"Remember I told you mommy was going to come with us?" Joy pauses to look at Joohyun's face for an answer, but doesn't wait. "Well, she's not."

Joy purses her usually-no-mostly-in-a-smile lips into a thin line and she's really feeling awful. Her mother told her that she would meet Joohyun but obviously she has to work on a Sunday too.

"She must have some important work Joy, don't go so hard on her." Joohyun curls her fingers around the coffee mug and takes a sip of it.

"She always has that! It's Sunday man!" Joy bangs her head down on the table with her hands over her head. She was really hoping her mother could meet Joohyun.

"Hey, okay listen" Joohyun lifts her head up. "I promise I'll come to your place to meet your mother later on. And I'll scold her myself."

A smug smile appears on Joy's face.

"Ohhh nooo, I'm praying for mommy, you can be scary." She pretends to shiver as the other glares at her.

Joohyun finally finishes her coffee and gets up to keep the mug away. Luckily there weren't too many people there, considering it's a Sunday, but then again it's 6 in the morning. Joy is way too excited to suprise Yeri at thier house.

They had planned this all this prank thing and suprisingly the grandma suggested that they'd suprise Yeri by going to thier house and waking her up from her beauty sleep on a Sunday. And they might also act something out, not that that's necessary, Yeri would be enough suprised to see her mom with her friend.

She didn't realise but Joohyun was back at the table, staring at her.

"What?" Joy finds Joohyun staring at her alot, maybe it's just her habit.

"Nothing."

That's always her answer.

"Anyways, what time are we leaving for your house?" Joy has sparks in her eyes, she's clearly too excited to meet Yeri.

"I was thinking maybe half an hour later? Have some food first."

"Can we just walk to your house if it's close?"

--

Joohyun never said her house is close, Joy just dragged her and now they're walking to her house.

Which is 15 minutes away, by the way.

Joy is really a handful, but Joohyun has grown so fond of the girl. The reason- she doesn't even know it herself. It's probably just the girl's chirpy personality. Joohyun never grows close to people that easily.

It's almost like she's already spent some time with Joy before.

It's like they've known each other forever.

"Soooo, you are a chef...at that restaurant?"

Joy looks vibrant. She always does.

Joohyun hates how badly, in some part of her brain, it reminds her of someone.

Not that she would admit it.

"Miss, I own that restaurant."

Her statement clearly suprises the girl as she stops walking and looks at Joohyun with agape. If she opens it a little bit more, surely a fly would enter.

"Wow! I thought that grumpy man was the owner. You don't act like it's yours though. I always see you serving people and-"

"That grumpy man is my brother." Joohyun glares at Joy with her eyes shooting daggers at the girl.

Anyone would definitely burst out laughing if they see Joy's face right now. It's like life was out of her. She just stands like a stone.

"Oh no no, I didn't mean- oh my go-"

"Don't worry, he is grumpy." There goes Joohyun's loud as heck laugh. It's fun seeing Joy like this, so timid. Joy sighs in relief as she hits her shoulders playfully, muttering words under her breath.

"He thinks discipline is important and doesn't like people shouting at the otherwise peaceful environment, so he sometimes scolds me or gives me 'the eye'." Joohyun puts two of her fingers up forming quotation marks and rolls her eyes. She finds this absolutely useless.

It's a fricking family place, of course people are going to shout.

Joy forms an 'o' with as she continues walking.

They walk for sometime without words but suddenly Joohyun feels a tickling sensation and sees Joy leaning forward digging fingers in her tummy trying to make her laugh, and she does.

She laughs to the point where tears come out.

Joy finally stops and wears a smug smile on her face. "That's what you get for scaring me like that."

But Joohyun is competitive as hell.

"Oh really?"

She starts tickling Joy relentlessly, earning too many laughs and gibberish all at once. She loves seeing the girl laugh so heartily, as open as it can be.

"Ahh! Joohyun, stop."

Joy is trying to remove Joohyun's hands from her tummy but she can't even register the stuff happening around her. Only thing she can hear is her laughter along with Joohyun's.

"Stop! Hahaha...stop Jooh- shsgdghd!"

It is all happy laughter,

"No, no! Stop, Baechu!"

Until this point.

Joohyun stops, she knows she doesn't have to overthink.

Her tongue slipped.

She didn't know she even said it.

It's a coincidence.

Don't think about it.

Of course, that ty brain of hers doesn't support her. Tears pool on the sides of her eyes.

Doesn't matter who it's from that endearment is special to her.

And always will be.

Seungwan roamed to and fro around the small apartment they had.

Joohyun couldn't help but smile, seeing her wife so worried on something so small. If someone were to have no context of the situation and then see her like this, they would surely think that she's thinking about the biggest problem of her life.

Seungwan stopped in front of the crib for the nth time this day. And she did that everyday now.