Chapter 2 : Glow up

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Seoul.

It was so different from home and Hoseok was in awe. The buildings seemed to be built in an attempt to literally reach for the skies,lights shone bright even in the day and vague images of absolutely magical night life in the city came to the male in waves. The people were endless,all rushing about in streams and Hoseok wished nothing more than to join them and explore the city till he was dead tired and could move no further.

"Wow. I can't believe I'd never tried visiting you before. Seoul looks amazing!"
Hoseok exclaimed for what could be the millionth time to his mom,Eun Soo who just laughed softly at her son's childish excitement,his face still practically glued to the window drinking up every and anything with his glee filled eyes. His carefree happiness was something she was glad  to be able to see first hand once again as she treasured her children more than anything in the world but couldn't be there for every passing moments of their young lives.
The woman hadn't passed up the chance on being the one to help her son make his way around on his first time in Seoul,having missed the chance with Dawon over some business trip. Never again she'd decided.
And Hoseok's initial nervousness at being alone to find his way in the city had died away once he was informed his mom would be picking him up from the airport.

"Don't worry,Hobi. Mom will make it up to you and take time off work to take you sight seeing."
The woman promised,taking a hand off the steering to gently ruffle her son's hair. The male turned away from the window to her with a warm genuine smile,grabbing the hand and holding them in his significantly bigger ones. 

"Thank you,mom."
He said softly,a bright genuine smile gracing his lips with such pure glowing happiness he truly in that moment lived up to his nickname,sunshine.

They eventually had to part as they arrived at Yoongi's place,his mom needing to head off to attend to some last minute work which left Hoseok alone in meeting his stepbrother.
He had stood watching his mothers red car drive so far away it disappeared from view before he built up his courage. He grabbed the only suitcase he had to bring with him,bless his father for making him send over his stuff ahead of time and made his way towards the building Yoongi lived in.
Not long after he had made to the male's front door and it seemed like his life came crashing down all around him.
He was bloody scared.

The Min Yoongi he knew was a scary man,then boy, who was probably psychotic because no one should be that quiet. Only people constantly planning murders in their head were that reserved. Right?

But he had no where else to go at the moment,despite his mother whom he wasn't sure making her let him live with her because he was scared his probably harmless step brother was a psychotic serial killer wasn't a very good reason. She lived impossibly far from his school to mention one of a few problems. Plus his father wouldn't send him to die. Right?

"Aish. Stop being a whimp."
He chastised himself and decided to ring on the doorbell.
A few minutes passed and there was no response. Shit. Did he read the address wrong? Was Yoongi not home?

He pressed on the doorbell again and this time he could hear what he assumed to be socked feet shuffling against floorboards towards the front door. There was a small crash,a body probably colliding with furniture if the deep groan afterwards was anything to go by.

Click

The front door was unlocked and perhaps Hoseok was being dramatic but he could swear it seemed to be opening on slow motion,his grip on his bag tightening in nervousness.

"Who the hell are you. If you're selling anything I'm not buying."

A surprisingly familiar deep voice said,gruff from sleepiness if the person's messy head of mint hair and tired face was anything to go by.

Hoseok would never openingly admit but he had been expecting some super tall,scary looking man with horrible scars, a million and one tattoos with the smell of  nicotine,weed and alcohol clinging to him like a second skin.
Min Yoongi changed but at the same time not by much.
For one Hoseok was now taller than him but technically that would be Hoseok changing rather than the other.
He was actually wearing clothing with color for once which was just an oversized blue shirt Hoseok guessed was for sleeping and he could honestly not tell if the older was wearing anything under there.
He still cursed without caution for one. Had a stare scary enough to make a grown man want to piss himself,despite him being practically half asleep,or perhaps that was always just Hoseok being a classic scaredy cat.

Min Yoongi definitely wasn't skin and bones anymore and that was the most evident. His cheeks were fuller and made him even more,dare Hoseok say, adorable. The male was still petite and small looking and the shirt he wore didn't help to show if his body was more plush too now but good lord his thighs.
They were thick. He never thought that would be something he'd use to describe Min Yoongi's stick thighs. So meaty and perfect he just wanted to sink his teeth into them,the pale smooth skin seemed to be calling to him to mark them up. He unconsciously licked his lips,throat suddenly feeling dry and he was praying to every god he knew not to pop a boner for his step brother. A fucking guy.

Hoseok always knew he had a thing for girls who weren't Barbie doll type. A bit thicker but never once in his heterosexual life did he think he'd find himself shamelessly checking out a man's thighs like some pervert.

"Hey my eyes are up here!"
Yoongi literally snapped Hoseok out of his little perverted stare off by aggressively snapping his fingers in front of his face. The younger instantly going crimson as he realized he'd been caught staring but still had to look to his hyung and try to explain himself as the male didn't seem to recognize him. He couldn't even be offended as he didn't recognize the male either. You'd one of them would've asked for a photo or gone social media searching.

"Hello. I'm Hoseok. Jung Hoseok your step brother."
He quickly introduced himself with a curt bow after his greeting and if he had gotten another glance at his hyung's thighs it was absolutely not accidental.

"Holy shit. Hoseok?"
Yoongi exclaimed,his sleepiness seemingly just vanishing and the older actually for once taking a good look at the male. Hoseok couldn't do much more than just smile awkwardly as he realized his hyung did recognize him. So maybe he was the only bad brother in this whole thing actually.

"I thought you were arriving later this week. Please come in. I almost didn't recognize you."
Yoongi stepped aside and Hoseok was finally let inside. He was quick to scan the living area,noting Yoongi was relatively neat which he highly appreciated and quite minimalistic in his decor. He hears the sound of the door shutting and then the soft click of locks bringing his attention back to his step brother.

"Well,welcome to your new home."

And at that moment Hoseok realizes Yoongi's gummy smile is the best thing to grace the planet earth.

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