Prologue: Age 5
All I'm Sure OfWhen the phone in her hand began to vibrate, the soccer mom in the pastel pink turtleneck apologized to her lunch companion and said quietly, "It's the school, I have to take this."
With bated breath, she picked up the call. "Hello?"
"Yes, hello," she repeated when the voice on the other end asked if she was the mother of kindergarten student Kim Minseok.
Minseok's mother nodded, eyebrows furrowed and eyes squinted slightly, as she listened attentively. She gasped once and raised her hand to cover in shock, but somehow managed to end the call with a composed, "Thank you very much for letting me know. I'll be right there."
Her lunch companion asked what the call was about, and if everything was quite alright.
"It's Minseok," the child's mother told her sister. "Just yesterday when we dropped him off for orientation, his teacher was telling us how cute he is, how precious his little cheeks are, how she's absolutely positive a child as adorable as Minseok won't cause any trouble."
"And?" The sister prompted, intrigued.
"And so then today the principal calls to say that my baby's knocked over some poor other child, Byun Baekhyun I believe his name is, simply because this Baekhyun wasn't walking in line to lunch fast enough." Minseok's mother sighs but calls for the check and begins gathering her things.
Once again she apologizes. "Rain check?"
This sister is not only Minseok's aunt, but she's also the mother of Jongdae, Minseok's cousin and best friend. She knows first hand what it's like to raise a troublesome boy so she just smiles and agrees.
This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last.
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