Chapter 155 - Parents Love (1/2)
”Eomma, I know I've asked this a few times, but what do you know about my biological family?” Eun Ha asked Madame Jung, while saving all the food that her mother had brought for her and Ye Rim. The day had been exhausting, and her mother was traveling back home the next morning. Eun Ha was taking the time to have a 'mother and daughter' moment. She missed that.
Madame Jung sighed,
”Did this matter come back to you for a special reason, Eun Ha?”
”Ah ... Mom. Sometimes I wonder how you couldn't know ... Knowing me since I was a little girl,” the young fairy said, trying to study her mother's face. Madame Jung gave a small smile,
”Mothers always know, Eun Ha.”
”So did you know that I wasn't 'normal'? When were you sure? And why didn't you tell me?”
”Mothers always wish to do everything for their children. And I thought the more you struggled to adapt, the easier it would be for you. If you don't feel entitled to be different, I mean. People tend to be very mean with everything they don't understand,” told her foster mother, staring at her daughter as she handed her another plastic container for Eun Ha to put in the fridge. ”There were already too many rumors and too much malice, for you to deal with self-doubts. After all, I didn't know how else I could help. Our town's special people, your mother Myung Hee and your father Jeong Hyuk, were no more.”
Eun Ha looked at his mother in shock,
”The way you speak ... It seems that you knew them. Why didn't you tell me that before?”
”Ah, I always wondered what our conversation would be like, daughter. And how would I justify myself for not having told you before? I cannot say that I regret it. It was certainly due to the weakness of a mother who loves her daughter very much. I wanted you to be my daughter and not theirs. If I said that they were special, you would give more importance to them than to me. That's the kind of petty person I am. The story of your life with me would be less important than the story of the life you never had with them. It was nobody's fault they died. But you were my daughter, then.”
Eun Ha was silent, feeling her face flush with emotion and confused feelings. Then she dropped the pots and closed the refrigerator, and went to her mother for a long hug.
Mother and daughter hugged silently as thick tears streamed down their faces,
”Thank you so much, Eomma! For taking such good care of me!”
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Ye Rim, who was entering the kitchen, returned silently where she had come from, not wanting to interrupt the conversation between mother and daughter she had just overheard 'unintentionally'. What did they mean by 'being special'?
After the chaotic events, and having encountered supernatural beings close to acquaintances, Ye Rim felt she was becoming a little paranoid, 'Maybe I shouldn't have listened to that sad excuse for a shaman.' She went to the living room balcony, where her father was, watching the neighborhood and drinking beer.
”Appa! You could stay a little longer, couldn't you? ”
”Madame Jung drives like a Formula 1 racer and has no idea. If I don't take her back she'll kill herself on the road,” he mumbled. ”But the important thing is that I saw that you are doing well. Eun Ha made her dream come true and you… You are following your dreams too, aren't you?” He sounded doubtful, and she felt like justifying,
”I know it's taking too long. For a moment I doubted it. But maybe I lacked maturity, earlier.”
”Ye Rim, we have discussed a lot in the past, before you left the house. Today you are an a.d.u.l.t woman. I just wonder if I didn't do something wrong, letting you do everything you wanted to do.”
”Do you think trying to be tough on me would work?”