the lost boy

Little one

J E O N G I N

I woke up to a wet spot on my shirt. I rubbed my eyes and wanted to sit up, but something prevented me from doing so. I looked to said source and found none other than Jinnie on top of me. He seemed to be awake as he was babbling something to himself while fisting my shirt. So I wrapped my arms around his body and sat up carefully so as not to scare him. "Good morning Jinnie." I whispered and then he lifted his head and grinned at me. "Did you sleep well, huh?" I asked him, I didn't get an answer, but when he let himself fall into my arms again, I counted this as a yes. "Shall we feed your tummy with veeeeeery yummy milk, huh? Are you hungry?"

He squeaked and grabbed my shirt between his fists again, so I took that as a yes too. Chan slept calmly next to me the whole time, with the little one in my arms I made my way to the kitchen with the empty baby bottle and his pacifier to make him a bottle and something for Chan and me for breakfast. I lowered Jinnie to the floor and what I didn't expect was him clutching my leg and starting to whimper and whine. So I picked him up again just to look into his watery eyes. "Aww.. don't cry Jinnie. It's all good.. there's no need to cry.." I said softly, trying to calm him down while continuing to prepare his bottle.

As I prepared the bottle for him, two arms wrapped around me and Jinnie. He squeaked happily and then wanted to be in my boyfriend's arms, who accepted him with a smile. He gave me a kiss and sat down at the table with Jinnie entertaining him and making him squeal. Jinnie's bottle was ready so my boyfriend could feed him while I prepared breakfast for us. I decided to make pancakes and when Channie agreed I gathered all the ingredients for the batter and started weighing and mixing everything together until I could start pouring the batter into the pan.

When I had all the pancakes on the plate, I put them on the table that I had set meanwhile, Jinnie continued to sit curiously on my boyfriend's lap and watched us as we also started to eat. Chan now also noticed the look of the mentally younger. "Would you like some too, Jinnie?" he asked him and he nodded shyly. So Chan cut off some of his pancake and cut it a little bit smaller because we didn't know exactly how old Jinnie is at the moment, because he didn't say anything until now, except for the try where he said things that nobody understood.

Channie held the piece of pancake in front of Jinnie's mouth and he opened it. "Jinnie?.. you have to chew okay?" He predicted and Jinnie looked at him with his big eyes. Chan put the piece in his mouth so we waited to see what he does, he played with Chan's bracelet and luckily chewed on his more like my boyfriend's food. We looked at each other and grinned. When he was done he looked back at us and then at my boyfriend's food.

Since Chan didn't seem to notice, I took the other piece he had cut for the boy and held it to his mouth with a smile. He took it and chewed on it happily. "Someone's hungry, huh? Is Jinnie hungry?" I asked him and gently pecked his stomach, which made him giggle and burrow his face into Chan's chest. "Want Jinnie his own pancake, huh?" I asked and then he turned his head to me and by the look of his twinkling eyes I had my answer so I got up and got a plastic plate for him, took a pancake and cut it into bite sized pieces and put it in front of the boy. He grinned and mumbled a low but cute sounding "tank chu.."

And so we ate in silence while we watched Jinnie eat. After we were all done, I cleared the table and knelt down in front of the boy. "Jinnie? Can you tell me how old you are right now?" I asked him softly, he looked at me for a while until he looked down at his fingers and then held up one of them. I smiled at him and patted his hair. "You did well." I said and then he wanted to be in my arms. "Would you like us to dress you up in something fancy, huh? You can choose on your own, okay? Big boys like you can do it yourself, right?" I asked him and he nodded.

I let him on the floor and held out my hand to him, he took it and so we walked up the stairs together and into said room. You're probably wondering why we have all this stuff, I can tell you. Chan and I wanted a little one, but it never came about, but apparently it was worth buying the things. I opened the closet for the boy and his eyes lit up. He looked at me a little hesitantly, which is why I held out my hand to him again and walked closer to the closet together with him. "What do you want to wear, hm? You can take your time to look at it, you can also get the clothes out, okay?"