chapter 5
You + Me = Us
JongSuk and InGuk were in the mall for 5 hours already, they have been almost in every shop and JongSuk legs were killing him.
-"Daddy I am hungry."- JinAe said pulling on JongSuk’s jeans.
-"Yah, InGuk I don’t know about you but we are going to eat and you can go and walk around for no reason."- JongSuk said.
-"Oh, yeah let’s go, I am hungry too. There is a good café here, we can go there."- InGuk said pointing where the café was.
-"Yeah… food… food… yummy food in my tummy."- JinAe let go of JingSuk’s jeans and ran ahead of them.
-"Yah JinAe don’t run."- JongSuk shouted after his daughter but it was already too late.
-"Leave her Jong, let her have a little fun."- InGuk told his friend.
JongSuk raised an eyebrow at his friend and looked at JinAe deciding whether she needed any supervision. Seeing as she was just a few meters ahead of them and he could easily spot her he relaxed a bit and turned to InGuk with an inquiring look.
-"How is your mother?? I have not seen her for a while. I think it was when JinAe was 3 or 4, I don’t really remember."-
-"She’s fine. Oh, by the way, she said hi and told me to tell you to visit her. I swear she loves you more than her own son!"- InGuk said with a sad face.
-"Of course, she loves me more, who would love you?!"- JongSuk said laughing at his friend’s expression. InGuk could not control his smile anymore and started laughing with JongSuk, wrapping his hand around his shoulder.
-"… Daddy, faster!!!! I’m hungry!!"- Suddenly JongSuk heard his daughter voice and looked at the direction of her voice. What he saw made his heart run wild, worry settling in him. His daughter was standing next to a stranger who was crouched beside her and had a hand on her head. He couldn’t clearly see the strangers face, as JinAe’s head was blocking the view. It wasn’t as if he was hurting JinAe or kidnapping her in front of him, but a lot of happened in JongSuk’s life and he couldn’t help with a worry and anxiety that settled in stomach and vibrated his body. JongSuk started walking towards them, but a hand stopped him. He looked and saw that it was InGuk and stared at him in confusion, making a ‘what-are-you-doing??-My-daughter-is-standing-next-to-strange-man’ face.
-"Stop … calm down Jong. We don’t know who that guy is; he can be someone suspicions, so we better calm down and go there like nothing is happening. Okay??"- InGuk said taking his hand in his.
JongSuk gave a blank look at his friend, stealing another glance towards his daughter. He took a deep breath and:
-"Okay you might be right."- JongSuk nodded his head and headed towards them again, but still he could not hide his concern from his face. InGuk’s hand was tightly wrapped around his arm and grounding him, giving him a little sense of calm.
They slowly approached them and stopped in front of to JinAe and strange man.
-"Hey, JinAe-ah, will you introduce us to your friend??" – Asked InGuk with a smile, to not seem suspicions.
Stranger was holding a misted bottle of water to her forehead. When he looked up at them InGuk noted how he gave an intense look at JongSuk, som
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