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It was a chilly autumn day when two residents of the Bangtan Household decided to go outside for the sake of their dearest squirrel hybrid, Hoseok.
Hoseok is an energetic, bubbly sunshine with chubby cheeks. His doe eyes glowing at the simplest things that had interested him. He loves doing things such as cuddling (with Taehyung, preferably), cooking with Jin (or, him storing food in his cheeks while Seokjin cooks the food), play tag with Jeongguk, nap with Yoongi, get his fluffy tail pet by Jimin, and get berries fed to him by Namjoon. He also loves to celebrate holidays. A lot.
"Seokkie, you know you can't eat people's pumpkins," Seokjin scolds as he adjusts his scarf, walking towards the younger who is walking up to somebody's carved pumpkins that are displayed along the outside of their house. They're currently walking Hoseok around the neighborhood, since he can't be trusted by himself because he'll get into Lord knows what.
"I'm not, though! I'm just admiring the decorations," he pouts, turning around as his ears wiggle inside his beanie.
"Mhm, sure," Jeongguk says as he walks up and picks up the shorter with ease. Hoseok pouts even more.
"I wasn't done looking! And I want to do that, too! I want to carve pumpkins! It's nearly Halloween, y'know," he says, still in Jeongguk's arms as the group walks back to their home.
"Seokkie," Jin laughs, "we know, be patient. We will carve pumpkins in a bit, okay? Everyone else is at home setting it up for you."
"Okay!" Hoseok complies, smiling big as his face scrunches up in joy.
—
It was a disaster.
Namjoon nearly stabbed his fingers, Taehyung dropped a miniature pumpkin to the floor and onto Yoongi's foot (it was funny to everyone except the two), and Jimin just didn't know what he was doing overall.
Hoseok, however, was doing very well. He listened, was patient, and even cleaned up! Well, kind of.
"Okay, I think that's enough pumpkins for the day," Yoongi said, getting up from his chair and stretching.
"Alright, we should clean up," Namjoon agrees, rubbing his eyes with his wrist then looking at the clean table. What the hell?
"What the hell? That's some fuckin' magic-," Jeongguk is about to say until he looks at the quiet hybrid whose cheeks are puffed up.
"Hoseok?"
"Mm?"
"Are you eating the pumpkins?"
"...."
Everyone sighs.
"We told you that you can't do that anymore, SeokSeok," Jimin says to him as Hoseok discreetly (or as he thinks it is) swallows the pumpkin pieces in his mouth.
"I didn't have any of it, though! See?" Hoseok sticks his tongue out, making an "ahh" sound. He didn't have any as long as he can't see! Take that, Jimin!
Jimin sighs, putting his hand on his head. He's done for today.
—
The pumpkins have been set around the house and may they say, the pumpkins look quite good. Well, for the first day at least.
Hoseok would sneak every now and again to pick pieces off the pumpkins and eating them quickly and walking away. Nobody would notice as long as they didn't see him, right?
Wrong.
"SeokSeok, do you want to tell me why these pumpkins all have bite marks on them?" Yoongi questions the younger as they're cuddling on the couch and watching T.V.
"I'on know," Hoseok mumbles, looking at his socked feet that are resting on the opposite side of the couch from him.
"You can tell me if you did, I won't tell on you," Yoongi whispers sweetly to him.
"I only had a little bit," Hoseok confesses.
"How about I buy you a pumpkin that you can eat, but the others can't find out. How's that sound?" Yoongi asks, smiling as he watches Hoseok's ears twitch and cheeks move upward in excitement.
"Yes, please!" He sweetly says. Yoongi can feel his tail moving slightly against him.
"Pinky promise not to tell anyone about this," Yoongi says, putting his pinky finger out in front of Hoseok.
Hoseok nods and interlaces his smaller pinky with Yoongi's. "Promise!" He giggles.