Seokjin and the Heirs of the Korean Miracle - BOOK 1 ✔

Chapter 28 : Who do you think I prefer...?

A/N : actually, chapters 27 and 28 were only one, but it was almost 6000 words long and it can seem endless for a reader. So I cut it in half and I can't proudly say "double update!"^^'

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Seeing Namjoon and Seokjin so close, Taehyung wasn't thrilled.

"Stop cuddling him, he's too old for that now."

"No, I won't stop, just because you're jealous," Namjoon scoffed as he tightened his embrace around a desperate Seokjin to be caught again as the reason for the conflict between the two brothers. However, he did not have the opportunity to be heard.

"Jin is not your girlfriend, let go of him, it's inappropriate at your old age, Namjerk," Taehyung said at Namjoon.

"Says the one who sleeps with him and cuddling him all night. What does your girlfriend think about it by the way?" Namjoon replied slyly without paying attention to the delivery boy who was watching the scene with a bewildered look. "If Yoona doesn't know, I can handle it and tell her everything, you know. Knowing her big viper mouth, she will not hesitate to blackmail you with this information by threatening to ruin your reputation in no time. It'll only be fair after all you've done wrong to the students at this school, don't you think? I'm sure everyone will be happy to witness your humiliation."

"Namjoo-" Seokjin wanted to protest, seeing Taehyung's face flush with a mixture of shame and anger.

"Joonie," Namjoon corrected him kindly.

"Ah yes, Joonie," Seokjin corrected himself, "please don't do that, don't threaten him, that's not nice."

His intervention seemed to calm Taehyung down a bit.

"But he deserves it, after all he did to you, I have to avenge you."

"You don't need to avenge me, so don't say that kind of meanness, it's beneath you. I don't want you to be like that. So please don't do this okay?"

Annoyed that instead of defending him, Seokjin rather gave the impression that he was taking care to preserve his brother's moral spirit, Taehyung interrupted their exchange curtly:

"You have to pay the delivery boy, Namjoon, he is waiting; I don't have any money."

Namjoon and Seokjin turned in one motion to the embarrassed delivery boy.

"No, I refuse to pay you anything," Namjoon immediately refused.

"It's not for me, it's for Jin."

Seokjin wanted to intervene, saying he didn't need it and would eat the hospital food, but Taehyung quickly added to Namjoon's attention:

"If you want him to eat something good and not that infamous food they serve here, you will have to pay."

Namjoon shot him a venomous look but didn't reply, knowing that Seokjin was watching him carefully and expecting more from him than a response to Taehyung's provocations. He took a deep breath, let go of Seokjin, and paid the delivery boy who hastened to take the money and leave.

Seeing Taehyung settling on the bed with the food bags and inviting Seokjin to do the same, Namjoon joined them but said at Taehyung:

"I'm not sure I want to offer you food, maybe we'll just eat both in front of you."

"Joonie!" Seokjin scolded him. "Taehyung has to eat too, you can't deprive him of food."

"Just kidding, Jinnie."

"If you call him Joonie again, then call me Tae," Taehyung ordered as he started eating, not thanking Seokjin for his intervention as he would have eaten even without Namjoon's approval.