“Daddy! Is santa real?” Samuel asked when Seungcheol was reading a story book for him before his bed time

“Hmmm….” Seungcheol frowned clearly thinking how he should reply this question “What do you think? Do you think Mr. Santa is real?” Seungcheol asked back

“He is real! If not I won’t get Christmas presents every year!” Samuel looked at Seungcheol with his big innocent eyes and Seungcheol swore he would do anything to protect that look Samuel had back then

“If you think it’s real then it’s real, now go to sleep, good kid get bigger and better gift right?” Seungcheol laughed when suddenly Samuel closed his eyes pretend to sleep “Good night buddy, love you” Seungcheol kissed Samuel’s forehead before he stood up and left the room not forgetting to off the light

“Night daddy, love you too”

Seungcheol went in to his room to find Jihoon was playing on his phone while lying down on their bed. Seungcheol walked to the bed wrapped his arm around Jihoon who still ignoring his presence 

“Haaa…” Seungcheol sighed but Jihoon ignored him “I said haaaaaaaaa” Seungcheol said when Jihoon still ignored him “Ya Choi Jihoon I said haaaaaaaa” Seungcheol took Jihoon’s phone away and the younger glared at him

“So I’ve heard now return back my phone” Jihoon was about to reach for his phone when Seungcheol threw it to the floor which luckily was covered by a fluffy carpet, Jihoon gasped in disbelief, he looked at his phone on the floor and back to his husband “YOU”

“That’s for ignoring me”

“I will kill you if my phone broke”

“Don’t you care about your broken husband right now?” Seungcheol looked at Jihoon with his best ‘I’m hurt’ looks

“You are broken in your mind and everyone knows that - what’s wrong anyway?” Jihoon said before Seungcheol could say something back to him

“Samuel asked me if Santa is real”

“It’s the time anyway, just tell him the truth” Jihoon was about to go down from his bed to fetch his phone when Seungcheol caught his body on the older’s embrace

“It’s not that simple, don’t you feel our son is growing too fast? Today he asked about if Santa is real tomorrow he will ask if he could marry someone he likes and I’m not ready for that” Seungcheol sighed and if he didn’t look serious Jihoon would’ve laughed out loud over it but if he laughed they would argue whole night which ended up lesser time to sleep so instead of laughing Jihoon caressed Seungcheol’s hair gently

“You are overthinking, he is only 3 years old and yes he’s growing fast but not that fast until you can think about marriage, let’s worry about that when he’s a teenager ok? For now let’s face the truth that he’s smart boy and he knows more than the kids in his age so it’s not a surprise he asked about this”

“So tell him the truth is better?” Seungcheol asked 

“It’s better to tell him ourself than he heard it from others right?” When Seungcheol nodded Jihoon smiled and kissed Seungcheol’s lips “Now it’s settled, let’s sleep” Jihoon was too tired to take his phone back so he just snuggled closer to Seungcheol’s big body and closed his eyes. Only for 1 minute until Seungcheol interrupted him

“I have a brilliant idea”

“Keep that brilliant idea for your next life where you and me are not married” Jihoon rolled over from Seungcheol’s embrace and snuggled to his pillow instead

“Even in the next life we will be married, don’t you want to listen to my idea?” Seungcheol scooted closer stick himself to Jihoon’s back embraced him from behind, he kissed Jihoon’s shoulder gently distracting him

“No, I don’t agree with whatever idea you are come up with” 

“You haven’t even listened to what it is” Seungcheol pouted behind Jihoon’s back

“I don’t have to listen to know what kind of disaster your idea will end up later”

“I promise you this will be brilliant”

“It’s better be. For now let’s just go to sleep and no, I don’t want to join your ‘brilliant’ idea”

“Don’t judge before you listen to it baby”

“I’ve known you for more than 10 years, it’s more than enough to know the idea you are talking about will end up become another disaster in our household”

Christmas Eve, and Jihoon wanted to curse Seungcheol who just told him that he wouldn’t be home anytime soon, he had few things to settle before he himself going for holiday until after New Year. Jihoon ruffled Samuel’s hair affectionately when the toddler was yawning while watching Christmas cartoon on the TV

“Let’s go to your bed, it’s way pass your bed time” Jihoon looked at the clock on the wall and change back his focus to his son

“Daddy?” Samuel yawned again as he snuggled closer to Jihoon who just melted at the sight

“He needs to work until late today, but he will be here when you open your eyes tomorrow, so let’s go to sleep first ok?” Jihoon took Samuel’s hand with his and walked the toddler back to his room after making sure the toddler was asleep Jihoon himself walked back to his room, he was thinking of doing Christmas Eve celebration with his other half but since Seungcheol was busy he decided to go to bed early

Jihoon swore he hadn’t slept more than 1 hour before he heard Samuel’s loud voice calling for him and after that he could hear Samuel’s crying voice, with his heart beating loud and nervous mind Jihoon ran to Samuel’s room and found the toddler was crying his heart out while pointing to outside of the window, Jihoon approached the toddler and scooped him to his embrace first before he turned to the balcony and found a… Santa? Outside, but the Santa looks very familiar, Jihoon was ready to call police but he put down his phone when he realised who the Santa really was

“God that guy… I told him not to do something weird” Jihoon rolled his eyes before he walked to the window and slide it open even with Samuel crying begging his Appa not to open the window, the Santa went inside the room gratefully but with guilt plastered on his face as he saw Samuel was still crying “Take off your weird beard, I don’t think Sammy wants to see you like this” Jihoon stepped back when the Santa wanted to take Samuel from Jihoon “Your. Beard” Jihoon hissed. The Santa reluctantly took off his Santa hat and beard, 

“Sammy baby, it’s daddy, stop crying I’m sorry” Seungcheol followed Jihoon who was still carrying Samuel to the living room which was the brightest room at that moment, Samuel stopped crying upon hearing the familiar voice, he turned around and found his daddy was waving his hand awkwardly feeling sorry

“Daddy? Santa?” Samuel asked confusedly while still sniffling 

“I’m sorry baby, it’s daddy not Santa, I was thinking to surprise you so I climbed to your balcony with this Santa costume I didn’t know you would cry

“But but daddy was scary not like Santa” Samuel commented 

“Of course where else you can find a Santa with black beard” Jihoon rolled his eyes again glaring at the black fake beard which now currently sitting on their coffee table

“That’s the only fake beard I can find at the mall today” Seungcheol grinned helplessly

“If daddy is Santa then Santa is nor real?” Samuel asked after he stopped crying, Jihoon and Seungcheol looked at each other and Jihoon gave a green light nod to Seungcheol, the older left with no choice but to tell the truth now, he asked Jihoon to pass him Samuel, he let the toddler sat on his lap and wiped the dried tears from his chubby cheeks

“I’m sorry baby, Santa is not real” Seungcheol took a deep breath before he continued “He’s not real but here, you have Appa and daddy and we are real, after all we are better than Santa aren’t we, we love you so much and unlike Santa we will always try our best to give whatever you want and need throughout the year” Seungcheol smiled when Samuel nodded in agreement, he leaned down to kiss Samuel’s hair and hugged him like the toddler was the most precious thing in his life “I’m sorry ok?” Seungcheol whispered

“It’s ok daddy, Merry Christmas”

“Merry Christmas”

I promise you daddy and appa, one day I'll be your Santa and I'll make all your wish comes true 

“I will pretend you never did the stupidest thing you’ve ever done this year since you gave a good Santa is not real explanation to Samuel” Jihoon said while walking side by side with Seungcheol to their bedroom after putting Samuel back to his bed

“Well, I need to, my plan didn’t work this time” Seungcheol ruffled his hair

“This Santa costume will gone into waste and you bought it not more than few hours ago” Jihoon sighed staring at Seungcheol in his Santa costume, Seungcheol sighed looking at his costume, he was about to take it off when he got another brilliant idea

“Hey baby”

“yeah?”

“Want to play Santa and naughty kid role-play tonight?”

“YA ERT!!!!”

- jln: Hi everyone, I know it's way too late for a Christmas story but I need to let this out before I can move on hahahaha XD