Jungkook is relieved when he sees his toddler of a roommate on the sidewalk near the beach.

            Then Jungkook is confused to see a literal toddler holding onto to Taehyung’s hand, much larger in his own.

            The pair are swinging their arms playfully. Jungkook is having a difficult time figuring out which boy has the more childish giggle. He quickens his pace to catch up with them, extending an arm to tap Taehyung’s shoulder, “Taehyung?”

            Taehyung turns and beams, eyes now crescents, “Hi Jungkook!”

            “Uh,” Jungkook’s eyes dart between the two boys, “Hey. So, who’s this?”

            “His name is Joshua, he’s four,” Taehyung introduces. Okay so that explains nothing.

            “Four and three quarters,” Joshua retorts. At least, that’s what Jungkook thought he said. Damn you, language barrier.

            “Oh, I’m sorry, sir,” Taehyung begins to shake their clasped hands, making Joshua’s shoulders shimmy involuntarily. Joshua giggles at the sensation, trying and failing and trying again to get his shoulders to stay still.

            Jungkook cracks a smile at how cute it is before he remembers what’s wrong with this picture, “Taehyung, how do you know Joshua?”

            “I don’t,” Taehyung responds simply.

            Jungkook blinks at him a few times. Then he asks, in a lower voice, “Taehyung… are you kidnapping Joshua?”

            Taehyung bursts out laughing at that, “No, silly! Just the opposite, actually.”

            Miraculously, Jungkook is somehow even more lost now, “The….opposite?”

            “I’m helping him find his mom. Joshua got lost, I lent him my phone to call mom. We’re heading over to meet her, by the pier,” Taehyung explains.

            “Is that how your phone died?”

            Taehyung flushes, “Well, actually, Joshua really liked playing the games on my phone. It was calming him down, so I let him. He actually beat your high score.”

            “Wow, that’s great,” Jungkook’s voice cracks with the lie and he quickly clears his throat, “He’s so smart.” And I’m going to step on him-which wasn’t entirely a threat; Joshua was only barely taller than Jungkook’s knees, and he had to be extremely careful not to bump the kid or anything. Keep it nice and legal, we are in a foreign country.

            “He is so smart,” Taehyung coos. Then, much to Jungkook’s gratitude, he lifts Joshua, gently tossing him up and down a few times before settling him on his shoulders.

            “We are totally going to ing hell for this,” Jungkook acknowledges softly.

            “Language, Jungkook,” Taehyung hisses, elbowing Jungkook in the ribs with a chuckle.

            “Oh, oh, I’m sorry. We are totally going to ing heck for this,” Jungkook corrects mockingly. Taehyung laughs.

            Joshua’s big, dark eyes suddenly widen, and he leans forward to yell whisper in Taehyung’s ear, small hands cupped around it, “Is this that cupcake guy?”

            “Tsk, tsk. This is him, but his name is Kookie. Wrong food,” Taehyung trails his fingers along Joshua’s calf in a mild tickling punishment. Joshua immediately giggles and squirms away.

            “How does he know my name?” Jungkook interrupts the tender moment.

            Taehyung flushes, “Uh, well I kept calling your name when I first got lost. I was looking for you. I found Joshua instead.”

            Jungkook’s eyebrows draw together, “Did you know that I was looking for you?”

            Taehyung snorts, and protectively tightens his grip on Joshua’s legs as they duck under some low branches, “Dude, I’m not a mind reader. How would I know that?”

            “So then,” Jungkook pauses in thought, “It was just your first instinct to look for me?”

            Taehyung looks to him, expression blank with the simplicity of stating a fact. “Of course it was,” he says, so easily, like it’s the most obvious thing in the world.

            Jungkook suddenly has a very warm sensation spreading all over. He has to break eye contact with Taehyung before he does something stupid, like blush, and they continue on for a bit. The only voice to be heard was Joshua, softly singing a song that seemed to be about an extremely noisy bus.

            “Oh, my shoe is untied. Yah, hold him for a bit while I fix it,” Taehyung is already easing Joshua from his shoulders before Jungkook is completely aware of what’s happening.

            “Oh wait no you can’t! I’m really not good-“ but then Joshua is grabbing onto his shoulders, beginning to slip downwards, and Jungkook grabs him before he falls. He shuts himself up. He no longer sees the point in telling Taehyung that he’s not good with kids if he is currently with a kid.

            Taehyung is crouched down handling this alleged “””””“untied shoe”””””” (this is bull and absolutely sabotage; he planned this) when Joshua begins to get cuddly. He starts off with trying to hug Jungkook’s shoulder, but Jungkook merely holds Joshua away at arms’ length and the enemy poor toddler is helpless. But then Joshua begins pinching and playing with Jungkook’s cheeks. Jungkook can’t swat him away; because his arms are kind of busy protecting Joshua from certain doom. He closes his eyes in defeat, taking deep breaths.

            His eyes fly open real quick when he hears Taehyung laughing at him though. That’s the last straw. “Oh, well now that you’re done with your shoe.” He hands Joshua over to Taehyung and continues walking. Joshua and Taehyung trail behind, holding hands again.

            “Mom!” Joshua screams after another block. He drops Taehyung’s hand and sprints to a short woman in jeans and a purple sweater, immediately throwing his hands around her knees. She tries to remove him to give him a proper hug, but he won’t budge and she settles for kissing the crown of his head repeatedly. For a second, Jungkook thinks he sees her crying.

           Jungkook fades into the background. As soon as the lovefest is over, the woman is speaking rapidly to Taehyung. Taehyung responds to her praise in shakey English. His accent is strong, and he keeps stuttering. Jungkook glares at the ground, stupid Taehyung, sounding ing adorable and , as if I need this right now. The woman finally finishes. She gives Taehyung a long hug. Joshua hugs him too for an even longer time. His mom has to gently pull him away, before she rests Joshua on her hip, waves to Taehyung one last time, and leaves.

           Taehyung is smiling when he comes back to Jungkook. Jungkook isn’t. “Why didn’t you try to come back to the hotel?”

           “Joshua needed my help,” Taehyung answers slowly, as if it might be a trick question.

           “Somebody else could have helped him,” Jungkook says curtly.

           “And somebody else also could have helped me,” Taehyung responds.

           “But what if you got hurt?” Jungkook’s voice is rising toward a shout.

           “And what if Joshua got hurt?” Taehyung’s voice remains low in concern, “If anything had happened to him I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself.”

           “AND IF ANYTHING HAD HAPPENED TO YOU, THEN I WOULDN’T-“ Jungkook stops abruptly, “Nevermind.” He finishes lamely. He shakes his head, and begins walking away.

           “Jungkook!” Taehyung’s hand is gentle as it rests on Jungkook’s shoulder, “Were you… actually… worried about me?”

           Jungkook turns to see shock in Taehyung’s eyes. It makes him feel terribly mixed up inside to know that surprise was Taehyung’s reaction to Jungkook showing some form of care for him. He desperately wants out of this situation, “No.”

           Taehyung’s gaze drops, “Oh, I see.”

           Jungkook now feels even ing worse, “Wait, no-I mean, yeah I did. Not that I didn’t, I mean I just-ing I can’t,” Jungkook pauses to collect his words. He can feel the logic of his sentence completely deteriorating, “Nevermind, I’m ing tired.”

           “Are you okay?” The concern returns to Taehyung’s features and Jungkook really hates this whole guilt bull.

           “Yeah, don’t worry,” he pulls at Taehyung’s sleeve to make him follow him, “Let’s head back to the hotel, I’m too tired for this right now.”

            Taehyung smiles, “Are you a bicycle?”

            Jungkook’s only response was to squint at Taehyung like he maybe imagined what was just said.

            “Get it? Cause you’re two tired!” Taehyung’s smirk explodes to his loud laugh. He throws his head back. A small breeze tousles his hair a bit beneath the darkening sky.

            Jungkook rolls his eyes at the ty joke. Then, he cracks a small smile.

Author's Note: tbh, this was me @ the whole chapter:

 someone wanted fluff, so I tried to add some, and this got so gay so quick

lol but hello my babiesssss~~~ ^^ I hope you're all doing well, and that you enjoyed the fluffstorm ery that was this chapter. I wanted to include a scene with Taehyung interracting with a baby cauSE I MEAN HAVE YOU SEEN HOW FRIGGIN PRECIOUS IT IS ???? CAUSE IF YOU HAVEN'T I GOTCHU RIGHT NOW

 WHICH ONE IS THE BABY ????? *gesturing furiously* the smiles UGH...... no comment *wiping tears away*

So yeah that's that,  I feel like I don't have to explain myself on that any furthur LOL. Please subscribe for more, and comment to let me know your thoughts on the chapter or the plot OR on seventeen's alleged new comeback cause I saw the teaser images of these ANGELS and I'm already nope-ing so hard 

 NOPE NOPE NYOOOOOPE. I got more denial than bambam has dabs HAH

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