Falling for you

Chapter 32

"Can I have ice cream?"Keegan asked softly with his large doe-like eyes as he tugged on his mother's arm.

Hyejin sighed,looking at the ice cream truck from where they sat at the bench outside their apartment building.She took in the incredibly long line of children and adults alike.She bit her lip,nodding hesitantly,wanting a cold treat of her own that cold,winter day.

"You stay here,alright.Don't move from this spot,do you understand me?"she asked with a pointed look,not wanting her son to wander off on his own.Especially when Bogum and JaeMin where spending the day to themselves.

Content with a large smile and excitable nodding from the three year old,she got up,sliding her phone into her back jean pocket and towards the ice cream truck not too far away.

Keegan sat obediently on the bench,playing with his toy dinosaurs with his legs spread out on the bench,hanging off slightly.

"Hey,where's your mommy?"a man asked,crouching in front of Keegan with a soft,alluring smile.

Keegan looked up,large black eyes searing the man's equally black ones then looking at the man's appearance.He had black tousled hair like himself and a strong jawline.He was,however,sporting a busted lip and a fading bruise on the cheek.

Keegan frowned,pouting.

"Mommy told me not to talk to stwangers."he said.

"Ah.Well,my name is Wonwoo.I'm Jeon Wonwoo."the man said with a small smile.

Keegan smiled and held up his dinosaur in excitement.

"I'm a Jeon too!"Keegan exclaimed with a large grin.

Wonwoo felt his heart melt,adjusting to kneel down from his crouching position.He felt connected to the little boy somehow.He felt the need to take the little boy with him,to love him unconditionally.

"Oh really?"Wonwoo asked,playing along.

"What's your name?"

"Jeon Keegan!I'm three!My mommy said she had named me like daddy!But mommy said we left daddy when I was a wittle baby."he said,stumbling over the words slightly.

"Yeah?So why are you down here alone?"Wonwoo asked.

"Mommy went to buy ice cream.Chocowate is my favowite."Keegan smiled.

Wonwoo nodded along with Keegan,a grin adorning his lips.

"Chocolate's my favorite too."Wonwoo said.

Hyejin held both cones in either hand,licking her own cookie dough ice cream in delight.Looking up at where her son sat,she started to run across the wet,snow covered grass,leaving bootprints embedded into the white crystalline snow.

"Keegan!What did...I..."she trailed off,her heart seeming to come to a halt as the man in front of her son turned around with a smile,only for his expression to drop the moment it laid eyes on her.

Time seemed to stop,her grip on both ice creams loosening as they fell to the floor with a "plop".

Her heart clenched as her eyes watched him stand up.Her mouth parted slightly,eyes tearing up slightly.

"Keegan,get upstairs."she mumbled.

"But-"he started.

"Keegan!Now!"Hyejin yelled,nostrils flaring as she turned her head to face her son.

Keegan,not familiar with his mother raising her voice at him,started to tremble,lips quivering as tears started to pool at his eyes.Hastily collecting his toy dinosaurs,he slid off the wooden bench,running into the apartment complex.