It's Definitely You | | j.hs

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Jinae

I didn't think about it until after my grandparents left, but I'm really excited for my parents to meet my friends. I'm excited for my brother to meet my friends. I'm excited for my friends to just be able to be around and talk to my family. 

Right when I finish making dinner, my family comes back. I hear their car pull up outside, so I finish what I'm doing and go over to the door to help them in. 

The second I open the door, I see them starting to walk up the walkway and I immediately run outside and throw my arms around Taeil. I barely got to see him before leaving, so I'm really happy to be able to live near him now. 

He opens his arms and welcomes me, picking me up and squeezing me tight. 

"I missed you," I say in English, knowing he hasn't heard me speak at all for a while, let alone in Korean. 

"I missed you too," he replies.

I let go of him after a minute and do the same thing to my parents in turn. I help my mom carry in her bags and take them to the room. I quickly come back out and start introducing everyone.

"Mom, Dad, these are my friends," I tell them. "Taehyung, Jungkook, Jimin, Misun, Yoongi, Hoseok, Seokjin, Namjoon, and Soyoung. Guys, these are my parents and my brother, Taeil."

And this is when I realize another thing.

I'm more excited to see what my parents think of everyone. Especially... well, Hoseok.

I realize now more than I ever have before that I truly do like him. A lot.

He's just... perfect. Not perfect in the conventional way. He does make mistakes and he isn't necessarily the ultimate male. But what he is, is a lot of other things.

Like, he's super sweet. He's never done anything rude--to me anyway--and definitely not on purpose. He's caring. He cares for all his friends like they're his blood. He even cares for me, and has since we met. Nobody has ever been like that to me before. He's really good-looking too. Not to mention an amazing rapper and an amazing dancer. He isn't cocky about it either, but rather extremely humble. He might see every bad quality in himself like I do in myself, but when I see him... I can only see the good things. 

When I'm around him... I can only see good things. In everything; everyone. Including myself. It's always been hard for me to see the good things about myself, but when I'm around him, well, that's all I can see. 

And that's why I'm so excited for him to meet my family. Because I like him and I want my family to like him too. 

"What's for dinner, love?" It's my mom. Her voice brings me out of my daze like a freight train. I blink a few times and notice I'm leaning against the counter of the kitchen. I look to my left and see my mom standing next to me, Taeil behind her.

You see, my mom has always been like my friend. I've always been able to tell her anything without fear of judgement and I've always been so grateful for that.

Taeil has always been like my best friend. I have always gotten along with him. I've always told him everything. He's always invited me to do everything with him. When he would go out with his friends I was always invited and he always looked out for me. He may get overprotective sometimes, but he's the only person that pretty much knows everything about me. 

"I made bulgogi," I inform her. Taeil smiles and turns around, walking back to the living room. Bulgogi is one of my whole family's favorite meals I make. I tell my mom I'll be right out with the food, so everyone should get ready to eat. 

Since my grandparents dining table isn't big enough for the fifteen of us, we all just sit around the living room, on the couch, chairs, and floor. I sit between Soyoung-ah and Misunnie and we all start eating and making small talk.

"So what do you boys do?" my dad asks. I can see all of them exchange glances before Seokjin-ah finally speaks for everyone.

"Have you heard of BTS?" My dad nods, taking a bite of his food. He doesn't seem too impressed, but I'm sure all will turn out well. "Well that's us." All the boys smile and my brother gives me a sideways look.

A boy band? Really, Jinae-yah? is what the look tells me. I give a half smile and a shrug, raising my eyebrows and taking a bite of my food. Taeil holds up his plate and chopsticks in mock surrender and I suppress a giggle. 

"Oh I'm sure that's so fun for you boys then!" my mom gushes and I roll my eyes. Taehyungie is sitting directly across from me and must have seen because he starts to chuckle, shaking his head. 

We keep eating and soon enough we're all finished. Taeil starts to gather the plates to take them to the kitchen and just as he grabs my plate, I start humming a song. I don't think about it until I have my mom, Jimin, and Namjoon staring at me. 

I look up at them. "What?" 

"You're humming Just One Day?" Jimin asks me. 

"Um." I bite my lip. "I guess so?"

Namjoon starts to laugh. "You don't know what you're humming?" 

It's only for a split second, but I swear I can see Hoseok glare at Namjoon. 

I don't know, maybe I'm going crazy...

"No?" It comes out as a question again. "I mean, yeah, I guess it was Just One Day."

"Is that a new song?" my mom asks. I sigh and hang my head. 

"It's actually one of our songs," Jungkook explains. My mom visibly straightens.

"Would you mind singing it for me sometime?" My eyes widen and my head snaps toward my mom. I start looking between all the boys and shaking my head, but they just look at me, amused.

"Of course; we would love to." I whip my head toward Yoongi and glare at him. He just gives me a half smile and I narrow my eyes at him.

And at that moment, I hear Jungkookie start singing, Namjoon saying his line right after.

And that's when I think, I'm actually going to die.