Summer Friday Evening at the Hospital
Now the early summer Friday evening was starting to get warm.
Kim Sohyun had received her daily wage of three hundred thousand won and was heading home after work today as well. She immediately headed to the hospital where her daughter was hospitalized.
As she waited, the bus she had been waiting for finally arrived.
Beebeep.
She swiped her card.
With a heavy thud, she plopped down in the seat with a vacant expression, staring out the window with dry eyes.
Soon the bus began to move with the engine’s vibration, and the scenery outside the window blurred.
“Haaaa…”
A strange sense of stability washed over her, and the tense body and mind of Kim Sohyun finally loosened just a little.
But that was only for a moment.
The enormous debt from the massive loan shark money that her husband had poured into her name.
And the urgent demands for the rare disease treatment fees and hospital bills of her three-year-old daughter who came every month.
The cold reality’s sharp wind blew in, which she had briefly forgotten, and Sohyun’s chest tightened painfully.
“…”
Kim Sohyun squeezed her eyes shut.
Since thinking made her feel suffocated, she desperately tried to force those heavy worries out of her mind.
What filled the space where the worries had left was…
None other than the “man” from her studio apartment who had started working there four days ago.
Soon.
The bizarre time she had spent there for the past four days began replaying in her head one after another.
Even on the first day, she had been so tired of the fear of her neck being wrenched at any moment that she had crouched in the corner and only reached out trembling whenever he called.
But as the days passed, the ferocious fear toward the man gradually faded.
He had never locked her up or hit her.
And he wasn’t the type who went crazy with lust and went wild at any time.
He simply asked for one thing in the morning.
And in the middle, made her suck his penis.
And only paid the promised money right before she left work.
Moreover, after he came, he didn’t seem to care and just stared at the monitor with a mad gaze, ignoring her.
“He was just… an abnormal, pathetic madman.”
Realizing that he was not some intimidating criminal but just a shut-in obsessed with stocks brought a sense of relief and the fear also faded.
And once the fear was gone, the surrounding scenery finally came into view.
From the next day, the reason Sohyun started cleaning the weird and narrow studio apartment with her own hands was exactly that.
The reason was simple.
After all, she had to be in the space for almost nine hours a day…
She couldn’t stand the sight of dust and hair rolling on the floor, the delivery containers, and the terrible smell of cigarette butts vibrating.
Even though it was a place she had to enter only to earn money or to live, at least it should be an environment where a person could breathe and live.
So after she cleaned the room and placed a diffuser, the man’s room finally looked like a place where a person lived.
Meanwhile, as her memory reached that far, Sohyun’s consciousness naturally flowed back to the “man” himself.
Soon the images of the man she remembered began to surface one by one.
On the first day of work.
He had come reeking of the pungent cum smell even after he had come on her the previous day.
Yet he subtly checked her out and said he would wash today.
And every morning he demanded that she strip her pants and open her mouth blankly the moment she came to work.
He never asked for anything beyond the agreed act.
He didn’t even touch her breasts or ass.
“He’s really an abnormally strange human being… so I have to come to work…”
Kim Sohyun murmured quietly to herself, her eyes fixed on the window outside.
Meanwhile.
Her memories continued in a chain, and naturally the big and hideous penis she had seen dangling inside the man’s pants floated up in her mind.
From the second day of work, although she had washed and improved, the smell from before had really been…
She felt like biting his penis off.
Every time the pungent cum residue and sweat smell of a guy who clearly hadn’t washed for days made her stomach turn.
However… apart from the disgusting odor that numbed her nose, the actual performance of the thing itself was beyond imagination.
“Honestly… it was really huge.”
Far thicker and harder than any man she had seen before, including her dormant husband.
Just licking and sucking it while it was limp would make the veins stand out sharply and swell like a club, adding to the oppressive presence.
The bulky fullness that seemed to split her mouth open, and the heavy pressure that made her feel like the brain was being pushed deep into her throat when he rammed the head inside.
And not just size, the thick veins on the penis shaft were repulsive yet strangely attractive.
“With that much… without any technique, I could just send it…”
Thinking this far, Sohyun suddenly flinched and covered her cheek with both hands.
“Ah!”
Kim Sohyun’s face instantly flushed bright red.
What kind of crazy thought am I having now?
I’m alone evaluating the size and hardness of the madman’s penis who blackmailed me and forced conditional meetings.
Shocked by her own bizarre thought, that was exactly when Sohyun shook her head herself.
Squeak—
With the announcement, the bus came to a stop at the station with a screech.
Through the window, the large building of the university hospital where her daughter was admitted came into view.
She had arrived at her destination.
.
.
Entering the hospital room, the aunt from her parents’ house who had been guarding her daughter all day stood up tiredly.
“Sohyun, you’re here…”
“Mom, you worked hard. Go home and rest.”
After finally sending home the aunt who had stayed up all night worrying about her child, Sohyun carefully approached her daughter’s bed.
On the bed lay her three-year-old daughter with a small body.
Small hands and feet, and numerous tubes and ECG wires connected all over her chest.
The rare disease, pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, where her heart muscle suddenly thickened and might cause a seizure and stop at any moment.
Sohyun’s chest felt like it was being torn apart by the sight of her daughter breathing barely, as if she would shatter at any moment.
“Our Su-a…”
Kim Sohyun looked at her daughter with sad eyes and gently stroked the child’s thin cheek with careful hands.
But at that moment.
Gurgle—
In the quiet hospital room, Sohyun’s stomach let out a loud growl and screamed.
At the same time, all strength drained from her and a brutal hunger engulfed her whole body.
“Ah, right…”
Kim Sohyun realized that while she had been staring at the madman’s hideous thing on the bus and blushing, rolling her legs, she had completely forgotten to eat dinner.
Soon her cheeks flushed with embarrassment, but she couldn’t stand the stomachache that was eating at her.
Fortunately the nurse came in and started moving the bed because it was time for Su-a’s detailed examination.
Using the short gap while her daughter was taken to the examination room, Sohyun hurried to the basement convenience store to fill her stomach.
Beep—
“Four thousand five hundred won.”
“Here you go.”
She roughly grabbed a triangular rice ball and a sandwich, paid, and got on the elevator to go back to her daughter’s room.
On the first floor, when the elevator door opened, an familiar silhouette appeared.
Kim Sohyun doubted her own eyes.
“…?”
A familiar build man sitting on a bench in the corner of the lobby.
The “man” from the studio apartment she had seen every day for the past four days… exactly that one.
However, what caught her eyes even more than the man’s existence was his both hands.
The entire pair of the man’s hands was tightly wrapped in white bandages.
At the same time, the man’s gaze precisely met Sohyun’s who was riding the elevator with him.
The convenience store plastic bag in Sohyun’s hand.
And the man’s bandaged hands.
An awkward and strange silence hung between the two.
The emergency stairs where they had met for the “simple” and the alley where they had pursued her.
Excluding those two places, this was the first time she met the man outside the studio apartment.
Her body reacted faster than her head.
Snap snap snap snap—
Before the man’s lips, which seemed about to say something, could fall, her hand frantically pressed the close button with great force.
Next moment.
Perhaps the elevator door closed quickly as if it had understood her urgent state, and her awkward encounter with the man ended.
.
.
Kim Sohyun walked slowly and sat down on the chair in front of the examination room where her daughter had gone.
Then she took out the now-cold triangular rice ball and sandwich from the plastic bag.
With the rustling plastic sound, she bit one corner of the triangular rice ball deeply, but the chewy rice balls only stuck in her throat without going down.
Chewing it roughly and swallowing, in Sohyun’s mind the “accident” encounter that had happened in the first-floor lobby just now flashed again.
“Crazy…”
Kim Sohyun placed her hand on her forehead and let out a small moan.
But why was that crazy man sitting on the hospital lobby bench at this time?
Wrapped in white bandages like a mummy on both hands.
The sight of her instinctively frantically pressing the elevator close button out of shock at the sudden encounter came to mind and embarrassment surged.
Then suddenly.
“But… why did he wrap his hands like that?”
Sohyun’s head tilted curiously while chewing the sandwich.
The man’s hands she had seen every day for four days.
The fingers that had been glued to the monitor screen right before he came, staring at the chart with a mad gaze.
Could it be that he lost big in a day trade and hit the wall?
Or because he owed money like her, the loan sharks came and caused trouble?
“Haa…”
Kim Sohyun sighed deeply and shook her head.
It was pointless curiosity.
“I don’t care if that crazy man’s hands break or snap.”
Whether the man’s hands were injured or not, the only thing important to her was one thing.
To go to the man’s studio apartment by 8:45 tomorrow morning and suck his penis.
And receive the three hundred thousand won daily wage that would become her daughter’s treatment cost on time.
Nothing more, nothing less.
The man’s ejaculation was none of her business, and it wasn’t something worth worrying about anyway.
After all, it was a screwed-up start from the beginning.
After desperately shaking off her thoughts, Sohyun forced the remaining sandwich into her mouth.