C.A.P's P.O.V

I was on my way back home from work. Tonight I hadn't slept at all, because I hadn't been able to force myself to sleep in the same bed as Nemo for another night. And no, in contrary to everything you might think, that's not because I was disgusted sleeping next to him. Hell no. Actually the complete opposite, namely I feared to assault the cute being while being in dreamland.

My gaze kept glued to the road as I was lost in my thoughts. Unfortunately, my little guest at home wasn't my only problem. Yesterday, my dad had recruited two new employees that should help me with my tasks. Now one could be wondering why I have issues with that, as it seems to be only useful. Well, the thing was... which crazy incompetent idiot had hired these two maniacs I had been stuck with for the whole day?

My hands dug into the leather covering the steering wheel, as I mentally fussed about Dumb and Dumber. Not only, that when I had been arrived my office literally resembled a dumping ground, random papers I had previously organized, spread over the whole table, no, also they were driving me crazy by only existing. Dumber, formaly known as twitter bird, had kept chattering next to me the whole freaking day, telling me how great he was or how many annoying persons he got to know in my our dads' company. Like he's the one to talk...

Dumb, on the other hand, wasn't as present as his adjunct. He was even doing his tasks properly without giving me a reason to freak out. But when I entered my car, and I repeat MY car, brought and payed by my own money, I had realized that all the utensils I had gotten like the first-aid box, the reflective vest or my defroster had been taken away and I'm 100% sure, that he had taken it. Really, if it only had been some stupid company car, but damn, we are talking about my own one. Where the had he gotten the keys from?

Squealing my car came to stop on my driveway in front of my mansion. Calm down Minsoo, calm down. There is Nemo inside, waiting for you and he is not at fault. Slowly, I got out of my car clenching my fists to fight the anger that had been building inside me. As I entered the front door, it immediately faded, fortunately, letting me think straight again.

“Baby-fish~”

I knew that it was impossible for him to hear, but still I felt like I could only show emotions when I was able to communicate with the person.

“Nemo, where are you?”, I tried the hopeless again.

“Mr. Bang, sir? Are you perhaps looking for that boy?”, one of the maids suddenly asked, who was busy carrying dirty laundry to the wash kitchen.

I nodded quickly, mumbling: “Yeah... Actually yes, so... have you seen him?” My gaze went to her face, but only looking at the air next to her head. My maids never even attracted me, which makes me an anomaly, of course, but, yeah, I can't help it.

From the corner of my eye I watched her nodding. “I saw him strolling around at the second floor not long ago.” She was smiling rather brightly, probably being exited that she could help me.

I copied the smile casually just to show I had listened and really, I just wanted to be kind. I made my way upstairs, thinking about Nemo again. Perhaps, he had been bored again and that was the reason why he kept toddling around the house, despite being here for quite some time. The worries came back, making me think that I really should go out with him eventually. Immediately I pictured my roster, trying to remember if and when there were appointments. If I remember correctly, on Wednesday I was free to do what I wanted from 2 pm. Maybe we should do something together on that certain day.

Reaching the second floor I called: “Sweety? Are you here?” No answer. Of course, not.

Wait a second! Aren't these noices coming from my sister's room? The pretty, tall girl had went to San Francisco with our dad as soon as she had finished high-school. Surely, she hadn't come back, 'cause she would have told me, wouldn't she?

Pushing down the handle, I opened the door just so wide that I could look through the gap between door and door frame. What came into my view let me freeze completely. The person I saw, was in no way my dearest sister Minhee, but a certain boy, which I had searched for beforehand.

Said boy watched me with widened eyes, totally confused and also looking as if he knew he got caught. “What the heck are you doing here?”, I asked, simply trying to express my confusion. “And... gosh. Put down these clothes. These are my sister's. Have you really been this bored? Poor child...”, I mumbled while waking towards him. Having reached his side, I ruffled through his hair, taking the clothes out of his hands and placing them onto Minhee's bed.

Then, I was smirking evilly, imagining what would have been happened, if I had let him be. Would he have been trying them on? Gosh, this kid was weird sometimes, but still... you don't know what baby fish might look like in girl's clothes.

“You know, my sister is still in the US. She and my father are running the head office of the company I'm administrating here in Seoul. Oh... and Byunghun's father is also there, working with my dad.”, I started explaining to Nemo, even though I didn't know why.

“But really, most likely you're not interested in that kind of things...” But if yes... what if yes, and I just underestimated him...

But as expected, Nemo just blinked, gifting me a rather confused look. Maybe he wondered why I had taken away the clothes. I already wanted to turn around and leave the room, when he suddenly took a step towards me, wrapping his arms around my waist in a cute manner. Startled, I gasped and simply stared of a split second. I felt him leaning his head against my chest, making me put my arms around him as well, his small body nearly disappearing when I held him.

“Don't worry Baby-fish. I'm right here...”, I soothed him, putting my chin onto his head.

Niel's P.O.V

Cornflakes and chocolate spread and omo... marshmellows ~. I was amazed, walking through the aisles of the supermarket Minsoo had taken me to. He had simply told me that we had to go shopping if we wanted to have something for dinner.

Actually, I didn't want to eat, since I wasn't hungry at all, but seeing all this delicious stuff, I knew exactly why I was here. I picked up a jar of cherry jam, showing it to C.A.P, waiting for a nod as a permission to put it into the trolley. But the latter wasn't reacting, as he had his gaze focused on his cellphone. Always busy this kid.

Shrugging I laid the jam into the trolley, hoping it was okay. The black haired guy was wheeling the trolley, following me through the store. It had a touch of normality, as we went shopping. Nevertheless, it was a strange situation, since we weren't talking and anyhow, the last time I could buy what I wanted, had been long ago.

A small smile was on my lips and I began to hop around admiring the offer, looking like a kid getting the permission to eat as much candy as it wanted. Well, okay it's almost like this... My eyes widened as I eyed a huge pyramid of stacked peanut butter jars. I wanted the one on the very top, the single one decorating the tip of the object. I wanted to take it away, removing it, so that the pyramid would look like it's role model in Egypt.

I stood in front of the huge thing, which was towering over me. And that was exactly the problem. Because I hadn't stopped hopping – I had been sure, I wouldn't destroy anything – I hadn't managed to restrain myself from bumping into the pyramid. Like in a bad film, the time seemed to go slower while I watched the jars falling and finally hitting the ground. Big shards were covering the floor and light brown rests of peanut butter were scattered all over.

And of course, there had been a person. Of course, the moment the pyramid fell there had to be a person, who was now angrily glaring at me. You could literally see the face of the said person turning red and it could only be seconds until he would start complaining about my stupidity. And then the tirade began, calling me not-so-nice names. And where the hell was Minsoo?

“These kids these days. No eyes in their heads. Aish actually, idiot. You see my clothes? They are ruined now. Son of a . You can't even apologize. Stop staring so stupidly!”

And that was only the less bad part. I could only stand and stare, with slightly parted lips. I wanted to defend myself, saying I wasn't stupid, but I couldn't. I had to keep face. If I only could tell him what I was feeling. Didn't he know that words could hurt as much as fists. For a whole minute the man kept insulting me and my eyes only widened. Please, can you just disappear! I could feel tears forming due to the lacking liquid. Ah . No Niel, don't cry. I bit my lower lip harshly in hope to stifle the tears. It only resulted into my lip bleeding. Perfect, thanks man. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop the tears from escaping my eyes and flowing down my cheeks.

C.A.P's P.O.V

I had been staring onto my cellphone for the last thirty minutes. At first, I had looked up once in a while wondering what Nemo was putting into the trolley, but I couldn't ask and if he wanted to have it, then he should have it. I was not going to make him sad, because it wasn't about money. As long as he was happy, I was more than willing to spend my money for him.

And here I was, listening to a voice mail coming from one of my employees. The guy was calling for help as he had made some mistake, which he called 'very badly', but I didn't want to waste my time with it and only answered 'Find a solution.' How was I to help him if he deleted some data or what ever he had done wrong? There was a backup on the intranet.

Bored, I scrolled through Facebook. There were some persons, who just needed attention, others, who told the whole world when going to the toilet and still others, who frequently posted new pictures of their biased idols. Nothing interesting at all.

I decided to have a look at my favorite baby fish and looked up. What I saw made me blink immediately. There he was, standing in front of a mess. On the floor there were rolling jars and … I sighed. As I see it, the little poor child had knocked into them, as they were stacked. Only then I noticed the other guy, most probably around my age, at whom my little boy was staring at. The person was non-stop talking to Nemo. Talking. First and last mistake of the wannabe.

Without me doing something about it my right fist clenched and I walked around the trolley, leaving it behind. The left hand was busy working my cellphone back into my pant pocket. The dumb, cocky jerk would get what he deserved. How could someone be so mean? For sure, you just don't slang a disabled person. Slowly, I walked in front of Nemo and put on a serious face.

“ing stop talking bull.”, I voiced out in a low tone. He had better started regretting to ever having said a single word to my dear Nemo. The guy watched me kind of startled. What, he was frightened just by that?

“Who are you and … okay wait. What do you want?”, the boy asked. He was the general type of Korean middle-class just-grown man. Black-haired, but fancy styled hair, wearing his only branded shirt and a low-fitting jeans, revealing his white-blue checked boxers. What a spiv.

“You just verbally abused my boy. Who do you think you are, phony. You idiot don't even know anything.”, I growled, this time much louder, but in a normal speed, so that it had time to take effect. My gaze went mercilessly to his eyes, forcing him to show emotions. And then there was something.

“I don't know any-”

But I didn't let him finish and nudged his chest, making him stumble backwards. “You have no clue of nothing, kiddo. He's deaf, fool. He can't hear you, he can't defend himself, can't say sorry. He is sorry, for god's sake.” I grabbed his shoulders and my anger began to slosh over. “You go say sorry. You have no right to call him names. You're nothing, hear me? Go and apologize.”

The boy looked at me. He was trying to remain cool, I saw it, but on the inside, he seemed to really be scared. Was I that frightening?

“But how, if he can't understand me?”, he asked shyly.

“Not my problem, idiot.”, I grunted aggressively at the stupid question. The soup you cook, you had to eat afterwards. I watched him go to Nemo and reaching out his hand. “Don't you dare touch him...”, I threatened, not wanting his dirty fingers on my boy. I saw him shudder at my words and I began worrying how long I could remain this way. I mean I wasn't usually mean.

“I'm... s-sorry...”, he gulped and cleared his throat as he was saying sorry. It wasn't as if Nemo would understand him, but the motherer needed to learn his lesson.

“Fine.”, I said raspy and pulled him away from my precious. “And now you go and better never ever cross my path again.” With that the other was heading away, chickening out. What I was left with was Nemo, looking at me the way he last looked when I met him to bring him home. He was scared. “Hey... honey... you... I... don't be scared. It was to defend you, you know? I'll never be harming you. Never. Promise.” I showed him my hands to underline my sincerity.

I saw in his eyes, that nothing I could say was going to calm him down. Searching I looked around to find something with which I could express that I won't ever scare my baby fish again. But how could apples or cheese lighten up his mood? I don't think so.

I randomly grabbed into the shelf behind me, taking the first thing I could get a hold of. Pulling it out of it I held it in front of Nemo and smiled relieved as I saw what it was. It was a alphabet soup and in the photo there was a 'I Love you' formed by the noodles. Around the line there was a big heart, showing the variety of the pasta. It seemed as if we were meant to be. * coughs * Cheesy ~

The boy blinked a few times before blushing. I know that was awkward for him, and that was why I wasn't surprised as he turned his head, disallowing me to see his face. It was a pity, but nevertheless he wasn't running away or something.

What I did then, could only be blamed on my still confused mind, because I found myself placing a peck onto Nemo's forehead. My hand found his cheek though and wiped the nearly already dried tears away. Crying, especially when he was crying... it affected me very much.

Not commenting anything, as if nothing had happened I took his hand and dragged him to thecheck stand. I only wanted to finally leave. But before we reached it, I waved to a staff member. She came to me with a pissed face. “Um... sorry to disturb you, but over there...”, I pointed to the direction where we came from, “someone has knocked over something. I only heard it hitting the floor.”, I said sending a smile. The staff member only nodded and disappeared. I took the chance to gift the said smile to my boy.

“See Nemo, you're not at fault. And the staff will clean. So come on and smile again. You were so happy before that happened.” I squeezed his hand shortly, before stopping at the check stand. It wasn't staffed and I had a feeling that there was only this one assistant in the shop, meaning she was busy with something else at the moment. But I couldn't wait that long, so I just pulled out two 100$ notes, hoping it would cover the whole purchase, and put it onto the shelf.

“Come on. We're leaving.”, I told Nemo and within a moment we had left the shop.

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