counting change | yoonminseok

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"You basically kidnapped him!"

"What did you expect me to do? He wouldn't tell me anything about where he lived and he didn't have anything else on him." 

"You tricked someone to go home with you with ice cream!"

Jiminie slowly opened his eyes and looked around at the unfamiliar environment. He glanced around noting that the television was on cartoons but appeared to be quiet. He had a blanket around him and was wearing the same clothes from when he had been at the gym earlier but he struggled to remember anything else.

He wasn't feeling as little as he had been earlier so he tried to stay calm knowing freaking out would make the situation worse. He didn't know where he was at and that wasn't good but he did know that the guy who helped him earlier was here.

He was nice and he could even recall him buying him ice cream. Jiminie did feel slightly guilty because of that but he had worked out earlier so he could let it slide. He couldn't really change what he had done when he was even littler now and that made him huff in annoyance.

He could call Hoseok to come pick him up! Well no, he still wanted to keep his hair a surprise from him and Yoongi so he couldn't do that. Maybe Taehyung or Jungkook were free and could pick him up? He went to grab his phone from his pocket freezing when he couldn't find it.

He looked around trying to see if he could find it anywhere and couldn't help but frown. He was stuck in a place he didn't know and he couldn't contact anyone since he didn't have his phone. He didn't  remember any of his friends  numbers either and that just seemed to make him even more upset.

That was the second time in one day that Namjoon heard crying and Jin only seemed to widen his eyes and follow his boyfriend to their living room. 

"You calm him down, Jin." Namjoon said as he rushed back to the kitchen. "I'll warm up some milk!"

"Hey it's okay little guy."  The older said as he sat down on the couch letting the younger crawl into his lap. "What's the problem?"

"Don't know y-you." He said crying as he looked around the room. "D-don't know where I am."

"It's okay we're here for you, Jiminie. We just wanted to make sure you were safe and we didn't know where you lived."

The little slightly calmed down as he realized the two he was with didn't mean any harm and he looked back at the older holding him.

"You're weally pwetty."

"Thank you!" The older man said smiling at how blunt the younger was at complimenting his beauty. "My name's Jin and yours is Jiminie, right?"

"Mhmmmm."

"I like your pink hair, Jiminie."

"Tank you. There's wots of meanies who don't wike it. They keep cawing me mean names."

"Well don't listen to those people, they're jerks."

"I put the milk in your water bottle since I didn't have any baby bottles." Namjoon said as he walked in handing Jiminie his bottle. "I didn't really plan in advance for a situation like this, sorry."

"We should totally go and buy some little stuff for him! We can even decorate the spare bedroom for him to stay in!"

"That'd be kidnapping him, Jin."

The older huffed realizing how Namjoon was correct and went back to look at the little. He really was cute but Jin couldn't help but frown realizing how he was looking at the bottle.

"What's wrong, Jiminie? Do you not like the water bottle?" He questioned feeling himself panic seeing how sad the younger looked. "We can go out and buy a baby bottle if you'd like!"

"Am not supposed to dwink milk."

Namjoon frowned confused at the situation. He knew littles had habits that were similar to kids and he had just assumed that drinking warm milk would calm them down. Was that not how it worked? Suddenly a realization seemed to come to him as he grabbed the bottle from the younger.

"You're lactose intolerant!" Namjoon said causing Jin to nod in agreement as that seemed to be the only solution to the younger not being able to drink milk. "I can go grab you some juice instead! Do you have any preference for that?"

"Can't dwink juice either." The little said shaking his head. "Can hawe water."

Jin and Namjoon weren't usually one to pry into other peoples lives but it really was confusing with what the little was saying to them. Littles didn't seem like they would want to drink water since it was basically flavorless.

"Why can't you have juice or milk?"

"Too many numbers."

"Numbers?  What do you mean, Jiminie?"

The little seemed to tilt his head trying to think of the word. He had calmed down in the situation but he couldn't remember what the word was. He never brought it up around Tae and Kookie since he knew they would get alarmed about it and he had made sure not to bring it up around his boyfriends either.

Technically neither of those people had asked about it but Jin and Namjoon had. What was the harm in telling them? They seemed nice enough and Jiminie really didn't think they were going to tell anyone.

"Can you keep a secwet?"

"Of course!" Jin said as he stuck out his pinky trying to figure out what the little was talking about. He seemed to be able to act natural around kids which really surprised Namjoon. He hadn't expected his boyfriend to get so attached and act so kindly to the random boy he had brought home. "I'm the best at keeping secrets!"

Jiminie giggled while he shook his pinky with Jin and then looked at Namjoon.  He seemed confused at the situation until his boyfriend nudged him to tell him to pinky promise with the younger. He swiftly did and they both sat waiting as the younger struggled to think of the word.

"They're the numbers that go with food! I don't know what they're cawed but I can't have too many or else I'll get even more fat." He frowned as he looked at the older people he seemed to be looking at each other now. "I already had ice cweam today so I've had too many."

"Oh no, Jiminie."

I have to go take the ACT tomorrow in a town two hours away from where I live and I'll be surrounded by strangers there and even the thought of that is really scary