Worlds Apart - Taekook - Book 2

Chapter 281 - Home Run

The group had arrived at the stadium early for the baseball which was great because they'd been able to see the teams arrive on their coaches, elaborately decorated with the relevant characters and colours. Along with the baseball players and coaching staff, they had the pleasure of meeting the home team mascots, which had all of the children squealing with delight as they high-fived the giant, fluffy characters.

Sukmin was keen to see where their seats were so Billy and Ash took him to the group of seats over two rows, so that he could see where they would be watching the game from. Billy was hoping that Sukmin would get hooked on something that he had knowledge of because the gaming lessons weren't going well.

Marie and Ara would possibly join the group later, they'd taken the opportunity to go shopping as there was a large shopping centre nearby, complete with a cafe and restaurant. Neither mother was thrilled with sport, both opting to watch it for the family member who was keen. In their younger days they went along for the purpose of a date but lives were busy now and if they did get spare time, they would prefer to go shopping, especially given that their husbands had family and friends to go with them.

Kyong always dreamt of days out like this with his children. As soon as he found out he would be the father to sons, he couldn't prevent his mind from the clichéd hope that they would be into football or baseball, or any sport... maybe even martial arts?! It was Jara who told him that one of their sons might want to dance and she wanted to encourage them to be whoever they wanted to be, which was vitally important after the situation with Jungkook. That situation haunted him for six years when Kyong's relationship with his brother was reduced to living in the confines of his mind and mere folklore outside of that. He knew at the time that Jara was right, he would support his sons no matter what. He wouldn't push his sons to be something that they didn't want to be... he wouldn't risk losing them like he'd lost his brother... Now that was in the past, he had a relationship with Jungkook but the memories wouldn't fade.

"Fluffy... soft... he's waving!" Ki-Joon cheered, leaping around after meeting the mascot who was waving a giant padded, three lingered hand at him.

"That means you're cool!" P.J tells the little boy.

Muyeol crouches down, "not just cool... super cool!"

"Appa! Appa!" Ki-Joon tugs on Kyong's coat, "Me... super cool!"

The proud father of two looked down at the little guy with shiny dark hair, "You are!"

"Do you want to get snacks?" Yejoon asks. He'd been walking around with Si-Jin, who was walking now. His little legs still unsteady at times but it was good to have that space in the concourse, to allow the willful toddler to walk as he demanded.

"Did someone say 'snacks'?" Muyeol grins.

"Yejoon did!" Ki-Joon stated, pointing a little, cocktail sausage type index finger at the well dressed, older man.

Kyong laughs fondly at the innocence of his oldest son. He gets his wallet out to hand Yejoon his debit card, which was waved away. He offers to join them but Yejoon has Si-Jin's hand and Muyeol has Ki-Joon on his back as he is bossed around by the small boy who is pointing at the direction he should go.

"Unwanted, huh?" P.J says when he's left alone with Kyong.

"Yeah, it looks like it."

"Where's Jara today?"

Kyong huffs with humour before he responds, "feeling a little unwell... the self inflicted kind."

"Ahhh! Ash said something about Heeju having a bad hangover... is it the same thing?"