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Chapter 9: Kitten

Summary:

In which a kitten is found.

Notes:

Note entirely sure where in the timeline this happens, but sometime after Yona moves in with the Son family.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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They find a kitten on the way back from school one day, and Yona pouts until Hak sighs and says she can bring it home and talk to Mundok.

After a few weeks of putting up flyers, it becomes her kitten, though it tends to follow Hak around nearly as much as it does Yona.

Hak suggests they name it Min-soo, after a boy from elementary school who had really liked Yona. Yona refuses, insisting that it’s a girl kitten anyway, but Hak sees the pink tinge on her face as the memory comes back.

“Huan!” she decides finally, one day while they’re watching the kitten prance around on the porch.

Hak nearly spits out his lemonade at the sudden declaration, glancing at her curiously.

“Happiness?” he asks, frowning.

“Why not? She’s obviously happy,” Yona points out.

Hak shrugs. “She’s your cat, I guess.”

Huan picks that moment to hop into his lap and Yona giggles.

“Don’t even think it,” he warns, scowling at Yona, who shrugs right back.

Her cat, indeed.

Notes:

"Huan" is Korean for "happiness." I like Korean name meanings for these fics for some reason???

Notes:

I have a bunch of these written out, some longer than others. Some connect together more than others do, so I'll probably throw some of the shorter, connected ones in together.
They're not all necessarily in chronological order, they just sort of happen as I feel like writing them.

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