※SeNz※

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Jung Kook POV

I zipped the body bag close, slower than needed. My two days with Jin-hyung is coming to a close.
I look up to see him in his white shirt and plaid sweatpants. Clearly just got out of the shower.

"All ready? Hoseok said he'll be around by 7pm." He smiles and walked towards me. We both sat at the edge of the bed.

"I hope I wasn't much of a bother. I mean..." He interrupted.

"Well you were a little bothersome." He says calmly. I thought of the seizure incident and bit my lips instinctively to stop blushing, or at least try. "Your appetite is, my pantry is almost out!" And he laughs while roughing my hair.

I choke on my own saliva and laughed as hard. "You kept offering food hyung! Also your cooking is delicious what was I suppose to do?" I cackled.

"Well decline at some point! Clearly no boundaries with you ha?" He smirked.

"No, please hyung, no boundaries never with me?" I asked sheepishly.

"Ahahaha" he tugged my shoulders to him for a partial hug. "Its physically impossible for me to do so. I don't know, maybe cause Aunt Nayeon is also your mom but --" he stopped and looked to me.

"Are you like this with Jimin-hyung?"
I wondered aloud. This thought floats around my head more times than I want to count but I never really asked Jimin-hyung how Jin-hyung treats him. I don't want to be privy to their reunion, or at least if they only allow me.

"There is a difference. I can hug you like this and feel something else than protectiveness. I feel that a lot with Jimin. Is it weird? I feel like I can take a bullet for him." Jin-hyung let me go and taps my hand.

"You mean like what he did before?" I clarified.

"Yeah. You know, I don't have siblings. There was a time I almost had. Maybe I still do or not. There was a time Jimin was young and his snot would leak from his nose when he laughs or when he cries. Then it was my duty to keep his face clean." I almost gagged at Jin-hyung's revelation.

"I mean I remember them a lot better now. I guess now that we physically reconnected, so does our consciousness. There was certainly a time when I would lift him, hold him up to seat at the table or just give him piggy back rides because he is cute." He smiles fondly over the memory.
"Definitely there was a time where I had someone looking up to me, even though they were so young and they couldn't understand. But I knew for small Jimin I had to be there." I laughed at the tease and he laughs more louder.

"You still are here for him hyung! Jimin hyung is not always vocal but I know he appreciates you." I say bumping my shoulder to his.

"I am glad then. I have to confess, you may tell him this but I will deny" He chuckled. "I remember the day Aunt Nayeon had to leave with Jimin. I remember to well because I have never seen Uncle so broken and aloof. I thought for sure it was only Uncle Seo Joon who suffered. However now I see, we all did in our own way. My parents, Uncle Seo Joon and me." He pulls me up and lead me to the kitchen to have lunch.

"My Uncle became aloof, almost alcoholic, but certainly became a chain smoker. My father became more protective, more responsive to family struggles. My mother had to be a big sister once again and take care of her baby brother, she had to increase the warmth a mother, wife and a sister had to give."

"And you?"

"I became more attached with friends that are younger than me, I would take up the role of being a hyung way to seriously for those I think who needs it, even though I struggle I keep at it. But then I don't get too attach. Because I was subconsciously waiting for someone to come back and fit with me and my family. The role had been reserve in a way."