Sand Cakes || Markson

Sand Cakes

Jiyun jumped excitedly around the room because finally, he was at his dad's place.

"Jiyun-ah, please don't get hurt" His dad said to him with concern in his voice as the small one just gave his dad thumbs up and a big beautiful smile.

"Chaehee, I'm busy today..."

"Jackson, please, so am I.. Ever since you started doing variety shows you've started seeing Jiyun rarely.. Don't you think the poor boy misses his dad??"

Jackson let out a sigh. The memories of his parents flooding back to his mind as he started tearing up slightly. He hasn't seen them in a while.. Variety shows have taken up all his free time, actually no, all of his time.

"Are you crying?" Jackson heard a small voice ask so he quickly wiped the tear away and smiled at the small one.

"No sweetie, don't worry" He reassured the small boy as he nodded and restarted jumping.

"Hey, Jackson, I'm so--"

"It's whatever Chaehee, I'll watch him" Jackson said and ended the call not saying anything else.

"Yunie, please be careful, okay?" Jackson asked and received Jackson a thumbs up from his son. Jackson nodded and went to the kitchen to get water for the boy who'll get tired of jumping soon.

He returned and saw the boy lying face down on the couch, one of the hands outside the couch, small body looked lifeless.

"Dad.. Power.. Water.. Strong.. No energy.. Ndnaj.." Jiyun muffled into the couch making Jackson smile at the small one. He walked up to his son, sat down next to him with cup of water still in his hands.

"Here, drink this" Jiyun looked up, looked at the cup and back to his dad.

"Is that power water?" Jiyun eyed the cup suspiciously and Jackson nodded with a small laugh.

"Yes, I made power water for you, Jiyun-ah" Jackson shook his head at the thought of power water. He knew his son meant energy water which is literally just home made water with all kinds of fruits, but his son was too adorable while saying power water so Jackson never corrected Jiyun .

After Jiyun heard answer he was waiting for, he quickly sat up and stretched out both his arms towards the cup, which Jackson gave him.

The boy gulped all the water down in just few gulps and gave Jackson back the cup.

"Dad, let's go for a walk" Jiyun said as he looked up at Jackson. His eyes looked like Jackson's just slightly bigger.

"Any specific place you want to go?"

"Playground!! I have friends there!!" Small boy jumped on his feet excitedly, grabbing his dad by the hand and dragging Jackson towards the door to put the shoes on.

"Jiyun-ah, you do know we're not going to go to the playground you usually go to, right?"

"It's okay, I can make new friends" Jiyun gave his dad a smile making Jackson smile at how pure and precious his little boy is and just that sentence and the small one's smile was enough to get Jackson's agreement.

Both of them put on their shoes and left the house. The closest playground wasn't far from Jackson's house so they got there really quickly.

Jiyun at first ran towards the swings, then the sand box, slide, swings, sandbox, slide, swings, sand box; never failing to run without a proper rest.

Jackson sat down at the bench that was nearby the sand box, when Jiyun stopped there and started making sand cakes.

"Dad! Look at this cake!" Jiyun called Jackson excitedly making Jackson's heart melt. Jiyun was an adorable boy. Jackson nodded at the little one and watched as Jiyun continue making sand cakes.