episode_0105

Since then, I’ve been feeling the steady movement, and during that time, my belly has been gradually bulging.

Considering the current timing, it’s about six months into the pregnancy, right? As time passes, I realize that our little star is growing healthily.

It’s been really tough all this time.

As my belly grew, I started to feel burdened by Star’s movements, sometimes digestion didn’t go well, and I even felt severe pain in my waist and hips that were relatively fine during sex.

I’ve been through some painful days.

I’m really grateful that I took the college entrance exam before it got to this point.

Of course, even though it was hard and painful, I don’t blame anyone, not even the husband who impregnated me in a reckless manner, or Star who became more active and quickly drained my energy. It’s a fact that it’s painful, but it’s also more than that, it’s joyful.

I’m happy that the lost sibling I thought I had, the fruit of my love with my husband, is being reborn.

“Sister, what’s wrong? Is your body not feeling well again?”

As I sat on the couch, trying to feel Star inside my belly, Minjeong approached.

“Yeah, Star was kicking again, so I was trying to calm him down.”

“Again? Even though he’s my nephew, he’s overflowing with energy.”

Minjeong, who rarely smiles, marvels with a smile.

Even Minjeong, who always frowns and shows a bad attitude when she sees my husband, changes into a gentle demeanor at this moment. Maybe it’s because it’s my child, she can’t help but like him.

Since the college entrance exam ended, she has been coming to our house every day to talk to Star, and it seems like it’s not a lie.

She loves the unborn Star so much, I wonder how excited she’ll be when he’s born.

But Minjeong, did you know? The child you call your nephew is actually your sister.

“Sister, can I listen to Star’s voice too?”

Minjeong, who pulled her face close to my belly, asked.

But my answer to this question has already been decided.

“Haha. No. You can’t.”

“Eek?”

Minjeong, who seemed surprised by this unexpected answer, ends her sentence with a high pitch.

“If you can’t, you can’t. Today, even my husband couldn’t hear Star’s voice. Everything has its order. No matter how much you are Minjeong, I can’t allow you to hear it before my husband.”

“Where is that written?”

“It’s right here.”

Although Minjeong rarely clings to me with a face that looks like she’s about to cry, unfortunately, my decision is firm. So, absolutely not.

“Ugh… then what about Kang Sunwoo—”

“Juminjeong. Is Star listening to everything?”

“…You have to wait until Kang Sunwoo comes.”

Just as Minjeong was about to say something harsh again, she stopped herself and softened her statement. So far, I’ve been indifferent to whatever Minjeong says, but in front of Star, I want to be especially careful.

While Star is in my belly, he should only hear good things. Even if it’s my husband, if someone curses in front of Star, I’ll scold them. No matter what anyone says, I’m Star’s mother.

“Of course, that’s obvious.”

“I don’t want to hear that right now. Sister~”

“Why is she clinging to me so much today? If it’s not allowed, it’s not allowed!”

Minjeong pleads with a crying voice, but no matter how much she does that, I won’t budge.

Honestly, it’s nice that her hostility has disappeared and she’s become softer lately, but it’s become difficult to deal with her in other ways.

“What are you two doing?”

Junseok oppa, who approached us as Minjeong and I were in a confrontation, said with an incredulous expression.

“Unni and I were having a serious conversation. Oppa doesn’t need to worry.”

“Are you hanging onto Unni to have a serious conversation?”

“I said there’s no need to worry, right?”

As Minjeong corrected her posture, it seemed like she changed the target, this time starting a confrontation with Junseok oppa.

It’s not always like this, but whenever Minjeong comes, Junseok oppa is often with her.

My husband is often away due to work, so with the two of them frequently visiting, there’s hardly any time alone.

Because of that, they are grateful to the two, but the increasingly close relationship between the two of them becomes more and more puzzling.

Even on the days when Minjeong comes alone, Junseok oppa always comes to take her back.

“Oh, Eunhye. I brought some peeled apples, want to eat some?”

“No, you should have said that first, why are you picking a fight with me for no reason?”

“Who’s picking a fight? Just stop talking and eat.”

Seemingly getting closer as they spend time together, Junseok oppa speaks calmly without any tremor in his voice.

Oh, our brother… no, our oppa seems to have adapted well to staying calm in front of women. Thank goodness, thank goodness.

“Hey, oppa. Where is my husband, why hasn’t he come back?”

As he picks up an apple with a fork and asks, Junseok oppa coughs several times as if to avoid answering.

“Oh, it’s Thursday today. He must have gone to work.”

“But didn’t dad say he took a half-day off?”

“Ugh.”

Feeling like he’s hiding something, I stared at oppa who avoided eye contact, waiting for an answer, but he remained silent.

Current time, 6:25 PM.

Usually, it’s a time when he would be coming home from work.

What could be going on that he didn’t say a word to me?

The person who took a half-day off hasn’t come home, and Junseok oppa, who knows everything, is acting like this.

I thought back to my husband’s face I saw this morning.

His face, always smiling gently while brushing my hair away as he lay with his legs stretched out.

There was nothing strange about it. He lovingly washed my body with his strong hands, and we had a meal together with smiles.

Although he stopped touching me since my belly started showing, there was nothing out of the ordinary… Oh, I just remembered, I forgot the morning kiss before he left for work today.

If I forget, my husband, who always demands it first, wouldn’t leave without it, so why?

“Hello? When are you coming, Kang Sunwoo?”

It was Minjeong who broke the silence in the living room. Was she so frustrated just watching that she decided to call and ask herself?

“Okay, got it. Hang up.”

— Click

“What did my husband say?”

Minjeong, holding my hand tightly, smiled and said, “He’s almost here, so don’t worry, Unni.”

She calmed my anxious heart.

If I had been a little later, I might have fallen into an unfounded anxiety, wondering if there was an accident on the way my husband was coming home, or if I, who had become sensitive since becoming pregnant, had done something reckless.

In fact, when I fell into such thoughts and started to cry,

— Don’t say nonsense, Unni. You’re the one who’s always calm in front of Kang Sunwoo, you can’t possibly get tired of it. If you ever do, watch out! It’ll be the end for you with his family and me and mom.

She had told me.

“Sorry, I keep getting anxious when my husband is not around…”

“Don’t be like that, Unni. If you’re anxious, won’t I be anxious too? And you know well what kind of person Kang Sunwoo is.”

“Still… there might be a woman like a fox who could stick around. It’s dangerous for someone with a weak heart.”

“Don’t worry. If that fox and Kang Seon-woo mess with me, they’ll both end up dead in my hands.”

“Don’t kill our master!”

“T-That was just a joke!”

“Even if it was just a joke, there are things you shouldn’t say!”

How dare you even think of saying you’ll kill our master? No matter how close we are as family, there’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed.

Before that, I’ll just smack you with my hand!

“I’m back, honey.”

As I clenched my fists, the door opened with the sound of my husband’s voice. Hurriedly getting up from my seat, I walked towards the entrance with relatively stable steps.

“Welcome back, honey!”

“Did you have a good time?”

“Yeah. I had a good time with Minjeong and Junseok oppa!”

Erasing the gloomy expression as if nothing had happened, I smiled and nestled into my husband’s arms, cautiously embracing him, feeling his warmth deeply.

Now is the seventh most important time of the day, and the two people who are giving me strange looks are ignored.

“Haha, that’s good. Thank you both for being with my wife.”

“Stop it. Stop it, Seonwoo. What do we have to be thankful for between us?”

“Don’t thank me. I came to see my sister and nephew.”

While it seemed like my husband and Seonwoo had completely hit it off, Minjeong, who was making an uncomfortable face unlike her brother, was not pleased.

“Honey, something important came to mind, can you sit in the living room for a moment?”

“Something important?”

Nodding in response to my question, my husband held my hand tightly and led me to the living room.

Sitting on the sofa again, using the coffee table as a dividing line, I watched my husband rummage through the bag he brought from the other side.

For some reason, there was a red stain on the collar of the shirt he was wearing.

“Can you read this once? I’ve done all the parts that need to be written, so all you have to do is stamp it, honey.”

“What is it? Is it another contract renewal?”

As my husband handed me a document, mentioning the contract, the other two approached and asked, “What do you mean by contract renewal?”

Oh, the contract was supposed to be a secret between my husband and me, but I slipped up again…

“No, it’s not like that.”

My husband denied the contract, and pointed to the word written at the top of the document.

“We still haven’t filed for marriage, right?”

Looks like Byul is pregnant again.