Best of Me: A BTS FF

Chapter Nine

Kookie's POV:

Two days after I'd heard from Jaehyun, Yoongi got in touch with us. Taeyeon had gone into distress and had the baby the day before. Both were going to be kept in the hospital for another six days, minimum, before they would be discharged. While he was on the video call with me, he apparently sent pictures of him with their daughter, Cho-hee, as well as Taeyeon holding Cho-hee to Joonie.

I was relieved, but when I got off the phone, Jimin looked like he might cry. Sighing I went over to him.

"You okay, Jimin-ssi?" I asked him, trying to be sympathetic to him.

He sniffled for a minute before he finally looked me in the eyes.

"Yeah. I am Kookie. I'm just ashamed of how I've been behaving for the last six months or so," he admitted. "After all the stress and trouble I was causing, that could have hurt Taeyeon, the pregnancy is over now. I have a beautiful niece and sister who look happy. How could I be such an ass?"

"I told you a couple of days ago, under all the stress, you didn't know how else to react. It's not right, but it explains it, at least," I replied and he started crying.

"My beautiful niece could have died, along with Taeyeon because I made the pregnancy harder than it had to be," he said, and at this point Taehyung came over with the others. Taehyung hugged him as he cried. "I'm a horrible brother!"

"You're not a horrible brother, Jiminie," Taehyung told him as Jimin cried harder into his shoulder. "You've been an amazing brother to Taeyeon more than you messed up. You just came into a situation with her that you couldn't handle processing. You couldn't handle why Taeyeon was pregnant and you couldn't get past that, but we can all see clearly how much you still love your baby sister and her daughter right now. A horrible brother wouldn't have even stayed in the room long enough to find out how they were."

"He's right, Jimin-ah," Joonie continued. "Since you found out that Taeyeon was in the hospital, having gone into distress that triggered her labor, you finally got over your anger at the situation, your resentment that you felt because she got raped and none of us realized. You've started becoming the brother you used to be for her, the one thing she's wanted from you in this entire ordeal."

"You've grown up in the last week, Jimin-ah," Jin told him. "You've gotten past the anger and realized Taeyeon is still the same girl who always looked to make you and your family proud. You've realized she's the same person she was when she came to live with BTS almost three years ago. And you're brotherly instincts to take care of her finally started to surface again."

"Jimin, since Yoongi left to be at her hospital bedside a week ago, you've been more human, more compassionate, than you've been since you found out she was pregnant. We've all noticed that in any free minute you had that you were worrying about her, afraid of the possibilities of the outcome," Hobi cut in. "In the last week, all of us have watched as the monster you became around her and even us, disappeared and was replaced by the devoted brother you used to be."

"I want to go home to my sister," Jimin said, his crying subsiding but not stopping. "I need to be at her side."

"We have two weeks left to the tour, Jimin-ssi," I started. "She and the baby are going to be in the hospital for at least a week of that. Then it will only be a week until we get to go back to Seoul."

"We'll still be too busy for me to see her," Jimin added.

"No, we won't," Joonie piped in, leaving all of us confused. "I've been talking to the managers since Yoongi has been gone. They have agreed to let us have a few days off when we return to Seoul, so we can all have time to see Taeyeon and Cho-hee."