Pachinko(파친코)_7월 25일(월)_1권_Chapter 5_4p_43p

[Frida]

Sunja had not imagined that a person like Koh Hansu could do his own laundry. His clothes were so fine and beautifully tailored. She had already seen him wear several different white suits and white shoes. No one dressed like he did.

She something to say.

"When I wash clothes, I think about doing it well. It's one of the chores I like because I can make something better than it was. It isn't like a broken pot that you have to throw away."

He smiled at her. "I have wanted to be with you for a long time."

Again, she wanted to ask why, but it didn't matter in a way.."

The market women had told her this before. Sunja could not haggle well and didn't try. However, this morning she hadn't told her mother that she was meeting Koh Hansu. She had not evern told her about the Japanese students picking on her. The night before, she told Dokhee, who did the laundry with her, that she'd do the wash herself, and Dokhee had been overjoyed to get out of the task.

"Do you have a sweetheart?" he asked.

Her cheeks flushed. "No."

Hansu smiled. "You are almost seventeen. I'm thirty-four. I am exactly twice your age. I am going to be your elder brother and your firned. Hansu-oppa. Would you like that?"

Sunja stared at his black eyes, thinking that she had never wanted anything more except for the time she'd wanted her father to recover from his illness. There wasn't a day when didn't think of her father or hear his voice in her head.

"When do you do your wash?"

"Every third day."

"This time?"

She nodded. Sunja breathed deeply, her lungs and heart filling with anticipation ans wonder. She had always loved this beach-the unending expanse of pale green and blue water, the tiny white pebbles framing the black rocks between the water and the rocky soil. The silence here made here safe and content. Almost no one ever came here, but now she would never see this place the same way again.