Mir spent a few days down at Jangsung in peace, rekindling the father-son relationship before he decided to go back to Seoul. He figured he couldn't just stay there despite he had been dreaming to just spend the rest of his life quietly in Jangsung but he couldn't ignore his other life back in Seoul.

          Although he was unable to go back to his schedule right away, at least he could keep up with the composing class and trained his rap skill even more.

          So, here was Mir, back in his family apartment in Seoul. What he didn't expect there, was Eunah.

          He could have escaped trouble after keeping his surgery secret from his family if it was only his mother and Hyosun but if it was Eunah...

          "Bang Cheolyong."

          Her voice was not raised yet cold, just as cold as her gaze now.

          Mir fidgeted under that intense stare, knowing he was in for a lot of trouble but was surprised when he felt arms around his waist instead and that familiar whiff of shampoo that smell like roses. And then he realized Eunah was embracing him.

          "You really..." Eunah sigh, pulling Mir a bit closer. "I honestly don't know what to do with you."

          Mir smirked, letting his arms enclosing around Eunah's smaller figure. "Don't do anything. Just watch me from aside. I'll be able to go through this with my own strength."

          Eunah pulled away, pinching Mir's cheeks. "You really going to kill me with worries one day." She scolded, pausing to peck on Mir's nose. "Is it still painful?"

          Mir thought there was more to that question other than enquiry to his physical pain from his back problem, so he answered catering to what he thought. "I'll get used to it."

          "It's not good to get used to pain." Eunah whispered. "I don't even like the idea of it."

          Mir shrugged. "Since it's not going to go away anyway, why not just learn to live with it."

          "Cheolyong-ah-"

          "Ani, noona. You know I'm right." Mir cut her off, pulling away completely. "I want to see Hajin." He brightened up his smile and stepped around Eunah, heading into the apartment space with hope Eunah would finally drop the subject.

          He wanted to not think too much for the time being.

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Seungho had heard from Cho Dongwoon that Mir was back in Seoul. Since then, he had been visiting Mir almost every day. The first few days of visit only filled with silence and exchanged glances from each other.

          After that, the atmosphere around them slightly improved when Hajin became the subject of conversation and Seungho could see how fond Mir was towards his nephew.

          It was slowly getting better when after that, Mir initiate their conversation, albeit it was only to ask about the group's activities and the schedules which Mir regretfully had to omit.

          And today, Seungho brought an assortment cookies he knew was Mir's favorite and went with a high hope for it to be even better that the day before. Once he was there, he exchanged a friendly greeting with Mir's mother and sister before heading towards Mir's room. He was practically family by now. There was no forbidden area for him in this house basically.

          He was expecting Mir hanging around in the room, reading his manga again but what he found was somewhat better. Mir was on the bed sleeping with Hajin, seemingly just awake by the sound of Seungho opening the door, now was crawling all over Mir, playing with Mir's nose and hair, making his baby noise that only him understood.

          "Hajin-ah~" Seungho cooed and the baby giggled at Seungho, happy that Seungho was here to play with him.

          Before Seungho able to pick the baby up, Mir stirred and brought Hajin into his arms like teddy bear, shifting into more comfortable position and snored some more.

          "Yah~ You're going to suffocate the kid." Seungho laughed, smacking Mir's arm.

          Mir was a heavy sleeper so he wasn't even a bit affected but that was until Hajin started on his finger hungrily. His uncle instinct woke him up. "Are you hungry?" Mir asked groggily, sitting up only to topple back again when his head crash against Seungho who was hovering over him.

          "Oww!" Seungho fall onto the bed as well, holding his nose.

          Mir rubbed his forehead, groaning in pain.

          Only Hajin was giggling.

          "Don't laugh at other people pain!" Mir and Seungho hissed in sync at the baby but unable to help the smile at such aegyo from the little baby.

          "Good morning." Mir crawled back to Hajin and kissed the soft plump cheek, purposely blowing raspberry to hear some more of that baby laughter. Ah~ Such a nice sound.

          Seungho ruffled Mir's bed hair but he was taken aback by his own unconscious action and awkwardly pulled back his hand, stuffing it into his pocket when Mir looked at him weirdly.

          Mir didn't say anything as he picked up Hajin to give him to Mrs. Bang for feeding before washing his face and finally plopped down on the couch in the living room, switching the TV on, flipping through the channel until he saw the show featuring MBLAQ but of course without him for he was still resting. He didn't feel like watching when he noticed the other members had been mentioning him quite a lot and chose to watch the music bank instead.

          Not to mention in his eyes, with only four members of MBLAQ, even without him, the group seemed perfect.

          It left bitter taste inside his mouth.

          It wasn't long before Seungho joined him and put a plastic bag on his laps. Mir looked at the plastic bag questioningly. "What is this?"

          "Just some snacks."

          Mir rummaged through the bag, blinking a few times. "This is my favorite." Mir mumbled.

          "Oh, really? Good for you." Seungho pretend ignorance.

          Mir inhaled. They never talked about the issues between them and Mir wished to stay like this longer. However he knew they couldn't avoid talking about it forever.

          Mir shook his head at the thought. He would think about it later. "Thanks." Mir opened the pack, sharing with Seungho.

          "I thought sesame player is on right now. Aren't you going to watch it?"

          "Humm..." Mir responded absentmindedly but he didn't change the channel. Not when Girls Generation are on the screen.

          Seungho snorted, knowing well Mir was not listening to him. They spend the rest of the morning like every other day. Simply sit next to each other, sharing food and sometimes exchanged a few words, mostly to comment about their work line, seldomly went into private talk.  

          Even then, it was the moment both of them appreciate.