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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

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Category: F/F
Fandom: LOONA (Korea Band)
Relationship: Jung Jinsol | Jinsoul/Kim Jungeun | Kim Lip
Character: Kim Jungeun | Kim Lip, Jung Jinsol | Jinsoul, Ha Sooyoung | Yves,
Kim Hyunjin (LOONA), Jo Haseul
Stats: Published: 2018-10-30 Words: 1742

It's Halloween?
by thirdmixtape

Summary

Jungeun whips her phone out and sends a text to Sooyoung.

[Worst Jung]: can you ask Hyejoo what costume Yerim’s got on today?

[Hag]: and the worst mother of the year award goes to……

Notes

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This was Jungeun’s worst nightmare.

Jungeun has lost Yerim.

☾☽

Here she was, standing at the front of her child’s school, surrounded by 6-year olds all dressed up.
It’s Halloween? She checks the date on her phone: Wednesday, 31 October. Yep, it’s Halloween.
It’s Halloween and all these tiny humans are running towards their parents, and Jungeun’s getting
a headache from all the blur of colors swirling past her. That, and she feels nauseous knowing she
has no idea what her child looks like today & she’s been on the lookout for Yerim for the past 10
minutes trying to spot her, when it would usually take 2 whole minutes for Yerim to run to her and
hop in the car to leave for home. Yerim better show up soon…

Jungeun whips her phone out and sends a text to Sooyoung.

[Worst Jung]: can you ask Hyejoo what costume Yerim’s got on today?

[Hag]: and the worst mother of the year award goes to……

[Worst Jung]: soo, just shut up and ask her!

[Hag]: LOL

[Hag]: she’s a Harry Potter character

[Worst Jung]: …..

[Worst Jung]: which one?

[Hag]: lol, like i’d know….

[Hag]: ask ur wife????

[Worst Jung]: i can’t… i’m supposed to pick up Yerim today but i have no idea what she looks
like and right now almost all the kids are gone!!!!!! if she finds out i’ve lost our baby, i’m done
for… i’m gonna have to move in with you, Jiwoo and the girls so i suggest you keep your mouth
shut and don’t mention this to her!!

[Hag]: lol as if i’d let you in...

[Hag]: ur going straight to the curb

[Worst Jung]: fyi - i really /did/ try to talk Jiwoo out of marrying you
[Hag]: /straight/ to the curb

Jungeun decides that the next time she comes over to the Ha household, she’s going to give Yerim
and the girls cups of grape juice without straws. That’s guaranteed spillage on Sooyoung’s brand
new, white rug she’s been bragging about during Sunday brunch at the Jo’s.

Jungeun looks up from her phone to try and spot Yerim again. It doesn’t help that most of the kids
were dressed as Harry Potter characters either. There were several groups of them in their cloaks,
one group swinging their wands around while shouting profanities at each other with the teacher
on after school pick up duty trying to reprimand them. Jungeun recognises the teacher to be
Hyunjin, who also happens to be dressed up as a Slytherin student.

“Hyunjin!”

Hyunjin turns around to the call of her name, brows furrowed as she tries to catch whoever called
her informally. Her brows relax, and a quick smile grows on her face as she sees Jungeun on her
way over to her.

“Jungeun! Sorry I didn’t get to say goodbye after brunch. I had to take Heejin home, you know
how our wives love a good glass of wine. Kahei always loves to bring out the goods once the kids
have gone to the playroom. Also… I’m beginning to think Sooyoung’s rigged the babysitter
brunch raffle… you’ve been pulled 3 weeks in a row now. What’d you do to her?”

“Well it doesn’t help that you and Heejin are never in the raffle. We’re waiting for y'all to get your
own little monster. And Sooyoung… she thinks I spilled red wine on her rug on purpose.”

“Uhhh, there’s not going to be a mini Jeon-Kim anytime soon. We’re both still young and plus,
we both deal with a hundred little monsters every day.” Hyunjin says as she lets out a huge sigh.
“And wow, she still thinks it was on purpose? But everyone saw you trip on Chae’s toys? Well
it’s alright, she bought a new one anyway… And honestly, I was sick of hearing it after the first
minute… Like, hello! We all saw the Facebook live you streamed when you bought it!”

“The day Jiwoo discovered Facebook live was the day I should’ve deleted Facebook to be honest.
And obviously Jiwoo got Sooyoung on to it… Anyways… Have you caught sight of Yerim? It’s
my turn to pick her up today but I don’t know where she is.”
“Yerim? She’s gone-” Hyunjin stops her sentence as she catches a few kids running around
throwing rocks at each other. “Little shits” Jungeun hears Hyunjin whisper to herself. “Put those
rocks down! That does not count as earth bending!” Hyunjin shouts at the small group of kids
dressed as characters from the Avatar series. Hyunjin quickly turns to Jungeun, “Sorry Jungeun,
duty calls!”

Jungeun’s eyes widen as she realises Hyunjin is holding a scooter… with a small broom tied to the
side of the bottom plate. She sighs as she watches her friend scoot away on her wack-ass, reject
nimbus 2000 broomstick scooter.

Jungeun slowly walks back to the parking lot as she unlocks her phone. Sometimes Haseul or
Kahei would pick up Yerim and the gang for a playdate at theirs. It was probably mentioned to
her this morning, but she was running late so she wasn’t really paying attention to what her wife
was saying to her when she was quickly trying to funnel her coffee into her thermos. She decides
to text her only trustworthy friend out of the lot.

[Jungjung]: Hey Haseul! Send a pic of the babies pls!

[MOTY]: picture attached

[MOTY]: picture attached

[Jungjung]: is that…..

[Jungjung]: oh my god…

[MOTY]: Yeojin WANTED to be princess fiona ok

[Jungjung]: …..and you let her?

[MOTY]: you already know how loud Yeojin is….

[MOTY]: so imagine that Yeo… BUT she’s shouting into a megaphone which ALSO has a
microphone in front of it…

[Jungjung]: what’d Kahei say?

[MOTY]: she said at least she didn’t choose donkey… which is actually more fitting since Yeojin
does not shut up

[Jungjung]: hahaha fair enough

[Jungjung]: also, Chae & Hye are so so so so cute

[Jungjung]: little red riding hood and a frickin baby wolf

[MOTY]: picture attached

[Jungjung]: HAHAHA

[Jungjung]: i cannot BELIEVE you got a pic of sooyoung dressed as an old hag

[Jungjung]: she’s so whipped for Jiwoo it’s ridiculous

[MOTY]: i hate Jiwoo

[MOTY]: she gets costumes right /every time/

[MOTY]: also, sooyoung told me to tell you that she’s going to beat your ass next time she sees
you

[MOTY]: whether the kids are there or not

[Jungjung]: says Mother of the Year 3 years running

[Jungjung]: which is a big feat since Yeo is your kid

[Jungjung]: no offense

[Jungjung]: and I LOVE Jiwoo… she really got Sooyoung to dress as little red riding hood’s
grandma LOL

[Jungjung]: and PLEASE post the pics on Facebook! I need everyone to see the original before I
make memes out of it

[MOTY]: none taken lol

[MOTY]: hahahaha i will in a bit! I’ll tag you!

[Jungjung]: you’re the best!!!!!!!

[Jungjung]: and also…….. is Yerim running around too much to take a pic?

[MOTY]: huh?

[MOTY]: she’s not here

Jungeun stops walking and almost falls to her knees. She feels like all the air has been knocked
out of her.

This was Jungeun’s worst nightmare.

Jungeun has lost Yerim.

Jinsol is going to kill her.

Her poor baby, gone. Forever.

And her other baby is going to kick her out of the house. Forever.

She’s going to be baby-less.

“Yerim! Yerim!” Jungeun starts shouting, the panic slowly taking over her body. She runs back to
the front of the school to catch Hyunjin, but everyone’s left. She starts to phone Hyunjin, but she
doesn’t answer. Jungeun groans, realising that that girl never has her phone on her. She then calls
Heejin despite knowing the girl won’t answer either since she gives vocal lessons to older students
after school at the Arts Academy across the road.

Just as Jungeun was about to call Jiwoo her phone starts vibrating and it almost jumps out of her
hands before she quickly secures her grasp on it. She looks at her screen to see it’s exactly who
she wishes it wasn’t.

[BABY is calling...]
Jungeun takes a deep breath as she presses the green ‘accept’ circle on her screen. Instantly, she
hears her wife’s voice and she feels her chest constrict.

“Hey, you running a little late today? Well, hurry on home to me baby, I’ve missed you.”

“Hey babe… Uhhh… just... wait, hold on...” Jungeun says before holding her phone an arm’s
length away as she tries to breathe.

“What’s going on? Is someone with you? Jungeun?”

“No! Just…”

“Ok… well then, stop being suss. It’s making me think you’re doing something I know you
wouldn’t dare be doing.”

“What? Wait, no! As if! No… It’s… I lost Yerim, ok!”

“What?!”

“I lost our baby… I didn’t know it was that Halloween thing today so I didn’t expect there to be
children in costumes everywhere… and since I was running late today, I didn’t catch Yerim in her
costume so I had no idea what she’s wearing. So, I’ve been waiting out front for her, but I never
saw her… And none of the others knows where she is. Baby, I’m so sorry! I’ll meet you at the
police station? We need to report our missing baby!” Jungeun quickly explains to her wife. She
waits with bated breath for Jinsol’s reaction, but she hears nothing on the other side of the phone.

“Baby?? Babe… Jinsol? Please say something. Anything. Shout at me, I don’t care, just please, I
need to hear you.”

“Jungeun…”

“Yes baby, what?!”

 “Yerim’s piano & vocal lessons got moved to Wednesdays…”

“And today is...”

“Wednesday…”

“Right…”

“I told you not to worry about picking her up after school before you went out the door, but I
should’ve known you wouldn’t have heard, or you’d forget… I should’ve texted you. I’m sorry
baby.”

Jungeun releases a huge sigh of relief. She didn’t lose Yerim and she wasn’t going to live her life
without Jinsol either. Her moment of relief is cut short when she hears Jinsol’s voice through her
phone.

“Baaaaaaaaaabe, hurry home... All I could think about at work was giving you a treat for
Halloween… I’ve literally been waiting all day for you. Get here quickly so we have more time
before we’ve got to pick up our baby.”

“Shi- right. On my way babe!” Jungeun says as she starts running to her car.

It’s Halloween and Jungeun’s getting herself a damn treat after living through her worst
nightmare.

☾☽

End Notes

Hi hi friends,
 Lately, I've been trying to practice one shots since I usually write too much so here's one
that I thought was a decent word amount haha
It's Halloween today in my country (we don't really celebrate Halloween lol) & I don't
know if it is at yours but I'm going to post this today anyway!

And to the friends reading my LOONA Dance Academy AU, I know I said that I'd
update sometime last week (or the week before??) but after rereading what I had, I wanted
to rewrite a few things since the POV jumped around too much and it seemed like the plot
was going nowhere due to it.

Again: questions, thoughts, feelings and comments are welcome and appreciated.

Hope all y'all get more treats than tricks for Halloween!
And also, vote for LOONA!!! Our girls deserve a win, don't you think?

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