𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐄 | 𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢

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i stood up, leaving wonshik a smile and a playful wink. i run up to the man who's now walking very formally, hands at his back.

he finally stopped at what i assumed as their rooftop garden, admiring the skies as it was now sundown. he sat down at the bench which was the only one, so i just stood infront of him.

"now tell me, what are you to wonshik?"

"pardon?" i widened my eyes, dumbfounded at his first sentence he made. "we are friends, sir."

"oh, come on. stop calling me sir and call me something i'd like."

"what would you like?" i smiled at him while i stole a glance, surprised that he was smiling also.

"father-in-law." he straightforwardly said and shifted his body on me. i did the same and awkwardly smiled at him. "you know, i like you." i raised my eyebrows, "you make wonshik something he is not."

i looked down, and he pat at the space beside him, signalling for me to sit on it and i gladly took the chance.

"what do you mean?" i asked politely and he just scoffed–– a smile planted on his lips after.

"this is the first time i've seen wonshik like that. –– and the first time im telling something like this. and let me tell you, daughter, im not good at words." i lightly smiled and he continued, "wonshik never cared about anyone when his mom and i divorced. well, anyone but somin and his friends but he rarely shows it. when i married another which was what my mother appointed at me, he just changed. he's a very wonderful child, i tell you. but whenever he opens up that he wants to go to his mother just because he doesn't want to see me hugging another woman that isn't his mother, i hurt and break. so i take all my stress in beating him up. and i'd be very honest, i feel guilty and regret after im done with him. i cry whenever i go up to my room, wrist full of scratches and blood. shit, this is the first time im telling anyone this." 

"and im very grateful and pleasured that im someone very special for you to tell all this on." i smiled at him, a reassuring one. "your son, oh my god, no one can tell how much i admire him. and yes, sir, i like him as like the like you're thinking," we both chuckled, "but, someone got your son's heart already, and i don't know what to do about it. in anyway, i don't think i can unlike him. he's been steadily staying in my heart which i don't like. i also feel hurt when i see him hurt. actually, im very thankful that this kind of things happen, in my point of view, him getting sick so suddenly, but then until now i don't know what was going to happen when he comes home late, thinking that someone will take care of him after. so i feel really bad being happy when he's with me. –– and i get to apologize now, im very sorry, sir."

he chuckled, ruffling my hair.

like father, like son.

"first, i told you not to call me sir. second, i don't know about his heart got by someone. he looks at you like how i used to look at his mother. you know what, i.. still love his mother," he said and silence filled the air. until, "his mother was all i could wish for. but then, it was the only choice. my parents didn't like her, so we filed a secret marriage, but then my parents got the message. i tried holding and keeping up but.. yeah, its the only way to not see her get hurt."

"that's the saddest short story i have ever heard." i said, sincerity in my voice.

"oh and third, don't worry. i'll root for you." i smiled at him and we both chuckled. "come now, your mother must've been waiting." he put his hand on my shoulder, smiling as we walk to the living room where wonshik has been waiting the whole time.