A Cliché Family Thirtytwo   Jinki finds Jonghyun in the garden one November evening. The boy is dressed in warm clothes and staring at the stars when Jinki joins him with a cup of coffee and sits down beside him. Neither of the two say anything for a couple of minutes. They're observing the stars and the constellations they're creating when Jonghyun turns and faces his father.

"Dad?" he says and Jinki hums to let Jonghyun know that he is listening. "Why are there only baby pictures of you and me and none of me and dad?"


Jonghyun turns to look at the stars again when Jinki faces his oldest son. He's looking at the black hair and is reminded of memories from the past 17 years. It's been an amazing 17 years and he's proud that Jonghyun has grown up to be this amazing person he is right now. It's only when Jonghyun faces him again that Jinki realizes that he hasn't answered Jonghyun's question.

"Oh, I... I didn't meet Kibum until you were 7 months old and you were 1 year old when we got together. So there wasn't really a reason to take a lot of pictures of you and him when you were baby. Nothing was set in stone at the time we met anyway."

Jonghyun nods as if it's answer enough but he turns around a little later and tilts his head.

"How did you meet him?"

Jinki looks up at the black sky again and smiles to the stars.

"I took you to an ice cream café in November when you were 7 months old. You were an adorable baby," Jinki looks at Jonghyun who wrinkles his nose in response before he continues. "I was eating ice cream and you were chewing on the cold spoons when he came up to me and started talking about you and told me you took after me instead of your mother. I told him I didn't have a wife and he asked about your mother."

There's silence for a few minutes.

"What did you say?"

Jonghyun is looking curiously at his father now.

"I told him that you did have a mother but that I didn't know who because you were adopted and that you couldn't take after me."

Jonghyun nods and scoots a little closer to his father before he places his head on Jinki's shoulder and stares at the stars again. Jinki returns his gaze to the stars again.

He has never really told Jonghyun about the first year of his life. All of the boys know they're adopted, it's impossible for two men to have a child the normal way and they all know that as well. But Jonghyun has never asked about before Kibum entered their lives and Jinki is quite convinced the boy can't remember it anyway.

"How did you know you loved him?"

The question catches Jinki off guard and he turns his head to look at the boy who is still staring at the sky, head placed on Jinki's shoulder.

"I..." Jinki doesn't know how to explain love for Jonghyun. He wants to though. He wants to be able to put how much he loves Kibum into words but it's difficult. "I think I just knew. When you love someone you want to spend the rest of your life with them. They make you happy as if your life just becomes a lot better when you're around them. It's difficult to explain Jonghyun."

Jinki admits it. He's not brilliant with words. Jonghyun should have asked Kibum that question. If Jinki is honest, he actually wants to know what Kibu