Missing in the Storm

Chapter 24

Jimin's POV

One day I lasted one day aloneish with my girls. My mom is here, and I don't know what I would do if she wasn't. The guys have not come by yet and I doubt they will. Rhea and Hera don't believe food goes in your mouth just everywhere else. It is everywhere their clothes, their hair, the floor, and me.

My mother is just laughing at my misery. Sitting over there, sipping tea and laughing about how easy it should be to put food in their mouths. The girls are laughing and doing their best to prove her wrong. Full of laughter and glee but not food.

Thirty of the longest minutes of my life later and I am cleaning dry cheerios and applesauce from their highchairs, while they are looking at their bottles like they contain poison. BAM I drop my head and feel like crying Rhea hates her bottle and maybe even me. I know it sounds crazy, but I think she is giving me the stink eye and yelling for her mom. I'm not sure if Hera is just screaming because Rhea is screaming, or if she is mad too.

Placing down the cloth I was using to clean the mess I pick her up and kiss her little red nose. Holding her close to my chest I begin to sing the chorus to Promise to her. She slowly settles as she wipes her face on my shoulder. She has my shirt balled up in her fists, while I sing it over and over rubbing her head.

"Good job son. This is what being a daddy is about, snot and food stains on your tee shirts. The older she gets the more tears you'll wear. But she is learning now that she can come to you for comfort because you're here." She kisses my cheek and walks to sit on the couch holding Hera. "For all the happy laughing moments you will have with your family there will be tears and heartbreak. That's normal and Athena should not have to do that on her own."

Mom takes the girls to go play in the room leaving me to finish cleaning up the food mess they made in the dining room. Leaving me alone with my thoughts. I now know what Athena does every day, and she does it all while working. I have no idea how she can get any work done with two active babies crawling around. I feel like I've done a full day of training and it's barely noon. The girls were up at six in the morning. Who does that on purpose?

As much as I wanted to run to the Park Hyatt where Athena is. I know she needs this time and I so do I. My girls treat me like they do the guys and I want to be more important to them. When my mom said she was learning she could come to me for comfort. The thought that girls wouldn't come to me like they do their mother, bothered me more than I ever thought it would. Their whole world is Athena because I can't even be bothered to come home on my days off and sing to them anymore.

Athena's POV

In the beginning, I thought staying here and away from my girls would make me a bad mother. I mean who needs a break from their kids? According to Mrs. Park the reason God gave kids two parents was to prevent burnout. She assured me that if Jimin was too busy to take care of the girls, she would. But he is off for the next few days and she wanted him to learn how to be a dad. It was kind of scary the way she smiled when said "Throwing him in the deep end to sink or swim"

Right now, I am in the Park Hyatt's Presidential Suite receiving a deep tissue massage. I feel no guilt, nothing but peace and tranquility at the hands of the talented hands of Ms. Lee. Between the lovely smelling oils and relaxing instrumental music, I feel like a new woman.

Mrs. Park sent me some pictures of the girls last night while Jimin was trying to feed them. Smiling to myself I made a mental note to let him know if he made train noises it when he fed them they ate better. That was my last coherent thought before my mind turned completely mushy.

Jimin's POV

"I'll be back Love. You will be fine," famous last words. Those were the last words my mother said to me before she disappeared three hours ago to get milk. Cliché I know, but now I have two pissed off princesses that I can't understand. Of course, someone chose this moment to knock on my door. If they have a noise complaint I have a collection of dirty diapers for them to suck on. Opening the door there is a smiling Tae and Jin is sporting the same look like the girls but at least he isn't screaming.

"What?!? I am busy." I don't have time for whatever it is they want. If they didn't come to translate or help they can go home. "You look like shit Jimin." Tae laughed as he pushed past me to sit on the couch with a bag I didn't notice he had.

"What the hell are you doing to these babies? I have never seen them so red before." I shrugged before offering, "Maybe a better question would be what are they doing to me. I have changed them and fed them. They don't want to play, and they already had a nap. I am out of ideas and they are not communicating." Jin slapped me in the back of the head and that entertained both the girls and Tae. The girls stopped screaming to giggle.

"OUCH!!! What the hell Jin?!?!?" Looking at me with that look that says I might be in danger. "They are communicating genius, they're screaming. What did you expect a full conversation? Do you know their schedule? What does Athena do with them during the day? Have you called her to ask? And NO swearing!!!" Scowling at him while I rubbed my head. "I thought about calling her, but she is taking a well-deserved break, and didn't want to interrupt her. Besides knowing her she would just come home and do it herself."

Jin looked thoughtfully as he picked up Rhea, who is currently an unhealthy shade of red. He nodded and rubbed her back as he gave me dirty looks. "Well, at least you're being considerate today." Tae crawled behind Hera on the floor as she crawled over to pull up on her stroller.

"Can we take them for a walk?" Tae asked as Jin and he turned to look at me. "Athena takes them to the local public park but I don't think we can, at least not without security and questions." Tae put Hera in her stroller and Rhea started to scream louder reaching her little arms towards her sister. Jin put her in and both girls began to giggle, bounce and return to their normal honey-colored complexion.

"We should be ok to walk them through the gated community. That should be safe since only people that live here can get in and they pay for privacy as well." We put their jackets on them on took them out to walk around the green area in our community.

Jin's POV

Tae and I went to check on Jimin today. We hadn't seen or heard from him since yesterday. Mostly I wanted to see the girls and make sure he didn't kill them on accident. The guys and I have been meaning to talk to him about going home more to see his girls', maybe even going to help him so that Athena could have a break. Sadly since we have been working on our comeback and it slipped our minds. Until his mother showed up and made it no longer an option.

"I think he's gonna be in a corner crying." Tae was laughing at his little joke. I glared at him before adding, "I bet he isn't, maybe just a little stressed." When Jimin opened the door, neither of us expected him to look like death or for the girls' to be screaming at the top of their lungs. Jimin has bags under his eyes and his hair is standing out in every direction. Not to mention the colorful splats of something on his clothes. I thought his mom was here helping him.

After watching the girls so Jimin could clean himself up a bit, we all left for a walk. The girls seemed to love it. We walked through our community making sure to stay away from the fences. Normally we don't think twice about walking in our community. Most of the people that live here are just like us and want to live in peace. However, a picture with us and the girls would be too tempting for anyone to resist.

"So, when do you plan to apologize?" Tae looks over at Jimin on the bench. I was wondering the same thing. "To who? For what?" Shaking my head I debating hitting him again, but I am just not seeing the benefit. "You might want to pay Athena a visit tonight or tomorrow and apologize for being an ass." Tae nods and adds, "I think begging would be nice too, you really messed up." Jimin looked at him with violence in his eyes, I stepped between them. Jimin is normally sweet and loving. But right now he has had very little sleep and has been beat up by babies.

"Look Jimin, you are not the first man that has ever had to apologize to his significant other and you will not be the last." Looking at him with a small smirk. "Women don't expect men to beg on their knees, but it helps if you bring sparky things and flowers." He nods and smiles at me. "Thank you, Jin."

"But just in case be prepared to beg on your knees." Tae laughed as he ducked the blow Jimin aimed at his head.

A/N: Hello beautiful people. 😁 I miss you. 😥 Working retail really sucks this time of year. I hope you enjoy this update and I am hoping to have more coming very soon. Enjoy your holidays. If the holidays aren't for you then just enjoy some peace and don't kill people. 😁 I will see you in the next update. ('▽'ʃ♡ƪ)༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ