Tiny?

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Borrowers aren't supposed to spend time with human beans.

Jr. knew that. And yet, he has a secret habit that he loves more than anything else: spying on the only daughter of the family from which he and his family borrow their livelihood.

Almost everyone in the family is a model borrower, good at taking what they need and sneaking away undetected.

If anyone gets greedy, and tries to take something that they can't carry without causing a ruckus, the other brothers are always there to bring the culprit back to his senses. That's how they've gone unnoticed all these years.

There are, however, a few repeat offenders. Every morning, Jr. wakes up earlier than everyone else, and waits for his hyung, Youngjae, to sneak past the other members. In a few minutes they reach the hallway, and the conversation always goes something like this:

YJ: Go back inside and sleep, Jr. I don't want you to break the rules just because I do.

JR: No, Young Jae. I refuse to go SLEEP while you go on an adventure.

YJ: That's Young Jae HYUNG to you. And anyway, I'm going to WATCH dramas about amazing things, I don't get to jump into the screen or anything. (sniffs, rubs the sleep from his eyes in an attempt at faking tears.)

JR: We both know I'm going with you, why do you insist on arguing?

YJ: I'm hoping that like a drop of water wears at a heavy stone day by day and weathers it, I can get you to leave me alone, if I'm irritating enough.

JR: (mumbles) Love is stronger than annoyance.

YJ: Did you say something?

JR: (yells, fakes deafness) WHAT?

YJ: (death glare, breaths deeply) (prays aloud) Lord, please give me the strength to deal with this child.

(Later that night, around 8 pm.)

"Do I...perhaps...like you?" The male lead of our young human bean's new favorite drama asked.

Jr. scoffed. "Yah. What kind of an idiot is this, huh? Who confesses like that?" Young Jae shoved a piece of popcorn,(small for humans, almost bigger than their tiny faces), into Jr.'s mouth, shushing him.

"This is how you confess without really confessing. Imagine you are a girl I have recently developed feelings for." (Jr. makes barfing noises)

Young Jae rolled his eyes and continued, "Figuratively. I don't want to say outright, 'I like you.' So instead, I ask a question that she will ask herself all the time from the moment I say it. 'Do I like you?'"

Jr. scrunched up his nose. "I still don't get it." He muttered.

"It makes the girl think! She doesn't take for granted that he likes her, but instead she wonders. 'Does he? Does he like me?'" Young Jae explained.

"Ohhh, I get it now...HEOL. That's really smooth, isn't it?" Jr. blurted out.

Young Jae smiled, but warned, "Don't actually use dating tips from dramas to try and win a girl's heart. It never works out the way you think it will."

Jr. was considering this when his eyes landed again on his reason for being out here watching his least favorite dramas with his hyung. She seemed kind of small, if you were looking down at her lying on the couch from their perch on the mantelpiece above.

Not small enough, Jr. thought. He sighed, but the weight that sat on his chest whenever he thought about his hopeless situation never moved, no matter how much air he forced into his lungs.

"I'm in love with a human bean,

and I'm an idiot."