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“Hey, Yoongi-hyung, check this out.”
Yoongi looks up from his phone to see Namjoon on his, scrolling.
“What is it?” Yoongi huffs as he adjusts and scoots across the couch. Namjoon turns his phone. “What?”
“Look at what people are calling you now,” he chuckles, and scrolls with his thumb. “‘Li'l Meow Meow.’”
Yoongi scrunches his face up.
“What the hell is this?” Yoongi says, taking Namjoon’s phone in his hands and scrolling further. “When did this start?”
“You know how ARMYs are,” Namjoon chuckles as he takes his phone back. “They’re just coming to see how soft you are now.”
Yoongi frowns further.
“Whatever,” he mumbles.
---
“Sweetheart-”
“No! ‘m not! ‘m...Li'l Meow Meow!”
Jimin runs a hand down his face.
“Li'l Meow Meow?” he tries again, and Yoongi’s gummy smile grows. “Do you want apples or oranges for snack time?”
“Li'l Meow Meow wan’ apple!” Yoongi shouts, bouncing on his little toes, and Jimin nods, picking an apple out of the fruit basket and going to cut it up into the little slices he knows Yoongi likes.
“How’s the prince doing?” Seokjin asks as he comes into the kitchen.
“Actually,” Jimin huffs, “it’s Li'l Meow Meow.” Yoongi perks at the name and runs up to Seokjin.
“Daddy, Daddy, ‘m Li'l Meow Meow!” he says. Seokjin purses his lips and coos.
“Are you, now?” he asks, pinching his cheeks. “Does Li'l Meow Meow know how to rap?” Yoongi lights up like he hasn’t even thought about that.
“L-Like Daddy?” he asks, and Seokjin nods.
“Want to go show him?”
Yoongi’s never nodded faster and he and Seokjin are out of the kitchen at light speed.
Jimin looks down at his half cut apple.
“Figures,” he huffs as he eats the slices himself.
Namjoon’s reading quietly when he jumps at the sound of the door being pushed open loudly.
“Oh, Jin-hyung,” he smiles, then raises his eyebrows when Yoongi - correction, Little Yoongi - follows shortly after. “And my little prince.”
“Li'l Meow Meow!” Yoongi corrects him, and Namjoon internally laughs. He can imagine what Big Yoongi’ll say when he finds out.
“Okay. Li'l Meow Meow,” Namjoon nods.
“He’s got a surprise for you,” Seokjin says quietly, and pushes Yoongi forward.
“M-My name ‘s Li'l Meow Meow!” Yoongi shouts immediately, waving his arms wildly. “‘nd I love...candy! ‘nd when Daddy gives me candy, I say...candy!”
Namjoon covers his mouth to hide his laughs. Yoongi continues on with determination.
“I love cuddles. ‘nd so does Seokie! ‘nd when Li'l Meow Meow gets Seokie’s cuddles, i’s happy!”
Namjoon looks at Seokjin fondly. This is even better than the time he helped Namjoon write music when he was little. It figures that his little rap would be about candy and cuddles, though.
Yoongi raps on for a little bit longer until he’s out of breath and sort of forgetting what he’s doing (he’s now past his snack time and his stomach seems to remind him of that), so Namjoon stands up and hums.
“Alright, I think L’il Meow Meow needs some food,” he says, and Yoongi cheers.
“C’n L’il Meow Meow get candy?” he asks. “L’il Meow Meow wan’s candy.”
“No, I think he needs real food,” Seokjin cuts in. “Wasn’t Minnie making you something earlier?”
“Ooh, apple, apple,” Yoongi remembers as Namjoon scoots him out of the room. His babbling continues on out of the room and Seokjin chuckles. He looks down to the bed and sees the open notebook.
He had been so busy paying attention to Yoongi that he hadn’t realised what Namjoon was doing.
On the notebook page were all of Little Yoongi’s lyrics, the title named ‘Li'l Meow Meow’s Candy Rap’ in curly lettering. He smiles as he shuts the notebook and puts it on the nightstand. Always leave it to Namjoon to remember to record the important things. He just better not let Big Yoongi find out.
Seokjin goes back out of the bedroom and into the kitchen where Yoongi sits in a chair and waits for Jimin to cut him up another apple.
“Daddy, Minnie says he’ll rap with me!” Yoongi tells Seokjin, and Jimin turns.
“I did not say that,” he defends.
“Minnie’s no good at rapping, L’il Meow Meow,” Seokjin says.
“Is too! Minnie!” Jimin looks between Seokjin and Yoongi before he bites the inside of his cheek.
“Uh...,” he hums, and tries, waving a hand in the air, “My name is Minnie, and I’m Li'l Meow Meow’s favourite! When he is hungry, I cut him up some apple bits!”
“...Jimin.” Seokjin stares at him and Jimin gives him a look.
“I told you I was no good!” he reminds, and Seokjin shrugs. Meanwhile, Yoongi’s clapping his hands.
“Li'l Meow Meow ‘nd Minnie!” he says. “Rappers!”
“Yes, Li'l Meow Meow. Rappers.” Jimin turns and puts his apple slices in front of him. “And rappers need to eat.”
“Apple!” Yoongi forgets about everything except his apple slices, gently eating one after the other.
“He’s going to kill us when he’s Big,” Seokjin says, and Jimin furrows his brows.
“Why?” he asks, and Seokjin chuckles.
“He was rapping for Namjoon earlier and Namjoon wrote down all the lyrics he said into his notebook.” Jimin raises his eyebrows.
“He better keep that notebook with him at all times.”
---
“Namjoon-hyung, have you seen Yoongi’s notebook?” Jeongguk calls.
“Uh, I’m not sure,” Namjoon calls back. He’s wondering how on Earth Yoongi could misplace his most prized possession.
A moment after, Taehyung’s jogging into Namjoon’s room and looking around before spotting the notebook on the nightstand.
“Found it!” he shouts into the rest of the dorm, and Namjoon watches as the notebook is snatched and carried into the other room.
His heart drops.
Meanwhile, Taehyung’s handing Yoongi the notebook.
“Thanks, Tae,” he says as he flips through. “I just need to make sure...” He stops.
“What is it, hyung?” Taehyung asks, and Yoongi looks up. Taehyung looks at the page. “What’s... ‘Li'l Meow Meow’s Candy Rap?’”
“Taehyung!” Namjoon shouts as he runs into the room. “That’s not Yoongi-hyung’s-”
It’s too late.
“Namjoon, did you write all this down?” Yoongi asks, pointing. Namjoon freezes.
“...It was really cute!” he says finally, trying to defend himself. “And you were so excited, I didn’t want to let the opportunity go to waste!” He gulps. “B-Besides, I’m sure you’d want to keep it when you’re little.” Yoongi’s expression is almost unreadable.
“I’m keeping this for a little bit,” he says as his expression softens. He walks away and Namjoon blinks.
Two days later, he gets an email from Yoongi with a file named ‘candy_rap.mp3’ and he smiles to himself.
L’il Meow Meow is definitely here to stay.