Chapter 38: Thirty Seven

A man, sitting alone while looking at the picture of a beautiful woman, pondering how to dress for this Friday night suddenly had an inexplicable chill run down his spine.

 

Seulgi laid in bed thinking because there was on TV worth watching. She did not have the mind to concentrate on a book tonight. Being that her mother’s call had upset her calm, Seulgi lay in bed, stroking Suki’s silky spine. She stared at the ceiling, pondering.  She liked her job. She had many friends and a few very good friends. With the addition of Wannie, she seemed to have added another person to her Very Important People list. She had a nice apartment. She had an even better cat. She made enough money to have all of her bills paid for and still had enough left over to put some into savings and she had a nice little investment portfolio.

Her health was good. Her constitution was better than most. Mostly because it needed to be. She’s never broken any bones, she has never had any serious illness, and she even still had her tonsils.

All in all, she had a very blessed life.

If only her mother would let her enjoy her life without meddling, it would be perfect. It wasn’t too much to ask, was it? Her mother meant well, but it was still oppressive. The only saving grace is that her older brother had it worse. Being that her brother was her mother’s main focus in life, it deflected a lot of attention his way. If it was not for him, Seulgi would have most likely never escaped her small town home life.

The thought of being trapped in a small town as a broodmare for some provincial husband with a dozen children made her shudder. She was eternally grateful to have slipped that particular noose.

These thoughts had run a well worn rut into her psyche over the years, so she was easily able to set them aside and think about other things. While relaxing from the stresses of the day, Suki’s rumbling purrs worked its magic and she was asleep before she knew it.

Seulgi drifted off into honey dappled streams of sunlight in the alpine meadows of her dreams. She could hear the sounds of music from over the hills and far away.

Drifting off into oblivion, she sighed an exhalation of contentment. This was all that she needed at this point in her life.

Morning crept in with all the malignant intensity of inevitability. Thus, reality intruded on Seulgi’s dreams of skiing, song, and Jeosung Saja. The Jeosung Saja was singing to her as they were skiing. If the dreams made sense, it would not be Seulgi.

So, with her day starting with her normal internal chaos, she grumped into the bathroom after dumping the poor cat off her belly. Despite all of her setbacks, Seulgi was incredibly fit. Back in college, she was given the nickname Angry Abs for how well she was defined. So, depositing Suki off to the side was not too difficult. Granted, once she was fully awake, she would feel a bit remorseful about the lese majeste. Until she reached that state, she would not be too bothered.

Ablution initiated and completed, biological necessities began and finished, and teeth maintained, she began the rest of her morning with a song in her heart.

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The amusing thing was that she was singing the song that the God of Death, the Jeosung Saja, had been singing to her. Blissfully unaware of just how morbid the cheerful song was, she went about her morning.

Once out of the shower, she towel dried her hair and went for a French braid. Then she found that her first mistake of the morning was putting her daily outfit on the bed rather than hanging it up on the wall like normal. Sighing with fond exasperation she shooed the vengeful Suki off her skirt and attacked the garment with a lint brush.

Once mostly dressed, she went into the kitchen. She hung her jacket on a chair in the kitchen because Suki had been eyeing that super clean garment next. Hell hath no fury (furry?) like a scorned lady cat. Instead, Suki went to the litter box to make her displeasure known in as pungent fashion as possible.

Seulgi smiled indulgently at her as the cat flounced off. After all, after she made her deposit, it was Seulgi’s problem.

Seulgi opened the balcony sliding door and turned on an exhaust fan that was there for expressly this purpose, then went back to making breakfast. She opted for a simple bowl of cereal this morning. She has a bowl of cereal semi-frequently, she amused herself with the thought that this made her a cereal murderer. She laughed at the absurdity. Suki thought that she was being mocked, so knocked a book off the night shelf while standing on the bookmark. Seulgi would find this later.

Milk and cereal secured back into their relative places, bowl rinsed, and jacket adorned, Seulgi was ready to venture forth and attack her day with due diligence. And this time, when reaching the front door, she checked that she had everything…and she did!

Everything was in order, she was neat and tidy, she had everything that she needed for the day, and she had her lunch brown bagged already. She checked her briefcase to make sure everything that was supposed to be there was; successful. She even had one of her favorite songs queued up on the way to work.

There were 28 Reasons for this to make her nervous, but she was such a positive person that she just went on with her day.

Immune to the mundane minutiae, her trip to work was pleasantly uneventful. There were no traffic delays, no detours, no random strangers accosting her, her favored place to get some breakfast along the way even had the buns that she preferred to add for a snack later.

Again, she should have been increasingly nervous, but went happily along with her day as if nothing was about to go wrong as it usually would at this point. It was as if her personal Sword of Damocles was taking the day off. Just perhaps, it had.

 

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