Nothing.
At my first knock, there was nothing. I try again, biting my lip hard and also stopping my tears from coming out.
I put my hand up for the fifth time, but the door opens and leaving me standing there to see Sunghoon was the one who answered it.
"Yes, Princess?", he asks, his hair disheveled and behind him, I could already see the other twin preparing to sleep on the bunk bed.
Park Jay did not even give us an attention or something, only that he's maybe too tired from the day, he immediately passed out the second his head meet the pillow.
I turn back to his other half instead.
"I'm sorry, Hoon. I've been really, really awful to all of you lately and I could have been a little more understanding, but I didn't. I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking about what you and Jay were going through", I stammer, keeping my eyes on my feet.
I knew if I look at him, I'll probably start crying like a baby.
I may be stubborn and starved for freedom, but seeing them being disappointed in me is different. Especially the twins.
Especially the youngest one of the boys. The one in front of me.
"Princess, no, it's not your fault", Hoon says, pulling me into a hug.
I wrap my arms around his waist and rest his head on my chest, blinking out my tears as it already flow out from my eyes.
Sunghoon put his chin on top of my head and murmurs, "I just blew up on you 'cause of the stress of managing this house alone with Jay and we have to deal with school too and I shouldn't have been to hard on you. I'm sorry"
I stand there for a minute, and I let myself to actually let that information sink in.
As far as I know, Yeollie specifically bought this new house for the three of us and since he lives in another with Akira, Jimin was supposed to handle us when he's the closest to this place. But then with him living with his supposed bestfriend or perhaps boyfriend too, he can only do so much of helping until he have to go back in their apartment.
Which only leaves the responsibility of this house to the twins.
To Jay, mostly. Out of the two, he knew how to manage a lot of issues like the bills and groceries. What about Sunghoon?
He could be the one cleaning this house and running the other errands that Jay isn't able to do if he's too busy. And that one, he won't let his twin carry all the burden.
While me? I have the nerve to be a brat.
I considered this attitude of mine before he asks, "You wanna come down and find Jimin hyung? Let's treat him to an ice cream. He was too stress about me earlier"
I pull back and let out a smile, "Where do you even think we could find him?"
Sunghoon shrugs and smirks a little, "I might have a way to make his Jungkook talk"
⚊
In the next morning, Sunoo comes up to me looking like a perfect adorable mess. He has an obvious eyebags, his hair uncombed and he wears a pair of grey joggers and a blinding yellow hoodie with sneakers.
He's carrying a large cup of coffee and another in his free hand.
"Didn't sleep well, huh?", I ask, smirking.
"I bought this other coffee for you, in case you need some wake up call not to be a brat to me today", he replies, shrugging.
I laugh, making him chuckle and shove the coffee cup in my hand.
"I promise", I take a huge sip of the coffee and smile to him.
He return the gesture and looks over at me mischievously, "Your brother and I texted until 3 am"
I cough on my drink, now getting the reason why Sunghoon is quickly leaving me to hang out with Jimin in a convenience store after receiving a text yesterday night.
"Getting sick too early huh? I could bring you home and nurse you to health", Ni-ki says, turning up beside me.
My face goes bright red at the implication of his word and I used my arm to elbow him in the gut. He must not let any of my brother hear him say that to me.
"And Sunoo, my sunshine, why do you look like that?", he ask his bestfriend, grabbing the cup out of my hand and sipping on it.
"Give it back", I demand, glaring at him.
He is now back to being himself. By grinning down at me and for thinking that any drink of mine is his to sip.
I reach up and snatch it back, even though I'm sure he'll eventually grab it from me again.
"Why so cranky?", he observes, tapping one of my cheeks.
"Don't you dare tap my face", I snap, poking on his chest.
Ni-ki laughs and nods, looking back to Sunoo who is shoving his phone onto his bag when he looks at us.
"Anyway, sunshine, why do you look like as if you didn't sleep?", he ask, making me laugh as he also noticed it.
"Don't tell me the two of you actually have endearment for each other", I put my hand over my mouth to be quiet.
"No, I could've called him giant or a chick like that yellow chick for having that lips but I didn't", Sunoo replies, glaring at his friend.
"You can't blame me when your mother dressed you up as the freaking sun for Halloween once and you expect me not to forget that?", Ni-ki says, laughing with me as I imagined the image in my head.
Sunoo only rolled his eyes, he kept his cool by sipping comfortably in his coffee cup.
"Anyway, back to the question, who did make you stay up all night, sunny baby?", Ni-ki teases, bumping his hip into mine.
I squint at him and shake my head. I am visibly annoyed yet by the way I'm smothering a smile, he begins to smirk.
"I was up chatting until 3 am with this shy cutie who's talkative online", Sunoo says, and now that his coffee is done, is looking through a small mirror to check himself out.
"But we didn't even talk last night", Ni-ki tells him.
Sunoo stops and glares at him over the mirror. I only watch in amazement, finding it cute at how he still looks good as a mess.
"I was talking about Park Sunghoon, you idiot"
Ni-ki widen his eyes in shock at the mention of the name, "You were flirting with her scariest brother?"
"He's hot and cute and also sweet"
"Can you maybe not call Hoon all of those things in front of me?", I chime in, although I'm still glad for them.
As if on cue, Sunghoon walks over to our small group. Upon sighting him approaching, Ni-ki can't seem to sit still. Especially at the minute my brother's eyes landed on his figure beside mine.
"Kid, back up a little. You're invading Jiyoo's personal space", Sunghoon says, making Ni-ki nods and moves a little away from me.
"And you Sunoo, you look cute today", he continues, walking over to my friend.
Sunoo blushes bright red, still trying to like process that my brother is actually talking to him easily in personal. Even me was eyeing him to assess this interaction.
"Thanks but I always look like this", Sunoo replies, snapping his little mirror close and shoving it in the pocket of his bag.
"No, I'm serious. Even if you look like mess, you look cute, Sun", Sunghoon, much to my little gasp, had that nerve to play with Sunoo's hair.
It makes the younger flush even more. Isn't he supposed to be the braver one out of the two?
"So I'm gonna go now for science", I tell them, visibly wanting to leave them to have a moment.
"I'll walk with you", Ni-ki says, following me in a stride.
"You sure you don't want us to accompany you?", Sunghoon calls and I turn around, shaking my head.
"Please don't. For the sake of my eyes and of course, for Sunoo, please don't"
The twin brother gives me a pointed look and I just stick my tongue out before Sunoo where then stealing his attention back to him.
I bet he was intentionally helping to Ni-ki to get away from that one.
"Very childish", Ni-ki murmurs as we turn a corner away from the two.
To my observation, a few girls see us walking together and narrow their eyes on me when they realize who he is, one even going as far to look me up and down.
I only smiled, knowing how even if she does her make up, I'm even more beautiful than her.
It's only the truth. I'm aware of how visually pleasing I am since I am little.
"Damn, you already got them insecure to their pants", Ni-ki mutters, following my eyes to the group of preppy girls.
One specific looks over at me and bust out a high pitched giggle, turning to whisper into another ear hence there were more giggles to hear in the air.
I only rolled my eyes in response, "I can never blame them for having this face"
"Well, I get why you can say that. I mean, have you even look at your brothers? They're all gorgeous", Ni-ki utters as we walk past the girls.
"Yeah, I know. Back in my old school, I have a lot of girls trying to get close to me in order to see more of them", I tell him, walking into the classroom.
"They're probably just jealous of you and now that you also have me, it doubles up to be lucky", he says, tugging on my piece of hair as we walk down the isle.
"I didn't ask for your addition", I sit down on my seat, watching him take the one beside me.
"You act like you don't like me, but you haven't been exactly hostile to me since this morning", Ni-ki insists, nodding to himself.
I didn't answer and look to the front of the class, waiting for the teacher to start.
⚊
is this the start for them to get close?