There's a moment when Jungkook laughs, and he feels like he can almost hear his own father's voice behind it. It's still hard to really picture how his father would have felt, knowing his only son and only child is in love with someone of the same gender. That his only child will never have the perfect, normal life that most parents wish for their kids. It's hard to know whether or not there'd be acceptance, or if Jungkook would have run into the same challenges that so many queer kids do with their parents, where queer boys specifically almost feel like an affront to their fathers, a hit on their own sense of masculinity.

He can't know. He'll never know. But maybe it's enough that he can imagine it, and that he can remember the happiness of this moment and bottle it up. Focus on making sure that the mother he still has will come around and realize just how happy and fulfilled her son feels now.

"I'm glad you think this was a good idea," Jungkook murmurs, leaning into the touch of Yoongi's fingers before turning his head and pressing a kiss to them. "And yeah. This... this means a lot to me, too. It feels right, us being here together."