Tell him - nomin

The father

If you were to ask Jeno about his life he would answer with one word: a mess.

You see he wasn't a young college student anymore, he was a 32 years old man with a really boring office job (he was a CEO to be exact) and an 8 year old son with who he couldn't find the same language. They were this awkward father son duo who spent 2 weeks every month together and didn't have anything to talk about.

The problem was they both wanted to become closer again but they are both very stubborn (genes I would say). Jisung's mom (Jeno's ex) even tried to do something about it, but failed miserably.

So now to tell you a little bit about Jeno and Yeri's (Jisung mom) story.

They were best friends in high school, lived together in college and after a little while tried something together, out of pure interest. In conclusion they ended everything on a great note discovering that they both might not be as straight as they thought they were.

After that Jisung came into the picture and they decided that they will raise him together but there's no way they can become a couple again.

Of course there were many obstacles and mistakes before they were able to find a harmonious parenting style and bring happines to all three of them.

Jisung spends half a month at his dad place and another half at his mom place. Everything worked great for them till two years ago.

When Jisung became 6 and started going to school Jeno got promoted, which brought a lot of new work and he couldn't spend as much time with his son as he used to. Father and son duo started to get away from each other which brings us to present times with their „not ideal" relationship.

Jeno came back from work totally exhausted it was near 9 p.m. and he was supposted to be back home 3 hours ago.

Jisung was staying with him for the next two weeks and he really wanted to spend some time with him. But he also couldn't leave his work whenever he wanted he. He had responsibilities he couldn't let anyone else take care of.

Jeno got out of his car and walked towards the apartment complex.

Thank god school was near his place and Jisung was old enough to travel by himself. He didn't know what would happen otherwise because there's no way he would have time at 2 p.m. to get Jisung from school.

He opened door to the apartment and saw light coming from kitchen.

At this hour Jisung normally was in his room watching his favourite cartoon on TV or sleeping. Jeno thought that Jisung forgot to turn the lights off and went really quick to do it himself when he saw his son sitting on the chair almost asleep.

He tried to came closer to him but the noises woke up half asleep Jisung who right away rose from the chair.

"Jisunga why are you here?"

Jeno tried, really tried to make his voice as soft as he could but work all day left him with his rough and cold voice that he used with his empleyees.

Jisung stirred up, eyes losing control and looking everywhere except Jeno. "...I hav... I was waiting for you dad until you will be back from work".

Jeno was frozen looking at his son but avoiding looking at his eyes. He wanted to say something, how happy he is about it, how sorry he is that he didn't came on time, how much he loves him but Jisung didn't let him say anything.

"I wanted to eat dinner with you but I was waiting for so long that I became hungry and ate already. I know that you have a lot of work and you are really tired so I'm not going to take your time anymore..."

Jeno wanted to say that he is never tired talking to Jisung that he is perfectly fine that he is really touched but he couldn't. He couldn't bring himself to really tell this out loud. Why? Because for Jeno emotions were really hard to express.

"Good night dad and have a good meal..." Jisung hesitated before saying next "Tommorow at school there's a club meeting after lessons and I wanted to go on it...can I dad?"

"Yeah sure, no problem. Just text me when you will be back home." Jisung nodded and went to his room.

Jeno went through his and Jisung's conversation in his head over and over again and he knew that this isn't how normally father and son talk to each other, how they greet each other, how they say good night. He should ask about the club, what he did today, how school was. And he wanted to change it, he really did but it wasn't as easy as it seemed to be.

Jeno opened the fridge and got the food out to heat it. He was about to put the container in the microwave when he saw that it wasn't the food that their housekeeper usually made.

First of all it was in a container, a pink one to be exact, meanwhile their food was always made in this kitchen so it was in a pot or on a pan there was no need for containers.

He opened the fridge ones again and saw the infamous pot full of some kind of soup and he knew that Jisung didn't eat it because it was full.

He opened the container and there was less than half left of what Jeno thought was pasta with chicken and spinach.

And here's the thing Jisung hated spinach so it didn't make sense that the boy ate this instead of the soup, which truthfully didn't look really good but still. Jeno decided to give pasta a chance since Jisung wanted to eat it with him.

After the first taste he was really impressed, just wow. Whoever made this is a really good cook.

Jeno decided to ask Jisung tomorrow who the mysterious food was from and how did he got it in first place and maybe, just maybe, try to have a normal conversation with his son for the first time in months.