Chapter 26

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jaehyun ran his hand over his thigh, sitting in the car with his free hand reaching out to hold haeun's hand. haeun looked at his hovering had and took it, pulling it down as yoosuk sat opposite them and turned to his mini-fridge at the side.

he opened it, revealing bottles of wine and champagne, there were plastic champagne glasses in a cabinet to the side, too.

"how about a small drink?" yoosuk asked. 

jaehyun huffed, "it's a bit early, don't you think, dad?"

"nonsense. I don't understand people who think that it can be too early for a drink. haeun will have one, right? it's not like any of us are driving," yoosuk poured a glass of champagne and gave it to haeun.

haeun sipped the glass, and placed it in a cup holder at the side. jaehyun watched his father down the glass, effortlessly and it made sense to haeun where jaehyun got his alcohol tolerance from.

"dad, save the drinks for later," jaehyun sighed.

"okay, okay. so, should we go home to your mum? she can cook us something nice," yoosuk smiled.

"sure, i'd love to meet mrs jung," haeun piped up and  jaehyun glared at her.

"what?" she mouthed as yoosuk yelled the destination to the chauffeur.

"what are you doing? it's bad enough with one parent, you want the other?" jaehyun whispered.

"don't be dramatic. plus, I should meet them one day, right?" haeun whispered back and jaehyun nodded.

she sensed he felt a bit anxious and maybe stressed, so she placed a hand on his thigh, and lightly squeezed it to reassure him.

jaehyun let out a relaxed breath, and pulled haeun's hand back, when she was about to remove it from his thigh; it was these little moments that haeun's heart fluttered at.


they arrived at the house, shortly and haeun took the scenery in. the front was decorated with plants and the house was big and grand.

inside, it felt too big but there was furniture and pictures to make it look homely and welcoming.

"yoonoh!" jaehyun's mother ran over to them with arms outstretched. she clutched her son, tightly and jaehyun chuckled.

"hi, mum," he said.

jaehyun's mother had brown hair let down on her shoulders, and she resembled jaehyun a bit - she had his soft eyes.

mrs jung let go of him and her eyes fell to haeun. she smiled, lovingly and stepped over to haeun.

"you must be haeun? we haven't heard much about you," she laughed softly and looked over at jaehyun standing awkwardly.

"that's unfortunate, i'm sorry," haeun returned the smile and looked at jaehyun, too. 

"well, come here," mrs jung pulled her in a hug. 

"where's your father, yoonoh?" mrs jung asked as she walked through the doors of the big house; jaehyun and haeun following.

"he's coming, talking to a business partner on the phone. said he didn't want you to complain if he got calls during lunch," jaehyun scoffed.

"good, I wouldn't have let him hear the end of it. does yoonoh get busy with business calls when he's with you?" mrs jung asked.

"not really. he doesn't answer them, sometimes," haeun giggled.

"hey, that's not true. I answer them to tell them that i'm busy," jaehyun laughed. he seemed much more comfortable with his mother.

"that's nice. haeun, could you help me in the kitchen?" she asked.

"of course, mrs jung."

"it's jaehwa, honey," she grinned.


haeun was told to cut the vegetables, and so she did, silently and jaehyun and his father sat at the dining room and talked about business.

"how did you and yoonoh meet?" jaehwa asked.

haeun looked over her shoulder and smiled, "through a mutual friend." she decided to leave out the party and beer pong part.

"how long ago was that?" 

"quite a while. maybe about 5 months ago?" haeun said.

[sorry for interrupting. idk if the timing is right,i just made it up cos I cba. if you know, just comment it, please. if not, I don't think it's that deep, i'll fix it if it's important to you :) ]

"that's nice. how are you two?" jaehwa asked.

"what do you mean?" haeun said.

"yoonoh has barely told us anything about you. only that he loves you very much," jaehwas smiled.

haeun blushed, "I love him. a lot. your son is very caring, and responsible. he's loving and sweet.  you've done a good job raising him."

jaehwa chuckled, lightly, "honey, he practically raised himself. yoosuk and I were very hard on him, for many years. it was until yoonoh spoke up about how hard we had been on him that we changed things. since then, I've tried my best to be supportive and loving. like I should have been."

haeun nodded, lost for words. 

jaehwa looked at haeun, tears flooding in her eyes, "you seem like a very nice girl. I don't know much about your relationship but jaehyun looks so happy, now. thank you."

jaehwa clutched haeun's shoulders and pulled her for a tight hug.

"oh," haeun gasped. "it's no worries. really, jaehyun's an angel to me."

"mum," jaehyun whined and walked over to you both. "why are you crying?"

jaehyun started to hug his mum.

"it's nothing. I was just talking to haeun. yoonoh, can you set the table?" jaehyun nodded and grabbed some plates.


during lunch, haeun heard many stories about when jaehyun had been little, she learnt about his mischievous days.

"mum, dad, that's enough," jaehyun groaned when they started bringing up stories of how jaehyun would make excuses to not go to school.

"okay, son," yoosuk laughed.

"today's been a nice day," jaehwa said and haeun nodded, whilst they cleaned up the dishes.


"it's getting late, though. you both should come around another day and stay for a weekend," jaehwa told haeun as they bid goodbye.

"dad, i'll see you at the meeting, tomorrow?" jaehyun hugged his father.


as soon as they got back to the apartment, jaehyun hugged haeun tightly, and said into her neck, "today went so well because of you."

"not because of me, your parents are just sweet," haeun chuckled.

"no," jaehyun shook his head, tickling your neck. "they're cool, but you're amazing, haeun."

"whatever you say. i'm going to shower," haeun tried pushing him off, hut jaehyun clung on.

"i'm joining you. that dress will be the death of me," jaehyun bit his lip and dragged you to the bathroom.


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man, wattpad just HAD to delete the original version!

hope you liked this chapter, I just wasn't bothered to, you know, write it a mf second time ffs!


anyways, have a good day!

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