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the pitter-pattering sound of tiny feet was what jeongguk woke to early on a saturday morning. he cracked open an eye, already registering the emptiness of the opposite side of the bed. he yawned, stretching out across the bed, only to be interrupted by his bedroom door swinging open slowly.
a tiny hand appeared around the door, then a pair of eyes, peering into the room hesitantly.
“morning jeohooie” jeongguk sighed, patting the bed so she could climb up and join in,
“morning daddy” the young girl said softly, scrambling across the bedsheets to curl up at jeongguk’s side,
“sleep okay, baby?” jeongguk asked, smoothing the girls long dark hair down. her hair was thick and unruly, something she had inherited from his husband.
“slept good, daddy” she said, splaying her palm across his stomach, “papa told me to wake you up”
jeongguk lifted the girl up so she was perched on his chest,
“how about we stay in bed” he says, pressing his nose to jeohoo’s, “papa has chiwonnie to keep him company”
the little girl giggled, leaning forward to rest her head under jeongguk’s chin. he stroked his hand up and down the expanse of her tiny back, and almost managed to get back to sleep, until the door was pushed open once again, this time by his husband, holding their five month old son against his chest.
“i thought you were coming for breakfast” seokjin said, placing chiwon on his changing mat and unpopping his baby-gro, “i made pancakes, but they’ll
go cold if you don’t go eat them soon!”
jeohoo sits up dramatically, and clambers off of jeongguk, not without a hearty kick in the side that leaves him groaning.
jeongguk passes seokjin with a kiss on the cheek, and scurries off when seokjin starts to change the baby’s daiper, to join his daughter in the kitchen.
she was already climbing onto her chair, reaching for the bowl of strawberrie’s seokjin had placed on the table,
“want help?” jeongguk asks, pouring coffee from the freshley brewed pot, and joining jeohoo at the table,
“no ‘fanks” she says, spooning the strawberries onto the pancake seokjin had left to cool on her plate,
jeongguk sticks to his coffee, finding it still too early to eat anything.
seokjin comes into the kitchen with a newly changed chiwon. he places a kiss on jeohoo’s head and goes to pour himself his own mug of coffee.
jeongguk reaches out to seokjin, and seokjin passes the baby over, clearly relieved to have his other hand free for a while, before sitting down at the table.
jeongguk holds the baby against his chest, basking in the warmth he brings, his soft little breaths against his neck as he settles and slowly drifts back to sleep.
“you working today?” seokjin asks, spooning yoghurt and strawberries onto his plate as he also helps jeohoo with her second pancake,
“nope” jeongguk says, sipping his coffee, “aren’t taehyung and jimin coming over today? to tell us about their honeymoon?”
seokjin smiles and rolls his eyes, “i think yoongi and namjoon are bringing miyeon and minwoo over later too”
“yeonie?” jeohoo mumbles around her pancake,
“that’s right” seokjin says, “maybe i’ll ask if hoseok and hyunji want to come over too, we could probably get in the pool”
“yeonie is coming?” jeohoo asks again, piercing a left over strawberry with her fork, “we can swim?”
“yes, baby, miyeon is coming over later, with minwoo and uncle yoongi and uncle namjoon. we’ll go swimming after lunch” seokjin brushed the girls bangs out of her eyes, smiling at her when she grinned up at him, eyes shining.
“can we play with chiwonie?” she asks, placing her fork back on the table and climbing across onto seokjin’s lap,
“maybe. he’s a bit too little to be in the big pool with you though. maybe daddy will take him in the small pool if he’s not sleeping” seokjin says.
jeongguk looks down at where the boy is currently asleep against his chest. with any luck, he would stay like this for a few hours, so he wasn’t grumpy for their guests.
“but wonie sleeps all the time” jeohoo pouts, watching her brother bury his face deeper into jeongguk’s neck, tiny hand coming up to clutch at the collar of jeongguk’s t-shirt,
“that’s because he’s really little” seokjin said, bouncing her on his lap, “you slept a lot when you were really little too”
jeongguk watched his husband talk to his daughter in a hushed voice, a soft smile on his lips, until chiwon started to stir, letting out little whimpers that jeongguk new fully well would turn into a full blown scream soon enough. he stood and rocked the baby in his arms, bouncing on his feet and shushing the baby gently,
“has he had breakfast?” jeongguk asked,
“i fed him about an hour ago,” seokjin says, lifting jeohoo off his lap to lead her back upstairs, “maybe try another bottle? i’ll go get jeohooie dressed”
jeongguk nodded, and grabbed the bottle of formula, struggling with just one hand. he managed though, and took the bottle through to the living room to sit on the armchair. he cradled the baby in his arms as he gently placed the bottle against his lips, the baby quietened, and began sucking hungrily on the bottle.
five minutes later, jeohoo was hopping down the stairs, fully dressed and hair pulled into two messy spacebuns.
chiwon had pretty much finished his formula, so jeongguk set the bottle aside and lifted the boy to hold him against his chest again, his head placed delicately on his shoulder whilst jeongguk rubbed his back,
“where’s papa?” jeongguk asked, watching as his daughter hopped her way over to the couch beside him,
“in the shower” the four year old replied, “daddy? when is yeonie coming?”
“not for a while. maybe you can go shopping with papa so you can get snacks for you and miyeonie and minwooie”
“okay” she said, climbing onto the couch and swinging her legs, “can i have juice please daddy?”
jeongguk laughed, and placed chiwon on a blanket they had layed out on the carpet, whilst he went to the kitchen.
he poured orange juice into jeohoo’s indestructable sippy cup, and took it back to the living room. when he got there, he found the girl no longer on the couch, but instead lying beside her brother on her stomach, watching him intently.
“you’re so cute” she whispered, “so cute, and tiny, and cute”
“jeohoo” jeongguk said, sitting beside her cross legged, “here’s your juice baby”
the girl took the cup from him and drank thirstly, still watching her brother stretch out on the blanket, staring around the room with sparkling eyes that resembled jeongguk’s.
“wonie is so cute” jeohoo said, poking his little round cheek,
“so are you, gorgeous girl” he said, lifting jeohoo into his lap and tickling her so she sqealed with delight.
seokjin appeared then, a soft smile on his face as jeongguk moved his daughter aside to pick chiwon up.
“you look handsome today” jeongguk said, holding chiwon to his chest, and pecking seokjin’s lips as he walked passed.
“just today?” seokjin asked, eyebrow raised,
jeongguk rolled his eyes and continued up the stairs, stopping by chaewon’s room to take an extra nappy, then continuing to his own room, where he lay chiwon on his bed, keeping a close eye on him as he got dressed.
chiwon gurgled around his fist, staring up at jeongguk with large round eyes that sometimes, seokjin said he could see entire galaxies inside of. jeongguk smiled, scooping the boy back up once he was dressed, and held him while he brushed his teeth, rocking him slowly as he hummed around his toothbrush.
“jeongguk!” seokjin yelled from downstairs, “i’m gonna go to the store with jeohoo! do you want anything?”
jeongguk walked as quick as was possible whilst holding a baby, to meet seokjin by their front door,
“we’re almost out of formula” he said, rearranging the baby in his arms so his head rested on his shoulder, one of jeongguk’s large hands covering the expanse of chiwon’s small back. then, he leaned in to whisper to seokjin,
“maybe some wine? for when the babies go to bed?”
seokjin winked in approval, pecking his husband on the lips quickly, and kissing chiwon lightly on the top of his head,
“see you in an hour”
he took jeohoo’s hand, and closed the door behind him.
“so, little man,” jeongguk said, holding the baby out at eye level, “what are we gonna do while papa is out?”
the boy blinked at him, reaching out a hand to grab his nose gently. jeongguk laughed, cradling his son in his arms as he walked through the house, “sleep? wonie should we sleep?”
the boy gurgled around his fist, which jeongguk took as a yes, and he settled on the couch, lying across it with chiwon placed on his chest.
he turned the tv to a random channel, and closed his eyes.
when his eyes opened again, it was to a close up view of a pair of dark brown eyes framed with long lashes.
“hi daddy” jeohoo whispered, leaning forward to press a slobbery kiss on his cheek, “we got lots of jellies”
“any for me?” jeongguk asked, sitting up carefully, holding chiwon to his chest so he wasnt woken up,
“no! only me and yeonie!” jeohoo said, as seokjin leaned down to take chiwon from jeongguk’s arms and take him upstairs to change his nappy,
“is that right?” jeongguk said, grabbing jeohoo’s sides to pull her into his lap, tickling her stomach and making her squeal, “is that right?”
“daddy, stoooop” jeohoo giggled, and jeongguk relented, moving her to the side and standing so he could put the groceries away.
not long after, the doorbell rang and seokjin opened it to jimin and taehyung. the recently married couple were tanned and smiling contentedly.
“hey!” seokjin said, hugging them both in turn, “we missed you!”
jeongguk stood from where he was feeding chiwon, and went to greet the two.
“oh my gosh” taehyung said, staring at chiwon who was awake and watching the man with wide eyes, “he’s grown so much! can i have a cuddle?”
“of course!” jeongguk said, passing the baby over to taehyung’s waiting arms,
“hi, little man” taehyung said quietly, walking through into the living room, “what have you been up to?”
still beside the door, jimin was struggling to stay balanced as jeohoo wrapped her body around his legs,
“uncle jiminie! hi, uncle jiminie!”
“hi there! jeohooie? can i get my shoes off?”
jeohoo removed her arms, and skipped towards taehyung, where he was sat on the couch cradling chiwon and smiling down at him adoringly,
“uncle taetae” jeohoo said, climbing onto the couch, “cuddle me now!”
taehyung laughed deeply, rearrainging chiwon so he could hold out an arm to jeohoo, who immediately flopped into her uncle’s side.
jeongguk, seokjin and jimin joined them, and jeohoo opted to crawl onto jeongguk’s lap when he sat down beside her, curling up against his chest and speaking to herself quietly.
“so,” seokjin said, “tell us everything!”
jimin grinned at his husband,
“it was amazing! the resort was so lovely and our parents surprised us by booking the honeymoon suite. they left rose petals on the bed-“
“which was huge!” taehyung cut in, still cuddling and bouncing chiwon to make him giggle,
“yes” jimin continued, “and they left complementary champagne and a basket full of food and other stuff we might need”
taehyung smirked, and jeongguk rolled his eyes,
“we were right next to the beach too” jimim continued, “so we spent most of our time there”
seokjin hummed, “sounds a lot more relaxing than our honeymoon” he says, memories of missed flights and food poisoning returning to him.
jeongguk shuddered in agreement.
“are yoongi and namjoon on their way?” jeongguk asked seokjin,
“yeah, they should be here any minute now. hoseok and hyunji should be arriving soon too” he said.
as if on cue, the doorbell rang, and jeohoo was clambering out of jeongguk’s lap and following behind seokjin to meet her best friend at the door. the two girls collided in a hug, screaming and giggling. minwoo, miyeon’s twin brother, stayed hidden behind namjoon’s leg. namjoon took his hand and they manouvered around the giggling pair of girls to greet the other men, and once again they grouped in the livingroom, jeohoo and miyeon sat on the floor by their fathers feet, playing together quietly. minwoo stayed by namjoon’s side, holding his arm and hiding behind his long fringe.
taehyung finally relented his cuddles with chiwon, and passed him over to yoongi with a pout.
“he’s gotten so much bigger” jimin obsevered,
seokjin nodded, smiling at where his son was making grabby fists towards yoongi’s nose, “i don’t like it. i want him to stay little forever”
jeongguk laughed, leaning into his husband and watching jeohoo and miyeon speak animaitedly to eachother.
“what time are hoseok and hyunji due to arrive?” namjoon asked,
“not sure. should be in the next few minutes. i was thinking we could go get in the pool to keep the kids busy, and maybe have a barbeque? i picked up kebabs and burgers and stuff, and its hot out so i thought it would be a nice idea” seokjin says,
yoongi nods, “sounds like fun”
hoseok and his girlfriend hyunji arrived soon after. hoseok was wearing a bright yellow hawaiin shirt, and hyunji rolled her eyes when he strutted into the room.
minwoo lit up when he saw hyunji had arrived, and crawled onto her lap when she sat on one of the couches.
“hey little man” she said,
“hi” he whispered, smiling softly,
“so, wanna get in the pool?” seokjin asked,
the girls jumped up, screaming with excitement and jeohoo took miyeon’s hand and lead her up the stairs to her bedroom. yoongi and seokjin followed behind, laughing together as they went to help their daughters get changed.
jeongguk took chiwon from where he was curled in jimin’s arms, and carried him upstairs to change his daiper and put him in a pair of tiny blue swim trunks.
jeongguk changed himself into a pair of trunks too, opting to leave his shirt off in favour of cooling down when they got outside. chiwon was radiating excitement, squealing around his balled fists and bouncing in jeongguk’s arms,
“calm down buddy!” jeongguk said, “we’ll go outside in a minute, we have to get some suncream on you first!”
chiwon gurgled happily as jeongguk lay him on the couch and uncapped the bottle of factor fifty.
along with some tickles and kisses, chiwon was suitibly protected and jeongguk deposited him in hyunji’s waiting arms so he could give seokjin some help with their energetic daughter.
minwoo was quietly changing in the corner of the room with namjoon’s help, but yoongi and seokjin were struggling to get their daughters to stay still long enough to pull their bathers over their squirming bodies.
“hey” jeongguk said, “need a hand?”
seokjin looks up at him with pleading eyes, and jeongguk reaches down to quickly tug the swimsuit over jeohoo’s arms to settle the straps on her shoulders.
“nicely done” seokjin says, lifting jeohoo onto his hip and pecking jeongguk lightly. seeing that her friend was now dressed, miyeon began to cooperate and quietly allowed yoongi to help her into her bathers.
“right!” seokjin says, “lets do this”
the family’s pile outside, carrying towels and suncream. yoongi keeps his hands wrapped around miyeon’s and jeohee’s, making sure they don’t jump in the water. namjoon has minwoo clutched in his arms, and the boy stares owlishly at the water. jeongguk follows behind them all, carrying bags of meat to grill on the barbeque while the kids swim. seokjin sets up the towels on the deck chairs they have set up beside the pool, and hauls the umberellas from around the side of the house to position them over the chairs. all the while, hyunji has chiwon clutched against her chest, allowing him to watch what his fathers were doing, explaining to him in a soft voice as he looks around with wide eyes.
“okay! jeohooie, miyeon and minwoo! let me put some suncream on you before we get i the pool” seokjin says from where he’s laying out the multiple bottles on his sun lounger. the two girls, hands clasped together, toddle towards him giddily.
he ensures they are all covered before he deems them protected enough to get into the pool where taehyung and jimin are already splashing at eachother,
“uncle taetae!” jeohoo screeches from the side of the pool, “catch me”
the man turns and holds his arms out, grinning as jeohoo leaps towards him.
his arms close around her and she giggles with delight, kicking her legs as taehyung grips her firmly.
miyeon follows after, jumping into jimin’s arms and laughing loudly when she hit the water.
minwoo is a little more apprehensive, holding namjoon’s hand as he takes the steps into the water, clinging to his father once they’re fully submerged.
jeongguk takes chiwon from hyunji and carries him into the section of the pool walled off from the main body of water, only about a meter in depth.
he holds chiwon tight as he steps into the water, sitting on the side and placing the baby on his lap,
“you want to try the water buddy?” jeongguk asks. at the boy’s blank stare, he laughs and scoops a handful of water up, trickling it over the small boys feet and legs.
the boy squirms slightly, then giggles when jeongguk lets some water trickle over his head,
“you like that?” jeongguk asks, beaming at his son, “want to try?”
he holds the boy under his armpits and dangles his legs into the water. chiwon’s chubby legs immediately begin to kick with fervour, making everyone who had been watching laugh.
jeongguk leans down and kisses the boy on the head and allows him to kick some more.
on the decking, seokjin and hoseok are attempting to light the barbeque, fiddling with the gas dials until the grill comes to life.
hoseok rips open packs of burgers and chicken, as well as vegetable kebabs.
the two set to work on cooking as the rest of the group splashes around in the pool.
jeohoo sqeals as namjoon throws her in the air, catching her again and laughing when she yells “again!”, he throws her a few more times before letting miyeon have a turn as well.
minwoo tires of the larger pool quickly, and climbs over the wall to join jeongguk and chiwon in the small pool.
“hi, minwoo!” jeongguk says, where he is now fully seated in the pool, holding chiwon as he slaps his little hands against the water.
the four year old smiles back, and quietly watches jeongguk play with chiwon, giggling quietly when chiwon splashes him.
jeongguk watches the young boy interact with chiwon for a while, before he tells him he needs to get the baby in the shade. he grabs a towel and wraps the baby until he resembles a burrito and holds him against his chest as he makes his way to one of the loungers. seokjin comes to check on them both, sitting beside him on the sun lounger as jeongguk smooths suncream onto the boys face gently.
“did he have fun?” seokjin asks,
“yeah! he loved it. we could probably take him in again after he has a nap” jeongguk says, holding chiwon in the crook of his arm as the baby yawns,
“good” seokjin says, “let him sleep then. i’ll bring you a burger later, if you’re good”
jeongguk grins, letting his husband press their lips together for a moment, before hoseok calls seokjin away to help him flip the burgers.
jeongguk leans back on his lounger, chiwon held against his chest as he sighs, clearly on the verge of sleep.
he watches jeohoo in the pool, swimming between jimin and taehyung with the help of inflatable arm bands.
“they’re full of energy today” hyunji says, relaxing into the lounger beside jeongguk,
“yeah. jeohoo loves her uncles,” jeongguk says, watching his daughter laugh as taehyung swims around with her on his back,
“do you think tae and jimin will have kids eventually?” hyunji asks,
jeongguk smiles softly, “probably. you know how much taehyung loves kids. he gets broodier everytime he comes over, it was awful after wonie was born, we barely got to hold him because tae wanted to cuddle him all the time”
hyunji laughs, “he’d make a good dad, kids always seem to love him”
jeongguk nods, “definitley. i know they discussed it before they got married, whether they’ll go for it so soon, or wait is up to them really”
hyunji nods, “how did you decide?”
“we just both knew we wanted to become parents, it was a no brainer really”
chiwon wiggles against jeongguk’s stomach to change position, one of his tiny fists coming up to rest on his chest. jeongguk smiles softly, stroking the dark hair on top of the boys head.
ten minutes later, when they had managed to drag the girls out of the pool, the group sat around the large table to eat. jeongguk decided against eating on his sun lounger, and kept chiwon clutched to his chest as he sat down to eat.
seokjin had jeohoo on his lap, showing her how to construct the perfect burger, and opposite him, yoongi was plating up miyeon’s food, speaking softly as she asked each dish was. minwoo sat beside namjoon on one of the benches, already tucking into a vegetable kebab.
hoseok and hyunji bickered between themselves about that burger toppings were appropriate, eventually disagreeing with hyunji opting for salad, and hoseok opting for gurkhins and fried onions.
“why don’t you go put him down?” seokjin asked jeongguk, eyeing the baby that he still had held to him,
“i don’t want to wake him up” jeongguk says, “besides, it’s nice to cuddle him”
seokjin smiled and rolled his eyes,
“he’ll get attatched if you cuddle him all the time” seokjin says, spooning pasta onto jeohoo’s plate,
jeongguk rolled his eyes, then took a large bite of his burger.
the families fell into easy conversation, discussing the details of taehyung and jimin’s honey moon, and the older kids starting school in a couple of weeks.
“so” seokjin said, leaning back and patting his stomach, “naptime for the kids?”
jeongguk eyed jeohoo, who seemed to be struggling more and more to keep her eyes open,
“i think so,” yoongi said.
the kids slept for an hour in the shade, their parents taking turns to sit with them whilst the other’s took turns cooling off in the pool. eventually, miyeon and jeohoo woke up and sat with jimin in the smaller pool.
chiwon had woken and immedieatly started screaming, so hyunji was now sat on a lounger, rocking him gently as he quietened.
seokjin and jeongguk, glad to have some time to relax, floated in the pool wrapped around eachother, sharing chaste kisses and gentle words.
“what are you thinking about?” seokjin asked, pulling jeongguk a little closer, resting his hands on jeongguk’s hips,
“just... how happy i am” jeongguk replies, “with our little family”
seokjin grins, “i’m happy too”
he pulls jeongguk in for another kiss, and they both laugh when they hear their daughter make a disgusted sound behind them.
the sun starts to go down and the air grows cooler soon after that, and the families move back inside.
jeongguk takes a sleepy chiwon up to his room, and tucks him in before taking the baby monitor and padding out quietly.
miyeon and jeohoo sit together on a bean bag watching old disney classics, whist minwoo sleeps with his head in namjoon’s lap.
the adults sit on the couches with glasses of wine perched on armchairs and in their hands.
“it’s crazy, dont you think?” namjoon says, running a hand through minwoo’s hair, “how quickly they grow up”
jeongguk hums in agreement,
“it feels like just yesterday that you brought chiwon home, and now he’s so big, and so expressive, you know?”
“i get it. the girls are growing so quickly too. jeohoo is getting more cheeky and defiant, but is maturing so much too” seokjin says,
yoongi nods, “well, i’m sure we’ll blink and they’ll be moving out to go to college”
the other parents agree sadly, then drain the rest of their wine before filing out of the house, until it’s just jeongguk and seokjin.
putting jeohoo to bed is easier than usual, the girl falling asleep pretty much as soon as seokjin puts her down.
jeongguk leans against the door frame, watching his husband sit beside their daughter, stroking her hair away from her face. they leave the room quietly, and fall into bed after brushing their teeth. without a word, seokjin pulls jeongguk against him, his arm around the younger man’s waist, his chest pressed against his back.
jeongguk snuggles into his comforter, feeling warm and happy and content after the perfect day they had had with their children and their best friends.
jeongguk fell asleep with a content smile on his face, ready for what the next day had to offer.