Chapter 24

I knocked on the door a couple of times, until I could faintly hear the footsteps hurrying down to open the door.

"Oh Jungkook-ah?" It was Tae hyungs Mom. She looked surprised to see me

"Hello Aunty. Are you okay if I come in?"

"I- " she looked back with a look of despair. I could hear faint footsteps making their way to us, as she gave me another apologetic look. The 'I don't know what's gonna happen but I am sorry' look.

"Uncle hi." I said shyly as his dad finally made way towards the door, "I wanted to catch you both before you left today. I am sorry if I am early, I know you guys are used to getting up early. Can I please talk to you? I know you must hate me, I just -"

"Hate? Now why would I hate you Jungkook?" his voice was stern, almost monotone. I couldn't sense any kind of emotions, which was unusual for Uncle, who was always bright.

"I am sorry, Uncle. I wanted to say that."

"For what?"

"I - " I looked around making sure no one was around the hotel hallway as I was getting ready to profess my love to his son yet again.

"Come in son." he moved away from the door. Aunty already making her way inside now, looking a little happier, but still apologetic. He sat down on the bed motioning me to sit on the chair in front of him.

"Now what were you saying?"

"I am sorry. I know it's a shameful thing. I know you probably were dreaming really big for Tae hyung, and I probably ruined all that. I wanted to apologize for that."

"Yes." was all he said

"Yes?" I was taken aback. I was hoping to somehow reverse psychology my way into all of this. I am not good with my words like Taehyung was.

I never got a chance to ask him or my mother what exactly he said to change her mind. If anything I wished I asked Joon hyung for any kind of advice before coming here. He's so good at adulting and talking to adults. I don't know what I was thinking coming here because this man just agreed with everything I said

"Oh... you think it's shameful too. I know it is. I promise Uncle and Aunty, I know it's different for you guys, but not to us. I know it's crazy and we seem like two crazy people who dare to say we are in the love, but it's our normal. Is it so hard to make it your normal too? For your son? For your sake we will be quiet, no one even has to know. I promise we will live quietly and... and"

"Son, that's enough." he abruptly stopped me, "I thought about this a lot and Sohyung and I talked about this too." he looked at his wife and smiled, "We are old fashioned and all, but you make sense to us Jungkook. You with our Taehyungie finally makes sense to us. It'll be hard getting used to it, it'll be terrifying seeing other people judge you two. That's what scares me the most. But we will get better at it."

"I know Uncle. It used to scare me too. These days as long as we know the people that loves us supports us, we will be okay. We won't let anyone bring us down."

"Mhm." he nodded, "How serious is this? Not some college relationship I assume if you wanted to tell your parents."

"No sir. We are both serious about it. I would like to marry him someday... I mean that is if you'd allow me."

"Would your Dad allow you?" he asked again in his same expressionless voice

"No.... sir he wouldn't." I begin to slowly look down again, I knew where this was going

"I know he wouldn't. He called me yesterday night to yell at me about the bastard son I raised." same mono toned voice

"Uncle, I am so sorry! I didn't know he would do that." I felt so ashamed

"Oh don't worry about that. He said something that stood out to me. He asked me what kind of poison my son gave you to make you so head over heels over him. I didn't reply to anything else he was accusing my son of but patiently listened, until then. I knew what made everyone love my son, it's how he loved them. If you were so head over heels for him, I couldn't even imagine how much he loved you."

I could hear Aunty sniffle behind us. I couldn't help but tear up upon hearing that. He was absolutely right. He finally smiled.

"So I told him, he gave him love. Which is something you could never do Junghoon. Before he could curse me out I hung up on the bastard, I mean I may not be rich but I am not that nice."

I let a giggle escape over my tears

"So I won't stand in the way of my sons happiness. God knows I wished for him to finally be happy all this time. And Jungkook, it is alright with me, the marriage thing. I should mention that he told us many times that he only passed all his classes because of you."

I nodded smiling. "That's probably true."

I heard a giggle coming from aunty, so I finally turned around to meet her eye as she looked back at me with love. "And all the stories about Jungkook this and Jungkook that, I should have seen this coming." she giggled

"I had no idea you would react this way. Thank you both so much. And thank you for raising such an amazing son."

"I wasn't going to react this way. Until I heard what your dad said Jungkook. I came back to the hotel thinking I am going to have a heart attack or something. I felt stuffy and sick, I felt so embarassed and ashamed. I was shocked and confused. I am sorry for feeling like that. I am just really proud of you both for having the bravery to stand your ground."

"Please please say this to your son. He's been really down about it since you both left. He loves his parents so very much."

"I am ashamed to face him. I walked away yesterday, it was cowardly of me."

"I told him Tae wouldn't care about that. You tell him Jungkookie!" his mom nudged me pointing her chin toward uncle

"Oh uncle, he really wouldn't." I wiped my nose on the sleeve of my shirt, "Really. I know he just wants to see you before you leave."

Uncle didn't say anything but nod.

"We're having dinner with the hyungs at about 5, oh please uncle please do come. And don't leave today. We move into our new place tomorrow, you can see us off?"

He smiled, so big that you could see the wrinkles forming around his eyes.

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"Hey love where did you go?"

I gave up on slowly closing the door and decided to shut it normally, trying to act casual at the fact that I wasn't trying to sneak in.

I smiled at the boy standing in front of me. Where did he come from and how did I not hear him. "Oh you know, went for a run!"

"In your sandals? Why is your nose red? Trying to look like a bunny?" his head was turned sideways at his sarcastic joke

"No I was just getting some air and allergies...."

"You're not good at lying. Where did you really go?"

"Oh!" I walked with my head down. I need to be better at lying but it's kinda impossible to lie to someone that knows you front and back. "Went to see your parents! I am sorry I didn't tell you."

His expression remained unchanged, "Yeah you were gone for like an hour. I figured that was why. Why did you do that Kook?"

"You were awake? But I thought you were knocked out!"

"Well I didn't feel your warmth anymore so I woke up."

"Aw my warmth..." I smiled looking shy

"Stop that... not time for that!"

"But that's cute baby!"

"Kook back to why you went!"

"Oh right! To make it right. Your parents are way more understanding than mine, I knew that for a fact. And I was right. Your dad didn't know how to face you Hyung. He totally grabbed me and hugged me before I left too. He's so sweet Hyung."

"Really? He's not mad?" his face eased up

"No, he loves you too much. He is more worried about others judging you, but face it we were worried about that too. I mean still are."

"Yeah... thank you for going love. I appreciate that."

"Aw come here so you can feel my warmth."

"You're just never gonna let that go now are you?" he smiled making his way over

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"So he really just walked out Kook?" Hobi hyung was shocked.

We were all sitting around the table now, waiting on Tae's parents to come. The hyungs came early because they were nosy and wanted to find out what all went on yesterday. They looked like they were ready for bad news, but were surprised his parents were coming to dinner.

"Yeah but that was a given. I was ready for all of that with him hyung. Besides Mom texted me that they left this morning." I was too chill about all of this which shocked all the hyungs. They were here and ready to see depressed Kook. I mean the table was filled with food that I enjoy because they thought food would make me feel better.

"So you're really okay?" Yoongi hyung asked "You promise?"

"Yeah! Besides my Mom's super supportive and Taehyungs parents are coming right now and once they see him they're gonna be supportive too."

"But Kook, it's okay to be sad. I mean you guys are like on your own now." Jimin hyung put his arm around me sitting down

"I'd prefer that. I wanted to be you know... free. I feel free now, I am okay being on our own. Right babe?" I looked at the boy sitting in front of me, smiling as he watched me rant on

"Well I am so proud of you guys!" Joon hyung begin, " Not only for doing this on your own but being so brave and coming clean to your parents about it. Lets raise a glass to our free couple, come on everyone."

"Cheers" were screamed all around the room, in different pitches and tone, full of life and happiness.

I smiled, I was happy.

There was a knock on the door.

"That's probably uncle and aunty now. I will get it." I volunteered getting up, "Hey, it'll be okay babe!" I said to him as I watched him breathing a little heavy, looking visibly nervous.

I rushed to the door as I didn't want to have them waiting any longer, a big smile ready to greet them. I felt a bit nervous as well. Nothing compared to what I felt this morning, nervous regardless

"Hey Uncle, hey Aunty. Come in we were waiting on you." I moved away from the door leaving enough space for both of them to come in. Uncle looked similar to his son, visibly nervous, as he was making his way in. "It's okay Uncle." I said quieter, "It'll all be okay." I assured him

He nodded giving me a slight smile as he made his way in. Aunty gave me a hug as she usually did when she first saw me. I know that's one thing she forgot to do this morning.

I took a deep breath in as I watched both of them walk in. I closed the door, and quickly followed them as I needed to be there for him. I knew he was having a hard time with this. I stood behind uncle as I watched all the hyungs stand up to greet them both. They all quickly moved back in our already small dorm room as they waited on Tae to go to his father.

Except he didn't. He stood there staring at them both of them. I knew what he was doing - he was waiting to be called.

"Come here my baby!" his mom exclaimed pushing past his dad.

This came as a shock to me. She always let Uncle be the one that spoke first, and be the one that made all the decisions. When it came to how fast he made up his mind about Tae - I knew Aunty was the main reason for it. She always lets him be the main character in their family but she knew how to not hold back and step up when it came to Taehyung.

Tae didn't waste any time running to his mother. He ran and hugged her almost aggressively causing her to stumble back a couple of steps. There was crying, a lot, that I wasn't expecting. I felt like they should be alone for this. Maybe I didn't think this through telling them to come when all the hyungs were here. Then I looked at the hyungs and all of them were teary eyed. Especially Yoongi hyung, who didn't really show much emotions, until it came to stuff like this. I saw him being hugged by Jin and Jimin hyung which was cute to see. I didn't realize I too was crying until I felt my vision being blurred by my tears. I looked at Uncle, to see how he was reacting. He too was tearing up - trying his best not to cry.

He lifted his head up;  face red, nose stuffy, eyes full of tears. His mom pushed his hair past his face to get a good look at him. "We're sorry for walking away yesterday. We didn't want to say anything to hurt you without thinking. It was selfish of us to walk out on you when you were talking about such an important topic in your life. Mom's sorry about that."

He nodded his head no. He couldn't quiet find the words to say or he was crying too much that he couldn't speak.

"Dad's sorry too." we heard his soft voice finally speak up, "Dad's sorry for being a coward. One day I won't worry too much about what society tells me. I will work on it. I am proud of you son, proud that you stayed true to yourself, proud that you found such a good boy to take care of you so I don't have to worry anymore." his dad sheepishly smiled. "Come here!" he held his arm out to hold Tae in, and he didn't even have to think twice about it as he quickly stumbled into his dads embrace.

"Dad's sorry!" I heard him murmur against Tae hyungs ear, who was crier even harder and louder now. His whole body was shaking. I couldn't help but smile. Yesterday he cried out of devastation, he felt absolutely hopeless. I knew he was crying right now because he was relieved. His worst fear was not having a relationship with his parents who he loved, but now they're here. They have accepted him.

His dad pulled Tae off of him gently. His mom was smiling, the hyungs were smiling, I was smiling. He finally turned back around to look at me.

"Jungkook what are you waiting on?" he asked sounding kind of mad

I looked back at him in a daze. I was confused.

"Get your butt over here and give me a hug!" he almost declared, smiling as he saw me making my way over.

"You're my son now too!" he said against my ear as I hugged him back even tighter, "You're my son too!" he said again

Now I am was one that was relieved.