My Umma’s secret lover,

Cold sweats covering her whole body, she’s still shocked by that sudden news, a while ago she was in the class thinking all the words that she is planning to scream to her mother, all those questions that she wanted to ask, one of her classmates gave the pictures that she is holding, a photograph of her kindhearted mother, if she really is, together with their neighborhood so called gigolo, that’s what they call him instead of Jung Yunho his real name.

Yuri had witnessed it how ahjummas showed their affection on him, and even how girls in her age have a crush on him and shout oppa every time he pass by. She never hates him that way, even though he love to receive free fruits from the ahjuma’s in the market,  how he diligently accept those free galbi from the fat lady near the grocery store,

Why did she know?

she always sneak out at 11pm to be exact to buy a cone of ice cream then after that she will eat it in the park nearby.

“Your mother might be worried if she discovers that you’re not home,”

Yuri will stop and look at the intruder; it’s always the same intruder, who will bug her every night,

 But she secretly waits for it,

She knows deep inside her, although her voice seems so annoyed by his presence.

“she’s too tired to even notice,” she answered without looking at him, indulging herself in her rocky road flavored ice cream, she failed to notice that the guy in front of him is secretly memorizing her, imagining what will she looks like a few years from now?

Will she surpass the beauty of her mother?

“How about you?” she ask still not looking at him

“Aren’t you get tired of the way you are living?” she poses, she feels sorry to the family that might get destroy because of him,

“Ha?” he ask clueless

“The fruit vendors wife like you, and also the meat vendors wife, and there are lots, even my classmates that knows you,” she said

He laughs,

“You love hearing news about me?” he teases

Yuri’s eyebrows creased,

“although I don’t like hearing those news of yours it’s always in every place that I go, you know about the gigolo, they said, “he is seducing my woman, let’s think of a better way to kill him,,” she said in a worry manner

“Are you worrying about me?”

“Even dogs make me worried,” she answered, that makes Yunho laugh again, she ask him confuse,

“Why?”

“You’re not that coldhearted after all,” he said

“Aren’t you worried that they can really do that?” she asked

“I know I am not wrong, or maybe I am really wrong because I love receiving free goods, but that keeps me surviving, I’m an orphan that’s why I am thick skinned, I was born feeding my empty stomach first that thinking what others might think about me, “ he explain

“I’m sorry to hear that,” she apologize

“It’s okay, but I really like someone though,” he said

“Who?”  An aware of it, her mind is curious to ask

“It’ll be embarrassing to tell you now,” he said

“Okay,”

“It’s getting too late,”

That’s how their one of nights and, most of the time they will just talk about random things like how the worms in the park sleeps during at night up to the sleeping birds in the trees.

She has no idea that will be the last night.

YURI’S POV

My right hand holds the knob tightly, while my left hand is tightly holding the picture of him together with my mother “embracing each other”, the photos of them looking intimate with each other, thousand of thoughts runs thru my head, how far did they go, how long was my mother cheating on my father? How can I stand it, can i still respect  my mother, how can I  treat her again if she is betraying my father who work hard for us,

Can i look at him the way i used to do?

“I thought your different from the person that I thought you are but I was wrong, you made a fool at of me and of all people why my mother?” she gritted her teeth, at first she wanted to barge in the room, but her knees were too weak to do that.

My knees are too weak to stand up i sits in front on the room door suppressing my sobs and anger, clutching the pictures of them in my hand.

It was earlier when they told me that my mother had a car accident, to my surprise she was not alone, she was with him, and the stories behind the photos that my classamate gave me receive an answer.

They are in a secret relationship,

Something intimate happen between them,

My mother is betraying my father,

He is my umma’s lover,

The doctor asked me to see the both of them, Jung Yunho is fine since he was wearing a seat belts, he just obtain some scars and minor injuries, while my mother who was driving that time is severely hurt,

She’s in a coma, we have no idea when will she wake up,

Please don’t wake up! Just die!

My evil thought said that time, but I immediately took it back,

Please come back, I don’t want you to die, if you say you’re sorry I will forgive you even if appa don’t, please don’t leave me!

I wanted to shout, cursed the both of them, I feel sorry for my father who arrived shortly still clueless what his so called faithful wife was up to.

“Yuri,” he called, I mean the gigolo, the cold hearted and family destroyer gigolo

I didn’t look at him, I hate him so much, I hate him that I will begin to curse him if I started to speak,

“Yuri,”

“Damn you!” I threw all the pictured in his face, he is surprise to see their photos scattered in the floor

“Let me explain,”

“ you.”

“Please,”

“Of all people why my mother?” I said filled with anger

“It’s not what,,”

I didn’t let him finish his sentence; I stop and push him outside, out my sight out of our life,

And that’s the last time I ever see him, he transfer to other place, that’s much better, I stop skipping at night to buy an ice cream,

After two months my mother wake up from coma, my father and I didn’t ask her on what happened before the accident or her affair with him, I didn’t ask her.

Or I pretend that I am not interested, to lessen the pain maybe,

We live like a happy family,

 That’s what I thought that time,

“Yuri ah,” her way of calling me, I know she’s up to something, I forgot to tell you that half of her body was paralyze, that’s why she’s using a wheelchair,

“Yes Umma,”

“My beautiful daughter Yuri,”

She was a lot like me when she was young and I know how I will look like when I get older; we resemble so much of each other,

“Don’t you ever feel so curios on what happened that day?” she ask

“It’s okay,” I pretend, a 17 year old like me knows how to pretend that everything is fine.

“that’s not what I see in your eyes,” she clearly see those in my eyes,” and besides I don’t want an innocent and kindhearted son in law to receive all the blame,” she said

“he’s the one who stop me when I wanted to die, saying you’re still have a beautiful daughter, he even knows that a tomboy like you is a beautiful lady, so I was like, “are you interested in my daughter?” he blush, that’s not the answer that I wanted, but still good enough, and on that day I gain a friend and a son in law at the same time,” she laugh upon remembering, tears wanted to come out from her eyes,

I don’t know what to say for I don’t understand every single words of it

“Please get the envelope in my bedside table,” I stand up to get the envelope, hands shaking,

“That was the reason why we’re both on the same car that day, he is accompanying me on my saddest day of my life, open it,” she order

I carefully open it, to my surprise it is a,

Divorce agreement.

We look at each other,

“What’s the meaning of this?”

“give that to your father, I am now giving him the freedom that he wanted all these years, you’re old enough to understand right, your father never love me, but I didn’t regret since having you because of him was the most beautiful gift, I am now ready to set him free,,”

She’s crying and my cheeks are wet too because of tears, I hug her, we shared each other tears, I am a foolish daughter, I never understands her sufferings, I was a selfish daughter for I only desired what I wanted to see,

I was an insensitive daughter I never question why father comes home late or sometimes he never, why he rarely spent his time with us, why there is always frank callers in our house that should be his other family.

I was too stupid to realize,

I was stupid to realize to even listen to that gigolo’s explanation.

“Umma he is gone,” it between my sobs I told her

“Don’t worry, I know he will come back,” she assure

I hope so, I sincerely hope so.

End of pov.

Nine  years had passed, three years since her mother passed away, she lives alone in their home, she refuse to receive suitors despite many guys wanted to date her, she's not the tomboy Yuri anymore,she focus herself in her work,

Because secretly she is hoping like her mother that he will come back, but can its still be possible?

She’s working in an advertising company as the head designer, one of the biggest companies in Seoul,

It’s that day of summer, during their busy hour when a few number of men from the Seoul district raid their office,

On what crime?

Everyone have no idea, everyone stop on their work, pause their computers, and leave their cold coffee behind,

“We are from the Seoul police station, I’m prosecutor Park and I came here to arrest a certain Kwon Yuri, do you know where she is,” that male voice echoed in the office, her office mate pointed her, she stands up from her seat,

“I am the only kwon Yuri here, and I don’t remember committing a crime, “she explain

“so that was you,” that certain Park put with a smile, all of them give way and move aside to welcome the tall man behind,

Yuri is stunned to see him,

again in this kind of unwanted and strange situation.

“I am prosecutor Jung Yunho of Seoul District, in case you don’t remember my name, Do you want me to elaborate your crime,?” he ask,

She didn’t speak as he moves closer to her,

“9 years ago,  back in your place, you always call me gigolo, then you always gossip about me, then you even accuse me committing adultery, after that you curse me, you didn’t let me explain, well I have concrete evidence against you,” the people around them is still clueless on what’s happening but the girls admires how that handsome talkative aka prosecutor Jung looks,

“Do you remember it now? you have the right to remain silence until you get yourself a lawyer, but I am a special prosecutor that’s why I am giving you the right to speak, so what’s on your mind?” he ask

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“I miss you,” she said teary eyed

The handsome prosecutor smiles,

“that’s all?”

She didn’t speak, tears of longing flow from her eyes,

“Can I hug you?” he ask foolishly smiling in front of the girl who gave him inspiration to succeed in his life, who secretly serve as his strength to achieve what he is and what he is now.

She nods the whole crowed cheers as they hug each other.

“Yah Jung Yunho sunbae!” Yuri’s boss called, 

“don’t worry he’s a dongsaeng of mine, he will not fire you, or he can also do that so that I can locked you in my house, to make you pay on all those years that I stop myself from seeing you,” he whisper

“Sunbae your time is enough, let my workers work so that I can earn more money for their salary,” he ask

Everyone laugh at their boss humor,

Flashback:

“Yuri sh, what’s your dream proposal?” the curious gigolo asked

“Why are you asking me that, I’m too young for that?”

“I’m sure a tomboy like you have a dream proposal,” he ask, she smile

“well in fact there is I want him to like arrest me in front of the crowed, like I did a big crime then after that he will ask will you marry me>.. I think that sweet,” she said giggling while her ice cream,” but that’s when I turn 25,,I’m too young to get married, aish why do I talk so much well anyways thanks for the ice cream,”

=THE END=

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