Chapter 6: Una and Mom (On the Bus)

  Una: Hello?

  Hyesuk: (angry) Where are you?

  Una: On the bus. Why?

  Hyesuk: Do you know what time it is? Are you still with that fraud?

  Una: (exasperated) I’m coming home now.

  Hyesuk: You speak to your mother in that tone? I’m worried about you.

  Una: (feeling bad, but holding it back) Okay. Sorry. I’m coming home now.

  Hyesuk: Did you study?

  Una: Yeah ...

  Hyesuk: Doesn’t sound like it. How could you study in that fraud’s house?

  Una: He’s not a fraud. He knows what he’s doing.

  Hyesuk: OK. So, what company does he work at? What kind of … investment … does he make? He’s just some dodgy insurance peddler.

  Una: Mum! Keep this up and I’ll hang up.

  Hyesuk: A man of his age who hasn’t even bought an apartment yet … thinking of proposing to you …

  Una: Do you know how expensive apartments are these days?

  Hyesuk: Huh. Just look at what your schoolmates are doing now! They’re saving up money, sending their mum on overseas trips .. but my daughter ...

  Una: (feeling that her mother needs her) Mum! Stop it! I'm coming home.

  Hyesuk: Hurry up!

  (Hyesuk hangs up the phone. Deep down, she feels guilty about what she said and sorry for her daughter).

  Hyesuk: (talking to herself) I should make some food that Una and her father like.