Jaehyun is surprised when he is met by a bright smile from a staff member and a ‘finally you are here’

‘Why did mark do something’ he enquired as he followed the nursery assistant that worked in his son’s class. Mark was recently moved from the nursery room to the pre-school rooms and it was taking him awhile to settle in the environment with that mind Jaehyun was panicking at what could’ve happened.

‘Oh no nothing bad, it’s just that he seemed to have formed a strong hate-love relationship with another child’ she paused to open the first gate that blocked access to the stairs. The pre-school rooms where on the third floor. ‘A little girl called Ino, energetic with bright blond hair’.

Butterflies erupted in his tummy not at the thought of the girl but at the thought of her dad. This was a great opportunity to talk to him he thought as he held down the smile that was about to spread across his face. he couldn’t wait.

‘Ah I think I have seen her, I guess it is the usual fighting and playing with the same toys then’ They have now reached the second floor and he was left to close the gate behind them.

‘It is exactly that, wanting to do the same things but they have grown attached to each-other and Ino refuses to leave him now, we have all given up on coaxing her to leave mark behind’

while she laughed the activity in Jaehyun’s tummy tripled. The beautiful man with the amazing smile was there to collect his daughter who is now besties with his son. The possibility of getting said man’s number had his brain stumbling around trying to catch up to all the ‘what could bes’. They made it into the room smoothly albeit a little struggle with closing the gate from Jaehyun.

There he was, today wearing a slightly oversized blue denim jumper and a bandanna around his forehead and he looked absolutely delectable. The smile Jaehyun has come to love the past weeks was there, his hair has the slightly messed up look to them; it looked really fluffy and the way his eyes crinkled –

‘Daddy! Look Martha my dad is here we can go’

his son had spotted him and Jaehyun was glad he didn’t want to embarrass himself by staring for too long. Mark had a relatively sensitive skin and it became a normal occurrence for mark to have a mark from playing around weekly, except normally the marks were around his knees or forearms and never his forehead. Ino also had a bright mark on her cheek and Jaehyun paled at the thought that his son could’ve done that but looking at the way the two kids held each-other’s hands and their bright smiles they looked too innocent to have caused physical damage to each-other.

‘Yes mark dad is here shall we go home’ he gave a hug to his son who was still holding Ino’ hand and gave his dad a side hug.

‘I made a new friend today meet Ino dad, her eyes are so pretty too look’ his son’s excitement was leaking everywhere and it was hard to not smile.

‘Hi marky’s dad I am Ino pleased to meet you’ Jaehyun couldn’t help but coo silently as she proudly stuck her free hand out, puffed out her chest and gave a toothy grin so wide that her eyes practically disappeared into slits.

Shaking her small hand Jaehyun smiled as widely as he could and said ‘Nice to meet you too Ino, was mark a good boy today?’

‘Yes he was a good boy but he snatched my favourite ball toy from me and pinched me’ she pulled her hand out of the shocked mark’s hand and crossed them over her chest. As soon as she pouted her dad let out a loud laugh

‘Ino that is not fair you pinched him too right buba?’ Jaehyun’s breath caught in his throat as her dad slid down on his knees next to Jaehyun and attempted to hug his daughter who still had arms crossed and now her eyebrows furred. Mark then decided it was a good idea to join the conversation

‘Ino pinched me in my forehead she pulled really hard’ and now both kids were facing Ino’s dad and trying to get their sob-story across to him. Jaehyun made eye-contact with him and said ‘I will go get their jackets has Ino got a bag?’

‘No she doesn’t and thank you’

‘No problem’ 

Once he made it back to the trio Jaehyun found them all near the door seemingly waiting for him, the kids looked like they were back to being friends.

‘Hey I’m back’ With how busy the stairs was (due to parents coming to collect their children) they didn’t have much time to talk until they were outside the day-care and had actually walked to the park in front.

‘Which way are you and mark going?’ Jaehyun early got a whiplash with how fast he turned to face the other dad who was looking shyly at the floor or at his joined hand with Ino. He looked too

Jaehyun is surprised when he is met by a bright smile from a staff member and a ‘finally you are here’

‘Why did mark do something’ he enquired as he followed the nursery assistant that worked in his son’s class. Mark was recently moved from the nursery room to the pre-school rooms and it was taking him awhile to settle in the environment with that mind Jaehyun was panicking at what could’ve happened.

‘Oh no nothing bad, it’s just that he seemed to have formed a strong hate-love relationship with another child’ she paused to open the first gate that blocked access to the stairs. The pre-school rooms where on the third floor. ‘A little girl called Ino, energetic with bright blond hair’. Butterflies erupted in his tummy not at the thought of the girl but at the thought of her dad. This was a great opportunity to talk to him he thought as he held down the smile that was about to spread across his face. he couldn’t wait.

‘Ah I think I have seen her, I guess it is the usual fighting and playing with the same toys then’ They have now reached the second floor and he was left to close the gate behind them.

‘It is exactly that, wanting to do the same things but they have grown attached to each-other and Ino refuses to leave him now, we have all given up on coaxing her to leave mark behind’ while she laughed the activity in Jaehyun’s tummy tripled. The beautiful man with the amazing smile was there to collect his daughter who is now besties with his son. The possibility of getting said man’s number had his brain stumbling around trying to catch up to all the ‘what could bes’.

They made it into the room smoothly albeit a little struggle with closing the gate from Jaehyun. There he was, today wearing a slightly oversized blue denim jumper and a bandanna around his forehead and he looked absolutely delectable. The smile Jaehyun has come to love the past weeks was there, his hair has the slightly messed up look to them; it looked really fluffy and the way his eyes crinkled –

‘Daddy! Look Martha my dad is here we can go’ his son had spotted him and Jaehyun was glad he didn’t want to embarrass himself by staring for too long. Mark had a relatively sensitive skin and it became a normal occurrence for mark to have a mark from playing around weekly, except normally the marks were around his knees or forearms and never his forehead. Ino also had a bright mark on her cheek and Jaehyun paled at the thought that his son could’ve done that but looking at the way the two kid held each-other’s hands and their bright smiles they looked too innocent to have caused physical damage to each-other.

‘Yes mark dad is here shall we go home’ he gave a hug to his son who was still holding Ino’ hand and gave his dad a side hug.

‘I made a new friend today meet Ino dad, her eyes are so pretty too look’ his son’s excitement was leaking everywhere and it was hard to not smile. ‘HI marky’s dad I am Ino pleased to meet you’ Jaehyun couldn’t help but coo silently as she proudly stuck her free hand out, puffed out her chest and gave a toothy grin so wide that her eyes practically disappeared into slits. Shaking her small hand Jaehyun smiled as widely as he could and said ‘Nice to meet you too Ino, was mark a good boy today?’

‘Yes he was a good boy but he snatched my favourite ball toy from me and pinched me’ she pulled her hand out of the shocked mark’s hand and crossed them over her chest. As soon as she pouted her dad let out a loud laugh ‘Ino that is not fair you pinched him too right buba?’ Jaehyun’s breath caught in his throat as her dad slid down on his knees next to Jaehyun and attempted to hug his daughter who still had arms crossed and now her eyebrows furred. Mark then decided it was a good idea to join the conversation ‘Ino pinched me in my forehead she pulled really hard’ and now both kids were facing Ino’s dad and trying to get their sob-story across to him. Jaehyun made eye-contact with him and said ‘I will go get their jackets has Ino got a bag?’

‘No she doesn’t and thank you’

‘No problem’

Once he made it back to the trio Jaehyun found them all near the door seemingly waiting for him, the kids looked like they were back to being friends. ‘Hey I’m back’

With how busy the stairs was (due to parents coming to collect their children) they didn’t have much time to talk until they were outside the day-care and had actually walked to the park in front.

‘Which way are you and mark going?’ Jaehyun early got a whiplash with how fast he turned to face the other dad who was looking shyly at the floor or at his joined hand with Ino. He looked too cute.

There wasn’t anyone close by enough to realise if Jaehyun got rejected or not so he was going to go for it 3  2   1

Smirking ‘My name is Jaehyun, sorry about what Mark did to Ino’s cheek may I have your phone number so I can compensate the damage’ the other looked up with wide eyes

‘w-what wait no it’s fine you don’t need to compensate I mean Ino hurt him a well it is fine and …‘ Jaehyun stared waiting for him to finish his sentence and to hopefully make eye-contact with him again. No matter how pretty his hair was the eyes of the stranger were so much more expressive and -

‘My name is Yuta and this is my daughter Ino hahaha, her mum and I have broken up a while back and yes she gets the blond hair from her mum practically all her features from her mum to be honest, I am guessing mark takes after his mum as well’ Yuta was scratching in neck in nervousness and the action made Jaehyun’s tummy clench in bitterly. When he finally got a chance to talk to his crush he finds that there is a higher chance of his crush being straight than gay why was the world so cruel.

‘Actually no, my ex and I adopted mark when he was like 2 and a half years old so he grew up with us’

‘Ah I’m actually bi myself…’ maybe there was hope left for Jaehyun

‘Really?’

‘lately I have been feeling more gay than bi or anything else hahaha’ Jaehyun must’ve shot him a surprised look because he carried on ‘I know a lot of people feel shocked at my uality when they know that Ino is my actual biological daughter’

‘Oh no it’s fine I am not judging or even surprised, my ex is with a girl now hahaha I feel like I scared him off boys or something’ Yuta laughed out loud and Jaehyun smiled softly at the sight.

‘Papa can we get chicken on the way home for dinner’ Ino’s tiny voice penetrated the little gazes Yuta and Jaehyun were sending each-other.

‘But papa cooked pasta Ino’ Jaehyun couldn’t help but fondly stare at the two pouting at each-other.

‘But your pasta doesn’t taste nice papa’ at this statement from Ino, Mark tighten his hold on Jaehyun’s hand and burst out with ‘My dad’s pasta is the best do you want to eat at my house’

‘Mark we need-‘ But it was too late

‘Papa lets go to marky’s house please papa please I will be the best princess in the whole universe promise’ with the way Yuta rolled his eyes at Ino’s words Jaehyun assumed it was a normal occurrence.

‘Maybe we can do that next week if you two behave really really amazingly extra well hmm’ he offered not really wanting to break the puppy dog eye fight between Yuta and Ino. Both children straighten their backs and mark practically screamed ‘we promise daddy we promise’

Both dad’s shot each-other look and carried walking through the park. Jaehyun could almost pretend that this was a date if he tried hard enough. Mark really seemed to warm up the Nakamotos as he chatted freely with Yuta and Ino and briefly Jaehyun wondered how it must’ve felt to be Yuta’s child.

‘Yuta can I get your phone number so –‘ and before he can finish his sentence Yuta already had his phone out with a big smile and red ears. Jaehyun smirked at the sight.

‘Yes of course you can have my number’ Yuta’s cheeks went up in flames as he realised how excited he sounded ‘yeah we need to talk about Ino an’ mark of course’

‘Yes of course’

And both went to their respective bus stops as it turned out that lived in opposite areas. Jaehyun felt satisfied at finally having the phone number of the Japanese (as he found out) and he honestly could not wait to get to know him further. He was already giddy like a child at Christmas at his interaction with the cute Yuta.

Later that night Yuta received a text message

J: The kids don’t have to be the only things we can talk about you know

Y: What else can we talk about then Mr Jung J

J:Well Mr Nakamoto we can talk about the hot Japanese single dad at the day care my little mark goes to, I have been crushing on him like a 13 year old for weeks and weeks now and now that I have finally got his number and name I was wondering how I can ask him out on a date

Y: Hmm I think I have a solution to your problem

j: YOU DO! Please do share your expertise

Y: Ask him tomorrow in person with a single rose

j; I think I will do that, do you think he will say yes

Y: YES 

Y: of course he will say yes why would he say no?

J: Are you sure

Y: A little birdy told me that the hot Japanese thought that you looked handsome but was too afraid to approach you in case he died of a heart attack case by a dimpled smile

That night Jaehyun went to sleep after he pre-ordered a single red rose.