“Aren’t you a hyung?” Wooyoung was not a happy boy today. First, it was unbearably hot. So much so that his gym shirt and pants were sticking to his body. Second, the black haired boy that he was speaking to was in fact his hyung. Hyung was busy drawing wat appeared to he a panda in the dirt on the playground with a stick. He shook his head fervently, and resumed in completing his masterpiece. “You are my hyung, Minjun hyung.”

Minjun stopped drawing and glanced up at his dongsaeng who was standing with hands on invisible hips, his primary school gym pants baggy and non-intimidating on his square frame. Still the older boy’s eyes teared up as he shook his head with more gusto. “Wooyoung is hyung.” He insisted.

“Why me?” Wooyoung asked, watching the other boy’s pitiful sniffle as his large droopy eyes rolled around in search of an answer.

“Because If you’re hyung you have to take me with you everywhere you go.” He said, one palm and drying his eyes one at a time.

Wooyoung was confused. “Why can’t you just be hyung and take me?”

Minjun twiddled his short fingers together. “I know I’ll take Wooyoung with me, but will Wooyoung take me with him?” He turned away from Wooyoung shyly and bent down once more in the dirt, the debris and dust dirtying his dingy grey pants. He wiped his nose with he free hand, while the one holding the stick took up drawing a chicken near the panda.

Wooyoung sighed and patted the boy on the back. He was obviously confused. And gravely so. He nodded, however, because he did not like to see his friend cry, as unbecoming as it was for one his age. “Sure, hyung. I’ll take you with me wherever I go. Now will you be hyung?”

Minjun cocked his head to the side, his black bowl swishing as he considered whether or not he believed the boy. Suddenly a smile broke out on his face and nodded quickly, then he dropped the stick and attached himself to the larger boy’s side. Wooyoung sighed again, having given up on trying to detach himself from the other boy. He dragged his friend back inside school and away from recess.