Her Neonate

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"Dad we need more kimchi !" Taehyung shouts at his father, a styrofoam bowl of kimchi is pushed toward him.

"Thank you"
He takes it and and hands it to the girl in front of him, she smiles.
"Thank you handsome" she winks before going back to her table, he nods her way flirtatiously.

When she returns to the table the two other girls squeal and cover their mouths.

Taehyung chuckles at their reaction, and his eyes slowly shifts to the clear glass doors of his parents restaurant, a familiar little boy and caramel skinned woman.

She was squatting and squeezing the near life out of him, "Alani?..." he scratches his head in confusion.

She picks him up and walks into his restaurant, and man following behind them with a weird expression on his face, immediately Alani makes eye contact with Taehyung.

He looks at the boy in her arms and raises his eyebrows in shock, "Aye sit down here..."

Jacob yanks her arm, Alani blinks at Taehyung before turning to the table, she places Angel in the booth and sits next to him. Her son instantly latches onto her arm and pushes his face into her rib cage.

"Stop being a little pussy-"

"Watch your mouth...and he's a child, he was scared" Alani mutters the last part, eyes averting to the little boy with a short hair cut.

"Mommy he cut my hair" he cries, "I know baby...it'll grow back" she smooths her hand over his empty scalp.
He was crying into her side, when he saw his dad pull up to a barbershop he screamed and then his father slapped him.

Yes slapped him.

He was familiar with spankings but an actually slap on the face by a upset man hurt way more than his mother's punishments.

"Can we get some damn menus!" Jacob shouts, Alani rolls her eyes at his rudeness.
The Kim's deserved more than that.

Taehyung scoffs at the loud man sitting with Alani and Angel, he walks over with three menus and slams them on the table.

"Here..." he said coldly, he looks at Alani and blinks again, Taehyung frowns.

What was wrong with her?

She was acting like she didn't know him, she clears her throat.
"Hey enough looking people are hungry here" she said with a laugh, she added emphasis to the first four words she said.
Taehyung parts his lips.

"I mean you heard her nigga...get to cooking"

Alani continues eyeing him, something flickering in them.

Sadness

Taehyung glances at Jacob, "I'd need you to order first" Jacob points at Alani, "Her...she know what to get"

Taehyung pulls out his note pad, and waits for Alani to speak.
"I would like the CALLe Kimbap along with HELPymane platter"
Taehyung glances at her and write on the pad

'CALL HELP?'

"Is this the correct order" he turns he note pad her way, Jacob eyeing the interaction suspiciously, Alani nods " Yes...thank you"  she clears her throat.

"I will go turn the order in"

Taehyung walks to the kitchen, he spoke to his mother, "Mom do not look now but there is a criminal at table three...he's holding the girl and the baby hostage...I need you to call the police"

His mother swallows, her eyes growing large, "Okay" she goes upstairs into their home and calls 911

Alani snuggles her son closer to her body as they wait for their 'food', Jacob laughs loudly, rubbing his chin.

"You think I'm stupid or something?"

"I don't know what your talking about, can we just eat our food" Alani said with irritation laced in her voice, "Call Help...you thought I didn't see that did you?"

Alani ignores him, the tapping of his foot becoming rapid, "Grab angel we are leaving now"

Jacob stood as angel is pulled into his mother's hip, "Jacob I'm hungry could we just-"

"Get your shit and let's go now!"

Alani looks back at Taehyung who was walking over again, "Uh we're making the food as fast as we can...it should be ready in twenty minutes"

"Nah we good" Jacob glares at Taehyung, Taehyung glances at Alani and Alani stared at the ground.

She was counting.

Her eyes fixed onto Jacob's hand which seemed to be sliding behind him and under his shirt, she bit her lip until blood drew.
"I think...I think Angel has to use the bathroom"

Alani said, becoming a stuttering mess, Taehyung switches his eyes between the two tan people before him.
"Okay I'm sick of y'all shit" Jacob pulls the gun from the space between his boxers and pants and points it Alani's way and Taehyung felt his heart skip a beat.

A scream was let out by one of the girls who tried flirting with Taehyung, Jacob points the gun at her, she immediately shut her mouth.

Taehyung saw two police cars pull up in front of the restaurant, he turns to Alani "They're here"

Jacob notices the blue and red flashing lights, and chuckles, "So what?...y'all think I'm going to jail or something"

Alani steps back closer to Taehyung, almost to the point where she's wavering behind him, "Well...if I'm going out bad...somebody coming with me"

Jacob raising his gun again and Taehyung shouts "Kitchen now!"

Jacob's gun goes off with a loud bang.

Angel screams.