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XV : HIBISCUS TEA

HIS GAZE REALLY can't tear away from the freshly-dyed pink hair that turned heads.

So this is Geurin's brother, Hoseok thinks, glancing up at him. Yoongi really isn't that tall. When Hoseok thinks about it, Green's entire family seems pretty short. But that isn't what makes them so imposing.

It's their eyes. Their demeanour.

Their demon voices.

"How's school though?" Yoongi asks him as they walk on the sidewalk. Hoseok laughs dryly.

"It's school, I guess?"

"Well, that's disappointing. I was waiting for you to complain."

'Hoseok. Please,' Green says in the earpiece. Oh yeah. Green's there too, in spirit, through the earpiece lodged in Hoseok's— or "Geurin's"— ear.

"I'm sorry. It sucks."

Yoongi meets his eyes and squints. "Are you okay?"

Oh yeah. She hates that. Hoseok clicks his tongue in realisation and shivers to get into character. "Well, I feel uh, unusual today," he says, cringing the second it came out.

'What the fuck, Hoseok?'

Yoongi squints harder. "What do you mean?"

"Like... I'm not in my own body?"

Yoongi cringes with him.

Green cringes with them.

"I'm serious," Hoseok says.

"Like our crazy ex-neighbour Heechul serious?" he retorts, laughing with this quiet, airy sound and a thin, pinkish smile. It reminds Hoseok of Green. Funny how Hoseok is Green. "So do you switch bodies like him now? Are you my sister right now?"

"Uh, what?" Hoseok crinkles his eyebrows. "Like who? Heechul-ssi?"

Yoongi squints in suspicion. Green feels like she's going to regret this, fists in her eyes.

At the café, Yoongi goes to order their drinks while Seokjin and Hoseok find a table. Seokjin's hair has a green tint to it, making Hoseok assume that he and Yoongi dyed their hair together at once.

Hoseok's pretty surprised. Both of them are more handsome than the average, everyday person. Seokjin has these Korean drama-esque features that must attract Green a lot— his broad shoulders, his tall and awkwardly cute stature... he seems so youthful.

'What does he look like now? Uggghhhh I want to see him so bad.'

Hoseok bites his lip. "Your hair is green."

'Green? Really?'

Someone sounds excited.

Seokjin shyly smiles with full lips and says, "It was pretty impulsive. Does it look okay?" He plays with his hair, flicking his fringe around with a finger.

'Take a picture of him.'

"Take a picture?" Hoseok repeats out loud, mind blank. Green smacks her forehead.

Seokjin looks at him and chuckles, shaking his head. "Same old Green, I guess. Go ahead. Get my good angles please."

Only Seokjin, Yoongi, and her English teacher call her Green. But for Green, it feels special coming from him. Green winces. Random fond memories pop in her head and she spaces out.

Hoseok recovers soon enough, takes a picture, and tries to recover from his mistake. "How have you been?"

"I'm still handsome," he jokes.