Day 33
A Cliché Family
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When Kibum picks up the phone while he's in his office, he's not expecting to be talking to Jonghyun's teacher. He's actually quite busy with a new client but the teacher is persistent and Kibum eventually gives up on multitasking and just focuses on the phone conversation. Jonghyun's high school teacher is an elderly woman in her 60's and she's not fond of Jonghyun. Kibum already knows that the woman hasn't been fond of Jonghyun ever since he enrolled but there's nothing Kibum is going to change about that.
Jonghyun is a good boy in every way and Kibum doesn't think it's necessary for this specific teacher to like him as long as she's not bullying him. What she does tell him make him perk up, though.
"Trouble?" he asks into the phone and shuffles through two different maps on his desk, trying to find his portfolio. "What kind of trouble?" It's unlike Jonghyun to get into trouble but he has to sigh when his teacher elaborates. That is trouble. "I'll be there in 10 minutes. Yes. Goodbye."
Kibum hangs up and finds his portfolio just then. He has about 45 minutes before his client comes for a meeting and although it'll be stressful, he has to do it. He just prays it won't take long at the school.
It takes 7 minutes for Kibum to get to the school because traffic is light and he hurries into the principal's office. Jonghyun sits on a chair and another boy sits on another chair beside him. There's another adult in the room besides the teacher and the principal and Kibum rests his hands automatically on Jonghyun's shoulders in order to calm the boy down.
"What happened?" he asks. The woman, probably the other boy's mother, begins to talk loudly.
"Your son hit my precious son! It's you gay people that can't educate your kids properly! This is why gay people is a sin."
Kibum feels Jonghyun tense under his hands.
"Jonghyun, calm down," he says. The boy doesn't relax but he keeps quiet. Kibum then returns his attention to the woman spewing profanities over his uality.
He can sort of guess what happened, but he needs to talk to Jonghyun first to make sure and it needs to be somewhere else because homophobic people (despite not as prominent as they were 18 years ago) still exist and they still have the ability to make their lives a living hell.
"I'll talk to him. It won't happen again. I'm sorry. We'll pay for your son's hospital bills in regards to this incident if he needs to go to the hospital." Jonghyun interrupts him.
"Dad! We can't pay for that! I didn't even punch him that hard! He was just being a !"
Kibum tries hard not to smile at his son.
"Jonghyun, you punched another boy, so we will take responsibility."
Jonghyun sulks when Kibum turns to face the principal, the teacher and the mother (that now threatens with sky-high hospital bills) and apologizes once again on behalf of Jonghyun. The principal sighs and dismisses them.
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Jonghyun is a good boy in every way and Kibum doesn't think it's necessary for this specific teacher to like him as long as she's not bullying him. What she does tell him make him perk up, though.
"Trouble?" he asks into the phone and shuffles through two different maps on his desk, trying to find his portfolio. "What kind of trouble?" It's unlike Jonghyun to get into trouble but he has to sigh when his teacher elaborates. That is trouble. "I'll be there in 10 minutes. Yes. Goodbye."
Kibum hangs up and finds his portfolio just then. He has about 45 minutes before his client comes for a meeting and although it'll be stressful, he has to do it. He just prays it won't take long at the school.
It takes 7 minutes for Kibum to get to the school because traffic is light and he hurries into the principal's office. Jonghyun sits on a chair and another boy sits on another chair beside him. There's another adult in the room besides the teacher and the principal and Kibum rests his hands automatically on Jonghyun's shoulders in order to calm the boy down.
"What happened?" he asks. The woman, probably the other boy's mother, begins to talk loudly.
"Your son hit my precious son! It's you gay people that can't educate your kids properly! This is why gay people is a sin."
Kibum feels Jonghyun tense under his hands.
"Jonghyun, calm down," he says. The boy doesn't relax but he keeps quiet. Kibum then returns his attention to the woman spewing profanities over his uality.
He can sort of guess what happened, but he needs to talk to Jonghyun first to make sure and it needs to be somewhere else because homophobic people (despite not as prominent as they were 18 years ago) still exist and they still have the ability to make their lives a living hell.
"I'll talk to him. It won't happen again. I'm sorry. We'll pay for your son's hospital bills in regards to this incident if he needs to go to the hospital." Jonghyun interrupts him.
"Dad! We can't pay for that! I didn't even punch him that hard! He was just being a !"
Kibum tries hard not to smile at his son.
"Jonghyun, you punched another boy, so we will take responsibility."
Jonghyun sulks when Kibum turns to face the principal, the teacher and the mother (that now threatens with sky-high hospital bills) and apologizes once again on behalf of Jonghyun. The principal sighs and dismisses them.
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