Summary:
“Shouldn't there be a wedding for cats?” Turning to look at Seokmin who is sitting on the floor across him, while continues petting Vernon who is curling up lazily on his chest, Jihoon asks his neighbor who is trying to get his frantic cat sitting calmly on the cushion.
When Seokmin looks up at him, Jihoon can see from his slow blinking that the boy thinks about the marriage as a joke. “That will be fun!” he laughs before yelping in pain when Hoshi scratches his hand and jumps onto the sofa toward Vernon.
Darting his gaze to the cat, Jihoon watches in challenging amusement when Hoshi looks at him cautiously, before raising his brow when the older cat ignorantly climbs onto his chest and then snuggling with Vernon as if he has deemed the human undangerous. Looking at how easy Vernon let the other cat, he wonders to Seokmin who is caressing his scratched hand. “Are we going to be in-law?”
Notes:
this is the first one in Wedding Stories series where the pairing isn’t the only one telling the story. Told in Jihoon’s POV, A.K.A. the father of the bride’s POV XD
the plot is a crack.. please don't expect much..
but I hope you will still enjoy reading this
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This story started when Jihoon first met Vernon. He was in cat shelter along with his cousin who wanted to adopt a cat, and Jihoon being the -forced- reliable cousin accompanying the taller man to choose the cat.
“Oh come one, hyung.” Mingyu whined earlier that week when he crashed into his shorter cousin’s apartment. “I don’t want to look awkward when I pick the cat.”
“Didn’t I tell you to shed off your height? It’s your own fault growing that tall and becoming a titan to small cats.” Jihoon replied snidely, he was still totally bitter about his once used to be little cousin, now overgrown him, who was 5 years older than the said cousin. He also couldn’t understand why the younger wanted to adopt a cat suddenly.
“It feels so lonely for me to live alone in my apartment.” Mingyu explained that once again when they were on their way to the shelter. “And my friend said that having a pet may help.”
“Why cat?” Jihoon asked while driving his car smoothly, following Mingyu’s navigation lead. “I thought you are more dog person.”
Frowning when his navigation was a bit late in directing and updating the route -well, not his navi’s fault but more like his internet’s fault, Mingyu gave up with the maps and started looking around the area himself. “Dog can be too active and messy. And they’re too big for my apartment. So yeah..”
Jihoon never expected himself to like animal nor anything cute in general, but when he looked around while walking behind Mingyu disinterestedly, he couldn’t stop himself from staring at two brunette kittens snuggling with each other in one of the cages.
“Hyung?” Mingyu approached him when he noticed that the elder had stopped following him. “You find something?” he asked curiously and Jihoon didn’t bother himself to answer because Mingyu would eventually see the kittens he was watching. And true to his guess. Mingyu did see them and soon he cooed aloud. “Oh! They’re cute.”
The younger’s loud voice startled the kittens. One, which seemed smaller, flinched awake from its nap and raised its head to look at them confusedly. Jihoon followed the small kitten’s eyes movement until they reached him. He watched the kitten tilted its head and never once strayed its gaze away from him. Out of his control, Jihoon’s lips quirked up bit by bit everytime the brunette kitten blinked confusedly. The kitten was cute.
