[Ongoing] [Seventeen Jeonghan's Bing-ui-geul] Mermaid, Episode 1

✎ Author: Kkudangi

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I went home feeling depressed after failing the test. As soon as I got home, my mom was there, comparing me to my twin brother, Kim Min-gyu, saying, “What are these test scores?” (It’s not like she favors Kim Min-gyu, or scolds me every day. She’s just sensitive to my test scores and studying.) Kim Min-gyu must have been concerned about me getting scolded almost every day, so when his mom wasn’t home, he handed me a small handkerchief. I wiped my tears with the handkerchief. Kim Min-gyu patted my shoulder a couple of times and went into his room.

I was going to go into my room, but I thought I wouldn't be able to concentrate on my studies in this mood, so I put on a thin cardigan and a hat to hide my red eyes from crying and went out. When I came out, I didn't know where to go, so I went to my favorite place.

My favorite place was the most beautiful place in our town. I could see the ocean rippling big and small, and I could see the fish swimming beautifully. I could also see the beautiful ocean sparkling with sunlight reflecting off of it. And I could cry among the big rocks without anyone knowing. I could cry freely, with the sound of the ocean drowning out my cries.

I really like this place. As soon as I got here, I crouched down between the big rocks, put my face between my knees, and cried. Everyone has something they can't do. For me, it's just studying. I'm sick of getting scolded for studying every day. Getting scolded for the same reason and hearing the same things. My twin brother got the genes. He's tall, handsome, good at studying, has a good personality, is good at sports, and is good at cooking. When I thought about it, I felt very sad.

At that time, the wind blew very strongly. The handkerchief that Kim Min-gyu was holding in his hand was blown away into the sea by the wind. He said, “Oh no,” but he felt that he would catch a cold if he went into the sea in this weather, so he just looked at the handkerchief floating on the sea.

At that moment, I saw a large blue fish tail. It was such a big fish that I got scared and jumped up from the spot and ran straight towards home.

Strangely, Kim Min-gyu's handkerchief was floating on the sand without even seeing the waves.

'I'll give this to you later.'

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"I told you to study, but where have you been in the meantime?"

When I got home, my mother was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, yelling at me. I held back tears once more and apologized before going into my room.

My room was painted blue. I really like blue, so my blanket, my bag, my phone case, and my cardigan that I wore today were all blue. It was all blue. The reason I like blue is because the ocean is blue. I really like the ocean.

As soon as I sat down at my desk, instead of my workbook, I turned on my phone and searched for mermaids. When I searched for mermaids, they were full of mermaids drawn by people. Those drawings were like what people who had never seen a mermaid would think they looked like, but they were not mermaids at all. The tail was twice as long as the body, and the chest was not covered by the shell. There were also gills in the ears. The hands were just like human hands. The mermaids drawn by people were just fish tails, and they were not mermaids at all.

I wondered how I knew what a mermaid looked like. But I quickly gave up because I had no memory of anything before I was 7. My grandmother said that I lost my memory after falling into the sea in some kind of accident.

I heard footsteps outside the room, so I quickly turned off my phone and opened my workbook. Not long after, the door opened and my twin brother, Kim Min-gyu, came in instead of my angry mother. He took my pencil case out of my bag and placed it on the desk.

" why. "

"If you're going to pretend, do it right."

"Who studies without taking out their pencil case?"

"What, what do you want me to do?"

"I'm so good to you, why do you keep pushing me away?"

"Because I feel like I'm being compared to others when I'm with you."

"You're perfect and I'm not."

"You're probably good at something too."

"Just as I'm good at studying, you'll be good at other things."

"Okay, get out."

At school, at home, I am compared to Kim Min-gyu. Kim Min-gyu is perfect, and I am not. But my grandmother loved me more than the perfect Kim Min-gyu. I don't know the exact reason, but I liked my grandmother. She is no longer by my side.

I lived with my grandmother until I was 15, and then started living with my mother when I was 16. My mother also liked Kim Min-gyu more than me, who was lacking in many ways. When I was young, I found Kim Min-gyu a bit annoying.

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"Hey, I'm hungry. Let's eat something and then we can go."

"No, I don't have money."

"I have a lot of money! I got some allowance yesterday!!"

"Are you going to eat?? "

This is my one and only precious friend, Kwon Soon-young. We became friends when I was 16, and now that I'm 18, we've been friends for 3 years. Kwon Soon-young asked me to go to a snack shop, but I said I wanted to go straight to the beach today, so I said let's go tomorrow and that I couldn't do it today, and we parted ways.

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This time too, I hid myself between the large rocks on the beach. I dipped my feet in the sea. The weather was cold and the sea was low, so it was cold as expected. It was so cold that I jumped up and down and ran around the beach alone.

Then, all of a sudden, I felt like going into the sea. I had a towel and gym clothes in my bag, so I could dry off and change into wet clothes. It was cold and chilly, but I didn't hesitate and immersed myself up to my waist. I was so happy and excited that I forgot the cold and went into the sea up to my chest.

It was cold, but not too cold. At that moment, I saw Kim Min-gyu's handkerchief from afar. I swam toward it, but the closer I got, the farther away the handkerchief was. Out of breath and exhausted, I was just swinging my legs, and the handkerchief came toward me. Behind it, I saw a big fish's tail.

I was startled by the tail and my legs, which had been flailing around in fear, froze. I fell into the sea. I tried to get up to the surface with just the strength of my arms, but it wasn't enough and I just kept sinking.

Then someone saved me. That someone was neither a human nor a fish, but a mermaid that I had longed to see so much.

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