I Fell in Love with Someone I Shouldn't Have Fallen in Love with

The Scum Repeats Itself

Saturday, the weekend just before winter break.

It’s already past noon, but Mama hasn’t called me for lunch?

I go downstairs to check on Mama and hear her yelling from the living room.

Ughh…another fight…feeling frustrated, I make my way to the kitchen. However, in the living room, there are not only Mom and Dad, but also two people who I don’t know, a man and a woman, they seem to be arguing about something.

I feel a mixed feelings of frustration and curiosity, so I quietly eavesdrop their conversation from the kitchen.

From the tense atmosphere and bits of the conversation I catch, it’s clear that something significant has happened.

After eavesdropping for a while, I heard that Papa is having an affair with the woman involved in the argument.

At first, I can’t help but to feel disgust towards Papa.

Papa, you truly are the worst.

Then, I feel sympathy towards him.

With Mama’s hysterically yelling all the time, wouldn’t anyone want to take a break from everything?

After that, I feel hungry.

I guess I’ll make myself a lunch…

While I’m cooking my lunch, I still feel that Papa’s cheating is not my problem and it has nothing to do with me.

As I’m boiling a bowl of udon noodles for myself, I suddenly remember Emi’s words.

‘Mama and Papa are both jerks. You shouldn’t trust them completely just because they are our parents.’

Is this the reason why Emi said so!? Does Emi know that Papa is having an affair all this time!?

However, Emi said Mama is a jerk as well.

Does that mean there is something more going on?

I wonder so as I’m boiling my udon noodles, and then suddenly, I hear a loud angry voice.

“You got my wife pregnant, how do you plan to take responsibility!?”

It seems to be the voice of the other man involved.

This is the biggest shock of the day.

Certainly, as Emi said so, Papa is a scum.

Shaken by everything that just happened, I try to calm myself down and eat the udon I have made.

Just then, Emi returns home.

Surprised by all of the shouting in the living room, she cautiously enters the kitchen, and I tell Emi what I have heard.

After explaining to Emi what’s happening, Emi becomes angrier than I had ever seen her before.

Literally trembling with rage, her lips quivers.

I desperately try to calm her down.

“Emi! Calm down! What’s wrong!? Why are you so angry!? Just calm down! Talk to Onee-chan!”

In an attempt to calm down Emi who is trembling with anger, I quickly take some milk from the fridge, pour it into a glass, and hand it to her.

Emi drinks the milk in one go and sits down onto a chair at the dining table.

I pull up a chair and sit down next to her.

“It’s okay, Onee-chan is here with you.”

I hug Emi and reassured her so.

After a while, Emi calmed down and begin to talk.

“This isn’t the first time Papa has cheated. He cheated on his previous wife with Mama, left his previous wife, and then remarried with Mama. That’s why I hate both Mama and Papa. I consider them as despicable human beings. They are nothing more than scums. Even now, he hasn’t learned his lesson and went to cheat again, he even got the other woman pregnant…”

I’m taken aback hearing about the truth behind Mama’s and Papa’s marriage for the first time. Up until now, I thought that they met at work and have a normal happy marriage.

“Papa is truly a helpless scumbag, however Mama got what she deserves. She’s just having a taste of what she did a long time ago.”

At first, I have been listening to the conversation at the living room as if it’s someone else’s business, but when I hear that the other person is pregnant, I feel overwhelmed. On top of that, Emi just told me the harsh truth of our family.

I thought that we are just a normal, ordinary family, but what is happening???

It wasn’t only Papa who got involved in an affair, but Mama also???

And Emi…

How does she know all this???

Does that mean she has been pretending to know nothing about it all this time???

I’m overwhelmed by my disgusted feelings towards Mama and Papa, Emi’s situation, and the anxiety of our future. I’m too shaken with all of it that I forgot to send my usual message to Souji-kun.