A Cliché Family Thirtyfour Taemin is 8 when his father wakes him up on April's Fools day. He has school and he's actually kind of excited, even if he wishes he wasn't. He's on his way to the kitchen to eat breakfast, when he remembers Mr. Socks, his brown hamster, and turns around on his heels. He nearly runs into his older brother and the other yells after him but Taemin doesn't mind him because he has to feed Mr. Socks before he can eat as well. When he finds the cage and looks at the small animal, it seems frozen. Taemin thinks it might be sleeping so he pokes at it with a forefinger once, twice but the animal doesn't move or blink an eye. That's relatively odd, so Taemin yells for his father and the man has a frown on his lips when he enters the small room.

"Taemin, we're about to ..." he says but gets interrupted by his youngest.

"But dad, Mr. Socks isn't moving!" Taemin reasons. It's a good enough reason to not eat and until his father has figured out what's wrong Taemin isn't going to eat breakfast with them.

"He's probably sleeping, Taemin. Come, let's go ..." Once again Taemin interrupts his father and the man sighs and puts a hand in the cage to wake up the hamster. Except the hamster isn't awakening and the man stills. Taemin bites his lower lip as he watches his father intently wake up Mr. Socks. "Taemin, go eat your breakfast." The boy raises an eyebrow. This is unlike his father, the other rarely ordering him to do anything but his voice surely sounds like an order now. So the boy stomps his feet on the ground and shakes his head.

"What's wrong with Mr. Socks?" he asks and pouts a little. His father sighs befo