Enhypen One-shot Series

Let Me Down Slowly : Attention, Please?

Summary:

Heeseung thinks about all the times Jay had warned him about how his absence in his son's life would affect their relationship in the future.

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"I'm home!", Jay yelled out as soon as he walked through the front door. Behind him were two of his house staff who each carried large disposable bags full of groceries. The yelling was honestly unnecessary but he couldn't help but get excited knowing that he was coming back home to his favourite people.

He placed his own bag on the kitchen counter and frowned a little.

That's odd, he thought, by now at least someone would have come down to greet me.

Maybe they didn't hear me.

"Minsu?"

"Sir?"

"Is anyone home?"

"Yes sir, Sir. Lee is in his study and Sir Riki is with Chaebin in his study"

"Alright, thank you", he said before he left the kitchen and made it to his son's play room.

As soon as he stood by the door he expected to see Riki jumping around as he played with his caregiver but instead he found his caregiver knelt beside him with troubled eyes as she tried to calm him down.

"Ki?", Jay called out with a frown. Is he okay?

"Sir!", Chaebin exclaimed in relief.

"Hello, is everything okay?"

"Yes, it's just Riki's a little upset"

"Why?"

"I'm not very sure, all he told me was that everyone was giving his appa attention except for him. He is not talking anymore"

"Oh, well, I think I'll take it from here. Thank you for coming in today"

"No problem", Chaebin bowed, "Bye bye tiger", she called out to Riki who didn't budge.

"Ki?", Jay called out to his son as he walked to the six year old and knelt beside him, "What's up baby?"

Riki turned around, a huge frown on his face, his little eyebrows furrowed together, Jay silently cooed at his cuteness. He knew Riki would be more upset if he told him that. He did not want to look cute at the moment.

"‘S not paying a-a-attention to me", he whined, his bottom lip jutting out.

"Who's not paying attention to you?"

"Everyone and-and Appa!"

"Look, I'm here, I'll pay attention to you but I thought you said everyone was paying attention to Appa"

"Yes", his little palm opened emphasise it, "I wan' go outside and play soccer but Appa said no and he lied to me. He-he-he said he work but he not wearing suit", he'd reasoned, his eyes tearing up.

"Baby, don't cry, we can go play outside, come"

"But I wan' play with daddy and Appa!"

"Okay, come, we can go get Appa", the little boy nodded and lifted his hands up.

Jay stood up and lifted Riki up so he could settle on his hip.

They walked out of the play room and made it upstairs.

Not too long after they stood in front of Heeseung's study.

Jay knocked.

He opened the door and walked in, remembering to close the door behind him. He looked at his son's serious expression and copy-pasted it onto his own face.