

I scooped rice from the electric rice cooker, which was noisily releasing steam at the time I expected them to wake up.

I placed the stew in the middle of the table and put the stir-fried dishes on plates and placed them on the table.

Ji-hye yawned and came into the kitchen, looking back and forth between the table and me.

She must have been surprised that someone who doesn’t cook like this in the morning suddenly did.

Ji-hye, who splashed water on her face in the bathroom, sat in a chair and picked up her chopsticks.

,”Why did you cook?”

,”So you can eat and go to work.”

,”…Yeah, but why? You almost never cook.”

,”Do you remember what I said yesterday? It means I’m going to show you that I’ve changed, so don’t worry.”

,”It’s like you’re a person who’s changed because you don’t have much time left to live, so it makes me worry even more…”

After laughing, I patted Ji-hye on the back and knocked on my door to wake up Joo-ah.

,”Hey, wake up. Let’s eat and sleep.”

The sound of tableware hitting ceramic dishes came from the table.

,”Heua…can’t I just sleep without eating?”

Her eyes were bloodshot and her face was exhausted.

Feeling the hot air in the room, it seemed like she had been gaming all night.

She has a bed, she has a computer. There’s no reason for a broadcasting gamer to refuse a game.

I noticed that my black shirt and shorts were too big and hanging loosely on her.

I don’t remember taking them out for her, so she must have taken them out and put them on herself, but did she change her clothes overnight?

,”Eat a little and sleep. But where did you get the clothes?”

,”Hueaam…they were in the closet. So I took them out and put them on.”

,”Next time, either ask me to take them out for you, or tell me and then take them out.”

,”You’re not angry about what happened yesterday, are you?”

She looked at me with a grinning face.

If I was angry about what happened, I would have gotten angry right away if she didn’t come out, but I’m not angry.

She’s a bit rough and impolite, but she said what she had to say, and I gave her room for improvement.

It’s a situation where I can’t praise her, but I can’t curse her either.

But if she consistently shows a slightly changed appearance, wouldn’t the way people look at her change?

I sat Joo-ah down, who was walking slowly, and I sat down and picked up my rice.

The events of yesterday still lingered, making it difficult to start a conversation, and only silence flowed.

I’m not the type to talk much while eating, so it was even more difficult to start a conversation.

While I was silently eating rice and side dishes, Joo-ah broke the silence first.

,”I don’t want to eat and sleep…”

I looked at Ji-hye.

I watched her anxiously, wondering if she would say anything, but Ji-hye was silently emptying her rice bowl.

I was going to stop her if she got angry. Knowing that she wasn’t, I unknowingly let out a sigh of relief.

,”No, eat and sleep.”

,”I’m sleepy because I played games all night…”

,”That’s the second time. Eat even a little and sleep.”

When I spoke with strength in my voice, Joo-ah made a sulky face.

And she pushed her rice bowl towards me as if complaining and leaned back in her chair.

,”I don’t want to…I just want to sleep without eating…”

Ji-hye tapped my rice bowl with her chopsticks.

Realizing it was a signal, I looked at Ji-hye, who nodded with a motherly, benevolent expression.

Does that mean I don’t have to feed her?

Still, I can’t allow it. I can’t tolerate rice that hasn’t even been eaten with one spoonful.

,”That’s the third time. Eat and sleep.”

,”I don’t want to…why do you keep telling me to eat? My stomach hurts if I eat and sleep.”

,”Then are you going to prepare your own meals after this time?”

,”…Does it have to go that far?”

,”It’s the etiquette of our house’s mealtime. If possible, eat even a little when you eat, and I won’t force you to stay in your seat, but try to keep it as much as possible.”

In fact, it’s a promise that’s broken except when my parents are home, but it’s something that needs to be kept now.

I don’t know when my parents will come, but if Joo-ah has to live in our house, she has to learn the rules of our house.

Therefore, I was thinking of educating Joo-ah a little strongly until she adapted to our house.

It’ll only be with words, but still, so she can adapt to the house as much as possible.

So that she can greet my parents even if they come, and blend into the house very naturally.

…I should have taught her these basic things instead of sex back then, I was so stupid.

,”Why are you suddenly telling me that?”

Joo-ah pouted with a sulky tone.

I don’t know what she’ll think, but I at least said this with the meaning of a real family.

To prevent my parents from kicking out Joo-ah, who doesn’t know anything about our house’s situation or rules.

Just in case, it’s giving her the minimum defense mechanism that she can somehow get through.

My mother might get really angry and kick her out, but if she was going to kick her out, she might change her mind after seeing Joo-ah adapt well at home.

It’s an action without any certainty, but in order to change, I have to do something like this.

It’s definitely not difficult for a bum who’s always lazing around at home to teach one of his siblings.

Ji-hye can’t tell her after she gets off work, and we fought like that yesterday… But for now, all three of us are siblings.

,”If you’re going to live in the house, you have to know the house’s behavior, right?”

,”It’s just a little strange because you didn’t tell me until now…?”

,”I feel the same way, oppa, did you eat something wrong yesterday?”

Ji-hye also chimed in from the side and attacked me.

She knows very well that I’ll get hurt if she says that without knowing it’s because of her.

I just smiled bitterly and swallowed the words that were about to come out of my throat.

,”Isn’t it something you can’t cooperate with when I say I’m going to change a little?”

,”It’s really awkward because you’re changing overnight.”

,”Yeah, it’s awkward because you’re not the oppa who used to play with me.”

,”…If you two don’t want to get scolded while eating, can you just eat?”

The way they’re looking at me isn’t very good.

It’s not that I feel bad or strange, it’s just that I don’t like the expression that they’re worrying too much.

I’ve been living a bit irresponsibly until now, so I’m going to make sure I do it right, so why aren’t you helping and interfering?

It might be awkward to change overnight, but I’m going to change, so you guys have to adapt.

While receiving their burdensome gazes, a quiet mealtime continued again.

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,”Joo-ah, you know the house password and stuff, right?”

I said to Joo-ah, who was dressed simply and playing games in her room.

What should I do with this younger sibling who says she woke up after eating and is playing games in her room?

I wasn’t worried about the game, but I was a little worried about whether it was okay for her not to sleep like that.

Is it okay because she’s young? Ah, that’s something to be a little envious of.

,”I know, I know. Ji-hye unni told me everything. But, you know you’re a little weird today, right, oppa?”

Joo-ah, who turned her chair and squatted on it, glared at me with half-closed eyes.

I’ve changed overnight, but I don’t think it’s something to look at like that.

Rather, it was understandable that Joo-ah would find it strange since she had only seen me change my behavior in three days.

If a son who had been living a dissipated life suddenly started acting and speaking like an adult, wouldn’t he be surprised?

Moreover, if an oppa whose first image was blurry changes like this.

On the other hand, if I thought that Ji-hye had changed to be like me, I don’t think I would be able to laugh at all.

I’d pick her up right away and run to the hospital, asking if she was sick.

,”I just thought I should act like an adult after seeing you say that yesterday.”

,”What did I do yesterday? Are you saying I’m rude, or that I don’t have a sense of what’s going on?”

,”Ji-hye shouldn’t say that either, so I’m saying this when I have the chance, but at least keep the minimum amount of courtesy between family members.”

,”The minimum? Ah, you’re saying what I said yesterday was a little too much?”

,”I’m glad you understand. No matter how much Ji-hye talks back to me, she’s at least kept the limit of being my oppa, so please keep that much too.”

Joo-ah nodded. Is she good at adapting, or is she just simple?

The more I look at her, the more I wonder if she’s pretending to be innocent like a child, or if she’s originally like that.

She seems to have a good sense of what’s going on, but she doesn’t, so I scratched my chin without realizing it and left the room.

,”I’m going out, so keep an eye on the house.”

,”Where are you going?”

,”I’m going to meet someone.”

,”Okay! I’m in the middle of a game, so I won’t see you off!”

She really likes games, if I take her to a PC bang, she’ll probably pile up wrappers of food she ate in her seat while playing games.

I put on my shoes roughly, left the house, and sent a KakaoTalk message in front of the elevator.

[Let’s see each other today.]

[Huh, I was going to rest today. And why so early in the morning?]

[I want to talk, you hate it when I say let’s go to a cafe.]

[I’m going to the cafe, but what;;; Okay, you know the cafe near the VR room, right?]

[Ah, that place? Okay. I’ll go and wait, so come slowly.]

I arrived on the first floor and walked out through the open door, a little busily.