
Nhea had her new aunt until that very tightly. For a long time they had not seen face to face like this. Distance and time are the strongest reasons for all of this. According to the news he heard, Ga Eun lives in Busan City near the beach and is busy taking care of her property business there.
“Sorry to have woken you dear,” Ga Eun said as she rubbed the girl's face.
The middle-aged woman bent her knees just to make the brand height look the same. Although rarely chatting or even just to meet is difficult, but the two have a very good relationship with each other.
The last time they met was about a year ago when summer vacation came. Nhea and her family went to Busan for a vacation, as well as visiting her aunt this one. A lot of fun things stuck in his memory at the time if he was asked about Busan.
“Where is father and mother?” asked Nhea innocently.
Ga Eun was silent for a moment after the question was thrown without hesitation from the little boy's mouth. He tried to twist his brain and find a logical reason, but it did not look like it was too far-fetched. A child this small could not possibly digest all the events around him properly. He's too small to understand all this.
“Maybe going to market, to buy groceries. You know if it's early in the month? Your father just received his salary, so surely now they are shopping,” explained Ga Eun at length.
“Oh...” reply the girl with perfectly rounded lips.
“What aunt will stay here?” continued.
Ga Eun nodded her head, agreeing with the words of her nephew.
“How long will aunt stay with us here?” ask Nhea again.
“That's it, I didn't plan it. Let's just see how long I'll be here,” Ga Eun replied as she was.
That day coincides with the beginning of September. Where usually this family will write all his hopes on a small paper which is then stored in a closed glass jar. According to his father's words, this is how his grandmother taught him to see if our hope came true or not.
But that day was also the darkest time of his life. The day a new story he never wanted existed forces him to remain present in his world. That day was exactly where the first chapter of the darkest story began to be written.
Nhea began to feel anxious when her parents did not return since leaving this morning. The first day of September is almost over. From that day on, the two of them never returned. The jar of hope that they had always filled together now contained only the hope of the girl. And the painful reality he had to accept was that all hope would never have been realized without his father and mother.
Day after day passed leaving an old story that he could never let go of. Every time there is a new hope, there is also always tucked a sense of disappointment that looks like an eternal curse for each hope. Almost desperate and has no life motivation at all. His world became very flat and meant nothing to its owner.
“What mistakes have I made, to make them go.”
“Have I gone too far? Have I been a bad boy?”