Keeping Up With The Kims

iii. what lies ahead

here's the sneak peek!! just reiterating that this doesn't fall into the current timeline.

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Nayeon

She was about to walk out the door when she feels him tug on her dress.

"Im Nayeon," he says. "Use me."

When she finally dares to turn and look at him, he's on his knees and although she's sure that he's already tearing up, she refuses to look him in the eye.

"I don't care if I'm one of ten or twenty, just keep using me. I'm all yours." He begs in a voice that's deeper than usual, stripped bare of the feigned self-confidence he uses as a shield.

"Give yourself some credit, Seokjin. This should be the last time you let yourself be used by opportunistic fucks like me," she says as she snatches the hem of her dress that he was holding onto, and finally walks out the door.

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Jimin

When he wakes up, he finds himself hugging her again and he realizes it's starting to become a constant whenever one of them would sleep over.

He slowly disentangles himself from her, careful not to wake her up as he gets off the bed.

When he finally manages to get dressed, he checks his phone for the time and curses internally when he sees it's almost noon.

As he turns the door knob, he takes one last look at Dahyun and sees that she's still asleep, so he gets out and quietly closes the door again.

Yet when he goes into the kitchen to grab the usual glass of water he took before heading out, he's met instead with a steaming cup of coffee on the table... and in front of it sat Dahyun's grandmother.

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Tzuyu

She was in the middle of brushing her teeth when she hears a cry from the baby monitor in her room.

Immediately, she spits out the foam and quickly goes through the rest of her routine before rushing towards the nursery.

As she nears it however, she notices that there didn't seem to be anymore crying and she sighs in relief thinking that he must have fallen asleep again, but when she slowly opens the door to check, she's greeted with Taehyung's gentle voice singing a lullaby as he bent over the crib.

She didn't know that it was possible for something to be so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.

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Chaeyoung

She looks on as Namjoon and Yoongi hug each other.

It felt like getting a weight off of her shoulder to see the both of them finally back to being friends after the mess she caused, but she still couldn't stop herself from tearing up at the sight of Namjoon.

"Thank you for telling me," Namjoon was saying to Yoongi.

"I'm just so sorry that we had to go through all those lengths to get here," Yoongi replies, and despite her tears she could still see that he was startling to tear up himself.

Was it because of guilt? She was sure no one was to blame but her.

"Don't be. I'm just really happy for the both of you," Namjoon replies as he flashes a smile.

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A/N:

thank you for reading! to be honest, i seriously lost direction for this story after the first few chapters because i was really just working off of the kim-line as siblings prompt (lol) so writing this helped a lot in cementing the direction for each of the subplots.

will probably be unpublishing this once i complete the story. this seems like more of a writing exercise for my sake HAHA