"Eunbi-ya!"

"Eomma!"

Eunha still has a smile on her face when she turned to answer her mom's call, a vestige of her recent phone call.

Unknown to her, the woman had actually been eyeing her for some time now and was just waiting for her presence to be acknowledged.

"Are you still not going inside, darling? It's quite late already." Her mother asked to which she just widened her smile and nodded her head.

"I think I still want to enjoy the night sky for a bit, Eomma."

"Aren't you sleepy? I thought you were 'bone tired' earlier?" Her mom quoted her words from when she arrived home late in the evening.

They were given a break for New Year and Eunha didn't waste a minute to ask her brother to pick her up from their dorm to which the latter happily obliged. And so, she was able to sit at dinner with her family.

"I think not anymore, Eomma. What about you? Aren't you going to sleep yet?" She eyed her mother curiously as the woman just looked at her with a hint of joy.

"Can I join you in your musings, then?" That surely had her in surprise and all of the sudden, she feels a like little girl again.

"Sure, Eomma." She replied with a lighthearted chuckle as she scooted a bit for her mom to sit on the same bench as her. Just then, she felt a warm fluffy thing around her shoulder. She looked to see that it's her mother's coat being shared with her. That made her feel even warmer as though her mother's coat had covered her heart, too. Subconsciously, she leaned her head on her mother's shoulder.

"Eomma," she called out to which the woman just hummed.

"I missed this."

"Which one?"

"Having a very warm Eomma, beside me. You are always warm."

The woman just chuckled and hummed in return as she tightened her arms around her daughter. 

"I hope, I can always go home like this." Eunha remarked as she nuzzled herself more to her mother's embrace.

"I hope so, too, darling."

"Do you have something in your mind, Eomma? You don't usually stay up this late." Eunha asked realizing it was indeed too late as only their front porch's light is on.

"I may or may have not and I just really want to have a time like this for my maknae."

"Eomma..." Eunha can't really explain it but hearing her mother treat her like she's a kid makes her want to just run through time and be a little kid again. She didn't know she'd needed this kind of treatment from her mom at this age.

"How about you? Do you have anything to share?"

Now, that had her taken aback. Eunha knows too well what this tone from her mom is- it means I