before and after • nct

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korea, 2019

yua was tired from working her other job, she had gotten financially stable and gave up her daycare job just so she can volunteer

her korean had gotten much better from where she started, today she decided to go visit the daycare its been almost a week and she knows its hard on the boys

arriving at the daycare all the workers were glad to see her, "yua! my girl where have you been" johnny said surprising her

"oh why are you still here dude?" yua chuckles signing in, "he was waiting for you" yereum said

"ah, for what?" yua asked, "my party! at my club opening come" johnny smiled handing her an invitation

yua took it and read it, "mmh i see, yeah i'll come after i feed and give attention to tokki"

johnny perked up as he heard the rabbits name, "im coming over tomorrow! i want to give tokki attention too" he whined

"okay okay" yua said, "just date already it hurts to see this" yereum shudders

johnny and yua shared looks of disgust, "me date her", "me date him?" "ew"

johnny left since he got a call from work, yua waved to yereum as she went in the room

she stepped in and the children? they were all crying, pouting or sulking in the corner

yua was confused, she goes to see her old manager who was scolding another girl she assumed to be a new staff

"don't yell at them like that!", "im sorry i was just stressed i didn't know what to do"

yua scoffed, "you do know that they're kids right? you yelling at them doesn't make it any better"

the girl was embarrassed and left the room, the manager sighs, "thank god you're here"

"i know, do you want me to take him?" she points to the crying baby, "no i think he wants you to take him he's pushing me away"

yua laughs taking jisung who stopped crying, "these kids have been a mess since you left"

"oh really? how so?" yua asked confused, "well for starters they've been fighting more than ever, they won't cooperate with any of us we had to send them early one time

yua was bewildered, she never knew her leave was going to affect them that much, she felt bad

"i'll take it from here, go on break" yua smiled, the manger nods and takes her leave

now that jisung was sleeping yua put him down in the crib then met with the other kids

"now why are you still crying loves?" she asked, the boys knew that voice from anywhere and immediately came to hug her

"noona you're back" dejun said, "we missed you thats all then the other person yelled at us" minhyung explained

"i even made this for you and she took it away from me!" renjun said holding up his drawing of a heart with yua's name

"my little ones, no need to cry okay! im back that matters now i wouldn't leave like that" she wiped away their tears and they all nodded

"no matter how long im gone i will always come back you got that?", the kids looked up and nodded in unison which freaked her out a bit

"but now renjun and donghyuck why are you fighting so much? fighting never helps"

"we just missed you a bit and everything made me mad" donghyuck sighed, "it was my fault" he pouts

yua excused everyone to leave but donghyuck, "no don't cry again" wiping his tears again

"im sorry noona", "awh love you don't have to be sorry, apologize to renjun okay? fighting never solves anything"

donghyuck nods his head and went to renjun, they hugged it out

yua watching from a distance, it reminded her of what her older sister would say about her and yuta

being twins, they fought a lot and had their differences. their own mother wouldn't do anything but naru taught her values in life

what she saw in the siblings is what she saw of her and yuta, although they came to the daycare at different times, they still love each other.

yua loved yuta, protected him but would she let yuta do the same? not a chance.