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eric woke up restless, he didn’t even notice himself but everyone else did. at the table at breakfast the poor boy wouldn’t stop talking, chatting everyone’s ears off. he was honestly spluttering nonsense but they all just nodded their heads and agreed with him. after breakfast eric wanted to do everything but get ready for the day, it was a saturday and they didn’t have much to do so it didn’t really matter… but they would all prefer if eric would wear his usual black jeans and usually decently decorated shirt and not his dirty pink pajama shirt and gray basket ball shorts.
eventually jacob got him to change into his actual clothes (which they were all sure were dirty too as sangyeon watched his son pick the clothes off his messy unmade bed) but he was still restless and ready to move.
eric ran down the stairs, jumping off the last two steps in his now changed outfit. “dad! what are we doing today!” eric marched his way into the kitchen where he found his father sitting at the kitchen table who was on his phone and eating some fruit “uhm.. absolutely nothing..” eric stared blankly at his dad “why the fuck not?” sangyeon was frozen at his child’s words “i-i.. d-don’t swear!” sangyeon dropped the chunk of watermelon he had in his hand back onto the plate and looked at eric with wide and shocked eyes. eric laughed and walked away to the living room to find it basically empty with only kevin in it.
“hi kev!” eric threw himself beside his older brother “hi eric” kevin smiled at the youngest and went back to his ipad to continue the drawing he was making. “whatcha doing?” eric peeked over kevin’s shoulder “i’m drawing, eric you’re looking at what i’m doing” kevin said in a ‘duh’ tone, eric rolled his eyes and grabbed the remote from the coffee table in front of the two and turned on the tv. it just so happened that sponge bob was on, eric really liked sponge bob. he placed the controller back onto the table and sat back swinging his legs.
kevin was minding his business but minding your business isn’t a thing for eric, eric kept talking. and talking. and talking and talking and talk-
“eric!”
silence.
“yes kevin?”
“please… please stop talking so much.. i love you but i can’t right now” kevin clipped his apple pencil into the olive green case and closed the lid of the case with strategically placed pictures of beyoncé, cats and music themed stickers and got up off the couch and went straight for the stairs taking the ipad with him. eric rolled his eyes and went back to kicking his legs and fiddling with his fingers. eric was getting bored of sponge bob and almost fell asleep. before he could sunwoo came bounding down the stairs “eric come outside with me i’m bored!” the older shouted and eric jumped. he looked at sunwoo and then smiled, quickly grabbing the remote and turning off the tv. eric quickly followed behind sunwoo who ran down the hall beside the kitchen which was just ways away from the backyard door.
now really.. hypothetically.. eric would’ve been fine if it wasn’t for the stupid side table that his mom had put in the hallway because kevin and changmin asked and said it would look nice. but of course this situation isn’t hypothetical, eric’s side knocked into the table and the vase that was perched atop dropped and shattered on the floor. eric hadn’t even noticed there was glass, he was too busy wincing at the stinging pain on his hip from bumping into the side table. because of him not being aware of his surroundings in his hip pain his bare feet smacked right into the pile of glass.
“ah!” eric cried out and dropped to his hands knees, causing not only his feet but his hands now too. before eric could even register what was going on he heard his own sobs. “m-mom!” eric wailed and backed himself to sit against the wall best he could without hurting his hands and feet more.
jacob was already half way down the stairs from where he was in juyeons bedroom helping with his homework when he heard the first loud yelp. jacob ran down the stairs so fast that he almost twisted his ankle, he kept speeding though. meeting sangyeon in the middle from where he was in the kitchen. when jacob and sangyeon made it to the hallway they both gasped “oh my god eric what happened!” jacob screeched, both him and sangyeon tip toed their way through the glass the best they could without getting cut. sangyeon bent down and picked the boy up, tucking his red puffy tear stained face into his shoulder and hauling him to the washroom at the entrance of the hall.
jacob was pacing after his husband, barging his way into the washroom right after sangyeon. neither of the three noticed sunwoos worried gaze that was following them from down the hall to the washroom. jacob only noticed when sunwoo spoke up “r-ric.. are you okay?” sunwoo looked like a kicked puppy, making sure his wailing baby brother was okay. eric didn’t pay him any mind but jacob crouched down “hey.. woo.. eric’s gonna be fine, how about you go upstairs and sit with chanhee and changmin huh?” sunwoo sniffled and took one last glance at his brother but ultimately listened and trudged his way upstairs.
jacob quickly turned around and brang eric into his arms. “shh it’s okay baby we’re here. you’re okay we’re gonna help you” jacob was kissing eric’s forehead furiously while sangyeon rubbed at eric’s knees and dug around for bandages tweezers and some polysporin. there they are!
“okay eric this will be done quickly just keep breathing okay baby?” sangyeon calmed the boy down and grabbed his ankle. once they were found sangyeon was quick with his work and with jacob comforting the kid it went by fast. eric was crying through the entire process but he couldn’t really focus on anything other than his mom and dads comforting words around him and the throb in his head from crying.
finally sangyeon was done with the tiny pieces on his feet and move to his hands, thankfully his hands weren’t that bad and really only had one or two slightly larger pieces than the ones in his feet. sangyeon only took five or so minutes with him hands and then he got to quick work with the polysporin and bandages. sangyeon delicately dolloped the gel onto the cuts and lightly wrapped them in bandages.
“okay eric all done, you’re fine” sangyeon got from his knees and rubbed the boys back, kissing his hair line. eric sniffled and threw himself into his dads arms, non verbally asking sangyeon to carry him again. sangyeon and jacob both laugh and sangyeon picked him up easily, they both made their way upstairs and out eric in his bed. “take a nap baby we’ll wake you up for dinner okay?” jacob whispered to their youngest and kissed his cheek, sangyeon rubbed eric’s calf and left behind jacob. turning off the light and shutting the door behind him. eric got comfortable easily and his eyes shut and were already half asleep when his dad turned off the light.
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when eric woke up he took a tylenol for
his headache and ate dinner, it’s safe to say jacob took the table out of the hallway and just put up cute paintings and family photos. kevin and changmin were a little sad that part of their interior design was moved but understood and were fine with it when they saw the state of eric’s hands and feet.
eric slept in jacob and sangyeons bed once again and snuggled extra close to his mom.