Always and in All Ways | heewon

02

heeseung sat on the side of his bed holding the book he had been writing for jungwon. between the pages placed the list jungwon put in their time capsule.

they thought about what to do with it, whether they all do what is listed or just keep the paper and leave it undone.

the latter was too heartbreaking, so they considered doing it.

"for what it's worth?"

"for jungwon."

He was deep in his thought when Won suddenly entered the room.

“Dad...” the boy called, making his way on Heeseung's bed.

“what is it? why are you still up, it's way past midnight...” Heeseung softly asked. he looked at his son's sleepy eyes.

The little boy pulled his dad's shirt, making heeseung lay down beside him. he then wrapped his arms around heeseung and closed his eyes.

habitually, Heeseung's hands started caressing the boy's hair.

“i had a dream” Won muttered in his sleepy voice.

“mhm? what's it about?”

“I couldn't recognize him but he had really pretty eyes... that was all i remembered of his face...”

pretty eyes. Heeseung thought. Jungwon had pretty eyes.

“the man in my dream, he told me something. not directly though” Won continued.

“what do you mean?” Heeseung asked. He was confused because he also had been having dreams.

“remember that beanie you kept from years ago? the gray one with a small deer pin?”

Won carefully explained. it's confusing how he remembers all the details of everything else but the man's face.

“he had the exact same beanie... then he handed it to me and said that i should take care of you. and then i woke up.”

“take care of me?” Heeseung, also confused about the dream, looked at his son. Also, that beanie. Jungwon gave him that for Christmas.

“yeah. are you okay dad? you're not sick right? no one's gonna take you away from me, right?”

Heeseung hugged the boy tighter and hushed his worried son. “i'm okay Won, don't worry. nothing's gonna happen to me. go back to sleep.” he said as he hummed a song for his little boy.

although Won in already 10 years old and is already tall, he would always be Heeseung's little boy.

Just like how Jungwon will forever be his little one.

Morning came and Won awoke to the smell of freshly fried eggs.

“Good morning” Heeseung greeted as he saw his son sit down on the breakfast table.

“good morning dad. are you going to work early today?” Won asked when he saw how his dad was all suited up. Heeseung usually comes to work after lunch.

“yep. and I'll also come home pretty late, so you go home with Sun okay?” Heeseung has days when he had to go home pretty late, it could be 11 pm or straight up 3 am.

During those days, Won spends the night at Sunoo's place with Sun.

Sun is a year younger than Won but they go to the same school so it was easy to go home together.

after both had finished eating breakfast, Heeseung drove Won to school and also drove off to his workplace.

also, I forgot to mention. Heeseung is the CEO of a company who handles kpop artists. It was a company that treats their artists well. (unlike belift lol)

He thought of having his own entertainment agency that wouldn't let new idols experience what he had gone through as an idol himself.

Heeseung, in the kpop industry was very well known as the ace. but as the CEO, he was know as the way to reach dreams.

That's what he had become after everything he had to go through.

while on his way to work, he received a phone call from Jay.

“what do you want, it's 8 am and I'm in the middle of traffic” Heeseung said while tapping his hands on the wheel.

“couldn't sleep think about the bucket list. when will we start?"

“are you that excited Jay?"

"if it means we get to travel the world, just like how jungwon dreamed”

"it's not like you haven't been to almost every country in the world mister park jongseong who's always on business trips.”

“well this time, it isn't for work. and I'm not alone anymore. we'd be traveling together”