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The new Element bearers had not appeared. With nothing to fall back on, Celestia went to face the return of her sister armed only with her determination and desperation. With the knowledge that anything other than subduing her sister would result in Luna’s death or her ponies’ enslavement, Celestia fought with all her heart.

A thousand years hadn’t tempered Nightmare Moon’s madness, but it had grown Celestia’s magical skill. The clash of the last remaining alicorns filled the sky with light and darkness that could be seen across the entire country... including from the gardens of the castle in Canterlot, where a long-dormant statue waited.

If Celestia had known the danger... if she had known that the Tree of Harmony had grown weaker over a thousand years... if she had known that the Element magic used to imprison Discord was weakened with it, and he only needed one significant bit of discord to break the last lock on his prison... she might have preferred allowing Nightmare Moon to take the throne.

Because two alicorn sisters displaying their ground-shattering discord across the skies was more than enough.

Discord caught them mid-battle...and was honestly kinda irritated to find them more focused on fighting each other than challenging him. He couldn’t even set up a good game for them to lose at before he took over! He’d just have to fix that with a bit of chaos magic. A quick boop to the heads, and... well, things didn’t turn out quite like he expected. Celestia became haughty, snide, and violent, but Luna changed out of her (decidedly tacky, but what could you expect from pony fashion) goth look and turned all nice and weirdly remorseful. Luna tried to appeal to her sister, Celestia (who now had an interesting tinge of fire in her mane) unleashed some demeaning verbal attacks, and pretty soon it looked like they were gearing up for another fight, and...

Well, this was stupid. They were so focused on each other, they weren’t even paying attention to him! He’d fix that with another boop on Celestia’s noggin - really annoying, having to un-chaos someone, but at least it put the two ponies on the same side so they could get their priorities straight and focus on...

Ah, yes, there it was! Just what he’d waited for these past thousand years: two alicorn sisters, both staring at him with horror and worry and that oh-so-precious pony determination. Too bad they had already worn themselves out with their fight over who-knew-what. They were almost pathetically easy to overpower, especially with not an Element in sight.

The princesses were his playthings. Equestria would be shifted and reformed under his chaotic whim. And none stood able to challenge him.

The Reign of Discord had begun.

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Meanwhile, Salespitch was visiting Canterlot at just the wrong time, and...

Well, what do you think happens when a lord of chaos notices a pony standing in the middle of the road, trying its hardest to not show how petrified it is, and it has a horn and wings but clearly no alicorn magic? And then said lord of chaos investigates said pony out of curiosity, mocks him about playing princess, and is amazed when said pony actually gets annoyed enough to scold Discord that no, he is NOT an alicorn, he’s never WANTED to be an alicorn, and he would really prefer it if people didn’t mistake him for royalty when he’s just a stallion with a genetic mutation trying to live a normal life!!!

Discord thought that was the funniest thing he’d ever heard.

Long story short, instead of Discording Sales’ personality, Discord just... made his biggest annoyance a reality. Obviously he didn’t give Sales FULL alicorn powers, and what powers he did give him are pretty wonky - the ability to turn random objects into suitcases, and fly upside down, and speak in a dramatic Royal Canterlot Voice at random and totally inconvenient times, etc. The royal regalia was a stroke of genius inspired by one of this new era’s “cartoon characters,” a perky little alicorn called Prince Smiley. (The fact that Sales had once dressed as said character for Nightmare Night was sheer coincidence, although Discord would have found that even more perfect.)

Obviously Sales was horrified, which is really the wrong reaction, because it just made the whole thing funnier to Discord and thus made the draconequus that much less likely to forget about Sales and go pester other ponies. Anonymity is your friend in Discord’s kingdom.

Now, Discord being Discord, he gets bored of things easily - including mocking and tormenting the powerless alicorn princesses. There’s a whole nation to twist and remodel into a true chaotic kingdom! Plenty of other ponies to give him some variety. Turning them to stone would be so gauche and ruin his single moral high ground over the ponies, so when Discord tires of his princess fun, he turns the alicorn sisters into fillies and leaves them with his newly-appointed Prince of Babysitting. After all, shouldn’t an "alicorn” be in charge of baby alicorns? Discord even made him a lovely glass castle with stone windows - more of a cage, really, since Sales can’t leave it, but he has a throne and everything! Discord doesn’t even have to worry about manipulating somecreatures into worshipping the new “prince”; Sales has already got his own cult that fawns over him outside the see-through castle like a fanclub, to Sales’ eternal embarrassment. Yes, this is clearly the best setup Discord could have come up with all around, takes-hand-off-and-pats-self-on-the-back.

Time passes with no end in sight for the madness that has turned Equestria into a kaleidoscope’d chaos playground. Sales kind of falls into a perpetually annoyed resignation. He tries to be grateful - at least he still possesses full control of his mind, unlike so many ponies outside his weird castle. He has the honor of safeguarding the princesses - although he feels guilty that he can’t actually protect them from Discord’s whims. But he can keep them happy, and the few times he gets to talk with them before or after they’ve been in their baby states, Celestia manages to give him a word of encouragement or gratitude. (Plus, well, they ARE pretty adorable as fillies... even if he is NOT the world’s best babysitter and has to figure things out on the fly. He really wishes his mom were here.)

There is one actual advantage to all this. Ironically, Sales has a closer connection with Discord than most; since Discord made Sales the caretaker of the princesses, he actually talks to Sales sometimes. Granted, he mostly treats Sales as a captive audience to whine at when Discord starts getting bored of whatever recent chaotic plan he’s enacted. After all, when EVERYTHING is chaos... well, chaos almost becomes normal, so Discord keeps having to up himself. Sales actually manages to have conversations with him sometimes, and he’s gotten a glimpse of the truth even Discord can’t or won’t recognize: that he’s lonely, dissatisfied, and lacks a real sense of purpose or fulfillment.

Sales has to treat carefully, since annoying or upsetting Discord too much results in chaotic ‘punishments’ that are usually more disorienting and frustrating than actually harmful. But Sales has started picking his ear a little bit with hints that maybe Discord is bored because most creatures subject to his chaos don’t enjoy it like he does? Maybe sharing fun WITH people is better than just having fun for yourself at others’ expense? I mean, look at you, Discord, the only pony you really talk to is a nobody you made into an alicorn just to embarrass him. That’s a pretty lonely way to live, isn’t it?

Sometimes Discord listens while making snarky comments. Other times Discord gets irritated and turns Sales into a tiny alicorn who has to ride around on baby Celestia’s back and try not to get stepped on (or something of that nature). But Sales keeps trying and hoping and praying he’ll get through, because if they ever hope to stop Discord’s reign of chaos... well, it might just take teaching the Lord of Chaos what friendship is.

Even if the only pony currently able to make the effort finds him super annoying.

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Fun Facts About The Discorded Timeline:

- Yes, Luna’s popsicle is her cutie mark. I suppose once she digests it it will reappear back on her flank. XD

- Cadence hasn’t become an alicorn yet in this timeline. The chaos events do lead to her meeting Shining Armor, though, because TRUE LOVE and such :D

- Sales’ cult ABSOLUTELY LOVES THIS SITUATION. I mean, a lot of them hope/expect that Sales will eventually break free and defeat Discord now that he is showing his true alicorn might. Sales yells at them through the walls sometimes, but they have a hard time hearing him, so naturally they make up all sorts of “godly” nonsense he’s supposedly sharing.

- Discord did in fact accidentally cure Luna of the bad magic that was fueling and feeding off her old rage and paranoia. She and Celestia have pretty well made up through these weird events. And as Discord grows bored of their initial humiliation, his torments get less frightening and more, well, just weird, so life is KINDA bearable. Plus they really like Sales now (they don’t remember their adult selves while they are babies, but Discord makes sure they can remember every embarrassing toddler thing they did when they get aged back to normal.)

- Sales doesn’t know what’s going on with his family, they were back home when this happened. He’s hopeful they didn’t get affected too badly. In fact, Featherhorn (his hometown) got turned into a cardboard village and a few ponies had their heads swapped around, but Discord hasn’t made any connection between them and Sales, so he doesn’t think anything special of the place. Mostly just chocolate rain, flying rhinobunnies, and corncob trees. Everypony agrees it could be worse (but not out loud, that’s just ASKING for trouble!) Also Per talks backwards now, but everyone can still understand her (somehow) so it evens out.

- Black DOES run into Discord at one point while trying to sneak into Sales’s castle. Discord thinks he’s just another of Sales’ fanclub, so he turned him blue and forgot about him. Black finds this super annoying, especially when he can’t change his color no matter what magical disguise he makes.

- Don’t even worry about Sombra, he’s not touching a Discorded Equestria with a ten foot pole. Honestly Discord probably went after him as soon as he showed up, adding the Crystal Empire to his chaos kingdom.

- The Changelings are staying the HECK away in their nice little magic-negating castle, the only safe haven from Discord. Pony refugees actually try and go there, although it is tricky to get around the thick forest of living candy Discord erected all the way around their territory. Those who do get in exchange servitude and donations of love for safety. It keeps the changelings fed and the ponies feel safer working for bug-ponies in a place of order than out in the madness of Discord’s land.

- So as you might imagine, Sales can’t break through the glass of his glass castle. If he were to try and smash through the stone windows, though... let’s just say he feels really smart AND really dumb while making his escape attempt. It doesn’t go over well with Discord, especially when he manages to successfully pawn the baby princesses off to some of his cult members (one of whom is Black, don’t worry), who hide them away. This leads to a rather heated conversation when Discord catches up with him... and perhaps a moment of truth where Discord might realize he actually does maybe kinda sorta consider this silly brown pony a friend who he possibly doesn’t want to severely punish as a warning to other ponies who might defy him. Maybe.

- Art note: I didn’t draw a background for this one initially, and then I got around to coloring them and knew it needed SOMETHING. Came up with the glass castle with stone windows because that seems Discord-like. Also baby bottle trees. The idea for breaking the stone windows was literally last minute as I wrote this, so bonus!

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saneatsrice · 4 years

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choi san: loving the babysitter pt. 1

summary: san needs community service hours in order to keep his position on the school basketball team and y/n needs money to help pay off the debt left behind by her father, what are the odds of them starting a romantic journey at a daycare center?

pairing: basketball player! san x babysitter! reader

warning: none

author’s note: I came up with this idea through an AU generator because I was in a writing mood but had no clue what to write LOLL, let me know if you want this to be a series because I have a few ideas but I’m not sure if I should continue writing this. also, it’s currently unedited because I’m lazy and brain dead but I’ll fix it later I swear! please enjoy :))

word count: 6052

y/n has a lot of weight to carry over her shoulders for a high school student. throughout her high school journey, she has had to carry out countless part time jobs in order to help her mother pay off the debt her father had left behind after gambling away their life savings and then fleeing the country, causing the two women to work in order to stop it from growing. this year being her last year of high school, y/n has to think about her future and how she will be able to pay off the additional college tuition once she graduates this year and begins applying for grants and scholarships. however, after getting fired from her last job, finding a new job that is accepting of her schedule due to school is immensely difficult.

as she was giving up hope, y/n came across a sign as she was walking home from school that read treasure daycare and saw a sign on the window of the small building that said “looking for babysitters”.

y/n being desperate to help with the family income and building up a savings account for her college funds, she decided there wasn’t any harm in applying. as she look through the window to see if anyone was in the building, her eyes landed on three toddlers sitting on the fluffy carpet. there were two little boys who were playing with blocks and laughing every time they accidentally knocked down the structure. however, the third little boy was sitting alone on the edge of the carpet drawing little shapes into the floor. soon y/n’s eyes land on tall figure with brown hair and a puppy-like face. y/n recognized him as yunho from her economics class, a boy who always knew how to make everyone smile and laugh even when they are having a bad day. yunho waves from the inside and runs to the sliding door to open it for y/n to enter.

“hello y/n, what brings you here?” yunho asked while having that award winning smile on his face.

y/n smiles back at yunho and replies, “I saw that sign on the door and was wondering who should I talk to in order to apply for the job”.

yunho beckons the girl to come into the room and leaders her to the middle of the room. “you can sit there while I go get my manager” yunho says while pointing to a plastic, toddler sized chair which causes y/n to laugh and walk towards the tiny seat to rest. As yunho goes, into the back room, she sees the two boys who were previously playing with the blocks, run over to her full of energy.

“hi my name is wooyoung and this is my best friend yeosang”, the little boy with purple hair says with a smile on his face while intertwining his small chubby hand with the little brown haired boy next to him.

“hello, what is your name?” the brown haired boy asked while hiding behind his wooyoung which did not help him any as he was taller than wooyoung.

“my name is y/n and I hope I will be able to work here and get to know you two cuties” y/n replies with a smile on her face, wanting nothing more than to squish the two little boys’ cheeks due to their look of awestruck as they think about the potential of having another babysitter to play with.

soon yunho comes back into the room with an older man who has black hair following behind him looking as serious as ever. it honestly scared y/n a little bit along with wooyoung and yeosang as they ran to hide behind y/n’s side and hugged her on each side. the mysterious man realizes there are still children present and his eyes turn into a more gentle manner.

“i am sorry for scaring you kids, my name is park seonghwa, I am the manager at treasure daycare, I heard from yunho you wanted to apply for a job here, is that true?” seonghwa asked.

“yes, I was hoping to find a job to be able to sustain a family income in order to help my mom and college tuition is not getting any cheaper, so I am willing to take any job possible to help out my family” y/n replied while putting her arms around the two kids who have yet to let go of her.

“well I can see the kiddos have already taken a liking to you and yunho really took his time begging me to hire you while bragging about how responsible you are and all that positive stuff to me so you’re hired” seonghwa says chuckling once he sees yunho turn red and whining to him about how he wasn’t supposed to tell y/n that.

after y/n thanked him, seonghwa began explaining the expectations for the babysitting job along with giving y/n her schedule. he mentioned how there were only three kids that y/n would ever have to take care of and entertain.

y/n quickly warms up to wooyoung and yeosang on her first day as they drag her off to play with them immediate but continues to look at the third child and wonders why he never joins them to play games or why he sits on the far end of the table by himself away from the other kids. he only sticks to seonghwa who seems to be the only one who is capable of getting him out of his bubble.

after wooyoung and yeosang is picked up by wooyoung’s brother hongjoong who came after attending his afternoon class, y/n decided it was time to make an attempt to get closer to the unknown baby. as y/n approached the baby, he began to crawl away from her clutching onto his apple tightly as if he has been wanting to eat it but can’t bite through the hard shell.

“hey buddy, did you want me to cut the apple for you?” y/n asked after watching him struggle to break the apple in half for a few minutes.

the little boy nods and hands y/n the apple where she holds the apple in the middle and breaks it in half perfectly. the boy looks at her in awe and for the first time, she saw him smile as she hands him the apple for him to munch on.

“what is your name little boy?” y/n asks after she sees him happily take small bites out of the apple and smiles when he looks up at her with a shocked expression.

“jongho,” the little boy replies giving her a gummy smile after getting the attention he lacks outside of the daycare center, but that story is for another time.

after that encounter, jongho began to open up more to y/n and created a strong relationship with her as he began to babble and speak the few words he knew to communicate with her. she used her time at the center to be able to teach jongho more words, basic knowledge a toddler should know before hitting preschool, and how to find joy in little activities such as drawing, running around the playground, and even breaking apples in half because he seemed super excited every time y/n did it. although y/n still made the efforts to spend time with wooyoung and yeosang, she felt more drawn to jongho as she spent most of her time with him to make sure he never felt neglected or alone in the daycare center.

she began to notice how every time jongho’s brother came to pick him up, jongho’s smile would turn into a frown and his eyebrows become more knitted showing that he was irritated. y/n knew jongho’s brother from school as he was in her economics and english class and he is most well known for being the captain of Utopia High School basketball team. jongho’s brother was none other than the infamous choi san, who always had a cute eye smile around school that showcased his prominent dimples and his determination and serious face when he is on the court.

san never uttered a word to y/n whenever he came to pick up jongho. he would just grab the pen with an irritated look on his face, sign his name in order to check jongho out of the daycare, grab jongho’s stuff, and walk out the daycare center with jongho attempting to keep up with his brother’s much longer legs. however, before leaving the door, jongho never failed to give y/n a hug and dig his face into her shoulder when she lifted him up so she did not have to crouch to his height and strain her back.

everyday became a routine for y/n, she would always walk to school with her best friend mingi, who always made sure she had her breakfast and caught her up on notes that she may have missed due to stressing over her family situation. after school was over, she would walk to the treasure daycare and take care of the three toddlers she has created a soft spot for, especially jongho, and wait until all the kids are picked up by their guardian, and cleans and locks up the place with whoever seems to be working the same shift as her (most of the time it’s seonghwa).

y/n loves her job as she adores the three adorable children she gets to play and nurture as they grow older and socialize with her two fellow coworkers which she later learned are just softies despite their tall statures. y/n learned how seonghwa is currently attending Aurora University along with hongjoong and works in the daycare center in order to earn money to pay off his college debt. she learned how yunho was san’s best friend and would’ve played basketball with him if it did not involve so much aggression and violence and thus, his friendly giant nature was better served in the daycare center where he could earn his community service hours and play with kids who share the same happy-go-lucky personality he has. the babysitting trio begins to get to know each other better and establish strong friendships. little did they know, their trio would soon be gaining another person.

choi san spends all his time practicing basketball in order to improve his skills and due to the fact that he is a candidate for a basketball scholarship as aurora university, he does not want to lose the opportunity of obtaining it. all his time goes to practicing that he neglects his other scholarly requirements to graduate, specifically, community service hours. due to his lack of community service hours, the administration building asserts to san that if he cannot earn at least fifty hours by the time basketball season starts, they will take away his title as captain of the basketball team, which gives him a disadvantage in receiving his scholarship.

thinking quickly, he runs to find his best friend yunho on campus to seek advice on what he should do. he quickly spots the six foot giant about to exit the school gates and sprints to him, who stops abruptly after hearing loud footsteps and causes the basketball captain to run into his back.

“oh hey san, why are you on the floor? is it that comfy?” yunho asks with a goofy smile on his face while his best friend is fuming while rubbing his slightly red nose.

“who just stops in the middle of an entrance yunho?! anyways that’s not the point, the administration office just talked to me about lacking community service hours and told me if I don’t get fifty hours by the time basketball season starts, which is in three months, they’re going to take my captain title away from me. no captain title means bye bye scholarship, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?!” san begins rambling and pulling at his hair without getting up from the ground.

“okay calm down, look, I think the babysitting center that I volunteer at still has one slot open where you can volunteer, it’s five days a week for like four maybe five hours. before you start worrying about your practice days, seonghwa is pretty lenient on shift hours. even with missing the few days basketball practice is on, it is enough to be able to get you to have an abundant amount of hours to clear fifty by the time the basketball season starts. plus after your shift, you can just pick up jongho afterwards and go straight home” yunho replies in the midst of san’s panic which causes san’s eyes to light up as he jumps up and koala hugs yunho, not caring about the weird stares he was getting from the other students who were leaving school.

“I have never loved your clumsy, giant self more than I do right now. what are we waiting for, let’s go to the daycare center” san says in an excited manner, while clinging onto yunho.

“uhh, can you get off me first?” yunho asks feeling uncomfortable after finally noticing the stares the pair were getting from their student body.

the two begin their walk to the daycare center and when the open the door, they see seonghwa attempting to clean up after wooyoung and yeosang who continue to get paint all over the table. however, san’s eyes immediately goes to the girl holding his little brother in her lap as he holds a blue color pencil in his left hand, drawing quietly.

y/n look up and asks, “are you here to pick up jongho already? you’re a lot earlier than usual.” all while tilting her head in a confused manner and holding the little boy who looks grumpy at the sight of his brother and turns to hold onto y/n’s neck, resting his head on her shoulder in a direction where he cannot see his brother.

“actually no, I was hoping there was another opening for the job here because I need a lot of community service hours for school”, san replies which caught seonghwa’s attention as he tosses the rag to yunho asking him to clean up the paint and pulls san to the back room to talk to him.

in the back room, seonghwa drags san to sit in a chair, his nurturing, child friend persona gone, as his face turns into one of a strict, militant leader. (I don’t know how to put links to gifs on tumblr but just imagine like wonderland seonghwa’s stage presence LOL).

“I understand how much basketball means to you, but i do not want you to neglect your duties at treasure daycare because of it. these kids are too pure for the world and deserves all the love and attention, if you can’t do that, you can find somewhere else to get your hours. these kids mean everything to me and if you as so much make them cry or put aside their feelings, I will not hesitate to fire you and hit you with my broom.” seonghwa says effectively scaring san as he hears him gulp his saliva nervously while nodding in a quick manner, wanting to go back out to main room as soon as possible.

seonghwa moves to walk back to the room where everyone else was and changes his face back to his motherly persona. he walks towards y/n and puts his arms out, signalling y/n to hand jongho over to him. obeying his command, y/n places jongho in his arms and in response, jongho wraps his arms around seonghwa.

“y/n, I need you to train the newbie. I would but there is just too much to clean around here and if it’s not spotless in the next hour I will lose my mind. this mess is not good for my mental state and makes me incapable of dealing with stupid people today so please handle the newbie for me” seonghwa commands while rubbing his temples.

y/n nods and gives jongho a kiss on the forehead before going to the back room to find san. she finds him except he looks like he’s seen a ghost. she then approaches him and taps his should which he in turns screams about how he understands and to not get the broom. y/n confused as ever begins by introducing herself.

“hello san, my name is y/n, you may or may not know me from your economics or english class but seonghwa wants me to train you for your job here”, y/n says while smiling at the boy who is finally regaining his sanity after his little outburst.

san reaches to shake her hand and then introduces himself, still recovering from the verbal beating he had gotten from seonghwa without y/n’s knowledge of what had occurred in the back room as of recently.

for the rest of the day y/n is describing the certain tasks that san will have to take on during his shift from washing the dirty dishes, setting up the cots for nap time, and playing with the three toddlers, much to jongho’s dismay. the more y/n was around san, the more she noticed how uninterested he was in working at the daycare center, as he was mostly staring out the window or the clock wondering when he can finally go home. seonghwa had asked y/n to lock up after she left as he had a night class today and yunho had taken the kids outside to watch the sunset and have a small picnic in the yard. as they were the only two in the room, she thought maybe conversing with him would make him feel more comfortable working at the daycare center.

“so I heard you’re really good at basketball, how’s that going?” y/n asked while smiling at the boy who had snapped out of his daze out the window.

“I could be at the basketball court right now instead of here with a bunch of children and dirty dishes” san mumbled which caused y/n to frown at his attitude.

“but looking past the dirty dishes, this place is amazing. they have the cutest kids who have the warmest hearts and brightest smiles. I am so thankful that seonghwa hired me as I got the opportunity to meet the sweetest kids and the most amazing coworkers”, y/n says optimistically, her resolve beginning to break after dealing with san for the past five hours.

“these kids wouldn’t know what working hard is like, I waste my time here doing everything for them instead of them learning to do it themselves” san mumbles in reply which is becomes y/n’s breaking point.

“that’s it. I am so fed up with your stupid grumpy attitude. I tried so hard to get you to warm up and make you enjoy your job. but you only think about yourself and what your interests are. can’t you be selfless for once in your damn life and think about someone other than yourself. you have no idea what it is like to work for the benefit of helping others as all you think about is your stupid basketball. you try having to work countless job to be able to provide for your family and paying of the debt your father created after he left your mom to deal with. that is the life I am trying to keep these kids from experiencing. if constantly babying them prevents them from going through what I had to as a child, I would sacrifice anything for them to never have to even see what that life is like” y/n says with a ferocity that san has never seen, it was incomparable to the most aggressive basketball players he’s seen. the difference was behind y/n’s eyes there was a hint of pain behind them.

y/n threw down the rag she was holding from cleaning the water around the sink and walked out the back room, as far from san as possible. she walked outside towards yunho and the kids with an irritated look on her face. jongho noticing her distress, waddles his way to her and hugs her legs as a way of comfort. y/n picks him up and hugs him, trying her hardest not to cry at the thought of jongho, wooyoung, and yeosang having to go through the experience she had as a child. yunho notices y/n on the verge of tears and begins worrying for her and asks, “y/n, are you feeling alright?”

y/n uses her arm that was not carrying jongho to wipe the tears borderline from falling from her eyes. “yes, I just got a little frustrated with san, training him made me a little stressed out” y/n replied feeling jongho tighten his grip on her at the mention of his brother’s name.

“san is really hard headed at times and doesn’t think about anything but basketball, but deep down, he’s super nice goofball who’s just buried under a lot of stress” yunho reasoned while cleaning up the paper plates and plastic utensils the kids had used to eat during their picnic.

y/n began patting jongho’s back as he was dosing of on her shoulder, nuzzling himself into the crook of her neck. she noticed someone was staring at her and looked towards the sliding door. she saw san standing by the window looking in her direction, specifically at his little brother asleep on her shoulder with a little drool sticking out of his mouth. he opened the sliding door and walked towards the pair. he noticed how his y/n’s face turned colder the closer he came towards her and his little brother. he sat down next to y/n as she tried to avoid eye contact with him as much as possible, turned her body away from the star basketball player, and clutched onto jongho tighter in order to comfort herself.

“listen y/n I’m sorry, I had no idea what you went through in your childhood years. I was being insensitive to your feelings and generosity while you were training me. I really appreciate you taking time out of playing with the kids to be able to make me a better worker. I also want to apologize for being so selfish and only thinking about my basketball career when I have three other children to care for now. I will try to be a better babysitter and take the workload off your shoulders and hopefully work my way up to being your friend eventually if you allow me to”, san said while pouting and looking down at the grass that suddenly seemed like the most interesting thing in the world.

y/n smiled and scooted closer to san. with her free hand that was not holding onto jongho, she put her hand on his should in order to comfort and coax him out of his guilt. “I understand how much basketball means to you and how passionate you are in pursuing your hobbies, I guess I forgot what it was like to enjoy your favorite activities and took it a little too hard on you. after my dad left, I had to give up drawing and art classes as it became too expensive for my mom to pay for. I guess I had to grow up a lot faster than the kids around me and I was never allowed to develop a passion that I could really enjoy. that’s why when I started working here, I wanted wooyoung, yeosang, and jongho to never have to grow up faster than they need to and find things they can enjoy for themselves, instead of having fate choose their paths for them,” y/n said sadly while looking at san, trying her hardest not to let any tears fall.

san closed the space between him and y/n and pulled her into a side hug as best he could as it was hard to due to the fact that he did not want to wake up his little brother that was in her other arm. when y/n was in san’s arms, she used her one arm to awkwardly pat his shoulder as a sign that she forgave him for his rotten attitude from earlier and acknowledges his attempt in comforting her. she leaned her head onto his shoulder and let her tears fall freely as she began having flashbacks of her father packing his suitcases and leaving her and her mother with a large amount of debt for the two to pay off.

san began noticing his sweater getting wet and hugged onto her tighter, letting her use his sweater as her personal tissue, not minding the amount of tears and snot that was being spilled on it. he began to rub her back and whispered the best comforting words he could as he has never been in a situation where he had to make a girl feel better since he has spent all his time playing basketball. the closest thing he’s had to a girlfriend was his basketball for christ sake. y/n began giggling at his efforts to get her stop crying and lifted her face for san to see her beautiful smile to which he returned with his closed eyed smiles that showed his adorable dimples.

in the distance however, yunho was holding wooyoung and yeosang in both his arms awkwardly, not knowing whether he should interrupt the potential romantic moment to tell them to go inside before they start getting mosquito bites or leave them alone to have their moment and take the other two boys inside before they freeze their little toddler bums off. he looked at wooyoung who was smiling at the scene in front of them and then looked at yeosang who was hiding his face in yunho’s hoodie afraid that he will see the two kiss, causing san catch cooties from y/n.

deciding to go with the poor boy hiding , he moves his face towards the mop of brown hair hiding in his hoodie he loudly whispers in his ear “is telling them to go inside the daycare center the move?” causing the little yeosang to lift his head to look at yunho in question.

wooyoung catching onto what yunho was saying immediately, decides to make an executive decision without consulting his fellow third wheelers by screaming, “SAN, Y/N, YUNHO THINKS THAT YOU SHOULD STOP SHARING COOTIES AND COME INSIDE BEFORE THE LITTLE BUGGIES GIVE YOU OUCHIES!!” leaving yunho to face palm and yeosang to follow yunho’s action only for him to whine when he hit his forehead a little too hard, causing yunho to move his hand to lightly rub the poor boy’s red spot on his forehead.

this made y/n and san turn their head towards the giant babysitter sitting on picnic blanket with the two toddlers on each thigh. wooyoung bouncing with a proud aura around him, thinking he was being a big boy and helping yunho take charge. while yeosang had little tears in his eyes as the impact of hitting his forehead too hard was finally setting in, making a stinging feeling spread through his head.

meanwhile, jongho wakes up from wooyoung’s loud voice and lets out a whine as he rubs the sleep from his eyes with his little chubby baby fists. his eyes land on y/n above him to which he readjusts his grip on her neck reaches up to kiss her cheek. he then turns to look next to y/n where he spots his brother with his arms around y/n. seeing this, jongho springs to action by reaching towards his brother and using his little hand to push his brother’s face away from y/n. due to the force of little jongho’s hands, san ended up falling backwards, his head landing into a puddle of mud. y/n cringed a little at the poor boy’s predicament while the other four boys began laughing pointing at san’s now muddy hair, with yunho laughing the loudest of the bunch.

y/n stood up with jongho in her arm and used her free arm to reach out and help san stand to his feet. as soon as san stood up, he could feel the muddy water slide down his sweater and small amounts of mud makes its way down his face. seeing the mud continue to travel all over san, yunho began laughing even louder and harder, adding in a couple of knee slaps.

“oh seonghwa is not going to be happy if you come into the center like that. he’ll go crazy in the morning when he sees how much mud you’ve brought into the center and dirtying his perfect white carpet,” y/n said, looking at the boy guiltily, while jongho who was facing away from his brother had a mischievous smile on his face as he leaned his cheek onto y/n’s shoulder.

once yunho calmed down from his laughing fit and wiped the tears forming in his eyes, he stood up with the two kids still in his arms and walked towards to daycare center to find some towels to help his best friend dry off and clean up at least a little bit before he went home.

as the three third wheelers made their way into the daycare center, san, y/n, and jongho were left outside. san and y/n continued to stare at each other, while jongho glared at his older brother for taking y/n’s attention away from him.

“I really appreciate you manning up and apologizing to me san, it was a really mature thing of you to do”, y/n says smiling in his direction causing san to smile back in return.

the three outside then hears footsteps approaching the daycare center. they look up and see hongjoong walking towards them, coming to pick up wooyoung and yeosang. as hongjoong got closer, he noticed san, began smiling, and running up to the boy until he notices the boy is covered in mud and cringes.

“hello san, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you! hope the basketball team is doing well under your leadership.” hongjoong greets the muddy boy while smiling brightly.

hongjoong and san have been friends for years as hongjoong was the previous basketball team captain at Utopia High School before he graduated and passed on his legacy to san. san regularly goes to hongjoong to seek advice on certain problems that are plaguing his mind and take a toll on his mental state.

san smiles replies, “it’s been good, I’ve fallen behind on my community service hours so I am trying to catch up on them by working at the daycare center. if I don’t hit fifty hours in three months, they’re taking away my captain title”.

hongjoong nods in understanding and then waves at y/n and making small conversation with her as he looks in the window to see yunho helping wooyoung and yeosang pack their belongings into their backpack, getting ready to go home. soon, wooyoung and yeosang make their way outside towards hongjoong who gives them each a hug and holds their hand.

“give me second kiddos, I have to sign you both out and then we can head home” hongjoong says to the kids in a gentle manner as he makes his way towards the daycare center and grabs the pen yunho is holding to sign the binder.

hongjoong then gives the pen back to yunho and goes back to grab both wooyoung and yeosang’s hand once again and lead them to his car to drive them home. as yunho, y/n, san, and jongho watches hongjoong drive away from the daycare center, yunho throws a towel at san which he catches with ease, with yunho screaming at him to get as much mud off as possible before seonghwa kills all of them. rolling his eyes, san wipes as much of the mud off as possible until the pristine white towel was completely different shades of brown. y/n then grabs the towel from san and hands him jongho and goes into the daycare center to place the towel into the dirty hamper filled with dish rags and the kiddo’s dirty painting aprons.

san goes towards the door where yunho is waiting with the sign out binder with a pen, trying his best to hold in his laugh as the mud had dried up san’s hair to where it looks like dry ramen. san rolls his eyes and snatches the pen away from yunho and signs the sign out sheet next to jongho’s name. as soon as he is done signing, y/n comes out of the back room with her stuff, cheering about how she is ready to go home after a long day. yunho goes to turn off all the lights and makes sure the place is spotless clean to ensure that seonghwa will not scold them when he comes to open the daycare center the next day. after turning off the lights, the last remaining four humans at the daycare center leave the building and y/n uses the key seonghwa gave her to lock the front door and goes around the back to lock the back door as well.

“well, I’m going to head off first, I haven’t done the economics homework in the past week so I have a lot of catching up to do, see you tomorrow” yunho blurts out in the awkward silence and begins sprinting down the pavement towards the direction of his home causing san, y/n, and jongho to laugh at the boy.

san looks towards y/n with jongho in his arms and speaks up. “thank you for training me today y/n, even though I am probably the most difficult trainee you have ever had to deal with” he says while rubbing the back of his neck with jongho pouting as he wanted to be held by y/n.

“well considering you’re the only trainee I’ve had to train here, I would say you’re the best and worst trainee I’ve ever had to tolerate” y/n replies giggling.

jongho lets out a whine in san’s arms and attempts to reach for y/n to the best of his small body’s abilities. “hey jongho, what’s the matter with you, you’ve cuddled y/n enough for today, we have to go home for dinner before mom yells at us for being home late,” san scolds the boy causing him to whine louder.

y/n reaches for jongho to hold him and explains to san, “jongho has a somewhat ritual that he has to do before leaving the daycare center, where he always wants a hug from me before he leaves, no matter how late you two are running. I really don’t mind anyways since I love hugs and jongho just looks super happy after getting his hug” while rubbing jongho’s back to calm him down as jongho squeezes onto y/n tighter.

after their little hug, y/n hands jongho back to san where the three walks away from the daycare center and part ways to make their journey back to their respective homes.

as san is walking with jongho asleep in his arms towards their home, he begins thinking about how working at the daycare center may not be as bad as he originally thought, especially with his best friend yunho there to entertain him and y/n who could potential be a good friend of his if he plays his cards right. he felt as if y/n and him had some kind of connection on the grass and felt proud that he could comfort a girl that way crying after spending his whole life with a basketball as his soulmate. with all these thoughts running through his head, there was one big question that was plaguing his mind at that very moment:

did yunho really just cockblock me?

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springday-aus · 4 years

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Dog Walker!AU with Rocky [Minhyuk]

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Group: ASTRO

Member: Rocky / Park Minhyuk

Genre: fluff, romance

part of the Odd Summer Jobs!AU ⤗ introduction to the Summer Boys

Type: Bulletpoint AU

Word Count: 2k

first up, we got Rocky!

who’s the neighborhood dog walker

(and sitter)

but he’s only available during the summer now

hence the reason why he joined the Summer Boys

he needed to make some extra money over the summer when he comes home from college

during the school year, he teaches dance lessons

but it’s only during the school year

so every summer when he comes home

he cares for the neighborhood dogs

he used to do it during high school too

so he knows what the job is like and whose dogs he can walk

when he was first doing it, he thought it was fairly easy

and it kind of was

he would just take the dogs on a neighborhood stroll

or they would go to a park

yeah, he has to pick up poop, but like

he’s with a bunch of dogs and has little contact with working with people

so who is he to complain

but it did get a bit harder...

more people were calling for him and he would end up with a large group of dogs

the max he takes a time is like… ten?

so it depends if they’re all small dogs, big dogs, etc.

the big dogs are harder to maintain

thank god for those dancer muscles tho

the big dogs literally drag him

when he first started dog walking…

he had like three big dogs to start with

that was A Disaster

(Sanha and Chani have video AND photo evidence)

sometimes they come with him just to get some more disastrous blackmail

I mean photos for the Summer Boys website :)

anyways

the dog owners love him

he’s super responsible

(he answers his phone quickly)

and he’s reliable

and the dogs love him

then again, who wouldn’t like Rocky?

anyways

he also does dog sitting

he kind of likes it but he does prefer the dog walking

anyways

if it’s a dog sitting job, he needs like a 24 hour notice thing

but it all depends on how long the sitting job is

(one time this woman asked him to dog sit for an hour while she went to her doctor’s appointment, he literally just chilled in this lady’s house for an hour because the dog took a nap)

overall it’s a fun job and it’s pretty chill

he doesn’t charge much either

unless he has to buy supplies for the dog

but he doesn’t mind

and most of the time, he’s reimbursed through tips

so he mainly communicates through phone

those who call him are people he’s known for a while

or they’re people who know about him from other people

once the flyers came out tho

he’s been easier to contact

with the website up too, the photos are… very….. convincing

he’s been getting more business after officially joining the Summer Boys

and that means… more dogs!

how does this involve you?

this involves you when you crash land into a pillow of approx. 15 dogs

Rocky was taking the dogs out for their daily walk

he had about fifteen, maybe even sixteen dogs

the problem was

there were… at least eight big dogs…..

I’m talking like

Bernese mountain dog

a Black Russian Terrier

St. Bernard

shepherd dog

it’s…. Chaotic

he’s got a good hold on them.. at least he thinks so

anyways

on the other side of the park

you and your friends were there

the park is huge

like there’s a lake where people can paddle boat huge

so there’s a lot of space

there’s a playground for toddlers

and another for the elementary schoolers

picnic areas

barbeque areas

there’s tracks for walking

tracks for runners

and tracks for bike riders

which is why you and you were friends were there

so, despite being an adult

you don’t know how to ride a bike

so your friends dragged you here for you to learn

“it’ll be fun!!!! and it’s never too late to learn!!”

it has been kind of fun

(other than the fear of falling off the said bike)

and just when you thought you had a good grip on this whole riding a bike thing

an incident occurs

you know that thing parents do?

the whole “don’t let go” “I’m not gonna let you go”

this was all because of that “I’m not letting you go” shit

so you were riding on your bike

(with a helmet ofc)

your friends were pushing you

and you were going a good distance

but then they let go…. as you were going downhill…

you haven’t mastered the brakes or whatever they’re called on a bike

and just as you maintained the speed and stabilized yourself

you looked up and next thing you know, you saw a bunch of fluff

i.e. Rocky

you were screaming

he was screaming

all the dogs were coming all at once

so you tried to stop it because you didn’t wanna run into the dogs

and you ended swerving on the side

and Rocky panicked and tried to catch you

but then….

he… kind of sort of let go? of the leash……….

that was holding all of the dogs…..

so, you landed on the grass in Rocky’s arms

surrounded by a lot of fluffy dogs

Rocky: “are you okay?”

You: “tbh, this is kind of how I imagined my death”

Rocky: “falling off a bike?”

You: “no, surrounded by dogs”

Rocky: “I guess that’s one way of going”

Rocky: “are you okay now?”

You: “yeah, I think so now”

you both sat up and, luckily, the dogs all stayed near you two

primarily because they were all stuck with the same leash

You: “thank you for trying to catch me”

Rocky: “no problem, I hope your bike isn’t scratched”

You: “oh, it’s not my bike—my friends were trying to teach me how to ride it”

Rocky: “oh, did you not have like knee or elbow pads? I got a friend who has some that you could borrow”

You: “yeah, that would have been smart”

before you two could say anything else

your friends are running over

“sorry!! sorry!! we would have been here sooner but we didn’t realize how far you were”

“yeah and combine that with the fact that we realized that we should have been running”

they help you up and that’s when they spot Rocky

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

“(Y/N), who is this???”

You: “I actually don’t know”

Rocky: “my name’s Minhyuk, but my friends call me Rocky”

You: interesting

You: “thanks again for the help, uh, Minhyuk”

Rocky: “oh, are you sure you don’t want the pads?”

You: “actually, yeah, you know that’s probably smart”

so you trade numbers

and you part ways

you forget about him for a bit

but then you and your friends are about to head to the park for another bike lesson

“we need to be consistent for you to learn”

“also you can finally text the cute boy with the dogs”

“but mainly for you to learn how to ride a bike”

You: ……. sure it is

so, you do text him….

and you two arrange to meet at the park first

you decided to wait at a nearby bench and about a couple of minutes

he comes

with another pack of dogs

this time there’s a little less of the big dogs and more of the fluffy baby ones

but they’re all cute nevertheless

he gives you the knee pads amidst the chaos the dogs are causing

you’ve never wished for more hands in your life

anyways

he spends a bit of time with you, while you’re waiting for your friends

and you spend a bit of time talking, getting to know each other

You: “I would love to walk these cuties all day”

Rocky: “well, you could always just come along with me next time”

You: “can I really”

your friends eventually come and he greets them, but eventually leaves to actually walk the dogs

your friends did not let that go the whole day

“oooooo cute boy came~”

“shuT iT fuckin—”

anyways

you two arrange a time for you to walk the dogs with him

it was super fun

like a bunch of dogs?? AND a cute boy???

who wouldn’t have fun

you wanted to try to walk the big dogs and he just…. let you

Sanha was right: this is super funny to watch

don’t worry, he gets you ice cream as an apology

and then it becomes a weekly thing

you come along when you have time

(and it IS summer come on lbr here)

now you’re just two friends

walking some dogs together

and then you have to return the dogs...

naturally, you go with him

bc he has like 10+ dogs and you weren’t about to make him go alone

you’re both kind of chill and still talking and getting to know one another

it’s chill

but then, something that happened

you and Rocky had about five dogs with you

and you were returning a lil pomeranian to this old couple

the grandma who answers the door, she gets her dog and then...

“so, you and Minhyuk are dating?”

You and Rocky: uhhhh

the grandpa (you assume her husband) comes out, poking is head through the door...

“this might just be a development in process, honey—don’t push them”

You: oh my god

they thank you both and you both move on to the next house... rather slowly

Rocky: “I’m so sorry”

You: “I’ve dealt with weirder situations”

You: “besides it’s not like I would have minded��

Rocky: “I wouldn’t have minded either.....”

so you both finish returning the dogs

overall, it was fun

anyways...

you and Rocky may or not have figured things out by the time you were done

and may have made some plans for dinner.....

congrats for upgrading from dog walks

you get more dates!!!

anyways

you still go on the walks with him in the park

whether it’s with or without the dogs

(the owners started being more familiar with you too)

(at this point you should be getting paid)

it’s fine tho bc you get to spend some time with your cutie

and like 20 other lil cuties

it’s not just the dog walking thing

he’s even joined your friends to help you learn to ride a bike

Rocky: “bike date!!!”

y’all even have picnics

it’s cute

like he’ll make it and pack it in these fancy ass containers

you try to make sure you aren’t in an are with seagulls tho

one time he had those shrimp chips out

..... yeah it was not a fun time

but you learned

anyways

some dates are in a studio where he dances

he still practices over the summer and you just watch from the side, cheering for him

it’s super cute

everyone at the dance studio knows you now too

sometimes when it’s just you two, he gives you a dance lesson

most times he would just put on music and you two would dance

even if you were bad at it

you two have named them as Summer Night Dance Parties

but there are some nights when he would just hold you into his arms and you two would sway to some relaxing music

sure, some of your dates might not be super romantic but he’s trying

oh, speaking of which

karaoke dates are def a thing

he may not be a singer

but it doesn’t mean he’s bad

(he’s def better than you)

sometimes you go with the other Summer Boys

who you met on many different occasions

the first official time tho………..

they did a whole dinner thing

(to celebrate???)

the energy…. it was chaotic

there was so much happening all at once

you were surprised they didn’t get kicked out

especially with the Chenle and Jisung duo

it was fun tho, especially conversing with Sanha and Chani

you have so much of their blackmail content on Rocky

and you haven’t seen him as talkative that night more than ever

he was so much louder too

again, the energy……… was chaotic

(sometimes they come to those picnics and it somehow manages to be even more chaotic than usual)

you’ve grown close with them

it’s cute

you even help manage their instagram page

(which is just you taking 10000x photos of Rocky)

You: “Min, it’s for the instagram page”

You: “loooook at meeeeee”

You: “smile pretty pretty for the camera”

Rocky: “how many are you using”

You: “all of them”

it’s not like he minds you having your attention tbh

he likes taking photos of you with the other dogs too

honestly they’re more candid, but they’re still cute

you didn’t even know until you saw his phone wallpaper

You: “whEN dID yOU tAKe THAT”

Rocky: “you looked cute playing with the puppies in the grass, so I just to—dON’T DELETE IT”

it’s super cute

this is a cute relationship

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geekygoddesss · 5 years

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Parenting (Mashton/2)

Michael

“I am really sorry” I said for what felt like twentieth time already as my hands flew to my face and I bit my nails in pure nervousness. This has never happened before and now that it was happening I didn’t know what to do, I was having a bit of a parental crisis right now and that is never good.

I tried to find the words to express how sorry I actually was as a strange woman stood in front of me, holding the hand of her crying daughter and not looking very happy about it.

“Honestly if there’s anything I can do” I say, again not really finding the words but suddenly an idea hit my mind and without thinking twice, I bent over a little and spoke to the crying toddler “Uh Oh- there's an ice cream shop right there, do you want ice cream, sweetie?” I said with a nervous smile on my face, doing my very best to not seem like a crazy woman, but after this, it was really the least I could do.

“It’s alright” the mother said as she nodded at me giving me the green light to raise from my lean. I stood up straight, biting my lip as I stared at her, this was too awkward, I didn’t know how to manage it, that woman though, she looked like she knew better than me.

See, when your only son goes and hits a girl for no reason in the middle of a park full of kids, there was only a handful of things you could do, but saying sorry was now the top of my priorities, this has never happened before, I was ashamed of it.

She grabbed her daughter in her arms and adjusted her on her hip as she asked. “is it your first son?”

I nodded as I mouthed a quiet “Yes” not being able to stop myself from blushing.

she nodded, gave me an understanding smile and said “I’ll give you some advice” she said in a decisive voice “tell him about what happen and take some action, this happens with kids but you need to teach him that this is wrong, otherwise he’ll never learn” she said, her voice a little authoritative, like she has handled this exact kind of situation a million times before and she probably had, seeing that she was older than me and more experienced, at least she did not yell at me like if I was some child.

I smiled at her shyly. “Thank you” I said and just for the last time I made clear “I’m very sorry”

The woman nodded, said she understood and left me without being able to do something to make up for this bad time my son made her have, this was embarrassing. I love my baby, I really do, but when this kind of situations came up it was really hard to know how to handle it, especially as a first timer, I sure did not know what to do at all.

So I call for help, it’s the best option I have anyways.

I look around the big park and try to spot the one person who is for sure going to give me some support in this, I was praying that he didn’t leave the park when I most needed him to be here, but for my luck, I only have to turn around a couple of times and in less than a minute, I see him far away from me talking with some friends he apparently just ran into, he was laughing, like something was super hilarious to him, I kinda felt bad for breaking it to him but this was necessary.

“Michael” I call his name loud enough for him to hear it.

He turned around at the sound of my voice and smiled to me as he waved his hand in the air. I waved back, telling him to walk over here but he looked over at his friend for a second and smiled uncomfortably. Sometimes he was kind of a dick, I got that he wanted to talk with his friends a little longer, but this is important.

“Yes?” he yelled back, raising his eyebrows underneath his dark sunglasses.

I made a gesture with my hand and asked “Got a sec?” I said loud enough “It’s important, sorry”

He nodded to me once I pointed out that this was not just something I needed to tell him, but that it is sometimes that was quite important right now. I don’t know who he is talking to but right now, we need to team up and make sure our kid does not go any more problematic than he is already being.

Michael excuse himself with his friends and says their goodbye to them and goes to walk his way to where I was standing, which is fairly close to the playing area where I could see exactly what was happening, even when I apparently missed some things.

He jogged up to me once he noticed that what I had to say was really something important and he needed to know what was happening, so once he was with me, he gave me a smile and reaching up to pinch my cheek he said in a sweet tone:

“What's up, cutie?” he spoke, playfully squeezing my cheek on his fingers and caressing it softly afterward.

I sighed heavily “We have a problem” I admit, grabbing his arms to pull him a little closer before whispering “Parker just hit a girl”

His eyes widened under his shades to then clearly frown “He did what?” he asks in disbelief, he shook his head, trying to get the idea in his mind that his son has done such a thing. “Why?”

I shrugged “I don’t know!” I said, still not believing this whole thing as I told the story “They were playing and apparently they got into a little argument and he pulled her hair”

Michael laughed, not a good laugh, he was outraged, he couldn’t believe that his sound would even be capable of something like that. If that is something he learned from somewhere, he didn’t know where the hell that was and I didn’t either, because this was something so unlike him or any of us, we weren’t the problematic kind, we had to stop this before it became worst.

“Oh my god” Michael sighed as he looked over at the playground with about thirty kids on it “where is he?”

I shrugged a little as I pointed “I think he’s over there” I said, pointing at the castle thing area. I grabbed Michael’s hand, got his attention to me and said “you gotta go tell him off”

His eyes widened once again, he tried to speak but no words came out, instead, he let out one annoyed ground and said: “Why me?”

I gasped, crossed my arms over my chest as I reminded him “You’re his dad”

“You’re his mom” He argued back, throwing his head back at the thought of having to do such a hard part of the job when he was well known in the house as the fun dad.

“And Why do I have to be the one doing that?” I argued, shaking my head at his stubbornness.

“Because, I don’t know how to, you hang out with him a lot more, you do it, you know how to roll with him better” he excused, I have to admit, he was kind of right with that, he had a point, but on situations like this he had to be the one stepping up and teach Parker that this is wrong, otherwise, he will never learn that when this happens, both of his parents would not be happy at all. It’s common sense.

“I will be the bad Mommy then” I whined in a childish voice. Throwing my head back in pure annoyance.

“So I have to be the bad Daddy?” He asked whining back just a little.

I nod very dramatically. “You won’t be bad daddy! You’ll be his Dad, the one who tells him he’s doing wrong when he does these things” I explain, keeping my voice down so we didn’t have anyone eavesdropping. He sighed, rolling his eyes and looking directly at the playground. I nudge him a little “Michael, just go talk to him and tell him we’re leaving, we’ve had enough park for today”

He looked at me shortly, then looked away. He wasn’t sure what to do in these things. Again, we are first timers, Parker has never done anything like this and it was so difficult to take such a big step and be mad at that little person who was just a pure angel most of the times. Whatever happened right now was very confusing.

Michael didn’t say yes, but didn’t say no either, he just took a minute to look around and see if he spotted his son somewhere around, and he did, because the second he saw Parker sliding down the slide, he let out a groan and walked up to him with a steady pace.

I didn’t dare to go after him or anything related to that, I just stayed where I was and stared at the scene from afar. He reached up to where all the kids were and called for Parker, made sure they were away from everyone else and out of the actual playground to then kneel on the ground, made eye contact with Parker and asked him what happened.

It only took a minute or two for Parker to break into tears, even when Michael hasn’t really yelled at him or anything like that, he just wanted an explanation, however, he made clear that he wasn’t happy about it and that, he made him know that he was very disappointed at his behavior.

Parker knew what he did was wrong and as he tried to explain Michael what was going on his words got difficult to explain until he couldn’t anymore and just covered his face as he cried it out.

“You can't hit girls or anyone, do you understand?” It’s what I heard Michael say in a harsh tone, as he got up from the ground and grabbed Parker’s hand and started walking.

I guess it’s time to go.

I try to put up a smile as they walk up to my direction. Parker is still sobbing and trying to wipe away his tears with one hand as Michael hold his other hand making him walk, on the other side, Michael looked pretty pissed, he carried a very serious look and I could have sworn he was glaring at me through his sunglasses, but I decided to ignore that.

“Hi buddy” I say as I leaned down, trying to be at his level as I asked “you Alright?”

“Are you mad at me too, mommy?” He cried, rubbing his tears away as he made his very best to speak clearly.

Seeing my little boy cry breaks my heart. “No baby, I’m just disappointed that’s all” I say, reaching to brush some of his long hairs off his forehead and clean his tears away.

Michael let go of Parker’s hand, repeated my move, leaning down just a little and say to him “We won’t ground you, okay? But if you do it again we will, got that?” he told Parker in one serious voice.

Parker sniffed and nodded hardly “Okay”

Michael nodded too, I could almost see his heart aching for making Parker cry, but it was normal, he felt bad for what he did and he’s a kid, after all, he’s sentimental.

“Come here bud” he said, picking Parker up and letting him cry on his shoulder. “there, there” he said, rubbing Park’s back “no need to cry, see? No ones crying anymore” he said, pointing to both of us “you’ll make momma cry” Michael said and I pouted.

Sometimes we would think this could work for him to stop crying but this time, it didn’t work, he just cried harder this time, forming a big wet patch on Michael’s shirt and feeling worst for not only being problematic but now making his mom cry (even when this last one wasn’t true).

“I’m sorry” He cried again as he said “I’m sorry”

“it’s okay, baby” I cooed, kissing his tear stained cheek so I tried making him feel a little better. “I think you’re a little sleepy” I said, caressing his cheek as I looked up at Michael.

He caught my sign immediately.

“Let’s go home” He said, adjusting his hold on Parker with one hand and grabbing my hand with the other. It’s been one weird day. But this is a little milestone we have to cross as parents and now that we did, I have to say, It wasn’t so bad, but one thing is for sure, I just hope it doesn’t happen again.

Ashton

“Daddy you’re doing it wrong” I heard that familiar and childish voice say on the living room as some music was playing in the background and both of their laughs filled the room.

“How can I be wrong?” Ashton asked loudly as he tried to control his laugh.

“You have no stars!” Julie yelled as the sound came to an end and she yelled again, this time louder than ever “I won again!”

“Oh no! Holy ravioli!” Ashton said in a childish voice. “I guess you’re just better than me”

I do my best to walk in the room and put up my best happy face for my family to see, even when I was totally tired and not in the mood to do much aside from sitting on my ass for the rest of the night and sleep. My job had me drained, as much as I love it, it comes to be exhausting sometimes.

I try to put up a smile as I spot my two rays of sunshine, standing in the middle of the living room in front of the TV and watching some videos of them replaying on the screen of them dancing to some pop that was very last year. It was adorable.

“What’s with all the yelling?” I ask, making myself noticeable in the room, and the crowd goes wild.

Suddenly Ashton is stopping the game with the controller in his hand and smiling at me as my little girl jumps around and hugs herself on my legs, not letting me walk any further. Showing me how excited she was that I finally got home.

“Hi cupcake!” I chuckled, leaning down and dropping the heavy bag hanging on my shoulder to hug her close and lift her on my arms.

“Mommy” she chuckles when I lift her up and hugs me very close “I beat daddy on just dance!” she laughed, pointing at Ashton, who unstrapped that controlled from his hand as he walked up to us.

“Again? Woah” I say, acting surprised, Ashton has never been good at this game.

“I got four stars out of five” He said, excusing himself almost as if he wanted to impress me.

“No he didn’t” Julie whispered in my ear, as she hid her face on the crook of my neck and giggled on my ear. Gosh, she was so cute.

Ashton sighed one dramatic sigh “She’s just that good” he said shrugging and leaving the controlled on the coffee table, he made sure to be quick and while Julie wasn’t looking, he kissed me on the lips and asked “how was your day?”

I sighed, putting Julie down on the sofa to then lay on it myself right beside her “Busy, boring, nothing unusual” I resumed in just a couple words as I reached my daughter with my arm and hug her “did you have dinner baby?” I ask, pulling her into me and kissing her forehead.

She nodded, playing with the ends of her shirt as she said “Daddy made soup and sammich”

I smiled at her bad pronunciation of the word ‘sandwich’ I thought it was so cute, it always reminded me how she probably needed to correct that, but it was incredibly cute how it just came out naturally from her. I love her so much.

“I got her to eat tomato soup and grilled cheese” Ashton explained with a winning smile.

I gasped. That is for sure a big deal, after having try to eat more vegetables for a couple weeks and after trying and failing a lot, she was finally eating something healthier and not in pure vegetable form. Smart move from him, I have to admit.

“What?! You’re not serious” I say in surprise looking at him with wide eyes, he chuckled and nodded at me, then I looked at Julie and she nodded too. it was true. “did she liked it?” I asked with a bright smile on my face.

he nodded “Yeah, she ate all of it”

“Yes” I celebrate, hugging Julie even more and kissing her cheek “I love you so much” I mumbled pressing my lips to her cheek even more. I kept her in my arms, washing her with kisses and eventually tickles until she got enough of them and managed to wiggle out of my arms and towards her Daddy, she jumped up and down, being very hyper for some reason and with a big wide smile on her face she asked.

“Daddy, Can we do another song?” she said, wiggling her body on every direction as she grabbed his hand and tried pulling him towards the center of the living room, that for the last hour the have converted into a dance floor.

“Sure bab-“ he started, but I cut him off immediately.

As much as I would love to have them play a little longer, it was late already. Thank god she was already on her pajamas and had something to eat, because this just made the job a little easier, and now that she was this hyper, she was probably tired enough to sleep it off.

“No, Juls, it’s late, It's time for bed” I instruct, making my best effort to sit up the straight on the sofa and give a sign to Ashton to turn the tv off.

“Mommy I’m not tired” She whined, loudly as she saw how Ashton grabbed that controller and turned off the screen without arguing at all.

“Yes you are, look at your face” I say, getting up and rubbing her cheek just a little. She did have a bit of a tired face, it was normal, it’s already 10 at night, she should be sleeping right now.

“Daddy” she whined, looking at Ashton, as I walked up to her and picked her up in my arms.

“Sorry Kenz, rules are rules” he shrugged, moving to kiss her cheek and caress her hair a little.

I smile to him at the support he is giving me, he knows that it was no time for her to be awake and it was school night. I fixed her in my arms and turn to Ashton just enough to then nod to her.

“Say goodnight to daddy” I say almost like an order, as she rubs her eyes as her eyelids started to get heavy.

“Night night daddy” she said, leaning on the opposite side for Ashton to hug her.

“Good night baby girl” Ash said, kissing her head shortly and ruffling her hair. “I love you”

She hummed something, not being really happy that I was sending her to bed, but naturally super tired from all the dancing they had for the day. It was time for her to rest.

This was the harder part of the night, almost every night. It was a whole routine. I would take her to her bathroom and make her brush her own teeth all by herself, which always took a good minute or two, after that I would set her in the bathroom counter and give her some vitamins her doctor told her to take, we took a potty stop before moving on and then came the hardest part of them all, actually put her to sleep.

Sometimes this part was harder than others, but for my luck, today was not one of them, because the moment I put her to bed, fix her blankets on her and put on the night light, she was already closing her eyes to sleep it off and it only took a couple of minutes until she was already breathing heavily and falling in one deep slumber.

Thank god, this could turn into a totally different situation and more difficult time in the wrong kind of days, good to know today is not one of them.

I get out of her room once I knew she is one hundred percent asleep, and making my way back down to the main floor of the house, I sigh, feeling how the little bits of stress started leaving my body and I started feeling a lot more relaxed, because my time of relax started now.

I walk straight to the kitchen, seeing that Ashton was not around the living room anymore but still there were sounds coming from somewhere around. I found him on the kitchen, heating up a small bowl of soup from earlier and prepping some grilled cheese for me. That was so sweet, I was starving.

“She’s out, I think” I announce, sitting on the first chair I found and sighing “Hopefully she is, I’m so exhausted” I say with a bit of an exaggerated tone as I lean back on that chair.

He laughed, shook his head but never really argued with me about it, he knew how exhausting taking care of a child was and after work, I just wanted some time for myself and my husband, if I didn’t pass out at first try. He moved fast, pulled the warm bowl of soup out of the microwave and gave it to me, along with a freshly toasted grilled cheese sandwich, all for me.

I didn’t hesitate to give it a bite as soon as it is in front of me, because I couldn’t wait to have something in my stomach after so long.

“Wine?” he offered, watching me with a smile as I ate.

“Yes, please” I said, smiling a little as he moved over to grab one brand new bottle from the cabinet. “How long have you been home?” I ask, watching him as he looks around for the wine opener.

“All afternoon” he explained, as he grabbed the opener and proceed to the heavy duty “We did all the homework, had dinner, played games all evening, really, it was fun” He smiled at the thought, he loved spending time with her.

If it wasn’t because I knew him so well, I would have thought that every time he hung out with Julie he would be dancing around like a fool and tiring himself out while I was out there at work, but I know how things roll around this place and in my honest opinion, it was kind of hilarious and smart to know the real reason of why he chose to play that game for her right this day and left her way too hyper and eventually tired for the night.

“You put that game on purpose, didn’t you?” I say with a funny smile as I watched him open that wine bottle way too easily.

He laughed, looked up at me from the side of his eyes and moved back to grab a glass from the cabinet.

“There’s one way to get her tired” It’s all he said, as he grabbed that glass and poured the right amount of wine in it.

“Oh lord” I laugh, even though I saw that coming “you’re mean” I state, taking that glass of wine with me.

“No, I’m not, I was spending time with my daughter” He said, trying to argue, even when he knew I was right, but he doesn’t keep on the topic, he leans over to me and kisses my forehead softly, caresses my head as he said “And I want to spend some extra time with my wife so..”

“So?” I raise an eyebrow.

“I say it’s worth it” he explained, chuckling a little as he went ahead and took the sit right beside me, let me eat some of my food. He was smiling at me suggestively and I knew what that meant, it’s been our number one topic to talk about for a while now. How could I not know?.

“Are we still on the same page? Baby number 2? yes, no, maybe?” He asked, now mumbling as I munched some of my sandwich.

I shrugged, looking down at my plate. “I don’t know” I said mumbling as I turned to him. This is a delicate thing to talk about. “Are you ready for baby number two?”

His eyes widen a little, but not in surprise at all. He nods. “I am, but are you?”

I shrug. I wasn’t really sure about it, but I didn’t mind “If you are ready, I am” I confess.

A smile spreads along his face and as he reaches my hands and grabs it softly he asks “So?”

I blush a little, nodding my head at the silent question that floated between us. It was very obvious, he wanted to give it a try tonight, again, just like we’ve been doing for a while now. So I look at him straight and with a smile peeking through my lips I say. “Let’s do it”

“Let’s do it! Yes!” He says immediately, smiling widely as he gets up his sit quickly, he was very excited about this, he couldn’t wait for this whole process to start. “You just made the best decision ever” he said, moving on to kiss my forehead and saying. “Shall we take this on the bath my lady?” he asks on an overly polite voice.

I laugh, shaking my head as I mumble. “Dork” I chuckle, looking up to peck his lips very shortly “Meet me there, I’ll finish here first”

he nodded quickly, kissed my cheek and said: “Your wish is my command” before leaving the room and going to what mattered to him the most right now, setting up the mood.

This was something that made me really happy and somehow scared to think about. Having another baby, after almost five years of having Julie, it seemed terrifying, but at the same time, I was excited about it, because in reality, I do want another baby and the thought of giving Julie a new brother of sister made me want it even more, because I knew she really wants one with all of her heart. So as soon as we are all ready for this big step, I will do it gladly, because I was more than glad to make this little and beautiful family grow. My perfect little family.

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tentimesbetter · 6 years

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Unchanging || Mark Lee

Pairing: Mark Lee x Reader

Genre: Fluff; Childhood Friend!AU

Word Count: 2.9k

Summary: The one where you and Mark have been friends almost all your life and nothing could change that.

Or, the one where you and Mark slowly and unknowingly fall in love.

It was almost impossible to find you and Mark without each other. He was almost omnipresent in your life– an unchanging constant ever since you’d been toddlers who were learning to make their way around the playgrounds without getting hurt or encountering mean older kids to now, when you were older– almost adults– attempting to make your way through life without disappointing your over-expecting parents and without getting hurt.

Growing up, you didn’t come without the other– wherever Mark got invited (because between the two of you, he was better at warming people and making friends), he would make sure you came too. In middle school, when puberty hit, transforming you into an awkward, gangly preteen– something your self-esteem took the hit for, you spent a lot of time wondering if he did it out of pity and making sure to stay out of his way best as you could so he wouldn’t have to. It seemed to make a lot of his friends happy, especially the girls. You assumed it made Mark happier too to have you out of the way of his social life so you sucked up any sadness you felt about losing a friend telling yourself that it was for the best until he came up to you after-school, asking to walk home together. Refusing to take no for an answer until you’d said it too many times.

“I don’t know why you’re avoiding me but I’d like it if my best friend could at least talk to me instead of trying to cut me off.” He’d walked away after he said those words, making his way towards a group of boys you recognized as part of the school’s music club. His words continued to ring in your ears all the way home.

It took another week of crying yourself to sleep because of the guilt you felt before you could muster the courage to walk to his house, carrying a tub of his favourite ice-cream in your hands and an apology on your tongue. He accepted your apology too easily, leaving you feeling like a bit of an idiot, and pulled you into a hug which made sure you knew he cared about you more than he cared about the opinions of any of the people he hung out with in school.

The next morning, the two of you returned to the routine you’d known all your lives: Walking out of your house to find Mark already waiting for you so that you could walk to school together. Waiting for each other on days you had club work so that you could walk home together. It almost felt like nothing had ever changed and in less than week you were inseparable again.

***

When you started university, for a brief period in your first year, Mark and you branched out; maintaining only a friendship which involved smiling at each other when you passed by in hallways. It was almost fate that you’d managed to get through into the same university and there was only so lucky you could get. Thus, slowly and understandably Mark and you found other friends and integrated into different circles– ones which didn’t intersect at any point.

You became increasingly involved in university events, putting yourself out and going out of your way to get yourself known as the one person in your department who could be relied to know about almost everything. You were convinced that everyone on campus had your number saved for whatever reason and you went out of your way to make sure you didn’t have anyone’s unless it was absolutely necessary. It was the clearest hint you could give of your disinterest without appearing outright rude.

Mark spent his time with the other performing arts majors– getting involved in school productions when the theatre kids needed music and dedicating the time he didn’t spend studying to keep up his grades to a band he formed with a few others from his department. The band was instant hit– something you often begrudgingly credited to the literal face value of its members who included both Jung Jaehyun and Lucas Wong– the two uncontested instant crushes for most of your batchmates– as well as Mark Lee– someone all your friends found cute, going even as far as to ask you to set them up with him when they find out you know him. You watched, mostly subconsciously, as he went from the shy, awkward seventeen-year-old who would only play at church or when you two were alone to a slightly less awkward and significantly more confident guitarist who took centre stage at many charity events and could effectively make enough girls feel that he was serenading to them when he sang.

When you both returned home that Christmas, it felt as if you’d never be back to who you used to be earlier and you felt a little burst of sadness at the thought: You hadn’t been very good at making friends until recently and the thought of losing the one person who’d known you throughout was bound to make you sad but you didn’t feel the need to dwell on it, deciding it was for the best. The feeling of slight melancholy persisted only when you had nothing to do and it would go away with time.

Sometime near the end of your first week home, your mother invited the Lees over for dinner: A move that made complete sense– your families, after all, had been neighbours for as long as your memories went back. The entire day leading to the dinner, you felt your stomach flop around uncomfortably around you, making you feel as though you would throw up at the slightest interaction– the feeling only got worse when you heard the doorbell signalling their arrival. The feeling also dissolved almost immediately when Mark greeted you with the same smile you’d grown up seeing and a hug.

“I haven’t seen you all year,” he said, matter-of-factly. “Or all semester, more precisely.”

Nothing in his speech held any accusation or anger and you still couldn’t help but think of the first time you’d ever distanced yourself from him. It filled you with unnecessary guilt. “We should go out sometime,” you offered and you felt your heart flutter a little when he beamed.

“I’ll pick you up for breakfast tomorrow morning,” he said before moving to join everyone else in the living room. “Don’t forget.”

The two of you spent the rest of the party keeping each other company– having each others’ backs against any snide remarks which his brother made towards you and any questions either of your parents seemed to have about your future. It almost felt as if you were the same kids who’d spend every possible waking hour together again and you couldn’t help the sense of relief that you felt. From across the room, your mothers shared a smile both of you were too absorbed to notice as if they knew something you didn’t.

***

The following semester shocked everyone who knew either of you. The newly revived friendship between the two of you seemed to go against everyone’s expectations and apparently against the bets all your friends seemed to had placed.

“You could have been the enemies-to-lovers trope so much more easily,” Ah In laments. “You fit the roles so well– extremely reliable nerd meets campus cutie guitarist.”

You roll your eyes and tell her very clearly that there was nothing romantic that could ever develop between you and Mark. “I’ve known him too long,” you tell her, which makes her laugh and remark that if nothing romantic happens, maybe she’ll shoot her shot at Mark. You snort at the remark but you can’t ignore the way your heart falls at the idea of Ah In dating Mark.

Mark’s friends seem even more surprised when they bump into you two at the cafe a few blocks away from the university residency– you’re sure Lucas was close to dropping his steak on your table when he sees the both of you. Their expressions make you laugh as you introduce yourself to them and good-naturedly dispel any ideas about Mark and you being on a date.

They almost join you for lunch but then don’t at Jaehyun’s insistence. “Maybe next time, Y/N,” he smiles and you can’t help but swoon a little at how deep his dimples are. He looks at Mark, smiling, secretly– it’s a glance you cannot really decipher– and his ears turn a little red as he nods before Jaehyun leaves almost dragging Lucas with him. Mark feels a little guilty at how relieved he feels when his two friends are gone, leaving him alone in your company. The guilt dispels quite easily when you make off-handed remark about how cute both of them are and Mark isn’t quite sure why that is.

***

It’s during that summer that Mark Lee kisses you for the first time. You’re not quite sure why or how it happens but you’re quite sure when it happens. You’re not sure you could ever forget when it happened– the moment seems burned into your memory and you’re convinced that you’ll carry the imprint of it to your next life if there’s any and to your grave if there isn’t.

It’s in the second month of your being home that it happens. You haven’t seen Mark much until that week– both of you too busy with internships and part-time jobs and family to meet until you wake up to the sound of something hitting your window. The ‘something’ turns out to be Mark Lee throwing some of the tiny pebbles his mother uses to decorate the fish-bowl in their house.

He grins wide, nose scrunching cutely when he sees you awake. “Rapunzel, let down your hair,” he whispers, trying his best to hold his giggles from turning into full-blown laughter. It makes you laugh, a now-familiar fuzzy feeling spreading through your chest.

“What’re you doing?” you ask him, leaning closer out of the window. He doesn’t reply, instead asking you to be careful and to hurry down.

“We’re going to watch the sunrise,” he says, once you’ve managed to join him on the road– fortunately without waking anyone up. You’re about to open your mouth to make a comment about how ridiculous it is (especially since you’re anything but a morning person) when he grabs your hand and pulls you along when he starts running towards wherever he has in mind.

Your protests are quick to die in the face of how soft Mark’s hands feel against yours– how they seem to fit in almost naturally and you can’t help but wonder if it’s at least in part because of how much of your childhoods have been spent going around with your hands linked together.

The sun rises at 5:23 AM that morning. You’re standing next to Mark, his jacket draped over you because at one point you started shivering when the sun appears near the horizon. Next to you, you can feel Mark bouncing on his heels; you’re not sure if it’s because of the chill or if he’s excited but you move closer to him and he instinctively wraps an arm around you.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” he asks, his dimples becoming visible as he grins from ear-to-ear. The sun’s rays light up his face as he looks at you and you find yourself distracted by how his dark eyes seem to absorb the light and shine without getting lighter.

“It really is,” you admit, not looking away from his gaze . It’s the first time you see Mark blush around you and the knowledge makes you blush in return.

The sun is starting to rise higher when he moves forward leaning closer and you freeze up in surprise. Mark looks at you, the fear and confusion that has your stomach swirling and tightening, is reflected in his eyes and somehow it makes your nerves a little calmer. “Is this okay?” he asks you, softly, like he’s afraid of breaking the moment.

All it takes is a nod from you for him to lean into the kiss, his hands cupping your face gently as you place your hands on his waist to steady yourself. It’s awkward and unsure and sweet and a part of you wants to giggle at juvenile the kiss feels but your mind is too buzzing with exhilaration– making you feel like all your nerve endings are on tingling with liquid fire– to do anything but kiss him back at that moment.

“Wow,” is the first thing he says when he pulls away, finally and you finally giggle because it’s so Mark to not have proper words after a kiss. “You’re adorable, Mark Lee,” you tell him, not pulling away from the embrace he still has you in. The way his ears turn red at your words only make you giggle more.

He kisses you again when he drops you home.

***

When you return back to university after the summer, it’s with Mark firmly interlocking with yours. It makes him blush when anyone who knows either of you (which is everyone on campus because of who you are) looks at you both as you pass by. You need to stifle a laugh and the urge to kiss him in front of everyone every time he blushes.

All your friends are much less surprised. With the exception of Lucas, who all but screams “what!?” when Mark walks up to his bandmates and best friends with you right beside him. Jaehyun grins, ruffling his hair and tells him how glad he is that Mark finally “gathered the guts to tell Y/N how you feel.” Mark smiles awkwardly through it and you stand on your tiptoes to kiss his cheek right in front of everyone. The action makes both Mark and Lucas scream in the middle of the university grounds for different reasons and you cackle with almost childlike glee at their reactions while Jaehyun shakes his head, commenting at how juvenile they are.

“You make him really happy,” Jaehyun tells you when you meet him later that day while heading out of one of your lectures. “I’m glad he told you, honestly.”

You smile, your eyes warming almost visibly and for a brief moment, Jaehyun can see why Mark is in with that smile– with you. “I’m glad he did too,” you admit to Jaehyun. “He’s always made me so happy.” The answer seems to satisfy Jaehyun.

Your friends are much less affected by the news. You assume it’s also because of how they found out from Soo Mei after she saw Mark kiss you outside your door before he leaves. You tell them everything about the summer– where it began; the first time he kissed you and how it made you feel like you were made of small evolving galaxies; and how he asked you to be his girlfriend on the last week– and blush good-naturedly through their teasing.

Ah In rolls her eyes and reiterates how she always knew. “Your feelings are quite romantic, aren’t they, reliable nerd?” she asks you and begrudgingly accept her following comments about how well she knows you and what she calls “the ways of romance.”

Mark spends the first two weeks of the new semester answering “fan mail” on the radio show Jaehyun co-hosts with someone named Johnny Seo– which consisted almost entirely of Twitter mentions from either your friends who ask him to take care of you well or from fans who want to know “the whole story” about you dating each other.

He comes to the library after the recording and finds you in the historical fiction section of it. He sounds exhausted as he laughs and tells you about his day and all the fan mail. “I just want to date my childhood crush in peace,” he whines. “Why is it suddenly everyone’s business if we’re together or not!?”

You laugh at how whiny he is about the entire ordeal and agree with him about how it should be no one’s business but your own that you’re dating. “But what can we do?” you concede, turning on your chair towards his side. “Such is the tough life of celebrities.”

Your dramatics make Mark laugh and you feel your chest warm at how much he sounds like the child you’ve known all your life when he laughs. A part of you is reminded of Jaehyun’s remark some time earlier in the week. “I love you so much, Y/N,” he whispers, once the librarian has shused him for laughing so long.

The words catch you off-guard, your cheeks dusting in a shade between red and pink at the sudden confession and you watch as Mark literally bites his tongue at having slipped up. “I love you a lot too, Mark Lee,” you say, softly, slowly, reaching out to hold his hand.

He looks at you a few moments as the words seem to process in his head before he breaks into another child-like smile– biting his lip in shyness and trying to look away from your gaze on him and you can’t help but laugh at how flustered he is. Instead, you choose to make it worse by bringing his hand to graze your lips upon it– the action catching him so off-guard that he actually squeals, earning glares from near everyone in the library.

“Please don’t ever change, Mark Lee,” you whisper once everyone has returned to their work. When he nods, eyes wide and full of an unsaid promise to stay the same, you are reminded of why you ever fell in love with him all over again.

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peachdaydream · 7 years

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BTS Single Dads

*Gif is not mine

This one……..got away from me a lil’. ^^;

Single Dad!AU - Part One - Part Two - Part Three -

Jin

has a little girl who is most definitely Daddy’s Little Princess™

wears tiaras and tutus at her tea parties and OWNS IT

lets her help him w/ the simple things when he cooks

like washing the vegetables or taste testing

there won’t b a day where jin hasn’t made her the best lunch

is the dad all the moms look like w/ heart eyes

he cries the first day of day care

bc wow…….his baby has grown so much

she is 3 seokjin chill

doesnt know what to do w/o his bundle of joy

b u z z e d when it’s time to pick up his princess

spots his daughter skipping out but damn near has a heart attack

his baby……his LITTLE GIRL was HOLDING HANDS with a BOY THAT WASN’T HIM

calm yourself seokjin he is a child

“Who’s that pretty girl you’re holding hands with, sweetie?”

your voice chimes from behind him, going over to the two toddlers and affectionately rubbing your son’s head

jin freezes and watches you like…..hey………you’re kinda cute………

snaps out of it when his daughter sees him and squeals

your eyes settle on jin and youre like wow he’s so handsome no wonder his kid’s beautiful??????

you shyly introduce yourself to him and he does the same

then his daughter’s askin him if she can go play with her new friend at the park

now jin’s lookin at two sets of puppy eyes and your pretty smile

next thing he knows these little play dates become regular whenever his schedule is free

n you and him begin to spend time together after dropping your kids off

have lil dates of your own when he doesn’t have shoots n you don’t have work

don’t realize how close you’ve become/how you feel about each other until one day your son calls him ‘dad’ n later on in the day his daughter calls you ‘mommy’

neither of you bother correcting them????

so you just melt into this family unit wordlessly and it all just slips into place, you take care of his daughter whenever his idol life takes up his time

all you know is that if anything were to happen to that man or his daughter, you’d b right there by his side

you know that he feels the same

Suga

his son is literal min yoongi 2.0

same habits, same eyes, same love for sleep

even down to his gummy smile

made it easy for yoongi to raise his kid and still pursue his passion for music

whenever he wanted to produce music his son would just take a nap in his arms

yoongi’s lil koala bear, v v clingy even when he’s older

often takes nap w/ his kid lmao

couldn’t b more proud when he says he wants to learn how to play the piano at age 6 after seeing yoongi play it one day

yoongi hires the best private piano teacher for kids i.e. you

first time you see yoongi n his son you’re kinda like

um???? you sure this kid’s not your clone??????

you begin your lessons easy enough

sometimes, when yoongi had the time, he’d sit n watch

you got real nervous at first but got used it n slowly learnt about them both bit by bit

got v v comfortable with the duo, to the point you’d joke around with them n exchanged personal numbers with yoongi

one day when the lesson was done and yoongi was due to pick his son up from your place, he suddenly called

told you he’d b a while before he could come by, something abt a work emergency and he sounded v distressed

you quickly told him it was fine and that you’d look after his kid no problemo

got off the phone worried, his son looks at you n just says innocently

“my dad thinks you’re cute”

throws you into a loop, a whirlwind of emotions

yoongi’s son just pads away to get a juice box from your fridge

his job is done

yoongi finally comes by n you open up the door with his sleeping son in your arms

before he can say thanks you relay the information his son gave you

look of goddamnit flashes across his face

“i….um……..think you’re cute too…..”

someone help min yoongi he’s fallen and he can’t get up

“…wanna go for dinner?”

J-Hope

is that one dad who carries his new born baby on his front with a one of those cute cuddlebug baby carriers

will fight anything that makes his new born baby daughter cry

which isn’t much bc she takes after her father

generally just a happy baby

always smiling like that baby in the sun on teletubbies

only gets really upset if she’s away from her father for too long

makes it difficult for him to work bc he can’t be on set for long before she starts wailing

tried babysitters before n none of them could calm her down

so happy that everyone’s understanding of him at each shoot tbh

then at one of the shoots he’s introduced to his stylist’s new assistant

you shyly introduce yourself to him quietly, seeing his daughter asleep in her car carrier seat

he started off his shoot pretty well, shooting solidly for half an hour until she woke up and started crying

hoseok quickly apologizes and rushes off to the styling room where he left her, only to hear her wails cease when he was half way there

he gets there n peeks into the room like ????????? where’s my child

you’re sat in one of the empty make up chairs with his daughter on your lap and you’re….singing to her

she’s got her sunshine expression on as she watches you

beside you, you hear jimin call hoseok’s name n you look up all flustered, stuttering and apologizing

meanwhile……..hoseok’s……..just……..

(๑♡⌓♡๑)

“oh god i’m so sorry i didn’t ask if i could hold her i just don’t like seeing babies cry i wanted to try and calm her down because jimin and taehyung tried to and it didn’t work if you’re angry i totally understand-”

“could you…look after her until the shoot’s done? i promise i’ll make it up to you!”

before you know it you’re job as an assistant is gone and you’re more or less the one who takes care of sunshine 2.0 every shoot

not that you mind bc her cutie sunshine dad’s smile every time he sees you is worth it (plus you love his lil baby)

and he brings you something every shoot as a thanks despite you telling him you were more than happy to take care of his daughter

everyone but you notices how hoseok stares @ you when you’re not looking

other members push him to ask you out, knowing you feel the same way abt him

so at the end of the shoot his daughter’s being clingier than usual and won’t let go of you????? gets fussy when hoseok tries to pry her chubby hands off your top

it’s like she knows about her dad’s feelings n is telling him to hurry tf up bc she likes this one

he just goes pink and asks if you wanna have dinner at his place

you’re just like !!!!!!! yes!

everyone watching cheers, including the rest of bts

hoseok takes your hand n bolts to escape endless teasing

Rap Monster

has the most well mannered and intelligent child

but if left unattended for 0.1 second he’ll manage to break something

like father like son eh?

is also the dad who reads books to his kid, but not actual kid books but books that get the mind thinking, doesn’t care about age bc you can never b to young to b educated

you’re his next door neighbor and also a pediatrician

met him for the first time bc his son fell over outside n started crying

namjoon freaks the f out, thinking the worst thing like his son somehow broke his damn leg

then you come out of your house with oven gloves on like????? strange handsome screaming man………u good?

you invite them into your house and tend to his kid’s deathly wounds of……scraped knees

give ‘em both a cupcake that you finished baking and make namjoon coffee

get to know the both of them and quickly build a friendship w/ joonie

you think his son is the sweetest thing on this earth bc he’s so kind???? and very literate for his age

you swap book and movie recommendations

they actually stay for a couple of hours and help you make dinner

and you’re like ?????? how in the?????

neither of you know exactly how this situation has happened

but neither of you deny that it somehow feels…………right????

at the end of their impromptu stay you supply him with a basic first aid kit(just in case) and a few more cupcakes before they’re on their way

he never uses that first aid kit, always comes straight to you

cant really find yourself to mind, you let em both in every time

everything in your relationship really isn’t planned it just…..happens

he comes over when his kid’s in school to get to know you better

one thing leads to another and suddenly you’re cuddling and watching a movie and kissing???

when it’s not joon, it’s his son that just comes to your house bc he finds your job interesting, you in general tbh

made his dad freak out the first time though, joonie was yelling and knocking on your door

“HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON NEMO, HE’S SMALL AND CLUMSY LIKE ME”

“……buddy…………didn’t you tell your dad you’d be over here………?”

“uhhhh……..whoops……?”

namjoon thanks every holy deity that you moved in beside him

he knows that you’d have no issues taking care of his kid and you’d be the safest pair of hands to leave him w/

Jimin

tiny squishy teddy bear raising a tinier squishy teddy bear

his lil boy shares his round cheeks and his precious killer eye smile

ALSO loves to sing just like papa

jimin’s phone is filled with videos of his toddler singing to himself

likes to watch them when he cant be w/ him bc of work

very social bab and gets along well with others

also plays well by himself, honestly he’d be happy singing to himself in the sandbox

all is well as long as he never parts with the mochi plush he’s had since he was a baby

refuses to do anything if he doesn’t have that plushie w/ him

will literally walk away from jimin if he accidentally dropped his plushie w/o realizing

that’s actually how you met the squish

you were walking your dog when you heard a child singing and you turned like ??????

who is this child why is he alone and not at the playground with all the kids

you go over to the tiny child bc what else were you supposed to do?? leave him um no

you go over and ask if he’s okay and he just tells you he’s lost his friend momo

he describes momo while petting your dog and you figure out he’s talking about a plushie and offer to help him

so now you’re carrying child in one arm and your dog’s leash in your other hand

you end up finding momo the mochi plush in the sandbox

the bab in your arm squeals and gives you his best eye smile when he has momo

now onto a different task - to find the bab’s father

doesn’t take long honestly

just walking around with a singing child in your arm then BAM

a man who looks like he’s about to cry rushes up to you, he would know his baby’s voice from a mile away

at first your just like uhhhh then the bab reaches for jimin, unaware of the breakdown he caused his father to have

que jimin cuddling his son for a while with his son like ^-^?

“ahhh, thank you so much for taking care of him…i don’t know what i’d do if i couldn’t find him……thank god he found someone so nice….”

“it’s okay!! it was no trouble at all honestly”

he offers to take you to lunch w/ them

you blink and suddenly two pairs of eye smiles are directed at you and LORD HAVE MERCY YOU WERE NOT PREPARED

after that day you keep bumping into them, so much that his son remembers your name n you’ve exchanged numbers

jimin knows he has to make a move when his bab has made up a lil song he sings when he sees you

someone send help how’re you supposed to deal with the amount of eye smiles they give you when you see them

has twins, 1 boy 1 girl

it’s like someone did ctrl + c then ctrl + v on his boxy smile and put it on his kids

literal pack of puppies with taehyung as the alpha puppy

pack of adorable + v well dressed puppies

two modes of fashion

1) all three ready to step out onto a runway

or 2) animal onesies all day every day

doesn’t believe in those child leashes so they travel in a holding hands chain

that means if one gets lost they all get lost

but hey at least they’re not separated lmao

they are the family who gets lost in ikea

the puppy pack are in their matching puppy onesies, tae pushing the shopping cart along that contained his pups

in a part of ikea they probably shouldnt b in

but then!!!!

they find you!!!!!!

you don’t work there tho

you are also lost and confused

also wearing a dog onesie bc you came w/ your friends but ended up getting separated

the twins see you are and immediately turn to tae like SHE’S ONE OF US WE NEED TO ASK HER IF SHE WANTS TO COME WITH US

you hear them and turn around like ?????

three sets of boxy smiles are facing you

inside your mind ‘o no thEYRE CUTE’

you end up sticking w/ them and have tons of fun as you try n find your way out

take turns sitting in the shopping cart w/ the twins n pushing each other

twins quickly like fall in love w/ you……lmao bless…….

but both you and tae can see yourselves spending more time together???

great minds think alike

you find the check out eventually, all giggly and happy

everyone’s looking at the puppy pack ft you like family goals

an old couple actually come up to you guys

“you’re such a cute family!! we remember when we were your age w/ our kids!! we wish you a happy n bright future!!!”

you and tae are bright red like “uhhhhh”

meanwhile, the twins, “thank you!!!!” (◕ ワ ◕✿)

when youve found your friends and it’s time to say goodbye the twins get v sad and clingy

ngl you got a lil teary seeing their sad lil faces

you end up exchanging numbers w/ tae and promise his twins you’d see ‘em again

you give ‘em lil smooches on the cheek to make them smile

also quickly kiss tae on the cheek then BOLT

meanwhile, your friends ( ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡° )

Jungkook

save him

he’s a baby taking care of a baby

v scared of doing anything wrong

thanks whatever higher being everyday bc his son is so chill

knows he would have suffered(more) if his child was not chill

also thanks higher beings for you falling into his life

bc before you hoo boy…………he s t r u g g l e d

you found him at the grocery store

he was holding his sleeping baby and looking at the shelves of diapers like he was trying to diffuse a bomb

youre a babysitter so you just went up to him just like……..are u okay…….u dont seem…..okay………..

nochu looks at you like you’re an angel sent from above

you can tell right off the bat that it’s his first kid and that he didn’t have anyone to help him out

you babysat for single parents for most the time so you knew how to spot one

you gave him your best tips on childcare and he hangs onto your every word

by the time youre at the check out, you give him your number and tell him that if he needs any help then just call

you find yourself over at his place after you figure out that he’s more of a hands on learner than a leaner who can have instructions told to him over the phone

tbh you don’t mind at all bc he’s fun to be around and his baby is the chillest baby youve ever met

you end up getting rlly close to the point youve met his friends, he’s met yours

even your parents know about each other and urging you to get together already smh

you dont realize how often youre around at kookie’s place until one day you cant go over for a couple of days bc youre at your parents’ place

on the second day youre away you get a million missed calls from kookie

once you call back he almost cries in relief n tells you his bab won’t stop crying no matter what

however…….the moment he puts you on speaker…..

his bab…..stops….????

so you and kook experiment for a bit on the call n you stay silent for a bit

then the cryin starts again but then you start talking

s i l e n c e

then kookie asks shly if you mind giving him a call every so often

you can tell he’s blushing

“sure kookie i dont mind tbh i miss you guys”

then you just quietly hear

“…….god i could kiss you…….”

………….

“damnit jungkook why do you have to say that now?”

“h-huh? wait- you weren’t supposed to-”

“you better kiss me when i get home or i’m gonna hit you”

“o-oh!”

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