And between all those moments hundreds of clothes, utensils, the cover of plastic, potato chips were being thrown into the mid-air, sound of clashed items too..!
He even wanted to hire a cleaning company to sparkle the entire house like it's a newly made and as if there was nobody ever seated in there.
But there comes with massive consequences.
Of course, everybody knows the powerful families, and the fact remaining down areas were given to close relatives was Kind of like a living, walking surveillance camera.
And once such a company's person comes, it will be major breaking news in England. Rumors float in just a blink of an eye which will later hit Jina's reputation there.
Although it's just a minor cause Newmoon surely knew it will backfire Jina.
And in worst cases, things might go to the right.
That's why neither he proposed such an idea in front of noona thinking he would appear a careless and irresponsible person nor about the cleaning company's ideas.
At least he had some common sense.
To talk about his neighbor living in the same big house, they never associated much, just a classic business type of conversation.
That's why Newmoon had to maintain a lot more reputation about him, highly cared about what he does or what he is about to do, etc, making sure to think twice before he came up with any ridiculous idea. Cause not only him, but it would also directly link up to Jina noona as well as his entire families too.
At first, it might sound cool and well off, but in terms, as a saying goes, 'Everything comes with a price' sort of things he had its shadow part too!!
Finally, after long hours of non-stop exhaustion and chorus, he cleaned everything off.
His knee felt weak and he falls upon the couch of the sitting room.
"HAAA!"
"At last. I finished..!"
"I am about to die!"
His entire outfit was drenched with sweat and looked as if he came out of a shower instead.
A sweat of hard work!!
With a 'gurled~~' sound Newmoon's inner stomach sends a hint of dying too!!
Only then did he realize that he hadn't eaten anything at all after he had returned.
Newmoon's body was almost on the edge of falling. His gaze suddenly went towards the windows.
"?"
Who knew for how long exactly he had been working between the chorus of work for that day had turned into dusk?
Tiredly and with lots of effort he pulled out his 65kg body near the windows.
Of course, he was slim in terms of body weight but due to work, he felt as if somebody had implanted him with 50 50-ton thumbnails in each leg. Dragging his legs he reached.
"…"
Outside the windows, the view was already mesmerizing as usual. People had lit up their houses, hustle and bustle of cities area, and streets were crowded by the youth mostly. Laughter and chattering so louder that it even managed to pass through Newmoon's ear. Surprising, maybe cause his house was near to the main street? Or.?
A sweat drooled from his forehead down to the arc of the temples. Yet his reaction was predictable. His eye gaze was fixed on the group of young teenagers who were laughing out loud on the street, surely making their life best.
Somewhere blurred, old scenarios of a drenched classroom floated in his mind out of blue. Inside there, a nerdy group was seen practicing themselves while the rest of the class was going haywire because of the absence of a teacher.
But his gaze still focused on the same younger youth.
"…"
"If I had known school life would be the short.., then maybe I also had used the best of it..!"
He mumbled as his eyes send a faint taint over his lens.
A large sigh was inhaled and exhaled there. The evaporation of breath caused the front windows to appear blurred in a small area.
"Ohh!"
Immediately afterward before he could think of it.., his hands themselves stretched subconsciously. He wiped the glass with his long sleeves.
And guess what? It creates more stains on the glass, making it look dirtier and messier than way before. His long sleeves were dirty.
"Oh crap!"
He cursed, "The windows part. I still haven't touched it yet.! Almost had forgotten..!"
Just when he was about to turn around to go for cleaning materials for the windows he halted instantly. He raised his eyebrows and slightly tilted his head as if something got into him,
"Wait wait. I have to clean both inside and out. And it's still.
He turned back and faced the windows side again.
"..DUSK.."
"If I do it now, then people are gonna see me. Let's wait until it's completely dark..then I would do it..!"
There his overthinking and social anxiety hits him.
The possibility of people seeing him working outside triggered his social anxiety.
Then coming out in her way he starts to clean the interior windows first.
~~~
The night outside changed faster than predicted. The clouds lowered over the entire sky as if it was marking their territory. Stars were visible like a shattered sprinkled light. Until then every street was brighter than the sun. It was warm yet chilling at the same time. It was time for Newmoon to step outside the balcony and washed the delicate ceiling-to-floor glasses.
Maybe god gifted him a chance to work in his favor. Why?
Because the relatives of the lower department worked as night timers. So by 6 to 7 pm, they had already been gone from their job. Which made Newmoon's luck work on their behalf on him. So, as long as he does his job by himself others wouldn't care cause they're the prime witness there too but as soon as he bought the cleaners, their mouth will run like a motor in no seconds.
The fact he was quite average in height made him at a disadvantages side.
Still, using various gadgets he successfully wiped out entirely in the next few hours.
With a 'thud' Newmoon plopped on their bedroom of his.
"I am dead..! my whole body seemed like it was going to break at any time. Don't have any energy to even move to..!!"
It was the last words he spelled and fell asleep right away.
"zzz"
And who wouldn't? why wouldn't he? After all, he had done cleanliness and house chores for several months at once. It was normal and acceptable in his case.
Just imagine somebody ditching their food all for their sleep!!
He had seriously lost it.
~~~
*BEEP*BEEP (sound of alarm)
Just two sets of alarm rings made Newmoon's eyes spring open.
And again a 'gurled~~' sound of hungry rung next to his alarm.
Touching his stomach he stood up instantly.
"OUCH!"
His entire body sends a high electric short circuit from the top of his head to the tip of his toe. And he froze in a half position.
It was aching due to yesterday's work.
For a few moments, he stayed like that.
Newmoon had always been so weak in terms of health. Less immunity power and less energy too.
Finally little by little, he drags himself out of bed and moves toward the kitchen.
And the first thing he has done was prepare himself food.
A few times passed and he was finished too.
Something hit his subconscious mind when he was pooping in the toilet.
"?" "ARGGGHHH-"
Immediately afterward he rushed out of the bathroom in a gasp.
The entire time he had forgotten about the arrival of the landlord. No wonder he was a bit shocked looking at the environment nearby him.
But due to hungry his mind was blocked for a certain ample of time. And only got removed itself while he was in excreting terms.
He barely even upholds his trousers properly. The outline of his boxers and elastic of the trousers were visible completely. He even seemed from a certain angle that he might get up panicking to a point where he couldn't even put his trousers in the right way.
But why does it anyway?
He lived alone in such a vast, luxurious apartment. Nobody will even see if he roams around with his butt naked too! Not a problem!
He anxiously called Jina without actually having a knack for time.
~RING~RING~
In just a two-ring, did Jina noona pick it up?
"Ya, did they arrive?"
"No No, not about that-
Only then when she picked it up did he realize it too.
"Oh right.., were you and your brother-in-law sleeping? Have I disturbed you?"
Jina protested in a calm tone, "No No, we were about to..!"
"Hmm?"
"Compared to South Korea's time there must be 4 am..and yet you two haven't slept? Don't you think it should be the opposite like you recently woke up?"
Newmoon argued.
"Today was quite exceptional..that's it. Anyway.., what's the reason for you to call this late, at this hour? I thought maybe they had arrived 'cause it's almost the time you know!"
Newmoon snapped.
"Oh, right I just thoughts a few moments earlier in a toile- ahem- I mean.
He asked in a deadly serious tone, "Shouldn't I be one to pick them up from the airport?"
With a pause, Jina answered in a tired tone, "..And here I thought..something important!!"
"Rest assured, they have their private car, driver who would pick them up. And they will arrive in their own time too."
"Okay then."
Newmoon nodded his head without bothering to drag further.
"Then what about preparing breakfast, lunch, and, dinner? Once they will arrive here, I should at least make something for them, right? You know manner..right? it's not appropriate..!"
"Rest assured about that too. She never ate food prepared by other hands, not even the world-renewed chefs. She cooks for herself!"
Newmoon,"…"
He began to feed his thoughts. "What..? she doesn't like anybody touching the food she eats? Now isn't it quite unexpected and surprising? Surely she is! Hmph..! I am knowing about her, more in one day than I ever knew it before!"
"Noona, that's it.. that's it!! I wanted to make sure.! Now, go sleep."
He threw the phone carefully onto the bed.
And he plopped on the other side of the bed too.
He wiped his face with a worried expression.
"so, they will be here at any moment now! I am so nervous to meet them..noona's in-laws' family for the first ever time!"
Back then, Jina noona's wedding was held so privately to a point where not even Newmoon's parents were able to meet them both before and after marriage. Let alone about small siblings like Newmoon and john.
So, it was more or less like an official meeting between them. That's the main reason why he was panicking all over the time.
His anxiety was already a huge issue and now it wasn't the normal average middle family or medium-high class he was going to meet with but instead one of the most dominant influential families in the entire country South Korea and the UK too.
Of course, anybody in his shoes would tremble in anxiety and panic too.
His legs start to tremble and wriggled on their own.
"…"
He began to chew his nails as he thought more deeply.
"I haven't talked to anybody within these years, I am afraid I will screw this off..!"
He chattered to himself as he walked off to the changing room and changed himself into a decent one.
"Sh*t It looks like I am going to the beach.
He rated his outfit in front of the mirror to present better in front of them.
"No..looks super cheap!!"
"It seems formal..!"
"Nope, Too informal..!"
"Too formal..!"
"In this outfit, I look like a cheap yakuza. WTF..!"
Within those demo clothes, he never seemed like those clothes were made for him in the first place. Just like how girls were always complaining about it he too experienced it himself that day.
In some clothes, he either looks like a bright salesman or to a least one seemed like a coconut seller on an island?
After several failures, he eventually got a decent one in the end.
Then he paced forward and backward for the rehearsal time.
He cleared his throat and start to practice himself while bending his waist lower acting as if he was seriously in the movie.
"Hello-?"
He shook his head as he proceed forward neglecting the circumstances,
In a gentle, respectful tone, "Good morning mother-in-law!"
His spine shivered through cringes~
"Oh god."
He returned to his original position.
And again reality hit him to push ahead.
Act 2, "Good morning Mrs. Kwon, Mrs.Song, and a certain boy?!"
"How was your flight?"
Newmoon turned stone cold and answered himself,
"F*ck what am I asking?"
"Of course, they landed from one of the most expensive and luxurious planes that there is no doubt that their hair would suffer from that too..!!"
Act 3, "I hope there weren't any difficulties in arriving here right?"
"Mother-
"- wait!"
Once again, Newmoon interrupted his text and speech wrinkling his nose, "Wait- what is my relationship with her? No. I mean what should I call her? Should I call her the same as Jina noona called her?
Like a 'MOM'?
Ever since Newmoon was small and so other siblings were too, they never had enough relatives to come over into their family so that they could know what terms were used to call other relatives. That's why not only Newmoon even john was poor at figuring out the terms of relatives.
And luckily, Jina learned it quickly.
At the first impression, Everybody would find it extravagant and even laugh out loud or find it weird when hearing him first but indeed it's true.
Childhood does hamper people. It would be different if they learned or copied the manners from other media platforms but still, a stain would never be cleaned from it.
"Mother did say to me to go with the same term used by Jina noona! So calculatingly, 'MOM..?'"
He felt in deep thought.
Finally, he agreed and made a decision.
"No matter what I mustn't embarrass myself in front of them."
A seriousness was sprinkled in his eyes.
Again an air of illusion and cringes followed his mind,
"God now I regret why I didn't pay attention to my social studies back then in school."
He laughed out of his thoughts, making out different scenarios in each daydreaming.
"Haha. Was ..fight- sorry flight tiring?"
"The flight is tiring. It would be strange if they weren't instead. All those several oceans and thousands of millions miles away..!!"
He laughed at himself, thinking and realizing how stupid, dumb he was.
"I have no idea why I am even thinking such silly, ridiculous questions? even for first grandchildren would know such basic common sense type of answers."
*DING DONG* (Sound of bell)
Not even a moment has passed by but as the saying goes by "Talk of the devil" sort of the scenario. As soon as the bell rang, Newmoon heard it as if it was the bell of his excursion back in his head.
However, it was much denser, chilling, and deeply echoed somewhere inside his earlobes. He could directly feel the crunching inside his stomach.
But who would give a damn about that now the fact he had already reached such a dead end and a grim reaper who was on the door right few miles behind him.
"…"
And in the end, it folds in a way as it was destined to happen.
As soon he grabbed the knob?
As soon as he grabbed the knob as if his body gains the ultimate hidden power like it never did before, he stretched his body straight and bend slightly while maintaining his posture and a smile attached to his face.
"Good morning Mrs. Kwon.."
And,
"Good morning Mrs. Song!"
Yeah not only did he complete it without any worries but also gracefully! At the moment what did he need more than everything running smoothly?
Without a pause, he continued in an excited yet polite tone, "I hope the flight wasn't much tiring! Were there perhaps any difficulties on the way through?"
In normal people's eyes, the greeting seemed to be quite exaggerating but for him, it wasn't much lesser than facing any higher competitive exam.., No to be honest it surpassed that emotion too.
Cause right now, all the family reputation weight on his shoulders. One mistake steps and it will already shoot towards the sky by making the headlines among their family relatives.
He had never felt such type of harsh and heavy responsibilities like that before. Till now maybe he had been so immersed in only himself that he never got himself out of that narrow pit and saw the outer real world like that.
The moment Newmoon asked it, he stretched his hands as a way to show his warmth and welcome, "This way!"
"Good morning good morning!"
A sweet, alluring, and elegant aura was overflowing into their tone. The way they dressed up in such a simple manner doesn't even count their delicacy. Indeed it was something new that he realized that day.
Highly influential families never show their wealth off. It was proven that exact time. Both of them were present in a long brown coat and, a light average branded handbag?
He lost the chance to notice the brand logo.
Overall they looked nothing like your typical Korean in-laws.
Newmoon was at least expecting them to appear in such lavish and expensive outfits in a way the director portrays in so-called Korean dramas.
"No, Everything was alright."
"-However it would be lying if I say we aren't tired!"
Mrs. Kwon smiled gently and so was her tone too. One thing that stood out for a while was the eye bag and the wrinkled muscles that got lifted every time she smiled. He was so caught up in the pressure and emotions that he forgot to notice the most important descriptions.
That,
They were nothing like average in-laws.
They were old enough like a grandma's position instead.
And not only Mrs. Kwon but Mrs. Song too!