# A GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE 、 @jiahlgc .
it’s early morning when jino earns his first rude awakening.
if he thought chuseok was for resting and relaxing, boy — was he sorely mistaken. at the crack of dawn, having spent the night at their grandparents’ place since their parents had arrived on the prior sunday, jino and jiah were jostled out of the warm confines of their beds on that third day of chuseok. after the past two days of visiting ancestors’ graves and performing ancestral rites, he had thought that they would finally be getting to the resting portion of their small little vacation but his grandmother had other plans.
still feeling a bit out of it from last night's rice wine that one of the neighboring uncles had brought over, his morning was starting off a little rougher than per usual. before even the rooster had cawed — he’s sure, he checked! — jino was already awake, yawning in the back of the kitchen helping his grandmother sort out the rice cakes they were to hand out to their neighbors. suddenly all the leftover rice cakes from the days’ prior made sense as he helped shovel a healthy portion of songpyeon into a container; only to be tied with a ribbon by jiah.
and if he wondered why his grandmother woke they up at the ass crack of dawn, it was because by the time they finished it was already a quarter past seven and jino was feeling the crick in his neck and the stickiness from the songpyeon coat his fingers. and from the sheer quantity of it all, he was sure they would not be done handing it out until after noon. ( and even that might be wishful thinking )
“할머니 really couldn’t pass up the chance of showing us around, huh?” he murmurs, for no one else but jiah to hear as they are all ushered out the door and into the cool autumn morning, arms filled to the tops of their heads with the rice cakes they had packed up since earlier.
