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Today was a Saturday and Jaehyun had invited Johnny and his family to come over at his work since they’re holding a fundraising event. The employees’ families and friends can come visit and enjoy good food, music, and fun games.
“Is Ankle Markie gonna be there?” Was the first thing Jisung asked once they parked the car at the designated parking area for the visitors.
“No, Uncle Markie has work today. But we’ll visit him tomorrow at the café.” Comes Kun’s quick explanation.
“Okay.”
“Is everyone ready to have some fun today?!” Johnny exclaims.
“Yes, let’s go. Sungie’s getting antsy already.” Kun laughs.
The three exit the car and made their way inside the building. Once they exit the elevator, the three were welcomed by loud music blaring through entire floor and party decorations all round. Johnny sends a quick text to Jaehyun telling them that they’ve arrived and where to meet them. Jaehyun replies seconds later and tells them to meet them by the food court area. As the three weave their way, Jisung couldn’t help but be amazed by it all. It’s his first time coming to a place this crowded and noisy and Kun was scared that Jisung might be overwhelmed by it all, but once he saw that Jisung was smiling while walking through the commotion, he could finally breathe a breath that he’s been holding since the night before.
“Ah, there he is!” Johnny points to Jaehyun’s general direction. He was with a man much smaller than Jaehyun and is manning the grill.
“Hyung! Kun hyung! So glad you could make it!” Jaehyun greets while giving a half hug to the two. “And my favorite person in the whole wide world!” Jaehyun coos as he kneels down to Jisung’s height. “How’s my favorite Sungie doing today?”
“I’m okay, Ankle Jae. Just noisy.”
“But you’re having fun, right?” Jaehyun tries again.
“Euhm!” Jisung finally nods in agreement.
“Great!” Jaehyun exclaims as he picks up Jisung and carries the toddler to his co – worker. “Sungie, this is Ten. Or uncle Ten.” Jaehyun points to the man he was with earlier. “He’s Ankle Jae’s friend.” Ten waves to Jisung and Jisung waves shyly back.
“Hello.” Jisung greets as he hides his face in Jaehyun’s neck.
“Hyungs, this is Ten. We’re running the hamburger joint together!” Jaehyun introduces his co – worker.
“Ten? Oh, my God! Hi! It's been a while!” Johnny greets and extends his hand to shake. “You remember Kun, right?” Johnny motions to Kun.
“Oh, Kun? Qian Kun?” Ten shakes Kun’s hand as well.
“It has been a while!” Kun beams.
“Yeah! I didn’t hear much from you after we finished our first semester.”
“Yeah, things just became crazy afterwards.” Kun says cautiously while glancing at Johnny.
"But it's nice to know that you and Johnny are still together to this day! I heard you both got married!"
"Yeah!" Johnny proudly announces. "And there's our little one!"
“Then, since we’re all alumni’s, your orders’ on me!” Ten announces.
“Hey! No fair! Why do they get free food and I don’t? We all graduated from the same university, you know?” Jaehyun protests.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know you existed until we both worked here.” Ten deadpans.
“Sungie, when you grow older, you avoid people like them, alright? They bring nothing but pain.” Jaehyun pouts.
“Hm, I wonder who’s the toddler between the two of them.” Ten remarks.
“Okay, now you’re just being mean.”
“Here’s your burgers! Enjoy! And feel free to roam around!” Ten smiles as he hands out their order.
“Baobei, come with us. Uncle Jae has to work, okay? We’ll come back to him later!” Kun instructs.
“Okay.” Jisung nods as he makes grabby hands towards Johnny.
“We’ll see you in a while.” Johnny says as he carries Jisung. Both Ten and Jaehyun gave them a wave before bickering once more. Johnny and Kun on the other hand, make their way deeper into the floor in search of something interesting so as to avoid Jisung getting bored.
“Oh, look at this, bub! It’s a claw machine! Do you wanna see how it works?” Johnny points to the claw machine.
“Good luck emptying your pocket with that.” Kun teases as he takes Jisung and carries him. “You know those things are rigged, right?”
“If I still can’t win anything after my fifth attempt, then I’m calling Jaehyun.”
“It’s a fundraising event, he’s not going to help you with that.”
“Hey, brothers first, you know?”
“Okay, whatever floats your boat.” Kun teases in Chinese.
Ten minutes and five thousand won later, Johnny has yet to get Koongya out of the machine. “Johnny, just give it up. We can get a Koongya plushie for less at the train station.” Kun muses.
“If I give up now, then that means I’m giving up my dignity.” Johnny says without taking his eyes off of the machine.
“Oh, spare me your dramatics! Sungie’s getting bored!”
“Just one last time, yeah?” Johnny turns around. “Just one more time, okay?” He faces the machine again and inserts a coin. He strategically maneuvers the claw to a specific Koongya plushie and presses the button. The claw descends and the tag at the top of the plushie manages to get hooked by the claw and when they saw that the plushie gets lifted when the claw ascends, Johnny couldn’t help but jump up in joy.
“I did it! See? I did it!”
“Okay, calm down! Jaehyun is never going to hear the end of it when they found out his older brother got excited over a claw machine!” Kun laughs.
“Hey! This particular plushie cost me fifty – five hundred won! That’s a lot of money!”
“If only you gave up earlier it wouldn’t cost that much.” Kun argues back.
“And where’s the fun in that?” Johnny counters as he picks up Koongya.
“Here, bub. Now Mr. Hamster has a friend!”
“He looks like Teacher Lee.” Jisung observes as he pinches the round edges of Koongya.
“He looks like who?” Kun repeats.
“Teacher Lee.”
“Teacher Lee?” Now it was Johnny who repeated.
“Euhm.”
“Huh, never thought of that.” Johnny rambles
“Which you really shouldn’t? Why would you have the time of day to think of another man?” Kun lets out.
“Are you seriously starting a fight right here? I just said I never saw Taeyong – ssi as a rice ball.”
“Hmmp, you better!” Kun warns.
“You know I only got eyes on you, baby.” Johnny teases with a wink.
“I can’t believe you’re both flirting when Sungie is literally right in between you both.” Jaehyun scolds as he takes Jisung away from the two. “Can you believe your parents? They can’t go a day without dragging you into their wildness. Goodness! You’re going to have a sibling before this year ends!”