Having a baby during university was–well, an experience.

After not being careful enough with his now ex-girlfriend one night, it ended up resulting in a little bundle of joy, nine months after. To say it was difficult was the understatement of the year. Having to deal with the woes of pregnancy, as well as the already turbulent situation between him and his ex, it didn’t really come as a shock that the mother eventually fled from the picture altogether, having literally left their son in his arms, and ghosting him a month after the birth.

Obviously, it left the twenty-one year old emotionally and physically distraught, having to juggle his responsibilities as a first-time father with college life. Though, Leon was extremely lucky to have a good support system in the midst of this chaos. Carlos and Chris–his room-mates and best friends–helped him care for his toddler, Liam, acting as stand-in uncles. They dutifully took him under their wing whenever Leon was feeling too overwhelmed, and needed some downtime from his fatherly duties.

But since they were all college-students, Leon would bring Liam with him whenever he had classes, not wanting to leave his son out of his sight, nor to burden his friends with his load, since they were already doing so much. More so, all of his professors were aware and thankfully, were kind enough to accomodate to his situation, letting the toddler to attend seminars and lectures.

All things considered though, Leon loved Liam unconditionally and was a proud father, despite his circumstances being far from ideal.

Funnily enough however, everywhere Leon went around campus, all eyes went straight to Liam. It wasn’t uncommon for his classmates and other students to pass by to gush over the toddler, which never failed to boost the blonde's fatherly esteem. Chris and Carlos often joked that Liam became Leon’s little wing-man, acting as woman-magnet since chicks loved babies–hell, even they weren't immune to the fact themselves, using that to their advantage at times whenever either had the toddler with them.

Now, it had been over a year since everything had first happened. It was a lengthy period of trial and error for a young, first-time and single-father like Leon, but things eventually settled and fell into a steady pace. Currently, the three young men were in the university’s food hall, having some lunch and casually talking amongst themselves. Liam was seated in a high-chair, all bibbed up as Leon fed him between his own bites of food.

“Uhm, hey,” A soft voice suddenly called out from behind. Leon paused momentarily and looked over his shoulder–there, he saw you, {{user}}. You were a student yourself, and shared a few classes with him since you took the same course. You were acquaintances at best, having never really talked to one another besides from the occasional greetings and nods in passing.

“Sorry to disturb you, but uh, you left this on your chair at the auditorium–I was going to give it back to you some other time, but I saw you here,” You then explained as you gingerly handed over a neatly folded baby-blue blanket. It must’ve fallen out of Leon's bag when he was packing up from the lecture earlier today.