Childish Games

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Twist Of Fate

Chapter 41

Childish Games

 

“Can I hear the story about the bee and the honey?” Ki Joon suddenly broke out amid watching an animation movie named ‘Big Hero 6’.

Ki Joon was seated between you and Yongguk. You stiffened in the couch, your eyes quickly turned to Yongguk, and you watched him closely to see his reaction.

Yongguk clenched his jaw, staring at the tv screen, and for a moment, he looked baffled as if he hadn’t expected Ki Joon to remember this.

He looked uncomfortable like earlier and baffled that Ki Joon still wouldn’t let go of the mention of the story. Ki Joon looked at the older man with his big eyes and innocent look.

“We will have that talk some other time.” Yongguk said. His voice was low and gruff.

You accidently snorted, but quickly placed a palm over your mouth to keep your mouth shut and you turned to look at Yongguk with wide eyes.

His sharp and dark eyes shot towards you, piercing into you, and you gulped hard. You cleared your throat. A small smile formed on your face and you gave Yongguk an innocent smile.

Yongguk stared at you for a moment with a deadpanned look, and you kept on smiling. If eyes could kill, you’d be long gone by that stare he gave you.

He sighed deeply, and you blinked your eyes a few times, smiling. He rolled his eyes and finally looking away. You looked the other way and giggled quietly to yourself.

You enjoyed seeing this side to Yongguk, where he is truly helpless. It was a rare sight, because he always seemed so cool and calm. It might be so silly, but you got thrilled.

“Have some popcorn.” Yongguk broke out.

He handed Ki Joon the bowl with popcorns and placed it on the boy’s lap. Ki Joon quickly grabbed the bowl.

Yongguk even stuffed a few popcorns into the boy’s mouth. You rolled your eyes, knowing he was trying to distract Ki Joon.

Ki Joon happily munched on the popcorns and stuffed more into his mouth. You shook your head, smiling and silently laughing.

Then your smile faded, you stiffened and stared out for a second. Yongguk had just tossed a popcorn at your head. You tipped your head to the side and stared at him.

Yongguk bit onto his bottom lip, grinning from ear to ear with this beam in his eyes that stirred something within you.

That was so childish, but you were surprised by yourself, because you wanted to smile, and you nearly did. However, you couldn’t lose your cool.  

You pursed your lips, narrowed your eyes, eyeing him with a warning look. He discreetly moved his hand into the bowl.

Then he reached his hand up with a popcorn, ready to aim, and you quickly dodged, when he tossed the popcorn at you. He missed his aim, because you were too quick.  

You gasped, baffled at his childish behavior. Ki Joon who was seated between the pair of you was distracted with the movie and didn’t know what Yongguk was doing.

You shot Yongguk a hard glare. However, your look didn’t affect him. Instead, he looked the other way and you could tell that he was enjoying it as his smile reached to his eyes.

Yongguk rubbed his bottom lip with the tip of his finger. He kept on smiling to himself, and you didn’t even know what was so funny about this. He just enjoyed annoying you.  

You reached your hand out, past Ki Joon, and gave Yongguk’s shoulder a light puff. He turned to look at you, and he was still grinning.

Then you frowned, noticing how his eyes drifted up to your head, and you sighed deeply, when you realized what that was so funny apparently.

You moved your hand up and ruffled your hair. The piece of popcorn fell to your lap, and you picked it up. You huffed aloud and rolled your eyes inwards. Yongguk returned his attention back to the movie.

You held the popcorn in your hand. Then you tossed the piece of popcorn back at Yongguk, hitting his nose with it, and he stiffened, unexpected. He closed his eyes for a second and became hard as stone. You burst out laughing at his expression.

Ki Joon turned to look at you and smiled, thinking you were laughing at the movie. You laughed louder.

You knew you were being petty, and this was childish. You were two grown adults, who tossed popcorns at each other, secretly so that your kid didn’t see it. You found it so amusing now.

Your head tipped back as your laughter became louder and tears welled in your eyes. You pressed your hand to your stomach. 

Your eyes were closed as you were laughing, but then you yelped, when you got hauled down from the couch by your ankle, your eyes widened of fear, your bum hit the floor hard, and you were suddenly on the floor.

“Yongguk?” You squealed, but he straddled you in the blink of an eye.

He had gripped your wrist and pinned you against the floor. How did this happen? you stiffened, staring into his eyes and his eyes bore in yours.

“Is it that fun, Kwon?” He asked.

“You started it.” You reminded and tried to wriggle your arms, but he tightened his hold on you. 

You were somehow breathing faster, and you noticed it. You froze. You could feel your skin heat up and prickle all over you. His thighs rubbed your sides, but he kept himself up from you.

Ki Joon suddenly jumped on Yongguk’s back, and he let out groan, falling on top of you completely. You gasped aloud, getting smashed underneath Yongguk.

Your heart was racing frantically now as Yongguk laid completely on top of you. You could feel his hard chest pressed against your bosom.

“I want to play too!” Ki Joon shouted, and pressed onto Yongguk, making Yongguk squeeze you more, and you groaned.

“Get up from me you two, right now!” You exclaimed.

“Why? Its fun?” Yongguk chuckled.

“You are such a big kid.” You groaned.

“C’mon, Kwon, play along.” Yongguk said as he lifted himself above you and your eyes locked.

“Let’s tickle!” Ki Joon squealed, and you protested, but the kid aimed for you.

You shut your eyes and screamed, when Ki Joon started to tickle your sides. You bit hard onto your bottom lip to suppress your laughter, and Yongguk kept you pinned to the floor whilst Ki Joon tickled your sides.

“Oh my God.. Sst-stop-haaaaahaaa.” You began to laugh.

“Tickle her feet!”

You heard Yongguk yell, and you shook your head.

“No-no!” You yelled.

Ki Joon was having too fun now and did as Yongguk said. The little boy grabbed onto your feet and started to tickle you, and this was your weak point. You burst out laughing and tears began to stream down your cheeks.

“Yo-Yongguk, make him s-ss-stop.” You said through giggles.

“Why?” He asked, and you shook your head as Ki Joon grabbed your other feet and began to tickle it.

“Please.” You whined.

Ki Joon’s bright laughter filled the place, along with Yongguk’s deep chuckles and your cries of pleas to make them stop.

Ki Joon was tickling your feet. Then you felt a pair of hands slide up your sides, and your eyes widened, your heart picked up pace and you knew whose hands those were.

Yongguk started to tickle you below your waist, and you writhed underneath him. He laughed aloud, his deep laugh shot through your chest, right into your heart, when you noticed the smile on his face and heard his laughs.

“Dam- you toad!” You nearly cursed in front of Ki Joon, and Yongguk noticed that and grinned bashfully.

Suddenly Yongguk leaped down to you, his lips brushed over your ear, a shudder instantly passed down your spine, and you tensed up underneath him.

You couldn’t focus on the fact that Ki Joon was tickling your legs now. All you could think about was the fact that Yongguk had straddled your lap with his weight.

He kept you locked, and you felt so small underneath him. He leaned so close to you that his warm breath ghosted down your neck, making it tickle on that spot.

“No cursing in front of the kid.” He whispered in your ear, pulled back, meeting your furious gaze with a grin on his face.

You reached your hands up, gripped onto his neck, making him stay in place, and you felt him stiffen on top of you.

“You just wait and see what I’ll do to you, you toad.” You whispered in his ear, and he reached his hands out and grasped your wrists.

He pulled your arms back, pinned them to the floor once again, and you writhed your body. But you knew it was almost impossible to get free, knowing he was much stronger than you.

“What can you do?” He asked teasingly, provoking you.

“Yongguk, get off me.” You whined, and he looked into your eyes with an unreadable look.

Your heart was hammering against your chest, and the pair of you became silent, but Ki Joon was still tickling you, although it didn’t quite tickle now.

Yongguk kept you pinned to the floor, and it was pointless to fight against him. Maybe you weren’t trying that hard either. You slowly relaxed underneath him.

Yongguk stared into your eyes for a moment, and you could hear your heart beating in your ears. You wondered if he could hear it too.

Your face began to heat up, you bit onto your bottom lip, feeling flustered, when you became aware of what type of situation you were in.

Then you stopped wriggling your body and stared at him with a helpless look. You saw a look in his eyes that you hadn’t seen before. It seemed like he was about to get up.

Just then, something unexpected happened, Ki Joon jumped on Yongguk’s back and began to tickle him instead of you.

Yongguk staggered back and you sighed of relief, when he fell from you. Ki Joon laughed loudly, and Yongguk let out a frustrated groan. You remained seated on the floor.

Thank God! You could finally breathe properly.

“Hey champ, you can’t do this to me.” Yongguk laughed, and Ki Joon giggled, but continued to tickle him.

Ki Joon sat on top of Yongguk and tickled his neck. Yongguk laughed with the boy, and you stood up. This was your chance to tame him.

You gazed down at Yongguk, and your eyes locked. He laid on the floor, gazing up at you. Finally, he was in a helpless situation, and you could take advantage of this opportunity to get your revenge.

“Kwon.” He warned, but you smiled deviously.

You knew he caught your devious look, because he suddenly looked at you with a panicked expression, and you grinned in return.

You jumped down, grabbed his left leg, and pulled his sock off his feet. You grabbed onto his leg firmly and he tried to wriggle his free.

“Kwon.” He raised his voice, warning, but you ignored him and proceeded.

“Revenge is sweet!” You exclaimed and started to tickle his feet.

Yongguk groaned, but soon he started to laugh, and you continued tickling underneath his feet. You couldn’t contain your laughter either.

“Kwon, quit it.” He warned.

“Told you, I’d get you back.” You said. “Who knew that Bang Yongguk is ticklish.” You laughed.

Ki Joon laughed and held onto his father as you tickled him. You laughed, and Yongguk tried to get up now. But that wasn’t about to happen.

This time, you pushed him down on the floor and seated on his lap. He looked up at you with a surprised look on his face, but you were acting quick. He seemed baffled.  

You grabbed his arms, holding him in place, and you had a feeling that he could jump up at any time, and pin you on the floor again. But the thing is that, he didn’t move. He could, but he didn’t.

“Stay put.” You ordered, and he froze.

He gazed at you with a surprised look on his face.

“What in the world.” He laughed wholeheartedly.

“You are not supposed to enjoy this, Bang.” You said, gazing down into his eyes, and a smile formed on his face.

“How can I not?” He asked with a grin and you stiffened.

You noticed that Ki Joon was laughing loudly as he was tickling Yongguk. A smile formed on your face now as you looked at Yongguk. Your heart was warming up and you pulled away from him.

It dawned on you that you were acting like a family with Yongguk, but Ki Joon was having so much fun, because of you and Yongguk.

Whenever the pair of you teased each other or did something silly in the presence of Ki Joon, the kid would always love it, and join the pair of you. It made you wonder, if real families teased each other like how the three of you did.

You gazed up at the television screen and noticed that the end credits were on, and the movie had apparently finished. You were all delved in the moment that you had forgotten all about the movie and the popcorns.

You missed out the end scene. Ki Joon stopped and finally realized that he hadn’t finished the movie.

“I didn’t see the end.” He said with a frown.

Your eyes flickered to Yongguk, who gathered himself and finally got up from the hard-wooden floor. His eyes flickered to the clock on the wall.

“It’s eight pm, Ki Joon-ah, you need to get to bed now. We can watch the movie again, tomorrow.” You said, and the boy sighed, but nodded.

“C’mon, kiddo, let’s go and wash up.” Yongguk said as he got up from the floor, and Ki Joon followed him.

He grabbed the boy’s hand. The two walked off to the stairs to wash their faces and brush their teeth together.

“I’ll clean up.” You said and Yongguk wavered his hand.

The guys quickly disappeared from your sight, and you began to clean up in the living room. You picked up the fallen popcorns on the couch and floor. You cleaned the coffee table and strode off to clean the kitchen.

There were only a few things on the counter that you needed to clean up. You emptied the washing machine and added the dirty dish and started the machine. Once that was done, you walked up to the boys.

~❋~

The sounds of the two guys in the bathroom made you stop in front of the closed door. You stood still, secretly eavesdropping.

“Brush your back teeth.”

You heard Yongguk say.

“This toothpaste tastes so sweet, like candy, I want to eat it.” Ki Joon said.

“No.” Yongguk burst out and you could hear the panic in his voice. “It’s not food, son, you can’t eat that.” Yongguk quickly explained afterwards.

“Can you buy candies that have toothpaste taste? Which I can eat?” Ki Joon asked innocently.

You leaned against the wall and placed your palm on your mouth, smiling as you listened. There was a moment of silence and you could tell that Yongguk was really wondering.

“I actually don’t know, pumpkin. We can see in the candy store.” Yongguk suggested.

There was another moment of silence.

“What does it taste like?” Yongguk asked.

“Hmm.” Ki Joon was thinking for a while and you couldn’t help but to smile.

“Like marshmallows.” Ki Joon said.

“You can buy marshmallows, but don’t eat your toothpaste. Its not good for your stomach.” Yongguk explained.

“Okay.” Ki Joon chimed.

The two of them were so sweet together. Your heart warmed up. Yongguk knew just how to be a good father. He knew how to explain things so well to Ki Joon.

“You need to brush your teeth now. It’s getting late.” Yongguk said.

“Are you and Sera going to sleep in one room?”

You froze with wide eyes at the unexpected question from Ki Joon. He was still thinking about the things he had heard Beom Soo say.

“Yes, of course. Sera is your mom, I’m your dad, and we will share a room from now on, we’ll never sleep in separate rooms.” Yongguk said.

“Okay.” Ki Joon chimed, sounding happy now.

You had almost for a moment forgotten all about sharing the room with Yongguk, and it dawned on you. You grabbed onto your blouse and idly played with the fabric.

“Beom Soo said that those parents, who sleep in separate rooms break up. You and Sera won’t break up?” Ki Joon asked.

Oh my God.

You covered your mouth with your palms.

“No, my son, why do think that? I care about your mom, I won’t ever leave her.” Yongguk said, and you froze.

You were about to enter the room, but you stopped upon hearing Yongguk’s words, because he sounded so genuine, so honest that he could even make you believe in his words.

“Does Sera care.. care.. about you too?” He asked in his little voice, and you just couldn’t stay hidden in the hall any longer.

“Of course, I do.” You said as you stepped inside the room and the boys looked at you.

You walked up to Yongguk and he stood still, staring at you. For a moment, he looked surprised, but then he realized that you had heard their conversation.

You grabbed onto Yongguk’s arm and you could feel his eyes on you, but you were looking at your kid. Ki Joon gave you a smile.

“Yongguk and I won’t leave each other.” You said, and in that moment, Yongguk moved his hand up your back.

Ki Joon stood on his stool in front of the sink with his toothbrush in hand whilst looking up at the pair of you.

“Come sweetheart, we will tug you to bed.” You added softly.

The pair of you grabbed the little boy’s hands and helped him jump down from the stool. He let out a small laugh and you glanced up at Yongguk.

Your eyes met briefly, but it was as though you knew what he was thinking. He gave you a small smile that made you calm down. You walked out to the hall with the boy. 

Ki Joon ran to his bed and jumped into it. You sat at his bed beside him, and Yongguk sat at your opposite side. The pair of you grabbed Ki Joon’s hands.

“Do you want a goodnight story?” You asked, and Ki Joon nodded.

You stood up and went to grab a book from the book shelf, when Ki Joon broke out.

“Can you read Goldilocks?” He asked.

You grabbed the book which Ki Joon wanted to read aloud. Yongguk had bought a lot of old story books for Ki Joon.

Yongguk believed that it would be good for Ki

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seoul_lover
Hello everyone, it’s been too long. I’ve published a chapter. If you’re still here, and reading, kindly leave a comment after reading. Hope everyone has been well and that life is treating you kindly <3

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DolphinWorld
1976 streak #1
Chapter 5: It was nice to see them bonding with Ki Joon and in turn, him slowly opening up to them. And Yongguk's behaving this way towards her because he's kinda jealous of things unknowingly right? LoL... Setting my delulu mind aside, he's gotta change and not be like those elementary boys who are rude to their crush. Nonetheless, I hope they get to know each other better soon. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to fool their family this way. Anyway, I will be back later to read more ^^
DolphinWorld
1976 streak #2
Chapter 4: Ooh, Ki Joon is here finally!! But like Taec said, it's gonna take him some time to get used to the new environment and to also think of them as his mom and dad. But when they get there, it's gonna be really nice. And in that time, he's gonna bring in some romance between his adopted parents. Can't wait to read how things would go herein. But will be back later to do so ^^
DolphinWorld
1976 streak #3
Chapter 3: Hahaha when she thought there was some intruder, I was expecting it to be one of the other boys. Definitely didn't expect it would turn out this way. I laughed really hard. Like Yongguk, I think their cohabitation would be fun too. And I went through your blog to look at all the pictures at once. It was nice to have a visual aid for all those room. And I can't wait for Ki Joon's arrival. Will be back later to read more ^^
DolphinWorld
1976 streak #4
Chapter 2: Sera's and Taec's friendship is sweet. Hope there won't be a love triangle or something later. Also, can't wait to see Ki Joon. BTW isn't Poodle one of the hypoallergenic dog breeds? Tigger is a poodle right? That's what I remember reading but correct me if I was wrong. Anyway, now that she has gotten his address, wonder when she'll move in and how things turn develop (fights or so) before Ki Joon gets home. Will be back later to read more ^^
DolphinWorld
1976 streak #5
Chapter 1: Read the first chapter and gotta say it was a pretty good start. Definitely didn't expect the adoption to start this way. I'm definitely looking forward to their cohabitation. I'm sure they are gonna bicker all the time Ki Joon wasn't around. And speaking of Ki Joon, I'm curious of one thing. When you explained his backstory, I failed to understand this part. Is he N.Korean by origin/blood and lost his parents while trying to defect to S.Korea? Did I understand that part correctly? Anyway, I can't wait to read more. But will be back later to do so ^^
DolphinWorld
1976 streak #6
Hi there, I came across your story while searching for something interesting to read. The plot sounds different and intriguing. But before I started reading this, I just wanted to check that this story isn't on hiatus or discontinued. I hope to hear from you soon ^^
MoonloverXD
#7
Yongguk frustrates me, like he can read Kwon like an open book but he is so closed that we don't know what he thinks or feels.
the-94liner #8
Chapter 75: Yay welcome back and thanks for the new chapter ❤️ All the best for final year, remember to take timely breaks :) Fighting!!
SummerLuv #9
Chapter 75: Yong guk is so difficult to read lol. I'm very confused by his emotions and actions sometimes 😂
jayhyun
#10
Chapter 75: Thanks for the updates author.... do please take a rest, and don't push yourself too hard..❤️