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"Huin. Byun Huin" Yoongi said, rushing towards the counter. He tap his foot repeatedly as he awaits the nurse's reply. Body clad with Jimin's clothes oddly enough it fit Yoongi well despite Jimin having a more muscular body than him. Ignoring the fact that he wore no undergarments whatsoever, hi excuse is that it was wet and uncomfortable to wear under dry clothes.
Jimin is behind him on the phone with Namjoon, informing the older about their whereabouts and Huin being in the hospital.
"Huin is currently in the emergency room but his assigned room will be in the right wing, 6th floor, third hallway. The entire space is Ms. Kim's property, you can wait their in the meantime" the nurse informed.
"Thank you" Yoongi hurried over the elevator while Jimin trailed along him.
It didn't take long for Yoongi to arrive in the 6th floor, with the instructions in mind he followed along and arrived in a six doors hallway where he saw his mother standing in the corner.
"Yoongi. I'm sorry that I didn't get to inform you about wher-" Mrs. Min spoke when she heard footsteps and saw Yoongi running towards her. Holding Yoongi's phone in her left arm she couldn't finish her sentence when Yoongi immediately embrace her.
She was shock at the sudden act, so was Yoongi himself who initiated the embrace. He didn't know what came into him that he suddenly hugged his mother whom he had resented in almost all of his life. After hearing the news about his son who's in the hospital, he thanked the heavens that his mother didn't stoop low and kidnapped his son. There's still kindness under her scheming skin.
Everything was so overwhelming that embracing his mother relaxed his entire body even though his mother did not hug him back.
"Thank you for not kidnapping Huin" he remained in the embrace, fond at the comfort it provided him. Mrs. Min was about to call out to defend herself from being accused for stooping low "Thank you" for bringing him here.
Mrs. Min could not help but to tear up. She couldn't believe that a simple embrace from Yoongi would bring so much emotions inside of her. Bliss, heartache, confused everything is swirling around that her tears wouldn't stop flowing.
Her arms wrapped around Yoongi and she return the hug.
Oh how long has it been since for her to embrace Yoongi like this. She can't remember the last time she hugged Yoongi or was it because she never hugged him at all.
It was a new and open experience. The both of them could tell that things wouldn't be the same as it was after this and it's all thanks to Huin.
It may not mend their entire relationship but it did gave them closure and a fresh start to make a new one.
They stayed like that for a while with Jimin in the background silently smiling at the scene unfolding Infront of him. He doesn't know their situation but he can grasp that they do not have a solid one until right now. So she gave the two of them some privacy and left to bring something hot for them to drink under this cold and tiresome evening.
" Huin just needs an injection to relax his muscles. She said not to worry too much because he's safe the moment he's brought in the hospital "
"Thank God" Yoongi sigh out. "Where's he now?"
"Still under observation. He'll be out of the emergency room any minute now and by that time he needs to rest"
" Then why are you waiting here than in the emergency room?"
"A young man volunteered to wait in my behalf while I wait for his daughter in this room where she's currently being checked" Mrs. Min replied, gazing at the ceiling. It was quite awkward for the two of them, infact it was awkward the moment they broke the hug. "He said it's one of Ms. Kim's daughter too...her name is... somewhere around Jin. I forgot"
It's Meosjin
They don't know how to act. They're used to be in each other's skin and despising one another. Knowing that the hug changed something, they expect that the way they act with each other should change as fast as the hug.
"Why are you outside then? Shouldn't you be inside during her checkup?" Yoongi frown.
"You're right..." Mrs. Min agreed. Now that she remembers, a parent should be present during their child's checkup. That's what they do back then but who knows what's the values now. To point it out, the little girl would be scared since Mrs. Min is apparently a stranger at the moment.
There's some other cases where parents are prevented to be in the same room as their children to achieve truthful answers from their children. But it usually happens to children who undergoes abuse or in other special cases. Now that the number of abusive parents increases in their country there's no surprise that doctors would take measurements to adjust in the changes.
"I'm going in" Yoongi said.
"Wait. The doctor said not to interfere" Mrs. Min stopped her son but Yoongi is much more stronger than her.
"The door's locked" he announced, twisting the door knob left and right. The door wouldn't budge and it makes Yoongi's suspicion increase. "Should the door be locked?" He tried again.
"No" Mrs. Min replied
"Why's the door lock" he knocked. Loudly. "Why the f*ck is the doctor not responding" Yoongi cursed after knocking loudly. This time it was much more louder, enough for the next room to hear.
"Yoo-"
He slammed his body right in the door trying to force it open. "OPEN UP!" he shouted, aggressively twisting the doorknob.
"Yoongi calm down!" Mrs. Min pulled Yoongi away from the door. "The girl will get scared if you don't collect yourself"
"She might be in danger"
"What's the meaning of that noise?" The door flung open revealing a male doctor whom looked flustered. Height a little bit shorter than Yoongi, he looked like he's in his mid thirties with his smooth jelled hair in place, typical black glasses you would usual see wore by many and a decent face. He doesn't have an appeal but he has looks, not enough to compare with Yoongi.
"You locked the door"
"So?"is what the doctor replied.
"So?" He scoffed, it was sexy coming from Yoongi. "Meojin could be in danger inside or who knows what with a door locked as if to keep anyone out" maybe Yoongi's being paranoid, but his guts tells him other things.
"We need privacy"
"Privacy for what? For check ups? Aren't parents allowed to observe their children's check ups?" He asked the obvious.
"They are but the last time I checked, Meojin have no father and you're not her parent"
"That's b*llsh*t coming from you. The man she's with earlier is her father and since that man isn't here, I am technically someone capable enough and entitled to be Meojin's parent" Yoongi glanced inside the room but the doctor shut it close. Now that made things even more suspicious than it is.
Something was up and Yoongi knows it.
Mrs. Min kept bugging Yoongi to calm himself but Yoongi didn't listen. At the moment she's at the background.
"Where's Meojin?"
"I have every right to not answer your question but inorder to avoid causing trouble, Meojin is gathering herself. We were about to finish the checkup but someone has to interrupt us"
"Really?" Yoongi sarcastically asked. He once again analyze the doctor Infront of him. Based on the name tag he's name is Dr. Lim Jakyum. Further more the stethoscope around bus neck is tilted, as if he wore it almost immediately without checking it. But then those tools aren't original perfect around someones neck, people—more specifically doctors and nurses—have different ways in wearing that object. So moving on to his coat, the basic doctor coat with the hospital 's logo in the pocked attached in the chest area.
But when Yoongi's eyes fell on his waist his blood turn cold.
"You disgusting piece of sh*!" Yoongi lunges towards the doctor, fist hight and fast to hit the man square in the face.
"YOONGI!" Mrs. Min shouted seeing his soon giving a second punch to the growing doctor.
It was fast. Doctor Lim didn't have the time to recover from his first punch but received another one.
"You f*cking *sshole!" Yoongi attacked but the doctor manage to dodge the third punch.
Yoongi was mad. The man right Infront of him has his belt undone.
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It was a cold evening for Hara. She parked her car in the designated parking lot of the rented building and locked the vehicle securely. Her footsteps was sluggish, entire body structure was slumped forward due to the stressful events that had occured earlier and consumed her energy. After a long meeting with Jonathan and her new buisness partner Ms Diwata for the new branch in her current location she had an emergency call from Yoongi's mother, infact she made it urgent as her son, Huin undergoes a fever. Knowing Huin's sensitivity from fevers and is exigent, she made Mrs. Min drive to the family hospital and everything went on ease after that.
Hara never forget to thank Mrs. Min and apologize for rushing her off where in responsible Mrs. Min said that there's nothing to apologize about and that she would have done it if she knew Huin's condition to cold. Hara felt indebted to Mrs. Min that she invited her to dinner in about next week. Mrs. Min out of curiosity wanted to know what type of lady Hara is and at least get an enlightenment of what's their current proposition or situation. Both set a date and Hara informed Yoongi about Huin's whereabouts. In result Yoongi was able locate where his son is.
Telling be Yoongi's breakdown the call was cut short after she released the location and Hara deeply understand why Yoongi couldn't pull himself together. Usually Yoongi would talk some more to prolong the call but today isn't the case.
Remembering back then, Hara too was in Yoongi's shoes, only a more extreme one since she wasn't aware of that time that Huin's body couldn't handle the fever and he's a year and a month old. She panicked twice as Yoongi did due to her being in the house alone with six other toddlers— Hara did not accept any help till the kids reached a year and five months old— so she breakdown in distress. Toddlers running around causing trouble and Huin only knew a few words, not enough to tell his mommy that he's sick. Hara only knew when she notice Huin being still in the corner of the play room. When she realize Huin's short breaths she called 119 and Jiyon for help while crying a river.
It was a very impactful experience. She has a few of those with her children. Those horrifying experiences shaped Hara as she is. A brave mother. That's what other believe.
She manage to arrive in her apartment despite her muscles crying for rest and legs that will break any moment now. Swiping her room card the door instantly unlocked and so she entered with a large sigh of relief. She can rest now.
"Keun..." Hara let out as soon as she saw the little boy dashing towards her. Almost immediately she dropped her hand bag and automatically extended her arms to catch to running boy.
"SURPRISE MOMMY!" His shout was followed by his tiny giggles accompanied by his footsteps. In a blink of an eye he's wrapped around Hara's arms.
His weight causes Hara to fall down in the floor. The impact was hard but Hara didn't mind.
"My baby boy" she awed. Her mood swiftly shift and her lips formed into a grin.
"I miss you so much mommy" he proved it by hugging her tightly.
"Mommy missed you too" she replied. It's a little surprising how Keun came out of nowhere. She wasn't informed about it and hadn't prepared at least a few essentials for his stay. If Keun is here, it's safe to assume that Hoseok is also here and speaking of the handsome sunshine there he is in the hall way marching towards them with a beautiful energetic smile.
She couldn't return the aura due to her exhaustion.
"I'm sorry we came out of the blue. This little guy badly misses you and he couldn't stop wailing" he said greeting Hara with a hug. It is quite comfortable how Hoseok knelt down to hugged Hara while having Keun in both of their arms.
It's incomparable how she felt so reassured and as if she came home with a family waiting for her. Hara would have wanted it to last but Hoseok break the contact when Keun giggled in delight at the achievable moment.
"Keun is annoying sometimes" she joked
"No am not!" The boy defended himself.
"You are"
"Mommyyy" he groan. It's true that he annoyed Hoseok inorder to make him buy plane tickets and travel all the way in this foreign country without any plans as to where they would stay.
"Come here" Hoseok pulled Keun and carried him so Hara can stand on her feet. He noticed how haggard she looked and now he's thinking if it's a wrong time to be visiting her, worst case staying in her place.
"I'm glad the two of you arrived safe" Hara stood up, dusting her bottom. "Have you had dinner yet? I'm afraid I had nothing in my fridge, so we're going to have to go out for dinner"
"Oh me and Keun prepared our dinner"
"Come here mommy!" He excitedly pulled Hara, unaware of his mother's tire condition.
"We arrived this afternoon, hope you don't mind us crushing in"
"I do not mind at all..." Infact it's already given that they have to stay in her place, of course they had to. The only problem is that there's only one room. She didn't come to though of them visiting so she let Jonathan pick the place and since Jonathan have a nack of hooking her up with a potentially good man he picked a single person room.
"We bought groceries earlier" Hoseok informed. When he arrived in this place with the couldn't help but to notice how empty the place is, not that she's staying here for too long. But the fridge only contained water bottles. Even her clothes are still in her luggage, her working clothed are ironed and are hanging in the closet. It made him sad. He doesn't know why it made him sad.
"TADA!!" Keun shouted showing the table in a dramatic pose with his arms extended and hand shaking to add an effect.
"Oh wow" she was mesmerized, not the way that the food isn't perfectly presented but of the hard work and sincerity the dishes are prepared. There's love. There are three plates set up, three Korean dishes in a much more larger plate and a big bowl of rice. It wasn't perfect and well presented but it's lovely in her eyes. "This is amazing. Did you made it?"
"Yep! Me and daddy. We made it very well. Infact we made it perfect in one try" Keun proudly said.
"It took two tries and a messy kitchen" Hoseok whispered. It was meant to be a secret that only Hara would hear but he said it loud enough for Keun to hear also.
"Daddy! I told you not to tell mommy! How can mommy be amaze with our skill now?" He pouted. Keun heard that Meojin and her daddy is perfect at cooking that they cook like they're serving expensive people from an expensive kitchen in a expensive restaurant. Since competitiveness runs in their blood he couldn't help but to me threatened. "Daddy does all the work, I was only helping. Didn't daddy made such a good job mommy? He made it with love"
"Really? Then I should thank daddy then"
"Ahuh! Thank me too"
"Thank you Hoseok" she smiled unaware of how flustered Hoseok is haver hearing her referring to him as daddy. Not in a sexual way of course. It's refreshing to hear Hara calling him like that, it made him feel close and being appreciated as Keun's father.
"Now let's eat! The food is gone cold if we only stand"
And so the evening went peacefully for the three. They discuss about the situation back in Korea with Huin and a few random topics that brought the three closer to one another. We shouldn't forget how Keun occasionally throw questions that can bring his both of them closer.
The dinner went by. Hoseok offered to clean the dishes so Hara can rest. She took the free time to prepare the bed and change Keun's pajama while she took a short shower and wore her nightwear. Hoseok is in the bedroom when Hara closed the bathroom door after finishing using the toilet.
"I can sleep in the couch" he said while analyzing the neat bed with two different blankets.
"Well Keun insist you take the bed. He also didn't want me to sleep in the couch" Keun had a way of convincing adults with his nonstop annoyance." As long as he's in the middle then we're all good but if you feel uncomfortable I can book a room"
"No it's fine-i mean I'm okay with it-as long as Keun is in the middle"
Or will he? No one really knows what mischievous tricks under Keun 's sleeves.
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I'm sorry for the long wait! This is my first update in 2023 and it took a while. Hope you'll enjoy this update! Bare with my rarely updates, life's been tough and stressful.
Wish you all the happiness and love❤️❤️❤️