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You wanted to savor the moment longer while feasting your eyes on Tooru's dazzling smile blinding your sense of reason. Suddenly, you forgot where you are and why you're here but you solely know your purpose in this life and that is to appreciate this man like no one else can. Praying to the Gods above, for once they were siding with you and blessed your day to see him once again.

"[Name]! It's so nice to see you again," beamed Tetsu as he ran to the tall counter with his head poking at the edge. You can only see his big brown eyes peeking above, desperately trying to greet you with a wave.

You snapped from your daydream and grinned down at the little boy who is jubilant as ever. "Hey, Tetsu. What are you doing here?"

"We came to see you," he replied immediately which it surprised you that they remembered where you work at. He then raised his hands above his head to show a rubber dinosaur figure. "I want to play! See?"

A chuckled seeped out of the taller man while approaching his child with a hand patting his head. "Hold on, she's at work now. We can't bother her while she's working."

You heard him relieve a disappointed 'aww' and lowered his dinosaur to his chest sadly. Stifling a laugh at the child's behavior, you wished you could spend a little bit of time with him if you could. Tooru rubbed at the back of his head, shaking his hair in embarrassment.

"Sorry if we're disturbing," he pardoned with a weak smile and blinked with apologetic eyes. "Tetsu couldn't leave me alone about seeing you, so I hope it's okay if we stop by for a bit. Isn't that right, Testu?"

"Right!" his small thumb pointed up at you.

So he was the culprit who brought his hot dad to your cafe.

Think I might start liking kids from now on.

Frantic, you waved your hands defensively. "Oh, no! You're welcome here anytime. I can at least get to see your cute face again, Tetsu."

I mean, Tooru. You wanted to correct but you suppressed yourself from being stupid and wheezed in your head.

"Would you like anything here?" you offered, guiding both Tooru and his son's eyes to the display case of the pretty desserts and pastries. Tetsu's eyes gawked in interest, amazed at the amount of sweets stacked on top of each other so neatly while Tooru rests his elbow over the display.

His tiny hands palmed at the window, averting his gaze back and forth at each different dessert then stared up at his father who was watching him attentively. "Daddy, can I?" He pleaded cutely.

Tooru laughed at him and bent down to his level to join in looking at them. "Sure you can. Which one you want to try?"

Tetsu's eyes sparkled, "Can I try all of them?"

"Of course!" And you were dawned by the man's quick response, glancing at him to see if he was sarcastic but you were surprised that he was smiling your way. He raised a finger for your attention. "One of everything, please!"

He wasn't kidding.

Testu cheered by his legs and made roaring noises with his dinosaur's head pressing against the glass window at the desserts. You lingered behind the counter before moving, just in case Tooru realized his decision but he remained there, waiting patiently for you to grab each delicacy with metal tongues and a gloved hand.

After packing them in a cardboard box, you led them to the register and rang in their order, a little shy to say the overall cost for him to pay but the brunette didn't hesitate to pull out his wallet and dug for his card.

"Oh, and a sweetened iced peach tea," Tooru added while looking at the beverage menu above your head. "And a small milk for him."

You nodded, taking his card and swiping it over the screen and reluctantly gave it back with his receipt.

"Just sign here," you instructed while sliding him a blue ballpoint pen.

He happily did so, scribbling his signature and folding the receipt paper before handing it back to you. You unfolded it anyways in order to save it with the rest of the day's sales, but accidentally glanced at it and raised your brows in shock.

Not only did he bought an excessive amount of treats, he even tipped you which is a lot more than the average person would give.

Your mouth gaped. "O-Oikawa, this is just-"

"Dont worry about it," he stopped you, easing you with one of his signature smiles. "I know you said you don't want me to pay you for what you did, but this is the least I can do - supporting your business."

He made you utterly flabbergasted by his grand gratuity and he seemed pretty proud about it, taking the box over the counter and motioning Tetsu to a nearby table for them to sit. The little boy climbed to his chair, watching Tooru sat himself and opened up the box in front of his eyes revealing the organized desserts. You attended back to your work while pouring a pitcher of cold milk into a kid's plastic cup with a straw. When you were about to fixate the peach tea, you can detect Tetsu's delighted laughs from a far singing so joyfully.

Aiming your eyes up from your scoop of ice nuggets, you spotted the brunette feeding a piece of pistachio macaron to the small child. "Say, 'ahh'," Tooru sang, making train noises while gesturing Tetsu to open his mouth.

"Ahh~!" And then he chomped on the macaron as the shell crumbs fell from his lips to the white table. While he did this, Tooru had his phone up taking photos of his adorable son making different faces in trying each dessert.

"Tetsu, yoo-hoo~! Look this way," he waved his hand for his attention on the phone camera. "Can you show me what you're eating?"

His palm opened and shoved the macaron to Tooru's direction. "This one has chocolate!"

"Ooh, isn't that your favorite flavor?" He asked playfully.

Tetsu nodded hurriedly and bit into the sandwich cookie in excitement but once his taste bud savored the flavor, his eyes grew big and stirred his face in disgust by shutting his eyes and let his tongue hang out from his lips. "Bleh! This one is bad!"

"Can you feed me one?" it piqued Tooru's curiosity by witnessing his son's sudden expression. He tapped on his own chin for Tetsu to feed him, welcoming the same macaron he ate into his dad's mouth. He chewed on it and made a similar expression, instead he swallowed it.

"Yeah, that one is dark chocolate, Tetsu. It's too strong for you. If you don't want it, I'll eat it."

"Finish it for me, please!" The smaller boy raised his hand with the dark chocolate macaron to Tooru's face which he obliged to his command and eat it off from his hand.

The scene was absorbing that every woman in the room was also watching the two boys having their bonding moment. They were not only moved by them, but they were simply attracted to the man you already had eyes for and whispered amongst themselves. You couldn't blame them though.

"Am I interrupting?" You approached them with their beverages on a tray.

Tetsu was the one who grinned at you first by your image appearing next to him, hopping down the chair and patting the cushion for you to sit.

"[Name], [Name]! Sit here! Sit here!"

An eager fellow he is, you set their drinks on the coffee table and chuckled. "Oh, I really can't-"

"Please! Pretty pretty please! I came to see you," his pleading voice startled you.

Surprised at his change of behavior from the other time, he became more insisting and forward. It was like he's a new kid. But to your dismay, you noticed his huge brown eyes begin to water from your lingering form. "Don't you wanna spend time with me?"

You were in a dilemma, looking back at the older Oikawa for help who calmly sat in his chair taking amusement in this and puckered his bottom lip at you, mimicking Tetsu's sorrowful expression but you can easily see through the mockery in them. That bastard was modest when he came in earlier and mindful of your work, but now he's going against his word.

"Pretty please, [Name]?" Tooru joined, whimpering coyly and the ends of his lips twitched up almost in a smirk.

That was it. Not only the adorable child was attempting to persuade you but his hot dad too.

It didn't make things easier for you when you turned back to the counter but you can scope out your mother sneakily watching you interact with the two boys, flashing her two hands at you as a ten minute break. You felt betrayed, giving yourself in and plopping on the the chair where Tetsu previously sat.

Immediately, he blinked his tears away and grinned with teeth. "Yay!" And you knew he used his tears against you. That clever brat.

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Posted: 04-01-21