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Chae-yoon looked at Jo Sung-hyun with a face asking for an answer.
To the question of who receives the gift from Dad, Jo Sung-hyun had to ponder for a while on how to respond.
However, the answer was fixed.
“Dad doesn’t accept gifts.”
“why?”
“Well… Is daddy all grown up now? As an adult, I don’t accept gifts.”
“… But Yumi unnie is also an adult.”
Chae-yoon seemed to think for a moment, then answered.
Jo Sung-hyun blinked his eyes.
How am I supposed to answer this?
‘I can’t say I’m more mature than Yumi-san.’
In the end, Jo Sung-hyun could not find the answer.
He smiled awkwardly and pondered, then heard the laughter of a young woman next to him.
Jo Sung-hyun and Chae-yoon turned their heads at the same time and looked at her.
The woman, who was laughing, said, “Ah” when they both looked at her at the same time and quickly covered her mouth.
She was wearing a uniform, perhaps an employee of a toy store.
Hmm, coughing in vain, she opens her mouth.
“The baby is so cute.”
“thank you.”
“Maybe your name… ?”
“I’m Chae-yoon.”
When asked for his name, Chaeyoon stepped forward and answered.
The staff smiled softly and opened their mouths.
“If Dad gives Chae-yoon a present instead of Santa Claus, then Chae-yoon can give Dad a present instead of Santa Claus.”
“Are you Chae-yoon?”
“yes. Wouldn’t it be a great gift to give Dad a kiss?”
At the employee’s words, Chae-yoon blinks and thinks, then quickly kisses the back of Jo Seong-hyun’s hand.
Jo Sung-hyun let out a smirk.
The staff laughs again, wondering if Chaeyoon’s appearance was cute.
“Is there a product you are looking for?”
“No, I am not looking for anything in particular. thank you.”
Jo Sung-hyun answered the staff, and the staff smiled and bowed their heads slightly and left.
As she left, she couldn’t take her eyes off Chaeyoon.
Chae-yoon was looking at Seong-hyeon quietly.
Jo Sung-hyun opened his mouth while stroking the child’s head.
“thank you. Chae Yoon-ah.”
“A kiss is not a gift.”
“Is your dad really good?”
Chae-yoon frowned at Seong-hyun’s words.
I’d like to counter something, but it doesn’t seem to work.
Jo Sung-hyun, who looked at the child’s face, gently kissed Chae-yoon’s forehead and continued.
“Then, Chae-yoon will also pick up a present for Dad. If Chae-yoon buys a doll, then Dad can buy it too.”
“doll? Does your dad like dolls too?”
“Of course.”
Seong-hyeon Cho answered right away.
I don’t really like dolls, but I don’t hate them either.
There’s nothing wrong with having cute things at home.
As if Chaeyoon had resolved her troubles, she soon became a bright face again and started looking at the dolls and choosing them.
In the end, Jo Sung-hyun bought both, but anyway, the child liked it.
After looking at the dolls for a few minutes, Chae-yoon was finally able to choose two.
One brown teddy bear and one pink teddy bear.
To be precise, it was a brown teddy bear in a pink bunny suit.
The two are side by side, so they fit perfectly.
Jo Seong-hyeon smiled as he looked at Chae-yoon holding two dolls in both hands.
“Do you like those two?”
“yes! This is Chae-yoon, and this is Dad.”
The child picks up the brown teddy bear and says it belongs to him, and the teddy bear wearing a pink bunny suit belongs to Jo Seong-hyeon.
Seong-Hyeon Cho smiled.
“Is the pink bunny teddy bear your dad?”
“yes. He looks just like my dad.”
“… You look like your dad?”
“It’s the same.”
Jo Sung-hyun blinked his eyes.
I couldn’t understand what Chae-yoon was looking at to say that a teddy bear wearing a pink bunny suit was the same as him.
He just laughed.
The child was happy, so Jo Sung-hyun was satisfied with that.
Jo Sung-hyeon and Chae-yoon bought two dolls and headed home.
“Hehe.”
Chae-yoon placed the dolls she had just bought on either side of the little mermaid.
Jo Sung-hyun took off his coat and looked at the child.
Before he could call him, Chae-yoon quickly ran to the bathroom and washed his hands.
The child who washed his hands first before Jo Seong-hyun said anything, was sitting in front of the piano when Seong-hyun came out.
Chae-yoon had always wanted to play the piano, but the child was sitting in front of the piano, staring at the keys quietly.
Jo Sung-hyeon, who is now accustomed to the child’s appearance, quietly turned to Chae-yoon’s back and watched the child.
Chaeyoon, who stared at the keyboard for a long time, frowned.
what you don’t like
“Why is that, Chae-yoon?”
“… I want to play the guitar on the piano, but I can’t.”
You can say no to it without even trying it, but Chaeyoon must have tried countless times in her head.
Jo Seong-hyeon stroked Chae-yoon’s hair.
Guitar and piano are two different instruments.
Of course, it is impossible to play the guitar sound on the piano.
No matter how much Chaeyoon was, it was natural to have a hard time.
Jo Seong-hyeon opened his mouth, lightly kissing the child’s forehead.
“Chae Yoon-ah. If it is difficult to play the guitar, why not try playing the guitar playing scene on the piano?”
Chae-yoon narrowed her brow at Seong-hyeon’s words and seemed to be worried, then put her hand on the keyboard.
Looks like he got some clue.
It was advice I was able to give because it seemed to some extent that the child knew what he wanted to play.
follow.
Clear piano sounds.
Chae-yoon listened to the piano a few times, then gently moved her hands and started playing.
Follow me, follow me
In the hand of the child, another version of ‘Mom’ began to play.
Obviously the basics were the same, but the atmosphere felt there was very different.
If someone who doesn’t know music hears it, what’s a different song? The atmosphere is so different.
Unlike ‘Mom’, which emphasizes coldness and loneliness, what I’m playing now is full of warmth.
On Jo Sung-hyun’s lips, there was a warm smile like the song Chae-yoon was playing.
After all, Chae-yoon has changed this time too.
And if the child changes, so does the child’s music.
Chae-yoon did not have many conversations with Seong-hyun during this camping trip.
Jo Sung-hyeon was also personally concerned about various things, so there was not enough time to talk with Chae-yoon.
However.
Eventually, they both grew up.
Jo Sung-hyun decided to change his attitude as a father.
Chae-yoon knew a little how to fill her mother’s empty position.
The two changes were clearly different, but the expression of the two changes was the same.
‘music.’
Seong-hyeon Cho picked and smiled and scratched his cheek.
His changes were also revealed through music.
Because he came back and composed for the first time.
Chaeyoon’s change was also revealed through music.
Although the song is based on the same basics, the atmosphere and details are completely different.
If last ‘Mom’ was a cold winter, with blankets blocking the cold wind, this ‘Mom’ felt like a warm bonfire on a winter night.
A bonfire that will never go out.
follow.
Chae-yoon’s hand stopped.
As soon as the child stopped playing, Jo Sung-hyun woke up.
“Hi-Hi.”
As if satisfied, Chae-yoon laughs.
Perhaps the answer to what he had been pondering for a long time was correct, Chae-yoon turned and hugged Jo Sung-hyun.
As the child hugged her waist, Jo Seong-hyeon lifted the child, stepped back, and sat down on the sofa.
Naturally, Chae-yoon sits on Jo Sung-hyun’s lap.
“Dad.”
“yes?”
Suddenly, Chae-yoon opened her mouth and said.
Jo Sung-hyun blinked his eyes in response.
And at Chae-yoon’s next words, he should have been astonished.
Because it was a word that Jo Sung-hyun couldn’t have imagined.
“I’ll name the song Dad.”
“… uh?”
Jo Sung-hyun groaned blankly.
The song Chaeyun just played wasn’t ‘Mom’.
It was based on the same basics, but Chaeyun thought it was a different song and performed it.
No, it’s not just a performance.
Just like the last time I made ‘Mom’, this time, I made a song on the spot.
Leave the basics the same and change all the details.
Cho Seong-hyeon couldn’t help but be shocked by that fact.
He already knows how to use change musically, and he has figured out how to make a new song by changing the details based on the basis.
No one taught me, I figured it out myself.
Jo Sung-hyun shook his head lightly.
There is always something to admire when you are with your child.
Chaeyoon moved her body with a bright face as if she was still happy.
The child got out of Seong-hyeon’s arms, went to the piano, and cradled the two teddy bears she just bought and the Little Mermaid doll in her arms and returned to the sofa.
Chae-yoon no longer had any regrets about the piano.
It seems that this song has been something I’ve been wanting to play for a long time.
“Chae Yoon-ah.”
“yes?”
“Did you want to make a new song?”
“… That’s not it.”
“then?”
“It would be strange if there was a mother and no father.”
At Chae-yoon’s words, Jo Sung-hyun smiled and nodded.
Song, ‘Mom’.
And the song, ‘Dad’.
Although they both start from the same foundation, they certainly perform differently.
Based on a child named Jo Chae-yoon.
Because you’re talking about how the child feels.
When he thinks of his mother, the child often feels lonely and cold.
But when I think of my father, I get a feeling similar to the warmth of a bonfire.
Cho Sung-hyun heard the child’s song and felt that the song was very comforting to him.
‘I… It’s not that I can’t.’
That was the song that stood out.
Although he lacks a lot, Chaeyoon’s song proves that he is not on the wrong path.
thank god.
Cho Sung-hyun thought so.
Chae-yoon placed the dolls one by one on the sofa.
First, seat the little mermaid doll.
Place the brown teddy bear next to it.
“This is a gift from my dad Chaeyoon.”
Jo Seong-hyeon watched Chae-yun do it.
The child also sits a teddy bear dressed in a pink bunny suit on the sofa.
“This is a gift from Dad to Dad.”
Then Chae-yoon returned to Seong-hyeon’s lap.
Jo Seong-hyeon held the child sitting on his lap.
Keep your child as warm as possible.
he hugged him tight
Chae-yoon continues the conversation in a pleasant voice.
“And the song you just played is a gift I gave you.”
said the child.
Jo Sung-hyun smiled.
Does Chae Yoon know?
I just found out that the song was a gift that Chae Yoon-yi gave to Jo Sung-hyun.