Y/N: Where did you send them?
Mrs Son: Doing community service... we can say. They have a dense schedule, but you don't have to worry, nothing that they can't overcome.
Yejin was smiling like a villain during the entire time. The two eldest looked at her with interest and amusement. That side of her was every time refreshing.
Hoseok laughed imagining what kind of punishment his father and step-mother could have found. For sure, something that will annoy his brothers as much as they bothered her 2 days ago.
Jin: Y/N, I will drive you to school today. If you're done, let's go.
Y/N: Okay. Bye everyone. Mom, don't work too much.
They all wished her to have a good day at school. In the car, Y/N texted the boys. She wanted to encourage them for that unexpected day that was coming for them. Taehyung was the quickest to answer with a crying emoji.
Jin: Here we are. (He turned off the car.) Sweetie, as Jungkook is absent today, if something happens, you contact me immediately.
Y/N: Yes... but you know, everything is quiet now at school and next year, Jungkook should be at the university, so he won't be here... unless he fails his year, of course.
Jin: We can make him fail his year, if you prefer to have him around...
Y/N stared at him with a "Are you serious?" look.
Y/N: Oppa, I don't need someone to babysit me at school.
Jin: It's not for babysitting you, just to keep an eye on you for your own safety.
Y/N: You can apply for a teacher position if you want to keep an eye on me. (She laughed in a cute way.)
Jin: That's a great idea!
Y/N: What? No, that's not a great idea at all! Oppa, you can't come to work in my school... it will be too weird.
Jin: You don't have to refuse so strongly, little Miss!
Y/N: Sorry... But I really don't need someone at school with me.
Jin: Alright, alright. Aman will take you home tonight as usual.
Y/N: Okay, have a good day Oppa, be careful at work.
Y/N entered inside the school under her eldest brother's caring gaze.
Then, the young man left for the company. He had a smile on his face during the whole way to work. Y/N expressing her feelings openly was what made him smile. She grew up so much, he was proud.
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On the 3 boys' side, the ambiance was way different when the van parked in front of Seoul Station.
Namjoon: Mr Park, why are we here? Yejin is not sending us in another city, right?
Mr Park: No, rest assure Mr Namjoon. But she registered you as volunteers to help homeless people and distribute breakfast for everyone this morning. Over there, we prepared a tent with the necessary food. (He pointed to few meters away.)
Taehyung: Well... it could be worst.
The 3 boys got off the car and followed Mr Park. The place was crowded as it was the rushing hour.
Mr Park: The food distribution is planned for 2 hours, after that, a car will come to pick you up and to drive you to your next work.
Taehyung: Okay, I should have not said anything...
Jungkook: What did they plan after that? Mom couldn't have chosen something too hard, right? She didn't, right?
Mr Park: (He smiled.) After the distribution, you are awaited in a nursing home to help for the weekly full cleaning day and to give support to the elders' requests. You are expected to sleep over there and tomorrow morning at dawn, you will conduct those who desired for a walk in the mountain. When all of this is settled, we will take you back home.
Mr Park had enumerated everything as he was doing with their father's daily meetings, very naturally. The boys were dumbfounded. Yejin was not joking in her way to teach them something.
Taehyung: Is it joke Mr Park?
Mr Park: I am sorry, it is not Mr Taehyung. Madam is looking to your full dedication to the task, so please, give the best of you. Have a good day.
Mr Park left with the driver but one of his men stayed with the Kim brothers. The trio was welcome by a worker of the association contacted by Yejin to organize the distribution. He explained everything to them during 5 minutes before letting them start to work.
Taehyung: Are you sure that it's a good idea to let him prepare food for someone?
Jungkook: Better him than me. Onions sting a lot!
Namjoon: Both of you shut up and work seriously. If we are here, it's mostly because of you two!
Jungkook: And the way you talked to Mom because of a joke was our fault too, right? Nothing to do with your character!
Taehyung: Guys, calm down. Let's work together instead of fighting with each others. We are stuck together until tomorrow anyway, unless one of you want to go against Mom.
Jungkook and Namjoon both sighed and focused on their designated tasks. The youngest was preparing the bags for the distribution with a bottle of water, fruits and a lunchbox.
Taehyung was with another volunteer to begin the distribution. The line to pick up the free food was already long. The weather was pretty hot today and under the tent, the temperature has risen quickly.
Jungkook: I'm sweating...
Taehyung: Me too... and there is a lot of people. I would have never thought that so many people would need food distribution in our city.
Namjoon: We are privileged kids, that's why. But look, most of them are old... and probably without a family to take care of them... what a shame!
Jungkook: Mom had clearly that in mind while choosing that punishment. When she decides something, no one can make her change her opinion, it's clear that she is the real boss of the family.
The distribution went pretty well, except one or two old men, a bit drunk even in the morning, that were pestering about the waiting time to be served. The boys managed to keep their calm and not answer to the provocation, when one of them insulted them to be girlish' looking boys living with their father's money.
The intervention of a police patrol coming back to the police station nearby, helped to keep the situation under control. The officers were used to work with people in distress.
Jungkook: It's over... (He just gave the last food bag.)... I think we worked well...
Volunteer: Yes, thanks for your help. Here... (He handed them sandwiches.)... you deserve to eat something.
Jungkook: Thanks man, I'm starving!
The three brothers barely had time to digest their sandwiches that the driver asked them to get on the van for their next destination. There was an hour of drive to reach the nursing home in the mountain. A quiet place for elders but not so easy to access from the city. When the van finally parked in front of the main building, the director of the establishment came to welcome them.
He warmly thanked them for their help and the boys never mentioned that it was not their idea and introduced themselves.
Director: The two of you can follow Mrs Han to the west area and you, you can follow me to the kitchen.
Namjoon: Okay. Guys, be good boys!
Jungkook: And you, try to not destroy the kitchen!
Namjoon glared at his two younger brothers who were laughing while following Mrs Han. Their good mood quickly changed when they discovered the amount of work that was waiting for them. Jungkook started to clean one of the bedroom meticulously. Windows, under the bed, the bathroom, even the clothes corner.
Jungkook: Eh, Tae, I finished the first one before you, I hope that you are working seriously! (He yelled from the corridor.)
Taehyung: For sure, I do! And correctly... not like you!
Jungkook: My work is so clean that you can think that room is new!
Mrs Han: Humhum... young men...
Jungkook:Ahahah...sorry...
Jungkook and Taehyung continued their work with some background music to motivate them. They were working diligently but after 3 rooms each, tiredness started to show up. That's when two old women arrived with a plate of fresh fruits.
Lady 1: Omo... it's really true... 2 handsome boys came to visit us!
Lady 2: They are so cute... and well built too...
Jungkook: (He turned himself to face the ladies.) Granny... you know that you are ogling a teenager, right?
Lady 2: Teenagers look like that nowadays?
Lady 1: Cutie, take a break and come eat some fruits.
Lady 2: Cutie number 2 too. You did a great job already. Here, try this, they are really good, we made them grow all by ourselves!
Jungkook: Really? (He took one.) You still have the energy to grow fruits at your age?
Lady1: It's rude, young man!
Taehyung joined them and laughed seeing his brother scolded by the granny. He offered his charming smile to the old lady that handed him a piece of watermelon.
Taehyung: JK, with one look, you can see that those two ladies are at the top of their form!
Lady 2: You, you definitively know how to talk to women!
Jungkook: He is a player, yeah!
Taehyung: Yah!
Lady 1: With his face and his body, it would be too bad to not take advantage of its!
Taehyung: Halmeoni, you know how to have fun!
Lady 1: Of course! I was a beauty when I was young!
Taehyung laughed in unison with the two ladies. Jungkook, him, shook his head and took a second bite of his fruit.
Mrs Han: Ladies, please don't disturb our two volunteers in their work. Without their help, we won't be able to finish the bedrooms before tonight.
Lady 2: Alright, anyway, we will have you tonight too, to keep us company, right?
Jungkook: After all that work, I'm not sure to still have energy tonight to entertain you, granny!
Taehyung: Sorry ladies, we have to go back to work, but thanks for those delicious fruits!
The two women left for the shared living room where other residents were playing a game card.
Jungkook: Hyung, you can't stop yourself to flirt wit women, even old grannies!
Taehyung: I was not flirting, it's gross! No, it's my natural charm.
Jungkook: Natural charm, my ass!
Taehyung pushed his brother and he returned to the bedroom that he was cleaning before the grannies' interruption.
On Namjoon's side, things were less funny. He also had the visit of residents, not funny grannies but a grumpy old man with a cane. And that old man was following Namjoon as his shadow, commenting his way of doing things.
The director tried to send away the old man, but he was too stubborn to listen. He claimed that he had nothing better to do and didn't want to listen to the old crazy women in the living room.
Old man: Director, that guy... are you sure that he is here to help?
Director: Mr Norito, please, let that young man alone. you are on his back for the last 30 minutes.
Old man: You bring delinquents in our house; I must monitor them!
Director: (He sighed.) They are not delinquents but kind young men who volunteer to help our humble house.
Old man: I am old enough to say those guys are not angel!
Namjoon silently laughed at the two men conversation. In a way, that old grumpy was not so wrong. He was lost in his thoughts when he received a hit on his butt.
Namjoon: What the f... (He avoided to curse when he faced the old man.)
Director: Mr Norito! Mr Namjoon, please forgive him. Mr Norito, if you keep behaving like that, I will have to take measures!
Namjoon: Director, it's okay. (In Japanese.) Norito-San, I don't know why you are piss off against me, but I can assure you that I am only here to give some help. So, please, bear with my presence until tomorrow and you won't have to see my face ever again.
Mr Norito: Hum... I will keep an eye on you... (He left.)
Director: You can speak Japanese? I think that's what make Mr Norito give you some space.
Namjoon: Norito-San has a little character...
Director: Yes, we can say that. He was in the military his all life and barely had times to spend with his family. Unfortunately, his wife and son died few years ago in a car accident. She was Korean and he didn't want to leave the country where is family was. He joined us after one year alone in the city. At the beginning, he barely talked to anyone but now, most of the time, he argues with the other residents. But I know that he is not a bad person. He is just sad and alone...
Namjoon listened with attention the director. That man probably left his home country, to serve another country, for the love of his life. But even after their deaths, that love was still so strong that he chose to stay here, alone.
Namjoon: It's his way to keep contact with others... I can relate...
After finishing their respective tasks, the brothers were taken to a 4 beds room to take a shower and rest before dinner. They hadn't worked so hard since years... or maybe never in fact.
Taehyung: Cleaning that place is more tiring than a mafia physical training... I will never piss off Mom ever again!
Namjoon: And you didn't have a grandpa on your back half of the day... he even hit my ass with his cane!
Jungkook: Damn, we missed the fun part!
Namjoon: Don't worry, he thinks that we are delinquents and promised to keep an eye on us. I am sure that you will have the honor to taste his cane before our departure tomorrow.
The boys rested 45 minutes before Mrs Han came to take them to share a dinner with the residents in the garden.
It was a habit after the cleaning day and to finish the evening, the director took out a TV screen with an old karaoke machine.
It was unexpected but the Kim brothers spent a really good evening. The dinner was simple but delicious and they met the other residents that were very welcoming and happy to have those young and handsome boys in their house.
Jungkook, even if he was tired, helped to move the chairs for the karaoke session while Taehyung was dragged by the two grannies from earlier for a trio at the mic.
Namjoonwasabitapart,textingwith Ha-Ri when MrNoritodecided that it was time to continue his investigation.
Mr Norito: Hum... are you asking for your gangster friends to come to rob us?
Namjoon: Sorry to disappoint you Norito-san, it's just my girlfriend.
Mr Norito: You, you have a girlfriend?
Namjoon: (He looked up from his phone.) Yes, why are you so surprise? Bad guys can't have girlfriends? (He asked with a smile.)
Mr Norito: So, you're finally admitting that you are delinquents!
Namjoon: If it can please you, I can be whatever you want!
Mr Norito scoffed and took the free seat near Namjoon. The young man ended his virtual conversation with Ha-Ri and observed the old man few minutes.
Mr Norito: Staring at people like you do is very impolite!
Namjoon: Kicking someone else ass with his cane is impolite!
Mr Norito: Your girlfriend, if she really exists, must be a saint to stand a guy like you!
Namjoon: You're right, she is an angel...
Mr Norito noticed that this time, Namjoon's smile was sincere. He stared at what has been designed as the scene for the evening and asked in Japanese.
Mr Norito: Those kids are part of your gang, I guess!
Namjoon: They are my little brothers. To be honest, we pissed off our Mom and she sent us here... a life lesson, you see. We are just ordinary sons that needed a reminder on the value of respect, not gangsters, coming here to kill everyone during their sleep!
Mr Norito: Ordinary sons? I can bet the little amount that I have that you are far from being ordinary. (Namjoon looked at him with a serious gaze.) But, at least, you must not lie about your story with your Mother... (His tone was different, nostalgic.) You should always respect your parents; you never know what can happen.
Namjoon: I will.
The silence that took place after was not that uncomfortable for the two men. They looked at the elders follow one after the others to sing old songs, Taehyung joining them from time to times. Jungkook was encouraged by another group to taste a strong alcohol created in the mountain and at the face the teenager made, the drink must have been very strong.
The evening passed in that good ambiance and the night was in fact pretty short, Mrs Han coming to wake up the brothers at the first ray of the sun.
Their next mission was to go with some of the elders for a walk into the mountain, to visit a temple, and bring some packages to them.
Once again, a task not that easy to realize, even more after an entire day of hard work. The brothers had sorrowed muscles, but they couldn't complain in front of the elders that were walking in the mountain without showing difficulties.
Surprisingly, Mr Norito was also part of the trip. He was walking at a slower step, with the help of his cane, but he was still following the group silently. Namjoon kept an eye on him, knowing that the old man was doing the same.
They arrived at the temple for lunch time and the break was well deserve for everyone. The boys received a text message from Y/N who wanted news from her brothers. She was on her way to the institute to prepare for the reception. She was hoping that everything was going fine for them and was waiting to see them at the party.
To reassure her, Taehyung sent a photo of him with a bright smile in front of the temple, and another one of Jungkook from last night. The last one was of Namjoon talking with Mr Norito, with the legend : "Namjoon Hyung bickering with his new best friend!"
After doing everything necessary at the temple, the group took the way back to the retirement home. The return was a bit faster, and the driver was already waiting for them near the propriety entry.
The director and Mrs Han warmly thanked them once again for their time and dedication. The elders were also grateful for the brothers' visit and even Mr Norito came to the garden to salute Namjoon before his departure. The young man couldn't avoid to tease one last time the old man before leaving and murmured to his ear : "You were not totally wrong, Norito-san..., but I am a nice bad guy..."
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At Seoul, Aman parked the car in front of the private beauty institute. Yong Min welcomed Y/N and her bodyguard and offered a collation. Yejin was already under Lee-An's expert hands, so the assistant showed the young girl the final design for her temporary tattoo.
Y/N: It's too late to reconsider, right?
Yong Min: You can always change your mind... but just, don't have any regrets! Be confident, you will be gorgeous!