❛ My Perfect Hyung ❜ - JinKook ✔️

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Jungkook barged out of his room and hurriedly made his way downstairs to the living room.

"Jiho, are you crazy!?" He scolded his little cousin who was hovering over a screaming smaller boy, throwing blows at him.

The boy, Jiho, instantly got over the squirming boy and frowned like he had been the one receiving the beating.

"This bastard wouldn't let me watch my Power Rangers!" Jiho defended shooting the other kid a hard glare.

Jungkook went wide-eyes at the little boy's choice of word. He snatched Jiho by his arm harshly and tugged him towards himself. "The next time you call your brother a bastard, I'll march you into the ground. Do you hear me?"

"He's cheating me!"

"I'm not chweating! Hwung, ish nuh twue! He's wying!" The smaller kid, Taemin, cried. Taemin was 8, he had difficulties speaking properly and although he was a year older than Jiho, he was much smaller and vulnerable.

"He's lying!" Jiho defended instantly.

Jungkook sighed, standing up to his full length. He looked down at the two kids through tired narrowed eyes. To be honest, settling quarrels between his cousins was the least of his worries. He had so much more important things that had given him sleepless night and made him into a zombie lookalike. His heart was broken, his head was about to explode from overthinking and he was physically tired of everything. He just wanted to lie in bed all day and do nothing.

Actually, he had been doing just that before Taemin's tiny scream had brought him out. His aunt and mother had gone to a wedding and so left he and Namjoon with their two cousins. But Namjoon had long gone out after their mother and aunt left the house, tossing him the responsibility to look after the kids who were practically Cat and Rat.

"I wet him wash Power Wayngers. It's my turn to wash SpongeBob but he won't wet me!"

Jungkook turned and cast Jiho a glare. The kid began to stutter.

"He's lying!"

"Shut up." Jungkook grabbed the remote from Jiho who was hiding it behind his back. He began to change the channel. "If I hear your voices again, I lock you both in the washer."

Taemin's face lit up when he saw his hyung had tuned the channel to Nickelodeon where SpongeBob was showing. He wiped his tears and sniffed, scrambling to climb the couch.

Jungkook tucked the remote in his front pocket. "Sit still, you two, " He said but had his eyes fixed on Jiho.

Jiho looked ready to kill. He glared at Jungkook and rolled his eyes. Jungkook who was already irritated by his life did not fail to catch that look.

He grabbed Jiho's thin arm. "Let's go upstairs. Time to come upstairs."

"Hwung, me chu?" Taemin asked turning to look at him with sad eyes.

"Not you, Tae. Just this little Antelope, " Jungkook said to the Taemin and immediately regretted calling the sweet kid Tae. Tae was —definitely— not a nice pet name to call a child as precious as Taemin.

"What did I do!?" Jiho fought, struggling to leave Jungkook's grip. "Let me go!"

Jungkook didn't want to smack Jiho. He hated smacking kids but Jiho wasn't giving him much of a choice. He didn't have the strength to deal with stubborn children. He wondered if he was sometimes that was to Namjoon. If Namjoon sometimes felt so triggered to beat him to pulp. He knew sometimes he wished he was older than Namjoon so he could hit him because Namjoon was an annoying brother. Just as Jiho clearly was to Taemin.