Mendacity ☠️ yungi [⏹]

7

"Mommy, carry me..." Jisung said in his usual affectionate manner. Somehow, the elementary school boy had been asking to be carried by his mother more and more frequently with each passing day. He did it every time he returned from school and was about to leave for school again. Like now. He asked so confidently, believing he had finished his morning breakfast.

"Mommy, Taeyoung too! Taeyoung too!"

"Do you both want to be carried? Come here, let daddy do it." Besides, today it was Leedo who would take the kids back to school. So, while putting them in the car, he could carry them there as well.

"No! Jisung wants mommy!" Jisung exclaimed when his father bent down to reach for their bodies.

Feeling instantly rejected, Leedo sweatdropped. If it weren't for Mingi there, he would have pinched that annoying kid all over his body incessantly. Truly exasperating.

"Taeyoung too! Taeyoung too!"

And as usual, Mingi couldn't refuse the adorable requests of his two sons. Lifting the tiny bodies of Jisung and Taeyoung, he carried them on his chest. "It's okay. When they grow up, I won't be able to carry them anymore." Putting a code on his face, he asked for understanding from his husband. Which was responded to with a puzzled shake of the head.

"You're really strong." The wonderment managed to divert Leedo from the frustration he had just felt.

"I know that. Look, I can carry three children at once on my body." Mingi said with a tone full of pride. Leedo felt like punching that annoying face.

But he wasn't crazy enough to do it. So, with just a wry smile, he replied, "I can too. But it seems I can't do it inside the stomach."

"Of course. You're not in that position."

They both chuckled. Leedo stopped first because he wanted to enjoy the beauty of his spouse's laughing face. He always liked that face. Always liked that laughter. Always liked the owner of that face and laughter. He began to question the term "love at first sight," on a wife who often made him fall in love. He would include it in his dictionary and principle that the term did not apply to many parties, including himself.

And in a scene that felt like being in mute mode, he asked in his heart. To be able to have Mingi forever. To be able to continue living with him and be happy forever.

And after a few words accompanied the journey to the car parked outside the house, Mingi kissed the cheeks of two children and one man beside him before saying goodbye.

Goodbyes that lately always became the gateway to meetings with someone out there.

And right now, he was still going to meet that man. With different goals and feelings of course. The influence of the lack of concrete ideas that Sihyeon suddenly informed him about Yunho really made him afraid. This time he planned to make sure that the man was like or unlike what Mingi's most beautiful ex--the woman--said. That the man was truly a good man--beyond the flaws of fighting--or truly a man who... oh, I don't know. Mingi couldn't guess other flaws just like that. He needed clarity.

"After school, if daddy picks up Jisung again, daddy will carry Jisung," the eldest said as if he understood that through the offer of touch in the house earlier, his father longed for skinship among them. Unveiling Mingi's reverie about Yunho and making the couple look at each other and exchange meaningful smiles.

"Taeyoung too! Taeyoung too!"