The Reason? - Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 10 - 2/2

Since there is a lot of conversation in the chapter in different languages, I won't be translating any Korean or French, they will be coded as such -

- Korean (italic)

- French (underlined)

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      "He is more handsome than I imagined him to be." Ophely heard her mother say from the screen. "His tears are pretty too." She continued to say, making Ophely laugh through her tears. She sat down on the chair, mute from happiness at seeing her parents after such a short amount of time. Of course she had been away from her parents for much longer than a few days, but this one was brusque with no means of talking to one another. Her father grumbled from his seat beside her mother, probably something about being only a beautiful guy with no talent.

      "I love you." Ophely said once she was past her closed throat. "I've missed you loads, and the cat too." Her parents were in the living room, she recognised the decorated wall behind them, and the laptop was on her father's desk, where the cat loved to annoy him. Speaking of it, the cat started walking in front of the camera, paws hitting random keys. Ophely received a lettered message in the chat right at the moment her parents pulled her pet away from the device. They kept in on the lap for the rest of the conversation.

     "So," Her father began, "Where are you right now?"

      "In an apartment in Seoul, the capital city of Korea." Her mother blinked at her, as if she didn't know that information.

      "And who was that guy with you not long ago?"

      "Vernon, I think he is nineteen, but he is bilingual in Korean and English."

      "How come you met him?"

      "He's a friend of Jeonghan, they are in the same pop group, so they share a dorm with the other members." Both of her parents didn't seem to know that.

      "Well," Her mother said, "Jeonghan did say that he lived with friends. How many are there?"

      "Twelve others." Her father didn't seem to like that at all. So Ophely kept talking, trying to make the situation seem better to them. "But they are very respectful of me, they have been helping learn Korean getting used to living with them. They are all really nice." Her father kept frowning. "Their ages range from 1995, so twenty-two, to 1999, so eighteen, one year older than I."

      "I hope they're not making any advances on you." He said, crossing his arms in front of him, Ophely's mother chuckled beside him, finding her husband's suffering to be fun to watch.

      "Unless they're gay, it would be weird to try to hit on your friend who is a guy older than you. Respect and all in Korea. And because you know that I am blind to these sort of things, I think none are trying to hit on me." Ophely's face flushed trying to explain the situation to her father, dating had always been something out of her mind, having no male friends didn't help in making the transition easier. From no guys to only guys in a matter of milliseconds. Her father seemed to have let the topic down.

     "You said that he was a singer." Her mother started, "Does that mean he works for a company? Or is his group based on friends only?"

      "The boys work for a company called Pledis Entertainment, but they work a lot in their production, so the company is only there to invest in them."