43. For A Long Time.

Got here way to gain trust or just coercion she got from Ji Min that woman doesn't care, Tae Woo's mother doesn't care.

With heavy steps, having managed not to come home since this morning, the woman finally waited for someone to come home casually on purpose to talk to Hoo Sik later. Without saying anything the woman leaned back again.

Fully.

From the top of the head to the feet. The woman deliberately lay down herself by taking her cell phone. There are pictures of her and her husband and some new pictures of her with her son and her husband.

Once upon a time, the three of them were happy. When Tae Woo always gets his husband's warm embrace, when his son laughs and plays together, Kim Tae Woo always sleeps with his husband and sleeps peacefully in his arms.

Although he could remember that it was only for a moment and very briefly. Deep in his heart, Tae Woo must miss his father.

Missing the hero that Tae Woo always loves and cares deeply for. The woman chuckled, the first photo is her wedding photo, and the second slide is a photo of Kim Tae Woo's first day of birth.

A photo of an angel who was born for the first time where she and her husband were crying and laughing seeing how Tae Woo's very handsome face was born into his son.

"Even I didn't think that the baby boy had now become an adult man who always obeyed me but once became a rebel, that man always made me feel so sick with questions that made me helpless." The woman sighed heavily, she re-opened another photo showing how Tae Woo laughed where the little boy had just learned to walk with his full and small feet for the first time.

"Kim Tae Woo, you were very handsome and happy at that time. I'm sorry mom at this time, Tae Woo." The woman again sighed heavily, she shifted her cellphone again to see her other photos. "You're so happy when you laugh." The woman looked back at some of the other photos of herself and her son.

Tae Woo is just learning to sit. Tae Woo is learning to walk. Tae Woo is just learning to crawl. Tae Woo who just learned to squat. Tae Woo is just learning to speak. And Tae Woo started to talk a lot by studying.

The woman sighed nervously, her cell phone memory wasn't even enough to make her miss the memories and longings she wanted to hide.

The guilt and feelings that continue to haunt her make the woman feel guilty without being able to speak, making Tae Woo misunderstand her even more and Hoo Sik who will become an easy target even though he knows that the man will become his son's biggest enemy in the future.

The woman must take care and raise both of them even when she knows that the two of them will have a great war. He takes good care of Hoo Sik just to lessen Hoo Sik's hatred for Tae Jung later.

"Bro, sorry." The woman sighed more heavily and returned to kissing her brother's face at that time. "This problem exists because you are looking for trouble with other people. My husband took up arms and everything was damaged, I have to take responsibility for the ending which will be very painful."

"I'm sorry," said the woman almost crying in silence, but someone entered the house with heavy steps.

Yes.

Jung Hoo Sik is home at three in the morning now, very late. More than usual, the man deliberately came home late and quietly so that his aunt wouldn't see it, but seeing someone on the sofa made Hoo Sik fall silent and swallow hard. "You came home very late," Tae Woo's mother said making Hoo Sik a little awkward to answer his question.

"Yes," he answered quietly, he removed the tie around his neck and began to sit across the sofa making Tae Woo's mother take a sitting position to talk to her nephew. "Hoo Sik," he called.

"I'm sorry auntie if yesterday's arrival caused you trouble, did Kim Tae Woo go somewhere without helping you?" asked the woman asking for an honest answer from Hoo Sik which made the man a bit confused.

To be honest, what will Hoo Sik get other than an endless tantrum. And if Hoo Sik is dishonest, can Hoo Sik be able to do it? The man couldn't.

Because Hoo Sik needs his aunt.

"If the same meeting and anger can make auntie meet and see Kim Tae Woo's face, I don't mind doing it for auntie. I'm fine as long as you can meet Kim Tae Woo directly," Hoo Sik replied, making the woman feel Hoo Sik's good side that could make her helpless.

To be honest, the cruel ones were her parents, her older brother, and him brother-in-law. Hoo Sik's parents, who made a mistake.

The reason Tae Woo's mother wants to take good care of Hoo Sik is that the little man doesn't know anything. After all, Tae Woo hasn't talked about his father for a long time. Now she realized that if her husband was alive, he would protect her son.

"I'm sorry auntie, auntie also doesn't know what I can do without you, Hoo Sik." The man nodded his head slowly, the man didn't mind at all that the woman in front of him said, the man was used to it and he liked to petrify his aunt.

Talks a lot with his aunt.

Dine with his aunt.

And happy to be with his aunt despite the presence and absence of Kim Tae Woo, by the way, Hoo Sik doesn't care either.

"I don't mind anything, aunty. At least if aunty calms down, I won't get into trouble and pressure from aunty again." The woman rolled her eyes lazily, this time the woman leaned her back and head on the sofa. He glanced at Hoo Sik who was still sitting on the same sofa.

"You're an adult now, Hoo Sik. Auntie never thought of it," said the young woman when she saw the huge and quite surprising change between herself and Jung Hoo Sik.

The son of his older brother has become a handsome and brave man. No one believed and cared about Jung Hoo Sik growing up.

Because only that woman will be able to feel and realize it.

"I can be a good protector for you, auntie. Just tell me what you need and I'll do it." Hoo Sik said it honestly, the sincere feelings that Hoo Sik gave to his aunt felt.

The man is very kind and honest, if the man says he doesn't like eating Hoo Sik will say it too. The frank personality that makes Tae Woo's mother feel she needs to protect her life and happiness is a pleasure in itself.

"There's no need to be like that, Hoo Sik. Just being a sweet son who can be happy in your way. Aunty doesn't press anything on you, aunty is just happy with what you feel that's much more enough," he replied making Hoo Sik happy and happy. There was a feeling that was hard to explain but Hoo Sik felt it.

"I'm not sure, auntie." Hoo Sik folded his legs after he took off his shoes. The socks that still covered the soles of his feet were still on. "I'm not sure if I can find my happiness, I'm not sure I can do what I want with perfect results."

"My life is like nothing, I, live, breathe, and can sleep. That's enough even for me," admitted Hoo Sik honestly. The man chuckled after that.

"Why is Kim Tae Jung asking with such a face, aunt? I also want to know where uncle is. Before I came to this house I thought Uncle was already there. But where is he?" asked Hoo Sik realizing that his arrival was not welcomed by Kim Tae Woo, and where his uncle was even Jung Hoo Sik began to be confused by the situation.

"Uncle and aunt have been divorced for quite some time, Hoo Sik." Before answering further, the woman sighed heavily because this was the first time she also told her nephew about her past.

"You mean aunt?" asked Hoo Sik who was surprised by the fact that the two got. "Your page and I were divorced before your misfortune. One year before," continued the woman wanting to clarify the misunderstanding between herself and Kim Tae Woo.

"At that time Tae Woo was very small, he didn't understand anything. Aunt deliberately covered up all this information by saying that her father went to work, but Tae Woo also asked her again several times. Then auntie answered that her father had died."

"The peak was when Kim Tae Woo graduated from S1 at the age of twenty-four years he became a massive rebel. You're here, Hoo Sik. You saw it didn't you?" The woman's question made Hoo Sik go back to remembering how Tae Woo's final semester of S1 made the house a place of the cold war and once a very big argument made Hoo Sik go to college more often and didn't come home.

"It used to be a disaster," Hoo Sik muttered which Tae Woo's mother could hear at that time, even the woman agreed with a nod of her head slowly.

"Right."

"That was the peak, and until now." Tae Woo's mother sighed heavily, the woman was silent again with a very hard thinking face because she wasn't sure either. "Why didn't aunt try to come to Tae Woo's apartment to discuss the matter a long time ago? Auntie knows the apartment where Tae Woo lives, why didn't you start it a long time ago?" It sounds strange if the woman doesn't move when she's been walking for almost three years. Pretty tough, even for Kim Tae Woo's size who is always at the cafe, apartment, office, and campus.

"It's hard to meet Tae Woo when he's tired and in a busy morning mood, Hoo Sik." Hoo Sik raised an eyebrow in confusion as he wasn't sure what he was saying.

"Then, do you want things to stay the same and get worse?" Tae Woo's mother shook her head slowly, the woman didn't want it either.

"Then what are you trying to do now?"

"Closing the facts won't make the real facts invisible, auntie. If you do this more and more, you're hurting everyone. Hoo Sik was telling the truth because he got his wound too.

"All Tae Woo wants is his brother truth, and auntie doesn't know if your uncle is still alive, Hoo Sik."

Ah. So this is the problem.

"Auntie was helpless for a long time."