| Returning The Favour || Yoonmin |

Ch27 ~ White noise...

After a few more one-sided arguments about 'we're not together' and 'he isn't my boyfriend', Yoongi's mother had paraded her boutonniere of adolescent children into a shopping mall. Promising a wonderful time for both her and her family, she dragged them up and down the shopping mall trying to find a restaurant that sold breakfast all day. Eventually, they had settled down at an all-day breakfast place called 'Cupid's arrow'. It was a nice little shop that harboured more couples than the boys wanted to be around, but Chaelin couldn't be stopped at this point. One could guess where this particular breakfast place had tailored their name from. The restaurant had accumulated a reputation for bringing couples together on their first dates, being the venue for a number of speed dating events and reservation for newly established couples – or so the advertisement claimed.

Yoongi was starting to think that his mother had this planned the minute she'd caught wind of Jimin staying over.

"Tell me again why we ended up going here of all places?" Yoongi cringed as couples lined the tables and chairs in the rampant array of affection and infatuation – all things he claimed to hate since he'd banned romance from looking him dead in the eye. He had made an unspoken vow to himself, never to watch so much as one romantic film, flowers were never to be accepted or given to any sexual partner and he would certainly never part take in events and annual celebrations of romance – including the most adulterous holiday of the year, Valentine's day.

The ring and ache in Yoongi's head was getting on his nerves more than usual. It seemed as if it was getting louder by the second, however small the noise level went up. Deep breaths every now and then helped calm the noise as he tried not to succumb to the irritating sting of sound plunging at his sanity. It didn't help that this restaurant had adopted the name 'Cupid's arrow' and had been decorated with disgusting shades of pink all over the vicinity.

"Because mom told us to?" Jihoon flicked through the pages of the menu and spied an ice-cream Sunday for dessert. "This place doesn't seem so bad anyway, the menu looks delicious." He felt the noise rise in volume again, beating at his temples like a drum as Jihoon continued to look through the pages of the menu. Suddenly, Yoongi felt the urge to snatch Jihoon by the hair and pull until his roots grew from his scalp and showed the black of his natural hair.

"Mom's at the counter demanding our orders already, what are you doing looking through that thing?" the blond boy grabbed the menu away from him with rage in his veins, trying to calm the ringing in his head.

"I'm looking for dessert!" Jihoon snatched it back. If Yoongi was going to be bratty, then so was he.

"Don't be a brat, you and I aren't making a scene in a place as public as this!" he whisper-shouted.

Jihoon leaned forward intimidatingly, looking into his brother's eyes as he whispered a cynical "Make me." Yoongi snarled, grabbing Jihoon's collar as he glared down at his younger brother with daggers in his eyes and ice in his words. Jungkook jumped to pull Jihoon's arms away before he could do any more damage, something more that could kill him if he wasn't careful.

"Now, now, let's not fight." Jin begged as he pulled Yoongi back in his chair and looked up to find several eyes prying at their table. "People are watching!" he pleaded as he tugged harder at the sleeve of Yoongi's hoodie. Yoongi scanned the room and thought about his reputation in the town and how much it wouldn't change by laying a damaging hand on his brother. He thought about how much he wanted to rip Jihoon's vocal cords from his throat and the look on Jimin's face when he witnessed Yoongi's violent tendencies. Jimin tugged softly at the bottom hem of his baggy, black T-shirt and did his best not to squeak in fear as he silently begged the hot-headed songwriter to let go. Let go before something worse happens.