family | ateez au | (under editing)

*Part thirty-two*

hongjoong nodded, somehow understanding what he meant, but jongho wondered if they were truly thinking the same thing.

after a while, yunho walked through the door yelling "FOOD!" throughout the house. jongho guessed everyone else went upstairs to their rooms after he did.

they all walked downstairs, collecting their food and sauces. jongho went to grab his chicken nuggets and coke when san walked down.

"can i eat in my room?" san asked

"i'd prefer you wouldn't..." seonghwa said

"i have some homework to catch up on" san added

"you can do it later, all i ask for is one meal before school and work tomorrow, please" seonghwa begged

san nodded and went to grab his food. as the kids got older, they'd switch where they sit at the table. mingi doesn't sit by hongjoong anymore, hasn't in years. yeosang still sits by seonghwa though. jongho takes his seat next to mingi, talking about random things.

jongho turned his head to look at san, who was talking with wooyoung, but receiving death stares from yunho, who was beside jongho, and across from san.

"stop it" jongho whispered

yunho just looked at him and then looked down at his food.

"i n-need help with m-math" yeosang said  as he put a chicken nuggets in his mouth

"wha- i just taught you how to do that" yunho said

"and i s-still d-don't get it" yeosang sassed, shaking his head

"i'll help you yeosang" hongjoong laughed

"can you help me with my english homework?" san asked, no one really expected him to talk to anyone other than wooyoung. let alone ask either of his dads for help with something

"yeah, how much do you have?" hongjoong nodded

"five questions, and then i have to translate a sentence in korean to english" san explained. san was really good in his korean language studies class, so they put him in an eighth grade english studies class, which is where he met johnny and jaehyun. it came to no surprise to the parents that johnny was marks older brother, and jaehyun was his cousin.

"you can help s-san f-first. i have a-a lot m-more t-to do" yeosang said

"okay san, after i help mama clean up i'll be up to help you." hongjoong agreed as he finished his last chicken nugget

"thanks" san said

after everyone was done eating, seonghwa shooed hongjoong away, saying "go help him, i can clean" and then kissing him on the cheek. so hongjoong ran upstairs and saw the boy at his desk with his english book and his homework sheet.

"hey, you ready?" hongjoong asked, san nodded and they started on the homework

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downstairs, yeosang was helping seonghwa clean up. it wasn't a lot, mcdonald's never goes to waste in the house so there were no left overs.

"why is s-san acting so d-different?" yeosang asked as he put a mcdonald's bag in the trash

"well... i think there's many things to it, could be influence from his new friends, could be the fact that he has instagram now and he sees things he wants but is too young for. me and papa are trying to work it out with him" seonghwa explained as he cleaned up ketchup packets and ranch

"he m-made mingi cry t-today" the boy confessed "me a-and yunho were listening f-from the s-stairs. an-and mingi came over t-to see where we w-were. and he h-heard"

seonghwa put both his hands on the kitchen table and hung his head low. yeosang heard a deep sigh, he could tell his dad was frustrated

"i'm s-sorry. i t-took him away w-when i s-saw san"

"no, it's okay sweetie. just... you know your lesson for if it happens again" seonghwa put his hand on the boys shoulder then lifted it to his head and rubbed his softly "go ahead and try to start on that homework. you guys have to go to bed early"

yeosang nodded before going on his tiptoes to kiss seonghwa's cheek and walked out of the kitchen

seonghwa finished cleaning up then walked into the living room a plopped on the couch. he turned on the tv, and scrolled through twitter. he heard footsteps coming from the stairs, whe he looked over he saw jongho.

"can we talk now?"

[to be continued]

[not proof read]

[i am so sorry-]