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I know I'm in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams.
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Dec 30, 2026
Taehyung's POV

Waking up this morning, my hands scrambled around to find nothing but emptiness, I was alone in bed.

Weakly cracking open an eye, I called out to Amy.

"Taehyung, I'm here in your room," she replied, and I got out of bed and dragged my sleepy feet to the other bedroom.

"Morning, baby! I have something for you," she chirped brightly and extended her hand holding a small paper bag while my mind was still trying to process if it was even possible for someone to be this energetic in the mornings.

I took the bag from her, sleepily ruffling my bedhead and plopped down on the single bed.

"Happy birthday once again, Taehyung," she sat down next to me and kissed my cheek.

"Thank you, darling," I pecked her pout, my morning voice was hoarse and scratchy, but Amy always told me that it sounded sexy. I opened the present, and instantly my eyes opened wide. It was the newly launched limited edition GUCCI perfume.

"Wow, Amy! This was so hard to get. I tried so much. How did you get it, though?" I asked as I took the box out of the bag.

"I tried too," she winked, wrapping an arm around my shoulder.

"Whoa! I love it... thank you so much, Amy. You're adorable," I kissed her cheek.

Soon, we showered and cooked and ate together and watched a movie, after which we left the house to pick up MinJun from Jay's house.

It was my first time meeting Jay and Allan in all these years, although I had seen Jay once with Amy during my Black Swan movie premiere. We were greeted at the door by Allan and their one-year-old baby girl, Mia.

Mia was so cute with her chubby, rosy cheeks and deep blue eyes, just like Allan's. She looked like an angel. Her soft hair was cut in bangs, and it framed her face beautifully. I fell in love with her at once, and I just couldn't take my eyes off her.

I carried her in my arms and squished her cheeks. She was stunned by a stranger lifting her and started to cry, and I quickly handed her back to her father and apologized.

Jay came in to greet us with a bright smile on her face.
"Hi, Taehyung. I'm Jay. We're meeting for the first time in all these years," she beamed and shook my hand.

"Yeah, our meeting never happened," I smiled back, thinking back to all the days when I met Amy alone at her house in Songpa-gu and how coincidentally every time I left before Jay arrived.

"Amy and Taehyung, MinJun is getting his stuff. He has been so excited to meet you both," Allan announced with a smile while softly patting and rocking Mia who had now stopped crying and lay down on her father's shoulder, sucking her thumb.

My heart suddenly longed to have a daughter.

I so want a girl baby of my own. I want to carry her and play with her and love her with my whole heart. I want a daughter with Amy's eyes. I will be the man who always sets her standards high.

Lost in my thoughts, I smiled at Allan and Mia, and just then MinJun came running towards me from the bedroom. Seeing him, I instantly crouched down on my knees and received him in my arms, hugging him tight.

"MinJun ah, I missed you so much," I said to him, holding him close to me and softly patting and rubbing his back.

MinJun pulled away and looked into my eyes.
"Happy birthday, appa," he smiled brightly, making my eyes widen and my heartbeat reach its upper limits.

Am I really hearing it?

My lips quivered, and my eyes welled up in a second.
"MinJun ah? Did you just call me appa?" I stuttered as my tears rolled down my cheeks.

He bobbed his little head up and down.
"Yes, appa, happy birthday," he flashed his bright smile showing all his pearly milk teeth.

My shoulders shook as I hugged him tight and cried happy tears, and he wrapped his little hands around my neck.

"Eomma told me that you are my appa and not ahjussi. So I won't call you Taehyung ahjussi anymore. I will call you only appa" his little voice sounded close to my ear

"MinJun ah, I was so worried about how to tell you this. Thank you so much for calling me appa. I am your appa," I said wiping the tears from my cheeks with the back of my hand.

"Appa... it's your birthday today. Don't be sad and cry. I made a gift for you" he gave me a paper envelope on which he had scrawled out 'happy birthday to my abeoji'

I opened it with a big smile and inside was a drawing of three people labelled as eomma, appa and MinJun. They were stick figures but the picture melted my heart, making my tears flow faster.

"Thank you, MinJun ah. This is so precious." I kissed his cheek, and he wiped it away with a sheepish smile because I wetted his face with my tears.

"I too have a gift for you," I said and pulled out a neatly wrapped present from inside my coat, and he gasped, clapping his hands excitedly.

"Really?" He squealed and took it from my hands and sat down to open it. I sat down with him on the floor.

All this while Amy, Jay, Allan and half-asleep Mia were around us witnessing everything that happened. I didn't mind. MinJun knows I'm his dad, and he accepted me and called me appa. That was all that mattered to me.

The present that I gave MinJun was his own drawing that I stole from his school display board. I got it framed for him with a hand-written note for him at the back of the frame.

"It's my drawing. Wow, it is in a frame. I love it!" He exclaimed excitedly.

"Turn it around, junior," I ruffled his hair, laughing amidst my tears.

He turned it around and read aloud slowly,

'Be happy always. I love you a lot MinJun : Love - Appa'

"Thank you, appa. I love you a lot too. I missed you so much," he pouted and hugged me tight.

"I love you, MinJun. Let's be happy from now on, okay?" I patted his back.

Lifting Minjun in my arms, I got up and spoke to Jay.
"Jay, thank you so much for everything you've done all these years. You've really been more than a mother to Amy. Thank you for taking care of her. I will keep up your good work and not let you down, ever," I said with tears in my eyes and a smile on my lips.

Jay was in tears too, and she only nodded and smiled through her tears which she kept wiping away with her fingers.

After spending some more time at Jay's house, we left feeling happier than we've ever been in a very long time. My life felt so complete and wholesome already.

Junior was all chatty and excited throughout the car ride. I sang along with him, and we reached home around 6 pm.

Once at home, Amy brought out a cake from the kitchen, taking me by surprise.

"Wow! When did you get that?" My voice mirroring the surprise in my mind.

"Surprise," she winked and set the cake in front of me, and MinJun was super excited. I scooped him on to my lap and sat down to cut the cake.

"Appa," he turned around and cupped my cheeks in his soft hands. "First, close your eyes and make a wish. Then blow out the candles. You are thirty-two years old today," he smiled brightly and kissed my cheek, and I did as he told.

I closed my eyes and made a wish and blew out the candles, and together we devoured more than half of the cake.

Afterwards, Amy and I cooked dinner together while MinJun was unpacking his bags. We ate together as always, and Amy got ready to take him to bed.

"Eomma... I want appa to sleep with us," MinJun proposed a plan out of nowhere.

Amy glanced at me, and I shook my head in defense because I didn't tell him that.

Sighing, Amy turned to look at him.
"Honey, you roll around a lot. And the bed is not too big. It might be hard for appa to sleep there," she told him softly.

"No, I don't mind. I want to sleep next to junior," I interrupted and smiled broadly.

"Huh? Umm..." she looked at us both for a second and then said, "I hope one of us doesn't fall out. We'll sleep together," she chuckled and nodded.

"Yayyy!!" MinJun jumped into my arms and we all went into the bedroom. I got him ready for bed and we read him a book each, something that I had been wanting to do ever since I came here. He spoke for a long time and kissed and cuddled with us, and then I sang him a song—one that I sang to him almost on all nights when he was still inside Amy's belly. That song always calmed him down, just like it did today. It brought back so many beautiful memories as well and even as I kept singing, his eyelids drooped down without his consciousness, and he snuggled up to Amy and fell asleep peacefully.

I kissed his cheek and peeped over at Amy, and she was asleep too. MinJun was sleeping in the space between us.

I snaked my hand over to Amy's waist and tickled her lightly, and she opened her eyes and squinted in the dark, putting a finger to her lips and rolling her eyes towards MinJun.

Chuckling low, I kept tickling her and I walked my fingers down to her thighs.

She slapped my hand and giggled.
"Taehyung, he might wake up," she whispered.

"But I'm not able to sleep," I whispered back while still stroking her thigh, inching closer to her womanhood.

She held my hand and took it to her lips and gently kissed and sucked my fingertips, making me moan lightly, and every hair fiber in my body stood on its end.

I gently moved MinJun's limbs away from Amy's body, and he rolled over towards me. Dodging him, I pounced on top of her, straddling her hips and bent in to her ears,
"I'm so turned on now. I need you, baby... don't starve me. We really need to finish what we started last night," I spoke feeling super horny, my flaccid manhood already starting to firm up pressed against her core.

"You chose to sleep here. We could've done it in your room if you were there," she pouted and complained, her hands sliding inside my shirt and gliding over my stomach.

"Let's move there now... Pleaseee... we'll come back in ten minutes. No no... Just five minutes" I begged, grinding my erection against her sensitive core.

She covered her face and laughed softly and then nodded, blushing. I got up and she got up too, and placed a few pillows along the side of the bed so that junior wouldn't roll over and fall down.

We closed the door leaving a small gap, and I literally pounced on her. We entered my room kissing and touching each other hungrily and without breaking the kiss, I closed my room door behind me and locked it to be safe.

Getting rid of all our clothes at the speed of light, we did it all quicker than we've ever done it before.

"Baby, you're so hot... I can never get enough of you," I stuttered as I reached my high, finishing faster than I thought.

I moved in and out slowly in her wetness and lay on her back, hugging her tightly and cupping my hands around her breasts, my teeth digging into her shoulder.

"Baby... I love you," whispered Amy.

"I love you more, Amy... I want more," I said, feeling still needy.

"Taehyung... junior might roll and wake up," Amy whined.

"Didn't you say he sleeps well?" I whispered and bit her shoulder lightly, kissing it a few times thereafter, and she only laughed lightly.

"I liked this quickie session though. Sneaky sex is hot" I chuckled

Pulling out, I lay down on the bed, and Amy rested her chin on my chest.
"Taehyung, we could do this all day and still not get bored at all. We're dorks," she laughed, her fingers stroking my erection that was glazed in her juices and slowly cooling down.

I slightly lifted my head and looked at her.
"I mean, hello? We need to make up for six years, okay? We should be doing it many times every day for the rest of our lives," I chuckled, letting my head fall back on the pillow.

"I wanted to ask you something, baby," she said, drawing patterns on my chest with her fingertips.

"Anything," I stroked her soft hair and her smooth shoulder and back.

"How did you get MinJun's drawing? He submitted it at school." Amy's question was followed by a moment of pin-drop silence.

"Uhh...umm... I actually stole it from his school," I smiled sheepishly, embarrassment evident in my tone.

"You what?" She burst out laughing.

"Yeah... I didn't know why, but I wanted to take it. It came in handy though. I wanted to reveal it to him with his own picture. But you made it easier, baby. MinJun was excited. He liked his picture in a frame," I announced proudly.

"He loved it, Taehyung. I told him because I wanted it to be your birthday present. I didn't know that you too were planning something," she said and pecked my lips, pressing her breasts to my side.

"What more can I ask for? It's the best gift, baby. Thank you so much for everything," I said and connected my lips with hers.

Pulling away from the liplock, Amy kissed my chest and got up to get dressed. I got dressed too and we both carefully and quietly sneaked back into bed with junior as if nothing just happened. He was in a deep state of sleep.

I pecked Amy's lips before crashing back in bed and falling asleep.

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Now, I promised there won't be any more time skips. But what I meant was time skips to the future. The epilogue that follows has a major time skip, but to the past.

Any guesses why?

Think about who Taehyung really is in this book, and you may get a small hint.