Chapter 17: Chapter 17

The sunlight hit the inside of the room through the slightly opened windows and the wavy curtains, waking up the short petite man as he sleepily yawned and caressed the side next to him, searching for a sunkissed figure only to find empty space and messy sheets.

He sat up slowly searching around the room for the said figure but it was just a mess, and him. He pouted while sighing and standing up from the bed. He then started cleaning up his room and found a Rolex watch under the blankets which belonged to, “Hyuck-ah… I told him to remove it before getting to the bed but he never listens to me. Guess I gotta keep it securely for now.”

He kept the object inside his wardrobe's locker and after a one final look, he decided to leave once everything looked fine. He exited his room, making his way downstairs to the living room.

He saw his father was already awake and thought it was not really early in the morning. He must have woken up late. He took a breath and walked to his father's direction, joining him on the table.

“Good morning, Papa.”

“It's almost afternoon, Taeil.” Jongdae corrected his son while offering a smile and the latter smiled back sheepishly in embarrassment.

“Yeah… I guess I woke up late today.” Taeil said nervously. Even though Jongdae was smiling at him he felt nervous. He felt something was about to come and it was just a calmness before the tsunami.

Jongdae nodded and asked, “Did you stay awake till late? I mean you don't usually wake up late so I wondered.”

“Ahh… I did stay awake for one or two hours late but then I fell asleep. Maybe it's just because I was pretty tired.” Taeil answered, his voice trembling a little. Why was he feeling so freaking nervous? He didn't do anything wrong then why he felt his heart skipping in his chest in fear.

“Well, that's understandable as anyone will get tired after riding a dick all night, no?”

Now Taeil actually gulped in horror. “W-what? Papa?”

Jongdae just chuckled and continued. “It's obvious that you still didn't ask if I have seen Donghyuck or not. Didn't you wonder where he went when you woke up and didn't find him around?”

“I did think for a second but then I just thought it could be his classes or something… So I just let it slide instead of bothering you.”

“Awhh… Look at my little boy, how much he grew up.”

Taeil couldn't figure if Jongdae's compliment was actually intended to compliment him or not. But since his smile seemed tender, he also decided to smile back and they both smiled at each in silence.

SLAP!

“P-Papa?”

“Don't you fucking dare to call me that, Byun Taeil!” Jongdae yelled and Taeil felt tears spilling into his eyes as he caressed his stinging, reddened cheek.

“What did you think? Or what have you been thinking all this time or should I ask, what have you been doing all this time?”

“What are you saying, Papa? I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't do anything.”

Jongdae laughed humorlessly while shaking his head. “So you haven't only become a bad person but you also became a bad liar.”

Taeil was about to chim in again but a thud interrupted him. He saw that Jongdae had thrown his pregnancy reports on the table and he gasped in intense horror after realization hit him.

“We have always felt proud of you as our son. Always appreciated your every single decision. People always complimented you and your students took motivation and inspiration from you. And you? What you did? Had an affair with your own fucking student and cheated your husband? Not only that, you even had his… Had his child inside your womb and kept us in a hoax all this time!”

The elder clenched his and closed his eyes, trying to catch his breath before continuing. “Is this, is this how we raised you, Taeil? Is this what we have taught you? Is this the same person whom we have been thinking as our beloved son always? Where did we fail Taeil? Please tell me, where!

Please…”

“Papa… I'm sorry-”

“Don't! Just don't…” Jongdae exclaimed while biting his lips, trying not to cry at that very moment.

“Why?” Jongdae whispered after a few moments of silence. “Just why, Taeil? We gave you everything you wanted. Allowed you to do anything you preferred. Let you marry the man you loved then why! Why just why…”

The elder then started while holding his head in his hands in regression. Taeil felt extremely guilty for his father's vulnerable state. The only people he had by his side were his parents and he even broke their trust, their hearts and probably their relationship with him. They must disown him after finding out how horrible their son was and a freaking terrible monster like him fucking deserved that!

“I don't know, Papa. I myself don't know as to why I did that. Why I hurt everyone and ruined everything. I don't know why I'm such a pathetic, troublesome piece of regret!”

Jongdae looked up at the younger who was trying his best not to cry while continuing. “I know the things I've done are unforgivable and I'm going to be hated by everyone for it and I exactly deserve that! But since I'm such a weakling to go through that nor I can't undo all those wrongdoings of mine, so it'd be better if I'd just end my life-”

SLAP!

“Don't you even fucking think of doing something stupid like that!”

The younger now started sobbing and it broke Jongdae's heart. Despite all that mess that his son had caused, he was still his child and his parental instincts couldn't stop anymore. He didn't carry his one and only little one inside his womb to just disown him like that.

The helpless and broken state of his son got him and he hugged the younger, embracing him in his arms comfortingly.

They stayed still for a few moments then the elder decided to break the silence. “Do you love him?”

The question was not only sudden, but beyond belief. He blinked a few times before asking, “I, what?”

“Do you truly love Donghyuck?” Jongdae asked again, mentioning Taeil's lover's name this time.

“I don't know if it's true love or not. I don't even know if it's even love but, I just know that I find my happiness inside his soul. Whenever I'm with him, I feel myself complete as a whole.”

“Then I believe, we can consider this feeling as true love of yours.”

Now Taeil was just taken aback in disbelief. This had to be a dream.

“Papa?”

Jongdae exhaled and closed his eyes and then opened them as he started speaking, “You know Taeil, when people say that love is the hardest feeling in the world, they're not wrong. Many lovers spend their entire lives just in search of their true love, but end up dying alone after having multiple, insecure and unsure relationships. They want their love story to be like what they've always heard in fairy tales. First love, true love, getting together and a happy ending. But they don't acknowledge that even fairytales have broken these so-called chains at many points.”

He stopped for a second and placed his hand on his son's cheek, caressing him in an assuring way.

“Where the princess realizes that she was dreaming for the wrong person. Where the monster becomes a prince charming, or some black magic does good for the people and mostly, destiny grants its own kind of ending to everyone. I might not be rainbows or unicorns but, it sure would be something that sets you at ease. Gives you the pleasure and fills you with your own kind of happiness.”

“But Papa, it's me here, who is-”

“Wrong. But it's not only you. We all went wrong at certain points. So we all get through this. But since you led this path, you will still lead it, and take us all in the right path from now on. You're in love, and your love is true. True love always ends the difficulties in the end. So don't give up now because destiny has given you another chance to change. Just because it's not your first, doesn't mean it can't be true. It's just an obvious agenda and people tend to believe it. But it's your life and you only get to live once, just live it.”

Taeil started shedding his joyful tears and hugged his father happily. “I love you so much, Papa.

You're the best!” Jongdae hugged back and kissed the younger's forehead.

“I love you too, sweetie. But this doesn't mean that you are not going to be punished for having premarital sex in your childhood room behind my and Baek's back.”

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Later in the evening Baekhyun came home and Taeil explained everything to him from top to bottom. Though, the latter didn't react much or could say didn't react at all and just simply nodded at everything emotionlessly.

Taeil got worried but Jongdae assured him that he would see and sort the situation out. Jongdae was indeed the best father anyone could ask for.

Jongdae decided to speak calmly and alone with his husband regarding that so he waited till the bedtime.

After finishing the dinner bidding goodnight to his son he went to his and Baekhyun's bedroom and there he found his husband sitting in the blankets by himself and seemed lost in thoughts. He kind of felt intimidated a little as it wasn't normal when Baekhyun gets lost in serious thoughts. He just realized that the elder hadn't even eaten the dinner that night.

“Baek, may I come in?”

The latter looked at his husband and chuckled. “Isn't it obvious that it's our room and not only mine?”

“You seemed pretty occupied so I didn't want to create any disturbance.” Jongdae said as he walked towards the bed, reaching the elder.

“Well, isn't everything a disturbance at this very moment? Whether it's news, an event, an act or a feeling. Everything has just been negative and it's not just lately, it's been like this for us when we weren't even-”

“Baek, love, I know things have never been easy for us but, we can't just be regretful for everything. Fate did grant us many good things in between. Just look at our Taeillie. Remember we were just the happiest when we held our baby for the first time in our arms.”

Baekhyun giggled at the memory but his expression soon turned back as it was previously. “I'm not being regretful for the things I have, Dae. I'm feeling guilty, for the things I did. And it's only me, not us. It's always been me who kept doing wrong and wrong and never even realized until now. When I saw my son repeating the same mistakes I've made, I got to know that I've been even worse. Especially to Jungwoo oh damn… How in world I could torture that young and humble man that much when in the end it's my own freaking son who betrayed him. Yes, what Jungwoo did was even wrong but, it's something he did but there were always multiple things that I've been doing since the day I met him.”

“I know Baek, and I won't say that it wasn't your fault because it was. But, somehow, we all were at fault in our own ways. For not trying to know the things, the suppressed feelings. For always coping with what was in front of our eyes instead of getting to know what was hidden from our vision which could only be found by an open conversation. But what's done is done. We can't reset the things but we sure can restart the things, in a new way, in a right way.”

Baekhyun looked at the younger with his puppy eyes and fluffy pout. “Shall we?”

Jongdae giggled at his lover's act. “Of course, my idiotic bacon.”

“Gosh Dae, I still can't believe sometimes that we ended up together.”

The younger sighed and said, “I extremely regret that.”

“Oh no, you don't.” Baekhyun exclaimed and before the younger could retort back, he sealed his lips with a tender kiss which soon became an aggressive act of love when the elder started biting the latter's neck while sliding his hand underneath his shirt.

Jongdae moans in pleasure when his husband dragged his shirt down and started sucking on his nipple.

“Baek, Taeil is sleeping just a few rooms away from us…” Jongdae said which came out as a hiss because of his sinful tone.

“Hmm… Really? So he can have premarital sex and babies and I'm forbid to fuck my fucking husband?”

“Such a horny dick you are.”

“For you, I'm always.”

The younger laughed lightly and pecked Baekhyun. “Alright but please, be gentle. I'm not as energetic as before.”

“You still are babe. It's just because we haven't made love in a while. I'll show you tonight how energetic and wild our love still is.”

So, after Jongdae, it was Taeil's turn to hear his parents making love that night.