BROTHERS.
episode seventeen: love, love the moon

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❝don't get me wrong, i like you.❞

jungkook was contemplating whether he should ditch his late friends to go buy himself something good to eat and fill his gurgling stomach, or be the one that is being ditched by his friends to buy themselves food without him.

he knew for a fact that both of his friends were losers like him, but at least they were people who treated him nicely and didn't treat him any differently for his quiet-but-developing personality.

jungkook continued to wait for a few more minutes, he stood behind a lamp post that was found near the middle of the festival, so his friends could easily spot him.

he had both of his hands shoved down his blue-ripped denim jeans, while he had earbuds on, making the wires unnoticeable because of his oversized white tee shirt. he got lazy in choosing an outfit, so he didn't put much thought into it when he decided to tag along with his family and attend—he ended up running downstairs with a black beanie and putting on some timberlands.

basically, his generic outfit.

his hyungs say that it's just a phase.

eunhee begged to differ.

"jungkook-ah!" a voice called in front of jungkook, making his eyes look up and catch the attention of a brunette teenager waving in his direction, beside him, stood a coal-haired boy who was a teeny bit taller than the other.

the brunette teenager smiled and ran to his direction to greet him, "look, we got you food!"

jungkook took his earbuds out and snatched the barbecue stick out of the boy's hand, he bit it hastily and took in the flavor going down his stomach.

he had a feeling that his friends would ditch him for food.

'LOL.' he thought to himself, as if he was on his phone, but he actually said the word in his conscious with a tone like he was actually dead inside.

he looked at the brunette and leaned towards him to peek at his hands, "yugs, do you have more? i'm still hungry."

"sorry man, i'm all out. why don't we just go and get some more before fooling around?"

jungkook nodded and stared at mingyu, "hey," he said faintly, "sorry if i scared you when you were around my sister."

mingyu shook his head and gave jungkook a smile, "it's okay, i would've been protective of my little sister as well."

yugyeom called them over to check out the hotdog stand someone set up, and the three of them ate until they were satisfied enough to play some games.

they were currently in line to play some can knock down game. although jungkook and yugyeom weren't fond of the boring and typical festival game, mingyu decided to place a bet on who will win, so they both couldn't afford to turn down a challenge.

of course, the three of them all bet on themselves.

it was finally their turn and mingyu was first to toss. he rolled up his black and white stripped long-sleeve before picking up a blue beanbag. his eyes were darted at the tin canisters, he squinted his eyes to aim his shot.

finally, he threw his first beanbag and he missed by a meter.

his two friends behind him couldn't help but laugh at mingyu, they were slapping their legs and clapping so loud that people in line got curious what was going on at the front.

mingyu took a deep breath and tried again.

right when he was about to throw it, yugyeom and jungkook started yelling and shouting nonsense behind him, making him throw the beanbag a shorter distance than what he intended.

"SKRRRRT!!"

"ESKIIIIIIT!"

"EXPENSIVE GIRL~"

in the end, he only ended up winning a mini tiger plushie keychain, which he wasn't too upset about.

the other two ended up getting tie, and winning themselves food voucher tickets which they were siked on using.

they ran around the campus, looking for more games to waste their money on and have fun.

they ended up playing some rounds of ddr inside the school gym, which turned into an arcade station.

mingyu did quite decent in all the rounds, catching onto the rhythm and stepping on the pads at the same paste.

jungkook ended up using his kneeling on the floor and slamming his hands to cover the two front pads and used his legs to do the back.

while yugyeom was screaming loudly in panic throughout the whole game, and jumping on all the pads harshly, just guessing the notes.

mingyu ended up winning with a score of b, while the other two got f's.

"wow, i finally got a grade better than my actual marks." mingyu laughed, pointing at the screen.

next, they decided to buy some more tokens to play the air hockey. the three of them had to wait a while until it was available, so they got vanilla-chocolate twisted ice cream until they could play.

air hockey was quite amusing for the three, but also chaotic. they were loud as usual, which wasn't a surprise to the students in the gym anymore after they played ddr, but they were more competitive and idiotic than usual.

jungkook started taking off his timberlands and using it as a paddle, causing yugyeom to use both of his hands and hit the puck like he was performing some sort of super saiyan stunt.

"it's on, jungshook." yugyeom stared down jungkook, who was on the other side of the table holding a pair of timberlands next to his face, with a meme face.

mingyu patiently watched the two begin a heated game on the side of the table. he was doing well spectating and announcing the moves each player made, like in an actual game of hockey, until he felt something hit his crotch.

he winched in pain, and looked down to cover his balls. he twisted legs in pain and yelped to the two boys just making fun of him.

yugyeom was dabbing along to the rythmn of mingyu yelping, while jungkook was hitting the nae nae.

"ayyyyyyyy!" they both kept said loudly in unison.

it was truly a mess to be in that gym with those three dorks, but for once, jungkook felt like he could be himself with two other people who weren't his brother, or his little sister. he felt comfortable to make mistakes, or lose a game and fool around with them in public that even he forgets where he even is.

even though his friends ditched him for food earlier, he didn't care about that anymore since they made sure to bring him food anyways, plus, he got to have the best leisure time he had had in a while.

'i cant believe i'm friends with a boy who doesn't know how to pronounce dandelonie in english,' he slowly calmed down and looked at yugyeom dabbing.

'and a tall clumsy boy who acts like a housewife..' he laughed once again at a winching mingyu, who slowly descended on the floor.

he wondered if he was able to capture a moment such as this one and relive it one day.

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soona was hesitant to go inside.

they were in front of a dark and mysterious classroom door, with webs and flickering lights set outside. namjoon suggested to try the haunted house maze since he thought it might give them the thrills to start of the night, and since it was namjoon's idea, soona agreed without taking what he suggested inside her brain up until the point she was at now.

"joonie, i-i don't know about this," she took a step back, being frightened by the background music and the screaming inside the classroom.

namjoon gave her a small chuckle and turned around to give her his hand, and a warm smile that made his cute dimples visible.

it was powerful enough to comfort anyone.

she hesitantly took his hand, as they walked inside and entered the dark maze. the cardboard walls made their space kind of clustered, but namjoon kept holding onto soona's trembling hand. there were a few small pop-ups like spiders and scary sound effects but since namjoon was at the front, he was the one struggling through the maze.

they kept getting lost since they both had no good sense of direction. eventually, they got out of the other end of the classroom.

only to find out that it connects to the other classroom next door, whose entrance looked much more terrifying than the last. the screams from inside were much more intense, and the loud thud did people running could be heard, there were creepy girls singing a lullaby nearby and a never ending jack-in-a-box playing as well.

namjoon gulped, and look behind him at soona, whose soul has already left her body.

'i've already been though worse, seeing possessed-looking dolls, blood, and a freaky doll maker, so might as well.'

he dragged her inside once again. it looked similar to the previous one; dark, covered with cobwebs, there was smoke covering the floor, a few fake pop-ups, and a few real ones, which included hands touching their shoes, or zombies chasing after them.

however, this time, there were a few parts where they had to let go of each other's hands, in order to crawl through tunnels which were made out of cardboard boxes, and painted over with black paint. those parts were one of the most thrilling parts for namjoon, since he got the scare of his life after they both crawled through the end.

a teenage girl with long-messy and black hair that covered her face, stood still in front of them—she was blocking the way to the exit. her skin was as pale as snow, and she wore nothing but a white ripped silk dress that looked like it was smeared in blood.

soona squealed in horror, making namjoon cover her mouth with his right hand, while his left hand hung around her shoulder for comfort. she couldn't help but think about all the days she had been dreaming to be in a scenario like this.

'all those kdrama scenes and my fan fiction knowledge is finally paying off.'

out of nowhere, the creepy girl starts humming a lullaby and looks around the room.

namjoon began leading soona to walk around her slowly, but to his disappointment, the girl noticed them, and screamed before chasing them out of the haunted house.

soona ran forward before stopping at the exit and feeling her legs shaking, and her breath going unsteady.

namjoon made it out as well, in a similar condition, but he calmed down soon enough.

it wasn't before long that he noticed soona was still trembling.

"are you okay?"

she turned around and looked at namjoon with wide eyes, "y-yeah.."

namjoon didn't say anything.

he took her wrist and pulled her onto his chest, while he took his other arm to hold the back of her head.

"it's okay to be afraid, we're both human."

"there's no need to lie, i'm proud that we both got through that, together."

he pulled her away to see her tomato face, and her lips swiveling in happiness and embarrassment. he chuckled at the sight, and asked her if she wanted to try a couple of fun games to cool down from all the thrill.

they both came across a game of "test your strength", where you try to control a heavy hammer and hit a button on the floor, which makes the thermometer-like board float all the way up to the top and ring the bell.

soona tried it, cause she wanted to win the big teddy bear prize, but she barely got through half of the meter.

although, when namjoon tried, he was even worse.

he ended up breaking the game.

when he hit the button with the hammer, the ball that was supposed to rise up to the bell, ended up breaking the bell—it wouldn't stop ringing.

the students and teachers running the station got too distracted and annoyed with the two of them that they just gave the bear prize to make them leave quickly.

they both laughed it off, as they lined up to eat some strawberry funnel cake at a food truck close by.

they were both sitting down and sharing a single plate—since they're broke bois—and talking on about their day, when namjoon suddenly stopped her from talking.

he made strong eye contact with her, which left her flustered already. before she knew it, he started leaning towards soona's face.

they were an inch away from having their lips touch.

soona was ready to close her eyes, when namjoon interrupted her,

"there's a smudge of whipped cream on the side of your lips." he smirked, before laughing it off and going back to sludge into his seat.

she quickly looked in the mirror to wipe it off, but she realized that there was nothing on her lips.

she stared at namjoon, who was looking somewhere else and grew curious, but namjoon brushed it off after shouting something about lanterns.

they finished eating the funnel cake in a few minutes, since namjoon got eager to go and light a fly lantern. he thought that it was the perfect way to end off the night, since he imagined the sight to be a truly memorable one.

"hi, would you like to light a lantern?" a female student asked them at the stand.

"yes, please!" soona replied.

they had to pay five dollars for the lantern, but they split their money so they were fine with it.

soona held their onto the circular tan lantern, it was made with delicate fabric, with metal wiring and a small circular candle holder and candle inside—so she made sure she was the one holding it, and not namjoon.

they walked up the the track field, where other students were awaiting the lighting of the candles to lift up the lanterns. it turns out they still had a couple of more minutes until that happened, so they both ran to make it down there in time.

namjoon noticed that most of the groups there seemed to be couples or married people, so he found it slightly awkward that he invited soona to do this with him.

"alright everyone, i'd like you all to light your candles and light it up on my count!" a professor shouted with a megaphone.

namjoon lit the lantern carefully, and together, they both put their hands on each side of the lantern.

"1.. 2.. 3.. rise them up, folks!"

the two of them both raised their arms to lift up the lantern and watched it float away into the sky.

namjoon stole a moment to look at soona gazing upon the lanterns that looked like stars, she was smiling widely and was oblivious to the world for once.

he sat down with his legs criss-crossed and sighed.

'is it selfish to think that i would rather be doing this with someone else..?' he asked himself.

"namjoon-oppa, are you feeling okay?"

soona has just finished being mesmerized by the lanterns and sat herself beside namjoon, who looked deep in thought.

he scratched his head, deciding whether or not it would be the right think to do to be completely honest with her.

"i was thinking about my girlfriend, jeongyeon. she was supposed to be here today, but she couldn't make it.."

"i was kind of hoping, that i would be doing the things we did today, with her instead.."

"i just miss her a lot.."

he noticed soona's eyes drift her attention to the her side instead of his face. her movements became awkward as she started fidgeting with the hem of her clothes.

"–b-but i'm glad that you still came! we both had fun today, and it was truly a much better night than i had planned.." he stuttered, trying to make up for what he said, although he was being honest.

he didn't expect to experience such excitement with a girl like soona, especially since he only though if her as a friend.

'right, she's just a friend..'

he looked to his side to see soona still looking away. one of her eyes were visible from the side, and it was obvious she was about to start tearing up.

'what have i done..'

"i'm sorry if i keep hurting you," he accidentally blurred out his thoughts, making soona turn around to look at him.

"i keep thinking that maybe you're taking my kindness in a different way.." he continued on, since he already spoke his thought out loud.

"don't get me wrong, i like you."

he put both of his hands on soona's shoulders to turn her to face him directly. he saw how hard it was for her to make eye contact with him, but saying those last words were even harder for namjoon.

he knew it would break her heart into a million pieces.

yet he still did it, because he knew that no one should be lied to.

"but i like you as my friend."

he kissed her forehead as a tear dripped out of soona's eyes.

"thank you for tonight."

he hugged her tightly, as he felt the wet tears soaking his shirt, and her sniffles.

"you're still someone precious to me, so please don't cry anymore, okay?"

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eunhee has just finished scaring a bunch of students inside of the haunted maze. she found it incredible how her own brother, namjoon, and her best friend, soona, couldn't even recognize her in her costume—they were totally terrified of her.

she went to the change room to take off her messy make-up and change into her clothes. she wore a simple white-off the shoulder dress, with a few embroidery at the top. she took off her long haired wig, to reveal her mid-length dark hair instead. she redid her makeup, and put on a hint of perfume before heading outside to look for eunwoo.

she waited in front of the school building, searching for eunwoo.

now that she realized, eunwoo never told her where they would meet up, so she was confused how he would ever find her.

just as if he read her mind, someone covered her eyes with their hands, which caused eunhee to instinctively defend herself and jab the man in the chest area—learned self-defense thanks to jungkook's amazing taekwondo skills.

she heard the man behind her fall to the ground and groan.

she turned around to meet eyes with the one and only cha eunwoo.

"seriously, eunwoo?? you couldn't have just simply said hi, and had to scare the soul out of me?"

he laughed apologetically, and eunhee helped him back in his feet.

he stared at eunhee for a while before giving her a soft smile and extending his hand towards her,

"are you ready?"

she nodded, accepting his hand and intertwining with hers. they began walking to the direction of the school garden, which made eunhee more curious than she already was.

"where are you talking me?"

she looked around to see the fairly lights hanging from lamp post to lamp post, trailing towards the greenhouse, and the hidden garden filled with a variety of colorful flowers.

"someplace magical,"

eunwoo started, "someplace beautiful,"

"someplace where i make you fall in love with me.."

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another chapter finished in one night,, i'm on a roll !! i'm not releasing this chapter until wednesday though ^^;

anyways bighit decided to surprise us armys and drop the concept photos and i am in love ?? i really live for everyone's hair colors and taehyung is breaking stereotypical gender roles by wearing a skirt,, wow i stan a legend !!1!

i cant wait till the whole album drops :) but at the same time i can also wait a few more peaceful days before bts puts me in cardiac arrest,,,

now for some more questions / polls i'd like you guys to answer (since your opinions make a difference in my books) ☆彡 :

[1] what are your thoughts about the new concept photos? and which version would you buy?

they've only released the "S" and "E" ver (still waiting for "L" and "F") but i personally like "E" because of how bright it looks and the incorporation of flowers and bubbles!

[2] how are you liking some of the character relationships so far?

i've barely been writing about eunhee for a while because i want you guys to realize that everyone around eunhee is important as well, and that the bangtan brothers will have character development as well! so sorry if there's not a lot of scenarios with eunhee x bts atm

[3] what's your favorite bts album + song?

i personally like the album called "2 COOL 4 SKOOL, O!RUL8,2?, Skool Luv Affair, DARK & WILD, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life pt. 1 + 2, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever, WINGS, Love Yourself: "Her" + "Tear", Face Yourself, Wake Up, Youth, The Best of Bōdan Shōnendan: Japan Edition, and The Best of BTS!" that album was amazing, i felt so much emotion and the songs are very impactful on my life today.

[4] which character from the story can you relate to the most so far? and what's your favorite animal hehe

for me, it's probably a mix of eunhee, soona, and jungkook :) and my favorite animal would have to be a dog? or a bunny? i'm not acc sure :o

ᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ᴜᴘ ɴᴇхᴛ ᴏɴ "ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀs"

BROTHERS.
episode eighteen: breathless

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sᴀᴛᴜʀᴅᴀʏ, ᴀᴜɢᴜsᴛ 18ᴛʜ, 2018
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60 ᴠᴏᴛᴇs + 300 ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛs ᴛᴏ ᴜɴʟᴏᴄᴋ?