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“Tae…I’ve got some not-so-great news.” Nia announced.

“You drove our car into a ditch?  It’s fine, we can buy a new one.”

“What?” Nia laughed. “No!  The police station called.  They found Jisung’s dad.”

“Really?” Taehyung asked.  Nia had expected him to look disappointed, but instead, he looked elated.

“Yeah.  They want us to bring him down in about an hour.  So, I’m going to go pack his things up.”

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“Nooo I don’t want to go.  I wanna stay with you, Uncle Tae.”

“I know.  But your dad is coming to get you!  Isn’t that exciting?”

Jisung shook his head.  Taehyung sighed.

“You can still see us, Jisungie.  You just won’t be living here anymore.”

The little boy pouted.

“Come on.  Let’s go.”

Fifteen minutes later, Taehyung had the biggest shock of his life when he walked into the police station.

“Tae?”

“Yoongi?  Jisung is yours?”

“Apparently.  I had no idea I had a kid.”

Jisung hid his face in Tae’s shoulder.

“Jisungie, can you say hi to your appa?”

“Noooo.  Don’t wanna leave you.”

“Hey, we can see each other a lot.  Your appa and I are friends.”

“Really?” Jisung asked, looking up at Taehyung, who nodded.

“Hi there, Jisung.”

Jisung looked over at Yoongi.  Yoongi smiled. “You like Tae?”

Jisung nodded.

“You can still see him.  You’ll just live with me now.”

Taehyung set Jisung down on the ground.  But Jisung wasn’t going to let him go that easily.  He reached over and hugged Taehyung’s leg.

“Do you want to meet my puppy?” Yoongi asked. “He’s a little big, but I think you’ll like him.”

“You have a puppy?” Jisung asked in a small voice.

Yoongi nodded.

“I wanna see!”

Yoongi squatted down to the little boy’s height and pulled out his phone.  He held it up for Jisung to see.  It was a photo of a small, fluffy, white and black dog with two ears that stuck straight up. “This is Cocoa.  Isn’t he cute?”

“Yeah!”

“Should we go meet him?” Taehyung asked.

Jisung looked up at him before grinning and nodding.

Taehyung and Yoongi both breathed a sigh of relief.  Maybe this wouldn’t be so hard after all.

——————–

Yoongi’s tiny husky was very excited to have someone to chase around the yard.  He bounded after Jisung as he ran around the yard.

“I’m glad you have a dog.  Jisung loves dogs.  It’ll make the move a lot easier on him, I think.”

Yoongi laughed. “I hope so.  This morning I got a call informing me I had a kid, and I was shocked.  My ex had never said anything about a baby.  Honestly, I hadn’t even considered it.  how long has he been staying with you?”

“About a month now.  I found him all alone at the market and couldn’t get ahold of his mother via the number he had for her.  We ended up down at the station and she had her parental rights taken away.  It was a bit of a disaster.  We were planning to adopt him if they didn’t find you.”

Yoongi smiled. “I’m glad they did.  He seems like a good kid.  I hope he won’t mind me.  I’ve never spent much time with kids.”

“Just talk to him like he’s an adult.  Sure, he has different interests and is still naïve to the world, but he’s still easy to talk to.  I have a feeling you’ll get along just fine.  Also, he has a fascination with cars if that helps you at all.”

“Oh, I can already see something we’ll bond over.”