✔𝐝 𝐞 𝐦 𝐨 𝐧 || 𝐛𝐭𝐬 [𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍]

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𝐓𝐀𝐄𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐍𝐆

"YAH!" I heard a loud, high shrill of piercing voice beside me. "Taehyung, for the nth time, you have to get up from bed!" The guy continued in a scolding tone.

I groaned. Hearing his voice made me irritated. Plus, I could already imagined his annoyed look on his face as he was shaking me, trying to wake me up. Only if he could.

"Jin..." I trailed off, rubbing my eyes. "...I'm still sleepy." I said while yawning.

No way could he get me off the bed. No way. But what happened next completely left me wide awake. He slapped my arm with his slipper, resulting myself to automatically jolt up from bed and screeched in pain.

"You damn brother doesn't even call me hyung when I'm effin' older than you?! SHOW SOME RESPECT!" Jin wailed while glaring at me with sharp eyes, obviously not happy when I called him only by his name.  "If you'll not going to wake up, we'll NOT gonna leave you anything and let you starve to death! 이. 러. 나 (ireona - get up)!!!"  He warned, slowly pronouncing the last word he said as he pushed me off the bed, making a 'thud' sound on the floor.

An exasperated hiss escaped from my mouth and scrubbed my eyes after.

Nonsense! As if they'll let me starve, I said through my thoughts as I rolled my eyes secretly. There was once when I skipped one meal, they called a doctor. 

Triumphant, Jin-hyung went out as soon as he saw me slowly crawling towards where I used to put my bath towel.

"Be quick. The food will get cold." He finished before he totally shut the door close.

I swiftly picked up myself and hurried in the bathroom.

I stared at the full length mirror.

My wings...

"Ha! They've grown a lot bigger day by day. Is this normal?" I whispered, asking into no one besides myself. 

A defeated smile then showed on my lips. Who am I asking? There was no one who could answer that question. Not even myself. Questions followed and clouded my mind as I continued to stare at my reflection.

Who am I? What am I? Why do I have wings? Why am I different, not just from my brothers, but from the whole humanity? When will I discover the truth?

Few minutes passed by and I decided to shrug it off.

Well, at least they're not visible to anyone... That's what matters.

Or so I thought.

Once I finished bathing, I hurriedly ran off to the dining hall and there I saw my six brothers eating and laughing. I guessed, our parents ran off to another business trip again. They were rarely seen around the house and usually be at home for 1-2 days. We grew up with only housekeepers and Jin-hyung taking care of us. We understood them though, yet the longing from a parent's love would never go away. 

Through those years without our parents' physical supervision, Jin-hyung kicked out all housekeepers when he discovered they were only around to steal some precious and expensive items in the house. He also discovered that they manipulated all of our allowance, even Yoongi-hyung's piano lessons, they took half of it away. Immoral creatures!  Thankfully, Jin-hyung managed to regain all of the stolen items that had been in our house for centuries. God knew what would happen if our parents discovered they went missing.

I drew closer and sat on my seat, wearing a blank and expressionless face. My hands grabbed the chopsticks and started eating quietly but later on stopped when I caught them staring at me. All of them looked at me with weird and surprised faces, like they suddenly saw a ghost.