“I'm hungry,” Jinyoung sighed for the nth time of the evening.

“What do you want to eat?” Jaebum looked up from his copybooks.

“I don't know! I just want to eat something but there's nothing which really tempts me!”

“Do you want bulgogi? Or Samgyeopsal?” Jinyoung shook his head, “Galbijiim? Bossam?”

“No~” the pregnant man threw his head back against the sofa and closed his eyes.

“Japchae? You also like kimchi a lot, do you want me to ask my mom to come and bring us some?”

“I don't want all of that! I want to eat something sweet and sugary and also fruity! Something very fresh like ice-cream!”

Jaebum looked at the hour and ran a hand through his already messy black hair. It was nearly midnight and he still had a lot of work to do, especially since he had a test on the next day and he wanted to make sure he knew everything by heart. But Jinyoung's cravings were once again striking and there he was, looking for something to eat while he wanted to eat nothing at the same time. Clearly, Jaebum still couldn't understand how all of this was working but he knew that was exhausting not only for Jinyoung, but also for him.

“Do you want to go out and see if a restaurant is open?”

“Can we?” Jinyoung quickly turned around and looked at his husband with eyes full of hope.

“Let's go.”

Jaebum set aside his work and stood up. He just put his denim jacket on and a black cap though it was the night so completely useless but since there was often a lot of paparazzi around their house, he liked to go out at least covered a bit to maintain a bit of privacy which he didn't really have anymore since he was married to the famous Park Jinyoung. The said man on his side let his light brown bangs falling over his eyes and he put a black mask which was covering half of his face. Like this, with their hands linked, they went out, ignoring the people around them whether they were fans, paparazzi or even strangers.

Every time they were passing by a restaurant which was still open at such a late hour of the night, Jaebum would insisted for Jinyoung to at least look at the menu in case he would find something which could satisfied his hunger, but Jinyoung would always said “it doesn't look good” without even looking at what they were offering and he kept on dragging his exhausted husband behind him. They walked around the whole neighborhood twice and went at least to three different districts without finding anything. Soon midnight was already behind them and they were on their way home with Jinyoung almost crying because he was so disappointed he couldn't find what he wanted when they saw this little shop stuck between two big buildings with a pink facade and light green writings. It was still opened and inside, a lot of young people were laughing and chatting with extra-large cups of very colorful and mouth-watering ice-creams in their hands. Without saying a word, Jinyoung dragged his husband inside the shop and he spent more than twenty minutes looking for something in particular, until he finally found it.

“This one!” he pointed at a bright pink ice-cream and grinned at the seller, “I want an extra-large cup of this one, the biggest cup you have!”

“And for you?” the seller asked Jaebum.

“The same,” he vaguely answered.

She nodded and the moment Jinyoung tasted the ice-cream, he closed his eyes and moaned in delight.

“It's perfect,” he said with his mouth full, “it's perfect! It's just what I wanted! Per-fect!”

Jaebum looked at his cup, the pink color of the thing somehow bothering him but the satisfied face of his husband made him tasted it too.

“It's watermelon flavored, right?” he asked Jinyoung who frantically nodded.

“It's so tasty and fresh and sweet, just like I wanted!”

Jaebum paid for everything and they finally went home, Jinyoung never stopping talking about how delicious the ice-cream was but at least, he went to bed satisfied and happy, so it also made Jaebum happy.

However, Jaebum wasn't expecting to find Jinyoung crying the next day when he want back home after his day at the university because he wanted watermelon ice-cream and they didn't have any at home. Not knowing what to do and seeing that Jinyoung wouldn't stop crying no matter what he told him, Jaebum gave up and went back to the shop to buy another big cup of ice-cream.

Little did he know that it would become his after school routine because Jinyoung was always craving for this particular ice-cream and didn't want to eat any other flavor. It was watermelon or nothing, except that he couldn't accept nothing and was crying when he didn't have his ice-cream.

And by the end of the week, when Jaebum was entering the shop, no matter which seller was there (they were three in total and Jaebum knew them all), he didn't even have to tell what he wanted, the seller would just smile and gave him an extra-large cup of watermelon ice-cream. “Please don't ever stop selling it,” he had even told the owner of the shop, “I don't want my husband to kill me because he can't have his favorite ice-cream.”

And two weeks later, when Jinyoung would wake up in the middle of the night begging for Jaebum to go and buy him his ice-cream, the oldest would just become so desperate that he had asked the shop owner where he could buy huge pot of ice-cream so that there would always be some at home and Jinyoung wouldn't bother his sleep again.

And even later in his pregnancy, Jinyoung never stopped eating the ice-cream. Even three months after he gave birth to a bouncing baby girl, he kept eating it. And even years later, Jinyoung was always giving his daughter with watermelon ice-cream and turned out that their girl became exactly like her father and would always want to have her ice-cream (she wasn't eating extra-large cups obviously, but to Jaebum's mind, she was eating way too much ice-cream anyway).

And even now that Jaebum and Jinyoung had divorced, Jaebum couldn't have gotten rid of the infamous watermelon ice-cream just because his daughter liked it too much. And he knew that this ice-cream would probably hunt him until the end of his life.

But he didn't really care anyway. If while he was married Jinyoung, it had made his husband happy, then it was alright and if now it was making his daughter happy, than it was more than alright, he would keep on buying it just to make sure his princess was happy. And if she was happy, so was he.

*

“Hi, hyung,” Youngjae panted and smiled when he entered the living room, two heavy plastic bags in his hands.

“Jae, babe!” Jaebum stood up and hurried to his lover's side, automatically grabbing the bags to relieve Youngjae, especially since he could have hurt himself and the baby by carrying heavy things, “where were you? Why didn't you answer your phone? I was worried!!”

Jaebum really was. Indeed, it was Thursday night and he knew Youngjae hadn't classes on the afternoon and when he had went home after his own day, his lover was nowhere to be found. And he called him at least twenty times without Youngjae answering. Obviously he couldn't help but being dead worried.

“I overheard Jaeha's conversation on the phone earlier and she was complaining because she apparently failed two tests she had on Tuesday and then she went to check if there was ice-cream in the freezer but there was none and she nearly cried, so I went out to buy her some. I didn't want her to be sad.”

“Thanks God,” Jaebum sighed relieved and kissed his boyfriend's forehead before tightly hugging him, “thanks God you're fine. But don't go around lifting heavy things just for Jaeha.”

“But I don't like to see her sad...” the younger one admitted.

“You're perfect, you know that?” Jaebum chuckled and pecked his lips before letting him go. He then cleared his throat and put his hand on his hips, “Im Jaeha!” he shouted, “come here!”

The girl opened the door of her bedroom and peeked at them, never daring to actually go out of her room as if she knew what was coming next.

“Y-yes?” she stuttered.

“How come you failed two tests? What happened? Why didn't you tell me?”

She quickly closed her door and even locked it. Jaebum couldn't help but smiling at her actions yet he kept his very strict tone and went to knock on her door.

Yes, Jaeha definitely needed a lot of ice-cream in the evening.

Hello! How are you all doing?

Here's the seventeenth chapter for you, with a flashback of Jinyoung and Jaebum's married life and more particulary Jinyoung during his pregnancy, and then it's a 2jae moment. I must admit I like this chapter a lot, because the first part shows how in love and devoted Jaebum is not only as a husband but also as a dad, he really passes his husband and his daughter before his own self. And the second part only confirms this, he cares a lot of Youngjae and for Jaeha too. No matter how many years flown by, he is still the same. 

And the watermelon ice-cream, I know it's very childish, but it's a link between Jinyoung and Jaeha. He is the one who introduced it to her and even when Jinyong and Jaebum divorced and she remained with her dad, Jaeha never stopped eating it. Uncounsciously, she finds comfort in the ice-cream which represents her father's presence by her side and at home while he is far away from her. Does that make any sense? I really hope so (if not, please tell me ^^')

So... voilà, I really hope you like this chapter and I'd be thankful if you could let me a comment to tell me what you thought about it. 

And also, I'd like to thank you for all the comments you left me on the previous chapter. I was really happy to read and to see you were still reading this story and still liking to, thank you a lot :D

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And PS, I have a request. If you'd like to leave me some prompts or scenarios you'd like to see the characters in, please tell me in the comments :) I'll try and see if I can write them and include them in the story :)

There, I'm done with this long AN!

xx

Mae