“Appa! Are you on your way home? Did your boss let you leave early?” His cheerful, innocent voice brings a smile to Hoseok’s face, one that quickly falls as he thinks of the news he has to deliver.

“I’m sorry, Kukkungie,” he begins, and he can almost hear the shift in the child’s mood, “but I can’t come and get you tonight. My boss gave me this really important task, and he wants it done tonight… But I’ll make it up to you this weekend, okay? I promise, we’ll go see as many movies as you want, play all the games you want… It’ll be two days of anything you want to do, my little Kukkungie.”