Worlds Apart - Taekook - Book 2

Chapter 279 - Journey Into The Unknown - Part 1

"Eomma, are you sick?"

Jara looked wearily at her phone screen, a smile tugging at her lips as her eldest son's face comes into focus. "Tired but not sick. Are you excited about baseball?"

The little boys beams, his little face brightening up the screen, that his father is holding for him. "You can come?"

"I'm staying home. I have things to do for the wedding." At this point, she is ecstatic to have the time to prepare.... And feel less hungover.

Ki-Joon pouts, a big action on small lips. Jara was convinced that he'd copied his Auntie Heeju and obviously, he thought it got him whatever he wanted.

"I miss you," the little boy says.

"I miss you but you are going to have the best day with..."

"Auntie Doodle!!" Ki-Joon screams as he sees Heeju appear and hand Jara a mug of coffee. He hadn't quite got to grip with the fact that 'Doodle' was what Heeju called Taehyung and everyone thought it was hilarious that it had become her nickname, too.

"Hey, cutie!" Heeju put on her best 'I don't feel as rough as fuck' voice and forced a smile.

"Are you sick?" Ki-Joon asks.

"Not right now." she sits beside Jara, on the floor in the lounge where they'd crashed a few hours ago.

"Baseball!" The little boys shouts.

"You're going to have a great time." Heeju tells him.

"Is Si-Jin eating his breakfast?" Jara asks.

"He's crying." Ki-Joon informs his mother.

"Why?" Jara asks, hoping that they need to leave soon, she would like to sleep.

Ki-Joon looks up and behind the phone, presumably to where his father is. There is a mumbled voice and then the camera is flipped and Kyong comes into view.

"Si-Jin was crying, he's not now. He wanted YeJoon's breakfast, not his own." Kyong tells his wife.

"Did Appa give in?" Heeju asks.

"Yeah. That got him into trouble. You two look tired." He smirks.

"Funny!" Heeju comments before leaning back against the couch out of camera shot.

"Thanks. Did you have a good night?" Jara gets butterflies while looking at her husband. There was a distinct possibility that it was her stomach's reaction to too much alcohol and barely any sleep but she was happy to take it as love.

"It was fun. Ash and Smiler are hilarious. They want to congratulate you on your drunk dialling."

Jara looks confused, "Drunk dialled who?"

"Kook and Taehyung."

"We did?" As she asks, the memory resurfaces, "Oh... yeah."

"Wait... how do you know?" Heeju's voice is heard but she can't be seen and she wasn't going to move just to ask.

"Ash called Kook and he told us."

"Hotty phoned you to tell on us? How mature!" Heeju comments, nursing her hot cup of coffee that she couldn't bear to drink just yet.

Kyong laughs, "No... Ash called Kook. He was trying to remember which one of them won a game on this occasion... I don't know... anyway, Kook didn't answer his messages so he called him until he answered."

Heeju grunts and Jara wants to sleep.

"Where is Ki-Joon?"

"He's gone to find Mrs Dai. She's his new favourite person. We are leaving for the diner soon so I'm going to take over from Ara and get the boys ready."