Adagio |Risk Of Life|
The Adagio 42
Can Hyuji conclude if the love case is terrible? He himself did not even suspect that the man he was by his side right now was his own sister. Loving or being loved with a feeling more felt will be a free thing.
Slowly Hyuji grabbed the handle of the suitcase and was about to take it down from the trunk of the YoonKi car that John borrowed to drive himself and Elliotte back to Sokcho. But his movement stopped because of a large palm with muscles that popped the show off suddenly snatched from Hyuji's grasp.
Raising his gaze, Hyuji even got an excessively sweet smile from the younger brother.
“Let me take him.” he said, then pulled out the suitcase and dragged him through the flower-filled courtyard of his late grandmother.
Hyuji smiled as the back that looked wider and dashing slowly moved away. The gentle and non-stinging masculine scent made Hyuji instantly pull a thin smile on his lips, then walk behind John with a sling bag that was twitching on his shoulders.
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It takes a few minutes until everything looks good. And the seat in front of the grandmother's house became the port of end John's tiredness after driving for more than four hours, and petrified Hyuji tidy up the luggage into the house .
“Will your boss not scold you? you've been absent too long!” hyuji said while offering a high glass of orange-flavored cold drink.
John greeted the glass as he replied with a small ruckus. “They won't dare scold me. Noona no need to worry.”
Hyuji sat next to John, looked at the younger brother's stern features that were not too different from their father's, then replied. “Alright, I believe!”
Both of them looked freely towards the yard which some sides planted with vegetables. John sighed softly, breathing fresh air that he never even felt during life amid the hustle and bustle of city life that was getting tiring.
“Papa leave this for you!” Hyuji suddenly broke the silence, then thrust out a sheet of colorless photos that seemed to fade onto the table. “Papa also apologizes for hiding everything all this time, and she hopes to meet and chat with you.”
John glanced at the sheet that Hyuji was proffering at a nearby table, then reached out to reach for the photo.
“That was our first photo while in Haeundae. And we didn't know each other back then!”
John was filled with a smile that was no different in the picture frame. So nostalgic and still feels thrilling when remembering the promise they once kept together.
“Dad said that?” ask John.
Hyuji just nodded in response. And I don't know why John started feeling a little guilty if he hated his father all this time.
“John, I beg you!”
John rolled his eyeballs at Hyuji's figure with his pleading gaze, then he felt a warm embrace in his palm. Her pupils trembled as Hyuji continued the sentence which somehow felt so slashing in John's heart. “Meet Papa, he just wants to be able to talk to you in his old age. He misses you, and he also longs to embrace you as a father.”
John turned his face away, looking up as the clear liquid from his eyelids nearly fell.
“Papa would love to speak before you as a father, before—” Hyuji pauses, looking down to realize that all life will return to the creator of the universe. “—m-I mean, at least once, ask Papa to meet and talk. Before papa, our father, close the age!”
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A thread of regret was struck as John began to walk down the road to the city. He recalled how Hyuji said that his father wanted to meet, talk, even hug him.
John heaved a heavy sigh as the light turned red. Pulling the hand brake lever and leaning for a moment on the steering wheel when it knows the lights will be long enough to turn on. John felt frustrated in his own thoughts. He couldn't even deny that he wanted to meet Song Minju, his father.
“Then how would you feel if you knew I met you?”
In the next second, John raised his face, staring blankly at the densely creeping road that lay before his eyes.
“Mother will definitely get hurt if I meet secretly with dad!” muttered John warned himself against taking unilateral decisions. He also needs to tell his mother about this.
“Really! I need to know this! I don't want to hurt my mother who's been fighting alone for me all this time! Yes, I should know!”[]