Talking to the moon

Chapter 41

This was the absolute cutest thing Chaewon had ever seen in her lifetime. Eunchae looked so happy walking out of her bedroom, Peng clutched in her hand, a slightly oversized shark costume on. Chaewon couldn't stop herself from taking out her phone immediately, snapping picture after picture of the child who simply whined and waddled over to her, the costume hindering her movement a bit.

The lawyer felt a bit bad seeing the costume was just a bit too big, the man at the store had told her this was a good size for a six year old. But she hadn't taken into consideration that Eunchae was pretty small for her age, even if she had grown a lot since Yunjin first took her in. She had convened with the social worker that frequently visited her office a few weeks ago, just with a few questions regarding Eunchae such as her nightmares she still had, her size, and some lingering habits she still upheld such as getting scared when people she didn't know cane over. She was getting better, but Chaewon just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything else she could be doing to help her. She reassured her all those things were normal, and they took time. Eunchae was probably small either naturally judging from the fact that her mom was quite small as well or the lack of nutrition she received from a long time. Kyujin was younger than her by a few months yet towered over Eunchae, and no matter how many fruits and vegetables she made Eunchae eat she just wouldn't catch up, something about it just never sat well with Chaewon. The felt teeth attached to the hood of the costume just obscured Eunchae's vision as she pushed it up so she could see, her bangs peeking out underneath, the plush bottom of the costume ending right at her knees slightly making it hard to walk.

But it was just too damn cute.

Hana had always been the one to want to have her big dream wedding, have a daughter, you know all that. But Chaewon was never super interested in that kind of stuff, it may be because she just could never picture herself with a man as a child and that whole fantasy always involved a man. As she got older though, the thought of motherhood did cross her mind. Chaewon got really lucky with Eunchae. She crouched down, immediately being hugged by Eunchae, "Are you excited for tonight?"

"Kinda." Eunchae was a bit nervous, she had been all week. While Yunjin had a hard time understanding why, Chaewon had been a bit more understanding. This was something new, and she was going to be surrounded by strange people with scary costumes on and she was still little. They had tried to carve pumpkins before dinner, but Eunchae put her hand in the pumpkin to take the guts out and started crying because she didn't like how it felt.

"Don't worry," Chaewon assured, reaching up to brush her bangs away from her eyes, "You're going to be with us and Kyujin, Yeri, Sooyoung, and Lucas, and their parents. That doesn't sound too bad does it?"

"No."

"Then they're all going to come over and sleepover here afterwards, and Yunjin's going to pretend to be grumpy but really she loves having all your friends over. And you guys can swap candy after I check it all and eat some of the snacks I made."

Eunchae seemed to consider this before nodding, "Are the babies coming trick or treating too?"

"No, they're too little for that." Chaewon smiled. That didn't stop Sakura from dressing the two of them up like pumpkins and sending a picture to Yunjin. The younger squealing and gushing over the photo as she showed it to Chaewon. Over the past few weeks Chaewon had gotten used to how much Yunjin loved the twins, always stopping over Sakura's house on her way home from work bringing diapers or anything they needed and made sure everyone was alright. It was clear Yunjin loved babies, she just didn't want to have any of her own. Chaewon tried not to think about it too much. Speaking about Yunjin, "Yunjin, come out now, we need to go."

"I look stupid." A muffled response came from the shut bedroom door.

"You look cute, c'mon."

A moment passed before the door opened and a pouting Yunjin made her way out, a large red crab hat on her head with only her face peaking out. The juxtaposition between it and the jeans plus leather jacket combo she was wearing was hilarious. Chaewon kinda wished she wore a crop top under the jacket just once, but it was starting to get cold so she didn't blame her. She herself was bundled up along with Eunchae who had put a grey sweatshirt under the grey costume. Chaewon tried to hide the smile that was threatening to leak out and Yunjin sulked, "Chaewon. This is dumb."