Chapter 15 Se-hee Noona Gets Scolded (Mom, Se-hee, Se-young)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 15 Se-hee Noona Gets Scolded (Mom, Se-hee, Se-young)
Mom stood in the living room, having found and grabbed a plastic broom.
The tears that had been welling in Se-hee Noona’s eyes were now overflowing, streaming down her cheeks and dripping onto the floor.
"Se-young, if you're done eating, go to your room, close the door, and do your homework!"
Mom sent Se-young to her room first.
Se-young cast a worried glance at Se-hee Noona before disappearing into her room.
"Si-woo, you stay right there!!"
Si-woo, who felt like he couldn't move anyway because of his erection, adjusted his posture and sat back down, grateful for Mom's command.
"Se-hee, get over here!!"
Mom’s voice rang through the living room, terrifyingly sharp.
Sobbing, Se-hee Noona shuffled toward her.
"I’ve been telling you to clean your room for days, and you haven't listened to a word I said, have you? An Advanced Academy student buying and scattering all these risqué clothes and makeup everywhere without a lick of organization!"
Mom glared at her fiercely, the words she had been holding back finally pouring out all at once.
Se-hee Noona kept her head bowed, sniffling and weeping.
"And the cigarettes and lighter!!! Did you think I wouldn't find them just because you hid them in your bag? I give you an allowance, and you go and spend it on things like that?!"
—It seemed Mom had gone through Se-hee Noona’s bag.—
When Mom suddenly brought up the cigarettes and lighter, Se-hee Noona looked up at her, appearing genuinely flustered and miserable.
She covered her face with her hands and began to cry sorrowfully.
"Heeeeegh~ Waaaaah~~"
"Se-hee, tell me the truth. Since when have you been smoking?"
Ignoring her tears, Mom pressed her, interrogating her relentlessly.
"Ugh... ugh-ugh~ A friend just asked me to hold onto them... I was just keeping them. I don't smoke."
Even while crying, Se-hee Noona was spinning a lie, desperate to survive the moment.
"What kind of friend asks you to hold their cigarettes? Are you really going to lie to your mother now?"
There was no way Mom was going to fall for that.
"Si-woo, did you know your sister was smoking?"
Mom turned to ask Si-woo.
Suddenly, the sparks had flown in Si-woo's direction.
Si-woo didn't confirm or deny it; he just looked at his sister with pity.
"Si-woo, do you smoke too?"
Another question came flying at him.
Terrified of being branded a co-conspirator, Si-woo immediately shook his head.
"Si-woo, speak up!! When did you find out your sister was smoking?"
Mom seemed determined to get to the bottom of this.
"I saw her smoking in the park once, a few days ago."
Si-woo answered while glancing nervously at Se-hee Noona.
"Alone?"
"No, with her friends..."
"Which friends?"
"Shin-bi Noona and three other girls I'd never seen before."
Si-woo honestly confessed everything he knew to Mom.
At that, Se-hee Noona’s expression turned to one of utter despair, as if she had been betrayed, and she glared fiercely at Si-woo.
Thwack!!
Seeing that, Mom brought her fist down hard on the top of Se-hee's head.
"Why are you glaring at your brother?! Huh? Why are you glaring?!!! Don't you dare use this as an excuse to mess with Si-woo, you hear me?!!"
Mom’s eyes were terrifying as she scolded Se-hee Noona.
"Aish~ Mom, seriously~ Why were you going through someone else's bag anyway~?"
Se-hee Noona clutched the spot where she’d been hit with both hands, making a futile final stand.
"You did something wrong and you're still talking back? Do you want a beating you'll never forget today?"
Mom raised the broom she was holding and began to strike Se-hee's thighs and legs without mercy.
Whack! Whack!
"Ah! Mom!"
Whack!!
"Aack—"
Se-hee Noona screamed and desperately clung to Mom.
"Mom, Mom, I'm sorry! I was wrong!! I won't do it again, ugh-ugh-ugh~"
She immediately dropped to her knees, rubbing her hands together in a frantic plea for forgiveness.
"Mom, I was wrong. I won't do it again, huff, huff."
Mom glared down at her and asked coldly, "What did you do wrong?"
"Smoking."
Se-hee Noona confessed obediently.
"And!?"
"Not cleaning my room, ugh-ugh~"
"And!?"
"Lying."
"And what else!?"
"Um... talking back to Mom, sniff."
"Anything else!?"
"Anything else? Well, that's..."
Se-hee Noona racked her brain, unable to think of another fault right away.
"The clothes!!"
Mom raised her voice, almost shouting.
"Right... wearing sexy clothes and making Si-woo uncomfortable, waaaaah~~~ ugh-ugh-ugh~"
After answering, Se-hee Noona slumped to the floor and sobbed piteously.
Si-woo felt so sorry for her.
He wondered if this was really something worth getting scolded that much for.
However, he didn't dare try to stop it.
"I told you the thing Mom hates most is lying, didn't I?"
Mom’s reprimand continued.
"Yes... huff, huff."
Even while slumped on the floor crying, Se-hee Noona answered submissively.
"Since you lied today, don't expect an allowance for a month."
At Mom’s thunderclap of a sentence, Se-hee Noona, who had been crying on the floor, looked up at her with a face that looked like the world had ended.
"And if I catch you doing this one more time! I'll beat you until your legs break... understand?!!"
"I understand... it's my fault, hic... But Mom, can't you let the allowance thing slide? There are so many things I need to buy right now."
Even as she spoke with a tone of resignation, the immature Se-hee Noona still wanted to protect her allowance.
"Do I look like I'm joking right now?"
Mom’s voice rose again, her face darkening with anger.
"Mom~~ Please~"
Se-hee Noona’s face was a mess of tears and snot as she begged pitifully.
"Do you really need to be hit more to come to your senses?"
Mom raised the broom again.
"Ah, okay!!! I won't do it!! Mom!! Okay!!! Mom, I was wrong~ ugh-ugh-ugh~ But I really don't even smoke that much."
Se-hee Noona clung to Mom again, pleading her case desperately.
"When I'm with my friends, it's weird if I'm the only one not doing it, so I just pretend to puff on it. And those really were left behind by the other girls, they weren't mine, waaaaah~~~"
As if she were truly being wronged, she slumped back onto the floor and wailed at the top of her lungs.
"Huff, huff, not giving me my allowance is, hic, really too much~ hic, ugh-ugh-ugh."
She continued to speak between gasps for air.
Seeing her like that, Mom’s heart seemed to soften. She let out a sigh and spoke.
"First, go clean your room!! We'll talk about the allowance after that! Si-woo, you go up and organize your room too!! I'm giving you both 15 minutes, so get everything sorted and come back down!!!"
* * *
Se-hee Noona and Si-woo went up to the second floor.
"Huff, hic, who told you to talk about me smoking? Hic, I got caught lying because of you~ hic."
As soon as they reached the second floor, Se-hee Noona spoke to Si-woo, still gasping for breath.
"How was I supposed to lie to Mom in that situation? Besides, you were already caught."
Si-woo felt guilty.
"Hic, why did you have to mention Shin-bi too!! Didn't I tell you I'd kill you if you talked? You jerk!!!"
She started pummeling Si-woo’s arm with her fists.
"Ow, that hurts, Noona!!"
"If I don't get my allowance because of you, hic, give me half of yours!! Got it? Heeeegh~"
After saying that, Se-hee Noona covered her face and began to cry sorrowfully again.
"Okay, okay, I got it. Don't cry, don't cry. I'll take care of everything!!"
Si-woo blurted out the answer as if trying to soothe her.
He found her both pitiful and cute at the same time.
The purple bra—wrapping around her massive breasts—visible through the black mesh T-shirt looked even sexier now.
* * *
After cleaning their rooms, Si-woo went back down to the first floor with Se-hee Noona.
They stood side-by-side in front of Mom, who had her arms crossed.
"Did you both finish cleaning your rooms?"
Mom’s voice still carried a hint of anger.
"Yeah, we're done."
Se-hee Noona and Si-woo answered in unison.
"Se-hee, Si-woo, if I see your rooms messy from now on, I'm cutting off everything, including your allowances. Understand?!"
"Yes."
The two answered meekly.
"And Se-hee, if I catch you smoking again, I really will break your legs."
"Yes."
"Now, apologize to Si-woo for the harsh things you said earlier."
Was Mom upset because she knew Si-woo was actually a pervert?
"I'm sorry, Si-woo. I didn't mean what I said earlier, it just came out wrong. It was my fault."
It was an awkward apology, delivered like she was reading from a textbook.
"Yeah... okay..."
The things Se-hee Noona had said were shocking, but Si-woo didn't take them to heart.
"I won't tolerate lying. But a month seems too long, so you'll be without an allowance for the next two weeks."
"Okay—"
She answered with a tone and length that lingered, her face looking as lonely as a tragic heroine.
"And don't wear those clothes your aunt gave you anymore. Do you have any sense at all? Didn't you think about what would happen if you wore something so see-through?"
Mom looked at Se-hee Noona with a pained expression.
Suddenly, tears began to fall from Se-hee's eyes again.
"I only wore it because Aunt picked it out and it was pretty~ I didn't mean to make things difficult for Si-woo~ hic... I thought you'd say I looked pretty too, Mom~ You're so mean~ waaaaah~~~"
Having said that, Se-hee Noona couldn't contain her surging emotions and began to sob sorrowfully.
"Sigh~"
Watching her, Mom’s heart softened, and she let out a pitying sigh.
"Se-hee, come here!"
Mom called out, and as Se-hee Noona approached with her head bowed and crying, Mom pulled her into a hug, stroking her back to comfort her.
"Alright~ Mom is sorry for not understanding how you felt~ You didn't do it with bad intentions, so you must have been very hurt when Mom got angry~ But you can't wear clothes like that, right? Hmm?"
Mom’s voice had turned gentle as she soothed Se-hee Noona.
"Ugh-ugh-ugh, ugh-ugh-ugh."
Se-hee Noona continued to sob in Mom’s arms, clearly feeling very sorry for herself.
"Okay, okay, Mom is sorry. That was Mom's fault~ Instead, Mom will buy you some other clothes you want to wear. How's that? Now, stop crying. There we go!"
Seeing Se-hee Noona crying in her arms, Mom felt guilty and spoke to her in a coaxing tone, as if she were a small child.
"Really? Hic, then will you buy me the clothes I want? Hic, hic..."
Se-hee Noona answered while sniffling.
"Yes, but nothing sexy. Got it?"
Mom said, continuing to stroke her back.
"Okay... I understand, Mom. Heeeegh."
Se-hee Noona sobbed, clinging to Mom like a spoiled child.
"Honestly, you're both so big, but you're still just babies!"
Mom held Se-hee Noona for a while, then applied some medicine to her injuries and sent her up to her room.
Then, she turned to Si-woo.
"Si-woo, shall we have a little talk?"