A Matter of Spelling (Drabble)
Pairing: domestic!JongKey
Rating: PG
Genre: Fluff, Humour-ish(?)
Summary: Kibum is one to consider good-hearted misunderstandings as a form of endearment.
A/N: I know it's Parents' Day in Korea but for the sake of fiction let's pretend they have Mother's Day.
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The first thing Suhyun says to him as he picks her up from kindergarten is that she has a surprise for him. Kibum isn’t all too sure what that means, but it does make him smile a bit because Suhyun is bubbly and chattering in the back seat the entire way home. She keeps a firm grip on her small, purple backpack in her lap as though she can’t wait to open it and pour its contents all over the floor like she so often does.
She runs up to the door as soon as Kibum parks the car. Kibum trails after her, lifting her up in his arms and faking a strained groan that has her giggling so that she can punch in the code to unlock the door. She then kicks off her shoes haphazardly, rushing to the living room to unpack her bag and leaving Kibum to right her shoes by the doormat.
By the time he’s done taking off his own shoes and his jacket, the little girl is back and holding out something to him with both hands. It’s an orange sheet of paper, folded into a card with a surprisingly neat heart made out of glitter and what seem to be drawings of microphones and stars on the front (Suhyun had only recently made the connection between her fathers’ old band and the English word “shiny”). Kibum is a bit perplexed by the timing of this card because his birthday has long passed and Jonghyun’s was a while ago already, but he takes the card with a smile, watched by the little girl’s excited gaze.
He opens it and has to bite his lip to keep from chuckling. It reads: “Happy Mother’s Day, Daddys!!” in what is undoubtedly his daughter’s own handwriting.
“We made Mother’s Day cards today!” she tells him proudly, although Kibum knows she only has a faint, incomplete understanding of what that actually is.
“I can see that,” Kibum replies, an amused smile slipping through. Because he is a good father, he tells her the correct way of spelling “daddies”; for all of two seconds, Suhyun looks absolutely crestfallen, making him want to take his words back. Before he can say anything else, she snatches the card out of his hand and runs off to the living room again. By the time Kibum catches up to her, she already has a coloured pencil out and is striking out the mistake, writing in the correct letters on top. She hands it back to him afterwards with a beaming grin and Kibum can’t help but hug her and place a wet kiss on her round cheek.
Kibum can imagine how the concept of card-making on Mother’s Day would be a little harder to grasp for his children, especially for a four-and-some-year-old. Myungki had been confused at first, too, but he had sorted it out with time and age.
Yet Kibum knows how to appreciate a thoughtful gift no matter the occasion, so he thanks his daughter for the lovely card and assures her that Jonghyun will love it. That isn’t a lie; Jonghyun is the type to litter his work room with pictures of his family and with his kids’ creations. As it turns out, both Myungki and Suhyun like to draw so his office is getting rather crowded.
He pins it to the fridge, just to make sure Jonghyun doesn’t miss it when he comes home. It’s the kind of thing they like to laugh about once the kids have gone to bed because - misunderstandings, misconceptions and all - they would be fools to regret what they have.
|| A Matter of Snow
Rating: PG
Genre: Fluff, Humour-ish(?)
Summary: Kibum is one to consider good-hearted misunderstandings as a form of endearment.
A/N: I know it's Parents' Day in Korea but for the sake of fiction let's pretend they have Mother's Day.
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The first thing Suhyun says to him as he picks her up from kindergarten is that she has a surprise for him. Kibum isn’t all too sure what that means, but it does make him smile a bit because Suhyun is bubbly and chattering in the back seat the entire way home. She keeps a firm grip on her small, purple backpack in her lap as though she can’t wait to open it and pour its contents all over the floor like she so often does.
She runs up to the door as soon as Kibum parks the car. Kibum trails after her, lifting her up in his arms and faking a strained groan that has her giggling so that she can punch in the code to unlock the door. She then kicks off her shoes haphazardly, rushing to the living room to unpack her bag and leaving Kibum to right her shoes by the doormat.
By the time he’s done taking off his own shoes and his jacket, the little girl is back and holding out something to him with both hands. It’s an orange sheet of paper, folded into a card with a surprisingly neat heart made out of glitter and what seem to be drawings of microphones and stars on the front (Suhyun had only recently made the connection between her fathers’ old band and the English word “shiny”). Kibum is a bit perplexed by the timing of this card because his birthday has long passed and Jonghyun’s was a while ago already, but he takes the card with a smile, watched by the little girl’s excited gaze.
He opens it and has to bite his lip to keep from chuckling. It reads: “Happy Mother’s Day, Daddys!!” in what is undoubtedly his daughter’s own handwriting.
“We made Mother’s Day cards today!” she tells him proudly, although Kibum knows she only has a faint, incomplete understanding of what that actually is.
“I can see that,” Kibum replies, an amused smile slipping through. Because he is a good father, he tells her the correct way of spelling “daddies”; for all of two seconds, Suhyun looks absolutely crestfallen, making him want to take his words back. Before he can say anything else, she snatches the card out of his hand and runs off to the living room again. By the time Kibum catches up to her, she already has a coloured pencil out and is striking out the mistake, writing in the correct letters on top. She hands it back to him afterwards with a beaming grin and Kibum can’t help but hug her and place a wet kiss on her round cheek.
Kibum can imagine how the concept of card-making on Mother’s Day would be a little harder to grasp for his children, especially for a four-and-some-year-old. Myungki had been confused at first, too, but he had sorted it out with time and age.
Yet Kibum knows how to appreciate a thoughtful gift no matter the occasion, so he thanks his daughter for the lovely card and assures her that Jonghyun will love it. That isn’t a lie; Jonghyun is the type to litter his work room with pictures of his family and with his kids’ creations. As it turns out, both Myungki and Suhyun like to draw so his office is getting rather crowded.
He pins it to the fridge, just to make sure Jonghyun doesn’t miss it when he comes home. It’s the kind of thing they like to laugh about once the kids have gone to bed because - misunderstandings, misconceptions and all - they would be fools to regret what they have.
|| A Matter of Snow