I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin

Author:Kyung-Sook Shin [Shin, Kyung-sook]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-59051-674-4
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2014-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

Yoon, who suddenly became far less talkative after spending the night at Miru’s place, asked me, “Where were you when Miru’s sister died?” We had just finished eating some noodle soup that I made in Yoon’s kitchen and were standing on the roof, gazing out at Namsan Tower shining in the distance. Yoon had asked me to make the soup when we were walking back to her place from school. It was something I made for her from time to time. The table palm on Yoon’s desk was growing. Yoon sat at the pullout table in the kitchen with her chin in her hand and watched as I filled a pot with water and placed it on the stove. Cooking for her reminded me of living with Miru and her sister, Mirae. But when I served the finished soup, Yoon barely touched it. She kept transferring noodles from her bowl to mine. “You said you wanted noodles?” I asked. In a dead voice, she said, “Not anymore.” I ate almost all of her noodles along with my own. She waited until we were outside on the roof and looking down at the lights of the city to ask me where I was when Miru’s sister died. My heart sank. For some stupid reason, I blurted out, “So now you know?” She said, “I didn’t realize Miru’s sister was that Yoon Mirae.” I couldn’t bring myself to ask whether she also knew that the scars on Miru’s hands came from grabbing her sister. But Yoon seemed to guess what I was thinking, because she brought it up before I could. Neither of us spoke for a moment. I felt a lump in my throat and reached out for Yoon’s hand, but she pulled it away. That was the moment I realized I’d been secretly hoping the two of them would never become friends. The city lights flickered over Yoon’s face. She said, “How could something like that happen?” Her face hardened. It looked as if Miru’s pain had transferred to her. “How could that happen?” I had asked myself the same thing countless times. Mirae’s boyfriend, who disappeared the night we were all supposed to have dinner together, is probably already dead. Inside the envelope that Mirae handed to Miru were detailed notes of everything she had learned while searching for him. She must have figured out that he was never coming back. Maybe she did what she did because she had finally faced the truth. She said that on the night he was supposed to join us for dinner he was seen boarding a train with some strange men who had come looking for him at the school. After her sister died, Miru took up the search for her sister’s boyfriend, and I joined her. That was how I found out that there were so many people who had gone missing. Some of the disappeared were later found dead in crashed cars, or with their skulls cracked open from accidental falls, or with their stomachs swollen with water in reservoirs where they had no business being.

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