"I don't want to have another fucking dad!" minho's mom slaps him.

"stop being so stubborn!"

"I'm not stubborn I just hate that you have to bring more people into my life without even asking me!"

"why can't you just be happy for once!?"

"why should I when there's nothing in my life that makes me feel happy!? first dad leaves, then you ignore me for 3 months, then you find someone else and now you're marrying him!? like shit I'll be happy from anything" minho goes upstairs to his room while his mom sighs.

there's a knock at the door, and it's taekyo with his son.

"hi, come in"

"did you tell him?" taekyo asks.

"I did but he isn't taking it very well"

"you remember my son jisung"

"yes I do, hi" she smiles at him but he doesn't say anything.

"he's not taking this very well either" taekyo says.

"minho! come downstairs!" she yells upstairs to minho who was in his room.

when he goes downstairs he sees taekyo and jisung and turns around to go back upstairs.

"get back here!"

minho rolls his eyes as he turns back around and goes back downstairs.

"I had him come here because I want you and jisung to get along since you'll be brothers after all"

"I don't have to get along with him" minho crosses his arms.

"come on!"

"no"

"just try"

"no"

"you—"

"I don't have to! I don't have to be okay with you moving along from dad! you never even asked me about any of this! you never cared about what I thought about it!"

"minho..."

"whatever" he sits down on the sofa with his arms crossed while she looks at him in worry.

"let him calm down" taekyo whispers to her as they go upstairs.

jisung sits next to him on the sofa without saying anything, it's just silence between them.

after a few minutes jisung opened his mouth to speak, but before he could let anything out minho beat him to it.

"look, don't get off thinking we'll get along"

"does it look like I want to?"

"no but still, I'm not letting anyone else into my life"

"really? not even friends?"

"I don't mean that, I mean you and your dad, my mom may welcome you but I'm not"

"doesn't bother me, I didn't want this either but he didn't listen to me. he never listens to me, my mom always listened to me... but he doesn't"

"my dad never listened, he probably left because of me"

"that's what every child with divorced parents think!" jisung looks at him. "it's not because of you, I know my parents' divorce wasn't because of me because my mom wanted me to go with her but my dad also wanted me too"

"my dad just left without saying anything" minho looks at jisung with confusion.

"what?"

"you look familiar..."

"do I?"

"han jisung right?"

"yeah"

"huh" he looks away. "that's right we went to the same high school"

"oh yeah!" jisung looks away from him while his cheeks turn a light red.

"you were part of that group of the loud kids, hyunjin... and I forgot the other one"

"jennie"

"right, you were so annoying"

"I was not!"

"you were! you were always crushing on everyone and you'd never raise your hand in class"

"wait everyone called us the loud kids!?" minho chuckles and nods.

"yeah, you were all loud"

"that was 2 years ago now it's different"

"oh really because you're getting pretty loud now"

"nuh uh! I'm leaving!" jisung stands up to leave but then he turns around.

"you weren't so perfect yourself"

"I wasn't trying to be"

"whatever I'm still leaving!" jisung opens the door and closes it.

"one, two, three" the door opens.

"and—"

"you gonna actually leave and stop trying to defend yourself?"

"there's nothing wrong with that"

"you're still the same"

"whatever!" he leaves again.

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