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[ happy mother's day bestie! thank you for the birthening of jace <3

chia too. my first oc i wrote with a kid!! i don't know how good of a mother you are yet but yes ♡ ]

when the five-year-old finally arrived to the couple's house, discomfort and silence lingered all around.

nearly an hour was spent with the three of them exchanging looks of disgust, fidgeting with random things within their reach.

jace nudged his boyfriend from the side, whispering, "what's her name again?"

"you don't know?!" he judged.

"yeah, now tell me."

"i don't know either!"

both looked away in disappointment.

"so do we like, call her honey? honeybunch?"

"you sound like a grandma who bakes cookies all the time." sicheng sneered, then brought up a suggestion, "what about 'darling'?"

"you sound like a creepy old man," jace fired back. "'baby'?"

"absolutely not."

"chia, but with no precancerous cells."

"i just—"

"female johnny, but not prediabetic."

"stop."

minutes passed with them still thinking of a proper nickname, bringing up even the most ridiculous ones.

" . . . ms. seo?"

"sure, let's just . . . settle with that."

they looked back at the kid after the series of whisper-yelling, her judgemental stare still stuck to them.

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tucking 'ms. seo' in bed later that night sure was a highlight of the hell of a day.

"this is unfair!" jace exclaimed, making enlarged hand gestures. "like, that's an entire korean-japanese-american kid with an attitude there. i'm not even that skilled with my korean. or my english, or japanese for the love of god. and we have to take care of her for four days?"

"how unskilled can you be? you've been cursing her out in korean since yesterday."

"yes, but still!"

even if a couple days passed since their conversation about the bet he made when he was drunk months ago, he'd been noticing how sicheng was holding back on his emotions whenever they were around each other.

"are you still mad at me because of the nintendo switch thing?"

still, the other remained passive-aggressive. "no."

"mmmm, i'll believe you if you say jace 멋지다."

"no."

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