"Hajun? can you go with Jinnie? i'll be back before you know it!"
it was hard being a teen dad- well, sort of.
Taehyungs family is very...limited. His father and mother had committed suicide a few years ago after his mother gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. being the good big brother he was, Taehyung took her in, that was until he was of age, she was in foster care for awhile until he fought to have her back.
now at 19 with a 4 year old, Taehyung struggles a lot. his little sister thinks he's her dad and he decided never in a million years would he tell her he's not her real father. At least not until she's grown up and asks about it.
He attends night school, which he loves a lot more rather than attending high school during the day. The reason he's still there is because he'd miss a lot of classes when he was in court fighting to have his sister, or daughter, back.
His older friend, Jin, who has his shit together always helps the poor boy out with her, always offering to take care of her when her father has to work. Taehyung couldn't ask for a better friend.
Taehyung has his own apartment, it's small, and on the bad side of town, but it's home.
He works 6 days a week full shifts at a nearby diner, which was walking distance from his home, which was super convenient for him considering he doesn't have a car.
So, after leaving his daughter with his friend, he quickly rushes to work, speed walking there before he was too late.
"Namjoon hey!" he smiled at his coworker.
"Hey Tae, another full shift today?" he asked, pouring a man a cup of coffee.
the boy nodded,
"yeah, when do you leave?"
"At 3 today."
Taehyung nodded as he headed to the back, putting on the uniform and the roller skates. this diner was designed to be old school, so the staff had to wear roller skates unless they wear handling the food in the kitchen.
Taehyung was a waiter, usually staying behind the counter to help the people who sat there.
today was no different. he had served lonely middle aged men their coffee and made small talk, most of them were really nice and not perverted, but there's always those select few.
Anyways after getting off work, Taehyung sighed as he took off the skates he'd been standing on for 9 hours straight. he quickly changed out of his uniform and made his way back to jins house.
"Is she asleep?" he asked once he got inside. the older nodded,
"she fell asleep awhile ago." Jin informed, mentioning for Taehyung to sit down on the couch. which he immediately did with a sigh, finally able to sit down.
Jin frowned,
"you shouldn't be working so hard Tae, you're only nineteen."
"I need to work to pay rent, Jin..you know my job is minimum wage. and i have to pay extra for night classes."
"i've offered to help Tae-"
"No. no, you already help with Hajun enough. i couldn't do that to you."
The older sighed and took the 19 year olds hand in his, squeezing it,
"Taehyung you've been dealing with parenthood for years when you're still a kid yourself. get out there Tae! i got Hajun covered."
the boy teared up a little, squeezing the man's hand back,
"i couldn't possibly Jin, she's my daughter, i have to take care of her."
