In the middle vmk

TWELVE

whenever jugkook talks in english I'll be putting it in italics. just so you know ٩( ᐛ )و

Jungkook hurried home, already knowing he was bound to be in so much trouble when he would reach his house. He just hoped his parents would be a little forgiving since he had always been a good boy and this was the only time he'd be home past curfew. He slowed down his jogging and gasped for air, placing his hand on the racing heart that was pounding against his rib cage. That was enough exercise for this month.

With hesitant steps he walked to the back door where he toed of his shoes and hung his coat on the rack, anxiety slowly seeping into his veins. He could hear the clock ticking the seconds away, this sound the only thing resonating through the house. Normally the television would be on or his parents would be telling each other about their day at work.

But now he was only met with dead silence which meant bad things for him.

He quietly stepped into the living room where both his parents were sitting on the couch, arms crossed and a firm glare onto their faces. Jungkook gulped and shuffled closer to the couch, already bracing himself for the stern lecture he was about to receive.

"Where were you? Do you know how worried we were?", his mother spoke up first, watching his son shrink into himself at the displeased tone. He hated upsetting his parents- or anyone for that matter. He grew up without many disputes or fights around him so whenever someone merely raised his voice at him, tears would brim his eyes in a second.

That's why he was feeling awful at the moment, even though he had only been an hour too late and he had a good reason for it, he still couldn't help but feel like a failure. He did his utter best to be a good son and a good boy in general, so he couldn't help but bow his head down at his parent's stern glares and whimper out a 'sorry'.

"What were you thinking? You could have at least sent us a text", his father clicked his tongue, "You have a phone for a reason".

"I g-got distracted", Jungkook admitted, staring at the floor with a frown, "Don't knew it was late so already".

He screwed his eyes shut and balled his fists, hearing how wrong his sentences were and how his tenses were jumbled together. He should learn to handle nervousness and still talk fluently without too many mistakes. This is the reason he couldn't stand up for himself. The bullies would just laugh at his grammar mistakes and never take anything he says seriously.

He really wanted to just explain everything to them in English, but he knew they didn't approve of that. He had to learn Korean either way and the best way to do that was to only converse in Korean to his parents, no English allowed.

"What got you so distracted then?", his father continued, "It's been three hours since school ended".

"I w-was with friends", Jungkook said, looking back up at them and seeing them momentarily freeze, "We goed to eat cake and warm chocolate milk".

His parents glanced at each other before looking back at their son who was just staring at them with a worried face.

"You made friends Jungkookie?", his mom spoke, voice back to her usual tone and she quickly stood up to embrace her son, "That's amazing! I'm so happy for you".

"Are they from your school?", his father asked, "We never hear you talk about classmates or anyone else from your school for that matter".

The raven haired male shook his head, "No, they aren't in highschool anymore".

They both frowned and looked at each other skeptically, "Then how did you meet them?"

"Well", Jungkook's face lit up, just thinking about his new friends, "Jimin hyung works part time in the convenience store close to school and that's where I first met both of them. Taehyung hyung and Jimin hyung were bickering about a packet of crisps and accidently ripped the packet which made all the crisps land on me! Which was kinda funny- though not at that moment cause the crisps were kinda itchy. And then when I went to a second hand clothing shop after school I found out Jimin hyung works there too part time and so today I went there to see Jimin hyung and found out Taehyung hyung got a job there too recently. So Jimin hyung treated us to hot chocolate and even though Taehyung hyung is very stubborn and antisocial he agreed! It was so fun- oh".

He realized he had slipped into English in his excited rant when he saw his parents' raised eyebrows, though they had a smile on their face.

"Sorry", he mumbled back into Korean.

"It's alright Kookie", his father said softly, "We can see how happy they make you".

"I really am happy", he smiled, relieved to see his parents back to their usual gentle self, "I am going to homework make. Again sorry for worry".

He hopped up the stairs while his parents watched their little bunny hum a happy tune.

"I'm glad he finally got some friends. I was scared he'd get depressed being here".

His father nodded, "Yeah, we should invite them to dinner sometime. I'm quite curious to see what sort of people they are".

Whoop whoop ggukie is cute (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)