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seasons of youth

Summary:

jinyoung's just a normal ten year old kid, living with his mother and grandparents in busan.
however, jinyoung soon learns that he needs to move to seoul, in order to live with his father for one year.

or

jinyoung spends four seasons in seoul.
and during each season, he wishes even more he could stay.

Notes:

i have been writing this for nearly two months and though i've been on a hiatus for a while, i feel like i just need to get this fic out there before i end up changing my mind about it. it was originally going to be a oneshot, but i'm 15k words in right now and i think it's best to break it up into chapters.

like always, this is unbetaed.

so enjoy!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: prologue.

Chapter Text

Bae Jinyoung knew that he had a very unconventional family. 

His mother and father were both extremely young compared to the parents of his fellow classmates. Everyone else seemed to have parents that were in their mid to late-thirties, however Jinyoung's parents were not even thirty years old yet.  

Another strange thing Jinyoung noticed about his parents was that they didn't live together. Jinyoung lived with his mother and grandparents in Busan, but his father lived in Seoul. His father would visit about every two weeks and spend a weekend with him, however he never stayed at his mother's house. He would always be staying at a hotel that was nearby. 

Jinyoung also learned at an early age that his family name belonged to his mother, and not his father like how it was traditionally thought to be. Many people became confused about that, but they never asked Jinyoung as to why his name was like. Jinyoung never questioned it at all.  

Jinyoung was quite observant about his surroundings as well. There were no pictures of his mother and father together besides their high school graduation picture. However, they weren't the only two in that picture. The picture was taken with the entire graduation class, so his mother and father weren't even next to each other in the picture.  

He also noticed that his mother and father didn't wear rings to signify that they were married, which Jinyoung definitely thought was strange, but he never questioned it as well. 

He loved and trusted his parents. He knew they were only doing what was best for him.