The Approaching Hospital Examination

By Sunday lunchtime, with most of the weekend already gone, maybe it was because I'd eaten too little until then, but the B-brand chicken Minsu oppa had bought looked incredibly tempting. Normally, I didn't particularly like bone-in chicken... Unless it was boneless, eating bone-in chicken felt like paying for bones that had to be thrown away (as general waste), so I wasn't very fond of it.

“Jia~ It's time for lunch~”

After what happened yesterday, perhaps I wanted to avoid oppa's voice, but I couldn't. Oppa also called out to me while pretending not to notice me watching him, and even though I'd seen the chicken, I quietly closed the door and pretended I hadn't.

“Jia~ Aren't you hungry?”

This time, Jiyeon unnie knocked on the bedroom door. The smell of seasoned chicken began spreading through the house, perhaps because oppa was opening the packaging. Gulp... It looked delicious. I was terribly hungry since I hadn't eaten anything in the morning because I'd been asleep.

I couldn't stand it any longer, so I opened the door and hugged unnie.

“Actually, I'm hungry, unnie...”

“Of course you are. You didn't eat breakfast either, so you must be hungry. Let's eat together. It's greasy, but this isn't a test that requires you to starve, so it should be fine.”

I was so hungry that I took unnie's hand and followed her to the table, where I sat down. I put on plastic gloves and began tearing off the chicken piece by piece. Considering how little I normally ate, I'd eaten almost nothing yesterday aside from breakfast, so I was terribly hungry. I ate cheese balls, dipped the chicken deep into the sauce, and...

Whenever sauce got on my mouth, I immediately wiped it off with a tissue, careful not to look messy in front of oppa...