Vexing Mister Kwon

Realizations

Ton: The Noble Society

The knocking on the door snaps Jihoon out of his thoughts and he groans, who could even be disturbing him right now? He was ready to start a new fight if it was his mother again. The knocking insists until Jihoon has no option but to get up and open it.

Seokmin stares at him with a radiant smile tightly holding a few sheets to his chest shifting from one foot to the other anxiously."Hi, I was searching for you all over the house, usually, you are next to the piano around this hour." Seokmin frowns slightly and Jihoon sighs letting the younger one in.

"I was not in the mood." Jihoon flops back on his bed as the other walks toward him with calculated steps sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Is everything alright with you?" Jihoon turns his head to look at his younger brother. Seokmin might be only 15, only three younger than them, and has not even presented, and yet sometimes he sounds and acts older than the rest of them, look at him now looking out for him instead of Jihoon checking on his younger siblings.

"Minnie, do you think I am a bad brother?" Seokmin's eyes widen so much blinking at a fast pace at the older.

"Why would you say such an awful thing brother?" Jihoon sighs and instead stares at his own fingers.

"Did you know about the books Wonwoo loved but mother banned from this house?" When Seokmin stays silent Jihoon just scoffs. "Of course you did, everyone did, after all, even Soonyoung except for me. Then there is the fact that Seungcheol is trying to court someone and never told me, it feels like I am not part of this family like I do not know you all at all anymore."

"That is not true!" Seokmin jumps to say in response. "You are part of this family brother, a very big part of it if I must say."

"Am I though? Wonwoo does seem to think otherwise."

"Wonwoo is just angry, he does not mean it." Jihoon rolls his eyes at the positivity of the younger.

"What even makes you so sure of that?" Seokmin smiles once again and pats Jihoon's head as if Jihoon were the younger one.

"It has never been a problem of us not considering you family, it is actually the fact that we consider you on a higher ground than the rest." Jihoon scrunches his nose in confusion at the younger.

"What do you mean?"

"Jihoon let me ask you a question, let us say something happened with you maybe a little embarrassing or personal but would you tell Mother or Yoongi?" Seokmin asks patiently.

"Well no. Mother will nag me so much and Yoongi will not let me live it down. Both of them will get overprotective over nothing."

"That is what we feel toward you." Jihoon sits up so fast looking at the other in betrayal.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Calm down please, Jihoon after father passed away and mother had her shut down phase, you were in charge, you were the person that took care of us. You were the person who decided what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. You did not relent till last year when Yoongi married and mother started to regain her senses that is when the old child in you resurfaced but it has been years of you taking up that role, please understand."

"So you are saying no one tells me anything because they are scared of me?" Seokmin gives a tiny nod and the other scoff. "Rubbish, I AM YOUR BROTHER, this is no excuse for me being kept in the dark about what happens in MY HOME."

Seokmin flinches at the other's tone scooting backward a little not even Jihoon noticing the change. "I did not mean to upset you, brother, I am sorry."