bangtan family

First Crush

Hoseok was always a responsible boy with his personal feelings. He's never take notice of the little girls in his class asking for him to like them back. He was always nice to them, but he'd never make it seem like he liked to be a boyfriend so soon.

It was never a real secret, either, that Jimin was the charmer of the family. He'd love to kiss people's egos raw to get whatever he wanted. He was manipulative, and extremely adorable making his plans easy to complete.

But this person... She was so much more than a grandma or an aunt who Jimin could wrangle cash and presents out of, more than a little girl with a bow in her hair to impress Hoseok.

At first, everyone was skeptical.

"Kids!" Namjoon called for the children, and they all went shooting downstairs. Jungkook was already sitting in his lap.

"Eomma and I've figured out we're both out of the house this Saturday," he said, looking at each of them. "I have some work to do in the office, and Eomma is helping Mrs. Kim a little bit away because her daughter just left."

"Hyung will take care of us," Hoseok shrugged.

"I'm afraid not," Namjoon said quietly. "Yoongi is starting his sleepaway camp tonight, and he won't be back till Saturday afternoon. And anyway, we would never leave you five alone for hours."

Yoongi was beaming with pride and excitement. He was going to be with his best friends for the weekend, all stresses and pressures of being the responsible big brother gone, now just slight anxiety over sleeping without his parents in the next room and a lot of happiness clouding his mind.

"So Hobi Hyung will take care of us?" Jimin asked, plucking his hand out of his mouth from him sucking his fingers.

"No, Chim," Namjoon smiled apologetically. "Tomorrow . . . you four will have a babysitter."

So, it happened. Hoseok, Jimin, Taehyung and Jungkook were trotted off to bed by their mom, and while Jungkook understood nothing, his tiny sounding snores wafted around the room Hoseok and Jimin decided to spend the night in.

Hoseok was lying limply on his back, staring at the ceiling. He was terrified of someone he didn't know watching them. What if they put Jungkook's diaper on backwards(Hoseok had made that mistake before and cried because he felt so bad when pee started running down Jungkook's leg) ? What if she mashed Tae's food up too little and things got lumpy and he'd spit it out? What if she misplaced Jimin's toy Minmin and then Jimin would be sad??

It was all too nerve-wracking for him. Jimin must have noticed and he must have been nervous, too, because he hugged Hoseok from his side. Taehyung was undoubtedly sleeping with his mouth wide open, snoring louder than Jungkook.

The following morning, Hoseok woke up late because he'd fallen asleep late. Jimin and Jungkook were outside already, and Hoseok scrambled up, running downstairs to make sure everything was still in together.

"Kookie? Chim?" Hoseok called, bursting into the kitchen. 

At the stove, was a girl. She was older than Hoseok, maybe even older than Yoongi. "Wh-who are you?" Hoseok asked, looking past Jimin and Jungkook at the table, the littlest slamming his fist on his high chair table, roaring in excitement, whil Jimin stared at the girl in awe.

She turned around and gave Hoseok a dazzling smile. "Hi! My name's Areum, I'll take care of you today!"

Hoseok was taken aback, but then he plopped down next to Jimin who was swinging his legs under the table, staring up at the girl.

"Why are you smiling?" Hoseok hissed to Jimin. "There's a stranger in our kitchen."

"I'm no stranger," she smiled softly. she put a plate of scrambled eggs, a sausage and some rashers of bacon with a pancake in front of Hoseok. The eggs were the fluffiest he'd ever tasted, with no charred cheese flavour Namjoon's eggs always came with. The sausages weren't burnt in the slightest, and the bacon was crispy and delicious. the pancakes were yummy, too.