Day 38
A Cliché Family
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A Cliché Family Thirtyeight
When Jinki opens the door to Jonghyun's room on April 8th he's followed by the rest of his family. Jonghyun is sleeping. It looks like he fell asleep late last night but they have to do this now because they all need to go to work and school - well, except Jonghyun who forgot to send out college applications and therefore is doing nothing after he graduated high school. He can sleep again when they all leave the house.
Taemin climbs into Jonghyun's bed and hogs his covers. The 8-year-old is still tired. Kibum rolls his eyes. They wake up Jonghyun with a song and he yawns. It's a nice morning and the breakfast Kibum has prepared tastes amazing. They're late as usual when Jonghyun kicks them out of the house and wishes them a good day.
He spends the next 3 hours sleeping. He's turning 19 today which means he's coming of age - he's legally an adult now and this also means that he can drink legally. Something his friends are going to take advantage of later in the day. He doesn't spend the time he's alone very productively. He writes a few lyrics, almost everything he's written in the past two months have been heartbreaking break-up songs and although he's still hurting from his breakup with Sekyung he thinks that maybe it's on time he writes something else. His thoughts don't prevent him from writing another heartbreaking break-up song, though.
He's searching through the kitchen for something edible when his phone vibrates with a new text message. He lazily checks it to find an older friend of his asking him if they can celebrate his birthday at this club. He agrees and only then wonders if Jinki and Kibum would be alright with it. It only takes a shrug for him to dismiss the worry, he's an adult now - he can do what he wants to do, right?
Taemin and Minho arrive home first, but neither really minds their brother. Taemin grabs a banana milk in the refrigerator and Minho rummages through the freezer, only to complain that they're out of ice cream. Jonghyun retreats to his own room. Jinki comes home next and he is not letting the boys stay in each of their rooms so he gathers them all in the living room. Minho finds a game to play with Taemin on the play station and Jonghyun sits on the couch to observe the game on the tv and root for Taemin because Minho is a bad loser and it's extremely funny to provoke him. Jinki sits down beside him.
"Be nice to your brother," he says after Jonghyun shouts a particularly venomous curse at Minho. Jonghyun just ignores his father. Minho knows it's not that bad.
"Oh, yeah, dad," the now-adult says and turns around to look at Jinki. "I'm going to meet up with my friends at Studio tonight so I won't be eating dinner at home." Jinki's brows furrow instantly.
"Studio?" he asks and Jonghyun nods.
"It's a night club," says Minho and Jinki raises his eyebrow at the 16-year-old boy who just shrugs, returns to their game and exclaims 'you're such a cheater, Taem! you'. Jinki returns his attention to Jonghyun.
"Are you going to drink?" Jinki doesn't know how he feels about it. He still doesn't know how well the boy holds his liquor (for obvious reasons) and he would have preferred that the boy got drunk at home fi
Taemin climbs into Jonghyun's bed and hogs his covers. The 8-year-old is still tired. Kibum rolls his eyes. They wake up Jonghyun with a song and he yawns. It's a nice morning and the breakfast Kibum has prepared tastes amazing. They're late as usual when Jonghyun kicks them out of the house and wishes them a good day.
He spends the next 3 hours sleeping. He's turning 19 today which means he's coming of age - he's legally an adult now and this also means that he can drink legally. Something his friends are going to take advantage of later in the day. He doesn't spend the time he's alone very productively. He writes a few lyrics, almost everything he's written in the past two months have been heartbreaking break-up songs and although he's still hurting from his breakup with Sekyung he thinks that maybe it's on time he writes something else. His thoughts don't prevent him from writing another heartbreaking break-up song, though.
He's searching through the kitchen for something edible when his phone vibrates with a new text message. He lazily checks it to find an older friend of his asking him if they can celebrate his birthday at this club. He agrees and only then wonders if Jinki and Kibum would be alright with it. It only takes a shrug for him to dismiss the worry, he's an adult now - he can do what he wants to do, right?
Taemin and Minho arrive home first, but neither really minds their brother. Taemin grabs a banana milk in the refrigerator and Minho rummages through the freezer, only to complain that they're out of ice cream. Jonghyun retreats to his own room. Jinki comes home next and he is not letting the boys stay in each of their rooms so he gathers them all in the living room. Minho finds a game to play with Taemin on the play station and Jonghyun sits on the couch to observe the game on the tv and root for Taemin because Minho is a bad loser and it's extremely funny to provoke him. Jinki sits down beside him.
"Be nice to your brother," he says after Jonghyun shouts a particularly venomous curse at Minho. Jonghyun just ignores his father. Minho knows it's not that bad.
"Oh, yeah, dad," the now-adult says and turns around to look at Jinki. "I'm going to meet up with my friends at Studio tonight so I won't be eating dinner at home." Jinki's brows furrow instantly.
"Studio?" he asks and Jonghyun nods.
"It's a night club," says Minho and Jinki raises his eyebrow at the 16-year-old boy who just shrugs, returns to their game and exclaims 'you're such a cheater, Taem! you'. Jinki returns his attention to Jonghyun.
"Are you going to drink?" Jinki doesn't know how he feels about it. He still doesn't know how well the boy holds his liquor (for obvious reasons) and he would have preferred that the boy got drunk at home fi
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