1. "!"
2. "Oh my god! Honey!"
3. "You... You..."
4. "Are you okay?"
1. "You couldn't even let us know you're in the hospital?!"
2. "Do you want to send us into cardiac arrest?!"
1. "Your father's got a heart condition, you know!"
2. "My god!"
3. *the adoptive parents arrive
4. "Honestly!"
1. "What on earth did you get yourself into?!"
2. "Morae told us those people were all criminals!"
3. "..."
1. "No, I'm sorry."
2. "That's not important right now..."
3. "How are you feeling? Have you gotten any better?"
4. "Yup, I'm almost feeling one hundred percent."
1. "They just need to do one last check, and I'll be able to go home after that."
2. Shouldn't you be in gwangwon province?
3. "That's great..."
1. "...doyeon..."
2. "I called your university."
3. "I talked with professor kim as well."
1. "He said you already have a number of absences."
2. "And that this has been going on for a while."
1. "..."
2. "How many weeks have you been neglecting your studies?"
5. "If you keep going on like this..."
1. "Once I leave the hospital, I'll pull myself together..."
2. "...and catch up on all the work I've fallen behind on."
1. No...
2. I've been so out of it lately.
3. "I probably can't do much about my scholarship..."
1. "...but I can talk to my professors about any late assignments and missed clinicals-"
2. "Doyeon..."
1. "...maybe you should take the rest of the semester off."
1. "..."
1. "But..."
2. "I..."
1. "..."
2. "..."
1. "Hello. Jin joo, right?"
2. "!"
4. "Thank you for taking care of our daughter."
5. "O-oh, no, it's"
1. "Now it's nothing..."
2. "To think something like this would happen to doyeon... And she didn't even mention it to us!"
3. "If it weren't for morae, we would've been left completely in the dark."
4. "We called her a few times on our way here, but she didn't answer once..."
1. *forgot to return doyeon's phone
2. "Oh..."
3. "..."
4. "Anyway, thank you so much."
1. "...well, I'm just returning the favor. Doyeon's helped me out quite a bit."
2. "So really, I didn't do much."
3. "..."
3. "You must be close to doyeon."
4. "You even spent the past three days here, being her caregiver..."
1. "But it's strange..."
3. "Doyeon never once mentioned a "Jin joo" during our calls..."
1. "Probably because I'm not that important."
1. Ah...
2. What if they offer to stay behind to take care of doyeon?
1. "Then I have no reason to stay..."
2. "What if they tell me to leave...?"
3. No.
1. I don't want to leave her side.
2. "Then... If you don't mind... Could you please look after doyeon for a few more days?"
1. "My husband"
1. "Is so awfully busy, and I'm about to return to work..."
2. "We'd compensate you for your time, of course-"
1. "Of course I can!!"
2. "Ah-"
1. "...I don't need to be compensated."
3. "I just..."
4. "..."
5. "I'm fine."
1. "It won't be much different from what I'm doing now."
1. "..."
2. "Honey!"
1. "Why don't we go out for lunch?"
2. "Let's go! Jin joo, will you join us?"
3. "Excuse"
1. "Me?"
2. "Oh, no. You don't have to invite me..."
3. "We insist! You've been such a huge help!"
4. "Please, let us treat you to a meal. No need to be polite!"
5. "Ah..."
1. "Why don't we just buy something on our way back, dear?"
2. "Jin joo probably feels uncomfortable sharing a meal with a couple of strangers!"
1. "Oh...that's true."
2. "But if you ever change your mind...!"
1. "You could've joined them."
2. "Aren't you sick of the food here?"
1. "It's okay."
1. "You know you don't have to be so worried about me anymore, right?"
2. "Nothing's going to happen if you take your eyes off me for just five minutes."
1. "Five minutes."
2. "Don't overdo it."
3. "..."
4. I'm not overdoing it.
1. I'm not doing this out of guilt either.
2. I'm just...
1. "You didn't have to walk us outside..."
1. "We'll come visit soon, okay?"
2. "Let's talk about the rest then, okay?"
3. "Okay."
1. They're much closer than I thought they were.
2. I wonder what they thought of me.
3. Just some weird old lady next door, buddying up to their daughter?
1. I couldn't get a read on her mother at all...
2. Surely she didn't suspect anything from our conversation earlier...
1. Both parents are accomplished professors...
2. ...from a wealthy background, and they seem kind-hearted...
3. ...yet, for some reason, they didn't give their surname to their adopted daughter.
1. "..."
2. How would they react if they knew exactly what kind of relationship we have?
1. I'm sure they'd be appalled.
1. I might even get a slap across the face for corrupting such a naive girl.
2. They might even call me a gold digger.
3. Maybe...
1. But it's different.
1. I seduced her...
2. ...used her...
3. ...and it didn't do her any good.
1. If she hadn't met me, she would've been fine, getting good grades and meeting someone worthwhile.
1. She'd find someone kind and young, the complete opposite of me...
2. ...and wouldn't have to deal with any of this.
1. Maybe she would've been better off if we'd never met.
1. If only we'd never met...
1. If only...
1. "..."
1. I thought about it...
1. Just jumping off the ledge...
2. It would've been so quick.
1. It was like all hope had been wrung out of me.
2. I despised that apartment...
3. ...hated it with all
1. It withered my heart...
2. ...but somehow, it became home.
1. All because you took my hand and pulled me in.
1. God...
2. ...I make myself sick.
3. No matter how much I think about it, all
1. "Think about it, all I can come up with is a selfish answer."
1. To be continued
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