Jeno didn't wake up too good, his emotions and grudges from last night's event didn't completely fade away.

He woke up with a message from his mother, saying her and Mrs. Na were waiting for them, as always.

He was confused at first, furrowing his eyebrows as he stared at the message whilst thinking about his schedules or if he had any supposed plans for today that he forgot about.

Which he did, thanks to an already suited up Jaemin combing his hair by the mirror, glancing at his reflection to see Jeno's morning and completely dazed out face behind his shoulder.

"Get ready, we're going to taste cakes today, sweetheart." He gave a small smile to hopefully lighten up his supposed-fiancè's mood this morning.

And that's where Jeno remembered his schedules for the week. He usually doesn't forget them, so it's kinda bugging him a bit by how he didn't remember sooner.

Rubbing his palms on his face, he sighs and jumps out of bed to head over to the bathroom and quickly change.

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"Who's watching over Jisung? Karina is absent because she's sick, and Woozi hyung has a business meeting." Jeno began to worry for his son's well-being.

Mrs. Lee chuckles and ruffles his styled hair– making it slightly messy, but Jeno barely cares about that, "don't worry too much, honey." She said.

Mrs. Na hums and chuckles as well when she saw Jeno's small pout while carrying Jisung in his arms who was nibbling on some cookie his dear grandmother gave him when they met up.

"Jaemin's assistant, Sungchan, will watch over Jisung for you today." She said, smiling softly at the worried boy.

Jeno seemed hesitant, it was very obvious for all of them– even Jisung stopped nibbling on his cookie to look at his papa worriedly.

"What's wrong, papa?" Jisung asks first, beating the adults to speak up about it.

Jeno pursed his lips, keeping quiet for a moment and leaving their questions unanswered.

He didn't want to sound rude or anything if he spoke up about his concern.

It's just that– he doesn't really trust other people around Jisung, besides his family and Karina, of course.

So hearing that someone else would take that spot as a babysitter for his son, and not to mention Jeno doesn't even know this Sungchan guy, of course he'd feel hesitant to hand over his baby.

Jaemin seems to get the message, how could he not? When the times he had observed Jeno's behavior changing whenever it's towards Jisung and other people around the little boy.

He knows the younger is very protective of his son, almost as protective as his parents are to him.

He's speaking from a little bit of experience *coughs*

So without thinking, he reaches his arm to surround Jeno's hips, startling the latter by the action since he was thinking about what to answer to their previous question.

"Don't worry, Sungchan is a good guy. You can trust him with Jisung for today," he whispers in to the younger's ear.

Jeno shivers at the contact, Jaemin's hot breath hitting his ear, Jaemin's low and hoarse voice for him to hear, Jaemin's tight yet gentle touch for him to feel– he thinks he's malfunctioning.

He moves his gaze to the floor instead of the two women's curious yet a mixture of teasing eyes on him, chewing on his lip, still not sure about this.

Jaemin notices and taps the younger's hip with his fingers, resulting Jeno to look up at him with wide eyes, "if you think Sungchan didn't do great on watching over Jisung, you can tell me and I'll have a scolding on him." He paused.

"For you." He adds with a grin.

Even more satisfied when the younger's face was beginning to turn red from either embarrassment or shyness, because if he was actually or genuinely mad, he would've pushed Jaemin away by now.

Which he didn't. Maybe he's too focused on the main situation in hand, definitely.

Blinking while processing the elder's words, Jeno covers his reddening face with a huff and turns back to face their mothers. "Fine, but if Jisung gets hurt in any possible way–"

"We'll take the blame and talk to Sungchan about it, don't worry." Mrs. Lee helps on coaxing her son with a lazy wave of her hand.

As if on cue, Sungchan arrives, stepping out of the van while he jogs up to them. "Hello everyone, good morning Sir Na." He greets with a polite bow.

Jaemin pats him by the shoulder with his free hand, "good to see you Sungchan." He greets back and takes a glance at Jeno and Jisung.

"You've met the mothers," he gestures at the two ladies who smiles at his assistant. Sungchan nodded in confirmation as Jaemin hums at that.

"Well, this is Jeno, my fiancè. And Jisung... his son." He introduced with a tight smile at the end to hide the bitterness in his voice.

He still feels upset and confused on how to introduce his biological son to other people. Especially with Jeno around.

It's not like he doesn't want to yell out to the world that he's Jisung's father. But he just can't.

Because he hasn't talked to Jeno about it yet and is afraid he'll make the younger upset, which will result for another argument going on between them.

He's basically just waiting for Jeno's approval, "happy wife, happy life." Jaemin sometimes quotes to himself jokingly.

"Nice to meet you both," Sungchan waves at them in a friendly manner before listening to further more instructions.

"As my mother and I requested, you'll be watching over Jisung for today. Is that alright with you?" Jaemin asks the young with a brow raised.

Sungchan nodded again, turning to look at Jeno who eyed him carefully.

Sensing the younger's uneasiness, Jaemin gently rubs Jeno's hip again to relax the boy. It sort of worked because Jeno stopped eyeing Jaemin's assistant so– scarily. As if Sungchan had already did something wrong.

Sighing deeply, Jeno turns to Jisung and pecks his son's nose, "papa loves you, okay?" He said softly, pressing their foreheads together.

Jisung hums with a bright smile, puckering his lips to kiss Jeno's nose as well before moving to kiss his eyelids. "Sungie loves papa too!"

Smiling, Jeno glances at Sungchan before handing Jisung over to the younger with his lips pursed tightly.

Sungchan takes Jisung in his arms, the little boy squirming a bit since he's usually more comfortable being in his papa's arms, he smiles at the little boy anyway to ease him up.

"Take care of him very well, please." Jeno mumbles, earning a nod from Sungchan. He reaches in his pocket to hand Sungchan a small list, "also follow these for me, will you? Unlike your boss over here." He rolled his eyes.

Sungchan couldn't help but let out a laugh, then followed by the two ladies beside him as Jaemin was looking at Jeno a little offended, but he knew he deserved it.

Looking at his son, Jeno jokingly scrunches his face and puts his hands on his hips, completely forgetting Jaemin's hand on his side.

He flinched a little but ignores it, eyeing his little boy instead, "and you, be a good boy and don't cause Sungchan in trouble, okay?" He points at him.

Jisung giggles at him with a nod, saluting his papa right back. "Yes papa!" He replied lastly before they waved off to head back to the van.

Jeno watches them carefully, until his focus was interrupted by Jaemin's damn voice, and damn touch, and just– him.

"You may think you're a little scary when you do that, but in my opinion, I think you're pretty cute." The elder grins jokingly, but his words were genuine.

Jeno had the urge to push him away and yell at him, but he remembered they weren't the only two people right here.

"Okay boys, now that's finished. Let's go and taste some cakes for your wedding! Isn't this going to be fun?" Mrs. Na squeals, linking arms with Mrs. Lee as they walked off first, more excited than the actual engaged couple.

Jeno grits his teeth before finally pushing Jaemin away from him since their mothers' backs were turned. He turns to the elder with a scowl, "I'm still mad at you." He said.

His anger only grew more when Jaemin had the guts to laugh and pinch his cheek, "you don't seem like it." He comments.

As the younger was about to come up with a comeback of his words, he completely malfunctions and blushes when Jaemin inches his face close to his own with a teasing smirk.

"Plus, I know what you did last night. Very cute, wifey."