⇒ C20 (1/1)

Two months passed since Seoyon was born. Currently at their house, everyone was sleeping excepted for Nuri who was awake, in the bathroom looking at herself.“Still can’t return to my good shape” she sighed looking at the mirror and squeeze her belly “Eating less or vegies aren’t helping me at all”“Nuri-?” his deep voice scared her. She pushes her shirt down and opened the water faking she was doing something. “What are you doing?”“Washing my face”“Hm… When I did not saw you in bed, I thought Seoyon had cried”“No… He has been sleeping almost all night”“Return to bed” he stand his hand and she grabbed it. She was taken to bed but as usual, she tried to stay as far as possible from him.Yongguk’s POVI woke up in the empty bed. I head to the bathroom to wash my face and then head to the kitchen where I saw her eating a bowl of cereals and fruit. I really don’t know what Is happening to her but since Seoyon was born she started eating way less, she doesn’t let me touch her and she start closing the bathroom’s door quite often. But I don’t want to ask her. I feel it’s something quite personal to her.“Morning’” I said approaching the fridge to grab my usual breakfast.“Good morning” she answers. “Are you going out today?”“Not really. I was thinking passing my Saturday with you”“I have to go out for while… with Krystal”“Today?”“Yes… so I wanted to ask you if you want to take care of Seoyon while I’m not here”“That’s not something you need to ask, you know? He is my son ““So it’s ok? Ah good” she was happy. She finished her food, put the bowl inside the washing machine and went back to the bedroom. Meanwhile I stayed at the kitchen eating mine.

She end up leaving with her usual large t-shirt and jeans. Seoyon was still sleeping when I went to check on him, so I just cleaned the mess I made and sat on the couch. Suddenly our house’s phone start ringing and I went running to answer it before he woke up crying.“Hello?” I ask in a confuse tone because I did not see the ID.“Why running to answer the phone, Yongguk?”  it was my mom.“It’s you mom,” I said having a deep breath before saying anything more “How are you?”“Good. You?”“Could be better”“What’s wrong? Is there something wrong with Seoyon? With Nuri?”“Everything is ok with Seoyon. Actually right now he is sleeping peacefully…”“Then it’s with Nuri… What’s wrong with her? Is she sick?”“No”“Then… does she want to leave you?”“I don’t know. I mean, she is way different, mom. The way she reacts to me is different. I don’t know what’s going on with her… She is eating way less, she doesn’t let me touch her”“Ah I get it”“You get it?”“Since you’re a man you don’t notice but Nuri is probably having doubts about her appearance”“Doubts about her appearance?”“Usually when women get pregnant, their body can change. Getting more weight and getting stretch marks”“So basically you’re saying that she is hiding her body because she may gained weight and stretch marks?”“Probably.“Oh dammit. All that wearing large clothes, eating less and hiding from me is because of that. She thinks I’ll dislike her?”“Yongguk… you’ve to understand. She just wants to look comfortable… She may noticed the difference between before and now… look at her back then… she was skinny, now she gained a little weight because of the baby”“Mom.. she is equal as before. I don’t see that much difference…”“Just don’t go and try to get the truth of her. You know her personality better than me so…”“I’ll wait and see. If I don’t give you another grandchild you know why”“Don’t be so pessimist. It’s only a phase! She’ll get used to it”“If you say so…”“Well son… I just called to know if you were ok”“We are”“I’ll try to go there this weekend. I want to see my grandchild”“Alright. Bring the family then”“Of course” she laughed “See you”“Bye  mom”I put back the phone and Seoyon started crying.Nuri’s POV“Girl… What’s wrong with those clothes?”I don’t see Krystal since Seoyon’s birth. She had to return to America and then back to her work with her sister.“What’s wrong with them?”“They don’t suit you. It’s way to large”“It’s not-““I get it”“You get what?”“You’re hiding yourself”“What?”“You know… I see lots of tv shows where people have problems dressing and most of them are women who had babies and they use extra large clothes to hide their body and you’re doing the same”I couldn’t lie.“Fine. Yes I do use them to hide my body. I’m not comfortable with it”“You still look like before I don’t see your problem”“My problem is around my belly, Krystal”“Around your belly, you say. And so what are you going to do? Hiding yourself forever? I’m sure you’re doing that to Yongguk too…”“I’m dealing with it slowly. I just need to find a workout”“Work out?”“I have to find a way to hide this from him… I thought of running around the Han River from my house to the bridge and then going around back home in Weekends, before he awakes of course. In normal days I do some work out at home since I’ve to take care of Seoyon. Beside my meals are healthy”“You’re getting crazy”“I have this well planned. I’m eating everything I need and beside I did went to a doctor before starting this”“And you’re hiding all this from him”“I’m not hiding. I just didn’t mention. I eat with him so-““You understood what I mean, Nuri. You should be sincere with him and tell him what is going on.”“I’ll see…”LaterI had return home a few minutes before lunch. He asked how it went and so on a