-5 years ago-

"Zelo!! Didn't I tell you not to get involved with those bullies ever again?!! I've told you that so many times already but why are you being so stubborn?! Are you ing deaf or what?!!"

           Yongguk's outburst boomed inside the house. The twenty years old man was barely breathing because of his thinning patience as Zelo kept infuriating him. He didn't even remember how many times already he had met that same situation, with him pacing back and forth in front of the couch where Zelo sat in silence. Poor Zelo, that younger was scared.

"Look at all of the bruises you get! There’d be more if I didn't come in time!!"

            He roughly pulled his little brother's shirt sleeve, revealing several bleeding cuts and bruises. Zelo flinched a bit at his forceful touch. But he still didn't dare to say a thing.

"Now I'm getting so ing sick of this!! Yah Choi Junhong!! Do you think of me as your freaking bodyguard, superhero, guardian angel or whatt??! Well I'm not!! When I tell you to avoid the bullies so just do as I say! What makes you so hard not to do it??!”

            The raging elder raised his voice an octave higher making Zelo winced involuntarily. Who’d know how frightened he was inside?

            Yongguk tried to control himself. He looked at his 11 years old brother and sighed. There he saw him shivering on his seat, already at the verge of crying. In that instant, his heart softened and guilt washed over him. Stupid. I shouldn’t scold him like that. He  was still a kid after all. He tightly closed his eyes in regret.

“H-hyung is so sorry. I didn’t mean to scold you. I’m very sorry. Those bruises... do they hurt a lot?”

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