Big Life

Chapter 75

Chapter 75


“What?! A car crash?!”


Dasul said loudly .


A few customers looked at her .


“H, How? How did that happen? How badly?”


- I don’t know, I have to go to the hospital . I got my sister’s call so I’m going . My mom hasn’t picked up . I’m sorry for calling so late .


Just then Dasul realized it’s already been 30 minutes .


But she didn’t care . She shook her head and continued .


“Don’t worry about me . You’re driving, right? Don’t drive recklessly even though you’re in a hurry . Ok?”


-Ok . I’ll call later .


“Hm . Be ok . Your dad will be fine . ’


-thank you . I’ll call later .


The call hung up .


Dasul closed her eyes . She didn’t have a religion but she still prayed .


***


“Stop it . No one died!”


Sukjae said annoyed .


He had just lied down in the bed .


Myungja, Jaeyn, and Jaegun were standing next to the bed . The two girls were sniffling as they had just cried .


“Stop, really . Jaegun, you take your mom and sister and go home . ”


Jaegun only looked down at his body . His left wrist and the ball of his right foot was fractured . There were small hits around his body as well .


It was a crash from the apartment that he had worked in . A person had back up, not seeing Sukjae taking out the trash .


Jaegun felt horrible and guilty


If he had just told him more forcefully to stop working .


Then this wouldn’t have happened . It was his fault .


“Now, stop . ”


Sukjae’s glance turned to Jaegun . Jaegun continued .


“Don’t work . Stop working . Please,”


Sukjae closed his eyes .


Jaegun waited for an answer .


But Sukjae didn’t respond or open his eyes .


John sighed and turned around .


“Where are you going?”


“To get his clothes . ”


“Let me go too . I need to get stuff too . Mom, I’ll go with him . ”


Jaegun and Jaeyn went away .


Myungja sat in the chair next to eh bed and said .


“I know you’re not sleeping . ”


“ . . . . ”


“Say something . How bad do you think he feels . Why are you so reactionless?”


“I’ll do better so don’t talk to me . ”


“What if you had just stopped when he told you to . He’s doing well . He already got so many awards . His books are selling well? He comes up on the internet . Aren’t you proud? Why do you not like him?”


Myungja stood up . She didn’t really expect an answer .


Just then .


“It’s not that . ”


Myungja stopped .


He was breathing heavily with his eyes closed . And his voice came out slowly .


“I don’t want to see Jaegun tirelessly writing . He doesn’t sleep or eat for 4 days to write . He smiles and cries in his own thoughts . He doesn’t listen . I screamed and told him to write while taking care of himself . But he doesn’t listen . ”


“ . . . ”


Myungja sat back down .


He continued as he swallowed once .


“He became a writer even when I warned him . That summer, he didn’t come out of his room even once because he was writing . ”


She nodded her head . She knew it too .


“Some days, I couldn’t sleep . So I got up pretending to go to the bathroom . And I looked at Jaegun’s room . And you know what I saw? He was bleeding from his nose but he was still typing . ”


“ . . . . ?”


“I knew then as a father . If this is a writer’s job, I’m not going to let him do that . What does it matter if you’re going to write something for others but you can’t help yourself?”


His face turned pale .


Myungja"s hand was on his hand .


“That day, I hit him . I just had to . It hurts when I think of him . He’s going to write like that forever . Probably yesterday, and today too if I didn’t get hurt . ”


Myungja put her head on his chest .


Sukjae put his hand on her hair . It was the result of the years of age .


***


On Sunday, Bandi and Lunia had a lot of customers .


There was a place for one person just close to the entrance . It was the sign meeting for Writer Ha Jaegun .


‘Phew, I’m nervous . ’


Jaegun was looking at himself through the bathroom mirror . His clothes looked nice with a plain sweater and jeans . He wanted to look comfortable to the readers .


‘What if no one comes . ’


Jongjin came in .


“Hey, It’s about to start . When are you going to be there?”


“So it’s not like no one came . ”


“What . What’s that?”


“No, let’s go . ”


Jaegun came out of the bathroom with Jongjin .


It felt good to be with Jongjin .


“Is there a problem?”


A 40s woman smiled at him and said . It was Segyung . It was the first time that he had actually seen her .


“No, I’m fine . ”


“Sit down . It’s about to come on the announcements . ”


“Jaegun, I’ll be over there . ”


“Ah, yes…”


Jaegun sat down on his special place . The people were looking at him . It was so awkward for Jaegun .


“Um… you’re Pyung Cheon Yu, right?”


Jaegun lifted his head quickly .


A teen looking to be in college looked shyly at him .


“Ahah, yes . It’s right . ”


“I’m sorry, I was wondering if you could sign this, too . ”


The teen pulled out a book of Pegelon’s Magician . Jaegun smiled and nodded .


“Of course . ”


“Ah, thank you . I thought you would only do Storm and Gale so I wasn’t sure if I should ask . ”


“No this is mine too . What is your name?”


“Ah, Im Park Jusik . ”


Jaegun signed carefully .


His practice paid off .


He didn’t care that it wasn’t Storm and Gale .


“Here . ”


“Thank you writer . I’ll be reading . ”


“Yes, thank you . ”


***


The teen was smiling to himself .


And he pulled out his phone and took a picture of the signature . And went to twitter and posted it .


-ㅋㅋㅋ Pyung Cheon Yu . Got it signed . It was a Storm and Gale sign meeting but I got a sign with Pegelon’s Magician . Haha


There were so many comments that couldn’t all be read .


At the same time, the news spread through the many SNS users .


Not knowing this, Jaegun was only worried about getting embarra.s.sed because no one would come .