A Still Day or A Hurricane | Jungkook

You hadn't planned on coming here.

You always enjoyed work trips outside of Seoul. There was something about the long drives, the luxuries of the hotel, and the air outside of the city that you yearn for during client meetings and events. The trip usually forces you to stop for once and focus on the scenery before you, and for a few hours, you let your mind wander to things and places it usually doesn't travel to.

But since Heejin was born, you'd been turning down client and partner meetings and events that were more than a 30-minute drive away.

You don't like being away from her. It's second nature for your body to check on the baby monitor the moment you wake up, then to walk to the nursery and marvel at your sleeping little pearl holding her favorite blanket in her crib.

The need to hold her in your arms is consuming, as she's getting bigger and heavier by the day, and it's as if you just want to wrap your arms around her in an effort to slow things down.

You love having her close and engraving in your mind the details of her face, the flutter of her eyelashes against her skin, the little pout and furrowing of her eyebrows she makes when you try to sing or make her laugh. Her tiny hand always reaches out to your face, her baby fingers poking your cheek and sliding inside your mouth, and she laughs when you pretend to eat them. There's a stuffed lion that Taehyung got her that she adores and can't sleep without, and the sound of her laugh when you tickle her with it plays in your head when you're missing her. Like tonight.

Jin's father, a respectable lawyer himself, was supposed to give a speech on the last day of the legal convention set in Busan. It's one you attend every year, but you hadn't planned on doing so since you didn't want to be away from your daughter. But after needing to fly to Japan for an emergency, the elder Atty. Kim had asked his son to deliver his speech for him, and Jin couldn't say no.

He always told you that when it comes to speeches like this, you were always his calming presence. It's because instead of going soft and encouraging him, you psyche him up through your tough love. He said it always reminded him that there's a standard to reach, and yours is always so high and that challenges him.

It's why earlier in the day, you hadn't woken up due to the instinct of checking on Heejin; you woke up to your phone ringing and Jin's panicked cries on the other end. It was supposed to be a day trip - get there by noon and leave right after the event ends at 4PM. You could be home by dinner time, and you could tell Heejin a story as she fell asleep.

But upon hearing your presence in the convention, his father had requested both of you to meet one of the clients who'd reached out to him the next morning, and you couldn't say no.

Your mom advised you not to feel too down about it, as since giving birth, you haven't been away from your daughter, and maybe drinks near the beach and a night at a luxury hotel will help you get reenergized. You'd have the rest of Sunday to be with Heejin, your mom said.

You left early in the morning and spent half of the drive bickering with Jin about how you're now spending your weekend with him. You got to the venue, networked, and caught up with familiar faces, an impromptu meet-up with a couple of your law professors taking up so much of your time that you barely saw Jimin or your other associates in the convention; no one expected you to be there, anyway.

Don't fucking screw it up or I'm telling your father were your last words to Jin before he took the stage towards the end of the event, and like you expected, he delivered flawlessly, looking as charming and handsome as he always is. You didn't miss the way the lawyer next to you almost drooled and pretty much froze when Jin passed by her to sit at your side.