Vampire Daddy (hunhanff)

Chapter 3

"Oppa, Why can't I tell the other kids you can fly?" Luhan asks as he eats his last breakfast before beginning school for the first time.

"Call me Hyung," I correct, "and because the other kids parents aren't as awesome as I am. Do you like where we live?" I ask as he nods with a mouth full of peaches and cute puckered lips.

"Then you can't tell people or we'll have to move." I warn as he nods slowly.

"Hyuuuung, I want to stay home with you!" He whines.

"Baby, it'll be so much fun. You'll get to meet other kids your age and have fun and you'll get to learn so much." I say as he sighs then rests his little chin on his fist.

"Okay, and you will get me at twelve thirty?" He asks as I nod.

"On the dot." I say with an encouraging smile.

"What does that mean?" He asks.

"It means I'll be there exactly at twelve thirty." I explain before he nods.

"Okay!" He says with a more excited smile.

...

I decided it'd be best to drive Luhan to school so he won't end up saying anything about being flown to school. It was so hard to take him. I didn't want to and I couldn't tell if he did or didn't want to go because he didn't know what it was exactly. He's old enough to begin going to school and I don't want to teach it all to him and keep him locked away from the world. He needs to get out and make relationships with others even though I want to be the only one in his life. He's my baby.

I turned on the radio to a station he likes before backing out of the garage and leave our beautiful home. I held his little hand the whole way there, not ready to give him up to the things that come with school. Things like stress, bullying, fitting in, learning, and just learning about things I'm not ready for him to learn about but can't shelter him from that environment. Although I can't remember it exactly, I know I learned my first swear words in elementary school.

When we arrive at the small campus I get a knot in my stomach that tells me to make a U-turn and wait another year. I know I shouldn't and by the way he's looking at the playground I know he'll want to stay.

"Here we are." I say as I park across the street from the school.

"Are you ready?" I ask as he nods with a big smile before opening the door and jumping out.

"Ah! Wait, I want to get your picture first!" I say as I grab his backpack and lunch pail off the back seat.

I take them with me as I get out of the car and go around to the sidewalk where he's waiting.

"You look so cute." I say as I fix his uniform and hair.

"Op- hyung!" He whines as I chuckle before pinching his cheek.

"You shouldn't be this big yet." I sigh before he hits my shoulder.

"Hyung! I'm already five, I'm not a baby anymore!" He whines as I roll my eyes.

"You're my baby, no matter how old you get, you'll always be my baby." I assure as he pouts and stomps his feet.

"Now let me take your picture, okay?" I say as I open the back door to the car and get my nice camera out of it's bag.

"First day of school, yay!" I say with a smile as I turn it on and look up at him.

"Hurry up! It's gonna start without me!" He whines.

"Oh stop, you'll be fine. Okay? Say cheese!" I say as I hold it up to take the picture of my precious baby.

"Now a silly one." I say as I puts his hands up for moose antlers, sticks out his tongue, and opens his eyes really wide.

Why can't you stay this age forever?

...

I go home feeling empty. I'm missing my little boy and there's nothing I can do about it. I spend the first twenty minutes wondering if he's making friends and having fun. Then I spend another twenty minutes thinking of what kinds of things he's going to learn. I spend twenty more minutes worrying about him learning things I don't want him to know, no, I spend more than twenty minutes thinking about that.

Time moves slower than usual, and I begin picking up the place and dusting things I hadn't noticed dust on until now. I tried to occupy myself with different things and by the time clock hit twelve I was sitting in front of the school waiting for Luhan to get out.

Lucky for me, kindergarteners get out of school after they eat lunch while the other kids have to stay longer. I don't even want to think about next year.

I saw a few parents around twelve twenty getting out of their cars and going up to the front gate so I couldn't help but go over there as well. I could hear a group of women questioning my presence off in the distance but I couldn't have cared less. My little baby soon came hurrying out with a folded up paper in his hand and the biggest smile I've ever seen on him.

"Hyung!! Look what I made!" He squealed excitedly as I bent down and pulled him up and into a tight hug.

"How was your day? Did you make some friends?" I ask as he nods and hugs me back.

"It was so much fun! But I wish you could be there and have fun with me!" He whined before I chuckled and kissed his cheek.

"Let's go home." I sighed before taking him to the car.

An entire week went by smoothly, that was until we got home Friday afternoon and he sat down at the counter to do his work.

"Hyung, aren't you my appa?" He asked as he colored something.

Crap.

"Appa? Not exactly, baby." I admit before he frowns and looks up at me.

"What do you mean?" He asks before I sigh softly to myself.

"It means, biologically I'm not." I say, knowing he won't know what that means.

"What does that mean?" He then asks.

"You'll learn when you're older, for now, finish your homework." I say, slipping past my first of many questions he'll have.