Another Winter
the Another Winter 47

Playlist recommendations▶Song From A Secret Garden by Secret Garden.

Happy reading...

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The cold night did not stop him. John passes through the alley with a banquet that develops a relentless smile, heading for the house he used to live with Hyuji in Yangcheon. This area has changed a lot. It seems that if she came in spring it would be more beautiful. Sakura trees and Ginkgo will surely beautify the streets.

But now, what he witnessed did not match the expectations in his mind. The courtyard of the house he was heading to was overgrown with weeds that grew quite high, the circle of fence hooks also rusted. John's lips clenched watching it all.

What's more when they have made it through the fence and also the grass in the yard of their old house first, he was greeted by dim porch lights and blinking—nyaris broken. The intercom button on the doorstep is no longer working. The door handle is also very hard, can not be moved. John peeked inside, just dark.

John shook his head, unable to accept the fact that the house had been abandoned.

"Hyu. "call her slowly. Knocked on the door several times, hoping that someone would emerge from the house and greet her with a smile like before. "Hyuji, I'm coming!" call him again. "You're inside, aren't you Hyu? Please quickly open the door, I'm already cold!"

It's clear there's no way there's going to be any welcome. John knocked once more, about to mention Hyuji's name for the umpteenth time, but stopped because suddenly someone shouted from outside the fence.

"Hey, kid! The house was abandoned long ago!"

A beakbaya man made the reality clear. Bring John back in awareness, then bow politely and walk over.

"That's... Has his house been abandoned by uncle for a long time?"

The beakbaya man nodded in order. "Yes, it's been almost four years! I heard that the young couple who occupied him split up! I had seen the woman who owned this house still occupied it for some time, but then it just disappeared! I don't know where he's going!" the light of the uncle, makes John like a bow pierced right in the heart. Makes him unable to breathe, so tight.

"You're a friend of one of the owners of this house?" continued the uncle, breaking John's daydream.

John's gaze turned blank, he could no longer accept the fact that Hyuji had been gone for so long. "I-iya.." The lie covered that he was the owner of this house too. "Thank you for the information uncle, I'll just contact them then!"

The uncle nodded and left. John again approached the tightly clenched expanse of doors. All the memories of this house just rotated in the head.

John reached out, rubbing against the thick dusty door with quivering pupils. Until now, he crouched and cried in the second fold of his sturdy hand.

"Where are you Hyu..."

John knows, Hyuji can't go back to daegu. But the phone is shaking, Son's name appears on the display screen. John sheds his tears, and sets his breath.

"Eong... "

"I've found the location where Hyuji is!"

"Say!" john asked impatiently. Stand up rudely and walk away from that old house.

"From the cell phone signal I'm tracking, he's in the bus! It is not far from your home!"

"really?" asked John with a happy twinkle.

"Yes sir!"

"All right, I'll be back in busan soon!"

John ended his call, smiling broadly as he flipped over to look at the house once more. "I'll find you!"

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Hyuji was carrying two monthly shopping bags on the right palm, while the other palm was clutching his daughter's black gloved little fingers.

The girl pulled her arm from her mother's grasp and ran not far from the fence of the house that even Hyuji had not yet locked.

"Don't go out baby, I'm going to put down some groceries and give Grandma Hong a hand!"

The little girl nodded understandingly with cheeks flushed like cherry. Hyuji saw her little girl crouching and dredging in snow there, Hyuji was not so worried because YeNa would not come out if she did not give permission. Her steps just went away.

YeNa, suddenly saw a bird flapping its wings trying to fly, but fell back outside the fence. YeNa peeked out from behind the gate, putting a look of pity on the bird.

And Hyuji's biggest mistake was not to close the gate until YeNa came out just like that to catch and save the bird.

"Yellow, slump! I'll help you." YeNa told me, chasing the bird away.

Hyuji came out of the house carrying a glass of warm drink on the small cup he used to give YeNa milk. However, he pushed both eyes when he did not see YeNa's presence on the page. Hyuji's face panicked. Calling her daughter several times in a rather loud voice, aunt and uncle Hong were shocked and walked out of the house.

"What's Hyu?"

"YeNa no bi. "the answer is panic.

Hyuji ran peeking out, there was no one. Hyuji started to get scared.

"Ada?"

Hyuji shook his head with a face of panic, worry and also fear. Hyuji bit anxiously on his thumb with a juicy bead, quite profusely. He even fooled himself, even vowing not to forgive himself if anything happened to YeNa. Because her little girl was a source of strength and life for Hyuji.

"We'll split up!"

Without extending the conversation, everything went in a different direction. Mentioning YeNa's name out loud, hoping that the little girl suddenly appeared from where she was hiding.

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But suddenly the bird just flew away, high, and far away. YeNa looked up in the sky and was disappointed.

"Why pegi? You're not sick?"

YeNa watched around, quiet. There was no mother, no aunt Hong, only her own among the snowflakes that were still clumping. In a thick and warm jacket, a knit hat and scarf, and brown boots tightly cover the soles of his small feet.

YeNa panicked. "Mother." call her with a voice trembling with fear. "Mother! Mother where? Ye, scared!"

He's lost. YeNa curled up and cried on the side of the road alone.

The man walked over, already almost halfway he turned his steps back because he saw a little girl walking alone without the slightest supervision.

I heard a sweet honey sound when the girl mentioned the word mother repeatedly.

Dejavu.

John felt like he had experienced that, exactly the same. But he just forgot.

John likened the position to the little girl who was crying in the arms.

"You're alone, baby? Where's mommy?"

Again, John tried to remember everything.

The girl grew more frightened, she tightened the folds of her hands to hide her face. "Whose uncle? Uncle oang evil?"

Oh my God, how angry his voice is. John smiled, grabbing the pink-clad head bud for his loving swab. "Uncle don't kidnap me! I'll be sad!"

John laughed wider and wider at the sound of his lisp. "No, uncle is not a bad man! where's your house, let uncle deliver!"

"Well? Uncle's not a bad guy?"

"Of course, uncle is a good man!"

The girl moved her body, peeking out from behind the elbows of the hands that were still folded. The watery round eyes made John remember instantly where he had experienced a similar incident.

Dreamlike.

Yes, dreams.

John was surprised, his face turned tense when he realized that the dream that had been disturbing his sleep had turned into reality before his eyes.

"Father." said YeNa faintly, but little caught John's hearing.

"Y-yaa??? " said John was nervous.

"Uncle mi-ip with dad!" said YeNa trying to give an explanation, still hiding.

John's bead was also blurry, John's mind was also wondering. Shouldn't her daughter be this big? With trembling lips and a feeling of dread, John ventured to ask.

"W-What's your name, son?"

"YES!!! " squeak someone from behind John's back.

These sounds? I knew him! Her...

Without seeing the man beside the little girl, Hyuji grabbed and hugged YeNa tightly in his arms. Kissed her many times with tears. John saw clearly both of them standing not far from the reach, his heart was like being hit by a boulder right then and there.

Both are real in plain sight.

The two beautiful women he had been looking for for the past few days were standing before his feet that were still bent over the snow. Tears shed. Body vibrates. Then his lips spoke in a sobbing inner turmoil.

"God... "[]

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Oh, buyung, why te-bang??

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