Y’all I really have to get better about not flip flopping between active and passive voice so much LOL
Christmas with Winwin would be extremely laid back.
He’s not the type to get extremely excited over Christmas, but he doesn’t dislike it either.
Before you had your son, he was pretty neutral about Christmas, but since your son was old enough to care about Christmas, he had been more involved and even found himself getting excited for it from time to time.
The whole month of December Winwin would be busy with work and would make you think he didn’t have much time to spend being festive.
After all, he was a high level manager for a huge tech company and taught dance and participated in dance classes most evenings.
This year, his class was participating in a studio wide nutcracker. He wouldn’t be performing this year, but your son was in the pre-K group and would be a little candy cane and he was so incredibly proud.
You were also pretty involved in dance as you had a dance background yourself. You had volunteered to help make costumes and spent many days grinding away on your sewing machine.
When your son was in class, you would hand sew and embroider different elements of the costumes. You also helped with the stage production and got a group of the teenage girl dancers to help you make and paint props.
Once opening night came, Winwin would seem way less stressed. He would attend every show of course while you sat in the wings helping the little dancers on and off stage while your mother and father in law filmed your son standing around on stage acting like he had no idea of what to do and following maybe two parts of the choreography before running off the stage to you crying for the first few performances.
It wasn’t until the last night when you and Winwin were able to sit in the audience and watch him that he would come on stage beaming and do all of the choreography. But of course it was the one night neither of you had brought your camera. The two of you were disappointed in the moment, but later when you all went out for eggnog milkshakes you laughed about it and realized some things are better watched through your own eyes rather than the lens of a camera. Memories like those always last much longer and hold more weight in your heart.
After all the nutcracker performances were over, you and Winwin would have few opportunities to really celebrate Christmas as you had been so caught up in the production. You had done most of your shopping online, but your in-laws and siblings really came through with helping you get the smaller things you forget about like stocking stuffers.
The last performance was on December 23rd and you and Winwin had been so caught up with work, rehearsals, and school as you were going back to get your master’s in curriculum development, that decorating the house would completely slip your mind.
So you and Winwin would get a brilliant idea.
That night while your son was sleeping you wrapped all the gifts and hid them, then in the middle of the night, the two of you spent several hours putting up the tree and decorating the entire house.
You would even bake a batch of cookies and put them out.
When your son woke up the next morning you told him Santa must have sent an elf the night before to make the house look so magical.
The day was spent making up for all the things you hadn’t done during the Christmas season. You watched specials, baked treats, and did Christmas crafts. You spent the day at home and then in the evening attended a work party for Winwin while your mother and father-in-law watched your son.
You would of course leave super early to have more time to spend as a family, and because no one likes his boss Mr. Lee.
Your son would be drifting off to sleep when you go there, but he would stay up long enough to leave peanut butter cookies and soy milk for Santa as his favorite movie of the day was the Santa Clause and he fully believed Santa was lactose intolerant.
The next morning you would wake up bright and early and wake your sleepy little one up. The two of you would pounce on Winwin and he would be super confused for a couple of seconds before he realized what was going on.
You would carry your son down the stairs and his eyes would get so wide at the sight of all the colorful wrapping paper.
You two would dive into your stockings first while Winwin just sat on the couch smiling as his parents entered the room rubbing sleep from their eyes.
Your son would pull out lots of candy, chocolate, and a huge slinky while you pulled out nail polish, perfume, bobby pins, and pointe shoe ribbons.
Christmas gifts for you and Winwin were not in abundance from each other. You usually stuck with getting each other two gifts each year, something you really wanted and something as a surprise. It was his parents who always spoiled you however.
There were fragrance gift sets, bath salts, new serving dishes for the dining room, an electric kettle, a history of dance art book, comfy sweaters, and a nice makeup pallet for you. Winwin opened a new camera, a cast iron dish, a plump scarf, some cookbooks, a teacher’s planner, and some new fancy pens for work.
You both always felt bad about just getting his parents small things like pottery, comfortable clothing, and a few things for their pets when they always went all out on you both.
But neither of you got each other anything crazy fancy or expensive anyway.
His parents really outdid you when they revealed the big family gift was a trip to China to celebrate the New Year there.
Your son of course was spoiled even more. He got a ton of new toys, new clothes, games, and puzzles. He spent the entire day playing with them and each adult had take a turn playing while someone else went to the kitchen to cook.
For dinner, you would always have a roast goose with baked vegetables and an assortment of other sides from the U.S and China. You also always went big on bread and desserts making three different types of rolls, and an assortment of pies. You made apple, pecan, pumpkin, lemon meringue, chocolate, and coconut pies which were always way too many and many slices were given to neighbors and friends over the next few days.
Christmas night would be spent eating leftover pie, watching a Christmas movie, and rocking your son to sleep even though he was a little old for it.
Winwin would just watch you with a smile and you would know in that moment that he was perfectly content.
in which you’re a struggling single mother, thankful to have the supportive nct dream by you and your child’s side.
Mark Lee:
he’s actually the person who approached you first with the matter as you were still hesitant to reveal it to him. but he’s made it clear that it doesn’t change the way he sees you, if anything, it earns you even more respect and admiration. It bothers him whenever you’re so ashamed whenever others ask how come you already have a child, so he always makes you realize how strong and great you actually are. he himself is quite mature about the matter, not questioning the reasoning behind it, instead, he supports you along the way to building the child’s future. You find it funny whenever he’s so careful with the baby, not sure how to really handle babies but still wanting to play with it. or his totally bewildered expression when the baby calls him ‘dada’ one later day.
“you are very lucky, little one. your mother is the greatest and strongest person out there”
Huang Renjun:
when you tell him you have a child, he shows no reaction. so you think he’ll just distance himself from you. he is, afterall, quite a selective person. but the next day he turns up at your house because he knows you need the extra help. and he does so almost every day since then. And you’re surprised at how much he actually knows about child-care. you tell him it’s already enough when he helps you with the cooking and cleaning, but he refuses to stop there, knowing that you’re taking on too much work, so you two usually end up taking turns to put the baby to sleep, change its diapers, give it a baths. hell if he could, he would have even breast-fed it too. Sometimes, he’s more of a mother than you are.
“hold the baby for a sec, I need to….actually you know what, I’ll hold it, can you go turn off the stove for me”
Lee Jeno:
he’s shown support ever since day one but when it comes down to helping you, he’s so confused most of the time. he has little to no experience with kids but he truly does his best, going as far as to spending his free time reading books for mothers. It’s mostly him helping around the house while you take care of the baby. helps you with the little things you struggle to multitask on (wife-material, lol). But there are those rare times when he feels bad that you don’t have time for yourself, so he swoops the baby straight from your arms, lowkey nervous, and shoos you to bed. each time, you wake up to him being absolutely soft for the little baby. Even though he’s such a mess, he shows so much understanding and love for both you and the child.
“the diaper’s supposed to be closed this way…..right? y/n? I-I think I need some help”
Lee Donghyuck:
he’s met and played with your baby many times in the past with the thought that it was your sibling. and when you finally tell him that it’s your own child, you’re surprised to see him absolutely excited and amazed. And that warms your heart, to see that his attitude didn’t change and he’s even more supportive now. you felt bad your little baby had to grow up without a father figure, but having him around assured you that he’s going to grow up just fine. He is such a dork and manages to make your baby laugh and giggle all the time. the baby could be crying in your arms and the minute donghyuck makes a dumb face, the baby burst out in giggles.
“only you can understand me, little one. Your mother has no sense of humour whatsoever, beh”
Na Jaemin:
after you gather the courage and tell him about your child, he envelopes you in the warmest of hugs immediately. he becomes even more caring and affectionate than he already was in the first place. He looks after your child every now and then, being so soft with it, but above all, he makes sure to support you mentally as well. he’s so understanding and loving towards you, always checking whether you’re feeling okay, whether you need to rest, whether anyone’s bothering you and just overall, making sure that you’re not feeling as if being a single mother was a bad thing at all.
“No no, y/n. I’ll go take the baby. you stay in bed and get some more sleep, okay?”
Zhong Chenle:
this boy did not know what to do when he finds out the little baby at your house is actually your child. He never thought of the possibility just because of your young age. So he was a little hesitant to approach the matter at first. but then he realizes you must be going through too much alone, and decides to step up and be wholly supportive. He buys toys and clothes for the baby, pampering it with baby stuff, taking pics and uwu over them, feeling like the rich and proud parent, and whenever he’s looking after the child, he speaks in his high-pitched baby voice all-the-while giggling at how cute the baby is.
“yo mom says I spoil you too much. Meh, she’s just jealous she doesn’t get as much attention”
Park Jisung:
the first reaction upon finding out you are a single mom was complete amazement, which is something that really surprises you. as young as jisung is, he’s quite open-minded and empathetic, so the fact that you’re a single mom doesn’t bother him at all, if anything, it amazes him that someone as young as you can balance your life so well. he babies your child a lot, playing with it and looking after it when you need to take care of something. but he sure does freak out in panic mode every time the baby starts crying and it cracks you up every time.
“you’re so cute, I can’t wait until you grow up so we ca- oh no no no no shhhh, y/n? help! it’s about to cry again”
author’s note
finallyyyyy~ managed to finish it, I’ve been hyped for this post for so long, I definitely enjoyed writing this!!! I didn’t write it with nct dream as any role in mind (boyfriend, friend, brother...) that is all up to you to imagine~
♥️ I love you ♥️
