"Then you're very special, aren't you? Such a sweet boy too. I'm glad I got to meet you, I heard a lot about you. Hobi and Ten told me you were so smart." Namjoon pulled out his phone, checking museum opening times as Tae drew and sending Yoongi texts about it and also little love notes. Okay. Like four little love notes that turned into an essay but it was hard not to.
"Uh-huh." Tae nodded his head. Then he frowned. "Can we snack?" He wanted to. Snacks were fun. He loved being fed! Like Yoongi's eomma did and also Jiho did it and Namjoon and even Yoongi and also Jiminie did it in kindergarten. it was the best. "Hyung, how did you meet Yoongi-hyung?" He was curious. "Cause my hyung has met Jin-hyung and he will marry him later, cause they are meant to be."
It had been decided. "Did you meet him in school too?"
"Kinda. I was a teacher and he just started to play music. We started hanging out cause we liked the same music and we had some students in common." Namjoon explained as he got up to get some snacks out. Luckily Yoongi left some kimbap behind for them to eat. He came over and slowly, he set the plate down and held one out for Tae.
"We didn't know each other that long, maybe a year now? We've been very close ever since though. He's my best friend and my boyfriend." Losing him would be awful. Not just losing a boyfriend but someone he genuinely liked and admired.
"Uh-huh. I only know Jiminie since we started school, but I would die without him!" And he was a bit overly dramatic, but what else was new? Tae ate the kimbap that was held out and chewed happily, in spite of his statement just now. "But I think Yoongi is a good boyfriend, so you picked well." He nodded his approval.
"You are cute too, cause you can talk without saying anything. Do you know magic?"
Huh. What? Namjoon frowned and looked at Tae, wondering what he meant. "How do I talk without saying?" He was kind of curious because Tae said a lot of weird stuff but he never knew what he was getting at. He picked up his kimbap and took a big bite, wondering if he could convince Yoongi to make him a batch every day. Especially since now they were official and all.
"Like... You look at him and then he answers, like you asked a question? Or you stop saying something in the middle and he just... He knows?" It was weird! But cool. Tae really liked it. "I think you two can read thoughts! Can you read my thoughts too or only Yoongi-hyung's?"
Tae was curious, so he looked at Namjoon and waited to be wowed. "Is that the magic?!"
"No, it's just ... when you meet someone and they're your soulmate, you sort of understand them perfectly in a way you don't always understand other people. Yoongi knows what I'm thinking cause we're meant to be." Namjoon explained, smiling a little. "It's love magic, very hard to do with anyone else but your true love. I can't read your mind."
Though reading minds would be an awesome power. Or a terrible one. Depends what he'd hear. "You'll get it one day when you meet your true love."
"Uh-huh." Tae could believe that. "I know Jiminie's thoughts a lot, but that's cause usually he thinks that I'm being a cute baby and sometimes he is angry cause things go wrong." He knew his little friend very well by now.
"Can I be there when you and Yoongi-hyung get married? Cause you are like my appas now." So he would have to be there! "There should be flowers... I think you should have a yellow flower and Yoongi-hyung..." Huh. "Are there black flowers?"
"Of course you'll be there. If we're your appas then you have to be there. It's not a wedding without you and Jiho, is it? It's just... blergh." Namjoon pulled a face and then leaned over, curiously looking at how much Tae had drawn so far. For his age, he was actually really good. Ten was on to something, he was a little artist. "I think we would forgo flowers, neither of us is a flower sort of guy. Maybe petals. Then you can throw them down the aisle."
Kids loved to do stuff like that. "But we won't get married for a while yet. We only just became official boyfriends."
"Yeah, but Yoongi-hyung's eomma told him to not let you get away and that means you'll be married." Cause boys always had to listen to their eommas, he knew that. Tae adjusted his eevee plushy a little so he could get a better look of the tail. He really hoped his drawing would look a little cool too.
"Did you have other boyfriends first, Joonie-hyung? How did you know they weren't your true love?"
"I had one boyfriend but he always told me to dress different and be different. He didn't love me for who I am and I was just looking for someone who wanted me, not someone who loved me. Now I know I should look for love." He had just escape his dad and he was looking for easy validation - he got that from Seohyun at least. He just wished he'd had a better boyfriend like Yoongi then.
"You know you have true love when they love you and you love them and there's no doubt."
"And you have no doubt with Yoongi-hyung? Never ever?" Tae was asking innocently, just really curious. "It's like in the dramas, is it? Like... Does the music happen and the cool petals and all that when you look at him?" It was what he knew about love, there was no reason not to take it as fact.
"I bet it's like that for Yoongi-hyung, cause you are really handsome!"
"... I mean yeah, basically. I had doubts but my doubts are all gone these days. I have the best hyung and I'm happy he wants to be with me. And he does look really hot." Just saying. Ten was right when he said he had big dick energy cause he really did. Hot, confident badass... who was a soft, shy little noodle sometimes but, well, people were complex.
"It is?" Tae sat up properly and giggled, reaching for eevee so it could have a look as well. "Did I draw you well, eevee? I can't colour in yet, but I made the lines!"
And, well. It was recognisable as an eevee, so for a five year old, that was saying something. "I wanna draw ALL pokemon." He had no idea how many there were, but since he was also the boy who wanted to know everything, volume didn't intimidate him.
"All of them? Woah. So impressive. This picture is special though. Can you sign it like an artist does? Sign the bottom of it so when I hang it up, people know it's yours. That's what artists do." Namjoon was going to put this on the fridge. It was so cute. A tiny boy made him a cool little picture of a pokemon.
This was the dream of parenting. "I wish I could draw like you. Man, your appa missed out when he didn't get to see your drawings, didn't he? Silly, mean appa."
Tae was blushing, but he signed where Namjoon told him to and then smiled happily, hugging himself - although he was gentle about it. He didn't want to hurt again! "When I was at Jiminie's, we drewed some and it was really cool, cause Jiminie had some glitter pens! And then my fingers were a little glittery after I got home. Appa threw me against the wall and it hurt and I thought I would die and see my eomma, but when I couldn't sleep I looked at my fingers and they were all glittery and it made me really happy!"
A big story to tell and Tae almost ran out of breath, so he stopped talking to gasp for air, laughing a little.
That was such a sad story. Dear God. Namjoon leaned over and hugged Tae, holding him gently but firmly, feeling horrible about what he'd just heard. He knew it but it still hurt. "I'll get you some glitter pens. Then you can draw me some shiny pokemon, yeah? We'll go out and get some when you're feeling up to it." He kissed the top of Tae's head and then picked up his drawing.
"Come on, let's go find the perfect place to hang this up. I want everyone to see it. Where do you think is best for that?"
"Err... The toilet." Tae giggled, because he had said toilet. Mostly he was in awe of the kiss he had gotten, feeling so much better for it. It really was like an eomma kiss! He covered his forehead with one hand to keep the kiss there a bit longer, but he also got up to follow Namjoon, taking eevee with him. "Joonie-appa?"
He wanted to try it out. Saying appa to a nice person. "Are we really all here yet? And no one can make it so I can't be with hyung? Cause hyung said it would happen if people find out about our appa being mean."
"No, we stepped in and made sure it'd never happen. I want you and Jiho to stay together forward, yeah? That's what brothers do. I won't let them pull you apart, okay?" He gently petted the boy's head as he stopped in the kitchen and started putting magnets on the paper so it was all hung up. "We'll leave this here so everyone will see it and then when you do a new one, it can go here and I'll frame this one."
Maybe he'd hang it in his bedroom. He crouched down and looked at Tae, meeting his eyes. "I'll take care of you and Jiho, yeah? You just have to relax and trust me and Yoongi. We'll do the best we can for you. Always." He held out his pinky for Tae. "Pinky promise."
Tae took the pinky and smiled. Him and Jimin always did that, so it made him smile. And it also made him think of Jimin. "Hyung... Can I maybe draw something and then Jiho or you or Yoongi-hyung can bring it to Jiminie? Only cause I don't have a phone, so I can't text him and I don't want him to find a new best friend and when I come back to kindergarten he will have forgotten all about me! And he will be so mad cause I won't be allowed to dance."
Suddenly there was a lot of tragedy and Tae's lower lip trembled a little.
"I'm sure Jiminie will wait for you and we can sit together and watch Jiminie dance after school. Don't get upset, it's okay. He's your best friend, yeah? Bestest best friend? Well, those don't change. Jiminie won't forget you." He smiled at him, such a soft boy, he really didn't want to see him cry. He leaned forward to brush his hair from his face - Tae really needed a haircut.
But his floppy hair was cute. "Draw something really nice for Jiminie and give me a message and I'll pass both on. Promise."
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"Let me know if you want a snack or anything."
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It had been decided. "Did you meet him in school too?"
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"We didn't know each other that long, maybe a year now? We've been very close ever since though. He's my best friend and my boyfriend." Losing him would be awful. Not just losing a boyfriend but someone he genuinely liked and admired.
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"You are cute too, cause you can talk without saying anything. Do you know magic?"
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"I mighhhhht know magic but that's a secret."
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Tae was curious, so he looked at Namjoon and waited to be wowed. "Is that the magic?!"
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Though reading minds would be an awesome power. Or a terrible one. Depends what he'd hear. "You'll get it one day when you meet your true love."
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"Can I be there when you and Yoongi-hyung get married? Cause you are like my appas now." So he would have to be there! "There should be flowers... I think you should have a yellow flower and Yoongi-hyung..." Huh. "Are there black flowers?"
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Kids loved to do stuff like that. "But we won't get married for a while yet. We only just became official boyfriends."
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"Did you have other boyfriends first, Joonie-hyung? How did you know they weren't your true love?"
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"You know you have true love when they love you and you love them and there's no doubt."
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"I bet it's like that for Yoongi-hyung, cause you are really handsome!"
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"Woooooah, TaeTae, your drawing is amazing!"
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And, well. It was recognisable as an eevee, so for a five year old, that was saying something. "I wanna draw ALL pokemon." He had no idea how many there were, but since he was also the boy who wanted to know everything, volume didn't intimidate him.
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This was the dream of parenting. "I wish I could draw like you. Man, your appa missed out when he didn't get to see your drawings, didn't he? Silly, mean appa."
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A big story to tell and Tae almost ran out of breath, so he stopped talking to gasp for air, laughing a little.
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"Come on, let's go find the perfect place to hang this up. I want everyone to see it. Where do you think is best for that?"
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He wanted to try it out. Saying appa to a nice person. "Are we really all here yet? And no one can make it so I can't be with hyung? Cause hyung said it would happen if people find out about our appa being mean."
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Maybe he'd hang it in his bedroom. He crouched down and looked at Tae, meeting his eyes. "I'll take care of you and Jiho, yeah? You just have to relax and trust me and Yoongi. We'll do the best we can for you. Always." He held out his pinky for Tae. "Pinky promise."
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Suddenly there was a lot of tragedy and Tae's lower lip trembled a little.
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But his floppy hair was cute. "Draw something really nice for Jiminie and give me a message and I'll pass both on. Promise."