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"Jeon Jung Kook, youngest CEO of South Korea and rated the 2nd handsome face by TCandler, returns to Seoul, South Korea from Tokyo, Japan in a Christmas Holiday Vacation with a said friend," the news caster paused. "The CEO returns home with a shocking news 7 hours after his return. His statement is said through Jeon Corporations that he is engaged with the said friend of his who came with him to Japan and introduces his first heir to the company, his biological daughter, Jeon Ji Yoon. By the month of May next year, he is to be married with his fiancé, Doctor Park Chae Young, the said best neurosurgeon in the nation. The Jeon Corporations also stated that if Ms. Park is to be mobbed and attacked by media, press and journalists, the company will take legal actions if ever it will happen. By the return of work in January next year, CEO Jungkook will officially introduce his daughter to the press and will hold a man-to-man interview with Soompi afterwards. I am Ahn Joo Song, reporting."

Taehyung's coca-cola in his mouth was now spilled all over his turtle neck sweater while Jimin spilled the bowl of popcorn on the ground. 

It's Jimin's last 3 weeks of being a bachelor and he wanted to spend that 3 weeks like the olden days, except that his other friends couldn't make it as they were busy with work in the holidays. Taehyung, in the other hand, felt lonely in the penthouse he and Jennie shared since she is off with her family for a holiday celebration. 

And since Jungkook wasn't around to spend time with them, it was only them watching the news, netflix or playing games all day long. Even though they had a lot of work to do, they decided to chill and let Jimin spend the last days of his bachelor life well. 

They were about to eat their "healthy" dinner when the newsflash suddenly caught their attention.

"Uhm...Tae.." Jimin's eyes were still attached to the screen. 

"Shut up," Taehyung replied. 

"What the fuck did we just hear?" they both looked at each other. 

Taehyung stood up, "Did that hot reporter just say Jungkook's getting married?"

"I was about to ask you, because I think I did not hear it well." Jimin grabbed his phone in his pocket. "Check your phone, idiot!" 

They both grabbed their phones, only to find it trending in Naver and Twitter. 

"AH!" Taehyung shouted. 

Jimin looked up, "What? What? Found anything?" 

"Well, of course, you'd find something. It's trending worldwide! But here!" Taehyung motioned his hand so Jimin could come closer. 

"We would like to announce that, Jeon Jung Kook, CEO of the Jeon Corporations and Businesses is now happily engaged with his long time girlfriend, Doctor Park Chae Young. Our CEO will officially introduce his first and biological heir, Jeon Ji Yoon to the public and hold a man-to-man interview with Soompi interviewer, Mr. Jo Jin Ryu. Any other interview requests will be politely denied, as requested by the Corporation's protection management. 

In regards to the safety of Ms. Park, any mobbing and attacking by the media, press, journalists or any citizen, will be taken legal action by the Corporation. Questions regarding the personal life of the young heiress will be kept private until the interview with Mr. Jo. 

The Jeon Corporations and Businesses is personally apologizing to the cause of commotion and ruckus in any form of media. 

Thank you for trusting your number 1 Corporation funder," Taehyung read and looked at Jimin. 

"That bitch did not even tell us first and let the whole world know it before us!" Jimin complained and looked at his phone when it rang. "Check the group chat, Tae."

Taehyung, still shocked by the news, brings his phone to his face and reads the group chat thread that goes 100 km/h. With Jin, Yoongi, Hoseok, Namjoon and Jimin: "@/JeonKook" a million times and asking him to go online. 

"Tae! Join us!" Jimin complained as he typed. 

"Well, uhm," he sighed. "Maybe give him space? I mean, it's not that shocking that he'd propose to her."

Jimin puts the phone away from his face and looks at Taehyung, seriously. 

"8 months, Kim Tae Hyung! Just 8 months!" he said. 

"But they have a kid, my grandparents say, children are symbols of love to parents. I think what we're doing is wrong, plus Jungkook's like 27, isn't he supposed to be married already? 30 is really an old age to have a family, you know."

The other throws his hands in the air, "Seokjin-hyung, is 30 and he's not a father! Jungkook's brother is the same!" 

"Okay, first, Seokjin-hyung's married not by church but by law. Just that you were in Busan with Seulgi-noona that time, and they didn't want anything grand. And Dongie-hyung just doesn't want to be married at the moment, remember? Plus, Jungkook's gonna need an heir. So let the big boy be," Taehyung sat down on the couch and watched television. 

When he was watching TV, Jimin was examining his friend while glancing in the group chat. Still Jungkook is not answer anyone. 

His active status says that he was online 18 hours ago. But when he saw Taehyung texting someone in his phone, Jimin gasps. Then Taehyung looked up to see what happened to Jimin. 

Jimin pointed his finger towards Taehyung, "YOU KNEW?!" 

Taehyung grabbed the pillow besides him and made it as his protection, "I...I...I..."

"YOU KNEW?! AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME?!" Jimin advanced towards Taehyung. 

"J-J-J-Jungkook a-a-a-asked-d-d-d m-m-m-me-e n-n-not t-to t-t-te-el-l," he stuttered. 

But before Jimin could start the tickle war, his cellphone rings. Taehyung's phone rings as well, and they looked at the caller ID. It was a group call. 

Before answering, you can see that Yoongi was still in his working with his computer, Hoseok in his dance studio, Namjoon in his office, and Jin on his bed.

"Your phone, besides we're in one place," Jimin tells the younger. 

Taehyung answers the call and shows that everyone was yelling and screaming at each other. And all of a sudden, Jungkook joined the call. 

Jungkook was on his bed, as he just woke up from his nap. He's exhausted but since he knows there's a commotion in the group, he forced himself to press the call button. 

He rubbed his eyes and yawned before switching sides on the bed. 

"Hey, hyungs," he says in a raspy voice. "Heard the news?"

All of them started to yell his name, asking him to sit up straight and start talking like a man or else they'd one-by-one, except Yoongi, come to his apartment and beat him up. But he didn't, instead he just smiled. 

When he smiled all of them also noticed it. The smile he showed was completely different. There was the smile of passion and love on his face, and the spark of joy in his eyes. 

"I guess that's how my protective hyungs congratulate me," he says and all of them stops spitting their words at him.

"Jungkook-ah..." Jin said.

Jungkook smiles bigger, "Ah, gwaenchana. It's fine. It's only typical of you guys to react like that. I appreciate it."

On the other side of the world, Yoongi leaned his head on his hand and pretended to cry, "Jungkookie's getting married."

Yoongi continued to pretend cry and sob while Namjoon congratulated him. 

"Aish, 8 months? You sure about this, Kook?" Jimin asked. 

"More sure than your height, yes, I'm sure," Jungkook replied and coughed a little. 

"Kook, hire me as your entourage singer!" Hoseok joked. 

Jungkook nodded, "Why not? You can have your dance number on the day."

"AiSH! CHAKAMAN!" Jin silenced everyone. "One week in freaking Japan, you're engaged and you're more mature than the way you used to be?! Oh, my God! Jungkook! Stay, child, stay!"

"I wonder why all of you are shocked, Taehyungie-hyung knew before I went to Japan," Jungkook answer, rubbing his eyes. 

All of them switched their eyes to Taehyung's camera. 

"Aish, before yelling at him, it was your fault for not coming to shopping with me 3 months ago," Jungkook said. 

Namjoon hummed, "How'd your asking go, Kook? My junior and my brother. Getting married? What a dream!"

Jungkook chuckled, "Placed the ring under the coffee cup, it took her a minute to reply. Just in the hotel, didn't want anything to be too grand since the trip was already grand itself. Did it on Christmas day, and yes, we did have a body-contact, before you guys ask. Also, yes, we had a kiss already. And yes, appa, hyung and eomma knows already."

Jin coughed, "Eherm! Body contact! I did not teach you that!"

"Kids these days...." Hoseok shook his head slowly.

"Sex before marriage, we should've forced him into Sex Ed Class," Yoongi says. 

"Yoongi!"

"Yoongi-hyung!" 

They shouted at the screen. 

Yoongi looked at them, "What? He should've placed the condom right. Or maybe the rubber he used is not as expensive his briefs."

"YAH. MIN YOON GI!" Jin shouted. "ENOUGH WITH YOUR RUBBERS AND BRIEFS!"

"My briefs are as tight as ziplocks, hyung," Yoongi jokes. 

"Yoongi-hyung's drunk, that's for sure," Taehyung says. 

"Come on, Gucci boy, your briefs are probably from Gucci too," Yoongi laughs. 

Hoseok pinches his nose bridge, "Someone kick him out of the call and chat. Let him in when he stops talking about briefs."

Jungkook smiled at the screen, as his hyungs continued to argue. There were other group chats that also messaged him about the same thing, but instead of arguing, his other friends were congratulating him. 

His friends and business partners in the USA, released an announcement just when he was scrolling through his chats. It was his friend's opinion towards Jungkook's statement, and his friend replied with: "Maybe I can get his daughter a gift?". 

A lot of people he knew were congratulating him, and it felt overwhelming for Jungkook. He sat up from his bed, still under the covers, trying to reply to all the people who congratulated him. 

But then Cole sent him a message. Jungkook expected it to be a congratulations, only to have it as bad news. It was 4 screen shot messages of Yuri's mom asking Cole about the news. 

Without any second left, the caller ID on Jungkook's phone is Yuri's mom. He quickly answered her and hesitated. 

"Yeo..Yeobuseo?" he asked. "Who's this?"

"Jungkook-ah...you probably forgot to save my number..it's me. Yuri's eomma," she replied. 

He paused, "Ah..yes, auntie, what's up? I haven't seen you in a while, although, I've been visiting Yuri frequently."

He heard sobbing and he took a small breath. 

"Yeobuseo?" he asked. 

"Ah, Jungkook-ah, mianhae," she sniffed. "I heard you're getting married next year, to a new woman. It's been 5 years, but I still have no reason to move on from what happened to her. But-"

Yuri's mother took a deep breath, "I'm sure this woman, she's as great as Yuri. It was hard on you, Kook, that night, 5 years ago. Thank you for being part of my daughter's life. For sure she's smiling on how far you've reached, Kook. Congratulations--hajimaaa!!"

The phone call got cut off. 

Jungkook looked at his phone and wondered. Why did she scream? Who else was there when she was calling him? He supposed that Yuri's parents were in Jeju, living their retired life. 

But it sounded like they're not in Jeju. 

He pressed the number again, and tried to call but it kept saying the number is out of reach. While he was trying to figure out what was happening, Chaeyoung entered his room. 

She was leaving for Melbourne to visit her parents. Alice is in Europe for a conference in her orthodontics association conference. At the same time, Chaeyoung wanted to break the news to her parents. 

It would've been better if Jungkook was there, but in that week, Jungkook needed to prepare Jiyoon for the press and set goals for the company in the new year. 

In short, both of them were busy. 

And resting after they arrived from Japan became a tiring thing to do for Chaeyoung. She wanted to jog outside, but there's probably a lot of reporters in the entrance of the apartment building. 

Chaeyoung rolls on top of Jungkook's bed, while he puts his phone on the nightstand as he noticed her. 

"What's wrong, babe?" he asked. 

"Nothing, I'm just...tired," she replied. 

"Go sleep, then."

"That's what I'm tired of."

"I see, you want to go outside?" he asked while rubbing her cheek. 

"Yeah, but safety, like what Cole said."

"I'll keep you busy, come here," he pulled her in a hug and they lay down on the bed. 

She giggled, "So how'd your hyungs go with it?"

"They overreact to everything, so you know what happened. Your sister?"

"She screamed and she was inside their conference," they both laughed. "This is really..a new feeling to me."

"What do you mean?" he kissed her forehead. 

"There's this feeling of worry and happiness at the same time."

"How come?"

"You know those things where couples love each other and marry, but after quite sometime they get tired of each other and end up divorcing? It's those things I'm worried about, I mean eonnie has been receiving a lot of hate from my parents ever since her engagement got called off."

He pulled her in closer, "Those things, you don't have to worry about it, okay? Things will be fine. We've got months to continue learning about each other. What we'll do is get our priorities done, get planned for the wedding and maybe expand the family?"

"No."

"What? Why?" he laughed. 

"I do not want to experience the feeling of labor again! Pushing Jiyoon out was like asking me to poop all the foods I've eaten my entire life! And no, I hate entering those pregnant women yoga classes, I hate those," she complained. 

Jungkook giggled and put a strand of hair behind her ear, "Relax, that won't happen. But I'm sure, we're getting another kid in you."

"Jeon Jungkook!" she slapped him. 

"I love you, babe."

"Love you, too."

They kissed each other but then the little girl near the door covered her eyes. 

"Oh, no, my eyes! They're blind!" Jiyoon shouted. 

Jungkook and Chaeyoung only laughed at her. 

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