The Meaning of Family: The Collections

Amelia's Quinceañera

Request:
"Or her sister."

Notes:
This is a continuation of the previous request.

Ages of the Characters:
Jin - 37
Namjoon - 36
Yoongi - 19-20
Sophia - 19-20
Hoseok - 18-19
Jimin - 17
Taehyung - 16-17
Jennie - 16-17
Jungkook - 15
Yugyeom - 15
Amelia - 14-15
Sammie - 6-11 months

"Dad," Jin looked up from where he had been delicately decorating the roof of a gingerbread house with icing at the sound of Yoongi's voice, "explain to me again how decorating gingerbread houses is for Sammie when she's too young to participate." The 19-year-old looked over at his 6-month-old daughter who was currently sitting in a high chair at the end of the table and eyeing all of the candies that she was much too young to eat.

"Because I'm starting grandkid traditions, now hush." Yoongi's wife of only a week seemed to agree with Jin, because Sophia then lightly smacked Yoongi on the arm, whispering for him to be nice. "Besides, I couldn't think of another reason that would guarantee you to come."

"You could have just asked us to come over to decorate gingerbread houses!" Yoongi pouted as he stuck a peppermint to the door of one of the houses they were working on, as the large family required more than one house to make sure everyone got to participate. "You must think so lowly of me."

"I was just teasing you!" Jin assured him, slapping Namjoon's hand away as he realized his husband was reaching towards the gingerbread house. "No touching! The last time you touched, the entire house broke apart and we had to start over!"

"That was 10 years ago!"

Jennie laughed from where she was seated on Jimin's lap, the 17-year-old male too occupied with cuddling his girlfriend to actively participate in the decorating. "Your family never fails to entertain me." She commented, arranging marshmallows in the 'yard' of the house, only for half of them to end up in her mouth.

Jin looked over the bags of candy, eyebrows furrowing as he realized some was missing. "Where are the jelly beans?"

Jungkook and Amelia froze and sheepishly looked up at Jin. "We may or may not have snacked on them earlier when we were babysitting Sammie." Jin didn't bother to respond verbally, just pointed in the direction of the 15-year old's bedroom, and the two teenagers were off to go retrieve what remained of the candy.

"Hey, Jungkook," Amelia said once they were in the boys' bedroom. "Can you do me a favor?" Jungkook hummed in agreement. "Be my chambelán for my quinceanera."

Jungkook stopped searching for the bag of jellybeans and looked at Amelia in confusion. "What? Why? What happened to taking that girl you were telling me about last month?" A month earlier, Amelia had confided in Jungkook that she was also gay, saying that she had trusted him enough to keep her sexuality a secret until she worked up the courage to tell her family. She had also told him about a girl that she had been talking to and was interested in, and that her plan was to come out to her family and bring said girl as her escort to her quinceanera in June.

"Well, first I found out that she has a girlfriend in Jonesboro." Jungkook felt Amelia's pain, knowing well enough what it was like to have feelings for someone who couldn't return them. "And then I decided that I'm not quite ready to tell my family yet."

"Why?" Jungkook tilted his head in curiosity. "Your family is extremely accepting. I know they wouldn't have any problems with you not being straight."

"Yugyeom's extremely accepting and wouldn't have any problems with you being gay, so why aren't you ready to tell him?" Amelia shot back, not aware of Jungkook's crush that was still as strong as ever no matter how many times he tried to get over it.

Jungkook didn't respond to her question, instead pretending like she hadn't said anything at all. "So why do I have to be your chambelán? Why not ask one of our other friends to do it?"

"Because the relatives that are flying in are more likely to not ask questions or assume that we're dating, especially since Yoongi was Sophia's chambelán when they were just friends." Jungkook nodded, realizing that was very much true, so he agreed to be her chambelán.

Although Amelia's quinceanera was even less traditional than Sophia's, it still took quite a bit of planning to prepare, as she still wanted to dance and dress up for it. No one was overly surprised that Jungkook was her chambelán, as he was her closest guy friend in their small group of friends, so Amelia was comforted by the fact that her assumption that no one would ask questions was correct.

As for traditions, the only one she was keeping was the passing of a doll, as she wanted to give the doll Sophia had given her at her quinceanera to Sammie to have when she grew old enough to enjoy playing with dolls.

Summer finally came and with it, Amelia's quinceanera. As the two 15-year olds stood outside the entrance to the room reserved for her party, Jungkook in a suit with an orange tie and Amelia in an orange dress with her hair pulled into a side bun, Jungkook could tell that she was extremely nervous. 

So, he thought of the perfect way to help calm her nerves. "If any of your relatives from out of town asks if we're dating or anything like that," Amelia looked up at him, "I will proudly announce that I'm gay."

Amelia snorted out a laugh before saying, "You do know that Yugyeom's here."

"...I will proudly not announce that I'm gay." The two friends fell into laughter, Amelia's nerves dissipating just in time for her grand entrance.