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Ch-10: What is love

Sometime later in December 2943...

"Hey Hongjoong!"
"Yes Seonghwa?" You responded.
"What is love?"
"Love is an emotion. It's a bond between people. It makes people soft and rough at the same time." You explained.

"Papa is gonna sing?

"No-" you saw his smile drop "but I'll do it in place of today's lullaby."

You saw joy in his eyes once more and proceeded to clear your throat. 

"Papa hasn't sung in years so it'll be a little off-"
"I don't mind"
"Okay"

"I wanna know How it could be as sweet as candy
I wanna know How it's like flying in the sky
I wanna know know know know
What is love? What love feels like?
I wanna know How it keeps you smiling all day
I wanna know How the whole world turns beautiful
I wanna know know know know
What is love? Will love come to me someday"

"That's really cute. I bet it was popular." Seonghwa said hiding half his face with the blanket.

"Hmm, it's from over a few centuries ago so I'm not sure."
"You sing pretty well."
"Thank you"

"I heard that Christmas is coming."
"Oh? Who told you about Christmas?"
"Uncle San did!"
"Oh? What did he tell you?"
"That Santa Claus comes and gives gifts! I also want gifts! Can I stay with Uncle San and Wooyoung for Christmas?"

"Sure, I'm sure they would be glad to have you"

Seonghwa smiled and pulled his blanket up. 

"You'll come to see me during Christmas right?"

"Of course I will!"

"Seonghwa feels bad"

"Why is that so?"

"You can't take me with you because I'm small and came from nowhere.... just wait till I grow-"

"Who told that? Who told you that I'm leaving you?"

"What would you have done if I hadn't proposed the idea of-"

"Seonghwa, I want you to be by my side. Maybe not all the time, you'll grow tired of me and want to independent of me but I want to watch you grow. I want to see you go through your teen years, maybe study a bit, graduate, get a job maybe..... I'm not leaving you on your own until you graduate. Maybe if I'm not physically there I'll-"

"Papa, good night"

"Hwa-"

You also didn't bother to prove yourself. He would probably understand it with age. Ensuring that he fell asleep you went to the dining hall and opened your laptop. You still had your English assignment left. You started typing in a few sentences. 

As usual you left for college, went to work and came after a hectic day. You were so ready to just have dinner and hit the bed. Unfortunately.... dinner was a little out of the ordinary.

"Papa, do erasers sacrifice pieces of themselves to correct our mistakes?"

"If practice makes perfect and no one is perfect then why do we practice?"

"Why do feet smell and nose run?"

The last one caught you off guard. Seonghwa must've been practicing English. He's been asking quite a few questions, a lot more than usual. You wondered if this was because Christmas was coming.  Things weren't very different at bedtime.

"Is love dangerous?"
"Well it depends on the person. Falling in love with the right person feels like the best thing to ever happen. If we're talking about the romantic love that is."

"There's another type of love?"
"There's platonic love. That's like.... what's between us. We care for each other a lot but our love for each other is different from what Wooyoung and San have if that makes sense."

"Back to what I asked, love is usually represented by red, correct?"
"Romantic love is represented by red. Friendship love is usually represented by yellow. I don't really remember the other colours right now."

"So romantic love is dangerous?"
"Why do you ask such?"
"Isn't red the colour used to represent danger?"
"Yes it is"
"Then love is dangerous right?"

You gave a soft sigh. 

"Do you want to know a little physics?"
"Papa, don't change the subject."
"No, seriously, for explaining this I need physics."
"Oh.. ok"

"Do you know why red is used for representing danger?"
"No... Seonghwa is trying his best to learn as fast as possible!"
"Well, do you know what wavelength is?"
"It's something with light and the distance it travels!"
"Correct, my lil blob of flesh only gets smarter by day hmm"
"Stawp, you're making me shy-"

"There's no need to get shy hehe" you tickled him.

"What about wavelength?"
"Ah right, red has the highest wavelength so it travels the farthest."
"So?"
"If danger comes you can see it coming from afar"

"How is this related to what I asked?"
"Papa is getting there. Love is just like that-"
"Avoided from afar-"
"No hwa" you gave a saddened look.

"It's so that love can reach you from any corner. It's red colour is to show that it can travel as far as possible. Look at uncle San and Woo. They're so different, they didn't even technically meet but here they are, deep in love, ready to share burdens in life and the sweet happy moments as well. They make each other comfortable, they work hard to make each other happy, they pay attention to small details-"

"What kinda small details?"

"You know how sometimes when San cooks he picks out the cucumbers from Uncle Woo's plate because he knows that Woo doesn't like them?"

"Aww that's sweet! I never noticed it."

"You'll get there lil' blob of flesh."

Seonghwa closed his eyes and dozed off. You also slept soon after. Seonghwa changed a lot of things in your schedule now. Surprisingly he was making you into a morning person. You slept early because he didn't want to sleep and you woke up early to do the work that you would've done the previous night in your previous schedule. Is this how your parents must've felt when you were born? Maybe they were just used to it by the time you were born. They might've felt that with Beomjoong. That wasn't for you to think now.
Right now Seonghwa was fast asleep and you probably won't be able to see him until Christmas.

A/N: Happy Seonghwa Day!