She squeals as she chases after a hermit crab, the shell moving faster than her chubby, wobbly legs can move. She falls on her hands and knees, making a noise of surprise before crawling after him straight to the ocean. She laughs as she crawls, her adorable grin shines two teeth on the bottom as she drools and continues to crawl.

The hermit crab dug a hole to get away from her, scurrying and burying itself to conceal it in the white sand. The little baby coos, stopping just at the wave line to poke where she seen him disappear to. Her attention was drawn to the waves washing up around her legs and butt, she squeals once more before crawling towards the ocean.

She didn't get very far and was snatched up by two strong arms. She squeals, pointing to the ocean and whining. A voice chuckles, "Nice try princess, I think you nearly gave Uncle Wooyoung a heart attack."

"Aurora!" Wooyoung screams, coming up to Jongho as the younger turns with the baby in his arms. He sighs in relief, "Young lady you nearly gave me a heart attack!! If it wasn't you who killed me it would've been your mother!!"

Aurora giggles, waving her hand at him adorable as she snuggles into Jongho's chest. The gunner chuckles, kissing her head of whitish-blonde hair before Wooyoung takes her, "Well now we know she is definitely a sea baby."

Wooyoung shakes his head, "Seonghwa would've literally murdered me if he found out she nearly took a swim."

"Relax babe, I got her in time," Jongho laughs, kissing Wooyoung before pointing to the trees, "we better head back, Seonghwa should be done with classes by now."

The couple bring the little girl back to their village, she babbles and points to the ocean, a pout on her face as she looks at Jongho. The gunner chuckles, "Let's go see mommy! Wanna go see mommy?"

The little girl instantly grins cooing loudly as she points towards where the village is, "Mumm!!"

Once they entered camp, they see a few people were still talking to Seonghwa. Once the blonde sees them approaching with his daughter though, he smiles and takes her in his arms and kisses her chubby cheeks, "Oh my baby girl, did you have fun?"

"She had loads of fun," Jongho laughs, noticing Wooyoung was shaking a little, "Chased a hermit crab on the beach until I scooped her up and brought her back here."

"Why is she wet?" Seonghwa arches his eyebrow, narrowing his eyes at the couple.

"She may or may not have played in wet sand," Jongho admits, taking the rap.

"Jongho!!" Seonghwa's eyes widen and he looks at his baby, "She could've drowned!!"

"But she didn't," Jongho points out, "I caught her before she could go for a swim."

"Jong-"

Suddenly, they hear a horn blaring loudly in the distance and they were silent. They hear it again and Seonghwa gasps, a smile growing on his face, "He's back."

He takes Aurora back out to the beach, the little girl wiggling to be set down and Seonghwa does so but holds her hand. The islanders cheer and wave at the ship as it approaches, his friends stood right by him as they wave and cheer as well. Aurora points to the ship, looking up at her mother, "Mama, dada."

"That's right baby," Seonghwa smiles, watching the ship approach closer to the docking station, "Daddy's home."

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Hello everyone and welcome to book 2 of Finding Utopia!! If you haven't read it yet, the first book to this is Finding Utopia and we suggest reading it first before reading this book! This is a collaboration with me and flamewhipper (go check her out and her books because she is DA BOMB ☺️!!). As always, we appreciate every comment and every vote for this story and we're so excited to share this with you all!! We hope you continue to support and love our work as this book goes along. As always, thank you all and enjoy it well!! Love you all ❤️