FORGOTTEN || JIKOOK ✅

12.

JIMIN POV

I couldn't believe that this was happening to me.

I'd wanted a family like this for as long as I could remember.

I grew up being shipped from foster home to foster home, desperately wanting to have a happy family and now I could
see the possibility of one on the horizon I could hardly believe
my luck.

After we'd gotten Ari cleaned
up, we went to the grocery
store and picked up some food; something nice for us to have
for dinner, a bottle of wine for Jungkook and I to share that evening, something nice to make for breakfast and a few quick bites we could have for a picnic.

It was a beautiful day to be in the park, to be wandering through the trees and kicking
up the autumn leaves.

Ari was having the time of her life being outside, running around with Jungkook, not
really giving him a moment to breathe and treating him like
he was her new best friend.

Which I suppose he was.

It was sweet and I definitely got a huge amount of joy seeing
the two of them together.

I wanted to hold onto this moment, I wanted to
remember this day.

As they ran through the trees, kicking up the leaves I took a
few photographs, the two of them caught laughing, smiling, grinning at each other.

I stared down at the photos, noticing how similar the two
of them looked.

While Ari had inherited my
eyes, she had Jungkook's face.

I couldn't believe I hadn't seen
it before, There was no denying that she was his.

"What are you looking at?" He said, appearing at my side out
of breath and a little red faced.

Ari had clearly given him the runaround.

I showed him the pictures.

"Oh my god."

"What?"

"Nothing, nothing at all." He flicked back and forth through the pictures, smiling to himself.

"I can send them to you if you want." I said.

"Seems only fair that you
should have pictures of your daughter on your phone."

He looked up at me and smiled, his eyes a little misty again.

"I'd like that." he said.

"Gosh, I need to stop nearly crying all the time."

"it's getting silly."

"I'll tell you when it starts
getting silly." I said, reaching down and taking hold of his hand.

"Until then you get as
emotional as you want to get."

"This is a big day."

Ari fell asleep in the car on the way home.

The effects of so much outdoors all at once and probably a
major sugar crash after all
that frosting taking its toll.

When we got in, Ari wasn't in
the mood for the dinner I'd planned so we put her to bed.

We sat in Ari's bedroom together, me brushing her hair while Jungkook read her a bedtime story.

He was way better at it than I was, giving voices to all of the characters in Cinderella, rushing around the room and acting
most of it out for her.