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“Are you sure about this?”
Is what a wary Byungchan asks, glancing from Sungwoon’s face to the other male next to him, Jinhyuk. Both males just nod with a matching pair of bright smiles on their faces and he can see they really are, it's not a spur of the moment decision, they’ve clearly talked about this before.
But still, Byungchan can’t help but feel uncertain about what his close friends just told him they will do.
“Don’t you two think it's too soon?”
Byungchan slowly nods in agreement with the question the other male, Gukheon who sits next to him, asks but the smiles on their friends’ faces don’t dim at all, if anything they don’t seem to understand why they are not excited for them, surely they should be congratulating them, right?
After all, they are taking a big step in their lives, their small family of two is about to become a family of three!
Maybe they shouldn’t have kept their planning a secret but they didn’t want to tell anyone until they had confirmation, they had sent in the necessary paperwork a couple months ago having to wait for it to process and then hope they didn’t have to be on the queue list too long.
Both Gukheon and Byungchan sighed in defeat, it was not the first time their friends took such an important decision so quickly, after all, they had eloped soon after finishing university and they were going pretty strong 2 years after, but this decision, adopting a kid together, could affect said kid too and not only the couple.
Jinhyuk and Sungwoon had met at their university’s library, the younger boy had asked if he could sit with the other as no other desk was available, it was during a pretty hectic semester period. Sungwoon had taken notice of the other’s struggle with his studies, a subject he had already taken and passed the year before and he had offhandedly offered his help.
It was as simple as that that their lives intertwined.
They always knew the other also had a desire to form a family, both adored kids and thrived in the company of other people especially close friends or family members so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that 2 years after their marriage they were about to adopt a kid of their own.
The day they meet their baby boy, Yohan a 2-year-old toddler, they both can’t hold back the tears. The staff of the orphanage smile warmly at them, relief on their hearts as it's so clear the boy will be in a very loving home now after having been abandoned by his own mother, a young teenage girl who with tears streaming down her face bid goodbye to him months after his birth.
Jinhyuk’s mother had offered to help them take care of Yohan for the first couple of days so they could get comfortable and properly learn how to take care of him on their own, both males welcomed the help. They threw a small party at their small apartment to celebrate the new addition to their family, friends and family come to meet Yohan and surprise the now parents with presents for their baby.
It comes as a surprise to their friends and family when Seungwoo and Jinhyuk, two years after adopting Yohan, come to the decision of getting a divorce.
They assure everyone they're ok with it, they had naturally fallen out of love and were thankful in a bittersweet way it was mutual, at some point they had realized the reason they were still together was only because of Yohan who they wanted to grow up in a happy and healthy home. It didn't mean they were not hurting because it did, but they accepted it, they were still good friends and would do their best for Yohan.
The process of their separation is, of course, a smooth one, they agree on Yohan staying with Seungwoo on the weekdays and the weekends with Jinhyuk who moves away from their small apartment into his own place closer to his workplace.
Byungchan tells Seungwoo one Sunday night over a couple beers as they watch TV at his place, months after his divorce, how proud he is of them for having taken such a difficult decision and how well they have handled it, he meant to make his friend happy after noticing how absentminded he had been all evening but he gets a totally different reaction.
Seungwoo breaks down, confessing he had made a big mistake and had not found the courage to tell anyone but needed to let it off his chest, begging Byungchan to not judge him too harshly and to not tell a soul, promising he will tell them himself because there was no point in hiding it for much longer. Byungchan worried had accepted, a thousand scenarios playing in his mind each one worse than the last one.
"I got a girl pregnant,"
He had gone out a couple times after the divorce, stupidly trying to nurse the stinging pain with alcohol and a pretty face to accompany him for the night. Not even a month into it he stopped but that was enough time for screwing up.
The young girl was still a university student and had come looking for him unannounced on a Friday night, her expression turning even darker when Seungwoo confused opened the door with an already tired Yohan in his arms. When he opened the door, he had been expecting Jinhyuk who should be arriving to pick up their son. When Jinhyuk arrives a couple minutes after the girl had left, he worriedly asks him if something is wrong but Seungwoo just blames it on a stressful day at work.
Seungwoo asks Jinhyuk to sit down the Friday after his breakdown at Byungchan's place, Yohan unable to understand what is going on plays with his toys on the carpet in front of them. Jinhyuk is understanding and Seungwoo doesn't know why he expected anything else from him.
Yohan gains a new dad when Jinhyuk remarries. Wooseok and Jinhyuk had been friends since before Jinhyuk's divorce, he was honestly one of the reasons he realized he didn't love Seungwoo anymore when he found himself feeling differently for Wooseok and while he could tell it was mutual they never acknowledged said attraction, not until months after the divorce took place.
Yohan's family becomes bigger once again when Han Dongpyo is born. The girl didn't want anything to do with neither her son or Seungwoo, especially after learning Yohan's other parent is also a male and so he becomes obtains the full custody of his new son, the mother sending the child support she is obligated to without fail thanks to her parents.
Jinhyuk sees the way Seungwoo struggles to take care of both Yohan and Dongpyo , understands it's not an easy feat and so he keeps telling him he can ask for his help anytime but Seungwoo keeps waving him off at first, saying he must be responsible for his actions and Jinhyuk needs to take Wooseok into consideration.
That's why its Wooseok who picks up Yohan the next Friday, assuring him he doesn't have to worry about him and how he also wants to help him. Seungwoo accepts their offer a couple weeks after, suggesting Yohan stays the weekdays with them instead and the married couple agrees.
Yohan is eight years old, with three loving fathers, lots of uncles and aunts, three pairs of grandparents that love to spoil him, a baby brother he loves helping his Seungwoo Dad take care of on the weekends when he's asked by Appa Jinhyuk and Daddy Wooseok how would he feel about getting a new brother or sister.