CHAPTER 3
So the next morning I waked up with this really awful tummy ache that was so bad I couldn’t even sit up proper-like. I tried to wake Min-Jung, but she sorta slapped me away, so I called Mama, and she come and fretted over me and felt my forehead and tapped on my belly. One spot was so sore where she touched me that I called her a word I shouldn’t have, but I musta been pretty bad off ’cause Mama didn’t even go for the spanking spoon after I said it. She just kinda stared out the window like she might bring Papa home from fishing sooner that way, and then she looked at Min-Jung still sleeping, and I wondered if Mama wished it were my sister who was sick instead of me, on account of me being the boy in the family and all.
Anyway, I was so bad off I hadn’t even thunk about the gho
