The Ugly Duckling [Jinkook, Minjoon, Taegiseok]

15: Too Young

Ages at the moment:

Jin: 20

Yoongi: 19

Hoseok and Namjoon: 18

Jimin and Taehyung: 17

Jungkook: 15

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Jungkook greeted Jin with a hug as soon as he got out of the carriage and made his way to Jin's room. He really liked to talk to Jin face to face, but they couldn't do that out in the open.

The very next thing Jungkook did as he pulled away, was compare his height to Jin's, eyeing the top of Jin's head and occasionally standing on his toes.

"You're still not quite there, Kookie," Jin laughed, noticing.

"I'm close, though," Jungkook grinned. "I'll pass you by next year for sure."

"Maybe," Jin shrugged. "But looking at Yoongi's height, you're odds for being tall aren't that great. I'm surprised you passed his height so young, but you might start slowing down soon like he did."

"But look at your height compared to Namjoon's. Both first borns were shorter, and Namjoon got really tall. I'm sure I'm meant to be tall like him."

"But you and Namjoon aren't related," Jin pointed out. "Your argument holds no solid evidence since you already passed Yoongi's height."

"Yoongi ruined his height by laying down all day and not eating enough," Jungkook said dismissively. "I eat plenty, so I have lots of energy and nutrients to grow more."

"One day your eating habits will give you a round belly, and I'm going to laugh at you."

"One day my eating habits with give me muscles and I'll laugh at you when you're drooling over my abs."

"Wow, such confidence," Jin laughed. "You know, you have to work out to get muscle, not just eat a lot."

"What do you think I've been doing at home all the time?" Jungkook smirked, flexing his bicep.

"All that work for no results," Jin jokingly lamented, making fun of Jungkook's stick-like boyish arms. "Are you sure you're working out?"

"I train with Hobi multiple times every week!" Jungkook pouted.

"I know you do. You never shut up about it," Jin laughed.

"I don't know why you're attacking me when you are literally half my size," Jungkook rolled his eyes playfully. "I mean look at those chicken legs."

"I'm perfectly healthy," Jin frowned, glancing down at his legs suddenly feeling a little insecure. He had made sure to lose weight as he got older so he wouldn't be so fat anymore. Was Jungkook joking or did he really think Jin's legs were ugly? What was the problem? Were they not skinny enough? Was he supposed to somehow have thicker legs and still have a small waist and no stomach?

"I'm gonna be honest, Jinnie. It's not that I don't think you look beautiful, but you don't look like a healthy weight to me. A little fat here and there is  healthy, you do know that, right?"

"I know that. And I have plenty of it."

"No. No, you don't." Jungkook deadpanned. "If you lift your shirt I'll see your entire rib cage. That's not  healthy. You probably even stunted your growth a little by not eating enough."

"It's not that  bad," Jin looked away. He knew Jungkook was right about seeing all his ribs. But he thought that's how others wanted him to look.