"Great. You are now my favorite child." Yoongi told the young girl, who beamed with his praise. He turned blankly to the rest of the children. "To everybody else - get back to work."
When a prideful Min Yoongi and his fearful cousin, Jungkook, are...
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"Ok, small and irritating human beings, we are going to be learning about trees." Yoongi told the class as they sat on their designated mats. Mrs Moore had told Yoongi that she was going to be out for the day and had left him a small list of things for the children to learn. Yoongi stuck with the easiest on the list – trees.
Lunch had just ended and Yoongi had managed to get the unruly children to take a seat on their mats below the teacher's chair, where he sat. The children talked and giggled with each other as they sat side by side, causing Yoongi to let out loud shushes in attempt to quiet them. It annoyed Yoongi that the main subject of their conversations was about his cousin - the cousin that was hiding fearfully behind his chair, like a two year old.
Yoongi had three hours until the parents came and picked their children up, but even then he'd still be left with an overgrown man child. If only he could get rid of him. Can you donate humans to thrift stores? Yoongi pondered as he looked behind his chair to the crying 23 year old. Probably not. What if I just send him back to his parents in the mail? No, he couldn't do that. Not only would that probably be expensive and a violation, but Jungkook was a criminal now and his parents would surely be in trouble if they had him in their possession.
It seemed Yoongi was stuck with the kid.
"Ok, can anyone tell me what a tree is?" Yoongi asked flatly, brushing the thought out of his mind and telling himself to focus on the job. A girl in the corner – one he'd found was named Rosie, put her hand up. He gave her an acknowledging nod so she would speak.
"A tree is a plant and it grows out of the ground and you can put a swing on it." The little girl gushed proudly, looking triumphantly over all her amazed friends.
"Sure." Yoongi dismissed her, pointing over to another child who had their hands up. "Mommy said a tree gives us oxininijin."
"Well then, your mommy can't pronounce for Shh...shat." Yoongi countered, stumbling over his profanities, "the way to pronounce it is 'Oxygen.'"
"You won't even get an F minus for that, buddy, that's like a Z minus." Yoongi added.
"What does Z minus mean?" The boy pouted, obviously sad that he wasn't being praised for his knowledge. "It means Zeal but you still failed severely." Yoongi responded, making up his own meaning for the harsh grading. "Anyone else?"
"Trees help us breathe." A little girl of Polynesian descent spoke up eagerly, only to have Yoongi sigh at her. "Look here, Tutti Fruity," He began, as her name, which he had learnt yesterday, decided to leave his brain. What was it again? Yoongi asked himself. "My name's Tallulah." The little girl responded with a dirty look.
"Tallulah, then." Yoongi spat back at her, "you're little friend over there already said that." Tallulah watched as he pointed a finger over at the curly headed boy in the group.
"No he didn't." The girl objected as she turned back to him, stomping her foot. "I said it first!"
"He was talking about Oxygen, and if you had any idea what that was, you'd know that someone already said what you just said."