My Baker's Dozen

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Minghao's POV

"Jeonghan hyung, whatcha working on?" I leaned against the doorway to his room and watched him just stare blankly at the computer screen.

"I'm trying to finish up my last essay before the finals while trying to find a senior quote, but none of those things are working for me very well. Do you need something?" He looked up from Mom's computer and the pile of papers and notebooks around him, and I questioned if my own final essay could wait. But my essay has been waiting, and I kind of need it to graduate tenth grade. There is no way in heck I'm taking summer classes or being in the same grade as the triplets.

"Well let me help so it can go faster. I can write my essay on paper later anyways." He swiped at his papers and let them fall onto the floor so I could sit next to him on his bed. Only a blank document was on the screen.

"You know hyung, you kind of have to start writing to get something done." He sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"I know, I know. My mind was on the quotes while I was trying to write an essay, and I don't think that's working too well." He picked up one of the papers that hadn't fallen onto the floor and looked back and forth between the essay topic and the blank document. I read the topic over his shoulders and winced. I don't even think I could write this for him.

"I think you just need to focus on one thing at a time. Did you eat lunch?" Jeonghan hyung shook his head, and I removed the computer from his lap and pulled him up off of the bed. He just looked so out of it lately, and it was starting to freak us all out.

"You need some food. It's really hard to focus when you're hungry." I dragged him out into the kitchen and sat him down at the table. Shua hyung saw what I was doing and gave him a glass of water while I made him a sandwich.

"Didn't Minseo Noona say something about dropping the kids off while her and Mark hyung go on a quick business trip?" Samuel asked from the living room, and I think we all completely forgot about that. Everyone but Chan and Samuel have been busy with final projects or studying for finals, and it completely wiped our minds of anything else. It's a good thing the hyungs took off from work these two weeks.

"I think she might have, Sam. You and Chan will probably have to watch the two of them." Joshua hyung replied, and I don't think the ten year old will mind too much since we've all been too busy to give him much attention.

"Appa! School broke Jeonghan hyung!" I yelled down the hallway, and Joshua hyung laughed. I gave him the sandwich and walked down to Appa's room to see if he had heard me, but then I noticed he had passed out on his bed. The doorbell rang and I panicked while shutting his door to keep out the noise. There was no way anything was ever going to get done if Jaehea and Kazen were here. None of us can resist playing with them ever.

Who's here?

Jaehea and Kazen I think. Or it's a stranger coming to kidnap us but they underestimated the size of our family.

I feel like it's both of those at the same time.

I walked back down the hallway to indeed see Minseo Noona dropping off two sleeping children. But that is both wonderful and awful of her at the same time. Because for now we're able to keep on working and maybe one of us will be done by the time they wake up, but then when they wake up one of them will probably cry because it's not where they usually wake up. I have already had my fair share of crying children in my lifetime.

I'm never going to finish this essay, Jun. I'm going to be stuck with the triplets. This is how I die.

Stop being so dramatic. That's Seungkwan's job.