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Jungkook couldn’t sit down quietly. How can he sit down when his new born baby brother will be coming back any minute? The 5 year old is eager to see the newborn child and his non-stop “When are they coming back?” has Jimin lay down on the sofa, trying to ease his slight headache.
Jungkook hasn’t seen his mother for about 2 and half weeks now and the last time he visited her in the hospital, her tummy is so big, Jungkook swears that his baby brother might be a monster. He paces around the house, walking to the door and back to sitting on the floor for 5 minutes before walking to the door again.
“Aw, come on, Jungkookie. Why don’t you sit down and play some video games or something? Uncle Jimin is getting headache from watching you,” Jimin sits up and rubs his aching temples.
“Uncle Jimin, aren’t you excited for the little baby? Eomma told me on the phone that little baby is very pretty!” Jungkook hops onto Jimin’s lap. Jimin lies back down and just allow his somehow-unrealistically-strong-for-someone-his-age nephew to destroy his body by moving a lot on his stomach.
‘I swear, Taehyung owes me a week worth of dinner. I love Jungkookie but I’m shit ass tired from dance practice and he had to make me do babysitting,’ Jimin scratches his face, ‘but then again, Jungkookie is cute, I bet the newborn will be cute too.’ He chuckles.
Being excited must be very tired for Jungkook as Jimin found him sleeping on the floor flat on his stomach but woke up immediately when he thought he heard some sound from outside. Jimin carries Jungkook and made him sleep on the sofa.
Just at the moment Jungkook finally closes his eyes after chanting “Fight the sleepiness Jungkook” for who-knows-how-long, the doorbell rings. The excited child shouted for Jimin, who is in the toilet doing his business, to open the door for his parent. Jimin quickly washes his hands and clumsily unlock the door as he was nervous to meet his baby nephew too.
“Appa!” Jungkook hugs his Taehyung’s long legs and received his dad’s habit of ruffling his hair.
“How is my big boy Kookie doing? I hope I’ll hear nothing bad from Jiminie,” Taehyung raises an eyebrow and looks at his best friend Jimin.
“Jungkookie did great. You on the other hand, owe me a week of dinner.”
“Don’t lie to yourself, you love taking care of him. You are the one who self-proclaim to take Jungkook as his nephew. I bet you’ll want the new little one to call you ‘Uncle Jimin’ too. Don’t worry, I’ll make it up to you.”
“Where is Eunri?”
The exact moment Jimin finishes speaking, an unfamiliar whining sound came from the back which had everyone turned their head and focused on the where the sound came from.
“Honey, Jinnie isn’t cooperating with me! I need to remove my shoes, can you please carry him?”
Eunri passes the baby to her husband’s arms carefully to not hurt the newborn child. Taehyung, with the baby in his arms, sits on the floor with his leg crossed. He slightly bounces the still whining baby. When Jungkook was still a baby five years back, he cries a lot. Most nights, Taehyung had to wake up from his sleep and bounce his child back to sleep. He hopes that his youngest son will be that easy to handle too.
Taehyung looks down at his newborn, Kim Seokjin. He was surprised that instead of sleeping soundly, the child is awake with his doe eyes open wide. Taehyung smiles which caused little Jinnie to smile too. This is magic, he thought. He dabs his index fingers to Jinnie’s plump bottom lip, saying ‘ah gu gu’ as if he speaks the baby language. It seems to make Jinnie giggle so he continues what he is doing.
After greeting and having a short conversation with his mother, Jungkook runs to where his father is at. He kneels down and stares at the tiny human in his father’s arms. Little Jinnie had doe eyes, plump lips, rosy cheeks and everyone’s favorite baby scent.
“Appa, what is his name?” Jungkook asks Taehyung while continuing eyeing Jinnie who is now stuffing his fingers into his mouth.
“His name is Seokjin, Kim Seokjin.”
“Jinnie! Uncle Jimin, little baby’s name is Kim Seokjin!” Jungkook shouts to Jimin. Jimin pokes his head from the kitchen. He was helping Eunri as she still isn’t fully able to do much work.
“That’s a nice name! Wait, lemme get these gloves out.” Jimin walks to where his best friend is at.
Jimin sits opposite of Tehyung and gestures him to let him hold the little one. Taehyung passes the child to his best friend’s arms. Immediately, Jimin gawks down at Jinnie.
“He’s really pretty, did you get the gender wrong? Because I’m going to marry her.”
“Can you stop it, Park Jimin? I should hide my children from you now onwards.”
“Chill, I’m just joking. Jinnie is calling me ‘Uncle Jimin’ though.”
Jinnie, with his wet fist, taps Jimin’s chin. Taehyung and Jungkook laughed at Jimin’s misery but he brushed it off. He did not bother wiping off his wet chin.
“It must be because he likes hearing ‘Uncle Jimin’. Uncle Jimin, Uncle Jimin, Uncle Jimin, you like that don’t you, Jinnie? Aw,” Jimin brings Jinnie up and sniffs the baby’s neck. Jinnie giggles and it encouraged Jimin to sniff to have another cute reaction from the baby.
“You see, he likes me.”
Jungkook kept staring at the baby and back at Taehyung. He wants to carry the baby like his dad and uncle too but he is afraid that he’ll hurt his baby brother. He got less excited and had a worried look on his face. Taehyung, a father that bonds with his child mentally and physically, notices and understood his eldest son. Jimin had returned the baby back to him and went back into the kitchen to help out.
“Jungkook, you want to carry Jinnie?”
Jungkook stares at his dad with a slight smile showing. He can hide but Taehyung knows his son is shouting ‘Yes!’ internally. He raises both his eyebrows and Jungkook kept nodding his head. Taehyung orders Jungkook to bring both his arms out and tells him to copy his dad.
Slowly, Taehyung places Jinnie on top of Jungkook’s arms. He doesn’t worry that Jungkook will drop Jinnie, he knows his son has ridiculous strength but for safety, he places his own hands below Jinnie just in case.
Jungkook diligently holds his brother, he isn’t heavy but he can’t hold him long. Thankfully his dad has his hands below the baby. That aside, Jungkook is able to look closely at little Jinnie. He is mesmerized by the squishy cheeks and wishes nothing bad upon his baby brother.
“Appa,” Jungkook pauses.
“Yea big bro?” Taehyung tilts his head, wondering what will come out of his son’s mouth.
“Appa, I’m going to be Jinnie’s hyung. I’m going to be a good hyung and will protect Jinnie.”
If Eunri sees Taehyung man-crying, she’s going to nag him again. He loves his wife but damn, even men can be emotional and cry too! His first child, Jungkook, will start his last year in kindergarten soon and his newborn will be growing soon too. Seeing how his oldest son seems to be protective of his little brother, he is proud of Jungkook. He was sure that if there is an award for being the best big brother, Jungkook would have gotten it. (He was also sure that he’ll get best dad award and Eunri will get best mom award. Maybe the best uncle award will be given to Jimin.)