Be My Baby - Vol.3 Chapter 7 Part 2
A heavy and languid sensation was spreading to the tips of his fingers.
Seonwoo, who had been sleeping deeply for a while with the strange feeling of constantly drooping, suddenly woke up and lifted his heavy eyelids.
It was a strange feeling.
His body felt heavy and droopy, but his mind was light, and even though he didn’t want to move because his whole body felt languid, he couldn’t help but smile because that languidness wasn’t unpleasant. Thinking that it must be because he had such a good dream, Seonwoo was about to cover himself with the blanket again after squirming on the bed, when the delicious smell coming from outside the room finally made him get up, rubbing his eyes as he got out of bed.
And then, just like any other day, he scratched his belly as he left the room and headed towards the kitchen. As he entered the kitchen where the delicious smell was coming from, taking slow, heavy steps, the housekeeper welcomed him with a smile.
“Are you up, Doctor?”
“Yes. Good morning?”
“I just made cabbage soup, would you like to eat now?”
“Yes.”
The smell was exactly that of cabbage doenjang soup with clams.
As Seonwoo headed into the dining room where the table was set, stimulated by that appetite-inducing smell, with his eyes not fully open yet, the housekeeper came over to the dining room, smiling as she set out the side dishes. While the housekeeper was busily setting the table, looking at Seonwoo, who insisted on eating even though he couldn’t even open his eyes properly due to sleepiness, as if he was cute, Seonwoo, who was pressing his puffy eyelids with his hand, saw the rice bowl placed in front of him and smiled brightly as he picked up his spoon. Looking at Seonwoo moving his hand with a face full of
Looking at Seonwoo moving his hand with a face full of expectation, the housekeeper, who was placing the soup bowl next to him, looked at Seonwoo with a slightly surprised expression.
“Doctor, what happened to your forehead?”
“Huh?”
“You have a bruise. Did you bump into something?”
“A bruise?”
As Seonwoo raised his hand to touch his forehead, he winced at the sharp pain.
“I must have bumped it while sleeping.”
“Oh my, how did that happen?”
“It’s okay. It doesn’t hurt…”
Just as Seonwoo was shaking his head, smiling brightly so that the housekeeper wouldn’t worry, a memory flashed through his mind like lightning.
There was a vivid memory that flashed through his mind in an instant as he touched his forehead.
But he thought it was a dream.
It was a memory far more ideal than he had imagined, so he was sure it was a dream.
But it was too vivid to be a dream, and too unbelievable to be reality.
“Um, I… just a moment…”
In a sudden state of panic, Seonwoo got up from the table and hurriedly went into the bathroom inside the bedroom.
And the moment he looked in the mirror, he instinctively reached out to cover the clearly visible bruise on his forehead.
But even when he lowered his head, he could still see the bruise, so he grabbed a towel and covered the entire mirror before bending over and sinking into thought.
“Wait… Wait a moment. Let’s think about this.”
So, yesterday afternoon, just as he was about to eat dinner, Eunsoo came.
With his phone and intercom ringing like crazy, he thought about running away and hid in the underground parking lot to avoid visitors, but when that guy stayed for three hours, he came out to the first basement level and wandered around, then took a taxi to Seyoon’s place because he was too hungry.
He went there, got some food, talked for a while, and then seems to have fallen asleep.
And he slept very deeply.
Then he had a dream where hyung said he wanted to live together, so he hit his forehead on the marble wall, and because hyung said he liked him, he was about to jump off the balcony…
“Aack! No way! No way!”
That was clearly not a dream.
It was obvious reality.
But it’s still hard to believe.
How could such a reality exist?
Maybe hyung got hurt somewhere, or had an accident, or maybe something happened to cause a sudden change of heart…
“Could it be… a terminal illness?”
Thinking that maybe hyung wanted to hold the baby one last time before… but then realizing that it’s unlikely for a director of a medical device company, not just any company, he felt relieved.
It’s unlikely that someone who created a machine that can do a full health check with just a drop of blood in 10 seconds would have a terminal illness.
Even if he did, all organs can be regenerated if you have enough money.
The only organs that can’t be regenerated are the uterus and the brain, but hyung doesn’t have a uterus inside his body, so that’s not an issue.
And the brain…
“Did he hurt his head?”
At that thought, his heart sank.
In the case of the brain, there are all sorts of strange diseases that can only be confirmed through detailed examinations.
But even that can mostly be cured if you have money.
Among brain diseases, the only one that hasn’t been conquered so far is…
“Alzheimer’s?”
But even that, if it’s in the early stages, I think I could do something about it… As he was thinking this and raised his head, he saw the bruise on his forehead again.
“Aack!”
Startled by that bruise mark, he hurriedly left the bathroom, and then he heard a knocking sound from outside the bedroom.
“Doctor, are you alright?”
“Huh? Yes. I’m fine.”
“Are you not feeling well?”
“No, I just… have something to think about. Don’t worry about it.”
“Okay. Then what should I do about the meal?”
“A little, a little later.”
“Alright.”
After hearing the kind housekeeper’s reply, Seonwoo started pacing around the bedroom.
“What should I do? What should I do?”
If hyung had hurt his head or has Alzheimer’s, or if he said those things impulsively due to some great emotional shock…
No.
That can’t be the case.
Hyung is healthy, and above all, the possibility of hyung getting Alzheimer’s or any known disease is almost zero.
Of course, there are environmental factors, but the external factors for getting sick are also close to zero.
The only possibility is stress…
“Did he get too stressed because of me…?”
Just as he was seriously considering whether he should check hyung’s brain wave state, just in case, suddenly a terrifying ringtone sounded.
At that horrible sound, he looked in the direction of the sound, and saw his phone ringing like crazy on the bedside table next to the bed.
At that sound that had already driven him to the point of neurosis yesterday, he carefully, stealthily approached the bedside table and saw hyung’s number flashing.
The moment he saw that, Seonwoo’s face turned pale.
If hyung really did hurt his head, or if he spoke impulsively yesterday and now regrets it and wants to take it back…
Wondering what he should do, whether he should answer or not, Seonwoo hesitated, and then at that endlessly ringing tone, he first placed the phone face down on the bed and pressed it down with a pillow.
And then he left the room and locked himself in the study.
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