"The house is lit up. That means Hyun Wook is home?" Yoongi sighed, as he pulled the handbrake right across Hyun Ae's house which was well-lit from the inside.

He then unbuckled his seat belt and turned to her, who was still sleeping with little cute snores left her lips, making him smile.

"Hyun Ae? Wake up. We're here," he whispered, as his other hand tried to reach out for the seat recliner and straightened her seat up.

She lifted her head a bit, and her eyes were still closed as she yawned.

"Are you still drunk?"

Please tell me she's sober now. A bit is enough.

She opened her eyes and stared at the view of the house, and then wowed herself, with eyes almost closing now as she began.

"Is this Prince Eric's castle?" she asked, giggling like a girl.

"Oh my..." Yoongi slapped his forehead when he found out that she was still intoxicated.

"What? Why- Why am I not in my diamond carriage?"

"I'm calling Hyun Wook," he decided, pulling out his phone and beginning to scroll through his contact list.

"Hyun Wook? N-N-No!" she suddenly snapped and snatched his phone from his hand, hiding it from him.

"Hyun Ae, give me back my phone," Yoongi said, grabbing her arm that she had put behind her with his phone. "You're scared when I mention your brother, huh? So you're into sober mode now. Give me back my phone, Park Hyun Ae."

Yoongi tried to pull her arm back, but since she leaned back into the seat with her weight, it was hard for him.

It was total chaos in the car as her other arm was trying to push him away from her.

"Hyun Ae, stop. You'll hurt yourself!" Yoongi panicked when he realized she was getting lower into her seat, still with her arm behind her and the other on his shoulder, pushing him away.

And suddenly, Yoongi slipped his arms around her back and pulled her up, finally got to lift her up in his arms but as she was shocked and lost her balance, the upper half of her body fell on him and they caught themselves being super close.

So close that Yoongi had to freeze in his driver's seat. While staring right into Hyun Ae's half-lidded eyes. And her breath was tingling with his nerves on his blushed cheek.

"H-Hyun Ae-"

He was cut off by sudden warm pressure on his lips. It took him a while to realize that Hyun Ae was kissing him in her drunken state.

He tried to resist her by pushing her away, but her arms immediately went around his head and neck, locking and pulling him closer as the kiss began to turn into an intense session, and he had no choice but to take part in it.

He scooted closer to her, making sure she was in her comfortable position, and continued to kiss her with passion.

Because his heart really needed it.

After a while, they broke the kiss to get some air but still were close to each other. Yoongi was panting as he stared at her, who had closed eyes while gasping. And that was when he noticed her tears pouring out from her closed eyes.

She opened her teary eyes a bit, and she began to sob while mumbling something that was inaudible, but Yoongi caught on to it.

'Namjoon...'

"Hah... You missed him so much, don't you?" he asked, smiling weakly as he wiped her tears with his thumb.

Namjoon, I'm so sorry for taking advantage of her.

"I... I..." she whispered and turned her head away as she began to move her body away from him and reclined her seat back down. "Just wake me up when we arrive-"

"But, we're already here! Hyun Ae!" Yoongi grunted when she covered her head with his coat that has been with her.

He sighed as he got back into his driver's seat after retrieving his phone back from below Hyun Ae's seat, and immediately called Hyun Wook.

"Hyun Wook? Um... I'm outside your house. Yes, I'm with Hyun Ae here. But..." he halted for a while as he glanced over to her, and sighed nervously.

"We... had dinner and... beer. I know, I'm so sorry! Just, get out here and help me to get her inside. I'll... explain everything."

After the call ended, Yoongi let out a sigh of relief as he relaxed his tensed body in his seat. He touched his forehead, with his hair sticking onto his sweaty skin in a mess, only to make him bite his lips as he remembered back the kiss.

He looked over to Hyun Ae, who still had her back on him, covered in his long coat. A view that really didn't help him much when one tiny dark side of him emerged from its hiding place.

Can I still have you? If only I can take you away from him.

Suddenly the door gate opened, and there was Hyun Wook, still in his working uniform.

"Oh my goodness. Hyunnie noona!" Hyun Wook grumbled as he ran to the other side of the car and immediately opened her door.

"Lift her up. I'll get her stuff," Yoongi said, reaching his hand to the backseat of the car to grab the shopping bags.

Hyun Wook pulled his sister up and out of the car, lifting her up as she woke up in his arms.

"Woah, I'm flying again. 'A whole new world~'" Hyun Ae began to sing while flailing her arms around.

"Noona, shut up! Geez!" Hyun Wook groaned as he stomped his way back to the house yard. "Yoongi hyung, you guys had more than two bottles, right?"

"Er... kinda?" Yoongi replied, tilting his head as he walked through the gate with bags in his hands after closing the gate behind him.

Hyun Wook could only shake his head as they made their way toward the front porch.

"One step, two steps, three steps, and here we are!" Hyun Ae cheered on her brother and clapped her hands happily as he climbed the steps carefully into the house.

And he really couldn't take it anymore, so he chuckled.

"She's seriously drunk. I'll get her to her room first. You'll wait here, right?" Hyun Wook told Yoongi, who then nodded and placed all the bags on top of the kitchen counter as he took a seat on one of the stools.

"Wait, wait! Turn around, back to him!" Hyun Ae whined, pulling Hyun Wook's neck back to Yoongi.

As he brought her back to the other guy, she placed her hand against his cheek and smiled. "Thank you. And get a well rest. Good night, lil meow meow. Bye bye~"

With that, Hyun Wook began to walk away as she kept on waving her hands to Yoongi like a kid until finally, she disappeared into her room.

Look at her.

Yoongi chuckled as he pulled out his phone and began to look through his messages, which were mostly from his fellow members, asking about his whereabouts.

Not long after that, he heard a door closing and there was Hyun Wook, sighing.

"Really, hyung?" he asked, opening the fridge and grabbing a bottle of mineral water, passing it to Yoongi. "Beer? For real?"

The idol took a gulp from the bottle and spoke. "I said 'sorry', didn't I? Plus, I can't resist her. She begged. You know that yourself. You know how much I love her."

There was a moment of silence as Hyun Wook stared at the other guy as he drank the water.

"If only you told me that you're that guy and you love her... I would've encouraged you more to her," Hyun Wook sighed.

"Nah. Her feelings can't be forced. If she loves Namjoon, then Namjoon is the guy. I was... a coward. I thought that if I ever told her, she would avoid me all the time. And I don't want that to happen," Yoongi said, staring at the bottle cap."I love her so much."

~~~

Yoongi opened the door of his studio with a shopping bag in his hand. And froze when Hyun Wook turned to him, with his delivery bag on his shoulder, and a piece of paper in his hand.

A photo of the note that Hyun Ae had in her Galaxy studio in the monotone effect.

A photo of the note that he had left for Hyun Ae years ago.

"Hyung. Explain," Hyun Wook asked, his clenched jaw visible to him. "Why is this here? Noona had the same thing in her studio. Or was the one in this photo the one from the studio?"

Yoongi stared at the photo in silence, and Hyun Wook's hand was visibly shaken when he didn't get any response from the idol.

"Hyung-"

"When you first saw that..." Yoongi finally spoke and looked up at him. "What came to your mind?"

"You're the guy that she met years ago?" Hyun Wook said. His face was totally in shock.

"Exactly."

"Hyu-Hyung. Are you sure-" he stopped again as Yoongi pointed out his old notebook that was lying open, where the corner page was torn.

At this point, Hyun Wook's mind messed up.

Because he had spoken to Namjoon about his sister, before knowing that the guy that her sister had fallen for the first time was here, right in front of him.

"Yoongi hyung... Why did you never tell me about this?"

"What difference could you make? Nothing will change," Yoongi mumbled, taking the photo away from Hyun Wook's hand and placing it back down on the table.

"I know that she loves Namjoon. Just by the looks and... the way she smiles, laughs, and how she would look at that guy when he's around," he weakly chuckled, scratching his head as he continued. "It's all too late."

"You... love her?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Yoongi shook his head and showed him the shopping bag that he had brought with him. "This... is for her. Please give it to her."

"And you'll be like this? Just standing on one side, watching her happy with other... guy," Hyun Wook stammered, taking the bag.

"As long as she's happy... That's fine by me," Yoongi told him and patted his shoulder as he smiled. "Hyun Wook, I hate seeing her cry, like that day when the accident happened. The day where we first met."

"Hyung, I... I..."

"I know that all you want is for her to get her happiness. With the one she loves. If you really think Namjoon is the one for her, I'm fine. As I said, it's him that she loves the most. Oh, I'm telling you this. He loves her too, no matter how many times he denies it."

~~~

"I still feel guilty," Hyun Wook said, taking a sip of his hot cocoa.

"No, please don't," Yoongi chuckled, passing one bag to him across the counter. "Ah, this is your headphone."

"What?" Hyun Wook put his mug aside and looked into the bag, and his eyes widened as he grabbed the box inside. "Woah! This is a limited edition one! You bought it or..."

"She bought it. With her own money."

"Wah..." Hyun Wook stared at the box and the corner of his lips lifted up a bit, knowing that his sister bought it for him. And then he pulled out another box from the same bag. "Then this one?"

"Oh, it's hers."

"WOW. THIS ONE IS EXPENSIVE TOO."

"I bought it for her," Yoongi said, sipping his drink when Hyun Wook gave him a disappointed look, but Yoongi shook his head, knowing what the young one would say to him. "Nope. You're not going to get mad at me. It happened. I bought it for her."

"Don't you think that you're being too nice to her? She's not even yours."

"I don't care. She's might not be mine. But she's also my friend."

"Er... I don't think that's what you actually felt for her," Hyun Wook sniggered, as he placed his headphone back into the bag before he began to ask.

"Tell me hyung. And please be honest," he sighed. "Did she kiss you earlier?"

Yoongi was about to take another sip and his hand stopped midway because the question was unexpected.

And he was flustered. It was weird, but it took Hyun Wook to realize it and he had his eyes widened at this reaction.

"No way. In public?!" Hyun Wook asked, slapping his head.

"N-N-NO! N-N-Not in public, actually, " Yoonig mumbled, rubbing his neck as he stared at his bottle.

"Thank goodness! Both of you will be in big trouble if it's in public!" Hyun Wook sighed, and then he looked back at Yoongi. "So... she kissed you... in the car?"

"B-B-Before I called you."

Hyun Wook scratched his head, confirming his sister's level of drunk by Yoongi.

"Another reason why I restricted her from drinking alcohol is when she's in her drunken state, she will try to kiss anyone near her. There was one time, she tried to kiss me, her own brother! In a restaurant! When I tried to avoid her, I got weird stares from other customers in the place, like I was the worst boyfriend! I had to drag her out of the place quickly," he explained.

Hyun Wook watched Yoongi suddenly bite his lips as if remembering the moment as his eyes looked down again. With blushed cheeks.

"So she really had kissed you. You need something to soothe your head?"

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