Tails Will Wag

Cutieful

When they went to the dog park again, all the doggies paused their activities to stare in awe at Yeontan, the Dog Park Hero.

Pepper runs up to him and starts giving doggie kisses to his very handsome face. "I'm so glad you're back," Pepper says.

Tannie, grinning, looks at Min Holly as if to say, 'See, she is MY girlfriend.' Min Holly shrugs and woofs, "You two are cute together."

Bam is excited as the park goes back to noise and chaotic fun. "Let's play ball while we still have Min Holly here. He goes home tomorrow."

Yoongi, Taehyung, and Jungkook are talking to Pepper's mom all smiles.

"I'm very happy to see the boys are ok. Tannie is the cutest little hero."

Taehyung smiles his boxy smile, "Pepper is the cutest little lady out here, um, I mean as in doggie ladies. You are, I mean, not that you're not, um not, well you aren't a dog, but uh um, you're very cutieful." 

Yoongi softly laughs, 'Leave it to Tae to devise a new word by combining two.'

Taehyung always wanted to get to know Pepper's mom. But he stammers so embarrassingly that Yoongi interrupts him before he embarrasses himself or her even more.

"Taehyung, did you know that Miss Kim Ri just moved in a few doors down from us last week?" While Yoongi was walking Min Holly the other night, he met her walking Pepper, and they stopped to chat.

Tae breaks out of his entranced gaze and looks at his hyung before looking back at Pepper's mom. She shyly smiles at him. She's had a crush on him since first bringing Pepper to the dog park months ago. She thought Pepper had a crush on Tannie because every time she mentioned going to the dog park, Pepper would bring her the dog brush.

While they were talking, the little dogs and Bam were well into the game of Pawball. They were having such fun, even when tripping over paws and rolling into each other while chasing the ball.

On one run, when Tannie had looked back to see how close the others were, he ran into Pepper and got tangled up with her.

"Oomph!" is heard as Pepper is rolled over with Tannie.

"Oh Pepper, are you ok Cutieful?"

They lay their faces close enough to share doggie kisses. Tannie's collar was caught on her hair bow. Every time he would try to move, it would pull her little bow.

"Owe, Tan. That hurts. Let me try." She tries to shift her head slowly, hoping to become unstuck. It isn't working. If anything, they are even more stuck, their faces even closer together. They look into each other's eyes, and Tannie gives her a soft doggie kiss. Pepper's eyes widen in surprise.

"What was that for?"

"To show I'm sorry for hurting you."

Pepper smiles, and as they lay there face to face, the others had been watching and woofing laughs.

Bam woofs, "Tannie and Pepper sitting in a tree, K I S S I N G. . ."

Min Holly nose butts him, "They are not in a tree, Maknae."

He approaches them and tries to help get Pepper's bow unstuck. It seems the Velcro on Tannie's collar was firmly attached to Pepper's fur and bow.

"I don't see a way to get you two unstuck without it hurting a little, " Min Holly says sadly, woofing.

Bam, bouncing in anxiety, woofs, "Let me get my dad. He can do anything." With that, he bounds off to Jungkook.

Bam is grabbing Jungkook's hand in his mouth, softly pulling. "What is it, Bam?" He knew the last time Bam did this, there was an emergency in the backyard.

"Show me what's wrong, boy," says Jungkook.

Bam lets go of his hand, and his dad follows. It looked like the dogs were lying or standing around, possibly tired of the ball game. But then Jungkook noticed what the problem was.

"Oh no," he kneels in front of Pepper and Tannie. "Let me help you."

Jungkook pets Tannie's head, "It's ok, Tan, I will get you loose."

Tannie looks into Pepper's eyes and dreamingly woofs, "No hurry," causing Pepper to smile.

Ever so gently, Jungkook can pull the hair bow loose from the collar. He heard a little yelp when he pulled the bow off. It was inevitable that a few strands of her silky fur would still be attached. 

"I'm  so sorry, little one, but it's done." He gently smooths her hair and pulls it back into a top pony replacing the bow.

"There you go, lovely as ever." He smiles at her and turns to Tannie.

"Let me check your collar. It must be off a little bit." Sure enough, the ends were slightly off-center causing the hook part of the Velcro to be exposed.

 Tannie and Pepper stand and shake to help their fur fall into place. Tannie checks Pepper over and notices some grass caught in her long, silky fur.

"You have some grass stuck right here . . ." He very carefully picks the two pieces of grass out of her lovely fur and drops them to the ground. 

Shyly Pepper tenderly woofs, "Thank you, Tan."

Bam is rushing around, ready to get back to playing ball now that the crisis is over. "Let's get, get it!!" thus breaking the spell between Pepper and Tannie.