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Lifehack number one: Live together with your partner before getting married.
Lifehack number two: In case of not following life hack number one, wait a while to have children.
Jungkook had not followed this two simple steps. Call it young love, the heat of the moment, it doesn't matter. He and his wife (ex-wife) hadn't thought things through. One would think that at the age of 24 you already know what you want. Lifehack number three: you don't.
These elements are the perfect recipe for ending up filling a divorce after six mere months of marriage while your soon to be ex-wife has a four-month pregnancy.
As much as Jungkook admits they haven't thought everything carefully, it hadn't crossed his minds that things would gonna change so much after marriage. He had had the happiest years with her. The same carefree and open-minded souls. They have traveled, enjoyed, experimented, both of them were more than happy with their careers. They were the envy of many. And maybe that has been their prime mistake, think that they were better than the rest and that everything was going to be laughs and smiles without hardships.
It turns out that after they got married, Jungkook wanted to keep the carefree lifestyle they had. Whilst, she thought that it was time to settle down. Everything got worse with a child in the way. Sharing views on how to enjoy youth was one thing, sharing views on how to raise a son, was another. By her understanding, the best they could do for their child was concentrating in their works to secure the best future for him, while Jungkook tried to assure her they could always found out a way to pay the bills, the most important thing was being there for their child.
He still hasn't found out who is right in that discussion. In what they agreed though, is that after Yoongi was born they wouldn't let their discrepancies, hurt him. Despite the divorce they still love each other and still be good friends, at the end of the day, they know the other is just trying to do the best at this complicated thing called parenting.
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Jungkook takes deep breaths.
The first week of Yoongi in kindergarten has barely finished. And Soomin had just called to inform she won't be able to take their son to preschool like they have accorded because she got relocated at her work (again).
He wants to be mad, he really does. But after seeing the dead eyes she comes to pick up Yoongi and then seeing her face completely light up when their son comes to meet her, so he won't notice his mother tiredness… he can't be mad.
And even though they have been divorced for more than three years now, he knew her voice, this pained her deeply. He had tried to convince her to leave that company, spend more time with Yoongi. But that job is the one that pays for Yoongi's needs, and Jungkook is aware that only with his salary he won't be able to pay for their son's expensive kindergarten, health care, clothes, toys… children are expensive.
That's why he had told her, with the calmest voice he could find, that he would try to fix it.
“Why that worried face Kookie?” His best friend slash co-worker Jimin, asks softly as he hugs Jungkook from behind.
“Soomin got relocated,” he says burying his hand on his face, he is also tired.
“Oh no, again?” his friend ends the hug to face him.
“Yes, and she won't be able to take Yoongi to the daycare. And I don't know what I will do. Her parents live outside the city, mine are all the way to Busan. I know Yoongi doesn't complain, but I don't want to be stressing him with so many changes I-”
“Bring him to Hobi's kindergarten,” Taehyung mentions while entering the small office of the dance studio where Jimin and Jungkook work, cellphone in hand and not even watching the other two.
“That's actually a great idea Kookie is near the studio and we could take turns to take them and pick them up”
“And Yoongi already knows Hobi, so he will have a friend there” Taehyung added with a smile.
Jungkook had already made so much drama in his head and didn't want to accept such a simple solution.
“But-t, still they accept applications this late?”
Both husbands share glances and then laughs.
“Please Kookie,” said Taehyung as he placed a hand on his shoulder “We have all the teachers and parents eating from our hands, just leave it to us”
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Jungkook should not envy his two best friends, but he can't help but think that he and Soomin could have been like them. After all, he had been the one to suggest her they should try having a child after seeing how happy Jimin and Taehyung were when they announced that the adoption center finally had called them and a sweet baby called Hoseok was wainting for them.
But envy or not he was greatly thankful of them, last Friday he almost had a panic attack, a now Monday his best friends, without major inconvenience, had already found a new preschool for Yoongi. God knows where he and Yoongi would be if it weren't for them.
Sadly, his friends can't fix everything. The disappointment in Yoongi's face, when he told him that his mother wouldn't be able to pick him up anymore was devastating. It didn't matter how much he tried to cheer him, telling that his friend Hoseok was gonna be there, and he will see uncle Taehyung and Jimin more often now.
But the sad face of his son wasn't even the worst part, what hurt Jungkook the most is that Yoongi just accepted it. Any other kid would have cried, scream, throw a tantrum, like any normal three years old would do, except Yoongi.
“Can I call mommy before sleep?”
Jungkook had felt how his throat closed.
“Of course you can champ, I'm sure she wants you to keep calling her, want to call her now?”
“No" his tiny pout clearly visible now "don't want to annoy mommy,” he said in the soft voice his son always spoke.
Jungkook knew that if he spoke now he would burst into tears. So, he just let his son give him the goodnight kiss and tucked him into bed.
“Night daddy, love you”
"Daddy loves you more"
It was the first time, in a long, that Jungkook has cried until he fell asleep.
He tried to take all these thoughts away, he couldn't start crying at the entrance of the new preschool of his son.
He was walking beside Taehyung while, Hoseok and Yoongi were in front of them, grabbing hands, more like Hobi had grabbed his son's hand and was dragging him to the kindergarten excitingly talking to his friend about the place, while other silently nodded.
Jungkook couldn't help but laugh at the scene, it was so obvious they were their children. Like his son, he would also sometimes get overwhelmed by the energy of Hoseok parents.
God Jungkook, control these impulses to cry. He told to himself.
Once they arrived, and both kids say their goodbyes (Jungkook hugging Yoongi a little too strong in the process, until his son complained about not being able to breath).
He was a lot calmer knowing that Yoongi was gonna be with a friend. Although Hoseok was a social butterfly, and wouldn't be all the time with him.
With the kids in their classroom, the new teacher came to greet him, she was a really sweet middle age woman.
"Is a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Jeon. After Taehyung told me about your ex-wife having to take an emergency flight to Bangalla to help cure Krytos virus we did everything we could to open a place for Yoongi"
Jungkook was pretty sure that country didn't exist and that disease was taken by one of the comics his friend reads. He shoots the other an incredulous gaze, but Taehyung had a prideful face like he had come up with the best excuse for Soomin absence.
When the teacher excuse herself (not before making telling Jungkook she wishes the best of lucks for his ex-wife) to go back to work, his friend spoke again.
“Ok time to show you the battlefield”
“Show me the wha-”
Taehyung started introducing him everyone in the place, by name and last name, which one was their child, and how involved they were with the preschool. Jungkook overwhelmed with so much information all could do was trying to figure out how did his friend manage to collect so much data in a week.
“And last but not least Kim Seokjin, Kim Namjoon dad”
If Jungkook wasn't already confused, with the sight he had in front of him, his brain finally did a court circuit.
The man was gorgeous, the face of a prince and the body of an Adonis. A foreign feeling started building in his stomach, and it took him a few seconds to recognize it was lust. He hadn't felt that ever since Yoongi was born, during this three years his libido had been minus ten.
“He believes himself the King” Taehyung continued with a derogative voice “He brought cookies for everyone the first day, I admit it a smart move, I didn't accept but Jimin did, after that, he started to make stupid jokes, there is where I lost Jimin. But wait until the change of season and I come with all the Gucci products from the store with discounts for everyone, that bitch has no chance”
Taehyung was too absorbed talking about how he was gonna gain all the parent's hearts, by offering them discounts of the Gucci store he was manager off, when the man called Seokjin noticed Jungkook basically drooling for him and smiled.
“Shit, pretend like we don't care about him, because we don't,” Taehyung said under his breath.
"Sure, that's why you have spent the last five minutes talking about him"
Taehyung step on his right foot to make him shut up.
“Hi Taehyung, how are you doing?” The handsome man asked as Jungkook tried not to cry because of his foot.
“OOhh Seoktun, I didn't saw you there”
“Is Seokjin”
“Ooh haha excuse my bad memory, is the first week and I'm a little confused”
As if you haven't just told me the whole history of all present. He didn't want to be stepped on again, so he kept his words to himself.
“Yes, I guess we all are a little confused" Seokjin looked at him again with the soft smile from before "Sorry I don't remember your name?”
“E-em” Jungkook felt like he was fifteen again and his crush had just talked to him.
“He is Jeon Jungkook, Jeon Yoongi dad the new kid's dad,” Taehyung said contently, clearly proud that he knew something Seokjin didn't.
"Ooooh that explains it then, I was sure I couldn't forget such a pretty face"
The younger man body went completely stiff. Was he flirting with him, he hadn't flirt in years, he had completely forgotten how it worked.
“Is a pleasure to meet you, and sorry about the sudden departure of your ex-wife, it must be hard on Yoongi but I'm sure he will be very proud of her in the future”
Jungkook sends his friend the quickies killer glare.
“Oh! before I forget, pass me your number so I can add you to the parent's chat group”
“Yeah, Seokjin is the administrator of the chat group,” Taehyung mumbled clearly upset about this fact.
Jungkook would soon find out the hellhole parent group chats are.
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Jungkook almost had his second heart attack in the course of four days, 186 unread messages, he frenetically unlocked his phone, thinking something had happened to Yoongi, twelve disturbing scenarios crossed his mind in just a few seconds.
You have been added to HONEY BEES PARENTS chat group.
Jungkook opened the chat.
Seokjin:
Hi everyone, I'm adding Jeon Jungkook, Jeon Yoongi dad to the group ^-^
Several people started to greet him. He had the biggest urge to message Seokjin privately and tell him he should eliminate everyone in that group and just be them both.
But he ends up settling for silencing it for good.
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“ I know you don't like talking about this, but I haven't asked in a while, how is the love life going”
Its true, Jungkook doesn't like talking about it. But he was trapped alone with Jimin closing the dance studio after a long day of work.
“ I'm sure you already know the answer, I don't know why you are asking,” he said while locking the door.
“Taehyung and I have been talking and-”
“I can already tell you that whatever it is the answer is no”
Jimin rolled his eyes as both of them headed home.
“Oh come on, it has been almost four years since you dated”
“And maybe four more are gonna pass,” the taller man says a little annoyed
Jimin stays quiet at this.
“Listen, I know you and Tae have good intentions, but I don't- I and Yoongi are not ready yet”
"Ha-ha! don't use your son as a shield of your own insecurities, Yoongi is a sweetheart, he would want to see you happy, remember when you broke your leg? "
Broke a leg sounded a little too strong. He had a minor injury and the doctor had told him he should move the least possible for three months. Yoongi had noticed his father depression for not being able to dance and had tried to cheer him up, bringing him the food he found or his toys. His son, who had just learn how to walk was doing his best to make him happy.
Jungkook smiled “ Of course I remember”
“Come on Kookie, you must have had the wish to date someone in such a long time”
The image of Kim Seokjin flashed in front of his eyes and Jungkook had to do a big effort to repress it.
“Not really, maybe when Yoongi is older”
“ You keep telling yourself that and when you last notice it, your son will be an adult, leaving you to live his own life, while you have to come to terms that you have been neglecting all other types of relationships, come on, even Soomin had a few dates”
“Wow, low blow”
Jimin sighed “Sorry, but look, I'm not saying Yoongi shouldn't be your number one priority, he will always be. But you need to take care of yourself too”.
Deep inside, Jungkook knew his friend was right, but that didn't mean he would follow his advice.
But since Jimin won't stop until he wins, he nodded and said would think about it.
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Jungkook should have known that as soon as he gave thumbs up to Jimin he and his husband would start bombarding the chat group the three of them shared.
It was called "daddies;)" and it had a profile picture of Hoseok and Yoongi who had fallen asleep in the studio one time, with Yeontan (his friend's dog) in the middle of them. It was the same group chat that once had the most obscene names and with profiles like Taehyung passed out in a toilet, Jimin's butt cheek or Jungkook trying to drink a liter of beer from one go.
Things changed.
They were starting to get more annoying than the chat of parents of Yoongi's kindergarten. Talking about so many subjects he didn't care at all.
He wanted to tell them that at least they got him a date with Kim Seokjin, he wasn't interested. But Taehyung would lose his shit and Jimin wouldn't stop until he got him the date with the man. And Jungkook was old enough to let other people get dates for him.
It was Friday night and it had been a long week, Yoongi had fallen asleep on his chest while both of them were watching a Ghibli movie in Jungkook's bed. He knew he should take him back to his bed, but he would indulge both of them this time.
He googled some pictures of G-dragon, and send his friends the hottest ones with the following message:
“Unless you get me a date with this man, I don't care about anything in this chat”
Silenced his phone, and fell asleep while hugging Yoongi.
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He woke up a little disoriented and saw that his son was still in the same position as last night, still asleep.
Like any other person in this time and era, he checked his phone before standing up.
His message notifications were all over the place a per usual. He opened the "daddies;)" group first as always…
The initial weird thing he notices is that he doesn't see the pictures of G-dragon, he swore he send them, but then again, he was really tired last night so he probably thought he did.
The only unread message of Jimin is what it sends an alarm to his brain.
Jimin:
I know you had wanted to bang G-dragon since you are a teen, but I don't think preschool parents can do much about it.
He brusquely sits up in bed, making Yoongi jump, but he just mumbles angrily and turns the other way to hug a pillow and keep sleeping, Jungkook makes a mental note to take a picture of that later, because he needed to check something first.
As he opened the HONEY BEES PARENTS group chat, he saw all his worries become real, he also saw G-dragon shirtless looking back at him sexily.
The good side, he wasn't in that aging phase in which he starts to forget things, the bad side, he was stupid enough to send hot pictures to people he didn't know, and demand them : “Unless you get me a date with this man, I don't care about anything in this chat”
Jungkook punished himself reading all the comments, one by one.
There was all type of answer, some of them were a simple “same”, other telling him it was an inappropriate joke, others demanding he should get kicked out of the group, and even some fire emojis.
As he scrolled down he noticed, that despite being highly ashamed, he didn't care about any of this people though, his only worry was that Seokjin hadn't said anything.
In this last three week everytime it was his turn to go pick up the kids at preschool, Seokjin had been there and he showed being extra polite and correct, the man probably didn't want to comment to avoid saying any swearword to him.
Congrats Jungkook you ruined your chance with the only person you had been interested in years.
He could only keep going with his life now, maybe cave his head on a hole every time he had to go to the kindergarten from now on.
Before leaving his phone on the nightstand another message popped up, and he accidentally clicked on it.
The air got stuck in his lungs, it was Seokjin. He had sent privately a screenshot of the pictures he sent in the group.
That's it, the man probably wanted to insult him without the others reading. Jungkook was thinking on how to apology while waited for Seokjin scolding when:
Seokjin:
Finally something interesting in this chat group ;) haha
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