A brunette four year old walked up to the stage with shaky knees and furrowed brows. She stopped at the microphone stand and turned to the crowd awaiting her speech.
Near the center, she could spot her father, Yoosung, grinning brightly at her which made her feel a bit better despite the hammering in her chest.
She could also see her mother next to him, her mother's phone camera pointed at her.
She took a deep breath and neared her mouth to the microphone in front of her.
"My name is Kim Young-Soo," she started, "I am five years old."
"You're gonna love this, Yoosung," MC, Yoosung's wife and Young-Soo's mother, spoke giddily
Yoosung smiled with anticipation at that.
"When I grow up, I wanna be like papa," she continued, "I wanna be a vete-, ver-, vene-, vetene-,"
"Omg," MC gasped, "Yoosung, she's gonna cry, she's gonna cry!"
Yoosung waved widly to catch his daughter's attention before her tears fell. He grinned at her and gave two thumbs up, something that they had learned to give each other whenever they couldn't speak. It made Young-Soo a bit calmer but she still couldn't go on with what she wanted to say.
She frowned, "I, I, I wanna be like… mama,"
"What? I didn't teach her that," MC said, "Did you?"
"No, I didn't," he replied, "You were the one who taught her."
"I wanna be like mama," she repeated, "I wanna party party and make more parties!"
MC's jaw hung low at what her daughter said, immediately feeling the stares and hearing the murmurs of the other parents. Meanwhile, Yoosung chuckled at him.
"Baby, you really go party party?" He repeated their daughter's words and MC wanted to push him out of his seat if it weren't for the fact that she was filming their daughter
"I wanna be like papa too," Young-Soo added, "I wanna play games! Like LOLOL! Die you beasts! And then, and then have teammates and tell them, 'the heck are you doing? Run for your lives cowards!'."
"I did not teach her that," MC countered once she saw the gaze Yoosung shot at her
"Then who taught her that?" Yoosung asked
"I don't know! Ask the guy who keeps on yelling profanities at a screen," MC answered
Young-Soo gave the crowd a grin and bowed as the people clapped their hands out of courtesy. She skipped down the stage, relieved that she was done with her introductions and ran back to her parents.
"I forgot what papa's work is," Young-Soo stated, "What's it again? Vetenenarin? Veretinarian?"
"It's veterinarian, honey." Yoosung chuckled nervously as he hugged his little girl
"We have got to make sure that we'll do better for her," MC stated, "But for now, I'll gladly be mama party party if you'll be papa 'die you beasts!'."
Yoosung laughed at that, "Deal!"