The Kim Family Tetralogy

13

"Thirty years ago today," Jin began his birthday toast, "A very, at the time, small, but, big eyed, little bug was born," he looked at Taehyung, smiling, "in a hurry." he chuckled, "Mom almost had you on the kitchen floor!"
Everyone in the room laughed.
"When they brought you home a day later, they put you in my arms and you looked up at me, and I" Jin made a sharp intake of air, "fell in love." he admitted, helplessly.
"You were so tiny, so pretty, well actually, a lot of people called you ugly," a picture of an aggressively red little baby with, well, with a conehead, was shown behind Jin, making everyone laugh again, "but to me," he continued, "you were the most beautiful little human I had ever seen."
Jin took a sip of water before continuing, "The memories of you as a little boy, curling up beside me in your jammies, telling me everything about your day, I will cherish forever."
A very cute picture of the two boys, Tae in a pyjamas with feet and elephants on it, lying on Jin's arm, cleary telling a story to his smiling, older, brother, arms waving in the air, was shown and all the people cooed in unison.
"You have always, always, been the calming presence of my life," Jin continued, "even when you had freaking ants in your pants and wouldn't stay still for even two seconds," he shook his head, smiling, looking at the clip of Tae and Jimin disturbing Hobi,

"even then, you still managed to calm me. Because I knew, I felt how much you loved me. How much you trusted me to always be there for you. And Taehyung, my sweet child, I have done my very best to never betray that trust you placed in me just by being born, on this day at exactly 5,42 in the morning, thirty years ago. I am so grateful to have you in my life, to have known you for thirty years!" he shook his head again, "And it has been the greatest privilege to watch you turn into this fine, caring and responsible, person, doing amazing things, changing the world! To bear witness to the incredible growth of the man, my brother in every sense of the word, that stands before me today, and I am so proud of you, so proud! And I love you to pieces, Happy Birthday, Squirt!"

Taehyung was ugly crying, squeezing Jungkook's hand to the point of cutting off circulation at the end of the speach.
Jungkook gently wiggled his hand out of Tae's grip and stood up with the rest of them, raising his glass, "Happy birthday, baby!" he smiled, proudly, taking a sip, before sitting down beside him again, pulling him into his chest, "I love you so much, my angel, my Taehyung." he whispered, kissing the back of Tae's head.
Taehyung cried harder.
"Naaww!" Jungkook laughed and hugged him tighter, "Look there's cake." he pointed out as the servers hauled a big birthday cake with thirty, long, candles on it, blazing, and helped him to his feet.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to youuu," everyone sang, and Tae tried to get it together, and finally managed when Jin came and hugged him, whispering, "I love you so much, Taehyung, and I have needed you just as much as you have needed me. Thank you for being with me always." he kissed Tae on the forehead, and held his arm around him and helped him blow out the candles.

Taehyung remained standing after everyone had gotten their cake ans settled down, "Thank you. All." he said simply, aimed at everyone in the room but specifically to Jin, "And thank you for making this day special, and extraordinary for me! I'm happy to be alive, I am so very lucky to have you in my life! Let's celebrate today, 'cause I can't wait for tomorrow!" he grinned, "I love you! Every single one of you! Now, let's party!" he blew his little party horn, "Pffs!" and started laughing from the sorry excuse of a sound it made and shot his confetti bomb insted, drowning Jungkook and his mom in paper bits.

"So, tomorrow's the big day, huh?" Yoongi grinned bumping Tae's side, a good while later, standing off to the side, just the two of them.
"Yeah." Tae's sighed, swooning. They were finally getting married!
"I'm so happy for you." Yoongi said, all serious for a change, "The two of you have a special spot in my heart, Tae." he confessed, and continued, "I know I didn't get it at first." he looked at Tae, "How I told you that maybe it wasn't worth the fight and you should just get out?" he nodded for Tae's agreement, "You were both so very young! When the trouble began, and, yeah." he shook his head, "I didn't get it." he confessed, "Still don't." he sighed, "Not the full extent of it, anyway. I've never loved someone like you love eachother." he looked at Tae, "I mean I love Hobi," he nodded, "but not like that." he turned to look at the wedding guests milling around in the hotel they'd rented out for the occasion, "That's more like you and Jin. I think."