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Chapter 10

Youngjae ran his hands through his hair and sighed. He looked away from the leader and looked at him in the eye. "I don't regret it at all. But sometimes i just wish i could be able to provide for my family. As the only brother left it's my job to help out when my dad isn't around." Jaebum sighed and pulled youngjae into a hug. "I understand youngjae. Believe me. I really do. I'm sorry i yelled at you but you have to understand that the choices people make in life are for a reason. I want you to apologize to everyone. Especially your mother. Okay?" Youngjae nodded and pulled away reluctantly from the hug. "i'm sorry for yelling at you hyung." Jaebum nodded and gave youngjae a reassuring smile. "it's okay youngjae. Now go to the others. I'm sure they're worried." Youngjae nodded and walked out of the bathroom, soon walking into the kitchen where the room felt light and fun again. Jackson did a rather good job at making sure that everyone was okay. The mess had been cleaned up and everyone had a smile on their face. The ones that were easy to read were the ones that worried youngjae the most. Although they looked happy, both Mark and his mom were still worrying about him. He sighed and stepped into the room, clearing his throat. "Um... i uh... " He hesitated for a second before feeling someone pat his back. He smiled and gave himself a little nod of encouragement as he stood up straight and looked his mother in the eyes. "I would like to sincerely apologize for how i acted. It's not fair to you and i know that you probably are embarrassed.... or ashamed of how i acted. I didn't mean to cause a scene and i realize that by breaking that glass i could've hurt one of you." Youngjae let out a huff as if he had just been holding his breath. His head had hung low when he heard the chair move and felt arms engulf him. He hugged back and felt a hand pet the back of his head. "Oh youngjae... sweetheart you know i would never do that to you if i didn't have a reason." Youngjae nodded and a wave of relief washed over him. " I know mom. I'm really sorry." Eun-Chae smiled and squeezed her son tightly, earning a loud giggle from her son. She let go and kissed forehead. "How are your hands?" Youngjae looked down at them and shrugged. "they're alright" His mother nodded and smiled. "That's good." She smacked him playfully across the head and put her hands on her hips. "Boy!! Do you know how dangerous your stunt was??? You could've hurt someone!! Your lucky your friends are here to clean up the mess because if it were me, You DAMN well know i would've made you clean up the mess you made, bloody hands or not!!" Youngjae chuckled nervously and rubbed the back of his neck. "i'm just glad your okay baby. I'm also glad that you have such a handsome leader to take care of you and the rest of these boys." Eun-Chae winked and youngjae shoved her playfully. "EOMMA!!!!!" The rest of the group laughed, his mother included. Youngjae was glad that everything was back to normal. 

"Hyung lets go surfing!! The beach here in mokpo is beautiful and i heard it was gonna be one of the hottest days today" Youngjae pleaded. "Yeah hyung be smart for once and listen to youngjae" Yugyeom added. "YAH Yugyeom!!! I am your HYUNG you need to respect me!!!"Jaebum snapped at yugyeom who laughed and stuck his tongue out in response. "C'mon jaebum lighten up," jinyoung said. "Yugyeom is just being a BRAT. But listen to youngjae. This is his town and he know's the places for us to go. Might as well just listen to him." Youngjae lit up at all the people taking his side. Even if there wasn't really an argument between them. He figured the group just wanted to relax by the sea. "Alright alright fine. Get your stuff ready to go to the beach. We leave in 20." The group cheered as they ran to their things.

Everyone was out and ready to go but one person. "Oh my god where is YOUNGJAE???" Jackson groaned. Youngjae rushed out of the house in a white cut off and board shorts. "Sorry!!!! i couldn't find any board shorts that fit me. I had to take my brothers. Let's go!" The whole group filed into the car and buckled up. It didn't take them long to start the trip and yugyeom looked out the window as the scene rolled by. He rolled his eyes and shifted his eyes down to youngjae's arm. "Woah!!! Hyung!!! I didn't know you had a tattoo!!" The whole group looked at youngjae who had been sitting in the middle. Youngjae laughed nervously and smiled. "Yeah... I got it in my senior year in high school. One night i stayed over at friends house and we kinda got drunk.... We went to a tattoo parlor and we got matching tattoos. We figured if we weren't soul mates we would make ourselves soulmates. Of course it was a joke but at we are as close as close can be. Platonically of course. He was already dating his soulmate then. Yeah we decided to get matching Latin tattoos." Yugyeom looked down at the tattoo and looked confused. "I can't read it...." Youngjae chuckled and shook his head. "I wouldn't expect you to. It's a dying language but it's beautiful. " Jackson looked at it and analyzed it before giving up and looking at youngjae. "What does it say?" "Hm? Oh it says 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis' it means Art is long, Life is short." The group all seemed to be in a hive mind state because it freaked youngjae out how they all went "woaaaahhh" in unison. "Youngjae i didn't know you were so deep and wild!" Jackson said. Youngjae laughed and brushed his fingers through his hair. "i'm not any of those things i'm just me." Jaebum scoffed and shook his head. "Give yourself at least a little credit youngjae. Seriously. I don't know anyone in the whole industry or in my life that could think of something that creative. Sure it was stupid but i gotta admit its extremely creative." Youngjae smiled and sighed. "I don't know. I don't like taking credit for ideas that could've been someone else's that's all. But thank you hyung. Thank you guys." They were all smiling and content in the silence that had now filled the car as they continued the drive to the beach.

It all seemed like a dream to jaebum. It was a dream as far as he was concerned. He had just woken up from his nap from under the umbrella and out of the water came youngjae, his hair soaked, his tee-shirt now clinging to his body, revealing the secrets that jaebum had only dreamed of and he wasn't going to lie. He wanted youngjae's shirt off of him so he could have a little more left to his imagination but this was enough for now. The wet shirt accentuated every dip of the boy's chest. He had no idea youngjae looked THAT good. Youngjae himself was an awkward person but his body wasn't scrawny. It was thin but you could see some muscle showing and coming through the shirt. Jaebum was pleasantly surprised by this and licked his lips as the boy came out of the water and saw that jinyoung, who was sitting next to him, was looking at him with an unamused expression . "hey jinyoung please tell me this isn't a dream" Jinyoung looked at yugyeom and bambam who had found starfish and put them over their nipples and whipped each other with seaweed. "It's not." Jaebum squinted and looked over at jinyoung and then at the maknae's "Nope..... Not a dream" He sighed and looked over at youngjae who was playing jackson and mark. It seemed like they had been playing tag because jackson was chasing the other two boys into the water. After a while, jaebum got up and stretched, walking towards the ocean. "careful not to step on a crab." Jinyoung teased. "Careful not to get stuck with the maknae's" Jaebum fire back and laughed. He went down to the water and saw that the three of the boys were playing rock paper scissors. "That's no fair though!! You two are always on the same team!!!" Youngjae pouted. "That's not our fault you suck at rock paper scissors." Jackson said. "What's going on here?" Jaebum interjected. "Oh! we're playing chicken fight to see who pays for lunch." Mark said. "Oh okay.... How do you play?" Mark nodded at jackson and watched as the Taiwanese boy climbed onto the Hong Kongese boy's shoulders. "So basically you get onto your partner's shoulders and the whole point is to throw the person off onto the ground or in this case... the water." Jaebum nodded and dipped down to get ready. "Youngjae hop on." Youngjae didn't think twice. He climbed onto jaebum's shoulders and laughed. Jinyoung looked on from the beach and gave the countdown from there. "READY!!! 1... 2......3 GO!!!" And with that, they were off.