Group: GOT7

Member: Jaebum

Theme: Fluff// ”아빠!”

Length: short/drabble/novella/long/novel

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Sounds of a baby crying woke Jaebum up from his deep slumber. As he was about to call you to get up, he remembered that you weren’t home. Instead, you would be out all day with some friends. He rolled over in bed and slowly rose. Briefly looking around, he glanced at the time on the clock. 8:01.

After rubbing his eyes, he called out to his daughter, “네, 아빠 왔어.” He walked over to her crib and cradled her in his arms. Jaebum slowly rocked her back and forth to calm her. She finally calmed down while looking at her father’s face. She grabbed his nose and laughed. [Yes, dad is here.]

“Hey, your nose is just like mine so I don’t think you should be laughing,” he smiled, using one hand to squeeze her nose twice. She gave her dad another wide grin, drooling a bit.

“Let’s go get some breakfast, hm? 가자!” Since you two spoke different languages, Jaebum thought it would be a good idea to have your baby taught bilingual growing up. She hasn’t said anything in either language, but it looked like she was trying to. [Let’s go!]

When he arrived in the kitchen, Jaebum put his little girl in a baby chair, in order to prepare breakfast for the both of them. Her meal was already done in a jar, mashed apples and pears. On the other hand, Jaebum had to think of what to make for himself. Waffles don’t sound too bad.

As the waffles finished, he put one of his favorite spreads and sat down next to his baby.

“Look! 아빠 made waffles! Now 아빠 will sit next to his princess,” he spoke in a baby tone. He opened the jar of mashed apples and pears, put the baby spoon in, and tried to put it in . Tried to.

She didn’t like the spoon coming her way and nearly flung the food on the floor. Luckily, Jaebum had a feeling she’d try to do that and moved the spoon away just in time.

“Hehe, you thought you could fool 아빠? I don’t think so little one, maybe next time.”

This time when trying to get her to eat, he made airplane sounds and moved the spoon around. She laughed while trying to follow the spoon, and that’s when he made his attack.

Thankfully, she swallowed the food instead of spitting it back out. She then pounded her hands on the table of her baby chair and laughed some more. Between her swallows, Jaebum took some bites of his own food.

“Soon, when you can chew, 아빠 will make you delicious waffles too!”

When they both finished their food, Jaebum left her in the seat and went to the sink to wash the dishes inside. When he was away, she wriggled her body, about to start crying.

“야아아아아,” he complained, “아빠 is right here!” He finished up the last dish and wiped his hands dry quickly. He took her out of the baby seat and carried her to the couch with him. Since it was still morning, a lot of kids’ shows were on. He left the channel on one of her favorite shows. She sat quietly on her dad’s lap, watching the show and playing with his fingers. [Yaaaaaa!]

Sometime in the middle, she got bored and started crawling around. Jaebum was half watching her and half watching his phone. When she crawled to the end of the couch, she turned around and saw her dad. Naturally, she quickly made her way to him. He saw that she was coming and put his phone down so he could hold his arms out.

“Come on! Come on baby, you can do it!” As she got close enough to him, he picked her up and smothered her with kisses.

“좋아!, come to 아빠.” [Right, come to dad!]

His phone rang to remind him of something. He quickly looked down at it to see the notification. Ah, I almost forgot. Gotta do the laundry today.

He stood up with the baby in his arms and said, “Come on, 아빠 has to go do laundry.” He picked up a few toys from the living room and carried her to the laundry room. Right next to the door was her walker chair, which she liked to explore everywhere with. He put her down in it and gave her the toys he grabbed. While she was playing, he gathered all the dirty laundry, separated the whites, and put it in the machine. It didn’t take him to do it, and it was a good thing too. His little baby started crying again.

“Ahh, 내 애기, 왜그래? Are you sleepy? Or…” he turned her around and sniffed her. Ah, I see. [My baby, why are you like this?]

“Looks like 아빠 has to clean you up,” he blew into her stomach, making a fart noise.

“Ewie! Eeewww! Was that you? Baby, was that you?” She stopped crying and grabbed his nose again, giggling at his noises. As he crinkled his nose, she let go.

While changing her diaper, Jaebum kept talking to her and she would coo, “Ahhhhh,” in reply to him. When he finished, he made more noises to her and her smile stayed.

The house phone rang. You called to check on how they were doing. When your husband said all was good, you were surprised! You complimented him and let him know you would come home soon and with food. When he hung up, he returned back to his baby girl.

“Let’s go play and 엄마 will come home for lunch, okay?”

“Ahhhh,” she replied again. He picked her up and carried her back to the living room, where most of the toys were. He gently layed her down on the floor and he sat right

next to her. Immediately she crawled towards dad and grabbed his fingers. When he layed down to her eye level, she once again grabbed his nose.

“Maybe you like it so much because you have it too, right?” he asked rhetorically.

“Ahhhh,” she started.

“Pa. 나는 아빠. I am 아빠,” he stated.

“Ba,” she copied. He almost screamed with excitement with that fact that she said two syllables, but he didn’t want to scare her and mess up the progress.Now she just has to put them together…

“Ah,”

“Ah,” she followed.

“Pa,”

“Ba!”

“아랐어! Now all together, Ah-pa.” [Okay!]

“Ahhhh,” he waited anxiously, “Ba!” He smiled excitedly and clapped. She continued repeating her first word.

“Ahh-ba, ah-ba, ah-ba!” She squeezed his nose again.

“네, 아빠 왔어!” He pinched her cheeks as she let go of his nose and went to get his phone. [Yes, dad is here!]

It rang only two times before you picked up, and you were on line to get lunch.

“Hey Jae, are you doing alright?”

“Y/N! SHE JUST SAID 아빠! WELL KIND OF, BUT IT’S THE SAME THING!” he yelled into the speaker. You were about to tell him to not scream, until you realized what he said.

“I’ll see you in a few minutes!” you quickly hung up. Of course you could hear her through the phone, but it’s not the same.

You drove home as fast as legally possible, but it still felt like too long. When you arrived home and opened the front door, Jaebum was still on the floor with your baby. When she saw you, she began to laugh even more. You put the food down on the kitchen table and went over to the floor with Jaebum and the baby.

“Watch this,” he whispered to you, “Who am I?”

“Ah-ba!” she answered. You smiled so wide that it almost hurt. You hugged and kissed her and she pulled on your hair.

“Wow, I can’t believe it. She said her first word! You’re really good with her, Jaebum.”

“Next is 엄마, right?”

“Well yeah,” you raised an eyebrow at him.

“It happened so quick, I feel like just yesterday I brought her home…soon she’ll walk and

be potty trained and write…” you continued.

“Slow down, Y/N, we still have a lot more time.”

“Yeah, you’re right. So how does lunch sound? I got burgers-

"NICE! Let’s go eat 애기!” [Baby!]

“Ah-ba!”