My Juniors Is My Protector
4. I need you

Arriving at Gaeul's house, they both went straight into the cafe, in which there was already Zoa and his mother who was also Gaeul's manager

"Grandma!" Gaeul called out to her as she approached her grandmother

"Sister, your grandmother was looking for you because she was worried that you would not go home, so she came alone to this cafe even though the weather was raining heavily" Zoa explained

"really?? Oh my goodness, grandma..." Gaeul felt guilty, he looked at his grandmother lying on the sofa

"Gaeulo..." His grandmother called out to Gaeul in a soft voice

"Yes, grandma,..." Gaeul answered the call from his grandmother in a slow tone

"Let's go home" Pinta the grandmother tried to sit down

"Don't grandma have a papa?" Ask Gaeul

"Gpp, my grandmother is well, by the way thank you for helping me" said his Grandmother to the cafe manager and her son (Zoa)

"Yes Grandma, gpp, which is important grandmother is better" Reply Manager was friendly

"Yes Ma'am, I also thank Zoa in particular for being with me" Gaeul thanked me as he bowed

"Yes, sister, I also consider Brother Gaeul as my own brother" Zoa smiled

Meanwhile, Haruto just listened to their conversation and opened his phone and ordered a taxi for Gaeul and her grandmother through an online application

Shortly after came a blue sedan car which was a taxi ordered by Haruto

"The taxi has come, let's go now" Haruto told Gaeul

"Eh? Thank you" Reply Gaeul who just realized that Haruto had booked a taxi for him and his grandmother, after saying goodbye to the manager and Zoa, Gaeul and his grandmother returned home to take the taxi, haruto followed her from behind

Gaeul's house, at 16:20 in the afternoon

"Grandma rest in the room first huh? let Gaeul prepare medicine for grandma" Gaeul said asking her grandmother to rest in the room

"Alright, by the way, you must be Haruto, right?" Ask the grandmother

"Yes Grandma, I must have known that I would come" replied Haruto politely

This makes Gaeul even more confused because his grandmother apparently recognized Haruto

"Lho?? grandma knows Haruto??" Ask Gaeul

"Had²,.. later granny story, you ready the medicine for grandma, because there are important things that grandma should talk to nak Haruto" The Grandma replied while telling Gaeul to prepare the medicine in the kitchen

"Lho?? grandma,... Gaeul is kepo!" Gaeul replies that are increasingly curious

The grandmother did not seem to pierce all the words of Gaeul, and even coolly talked to Haruto in the room

In the grandmother's room, Haruto explains his purpose in coming to Korea, that he was told by his mother to meet Gaeul

"Grandmother knows that you will come someday, and that day has come, I am very grateful to your family who always helped us by sending a lot of money for the purposes of our lives, Thank you!" Grandma said to Haruto

"Father Grandpa, after all Gaeul's Father and Mother are friends of Haruto's parents as well, so it's only natural that we help Grandma and Gaeul" Haruto replied with a friendly smile

"You're such a good kid, so if Grandma can figure out, what exactly is the purpose for you to visit us here?" Ask the grandmother

"I honestly don't know who the girl is named Gaeul, so my mother told me to go to South Korea to see a girl named Gaeul, and asked me to give her this thing, " Haruto said giving an object wrapped in a small brown cardboard

"I also don't know Grandma, which my mother obviously told me to get this thing to the Gaeul family" Haruto replied

"Oh so? so can grandma open?" Ask Grandma again

"Oh, please grandma" replied Haruto allowing the grandmother to open the box

The box contains a photograph of Gaeul's parents, which was taken just before Gaeul's parents were pronounced dead in the Phoenix laboratory explosion on November 21, 2006. The incident also killed many scientists working in the laboratory, inside the frame of the photo was also tucked into a letter written by his mother Gaeul

The grandmother opened the letter and read it slowly

Letterhead

Nek, it looks like next year we can't go home because there's still a research project here, so please take care of Gaeul a little longer huh

"Thank you son, for delivering the last letter from Gaeul's late parents, thank you..." Grandma said as she cried

"It's okay grandma, after all I just convey the trust from my mother, to bring this thing" Haruto stroked the grandmother's back

"But how can this letter be with your family?" Ask The Grandma

"Actually her mother Gaeul had time to my house, she met my mother to leave this letter, her mother Gaeul told my mother, Gaeul said, that grandma used to be advised to always send grandma a letter every month" replied Haruto

"So then, what you said just now is true, the grandmother always asked that both Gaeul's parents always send grandma a letter once a month when they were out of town" Said the grandmother

Without feeling any tears Gaeul was dripping, because since then actually he eavesdropped on his grandmother's conversation with Haruto from behind the door

"Actually before you came here, there was already a letter saying that there would be a boy coming to see us, and the boy's name was Watanabe Haruto, and that is you" said the grandmother, telling Haruto that he would come here

"Oh really?? it must have been my mother who sent the letter" Haruto said

Soon Gaeul, who had been listening to their conversation, went into his grandmother's room and pretended not to hear their conversation

"Excuse me, grandma, this is the cure!" Gaeul gave her a medicine pill and vitamins and a glass of water

"Thank you Gaeul, then grandma rest first yes, you two chat outside, let's get closer" replied his grandmother with a smile.

"Yes grandma" replied Haruto and Gaeul at the same time, and the grandmother smiled

In the living room, Gaeul and Haruto chatted in the living room

"May I ask you something?" Ask Gaeul

"Hm, please" replied Haruto, allowing Gaeul to ask

"What has your family been helping me and Grandma??" Gaeul began his conversation with a question

"Hm. yes, why?" Haruto also answered the question by assuring her, while asking back

"Then I'm really grateful that you and your family have bothered to take care of us, which you never even met with me and my grandmother, and this is the first time we've met" Gaeul thanked as he bowed

"Hadehh... Can you not continue to thank me?? you know, that my mother always thought the two of you were part of our family, so you don't have to worry about us" Haruto replied in a tone that made anyone upset to hear his words just now

"But why are you always so cold to me?? but on the one hand you care about me?" A question from Gaeul made Haruto go silent for an instant

"And it also doesn't seem like it's the first time you've come to Korea, considering you're very fluent in Korean, have you been here before?" Gaeul asked again which made Haruto even more speechless

To be continued