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nakamoto yua, the star student the dream daughter everytime someone talked about her it was only good

would she be the dream daughter after coming out to her very traditional japanese family?

that was a no, her parents found it as a disgrace, sent her to korea for conversion therapy

but for yua?, she never went to that therapy.

korea, 2018 - english in italics
yua was walking around her apartment that she bought with her hard earned money

she had just graduated in japan however she never thought she'd be sent over to korea

her korean wasn't bad nor good, she only knew the basics most of the time she'd try to talk to foreigners in hopes of knowing english

with all her thoughts consuming her, she pets her bunny that she named tokki

she's always loved animals, their names were all similar, her dog inu and her hamster hamu

"tokki, my little boy" she coos while petting him, he knew commands in english and japanese

tokki picked up a lot of korean when yua studies it

she gave him a carrot as she puts in back in his enclosure, "i'll be back tokki!" she said

arriving at work, her coworkers were all nice to her

"yua right? im yereum" she smiled, "yes im yua" she said in a broken korean

"you must not be from here, where did you come here from?", "japan"

"well i can't speak japanese but i can speak english" she said, "great, i was going to cry if i had to speak korean" yua sighs

"yes! finally a person who can speak english" yereum laughed

after the two got to know another, they walking around giving yua a tour of the rooms

"this is the room your working in, the lee siblings", "ah, how many are in there?" yua asked

yereum gave her a list

list view: lee siblings - father: lee taeyong
emergency contacts: suh youngho/johnny suh, chittaphon leechaiyapornkul, kim dongyoung
lee minhyung - 2 years
lee jeno, donghyuck, jaemin - triplets 1 year
lee renjun - 1 year
lee chenle - 4 months

"now get in there, the other workers are kind of scared of them for some reason", yua snapped her head

"why is that?", yureum sighed "none of them know how to work with multiple kids at once, if i wasn't with the infant age groups i would totally work with them"

yua mentally prepared herself before walking in that room, all eyes were on her, the workers were relieved to see her

"guys this is yua, she's going to be your taker", "hi yua!" they replied

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everything went better than expected, these kids loved yua which surprised workers

chenle finally slept, the triplets were playing calmly and minhyung was her shadow for today

"noona!" minhyung smiled giving her watermelon, she happily took it from the boy, he giggled and ate the rest of his snack

"you handle them well" yereum said quietly since
chenle was sleeping in her arms

"these kids are behaved", that comment made yereum look at her like yua was mad

"behaved? they scare half of the staff here!", yua giggled at the girls expression it was cute

"maybe if the workers don't act like their prison guards the kids would like them, they're kids after all" yua chuckled

"you're right, i don't work with them but their takers are really bad" yereum nodded as she realizes

"i'll leave you to it, have a nice sleep little one" she took her leave after saying night to chenle

yua peacefully laid chenle in the crib before attending to the other children

when she came back into the room, the triplets were all eating with one another trying to feed each other their bottles

minhyung was still her little follower, he had already finished snacking and didn't seem to want to leave yua which she found really cute

"noona" she felt a tug on her pants, she looks to minhyung who was pointing at the toys

"do you want to play?" she asked, the little one nodded and took her hand so they can play

later the triplets also cane to play, since they were so young they barely spoke, haechan was more high energy than the rest

jeno and jaemin seemed comfortable with each other, they kept holding hands and sharing toys

renjun just kept looking over at the crib area where chenle was sleeping, yua caught on

she went to go sit by renjun while the others key playing with each other, when renjun noticed her he immediately pointed to chenle

"do you want to go see him?" she asked, he nods and held his arms up so she can carry in which she happily took in

"minhyung, watch over your brothers i'll be in a bit" she said, minhyung nods and resumes playing

"chenle is sleeping, so we have to be quiet you got it?" she asked, renjun nods

looking over chenle he was satisfied that chenle was still sleeping, whatever clicked in his head really caused him to like yua

now back in the room renjun was her new shadow, she didn't mind it he was cute

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chenle was up but it was time for pick up, yereum stood by yua in case if she needed translation

"im here to pick up the lee siblings" yua looks up and sees a tall man she was confused

she couldn't really catch what he was saying, yua only understood 'lee'

"johnny, she's foreign english please" yereum said, "sorry, im johnny" he chuckles showing her id

"okay, the kids are packed up and ready to go then" yua said, she got the kids out of the room they were happy to see johnny but sad to leave

"uncle johnny" minhyung yells hugging him, "well hello there shall we go?" johnny asked

mark shook his head no and pointed to yua, johnny chuckles "she'll be here tomorrow right?"

yua nods, "okay bye noona" he sadly waved then hugged her following renjun too

"wow they must like you", "i guess so, hope to see you again!" she waved

"yes of course! give me your number! im sure they'll love to see you again" he smiled, yua nods and gives him her number

"great, see you guys! you too yereum!" johnny waved

johnny finally seated them, for some reason yua was really familiar to him, strangely. he shook his head and drove off to the boys home.