Through Sunsets and Midnights

15

"Listen"

Wiping her hands dry to hand Chaewon the vegetables that need to be diced before it's put inside the soup for taste,

Chaewon accepted the onions, shallots, garlic, cabbages and other greens her Aunt gave her as a task to cut and slice for them to eat,

She may never be the girl who knows how to cook all of the things a 50 year old mom knows,

But Chaewon actually slices gracefully and that itself is already an impressive talent a person can have in their life.

"When you're this privileged in life, the simple things are the only things that can make you happy."

Tossing in the beef into the simmering water on top of Chaewon's two burner stove,

Her aunt started the fire underneath it after hearing some loud clicks that opened the gas the burner needs for it to start,

And like that few clicks her aunt had to try with opening the fire,

Chaewon has her own clicks too and nobody really knows how much there is,

But she's sure that Chaewon will have her own fire start as soon as she needs it in her life to remain who she is.

"I know you won't understand me right now and hopefully you will in the future."

"You don't look like you'll follow your mom's footsteps in the industry, and your dad's security thing will most likely land onto your brother's hands.

"No offense."

"It's fine"

"I find happiness and serenity in these things now and it makes me feel like I'm a normal person too"

"The funny looking waterproof bag I bring to the market, my cute little fancy hat, the relationship I have with the vendors back at their stalls.

They may not know who I am but that makes things much more simple and that's a good thing to have within our very complicated life"

After hearing her Aunt's very drastic and emotional yet improvised speech,

Chaewon looked at her face while she was slicing the potatoes she peeled earlier,

And it really shows how she didn't want any of these things at all.

Out of all the years Chaewon has known her Tita,

She was never the person who would use her status in life to gain an upper hand over somebody especially if it's for her betterment,

Her Tita wasn't the person that would always post things on the internet nor buy fancy stuff if she doesn't necessarily need it.

She's the person who would buy stuff a couple of days away before the old one breaks,

And Chaewon finds it so clever how she doesn't even look like her age.

She was the person Chaewon wanted to be ever since she knew the idea of idolizing someone and she thinks that until now,

There could never be a wrong thing that she'll find within her one and only Tita Seohyun.

"So your friends with the nut vendor too Tita?"

Joking about the one kilo bag of seasoned peanuts Chaewon pulled out from the waterproof tote bag her aunt brought from home,

The nuts are indeed a good snack to have on hand since it's not something filled with fat,

And the nutrients this kind of nuts have says to be better than eating the regular ones she buys from the supermarket from time to time,