"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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"Can I get in the cart, Hyung?" Jungkook asked as both the men entered the large supermarket close to their apartment.
Inhaling a lungful of air to soothe his irritated nerves, Yoongi turned to Jungkook, his eyes breathing a fire that even dragons would fear. "No."
"But mom and dad let me do it!" Jungkook sulked in response, causing a family passing by with their cart full of groceries to give the men an odd look. Embarrassed, Yoongi sent the younger man a scathing glare, wordlessly ordering him to be quiet. Jungkook pulled his lips into a pout as he looked away.
With the distant chime of supermarket music in the air, Yoongi pushed the trolley through the small entry gate after the doors and stepped into the horizon of aisles, stacked to the brim with food. The experience was quite overwhelming for him. Sure, he had been in supermarket before as a teen after school; He'd bought himself cokes and chips and similar items, but he had never been in a supermarket to buy groceries.
As easy as it sounded, for Yoongi, he was totally intimidated by the idea. There were so many options, and only a small amount of money. What was he even meant to get anyway? He didn't know how to cook, and neither did Jungkook. The past week they had just eaten ramen and take-out. He didn't know any meals he could make.
He pushed the cart through the rows of bakery pastries and fruits and deli meats, picking up a small bag of apples and bananas, some ham, and a loaf of bread. With the price of food the way it was, he was sure he'd spent a lot of the money just on those few items. When he decided he was finished in that area, he pulled the trolley towards the first large aisle of shelves.
There, Yoongi spotted a jar of instant coffee and knew that he must have it. With Jungkook around, he needed all the caffeine he could get. Putting it into the trolley, he surveyed as far as he could down the aisle. There were so many items: Carton milks, a wide variety of tea, chocolate drinks, and cereals. All just in that one aisle, and there was still so many more aisles to go. Not to mention Jungkook was being the equivalent of a four year old child and touching everything he saw.
Who knew grocery shopping could be so exhausting?
"Hyung!" Jungkook called to Yoongi from where he was standing beside the cereals, a box of lucky charms in his hand. "Can I put this in the trolley? Plleaassse?" Drawing his trolley closer to Jungkook, Yoongi took the box off him and inspected it. He could see in his peripheral vision the childish, hopeful look in Jungkook's eyes, pleading him to buy it.
On the front of the box was a leprechaun with an enticing smile was sitting at the top of the title, a rainbow of sugary shaped cereals falling from his hand into a pile at the bottom of the box. "Frosted oat cereal with marshmallow bits?" Yoongi frowned at the words on the box, looking back at Jungkook, "This is just candy and oats."
Jungkook's eyes began to water, his lip quivering in dejection.
"Jungkook, its cereal."
"But it's a special cereal, hyung." Jungkook sniffled, taking the box off Yoongi and looking at it as if it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.
