My Sister's boyfriend

chapter 2 : Hani's Mysterious And Maybe Asshole Boyfriend

Yoongi can hear his mom and his sister voices coming in through the floor of his bedroom as he sits in his bed on his laptop. His mother's voice is condescending, and dripping with concern, "I just think it's time you settled down with a nice man, you're 23 years old and you've never had a boyfriend" his mother is saying.

Hani's voice is quieter, but still audible through Yoongi's floorboards, "I've just never met anyone." Hani explains.

"I always thought you and Jackson were destined to be together." Their mother's voice sounds almost disappointed, like she's pouting.

"Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen." Hani says slowly.

Their mother's voice immediately takes on a more patronizing tone like she's explaining basic algebra to Hani for the thousandth time "Hani dear, why do you think he hangs around you all the time?" It was like their mother to be this direct, she had never been particularity tactful, or at all concerned with trying to be tactful in the first place.

"We've been friends for ten years!" Hani exclaims.

"Don't be obtuse Heeyeon," Their mother says curtly. She was one of the only people that called Hani by her birth name and she usually only did it when she was trying to be poignant. "if a man and woman are friends its only a matter of time before the man falls in love with the woman."

Hani's voice had gotten quieter and Yoongi almost has to strain his ears to hear her, "Mom, Jackson is not in love with me."

"If you keep up that attitude you're going to break that poor boys heart."

"Mom." Hani whines.

There's a short silence for a moment that Yoongi imagines means that their mother had huffed disapprovingly, "Well honey it doesn't have to be Jackson, you are like this with every man. There are countless lovely handsome men in this town and if you weren't so picky you'd probably have settled down by now."

"Aw, ma-"

Yoongi closes his laptop sighing, this had to be the third time Hani and his mom had had this exact argument just in the last week. Their mother had recently gotten obsessed with getting him and Hani to settle down, get careers, and make her grandchildren. Yoongi thinks that this probably had less to do with their mother pushing them towards their own personal progress and more to do with the fact that "that damn Kathy", as their mother affectionately calls their neighbor Kathy, had recently posted pictures online of her own daughter's giant wedding celebration. Hani had been getting the brunt of their mother's overbearing insistence, for the past few weeks, due to having never had a boyfriend before.

And so Yoongi decides its time for him to be the dutiful caring brother and go down to break up the argument. He thinks that maybe Hani has been pestered enough for the last few weeks and he is willing to offer himself as a sacrifice, even just this once. Yoongi untangles himself from his blankets and drags himself out of his mountain of cushions to go to the discomfort of the kitchen. Yoongi thinks that he would be a lot less inconvenienced in general if he didn't care about his sister as much as he did. He idly wonders what excuse he should use for interrupting them and by the time he's made it down the stairs he's already considering forgetting about this whole dutiful brother thing and just pretending he'd come down for a glass of water.

Just as Yoongi is about to turn into the kitchen, Yoongi hears something he had not seen coming, even in the slightest. Hani: awkwardly-clumsy, good-natured, forever-single Hani says, "Mom. Okay. Yes, I have boyfriend." His mother goes silent.

"You. You have a boyfriend?" Yoongi asks amused, by way of entrance. He steps into the kitchen and heads straight for the fridge like that had been his plan all along. Their mother is looking at Hani like she wants to say something but doesn't know what and Hani has her arms crossed over her chest defensively.

"Yes? is that so surprising?" Hani asks while barely looking at Yoongi; she makes brief eye contact with him and then looks away. Yoongi shrugs noncommittally and takes a pitcher of water from the fridge.

"If you have a boyfriend then why didn't you bring him up before?" Their mother says with her hands on her hips; she doesn't look very impressed.

"I didn't tell you because I wasn't sure if it was serious enough yet." Hani is looking at the ground as she says this, but eventually lifts her head to look her mother in the eye. Yoongi scrunches up his face at Hani and mimes cutting his throat.

"Yoongi, can we not do this right now?" Hani says imploringly and she looks close to tears. Their mother turns to give him a stern look and Yoongi raises his hands in surrender, taking that as his cue to leave. So much for being the dutiful brother.

. . .

Hani's boyfriend is supposed to come over for dinner tonight after weeks of insistence from Yoongi's mother. Yoongi can hear their mother frantically running about downstairs trying to get dinner finished and worrying about scattered pens around the house and dust that probably isn't there. He knows his mother is very excited about this dinner, in fact he is absolutely certain that his mom has already talked the ear off her friends about it.

Yoongi is quite curious about Hani's boyfriend himself. Hani had really never had a boyfriend before and he supposes that in retrospect perhaps that was unusual, but it was also just something he had grown up with. Hani never really showed explicit interest in people beyond friendship, if a boy got too close she would normally duck her head and if a girl got too close she would giggle through it. It had really seemed that she would be single forever. But, now that she did have a boyfriend who she was interested in apparently, it was Yoongi's job to make sure that her boyfriend wasn't just some asshole.

Yoongi is staring at his computer screen lazily contemplating what kind of boy Hani was bringing home when he hears his mother calling for him from the kitchen. He sighs to himself as he closes his laptop as a testament to his indifference but truthfully he's feeling a bit antsy and apprehensive about going down there. What if Hani's boyfriend doesn't like him? What if Hani's boyfriend thought he was a bad brother to Hani? What could he do if Hani's boyfriend was an asshole? Would Hani trust his judgment? As he walks down the stairs Yoongi makes sure to keep his hands in his pockets so that he isn't tempted to fidget. His mother and Hani are already working busily in the kitchen and his mother looks only briefly up at Yoongi as he enters the room.

"Ah, Yoongi, good. I need you to fetch the flour for me from downstairs, and when you're done that you can help your sister cut the vegetables." She says and Yoongi nods, mostly to himself because his mother isn't looking at him anymore, and he turns around and goes to get the flour.

Just as he's returning to the kitchen, flour in hand, the doorbell rings.

"Oh, that's probably Jimin, Yoongi sweetie, can you get the door?" his mother calls from the kitchen. Yoongi doesn't say anything back, he just walks into the kitchen to put the flour on the counter and walks back out to get the door.

The doorbell rings again as he gets closer to the door. "Yeah, yeah, yeah." he says to no one.

Who he sees when he opens the door is exactly the last person he expected to see and he almost slams the door in the boys face out of shock. The bright red hair is new but there is no mistaking that stupidly brilliant smile and those dumb cheeks that make him look approximately ten years younger than he is. Yoongi's greeting dies in his throat as he stares at the boy standing in front of the door frame. As a final nail in the coffin as soon as the boy sees Yoongi his nervous smile dissolves completely.

"Yoongi?" Jimin exclaims