Chapter 20

[DISCONTINUED] family
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They arrived at Joohyun's house. There wasn't much talking after the incident. Joy would try to steal glances here and there to see if Joohyun was crying or just sad again.

All she saw was a wistful smile.

She would have never called her that, of she knew this was going to be the outcome.

I knew that name was dumb! I'm so dumb!

But Joohyun assured her that she could call her that. She even said that she should, because it's cute.

Joy wonders who it reminds her of, because that person must've been very special to Joohyun.

And that thought makes her realise that she doesn't know about Yeri's family. Joohyun's family. She plans to get to know them more on this outing.

She sees as Joohyun goes inside one of the rooms, and she hears a little 'babe, wakey wakey' and a smooching sound. She absolutely didn't want to hear that.

That must be Yeri's dad.

After some time Joohyun comes out with a smile on her face. She must really love Yeri's dad, is what Joy thinks.

And somewhere in her mind, she tries to picture her mother like that with someone. Her thoughts go back to her own dad, that is, if she has one. She wonders if they would also wake each other up like that, if they would play with Joy, if they would-

"Ready to suprise Yeri?" Joohyun's voice interrupts her thoughts.

Joy's devil smirk appears on her face as she thinks of a plan.

"Suprise? Huh, more like shock." She laughs like a maniac.

"Should I be concerned?" Joohyun really is the most caring mom she's seen. Besides her own mother, of course.

"Maybe, maybe not." Joy winks at the grandma. She heads over to Yeri's room as instructed by Joohyun.

As she enters she sees an amazing room. The room is personalised with polaroids hanging on one of the walls. She moves closer to see who's in the pictures.

It is beautiful.

She sees a picture with Yeji in which Yeri and Yeji are both making a 'Y' using both of their hands, and below it she sees 'Sweet Yeji' written in beautiful handwriting. She smiles at thier cute relationship. Yeri is extra soft with Yeji, they've been friends for the longest after all.

Beside that is another photo with Chaein and Jieun, both the girls forming hearts on Yeri's head, and Yeri's, clearly annoyed face. Written below that is 'ChaEun'. Joy facepalms seeing that Yeri is literally thier biggest shipper.

She sees another photo with Saeron, in which Yeri is giving her a piggyback ride. There's just a date below it. She sees tons of photos with the guys as well.

But as she moves forward she sees something that captures her heart. It's a photo of both of them. She remembers they took it when they first went out together. Joy looked silly in that photo while Yeri looked like a model. Written below is 'My silly Joy'. She runs her fingers over the words and smiles. She's really thankful she met this little devil. No matter how tough and savage Yeri tries to act, she's a soft, cute fluffball inside.

And Joy would never ask for anything but such a pure-hearted girl as her friend.

This softened her heart too much and she decided against her evil plans of spilling water on the younger.

She just sat down beside her, watching her sleep, knowing that the moment she wakes up, there is going to be alot of shouts in the house.

She pokes her cute cheeks a little bit, Yeri doesn't even flinch, as expected.

So she clears and almost shouts. "Yeri, wake up eomma is here."

I have to prank her a little bit.

Yeri finally moves a little and her eyes slowly open up. As soon as she sees Joy, she rubs her eyes rigourously. She yawns and stretches her hands.

"Eomma? Joy? Is this a dream?" Yeri mumbles in her morning voice. "Why would I see this devil in my dream?" She says this more to herself than to Joy.

"Hey! Bruhh! I'm still less of a devil than you!" Joy stands up from the bed and smacks Yeri. "I should've poured that water on you." She mumbles quietly.

"J-Joy? What is happening? Like really?" Yeri looks confused. And as if on cue Joohyun enters.

"Joy, should I pack something to drink? Or do you just wanna buy it on the way?" Joohyun looks at Joy while pointing her hand to the basket in her hand.

"Anyway would be fin-"

"Oh no, this must be a dream. Eomma talking to Joy? Wake up! Yeri!" Yeri starts pinching herself and Joy bursts into a fit of laughter. She laughs even more when Yeri tries to get up from the bed but gets tangled somehow and falls right onto the ground. She holds her stomach while pointing at Yeri.

"Yahh! Stop laughing and help!"

Yeri must have finally realised that this is all real and somehow Joohyun knows Joy and she's standing right in front of her.

After some talking and explaining of how Joy and Joohyun met and alot of dramatic gasps from Yeri, they finally step out. Joohyun had told Joy earlier that they could go to some sort of a garden or

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vitoriafranca
#1
Chapter 38: Wow, what sad news, I really had hope for this story. I mean, even if things didn't turn out the way I expected (Like Joohyun confronting Seungwan the first moment he saw her about the daughter she just took away and Joohyun misses so much or the revelation of Joy's supposed other relative where she only discovers that she didn't really have a father but a mother?) And of course, even though Joohyun knew that Seulgi was back in contact with Seungwan, she never confronted either of them about the whereabouts of her other daughter, which makes us wonder what kind of parents Joohyun and Seungwan are who don't bother to look for or finally reveal the truth to Joy and why does Seulgi continue to collude with both sides when she considers her niece so much?
Despite everything, what really saddens me is that despite everything, the flashbacks to their past were without a doubt the best part of the story, I really kept waiting for more of them. I don't know if you intend to go back to this story and rewrite it, but I would particularly love it if you could show us their past in full. I think exploring what you've already done here would be a way of reusing this story that had so much to show.

Anyway, thank you for everything so far, I hope you are well and come back soon, author-nim!
shadowhunter1640 #2
Chapter 38: Oh i see the problem now. The seulreners want more seulrene moments.

Though i've always thought this is wenrene fic with how often Wendy's pov appears. But i agree that the story's really dragging. And so many side character povs.

I always look up wenrene tags coz that's all i'm interested in and this story was really promising. But i suggest if you're writing a wenrene fic, just use wenrene tag and don't add seulrene and vice versa if you're writing a seulrene fic to avoid being accused of clickbaiting and confusion.

Thank you for your work author! Please keep on writing.
Gwernica #3
Chapter 37: Heavy seulrener here and yes the story is dragging. This story is similar to wenseulrene fic titled 'Unrequited' in terms of the structure where it's clearly a seulrene fic with wendy as the 'heartbreaker' but for some reason the pov heavily came from wendy perspective. I think other readers already mentioned it out: Seulrene is clearly still going strong in this fic but for some reason, they have less moments compares to Seulgi with Lisa. This wenrene/seulrene bait & switch is clearly not working because now people started to criticize Irene, Seulgi and Wendy characters (similar with that fic 'Unrequited') and it's not even because they don't understand the concept of flawed characters, it's just they're getting tired of the story and the characters. I just don't get why most wenseulrene fics authors always have the same concepts and settings when they wrote their dynamics and it made me wonder if they really see each individual irl like that, because let's be real here, yes these are fictional characters, but they are real person fictions (rpf) characters. Even in kdramas, triangle loves don't always have the same dynamics. It's like these fics' authors are actually on one camp, but they pretend to care about the third person (in this case wendy) so that people would think that these authors actually like both camps. Might as well make it a polymorph relationship.
2014605911
#4
Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Well I'm still reading this though the story is undoubtedly dragging its heels before moving a fraction of an inch for whatever plot there is. I get that the characters are still stuck in some of their past, but it doesn't mean that the story should be too. Stuck at a snail pace, I mean. The Joohyun and Wendy arc has the two agonizing every now and then in addition to the Joy issue keeping this story going in circles. I'm interested enough to keep on reading this but something has got to happen soon and change the pace to get things moving. The Seulgi and Wendy talk finally happened, but any attempts of figuring out how to approach Wendy and Joohyun closure as well getting Joy known as the missing child is not even on the horizon. I've also not seen a solid Seulrene tidbit here that is solely about them and not a segway to enter another Wenrene flashback and Wenrene agenda. I get that this story is about past Wenrene and daughter Joy, but I think there has been more Lisa-centric chapters/POVs than a Seulgi one that is not related to past Wenrene. Seulrene doesn't even shine that much other than small stolen moments here and there.
yannahays #5
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EzraSeige
#6
Chapter 34: It's okay otornim, take your time and thanks for the update 🙆🙌💗💙
rvlv_bless #7
my two favorite fics right now: The Internship and this one (Family). Seulrene with pathetic pos Wendy, yes that's my kind of romance.
xeembiote #8
Chapter 33: What I don't get about this whole thing is why are they talking around Irene instead of just telling her the truth? This will all blow up in all of their faces once Irene finds out that Joy is her kid and that Seulgi is keeping things from her. It's bordering stupidity at this point. Seulgi is well aware of how devastated Irene was when Wendy left with their kid and now that said kid is back, instead of telling her outright, she goes and hides it from her. I mean who does that? There's no justification as to why she's doing what she's doing at this point. And not just Seulgi even, the same goes for Wendy. She has every opportunity at this point to stop beating around the bush and get her daughter and Irene to meet. But she keeps delaying things.

I don't even get Irene's reaction when she first met Wendy again either. I'd have been angry on the spot and demand to see my child. Why is she so passive?

Still curious to see how this runs through but I'm also getting frustrated at how this is turning out.
wenrene012 #9
Chapter 32: First thought comes to mind when the revelation happened like- what the hell was Irene thinking volunteering for that? Everything became SO messed up after that. I don't even know what to say
Thhhgggg #10
This chapter seems familiar to me, i think you've already posted it by mistake? But i must say that this is a Story im looking forward every Monday :)