Six Against One

~Chapter 9 (Part II)~

Seong-hwa nodded "Well thank you for all that you do for us! Joongie you are an amazing human being!" He said before leaving the room. I took a deep breath and sat there by myself for a moment before I heard Seong-hwa clear his throat. He stood in the door ways with a bottle of wine and a glass. "I thought this might help get you through tonight." He said setting it done by me and winking at me. "don't worry I'll order a car to pick y'all up in the morning" he reassured me before waving bye and truly leaving this time.

After he left I popped the bottle open, took a drink straight from the bottle. I then began to pack up the bags, picking out some nice and casual outfits for the boys before putting them into the suitcases, as I prayed that tomorrow would go well and be a good start to our vacation.

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(Everything throughout the story that is bolded means it was signed to the person being spoken to)

Hongjoong's POV:

T minus 2 hours before we need to all be up and getting ready and I finally finished packing everyone's bags. At this point, I'm not even sure I wanna fall asleep seeing as I would only get an hour of sleep before having to wake up to get myself ready and then make breakfast. I'm also heavily debating on doing my own homeschooling curriculum were the boys just learn how to do things for themselves. I mean it wouldn't really throw them too much off schedule if they dedicated one day to learning basic life skills, like how to pack a suitcase? That is something very important that they would eventually need to know how to do! 

As I sat here thinking about how I could fit this lesson into their schedule I remembered that I had a lot of grading to catch up on....Make sure that everyone doubled up properly and finished everything, so they could go on this vacation, stole anytime that I planned on using to grade quizzes. I let out a deep sigh before taking the last sip of wine. Now before you start scolding me, with Hongjoong that's so unhealthy! Don't worry, I spaced my drinking out through out the 7 hours that I spent packing, and made sure to drink water and eat plenty of bread. I stood up and went downstairs to my little desk in the homeschool room, yes I made the boys gut out the downstairs playroom so we could have a dedicated work space rather than everyone being spread out throughout the house, and pulled out a stack of papers and began to grade. "I'll just sleep on the plane....." 

An hour passes and I finish grading every quiz, now all that's left is their test which at this point I need to do my morning reflections, or I won't get to them, and then today will be a disaster. I put everything away before going to my personal bathroom and deciding to do them in the shower then write it down afterwards. Now I say morning reflections, but really it's just me planning out how I would like the day to go and building a schedule for myself before doing a few affirmations to help me through the day. I step into the hot shower, taking a moment to enjoy this before I started to plan. 

Hongjoong's inner thoughts:

So the most time efficient thing to do would be to wake them up one at a time...get them ready and fed before letting them crash again if they so choose to...but what if they don't go back to sleep..what would they do then? Would they just run around and cause chaos? They might wake up everyone else, then that would just turn into chaos, and I would have to help everyone at once, break up fights, and fight at least two of them about needing to move faster then a high sloth.....So what if I just sent them into the homeschool when they are done getting ready, let them use their own tablet so no one fights over what to watch or play? That would keep them quiet, and lessens the chances of them brawling at 7:00 in the morning...Yeah I think this could work..I'll make breakfast fast and easy by just giving them the option of maple brown sugar oatmeal, which almost everyone loves, or some fruit that I mixed together for last nights dinner. Everyone for sure likes fruit!....Okay so who should I wake up first? Honestly Mingi or Yunho would be the easiest but it just depends if I wanna argue about my choice of clothes for them, yes I am making us all wear the same outfit I am one man who is taking five children into an airport we are wearing the same fit, or if I wanna argue about having to wake them up at such an ungodly hour....Personally I feel like Mingi  would get over the fit faster than Yunho would about having to wake up at 7:00am. So I choose Mingi, then Yunho, then Yeosang, then Wooyoung, and finally the one and only biggest sulky, drama queen of them all San.