The Best of Tomorrow [ 내일의 으뜸]

Chapter 51

Sunjae's steps went straight to the hospital. Sonjae's father slipped and fell from a ladder while examining a citron tree, breaking his hip. I've been in the hospital for two weeks, and I need to stay in the hospital for another two weeks, the doctor said.

When I opened the door of the hospital room, I was greeted by Sonjae's father, who was lying on the bed by the window. Sonjae's mother, who was guarding the hospital bed, vacated the hospital room to settle the yuzu cultivation that Sonjae's father had done when he went down to the countryside alone. He said that he had to transfer the farming to someone, dispose of it and sell the land, or do something, and he showed a firm will to clean up the yuzu farming.

It was up to him to fill his mother's void. My father was bedridden, motionless, so someone had to be by my side at all times.

"My Citron ......."

His father looked out the window and called out to Yuzu with a gloomy face. Sunjae looked at his father's face and burst out laughing.

"I stop missing you. The doctor is impossible."

After arranging the patient's gown, his father stared at Sunjae's face as he sat on the cot.

"Do you have any worries? I don't have a good face."

"No, I don't."

"Is that so?"

Worried about his dark face, he quickly finished his insinuating words. His father looked away and put his hands on his belly. He stared blankly at the ceiling, his eyes became heavy and he lowered his eyelids.

Watching his father's face as he sat on the cot and tried to sleep, he took out a book from his bag. I found the bookmarked page and opened it. Then he read in a low voice. His father's brows narrowed as he closed his eyes. A dry voice disperses into the room.

"Get rid of that book. Son, what's wrong with the genre of the book?"

The father said with a worried face, as if he was worried about his son's taste in reading. Looking into his father's eyes, Sunjae closed the book, held out the cover, and opened his mouth.

"Don't you know this guy? I have two stationary medicine programs."

"What do you know? You're going to have a good life."

As if not to disturb his sleep, his father turned his head and closed his eyes. He stared at his father's face, his eyes hidden, put down his book, and got up from his cot. I stepped to the door of the hospital room to put out the lights. The hospital room was a double room, and Kwon Sung-joon's younger brother, Kwon Eun-chan, was lying next to his father. He had been in a car accident and had fallen into a coma, and he had been bedridden for a month.

The sight of a person whose face he knew lying there without waking up was a very strange sight even for Sonjae. So he often wiped his hands and feet and told him stories. I think the sleep I don't wake up for is too long.

Sunjae, who put his hand on the switch, saw Kwon Eun-chan lying still.

"Good night, Eunchan."

I flipped the switch. The light from the lamps went out, darkening the room and dimly illuminating the hallway. I sat down with my butt back on the cot. The dusk of the moon pours over Sonjae's head.

My father's words rang in my ears. I don't have to worry about it, but I can't live well, and that's why Imsol gave me a book like this. The faint light brushing his shoulders and spilling down his knees reminded him of her.