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"Mommy Haebum!" Jitae squealed excitedly seeing Haebum at the entrance of the house.
"Jitae! I miss you buddy. Have you been a good boy to your parents?" Haebum spread her arms wide open for Jitae, embracing her. "Yes. Daddy bought me a tricycle!" He screamed. "You must have been good to your parents, right Jitae?" Hoseok smiled at him.
"Aren't you going to invite us in, Hoseok?" I smirked.
"You? No, I don't think so." Hoseok said in a serious tone, but his face showed the opposite. Hoseok widened the door enough for us to enter. Truthfully saying, this is the first time I entered Hoseok's new mansion. "Your house is beautiful, Haebum!" my wife said in awed, with her eyes, looking around the house.
"Thank you, Jiyeon. Come, let's bring you guys to the dining area."
We were greeted by laughters, chattering noises from the guests as we stepped into the dining area. The table were set up, beautifully, with all the plates, napkins, flower decorations. I must say, Haebum did a great job for their house.
"Finally, The Kim's are here!" Namjoon clapped his arms in a sarcastic manner, with Lynnia giggling at his side. "You are three minutes, late!" Jungkook stated.
"Hello everyone, I know we were a bit late. It's just that Jiyeon, were having a little cramps from the ice cream we ate in the afternoon, after Jitae's award ceremony."
"Oh, are you alright, Jiyeon? You seem a bit pale?" Lynnia came up to her, patting her back.
"Yeah, I am. Just a stomach bug. Nothing serious." She assured them.
"Well, late is late. You know what to do!" Yoongi said sassily. I took my phone out ignoring them. My brothers took out their phones from their pocket, as they heard a beep from their phone. Smirking at them I said, "Deal is a deal. 100 dollars straight to your account, I'm not owing you guys, anything!" Jiyeon was surprised to hear my statement. "What was that?" Jiyeon's word came out almost inaudible.
"Oh, no worries." Haebum told her. "It's always been that way, among them, 100 dollars were given to the other six, if one was late to their gatherings." Jiyeon nodded involuntarily as Haebum dragged us towards our assigned seats.
"Thank you, Jitae for the wonderful piece!" Hoseok said, as Jitae stood up from the piano seat, and bowed towards his small group of audience. Once he was done bowing, he ran to my seat, as he nuzzled his neck, shy from the compliments he received from his uncle.
"One of the best night we had together!" Seokjin begun. "Exactly, great company, great food, don't forget the wine!" Jungkook said, opening up a bottle of wine and began pouring in the wine glass. All of us had our share of wine, well of course, except Jitae. As we settled down on the couches, Jitae making himself comfortable on my lap, Lynnia next to Namjoon, obviously, Hoseok and Haebum stood up in the middle of the living area.
"Okay. Let's do this." Haebum started, while her eyes were locked with Hoseok. Hoseok nodded, smiling at Haebum, signalling her to start. Reaching for Haebum's hand, Hoseok intertwined their hands, "We, The Jung are expecting with our little sunshine! I am eight weeks pregnant!" Hoseok was grinning ear to ear, resting his hand on Haebum's tummy. "Yes, you are going to be an uncle again! I am going to be dad!"
"Congratulations Hoseok!" I said, raising up my wine glass to Hoseok. Each and everyone of us, raised up to toss our glass celebrating the wonderful news.
Jimin wrapped his arm around Jungkook, as they swayed their bodies side to side, excitedly. "We are going to be an uncle again! Join us Jitae!" Jimin extended his hand to Jitae. Reaching for Jitae's hand, Jimin said, "You are going to have a friend soon!" Jitae screamed to his excitement swaying his little body together with the two.
"You aren't drinking your wine, Jiyeon?" I asked my wife while the others were celebrating. Placing her glass down on the the table, giving a clink sound while in contact on the glass table, making everyone to turn their heads towards us. As if on cue, silence enveloped the living area, immediately. Wiping her palms on her dress, she cleared her throat, and pulled me to stand beside her. All eyes were on us, waiting for Jiyeon to start on her speech.
"I'm sorry to cut of the excitement." She gave out an apologetic smile. "Taehyung, you too, are going to be a dad again." She paused, waiting for my reaction. I was brought out of trance when Hoseok called my name. Seeing Jiyeon almost in tears, I touched her cheeks, asking her the reason for the tears.
"You aren't happy, are you?"
"Silly Taehyung! Your wife is pregnant too!" Seokjin snapped.
"No--", I said "Oh God, I'm sorry. That is not what I meant. I was speechless." I pulled Jiyeon to hug her. Enclosing her in my embrace, I carried and spinned her around. Letting her down, I continued, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was way ahead! I am thinking of spoilling you, my kids, their names. How long have you known?" I asked as I cupped her cheeks.
"Three days ago. I felt a little nauseous so I thought of going through a check up."
"Why didn't you tell me that you were feeling sick? Is that why you kept on craving on eating too much ice cream these days?"
"I'm a doctor remember? And yes, God, it was hard for me to keep this from you!" She grinned. "I knew Haebum was going to announce her pregnancy tonight, and I thought to tell you too, tonight! So surprised!"
"Jitae, you are going to have a little brother or sister too soon!" Jimin yelled enough for his voice to echo inside the living room. Jitae, was covering his ears with his small hands, from Jimin's loud yell.
"Let's celebrate!" Namjoon announced.
"Congratulations Hoseok, Taehyung! Remember our deal before?" Jungkook smirked. Both Hoseok and I looked at each other confused.
"The person who's expecting to have a baby needs to prepare 100 dollars to their uncles, remember? Because uncles are needed someday in their lives, taking care of them, especially when their parents are busy," Jungkook smirked, glaring his eyes towards us, "--busy working, or needed to plow a new seed or something." He shrugged innocently.
Hoseok clapped in amusement. Was he mad or something? "If that's the case, Taehyung is going to be broke again tonight!" He said while his eyes were shooting at Jitae's direction.
Right! My first son! Kim Jitae.
"I don't mind." I shrugged coolly picking up my phone. Minutes later, their phones let out a beep notifying the transactions I made.
"By the way, Seokjin. I just remembered something. Jiyeon's dad mentioned that you are arranged into marriage to a shipping heiress? Is that true?" Seokjin rubbed the back of his neck unable to answer.
"Ah, why asked about me, when the night is about you!" He dismissed me smoothly.
The night ended without us realising it. I carried sleeping Jitae inside the car as we bade our goodbyes to the others. Once we made ourselves comfortable in the car, I took Jiyeon's hand, and kissed her knuckles, with my other hand steering the wheels out from Hoseok's mansion.
"Thank you, my angel!" Jiyeon smiled at me. "Thanks to you too, I could experience the joy of motherhood again, but now, it's with you!" She said softly.
Jitae was sleeping comfortably, as I covered him with his blanket. I went out of the room after making sure, the night lamp were on, and the room temperature were set perfectly. Sauntering my way into the bedroom I saw Jiyeon were standing in front of the dressing mirror, plucking out her hairpins from her hair. Standing behind her, I snuck my arms around her waist, my palms resting on her stomcah, and kissed her neck, inhaling her sweet scent.
"Thank you again, my angel is carrying my little angel. She would be as beautiful as her mom."
"How would you know it's going to be a girl?"
"Paternal instinct?" I kissed her neck again. She turned to face me before encircling my neck in her arms. "You are going to be a great dad, you know that? Besides I think it's going to be a girl too." She winked.
"Really?" She bobbed her head excitedly. "I am craving for strawberries all the time! When I was pregnant for Jitae, last time, I kept on craving for chocolate!"
"I don't mind if it is a girl or a boy, as long my kid here--" I placed my palm on her stomach, "-- is healthy, with chubby legs, arms, cheeks." I pressed my lips against hers.
Our moment were cut off, as the house were echoed by the door bell ringing. Looking at Jiyeon, I raised my eyes, curious of the guest coming at this time around. Jiyeon shrugged, and both of us walked to the main door of the house.
Peeling the door of from it's frame, we were greeted by two man. Jiyeon gawked in surprise seeing the two of them.
"Grandfather, cousin, what are you doing here at this time around?"
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