"So you have a big time crush on my brother?"
"I'm going to kill you Park Jimin," I said darkly.
"This is going to be great blackmail," he laughed.
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Intended for each other since birth... HAH! Pah-lease, more lik...
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The beach vacation had suddenly taken it's greatest turn for the worse. No longer was it just a Jimin overloaded, confused trip but now it was also an awkward one. With Jimin and me too awkward to face each other I took a turn down the reserved road. However the rest of the family were getting a lot more peace and mature conversation. The rest of the family were probably enjoying the absence of squabbles but the house to me almost felt somewhat lifeless. When I meet new people I often fall into the habit of becoming more reserved, probably a little scared to fully reveal the madness within; I've never been like that with the Park family, I've known them my entire life and they are like my second family, I've practically grown up with a set of four parents. They know me practically as well as I know myself so everyone has definitely realised the difference and they didn't just stop talking about the it at the dinner table yesterday.
"Are you two still at this?" Auntie Iseul said when she walked up stairs to find me in the corner reading manga as far away from Jimin as possible, and he with his back facing me. No one saw the beach scenario so no one knew and I wasn't about to tell them and neither was Jimin, so they couldn't understand why we had formed an uneasy cease fire. I couldn't help but feel unhappy with this change, I've always thought I would be fine with a little less Jimin in my life but now that I've got just that I've found myself rather missing the days when I could carelessly catapult insults at him and laugh. I never realised how truly lighthearted our relationship had been until it had gotten quite serious and unpleasant, like it was now. Sometimes I could feel him looking my way and I wanted to turn and poke my tongue out at him or make a rude gesture but I couldn't.
Here I was feeling like I had lost a friend eternally when it had been a grand total of a singular day. Although this wasn't exactly an argument we had gotten through other serious issues with each other and we'd come to surpass this too. I wanted to get back to how things were before, before this trip in general. I wanted to hop, skip and jump to the time when Jimin wasn't taking out his horny outbursts on me and where we were just two pigheaded and immature teenage children, playfully at each other's throats. But for now I was still too awkward to approach Jimin so instead I walked out onto the second floor deck and sat in the seat beside Cheol. He was reading a novel quietly, occasionally chatting to someone on his phone.
"Hey there," he greeted me as I joined him. His hands holding the book relaxed in his lap and he set his attention on me. I was glad, I didn't want just part of his acknowledgement at that point.
"What are you reading?" I asked, Cheol showed me the cover of the book and read out the synopsis which I listened to with a smile on my face. The book suited Cheol, it was calm and sensible. It had a mature theme that would appeal to adults looking for an appropriate read. Cheol was an adult now, I sometimes forget that. This vacation was his big holiday away from university which he had just started up. He wanted to get away before things got rough. He didn't go to the same uni as my sister, Ji-ae lives in a different part of Seoul at a dorm near her uni where as Cheol stilled lived at home with his parents, he attended a large university more local to our neighbourhood but in no means inadequate. I wish I had the opportunity to experience the school years with him instead of his git of a brother, thinking of Jimin made me internally pout so I focused on Cheol again.
