Steal His Heart - Hyunlix

Try Try Again

"Can you stop being so weird... I feel like you're about to tell me someone died.." Hyunjin blurted impatiently as he flickered his gaze between his two parents.

"Your mom and I have been seeing eachother." His dad ended up speaking out.

Hyunjin raised a brow and studies both of their faces waiting for the joke to land, but it never did. "Excuse me?" He stated in an unimpressed tone.

"We got back together." His mom responded with a smile as she grabbed his dad's hand on the table.

Hyunjin was honestly speechless. His brain could not process that piece of information. He ended up just looking at his parents with an expression that morphed between neutral and confused on a repeating cycle.

"Jinnie..?" His mom eventually asked concerndly, reaching her other hand across the table to get her son's attention.

"You have got to be shitting me." He responded eventually, honestly not knowing what else to say.

"Language.." his mom hissed.

"This is what made you invite me here?" Hyunjin asked in disbelief.

"Ok that was not the reaction I was expecting..." his dad chuckled nervously.

"What reaction were you expecting?" Hyunjin asked in genuine confusion and amusement.

"I don't know.. a happier one? Most kids want their parents back together."

Hyunjin chuckled sarcastically. "Again with the 'kids'. I'm not a kid anymore."

"You know what we mean, Hyunjin." His mom argued back.

"Do I?" Hyunjin asked back in confusion with a disbelieving laugh.

"Yes, you do. We mean as our child. Most people would say that their parents being together is a good thing." His mom sassed back with the same energy.

"You want to know why most kids would want their parents back together? It's because they don't want to grow up without a parent or be used as a pawn in petty power struggles. Or maybe it's so that they can grow up to believe in love." Hyunjin ranted in a huff.

"You are so dramatic, Hyunjin. It wasn't like that." His mom groaned, although his dad shrugged his shoulders in agreement.

Hyunjin scoffed sarcastically and raised his brows at his parents. "You're telling me what it was and wasn't like? Dad, I barely saw you after the divorce and when I did, you both just made snide comments and were passive aggressive. Mom, literally up until the day I left you were still calling him an asshole and saying that he didn't deserve to be at my graduation because I succeeded DESPITE his parenting." He argued in disbelief at the denial.

His dad cringed his face. "Ouch.." He directed towards his ex wife.

"You heard that?" She asked more seriously.

Hyunjin rolled his eyes. "I was a kid, not stupid."

"So what do you think about this..?" She followed up.

Hyunjin looked between the two of them and shrugged his shoulders. "I just don't get it. It seemed like you hated eachother's guts the last time I saw you."

His dad chuckled in amusement and nodded his head. "I can't say I hated her guts, but I was tired of fighting."

"I did... but when you left, I called your dad thinking you went there... I just wanted to know if you were okay. I kind of fell apart after that... and your dad helped. He put the pieces back together." She smiled softly and wrapped both of her hands around her ex's.