my brother, jimin // j.jk

3

The day starts like any and every other day. I wake up, shower, do my morning routine, grab some breakfast, and leave with Jimin to go to school. He parks the car in our usual spot and we walk towards the school building, receiving greetings from some of Jimin's friends as we walk through the parking lot. We enter the building and part ways. As I'm walking to my first class, someone taps my shoulder. I turn to see Jeongguk.

"Oh, good morning, Jeongguk," I greet him.

"Good morning, see you in class," Jeongguk says before walking ahead of me.

I walk a bit longer before I hear someone whisper my name from behind me. I stop and turn around, causing no other than Pyong Yeongsik to run into me accidentally. He laughs, continuing to loudly whisper my name before actually speaking.

"Ah, sorry for running into you, I didn't have time to sto-," He begins, but I cut him off with a tight hug.

"Hm, I guess I forgive you," I say with a playfully condescending tone, still hugging him. He hugs back just as tightly, gently kissing the top of my head.

"We should probably get to class," he reminds me.

"Oh, I nearly forgot about that," I say, running off to class, with him following behind closely.

We get to class just in time, and there are many people still not in the room yet. We sit beside each other, just like every other class in which we can.

The day at school is incredibly normal, up until the latter half of the day, that is.

Yeongsik suddenly got really distant, and I have no idea why. He tries to be around me as little as possible, and, once again, I have no idea why. He won't even sit with me, so I just sit with Jeongguk instead.

I know it may seem really clingy of me to be this way after it hasn't even been that long of him doing this, but he's never like this. He's always trying to be with me, and even if he can't do one thing, he'll make up for it by doing another; but that's not what's happening here. He's simply avoiding me, and I don't quite know what to do. I decide that since this is also somewhat affecting Jeongguk, I should at least tell him what's going on.

"Jeongguk, I'm sorry for bothering you recently. It's just that Yeongsik seems to be avoiding me and I don't know what to do and this is just so unusual an-," I approach him in between classes to explain, but I get cut off with a hug. I stand there in shock for a few seconds before hugging him back.

"I'm sorry about that. I'm guessing you don't really want the others to know yet, huh?" He asks and I nod slowly, head buried in his chest, shaking, on the verge of tears. "Alright, it's okay," he says softly, stroking my head in a soothing manner.

"Thank you, Jeongguk," I say, my voice slightly muffled by his chest — as well as the fact that I'm beginning to cry.

"It's no problem," he whispers gently.

He continues to hug me tightly and stroke my head until I've stopped crying.

"Feel better now?" He asks as I look up at him.

"Yeah," I sniffle. "Thanks again."

"Really, it's no problem. It would be horrible to not to be there for a person like you in that situation," he replies as I pull away from the hug. "Ah, but we should probably get to class, like, really fast."