Dear Eddert - Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Translator: effe
“I pestered you to get into a top-notch university, and I didn’t even tell you to do so well that you’d live in luxury. I’m not just telling you to cover my face! Every day at home, when you are hanging out with your cell phone, at least go out and meet someone!”
Money was also needed to meet with friends. Due to her abysmal finances, she refrain from going out as much as possible and live quietly at home. Without knowing her heart, she took a deep breath as she scooped the seaweed soup*, which her mother had cooked, with the ladle.
“Others are good at dating. It’s not like you’re lacking… No. There are some shortcomings no matter where you go. What’s the point of being just fine? Why not do something productive instead of running around to feed the stray cat?”
Hyemi contorted her eyes and frowned her forehead.
“They’ll die without me, Mom.”
Her mother didn’t know how hot summer was and how cold winter was every year. If she took care of the cats who lived on the streets, there would be no need for them to open garbage bags. In her mother’s eyes, her hard work in doing productive activities for the sake of peace in the neighborhood was nothing but futile.
“I’m going to die because of you!”
“Honey, stop it now. Huh? Hyemi, hurry up and eat.”
He was always a friendly father, but it was even more sad at times like this that he couldn’t keep up with her mother.
“Mom… If I disappear, will you feel comfortable?”
Without going through her head, the words came out first. Her mother’s eyes narrowed as she tied her apron and held a ladle in one hand. Her mother, who had the words ‘good heavens’ deeply engraved on her forehead, was ready to hit her on the head with the ladle as she lifted it.
“What?”
Here she knew that one word she added that would make things bigger. But she couldn’t help but feel wronged. Hyemi opened her tearful eyes wide and glared at her mother.
“That’s right. If I die, you’ll feel all the more better.”
“What, are you rebelling now?! That’s what you’d say in front of your parents now?!”
Tak.
Eventually she crossed the line and was hit in the head with the ladle. Trickle. The broth, in which small drops of sesame oil melted, came down from her forehead and down her cheeks.
“Honey!”
There were limits to patience. Hyemi jumped up from the table with seaweed sticking on her eyebrows.
“Don’t look for me.”
“I’m not looking for you!”
After rubbing the back of her hot nose with the back of her hand, she walked towards the front door. As she crumpled her bare feet into the sneakers, her mother’s screeching sound pierced the back of her head.
“If you leave now, don’t even think about coming home!”
That was good to hear. She’s not coming. She really won’t come.
Hyemi rushed down the stairs on the third floor of the apartment, breathing heavily. She couldn’t have been more happy to have the Han River Bridge just fifteen minutes away from her house.
You are not alone. Hahahahaha. Laugh out loud The world is beautiful.
The catchphrase, which was attached to the railings of the bridge to prevent people from committing suicide, seemed to be ridiculing her instead, giving off a completely opposite effect.**
On her birthday, she was humiliated by her parents, and she had no reason to live in the world. Hyemi decided to drown herself in the water.
***
Hyemi didn’t die in the end.
As she looked down at the wind on the Han River Bridge, the flowing blue water seemed too deep. If she fell into this kind of water, drowning seemed natural. She went to commit suicide, and it was a little shameful that she stopped because she was afraid, but it didn’t matter because no one knew her decision anyway except her. Hyemi has always been generous with herself.
One of the reasons she couldn’t die was that she wore a mismatched pair of sneakers. Until she died, she had no intention of advertising her clumsy personality.
“My daughter! Her underwear is mismatched, her socks are mismatched and till the end she is still mismatched!”
Because her mother’s nagging echoes in her ears, she may become a ghost who couldn’t even enter the heavens.
When she thought of the reason why she wouldn’t die, her thoughts surged endlessly. She was equally concerned about the five stray cats she feeds. Besides, the tuxedo, which has a cute pattern like jjajang soup splattered around its mustache, was pregnant right now. She could only leave until she can relax with jjajang.
In the end, Hyemi decided to stop her suicide attempt for a myriad of other reasons. The problem was that she ran out without her purse, and she had nowhere else to go. Even if she had a wallet anyway, her bankbook had already run out of pocket money.
Notes:
*) Seaweed soup is traditionally eaten for breakfast on your birthday! (Or a diet after one gave birth)
**) Mapo Bridge was the name of the bridge that crosses the Han River. It was one of the most common places for suicide jumpers. So one time S****** company added lights that light up with motion sensors along the railings with pictures and words to prevent suicide. Some of the words are ‘have you eaten?’ or ‘your family is waiting for you’. But these phrases did not help and were eventually taken down.
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