If I can't have you

Chapter 18

Min-jun couldn't speak for several minutes. His mind flew over the events of his childhood trying to remember a time where Min-jee wasn't in his family. It wasn't true surely? He was the oldest sibling out of the three Kim children. He would remember his parents bringing a child into the house without his mum being pregnant.

He felt so stupid. Suddenly, he found that he could no longer be with his parents and had to get out of there. He stood up from the table and ignoring the shouts of protest from his parents, marched out of the cafeteria and towards his brothers room. Upon reaching his brothers room he was about to burst the door open and tell Nico what he had discovered when something told him to stop. He creaked the door open slightly and was greeted with the sight of Levi running his hand gently through his brothers hair while singing an old lullaby that Min-Jew vaguely remembered from his own childhood. The scene was so surreal that Min-jee almost didn't want to break it but he knew that he had to. Nico had a right to know about his sister, especially since Min-her was almost certain that she was going to try something in the next few hours or days. He just knew.

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Levi honestly didn't want this moment to end. Nico had woken up with a nasty headache just over an hour ago but being Nico Kim, was refusing to admit that he needed help and was refusing all that was being offered to him. Levi had watched as he refused offer after offer of pain relief and therefore sitting there with his eyes squeezed shut and his hands turning white as he gripped the bedsheets. Levi had eventually refused to watch this behaviour continue but knowing Nico was too proud to admit that he was wrong and wanted the pain relief, Levi had known he would have to find a different solution to the problem. So he had shut all the blinds apart from the one on the door to ensure that he could still signal to any nurses passing by if he needed and pulled up a chair beside Nico's bed. Nico sent him a funny look out of the corner of his eyes, almost asking him what on earth he was doing. He let out a small chuckle before reaching up to his boyfriends head and gently running his hand through his hair. Nico made what could only be described as a purring noise and Levi had to fight the urge to burst into a fit of giggles. After a few minutes, Nico was on the verge of falling back to sleep, soothed by the hand running through his hair that was now being accompanied by Levi recalling a sweet lullaby of old when the door let them know that someone was trying to slip into the room.

Levi watched as Nico's eyes flew back open before seeing who was entering and allowing there to be a smile. Levi knew from this smile that it was probably one of two people that had entered the room when he saw this smile. Only two people made Nico smile like that: his brother Min-jun and Link. A quick look over his shoulder confirmed that it was Min-jun but he could tell from the opposite end of the room that something bad had happened. Min-Jun's features were haggard and drawn back like he suddenly had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Nico motioned for his brother to move towards the bed and Min-jun did so almost unwillingly. This is bad, very, very bad, Levi kept thinking to himself.

After a few moments that Levi would later recall as the most intense of his life, Min-Jun opened his mouth and began to talk. And talk he did. Levi could only watch on in amazement as it came tumbling out of Min-jun. How their parents had been lying to them. How Min-jee was adopted. And perhaps worst of all, how Min-jun and Nico were apparently responsible for her parents death. Levi could see the gears turning in Nico's head as he tried to think over his childhood and any events that may have caused the death of two people. After a few minutes a look of horror came onto his face and Levi just squeezed his hand reassuringly. "The ball" he whispered. Those two words didn't mean anything to Levi but they clearly meant something to Min-jun as all the blood drained out of his face. "Oh god". He whispered. "So it is true then. We really did kill Min-Jee's parents." Levi just sat there feeling even more confused than when this whole revelation emerged and before he could open his mouth to ask the brothers what they were talking about, the window exploded.