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Making things right- ver 2
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"Jung Changmin get over here!"

Jaejoong and Changmin look up from their respective desserts and glance up the stairs, waiting for more. When nothing follows, Jaejoong turns to her son. "What did you do?"

"Nothing this week."

"It's still Tuesday." Jaejoong points in the direction Yunho's angry voice bellowed, enough of a command for Changmin to scamper upstairs before his dad came looking for him.

He finds his father standing in the hallway radiating the "you're dead" aura, scary enough to make him gulp. "What the hell is that?" His father points to his left where the door to the study is ajar.

Changmin is clueless till he timidly peeks in the study. Whoa! Did he do that? He knows he dumps all his extra stuff like the old game consoles and broken keyboard in there. He used to barely enter the room or look where he's putting those things. Just open the door enough to fit his arm and the object and drop the things in the room. Yeah, well… he can see what happened.

It started when his father said he could keep the books he was done reading in the study. When he asked where, Yunho told him to keep them wherever he wanted. So it's really his father's fault.

But Changmin will not risk the peril of telling his father that. "Clear your clutter." Yunho directs him before walking to the bedroom. Jaejoong follows a minute later, shaking her head at the mess. "Remember baby, 'sparkjoy.'" Jaejoong laughingly offers her son a suggestion before excitedly following her husband. The door of the bedroom closes and Changmin would rather not know what goes on behind those soundproof doors.

He's got his mess to clean up. He decides to put away things for now and clean up the rest tomorrow. He stacks the books on his father's desk and piles the clutter that needs to be thrown away in a corner.

As for his old but still useable gadgets, he thinks storing them in something for now would be better. The old boxes behind the desk look ideal.

But he's disappointed when he finds the boxes filled with his mother's old stuff. There’s nothing but sketchbooks and old albums inside. He remembers his grandmother going through these albums to find pictures they could display around the house.

There weren't enough of his other grandmother though. So Jihye had framed the sketch Jaejoong had drawn of her mother.

Among the sketchbooks and albums there was one notebook. It looks like an old journal and could belong to his mother's or grandparents.

Extremely curious, Changmin takes the book and the box it was in to his room. After shutting the door, he inspects the book.

To his mild disappointment it's barely used. There's random doodles, grocery lists and a handful of recipes, but the pages are mostly blank. He's better off checking out his mother's drawings.

But as he's shuffling through the pages, he comes across a folded piece of paper. It's old and yellowed but still in visibly good condition. Nonetheless he unfolds it delicately. He panics a little when a tiny bit of paper at the edge crumbles and falls.

But when he reads the words "To my Jaejoongie" at the beginning of the letter, his attention is on the letter. He knows now that this would be prying. But he doesn't know anything about his maternal grandparents or his paternal grandfather. And he has a feeling this letter has to do with his mother's parents. He simply wants to know about them.

Changmin first hides the box under his desk in case his parents check on him later. He'll return it sneakily in the morning when he cleans the stuff out of the study. Getting comfortable in his bed, he turns off the lights, sticking with the bedside lamp to read the letter.

He first reads the sign to find out who it's from. The words, "love you always, Umma." Tells him it's the grandmother he never knew. Now he's feeling a little conscious that he might be prying too much in his mother's past. But he's unable to resist this piece of his grandmother.

He reads the contents, learning his grandmother had heart disease too and wrote this around the time she found out about it. Changmin rubs his chest over the shirt instinctively now th

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My beloved laptop is not working, so I'm using my dad's computer now. There's a lot of fics in draft but updates will be less frequent till my laptop is back from repairs coz I can't monopolize dad's PC very often.

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Neng2ovid #1
Chapter 25: So that’s what happened how Changmin got his surgery and how they met Minho.
Kattan69 #2
Chapter 25: So that was how it happened......now the gaps are filled up....thanks!
xzeyrax #3
Chapter 25: Yunho is really a tough husband and father. It will be hard to find such man like that in real life
JaeBeloved
#4
Chapter 25: Can't imagine what Yunho was feeling as he performed major surgery on his son, then finding out that his wife suffered a . His job line is stressful and add to that looking after two near and dear heart patients, father and husband of the year. Thanks for the update!
Ecilimin
#5
Chapter 20: Hahah!! I imagined this scene when it was mentioned in the story but not THIS FUNNY!! It was awesome! ( Clap clap clap )
natalie_ed
#6
Chapter 20: Lol ... Jaejoongie... Even with those heart trouble... You still have homin wrapped around your little finger
KatTS501 #7
Chapter 20: Hahaha aigoo Changmin-ah
abad-ini
#8
Chapter 20: That’s how they end up together ? so cute changminnie
Kattan69 #9
Chapter 20: Hahaha....so this is how Kibum made her move on Min.....so cute and sweet.
kohana93
#10
Chapter 20: That was such a lovely chapter Yunjae r such cool parents hahaha. Kibum and Min r so pure and cute.
Thanks for the updates!!