Talking to the moon

Chapter 18

"Is Sakura busy today?" Taeyong asked, trying to hide his frown. He was a nice boy, Yunjin would give him that, and from his perspective, it probably was confusing why Yunjin was waiting to pick up Eunchae with the rest of them. It was just Dahyun, Seulgi, Wendy, and Taeyong this evening, they looked surprised but not upset to see her. It was no secret that they didn't like Sakura, why? Yunjin wasn't exactly sure. But Mark had gossiped about it in their group chat before realizing that Yunjin was in there and left.

"No, I- I'm actually taking Eunchae back," Yunjin answered, watching all of them accept that almost immediately. Eunchae's social worker Heesung, had called her earlier in the day and confirmed that Eunchae was cleared to stay with her. Yunjin had nothing to do all day anyway, working on a few small projects around the house after dropping Eunchae off at school. Kazuha had texted her, Yunjin hadn't looked at it yet.

"Oh really? That's great." Wendy cut in.

"Are you two still going to come to our party?" Taeyong asked, "You can bring your girlfriend too, she was really nice at parent's day."

"Uh- Maybe?"

"Yunjin?!"

The amount of excitement and shock present in Eunchae's voice almost made her feel a bit bad like Eunchae wasn't really expecting her to ever show up. Before she could even turn her head Eunchae's body crashed into hers, gripping onto her leg. She looked down to see Eunchae smiling back up at her, without much thought she picked her up and tucked her on her waist grinning as the girl gave her a hug. "Are you bringing me to Ms.Sakura's? Did you catch all the bad guys so you're not busy today?"

"I'm not bringing you to Ms.Sakura's, you're coming home with me. If that's okay with you?"

Eunchae gasped, breaking away from her so she could look at her, excitement tainting her voice, "Really?"

"Really."

"Yes, yes, yes," Eunchae suddenly jerked around facing Kyujin who looked equally as excited, the sudden movement almost having Yunjin losing her grip and sending the girl tumbling to the pavement. Kyujin just grinned and sent her a thumbs up, relief evident on her face. She was a good friend, and Yunjin was going to make Eunchae invite her over soon. She'd much rather have her be friends with Kyujin then Yeri and Sooyoung who were practically wrestling on the pavement a few feet away. "Can we go home now?"

"Okay," Yunjin waved a quick goodbye to the parents, who eagerly waved back at her. Eunchae decided the walk back to the car would be the best time to tell Yunjin, every detail of her day,

"Guess what? Ms.Pham let me use the beanbags again but I told her I wasn't tired today because I slept over our house last night and Chaewon was there too and we had fun and I went to sleep early. She gave me a gold star for that, isn't that crazy? I have four now, I need one more to pick a prize out of the prize bin. I got a bad grade on my last math test though, I don't understand it."Eunchae rambled so fast and so much, Yunjin wasn't sure exactly what she was talking about now but she just let her speak. It was clear Eunchae was happy, and if Eunchae was happy then Yunjin would be happy as well. "Can we get a pet? I was thinking one of those fuzzy spiders, or maybe a snake? They're really cute, what if we got a green one?"

Wait. What? Yunjin's head snapped toward the kindergartner, blinking a few times to see if she heard her correctly? A spider or a snake? Absolutely not, Eunchae's choice in animals she deemed cute was starting to scare her a bit. If she ever came home and saw a snake chilling in her house, Yunjin was sure she'd just pass out right then and there.

Quick to put an end to that thought, the detective cut in, "We are not getting a snake or a tarantula. We have Grumpy, who do you want another pet?"