๐ Working-Class Mr. Ahnโs Unscheduled Visits to Dr. Yeonโs Clinic continuesโฆ
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The Prod, the Flick, and the Grab
์ฐ๋ฅด๊ธฐ, ํ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ก๊ธฐ
There was no beating Su-ho in a physical match.
๋ชธ์ ์ฐ๋ ์ธ์์์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์ด๊ธธ ์๋ ์์๋ค.
He was just too strong, fast, flexible, and born with a spatial awareness that was the dream of athletes.
์ํธ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐํ๊ณ , ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ , ์ ์ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋์ ์๋ค์ ๊ฟ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ ์ธ์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ฌ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
It didn’t help that he was still doing heavy hands-on work, whereas Si-eun had lost weight and stamina from the demands of medical school, serving as a military doctor, and then single-handedly setting up the clinic.
์ํธ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ชธ์ ์ฐ๋ ๋ ธ๋์ ์ข ์ฌํ๊ณ ์๋ ํํธ, ์์์ ์๋ ์์ ํด๋ด์ผ ํ ์ผ, ๊ตฐ์๊ด์ผ๋ก์์ ๋ณต๋ฌด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธ ํด๋ฆฌ๋์ ๋ด๋ฉด์ ์ฒด์ค๊ณผ ์ฒด๋ ฅ์ ์์๋ค๋ ์ ๋ ๋์ ๋ชธ์ธ์์์๋ ๋ถ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์์ฉํ๋ค.
Remarkably, the exertion burned the last of his baby fat, gave him eye circles that looked like light-goth makeup, polished his cheekbones, and sharpened his jawline, so he unknowingly carried a special ‘hot-weak’ look.
๋๋๊ฒ๋, ์ฒด์ค๊ณผ ์ฒด๋ ฅ์ ์์ผ๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ๋จ์์๋ ์ ์ด์ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ ๊ณ , ๋ผ์ดํธ ๊ณ ์ค ๋ฉ์ดํฌ์ ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด๋ ๋คํฌ์ํด์ ๋ ์๋ ํผ์ด๋๊ฒ ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ด๋๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ฌ๊ณ ํฑ์ ์ ๋ ์นด๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์, ์์์ ์์ ๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ์ฌ์ด ‘์น์ํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ฆฐ’ ํน์ ํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋๋ค.
The line of nurse trainee applicants grew to unmanageable length as word spread of the mysterious Weak Doctor, and in those days, Dr Yeon felt like an idol doing a fan meeting in an alternate world.
๋ฏธ์คํ ๋ฆฌํ ์ฌ๋ฆฐ ์ธ์์ ํ ์์ฌ์ ๋ํ ์๋ฌธ์ด ํผ์ง๋ฉด์ ํด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐํธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์ง์์ ์ค์ด ๊ฐ๋นํ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ๊ธธ์ด์ก๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์์ ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ํฌ๋ฏธํ ์ ํ๋ ์์ด๋ ๊ฐ์๋ค.

While the thought of strangling his bestie with his stethoscope did cross his mind, as did bonking him with a defibrillator paddle, he decided mid-wrestle to save these tools for the boss of Jeon clinic across the street, if it ever came to that.
๋ชธ์ธ์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ฒญ์ง๊ธฐ ์ค๋ก ์ ์น์ ๋ชฉ์ ์กฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ด๊ธธ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค๋ ์์๋ ํ๊ณ , ์ ์ธ๋๊ธฐ ํจ๋ค๋ก ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ํ์ง๋ง, ์์์, ๋ ์ฌ๋ง ๋์ค, ์ด ๋๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๊ฑด๋ํธ ์ ํด๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ฅ์ ์ํด ์๊ปด๋๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ํ์ํ ์ผ์ด ์๊ธด๋ค๋ฉด ๋ง์ด๋ค.
Plus, he noticed Su-ho did not even strike him once. In the only real fight they ever had, Su-ho had punched him in the face.
๋๊ตฐ๋ค๋, ์์์ ์ํธ๊ฐ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์์์ฑ๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ ์ผํ๊ฒ ์ง์ง ์น๊ณ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ธ์ด ์ธ์์์๋ ์ํธ๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ฃผ๋จน์ผ๋ก ์ณค์๋ค.
It was barely a serious jabโthe handsome devil was grinning half the timeโbut it felt like an anvil.
๋น์, ์์ ํ๊ณ ์น ์ฝ์ ์๋์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์์๊ธด ์ ๋ง๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์๊ฐ ๋์ ์์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋น๊ทธ๋ ์๊ณ ์์๋ค.โ๊ทธ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ค๊ณ ํผ๋ง ์ก๋ ์ณ๋ฉ์ด ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
Si-eun lost, but it was the shame of losing control of himself that gnawed at him until he apologized in public to Su-ho the next evening, literally from a bus window.
์์์ด๋ ์ก์ง๋ง, ํต์ ๋ ฅ์ ์์ ์์น์ฌ์ด ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์๋จน์๊ณ , ๋ค์ ๋ ์ ๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ฒ์ค ์์์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ฌ์ ๋, ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ๊ฑด๋ํธ์ ์ํธ์๊ฒ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ์๋ค.
For his sincerity, he received his first finger heart.
์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๊ณผํ์, ์๊ฐ๋ฝ ํํธ๊ฐ ๋ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ํํธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑด ์ฒ์์ด์๋ค.
It was a fluorescent little gesture that passed so quickly into memory, but to Si-eun it lit the night sky, though it didn’t show on his unreadable face at the time. He often daydreamed of it fondly.
ํ๊ด๋น์ ๋ด๋ ์์ ์ ์ค์ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ ๊ธฐ์ต ์์ผ๋ก ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋น ์ก์ผ๋ ์์์๊ฒ๋ ๋ฐคํ๋์ ๋ฐํ๋ ๋น๊ณผ ๊ฐ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋น์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ๋ง์์ด ์ผ๊ตด์๋ ๋ํ๋์ง ์์์ง๋ง, ์์์ ๊ฟ์ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐฑ์ผ๋ชฝ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค.
Su-ho refused to make a fist this afternoon.
์ํธ๋ ์ค๋ ์คํ์๋ ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ์ต๊ณผ๋ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ๋จน์ ์ฅ์ง ์์ ์ ์ด์๋ค.
No kicks, knee butts, or elbows either.
๋ฐ์ฐจ๊ธฐ, ๋ฌด๋ฆ, ํ๊ฟ์น๋ก ๊ณต๊ฒฉํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
He was not going to mar the complexion of his favorite face on the planet.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ง๊ตฌ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ํ๋ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ฏ๋น์ ๋ง์น ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ํ ์์๋ค.
Si-eun had matured into a very fine young man.
์์์ด๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์์๊ธด ์ฒญ๋ ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ค.
God, how do people look so much better as they grow older?
์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ด๊ฐ ๋ค์๋ก ๋ ๋์์ง์ง?
He must be injecting himself. He caught Si-eun’s eyes looking at the defibrillator.
์๊ธฐ ์์ ์๊ฒ ์ ์ด์ง๋ ์ด๋ค ์ฃผ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋ฆผ์์ด. ์ํธ๋ ์์์ด์ ๋์ด ์ ์ธ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ๊ฑธ ์บ์นํ๋ค.
Ah, Dr Yeon Si-eun. Still a total psycho underneath, I knew it. Well, if he knocks me out, he will have to resuscitate me mouth-to-mouth.
์, ์ฐ์์ ๋ฐ์ฌ. ์ฌ์ ํ ์ธ์ด์ฝ ๊ธฐ์ง ๋ชป ๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๊ฑฐ, ์๊ณ ์์์ด. ๋ญ, ์์์ด๊ฐ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ํค๋ฉด ์ธ๊ณตํธํก์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ ค์ฃผ๊ฒ ์ง? ์ ์ผ๋ก.
Instead of his quicksilver knuckles, Su-ho employed three highly irritating techniques whenever he sensed an opening: ‘the Prod,’ ‘the Finger Flick,’ and ‘the Grab’n’Squeeze.’
๊ทธ๋์ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ฃผ๋จน ๋์ , ์ํธ๋ ํ์๋ฅผ ๋น์ง๊ณ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง ๋งค์ฐ ์๋ฏธ์ด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ค: ‘์ฐ๋ฅด๊ธฐ’, ‘์๊ฐ๋ฝ ํ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ’, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ‘์ก์์ ์ฅ์ด์ง๊ธฐ’.
The Prod was meant to tickle, the Flick was pure playfulness, the Grab was utter humiliation, as well as an invitation to more trouble.
์ฐ๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฝํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฑฐ์๊ณ , ํ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋ ์์งํ ์ฅ๋์ด์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ก๊ธฐ๋ ์์ ํ ๊ตด์์ด์ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ก ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ ์ธํ๋ค.
Except it all hurt like hell, because Su-ho’s fingers were hard and unrelenting, he had a terrifying grip strength that could fracture walnuts, and Si-eun was bonier now than before.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋ชจ๋ ์ง๋ ํ๋ ์ํ ๋ค. ์ํธ์ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ๋จ๋จํ๊ณ ๋ฌด์๋นํ๊ณ , ํธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ ์ ์๋ ๋ฌด์์ด ์ ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์์ ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ผ๊ฐ ์์ํด์ก๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค.
Totally exhausted and unexpectedly bruised top to bottom, Si-eun now lay sprawled out on the ground.
์์ ํ ๋๊ฐ๋จ์ด์ ธ์ ์์์น ๋ชปํ๊ฒ๋ ์จํต ๋ฉ๋ ์์์ ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋์๋ก ํผ์ณ์ ธ ๋์๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
He panted and sweated while looking around at the chaos in disbelief.
์จ์ ํ๋ก๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋์ ์ค์ค ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏฟ์ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๋ฏ ๋์ฅํ์ ํ์๋ค.
Drip stands were toppled, his files and books lay on each other like collapsed dominoes, and some sound panels were now crooked for real.
๋ง๊ฑฐ ๊ฑฐ์น๋๋ ์ฐ๋ฌ์ ธ์๊ณ , ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ์ ํ์ผ๊ณผ ์ฑ ๋ค์ด ์๊ฒจ๋ถ์ด ๋๋ฏธ๋ ธ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฐ๋ฌ์ ธ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ ๋ฐฉ์ํ์ ์ด์ ๋ ์ ๋ง๋ก ์๋ค์ด์ ธ ๋จ์ด์ ธ ์์๋ค.
His auburn-dyed hair was a bedhead mess. His white coat was torn under his left arm, his black tie was dislodged, and he had to find his right shoe.
์์์ด ์ ๊ฐ์์ผ๋ก ์ผ์ํ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด์ ๋ง ์๊ณ ์ผ์ด๋ ๋ฏ ์๋ง์ด์๋ค. ํฐ ๊ฐ์ด์ ์ผํ ์ด๋๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ฐข์ด์ ธ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒ์ ๋ฅํ์ด๋ ๋น ์ ธ๋์ ์์๊ณ , ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฒ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์ด๋๋ก ๊ตด๋ฌ๊ฐ๋์ง ์ฐพ์์ผ๋ง ํ๋ค.
Thank God he kept extra sets of clothes in this room.
๋คํํ ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ๋ฒ์ ์ท์ ์ง๋ฃ์ค์ ์ฑ๊ฒจ๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
There was also an affixed, functional bathroom with a powerful shower and medicinal soap for days when there were body fluid accidents from performing surgery or other therapies.
์์ ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์น๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค ์ฒด์ก ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ผ์ด๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋นํด ์์์ด ๊ฐํ ์ค์๊ธฐ์ ์ฝ์ฉ ๋น๋๋ฅผ ์์๋ก ๊ตฌ๋นํด๋๋ ์์ค์ด ๋คํํ ์ง๋ฃ์ค ์์ ๋ง๋ จ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
He needed that shower now.
์์์ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฑ ๊ทธ ์ค์๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค.
Just let me catch my breath.
๋, ์จ ์ข ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ํด์ค.
I’ll make this stupid patient clean this mess up with me!
๋ฐ๋ณด๊ฐ์ ํ์๋ ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ด ์ด ๋์ฅํ์ ์น์์ผ ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ ์์ง?
I can’t let those nice nurses know anything.
์ ๋ํ ๊ฐํธ์ฌ๋ค์ด ๋ญ๊ฐ ์๋ฉด ์ ๋ผ.
Only that sharp new trainee seems to suspect something.
๋ด ์๊ฐ์, ์๋ก ๋ค์ด์จ ๋์ฐ๋ฏธ ์ข์ ๋ง๋ด ๊ฐํธ์ฌ๋ง ๋ญ๊ฐ ์์ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ .
Just then, he heard Mr. Ahn fumbling with his drawers.
๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ๋, ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ์ ์จ๊ฐ ์๋์ ๋ง์ง์๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋์น์ฑ๋ค.
Just Showering, Okay?
๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ค์๋ง ์๊ฒ ์ง
No, waitโฆ wait, pleaseโฆ
์ ๋ผ, ์ ๊นโฆ ์ ๊น๋ง, ์ ๋ฐโฆ
Dr Yeon exclaimed.
์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ธ๋ค.
Mr Ahn stopped.
๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์์ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ํ๋์ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
He’s pleading for real. What is he hiding?
์์์ด๊ฐโฆ ์ง์ง๋ก ์ ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ญ ์จ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ง?
Mr Ahn clicked his tongue and pursed his lips.
์ ์จ๋ ํ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ๋ฉฐ ์ ์ ์ ๋ฅ๊ธ๊ฒ ์ค๋ฏ๋ ธ๋ค.
Si-eun-ah,
์์์,
He said gently.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ์์์ ๋ถ๋ ๋ค.
What’s going on?
๋ฌด์จ, ์จ๊ธฐ๋ ์ผ ์์ด?
Dr Yeon hadn’t heard his name called this way in a while.
์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ‘์์์’๋ก ์์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ๋์ ๋ฃ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
Most of the time, Mr Ahn just addressed him with informal pronouns. Or he called him ‘Dr Yeon’ with a touch of pseudo-seriousness.
๋๊ฐ ์ ์จ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋น๊ฒฉ์ ๋๋ช ์ฌ๋ก ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง์นญํ๋ค. ์๋๋ฉด ์์ฅ๋ ์ง์งํจ์ ๋ด์ ์ฅ๋์น๋ฏ ‘์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ’๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ ๋ค.
His defenses lowered and he replied softly,
์์์ ๋ฐฉ์ด๋ง์ด ๋ฎ์์ง๋ฉฐ ๋ค์ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
Please don’t get angry when you see it. It’s in the third drawer.
๋ณด๊ณ ํ๋ด์ง ๋ง. ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ์๋์ ์์ด.
Mr Ahn hesitated briefly, then opened the drawer cautiously.
์ ์จ๋ ์ ๊น ๋ง์ค์ด๋ค, ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๋์ ์ด์๋ค.

What greeted him was a photograph of himself standing upright in his high school uniform, his head thrown back with a smile.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ง์ฃผํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต ๊ต๋ณต์ ์ ๊ณ ๋๋ฐ๋ก ์์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ก ์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์๋ ์์ ์ ์ฌ์ง์ด์๋ค.
Behind him, Si-eun rested his forehead against his left shoulder, eyes closed. The photo had been lovingly brightened, expertly coloured a delicate sepia, and framed. It was beautiful.
๊ทธ์ ๋ค์์๋ ์์์ด๊ฐ ๋์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ผ์ชฝ ์ด๊นจ์ ์ด๋ง๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋๊ณ ์์๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฌ๋์ค๋ฌ์ด ์์ ๋๊ณ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๊ฒฝ ์จ์ ๋ง๋ ์ฌ์ธํ ์ธํผ์์์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์๋์ด ์ก์์ ๋ด๊ฒจ์ ธ ์์๋ค. ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ฒ.
Mr Ahn tried to stifle a gasp.
์ ์จ๋ ๊ฐ์ด์ด ํฌ๊ฒ ํ์ด์ค๋ฅด๋ ค๋ ๊ฑธ ๊ฐ๊น์ค๋ก ์ต๋๋ฅด๋ ค ํ๋ค.
Huh. And you said not everything is about me.
ํ? ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ดํ ๊ฑด ์๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ?
But he sensed his voice was about to tremble so he stopped and swallowed hard.
ํ์ง๋ง ์ํธ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋จ๋ฆด ์ ์์์ ๋๊ปด ์ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฉ์ถ๊ณ ์นจ์ ๊ฟ๊บฝ ์ผ์ผฐ๋ค.
After some time, he asked, ‘didn’t Yeong-i take this?’
ํ์ฐธ ํ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ‘์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ ์์ด ์๋์ผ?’
Dr Yeon froze.
์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ์๋ฌด ๋ง์ด ์์๋ค.
He probably can’t remember because of the coma.
ํผ์์ํ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ธฐ์ต ๋ชป ํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์.
His eyes looked downward.
์์์ ๋์ด ํ ์ผ ์์ด ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ํฅํ๋ค.
Uh huh
์ผ์
He croaked out weakly. He really hated lying to Mr Ahn.
์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ๋ค์ ์ฐ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋๋ตํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์จ์๊ฒ ๊ฑฐ์ง๋งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ๋ง ์ซ์ดํ๋ค.
But how was he to tell him that it was Beomseok who took this picture?
ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ์ ๊ฒ ๋ฒ์์ด์๋ค๊ณ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋งํ ์ ์์๊น?
He was very glad when Mr Ahn changed the subject.
๊ทธ๋์ ์ํธ๊ฐ ํ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฟจ์ ๋ ๋ด์ฌ ์๋ํ๋ค.
Why didn’t you want me to see this? You made it sound like you had my nudes or something.
์ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ๋๋ ์ฌ์ง์ฒ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ด. ๋ด ๋๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ์ค ์์์์.
Oh gross.
ํ์๋ฆฌ ํ์ง ๋ง.
Well, I guess I wasโฆ embarrassed. I mean, I like the photo, but what if you didn’t like it as much as I do?
๊ทธ๋ฅ, ์ข ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ด. ๋ฌด์จ ๋ง์ด๋๋ฉด, ๋ ์ฌ์ง์ด ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ง๋ง ๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณผ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋๊น.
It would be like stepping on my memories.
๋๊ฐ ์ ์ข์ํ๋ค๋ฉด ๋ด ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ธ๋ชจ์์ด์ง๋ ๊ฒ ์๋๊ฐ ํด์.
Also Byeoksan wasn’t the happiest place for either of us. I didn’t want you to get upset.
๋ฒฝ์ฐ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํ๋ณตํ๋ ๊ณณ์ ์๋์์ผ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋๊ฐ ํ๋์ง ์๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ฌ์ ๋ฟ์ด์ผ.
Well, I like the photo very much and I am very happy I met you.
์๋, ์ฌ์ง ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ด. ๋ ๋ง๋์ ํ๋ณตํ๊ณ ๋ง์ผ?
Now it was Dr Yeon’s turn to swallow hard.
์ด๋ฒ์ ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ์นจ์ ๊ฟ๊บฝํ๊ณ ์ผํฌ ์ฐจ๋ก์๋ค.
Mr Ahn smiled.
์ ์จ๊ฐ ์ฉ ์์๋ค.
Come, I’ll help you clean up.
์น์ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ ๋์ธ๊ฒ.
Uh-uh. I’m going for a shower first.
์ ์๋, ์ค์๋ถํฐ ํ ๋ ค๊ณ .
I was talking about your body.
๋ ๋ชธ ์๊ธฐํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์๋๋ฐโฆ?
โฆ โฆ โฆ
Awww don’t be like that. Can’t hyung come shower too?
์ ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ! ํ๋ ์ค์ํด์ผํ์ง ์๊ฒ ์ด?
Actually yes you should.
๋ง์, ๋๊ฐ ํด์ผ ํด.
Because if I came out looking all fresh and cool, and you walked out looking like you do now, the nurses will think I was the abuser.
๋ด๊ฐ ๋ฉ๋ํด์ ธ์ ๋๊ฐ๊ณ , ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋๊ฐ๋ฉด ์ง์๋ค์ด ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ ํผ๋ค๊ณ ๋ค ์คํดํ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ .
But we’re just showering okay!!
๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ค์๋ง ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ค?
My appointments are all backed up already.
์์ฝ ํ์๋ค์ด ํ๋ ๋ช ์ด ์๋์ผ.
The Fourth Drawer’s Secret
๋ค ๋ฒ์งธ ์๋์ ๋น๋ฐ
What Dr Yeon didn’t know was that in a hard-to-access part of his wallet, Mr Ahn carried a much smaller, almost passport-sized version of the exact same photo.
์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ์ฒ ๋ชฐ๋๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด ์๋ค. ์ ์จ์ ์ง๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์์, ํจ์ฌ ํฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์, ๊ฑฐ์ ์ฌ๊ถ ํฌ๊ธฐ ์ ๋์ ๋๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๋ค๋๋ค๋ ์ ์ด์๋ค.
He received it from Beomseok and printed it out years ago, back when they were friends.
์ํธ๋ ๋ฒ์์ด๊ฐ ์ฐ์ด์ค ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ ์ , ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์น๊ตฌ์ฌ์ด์์ ๋ ์ธ์ํด๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
But he could see sadness flash across Dr Yeon’s face every time they talked about Byeoksan high, even briefly. Si-eun always had a soft spot for Beomseok, even at the lowest point of his unravelling.
ํ์ง๋ง ์ํธ๋ ๋ฒฝ์ฐ๊ณ ์์ ์ ๋ํ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ด์ฉ๋ค ๋์ค๋ฉด, ์์ฃผ ์ฐฐ๋์ ์๊ฐ, ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ฌํ์ด ์ค์น๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณผ ์ ์์๋ค. ์์์ด ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋๊ฐ์๋ ํญ์ ๋ฒ์์ ๋ํ ์ฐ๋ฏผ์ด ์จ์ด ์์๋ค.
So he asked about Yeong-i as a way out.
์์์ ์ฌํ๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์ ์์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธธ ๊บผ๋ด๋ฉฐ ํ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.

And what Mr Ahn didn’t know was that Dr Yeon pried open the fourth drawer with his foot, not the third.
๋ํ ์ ์จ๊ฐ ๋ชฐ๋๋ ์ ์, ์ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ๋ ๋์ ์ด์ฉํด ํฉ๊ธํ๊ฒ ์ด์ด์ ํ ์๋์ ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ๋ค ๋ฒ์งธ ์๋์ด์๋จ ์ฌ์ค์ด๋ค.
In that last drawer was a photograph of Si-eun on the left, and Beomseok on the right, both of them holding pool cues.
๊ทธ ๋ง์ง๋ง ์๋์๋ ์ผ์ชฝ์ ์์์ด, ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์ ๋ฒ์์ด๊ฐ ์์์๋ ์ฌ์ง์ด ์์๊ณ , ๋ ๋ค ๋น๊ตฌ ํ๋ฅผ ๋ค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
And in the middle, looking all hyung-ish, sat Su-ho, his arms around the two boys.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค์ฌ์๋, ํ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ํธ๊ฐ ๋ ์๋ ์ ํ๋ก ๊ฐ์ธ๊ณ ์์ ์์๋ค.
The afternoon sun was behind them, as if trying to nourish this fragile flower bud of a friendship.
๋ง์น ์ด ์ฐ์ฝํ ์ฐ์ ์ ๊ฝ๋ด์ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํค์ฐ๋ ค๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์คํ ํ์ด์ด ์ธ ์๋ ๋ค์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ์ฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
Hmm it looks kind of swollen. Did I really squeeze that hard?
์ด? ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋ถ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ธ๊ฒ ์ฅ์๋?
Oh shut up.
๋ฅ์ณ!
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