The Lie You Keep

Jin-Hyung

Brush his teeth.

Fix his bed.

Comb his hair.

Open the front door.

"Argh!"

Yes, that's Park Jimin's first word in the morning since he's met with an unexpected visitor waiting by his front door.

"Jin-hyung!" he cries, walking faster to reach the taller male, both of them walking towards work.

"You seem happy to see me," Jin comments bemusedly, Jimin laughing shyly.

"Well it's nice to see a familiar face, one that doesn't look annoying as Jungkook's."

"You say that as if I'm not here," grumbles a third voice, which makes the orange-haired man jump again.

Seokjin doesn't look fazed at all.

Instead, he gives a side glance to the younger and smirks.

"You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Jimin exclaims, looking back, "And why didn't you say anything?"

"You were supposed to wait for me!" reminds the younger, picking up his pace to come in between his two hyungs.

"I come out of my house and it was just my luck to see you leaving with pretty boy over here," continues the boy, veins popping at his neck due to sheer annoyance.

He wasn't the only one with hot blood this morning.

"Well maybe if you woke up the same time your alarm clock hollered we would've waited for you!"

Jungkook scoffs.

"As if!" He turns to the eldest of the three, "Tell him hyungie, he wasn't gonna wait anyway."

Seokjin just laughed and agreed anyway, Jimin pouting.

"Hyung you were supposed to be on my side."

"Yeah well he's on my team!" says Jungkook smugly, enough to make his hyung scowl.

"Yah yah you two... stop fighting like toddlers," Jin admonishes them both, moving so he could be the one in the middle.

The younger ones glare daggers at each other, acting very much like children.

But then Jimin sobers up, and asks conversationally "Hyung, what happened to the hole on the roof?"

"Oh it's being fixed now thankfully, and Yoongi's feeling better about it already."

A whimper escapes Jungkook.

"I don't wanna see him so mad," he says like a lost puppy, "I hope we find the hooligans who dared mess with us. Then I'm gonna punch their faces!" He looked determined, which the other two found quite endearing.

"They're just closeby Kookie," soothes Jin, their building already in sight.

The neighbors are shocked that Seokjin knows that piece of information.

"Jinjja?!" they both cry.

"Who is it?!" Jungkook asks eagerly.

But Seokjin just laughs, brushing the matter away as he enters, leaving the two standing out there on the streets.

Just then, Jungkook's second phone rings, and he hurries to answer the call.

"Whoa whoa what's up with that?" questions Jimin, noticing the odd behavior.

It didn't help that the younger had wide eyes, and was backing away slowly as he answers "Gotta take this call, hyung. Catch you later!"

With that, he dashes away.

Now Jimin looks like a complete idiot standing by himself.

Huffing, he enters the building, not noticing a pair of brown eyes looking at him faraway, sad and troubled.