After playing around a bit, Woohyun brain shut off and he fell into a deep slumber as Sunggyu fought his heavy eyelids to stay awake and, soon enough, the two adults had to move them so they could sleep together in Woohyun bed (thank god they were still small enough to be able to fit in it together) before Myungsoo offered a pair of pajamas so Sungyeol could take a bath. While he waited for Sungyeol in his room, Myungsoo went for his laptop to save the work he did today, he didn't progress that much but he would still meet the deadline.

Once he saved his pictures he moved to his bed and hugged his pillow against his chest as he thought about today's events. It was such a rollercoaster of emotions, still he was happy that the day would end on a good note, the 'performance' the other three pulled out was such a nice gesture with the kids moving their bodies cutely with the rhythm, and he couldn't believe Sungyeol finally indulged and helped them, he even sang a bit now too. Sungyeol hadn't been the same disaster as Moonsoo was in the karaoke room, but back then, when he finally came back with his brother, the elder had refused to sing in front of him.

Once Sungyeol was done with his bath he came to Myungsoo room to try to give his younger lover(?) more comfort-time, he had planned to offer Myungsoo a shoulder (and the rest of his bother too if the younger wanted) to lean on and maybe cuddle, Sunggyu liked the rare times they cuddled so he was hoping Myungsoo would like it too since he was a hugger.

Myungsoo absolutely loved, and Sungyeol didn't seem to be so awkward with Myungsoo touching either. Last time when they made out Sungyeol progressed in the touching department just a bit. The last time they made out he had to take Myungsoo to his room and although he didn't exactly let Myungsoo touch him places, he rubbed himself all over the younger, giving him a nice friction and a good feel of his skinny body. This time though, despite the mood not being like that, Myungsoo was able to hold him firmly and Sungyeol didn't seem to mind it. A small advance, both of them thought before they fell asleep.

That also worked better than expected. Myungsoo woke up ultra early, like 6 and something in the morning, only to shake Sungyeol tired awake to see him bursting with energy and with a confident smile on his face. Yeah, that was his Myungsoo, Sungyeol was so happy that somehow Myungsoo had a good mood, but just he was so sleepy... nothing that Myungsoo asking if he could kiss him wouldn't wake him up completely, because it did. Him and his friend down below, that Myungsoo kindly, and a bit eagerly, offered to take care of until Sungyeol pushed him to the side.

“Nice try, but not yet.” Sungyeol said as he pushed Myungsoo slightly away and the younger made a sad face though he respected the elder decision and retracted.

Sungyeol knew that it wasn't a matter of him not being comfortable with the touching just yet because he already had feelings enough to be able to touch and be touched for a lifetime already (what meeting 24/7 didn't do for a person like him when Myungsoo was the one he met?). No, it had to do with something else, but he wasn't sure how to approach the subject with Myungsoo, even more now that the younger recovered a bit of his confidence back.

He still had his hard on though he was a bit pensive when Myungsoo nudged his shoulder and spoke softly. “Yesterday was a difficult day for me and you did an amazing job comforting me, and I am thankful and proud of you because of that. So if you have some troubles too, I want to know so I can do the same for you and make this go both ways. I want you to know that I want you, but I still don't want to force you, I hope you at least consider that."

Sungyeol forced a smile and sat on the bed to look down at Myungsoo's eyes. “Don't worry about me, or this right now, I'll try to work my and if I do, or if I can't, I will talk to you about it, though I hope you know that I won't take the risk of the boys caught us in the act.” Myungsoo let out a long sigh. “I know you want to respect me but can sense you're anticipating this, but you cannot think with your Myungsoo, your situation is troublesome enough and as a, for the lack of better word that can describe what is going on, friend, I won't let you worsen it."

Myungsoo avoided his gaze but he nodded anyway and Sungyeol leaned down to initiate some pecks to bring the good mood from his neighbor back. “Now, don't make a face, you're progressing.”

“You still have a problem though.” The younger replied as he briefly looked down at the middle of Sungyeol legs and Sungyeol finally pulled completely away. 

“And whose fault it is?” Sungyeol playfully snapped.

“Yours.” Myungsoo replied before Sungyeol could even blink. “You're y.”

“Yah.” Sungyeol replied him with a light shove and completely embarrassed, had Myungsoo ever saw his reflection in a mirror? That was a nice body, his not so much.

“Are you embarrassed?” Myungsoo had the guts to . “I already saw it all back when you were sick, remember?.” He then made his voice seductive. “And I like every bit of it.”

“Yah!” Sungyeol now slapped the younger that giggled as he flushed a deeper shade of red and got even more embarrassed before he got himself up and walked towards the door muttering something along the lines of 'What is this? He was all sad yesterday...”

Despite nothing much happening, Myungsoo still kept his good mood and strength not only on breakfast but during the next week as well, though after one week and a half without news from his father left him a bit worried. He was about to call his father and ask what it was going on when Moonsoo appeared at his door and asked for his boyfriend to keep the boy's company while he had a talk with his brother.

Moonsoo was bit distressed, it seemed that Bumsoo paid a visit to his dorm too and scolded him about keeping secrets as well. The boy tried to keep his brother secret but apparently, things rolled less smoothly for him although the secret wasn't even his, and he was almost hyperventilating until Myungsoo grabbed his brother by the shoulders, shook him a bit and said that everything was mostly in the open now. It goes without saying that Moonsoo needed around five minutes to recover from the shock.

After a bit of explaining the younger finally relaxed and sighed in a bit of relief. Of course, that situation had a lot of implications but it didn't seem to change how their parents perceived Woohyun and that was what it worried him. Myungsoo further explained that he was waiting for a feedback on how he could defend himself and Woohyun if anything were to happen and the brothers agreed that Moonsoo would drop by on the weekend so Myungsoo could go to Incheon and talk to his dad about that and face his mother for the first time too. They wondered how she would react.

As they got back to Sungyeol place, they found the said man tapping on his laptop on his dinner table while Sunggyu and Woohyun played reporters and presented some weird news to Sungjong that was filming them. Myungsoo chuckled finding the boy's seriousness funny but his thoughts were cut short when Moonsoo remembered something.

“Hyung, I might have something that can help you.” The boy said after a gasp, Jihyun had played a lot with one of Myungsoo's cameras during her pregnancy... what if...

“What?” Myungsoo asked curiously.

“I don't know, Jihyun noona gave me a DVD before she... I don't know what's inside, I never opened, and I don't even remember where I put it, and the files might be corrupted somehow since it has been seven years but what if there is something important inside?” He asked his brother after a rant with both with surprise and desperation.

Myungsoo grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him and that grabbed the attention of everyone else. “How come you don't tell me about that until now Moonsoo?” He hissed angrily.

“Daddy?” Woohyun called worriedly and rather scared, that was the first time he was seeing his father like this since his fight in school and he didn't like it, he also didn't understand why his father mood was changing so much lately.

“Sorry hyung, but I didn't give much thought when I received it, it could be a lot of things and it could be nothing too.” The teenager tried to wriggle from his brother gasp while his boyfriend was frozen in place with Sunggyu hidden behind him as the boy hung his jaw low.

“HEY, YOU TWO!” Sungyeol yelled to gather the two brothers attention. “If you want to fight, out of my apartment, you're scaring the boys!”

“We're not fighting.” Moonsoo replied even though he was still in his brother hold.

“Really? Because that seems like a fight to me.” Sungyeol replied dryly.

Myungsoo inhaled deeply to calm himself and let his brother go but still pointed a finger in his face. “Kim Moonsoo, you'll find that DVD!”

“Of course!” The boy quickly agreed, patting his clothes as the others watched them closely. “I want what's best for Woohyun too.” The teenager said without thinking and Myungsoo could feel his son eyes moving from his uncle to him and changing from worried to inquiringly so he forced a smile and turned to his son to give him an explanation.

“It seems that uncle Moonsoo has a DVD with things that were important for mommy and hadn't told me about it till now.” He explained and Woohyun gasped and threw a hurt look at his uncle.

“Uncle!” He scolded. “Why you didn't tell us? I want to know more about mommy, daddy lost everything that was on his old computer.” He ended up asking in hurt and Moonsoo heart squeezed itself so the teenager approached his nephew and held his hands.

“I'm sorry Namu, I promised I'll do my best to find it even if it means I will turn my room, the basement and the attic upside down to find it.” He promised. “But when your mom gave me that DVD I thought she recorded a movie for me to watch so there might be something that she liked there but it might be just a random movie and even so, it's been seven years, the DVD might be damaged.” He tried to make Woohyun understand but he saw the kid eyes water, he was going to cry.

“Woohyunnie, don't cry.” Sunggyu back-hugged his friend for a second and then patted his hair in comfort, a thing that made Sungjong give him thumbs up, good move Sunggyu!

“Hey, don't cry, I'll do my best to find it, and recover it ok? And if I do, I will give it to you as an early Christmas gift.” The teenager promised.

“Promise?” The boy asked as he rubbed his eyes clean.

“Of course I promise.” Moonsoo said before hugging his nephew. “Forgive this stupid uncle, please?”

“Ok.” The boy mumbled though he was still upset,  but returned his hug.

“Are we all fine?” Sungyeol asked with squinted eyes just to be sure but the entirety of the Kim family nodded at him. “Good, now let me concentrate back here, this is important.” Sungyeol went back to his work, now schooled on how to concentrate even if people were being noisy beside him since Myungsoo joined the other four to play.

Later, when the boys fell asleep and the teenagers went back to their dorm, Sungyeol cornered Myungsoo to ask what the hell happened between him and Moonsoo and the younger quickly spilled the truth, maybe inside that DVD, there was something useful for them to keep Woohyun.

Sungyeol agreed that taking the circumstances a DVD made by Woohyun mother could have a huge importance, but still he scolded Myungsoo. He shouldn't have treated his brother like that in front of the kids, it passed a wrong image, besides what would he do if Moonsoo didn't find the DVD? He could see the wheels turning in Myungsoo brain to come up with some excuse but Sungyeol smacked him in the head.

“You'll tell him the truth. If you come up with a fake one I will tell him!' Sungyeol threatened. “Start telling him the truth, for god sake or else you will be screwed once the secret is revealed."He mumbled before stomping his feet to his room all annoyed.

On the weekend the teenagers came back to spend the day together so they decided to go for a picnic in a park to play some sports, and finally, finally, Sungyeol agreed to move his body. But after the picnic and body movement was over they all took a bath and dressed up to do different activities. The teenagers and the kids went to the arcade, Sungyeol went out to meet Chandara couple and Myungsoo went back to Incheon to talk to his parents only to be received with knowing looks from his mother.

“Why are you looking at me this way?” He asked looking from his mother to his father to help, wasn't she supposed to get angry at the recent revelations?

“I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.” Sonmi ranted. “I knew everything between you and Jihyun was fake, I knew it.” She beamed and wriggled her body in front of her husband with the pleasure of being right. "In your face oppa, how many times I told you things were not what they looked like." 

“Ok, ok, you were right and I was wrong!” His father replied annoyed though Myungsoo was completely dumbfounded by her reaction, he was expecting at least some scolding gaze from her.

“Soooo, let's put your paranoid father concerns to the side for one second for you to tell me how things are going between you and Sungyeol.” She asked interested and Myungsoo looked hopelessly to his father but the older just shrugged. “Come on, spill it, what happened after you two kissed here? Poor Sungyeol couldn't even sleep because of that. Please don't omit the details.” She urged only for Bumsoo jaw hung low and look at his son like this was huge news as the said one blushed really hard.

“Myungsoo, why you didn't tell me that it was happening since you came here?” The father asked in shock.

“Because nothing was happening when I came here with him.” He said but his parents gave him matching looks that pretty much told him they didn't believe him. “I swear nothing was happening before, I just told him I was interested in him here.”

“And kissed him.” Sonmi added.

“Yes, but how do you even know? It happened at three in the morning or something.” Myungsoo asked in frustration as he placed his hands on his face to hide his major embarrassment.

“I saw it.” She giggled at Myungsoo mortification and Bumsoo looked at her in betrayal.

“Why didn't you tell me?”

“Because when I tell you things you don't believe!” She complained. “I wasn't sure about Moonsoo but Myungsoo I nailed way back then.” She then turned to her son to explain it better. “I got up to have a glass of water but when I was about to go to the kitchen I saw you kissing him, and then he was all flustered but you were talking so low that I couldn't hear anything and..."

Myungsoo listened to his mother blabbering and he wanted to bang his head on the table in front of him (which he might have done once or twice) until his father took some pity on him and decided to bring the focus back on Woohyun situation.

According to Bumsoo, two years prior to Woohyun birth" Korea issued a new law that changed the system of registration since the previous one was considered to violate gender equality. In this new system, Woohyun didn't enter their family register, he had a register of his own and due to Myungsoo giving permission back then they were able to register Woohyun with his mother surname. That was not news Myungsoo was aware of that already.

What he didn't know, was that since the register was his own, Woohyun could change his surname anytime he wanted without his, or the biological father, consent as long as he asked in court and that left Myungsoo antsy because... what if after hearing the truth Woohyun biological family wanted him and he wanted to have their name?

“But, because the twins were abandoned before they were born and Myungsoo actually married Jihyun, they should take Myungsoo surname, so, in the end as an adoptive father or a stepdad, it doesn't matter because the kids, in the documents, would always be his one way or another and he would have all the inheritance rights when Myungsoo die, our little heir.” That made Myungsoo relax a little bit more and although his parents were reluctant in letting Myungsoo marry Jihyun back then, now they praised themselves they actually let him go through it, it would easy the things by a lot.

“So, I don't think we need to worry about the fraud of documents. If anything you can say you didn't know the kids weren't yours and Jihyun only confessed on her last moments after you already had registered them. You lied till now, what's one more lie when it will protect you both?” He added.

“That makes Ji a bad person, no.” Myungsoo shook his head and his father looked at him asking a big 'seriously?' with his eyes.

“For what I could you understand it won't make any difference if he says he knew or not, he might as well just keep his mouth shut.” Sonmi interjected to help her son a bit, a thing that made him look at her with a thankful gaze.

“Yeah the register is all correct but let's think about this scenario.” Bumsoo suggested. “The guy marries a girl but they can't have children together, maybe the girl has some business to pass it down and they need an heir and then he remembers: but back in high school I got a girl pregnant, I'm gonna take that kid and raise him to assure we have an heir. Then he tracks Myungsoo down, take one look at Woohyun and discovers that yes, he is the father - let's all agree here that he looks nothing like his mom – and then he starts a case in court, asking for a DNA test and a change on Woohyun birth register. A DNA test will surely rule in his favor and then he could say: 'I didn't know I had a kid, she hid from me, I have never given up my rights as a parent and I want him now, he doesn't even have Myungsoo's surname, he doesn't need to inherit anything at all from him and take all that is mine.'”

“It's been seven years honey, wouldn't Myungsoo rights be solidified then?” Sonmi asked confused.

“That's what we will argue, but I want you two to understand that this can happen and I think the best course of action is to find everyone from his family and ask for them to sign a paper giving up their rights, to avoid future problems, and then having Woohyun to become a Kim like he was supposed to be from the beginning.” Bumsoo said dead serious only for his son to sigh tiredly, no he didn't want to even get close to Woohyun family, not with Woohyun,  not alone.

“Nooo, I don't want to ever meet them again, they are evil.” Myungsoo whined. “Besides Woohyun likes having his mother surname, he won't want that.”

“Yeah oppa, besides we don't know where we can meet those people.” Sonmi agreed.

“But Woohyun is a minor, he doesn't have a say and he can change again later once he is an adult and there isn't a danger anymore. Besides, we can search ok?” Bumsoo suggested. “I don't know if Ji had a father but I think we can track her mother down if we pay a visit to that woman that hid Jihyun before she moved in with us.”

“In Jeonju?”

“Yeah, in Jeonju.”

“Do you even remember where it was?”

“I have a private detective friend, and it doesn't cost us to try, I don't know about Woohyun father but maybe we can have more security if we talk with Jihyun parents.” He  offered as his son watched his debating parents until Bumsoo turned to him. “What do you think? Do you know where we can find them? Do you know anything about Jihyun father?”

“I don't know much about none of them. Ji told me her father name was Hyunshik but she didn't know his surname. As you both know he left them before Ji was born and her mother would rather die than talk about him, I don't know if she even told Ji the right name. When we registered Woohyun, his name wasn't in Ji family book either. ”

“But if we find her mom we can coax her to spill.” Myungsoo dad said idly as he wrote the name Myungsoo just said down on a piece of paper together with Jihyun mom name. “Knowing her, she will be the easiest to convince, what about Woohyun father?”

“Jung Taegun.” Myungsoo said between gritted teeth while his father wrote his name down. “I don't have the slightest idea where to find him, but I know people that might.”

“Great, maybe you can search for him through your friends and we can have a secret meeting with him, we don't need to take Woohyun to see him at first.”

Myungsoo banged his head on the table. “Do I have to? The guy didn't even wanted to listen to her, once he heard the word baby he basically called her a and put the blame on me because everyone thought that Ji and I...”

“It is the safest route to prove that they knew about Woohyun and didn't want him, unless you have a better idea on how to do that.” Bumsoo said sassily not expecting an answer, but Myungsoo lifted his head.

“Actually....” His parents raised their brows in sync. “... Moonsoo might have a DVD made by Jihyun, there might be things there, and there might be things in her diaries... I took off some pages from the one I gave Woohyun... I need to read them properly and...” Myungsoo opened a big smile. “Gosh, I think I am a genius if we find my old phones I might have something recorded there too.”

Now Bumsoo had been surprised, he still thought they had to find Woohyun family members and have them giving up rights but if Myungsoo had something that came from Jihyun that could help he wouldn't complain. They decided to divide tasks then. Myungsoo would try to find anything that he could about Jihyun, with Moonsoo help after more scolding.  Bumsoo was gonna try to get his detective friend to find those people and Sonmi, that had more tact would pay the visits to the grandparents once the time came and help their sons search if whatever they wanted was inside her house.

The plan was easy when they first came up with but they didn't expect things to be so hard to find. Moonsoo started checking the huge collection of DVDs that had backup of many files, before he started going to Incheon periodically to search (not before being scolded by his dad on hiding important information), Bumsoo was having no luck the next few weeks to find any information on Woohyun grandparents and Sonmi had to travel through Korea for work but whenever she was home she tried finding stuff that could have belonged to Jihyun and pile them up on Myungsoo room so she could look at them thoroughly later. 

Myungsoo though had a more difficult task, how to search when Woohyun was prancing around him every day? Yes he sort of managed to stalk Woohyun father through SNS but he didn't get an address and everything else would surely be hard as hell to find without the boy noticing, not to mention he had to work and had Sungyeol - that even if he was understanding also demanded some attention too - and,  God,  how badly he wanted to give Sungyeol attention.

He had so much in his head that he didn't even notice much that Sungyeol was becoming busier and busier despite being on college break and Sungjong was coming most days to take care of the kids. And the kids had one another for the company but they had been pretty upset the adults weren't spending that much time with them, though they were trying to pretend they weren't.

When July 25 came Myungsoo didn't even know what that day meant until Sungyeol, finally a bit free, came to his apartment to have dinner and during it asked a set of five questions that transformed the younger life in total chaos.

“Myungsoo, have you already enrolled for this semester? The deadline for your department is midnight today right? Just for the record, this is going to be your last semester, right? Have you found a professor to help you with your graduation project yet? What is it about anyway?” Now Sungyeol knew what his neighbor was trying to find and he didn't mean to cause trouble, just maybe catch up a bit, but the moment Myungsoo heard that a glass fell from his hand and it spilled its contents over the table in the direction of the kids. “Kids, back off.” He ordered and the kids quickly jumped from their chairs before they could get dirty.

Sungyeol tried to put some napkins on the table to absorb the liquid and do some damage control when he noticed Myungsoo was sort of frozen in his place. “What's wrong with you?” He asked in concern.

“I.... forgot...” Myungsoo spoke in such a shock that he seemed like a robot. “I forgot, gosh, I forgot.” He then got up and ran towards his room as the kids looked in confusion towards each other before looking at Sungyeol for an explanation.

“I guess he has a lot going on in his head lately?” Sungyeol offered confusedly as he looked at the mess his neighbor just made. “Maybe he is too worried about money problems.” He added hoping that the kids would believe, he was sure that would turn out to be true as soon Myungsoo remembered that too.

“Daddy is always worried about that.” Woohyun shrugged. “This is why he works during school breaks.” The boy added though his tone was a bit sad, despite liking to hang out with the neighbors he wanted to spend more time with his father.

Sungyeol got up to get a couple of towels in the kitchen and came back before he addressed the boys observing the mess.

“I hate to break this to you but that's life. I don't know how that worked for you two before but adults have to work to get money to buy food, pay the rent and all the clothes and toys each of you needs. It's not because I spend most of my time at home that I don't work too, I am just quite fast at it.” He said as he wiped underneath the two boys plates and gave it to them before beckoning them to go towards Myungsoo coffee table where he put another towel over it (just to be sure the kids – Sunggyu - wouldn't create another mess that would damage the other table) and made them place their plates on it to start eating again.

“I miss spending more time with him.” The boy muttered sadly, which made Sunggyu pat his head.

“When my dad was alive he wasn't around much.” Sunggyu offered. “He traveled a lot because he was a rockstar.” He said as Sungyeol tried to tidy up a bit.

“No way.” Woohyun doubted.

“He was.” Sunggyu insisted. “Hyung, tell him.” The boy demanded.

“He was, do you want to watch Sunggyu father DVD?” Sungyeol asked a little distracted. “There is one Sunggyu appears in it and it's available on Youtube.”

“Yeah, that would be awesome.” Sunggyu beamed happily.

“I guess.” Woohyun said a bit dispirited and Sungyeol moved to Myungsoo smart TV to access youtube and put the recorded DVD for them to watch as they ate.

“N E L L.” Sungyeol spelled as he inserted the letters on the search bar. “When you see a short guy with small eyes you'll know immediately who is Sunggyu father.” He pressed play on a specific video and as the logo intro appeared Sungyeol turned to speak with the boys. “Sunggyu, you're forbidden to sing, it's late and you get too excited with your father videos and, Woohyun, maybe you should spend a day without playing with Sunggyu in order to invite your father to do something alone with him, maybe you'll feel better.”

“Thanks hyung.” Woohyun said pensive as he picked on the food - it was a first time Sungyeol was seeing such a behavior, Woohyun usually ate all and well – and Sunggyu got excited beside him.

“Hyung, move away, dad is appearing soon.” Sunggyu made hand motions for his brother to leave.

“Sheesh.” Sungyeol complained then moved to tidy the dining table and he was halfway through it when Myungsoo appeared dragging his feet on the living room.

“What's this?” He asked.

“Hyung, that's my dad.” Sunggyu pointed excitedly to the TV. “I'll appear soon too.”

“He appears near the end.” Sungyeol said otherwise but it wasn't as Sunggyu minded, his small eyes were already glued back to the TV. Meanwhile, Myungsoo walked back where Sungyeol was. “Did you really forgot to enroll, Kim Myungsoo?” He asked once the younger got closer.

“Oh please, don't scold me ok? Have you taken a look on my life? It's a mess!” Myungsoo said as he tried to take a towel from his neighbor hand, but Sungyeol took his hand away.

“Have you taken a look at mine?” Sungyeol not even a blink of an eye later. “It isn't like I do nothing just because I sit in front of my computer all day, one eye is on my works and the other is for the kids, and did you even notice how down Woohyun is being lately? He is missing you.” He added lowering his voice so the boy wouldn't hear they were talking about him.

“I know.” Myungsoo sighed deeply ashamed. “But gosh, I'm trying to do everything the best I can but the universe doesn't like me.” He said as he watched Sungyeol finish cleaning everything then followed the taller to the kitchen.

“You meant to say that you brought everything upon yourself right?” Sungyeol asked dryly and the younger made a face. “Ok, I'll give you that, but still you can't stay like that, you need better organization skills.” He said as put the towel under the faucet and so it could already wash most of the liquid away. “Urgent matters first: did you managed to enroll?”

“Yes.” Myungsoo replied as he turned the faucet off, Sungyeol wasn't supposed to be doing that.

“Ok then, did you managed to find a theme for a project, and a professor to guide you?” Sungyeol asked as he fully faced Myungsoo now.

“Did you?” The younger asked back.

“Excuse me?” Sungyeol seemed surprised, and kind of offended, to be hearing that although the younger didn't really know why.

“What about your project?” Myungsoo dared to ask.

“First of all, I don't do projects, I'm supposed to write a thesis. Second, I have a professor AND a minion, why do you think Chanyeol hangs out with me?”

“Because he is your friend?” Myungsoo blinked awkwardly.

“No, I mean, that too, but our works are codependent so we were assigned together.” Myungsoo frowned, thinking that was strange but then Sungyeol started to talk again. “Third, I already finished it, I mean I still have to put the bibliography and set the formatting and the side notes but the heavy stuff is already done.” He said nodding to himself confidently.

“What? When did you?” The younger squinted his eyes dubiously.

“Pulling all-nighters every time I wanted to cry about my life.” He said boldly then after a thought added something else. “And when you started to have the kids over, thanks, man.” He added a pat on Myungsoo shoulder. “Now, are you going to answer my question?” He said placing his hands on his hips.

“Urghh.” Myungsoo growled in frustration running his hands over his face. “Am I the only one behind schedule?" He asked himself. "I have a theme? Or two or three?”

“Forget them.” Sungyeol said without even wanting to know what they were, much for Myungsoo shock. “You have until November to hand and present it, if you don't have anything done until now you need something that: 1- you have knowledge on, 2 – you like it. Forget the other themes, think about photography and find a professor.”

“It's not like I haven't thought about that because I did two months ago. But I think it will be hard to pull it off even if I like it, and there is only one professor that would accept me with that kind of theme involving photography.” Myungsoo said defeatedly.

“Great, you have a professor in mind, that speeds things up.” Sungyeol smiled satisfied with himself. “Now what were you thinking to do?”

“Something about storytelling through photographs, you know? But I'm afraid to go that way because people in my department are always concerned over aesthetics or an analysis of some piece of art and creating something new out of it...” Myungsoo was about to rant all the reasons why he shouldn't go this way when he was interrupted by the taller pinching the bridge of his nose to alleviate stress.

“Universe, why?” He whined as Myungsoo furrowed his brows in confusion but Sungyeol didn't explain his frustration, he just looked back at him. “Ok, that's doable, though you might have to read some theories and authors that you don't know, don't worry, I have Twyman in my apartment, you'll gonna love it. Anyway, email your professor and ask for a meeting to discuss this. If he/she doesn't want to take you under their wing, you'll have to convince them so you need to go for something raw, something that people can empathize with and understand quickly, and even inspire them. I don't know how open you are about Woohyun in college but you could tell your professor about him to at least gain their sympathy and... wait, why don't you do your project about your story with Woohyun until now? You have tons of pictures of him already.”

“Wait, hyung... I don't know if I want to do it like this.”

“No, no, no, it's decided.” Sungyeol refused. “I'm sure you're talented and competent but get into your head that you don't have the luxury of time, you have to take a decision, make a plan and then execute it in four months aside taking care of a kid, searching whatever is that you're searching, your basketball training and matches, making some time for me and... tell me a number of subjects you enrolled to so I can calculate here how will you divide your time.”

“One.” Myungsoo said quite scared from how Sungyeol brain, and his mouth, were working miles.

“One?” Sungyeol raised a dubious brow.

“Every semester I took more credits than needed so I just have one subject and the project left.” The younger explained.

“That's great, see, we already solved all your school problems and...” Suddenly something else passed through Sungyeol mind. “Are you still keeping up with basketball? Are you going to work?”

“Yes, some professional team coach can still look at me, and maybe, I don't know ok? I don't know if I managed to earn enough money for the entire semester, I didn't have the time to do the math yet.” Myungsoo complained in frustration.

Sungyeol pinched the bridge of his nose again. “Kim Myungsoo, what am I going to do with you?” He said in a scolding tone then grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him back to the living room. “Go get your computer, we are going to do it right now.” He commanded.

The kids didn't eat much, Sunggyu because he was excited and distracted and Woohyun because he was upset, the boy had laid on the couch to watch Sunggyu dad but he wasn't as excited like his friend. Seeing the pout in the boy's lips Sungyeol ended up saying that he would keep the boy lack of appetite from Myungsoo before he took the plates back to the kitchen. As Sungyeol came back to the living room Myungsoo was pushing the remaining plates on the table aside to place his laptop there and the elder instructed the younger to access his bank account while he finished cleaning the table.

The DVD had the exact 1:29:37 of extension, it was more than a documentary than a show, and while Sunggyu was over the moon watching, Woohyun kept throwing longing looks at his father and Sungyeol backs until he fell asleep, but the two adults were so entertained with whatever they were doing that they didn't notice.

Myungsoo finances were complicated, maybe because he decided to jump in the I-live-alone-with-a-kid-lifestyle without much preparation. He earned well the past month and a half (more than Sungyeol actually) but that wasn't near enough to hang on the entire semester. At least he had some money in the bank to help and after many questions and some adjustments here and there Sungyeol managed to come up with a plan for him to hang until mid November and by then Myungsoo would have to find a job or he would need to find a job if he didn't want to beg his parents for money and, no, Myungsoo didn't think that was an option.

When they finished they noticed there wasn't a sound on the TV anymore, in fact, it was turned off, and the boys weren't in the living room anymore. Confused, they tried to find the kids on Woohyun room only to see the boys already dressed in their onesies pajamas and Sunggyu kissing Woohyun on the head before he tucked themselves to sleep. What a cutie, wasn't Sunggyu a nice hyung?

“Thanks for the help hyung.” Myungsoo mumbled in Sungyeol ear as he hugged the taller closer to his body once they decided to go to bed themselves, making sure to set an alarm to wake up before the kids.

Sungyeol shifted in bed to get more comfortable, now Myungsoo was able to hug him and touch him more often and he was already sort of used to Myungsoo koala ways, he even liked it because it showed Myungsoo affection even though the younger hadn't  said any words that could deepen their bond yet.

“Myungsoo...” The taller hesitated a bit but decided to open up to him. “I know you have a lot on your plate already but I'm worried.”

“About what?” Myungsoo propped up on his elbow and searched for Sungyeol hand in order to entangle their fingers together.

“This semester.” He confessed. “You're on an avalanche of personal things happening and then we will both get even busier this semester... I-I like what we have now but... I think I am ready to progress a bit more but we just don't have time for it....”

“Hum.” Myungsoo kissed Sungyel cheek. “Can you hang on just a bit till July ends?” He asked softly. “I need three more days of work and I'll stop it and I'll tell my parents that I can't be searching that frantically too, you're right I have to focus, but I will only have one subject and the project, so I'll surely be able to have more time to do anything. If you have the time, we can make some time for us during the week while the kids are at school, what do you think hm? We could have our first date outdoors.”

“Kim Myungsoo, I just didn't spend two hours arranging your finances for you to throw your money out just like that.” Sungyeol playfully scolded before turning to smile resiliently to his neighbor. “You know I need some time with you but I don't mind if we stay home and watch Netflix.”

“Then it's settled, we'll have some time for ourselves when the kids are at school ok?” Myungsoo pecked Sungyeol lips softly. “When you'll be available? Tell me your schedule.”

“Dunno, I enrolled last week but I'm not sure which time my classes will be, though I'm prepared for it.” Sungyeol said in frustration.

“Lol, how is that possible?” Myungsoo asked chuckling. “Don't they divulge the classes timeframes in your department? Mine will be Monday morning first class, but I was planning to go to the library or the computer labs to make my project on the other days.”

“They do, but this subject doesn't have a fixed one. I'll receive an email from the college staff in a couple of days telling me my schedule, although I have a hunch it will be on a Friday afternoon.” Sungyeol scrunched up his nose.

“Then tell me once you know.” Myungsoo smiled, yawned then laid back down and pressed his face against Sungyeol back, settling to sleep and Sungyeol sighed and turned around as well, he wanted to ask more questions and talk more about how things would proceed between them but they were already sleepy and tired enough.

Three days passed in a blink of the eye for them, but not for Woohyun that was a feeling a bit under the weather, but when Friday came Myungsoo came home cheerful to announce he had received a little bonus on his final day of work and that he wanted to celebrate with a sleepover, of course, incuding Sungyeol in that.

He didn't let Sungyeol cook that day and with the bonus he received, he asked for take out so they could play with the kids. He made sure to focus a lot on his son complimenting him and showing his love during the night and this way the boy started to become cheerful again.

Sungyeol and Myungsoo also pushed Myungsoo couch to one corner and moved their mattresses to Myungsoo living room and ended up playing tickle fight and pillow fight on it, for the kid's delight, until Woohyun dropped dead without battery (asleep) and that was a sign they needed to go to sleep.

Saturday was no different, they spend time outside with the kids and playing with them indoors in the afternoon, and the boys were having such a blast that when sleep time came the boys were still talking and giggling and they had to be separated, with the two adults in the middle so they were able to fall asleep. Myungsoo and Sungyeol slept holding hands under the blankets that night. On Sunday they moved their mattresses back to their respective places and still kept playing until they heard the word that shouldn't be mentioned: school.

“Noooooo! I want to spend more time with daddy.” Woohyun whined.

“But Woohyun you like it there, don't you? And Daddy has to finish his studies too.” Myungsoo coaxed and the boy pouted but didn't reply, he indeed liked school, and he was kind of missing Dongwoo, the teacher had disappeared during school break and they didn't even meet Hoya too.

“You'll attend school too right Sunggyu?” Sungyeol asked warily.

“Yeah, Woohyunnie is there so it's fine now.” The boy answered absently minded as he picked up his uniform and placed on top of his table so he could speed things up in the morning, Sungyeol rarely let him sleep over at Woohyunnie's when there was school on the other day.

At that point, the adults sat the kids together and had a talk about friends with them. According with the pink haired teacher the boys needed to open up more to the other kids - and it wasn't like Woohyun couldn't make friends, he was kind of a popular maknae but Sunggyu had difficulties to mingle and Woohyun liked to keep him company – so they had a talk about that and hoped they could open up to other kids.

Next day they woke up early, but they were so unused to that routine that everything was made in a rush. Thankfully the kids collaborated, kind of happy because they would go back to school and would learn new things with Dongwoo. So when they finally went there both boys tackled Dongwoo down, saying how much they missed him and how they would behave so well that they would be his favorites students. Dongwoo had smiled then, they already were.

The adults had greeted Dongwoo and helped him get up, but hadn't time to stay and chat too much. Before going, Sungyeol invited the teacher and his boyfriend for dinner so they could catch up properly and then he and Myungsoo waved at the kids and went back to the car.

“Ready to face this scary and busy new semester?” Sungyeol asked once he sat in the driver's seat, he couldn't help but think how much things between them changed in six months.

Myungsoo chuckled and placed his hand on top of Sungyeol's on the gearshift. “Let's see what it has for us.”

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AN: I don't know when I'll be able to update next. About Woohyun registration process, I had to do some research and I based myself in these two articles:

http://www.international-divorce.com/family-registration-law-korea.htm

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/276710.html