Note: to those who are wondering how old Mina is, she's eighteen [the youngest of the family] and on her first year of college. So she's been away most of the year but now she's back home. So there, now, on to the story!

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"What time are they coming?" Mina asked Jihyo as she looked out the window. On the couch, Jihyo and Daniel snuggled against each other whispering sweet nothings to each other, and Mina turned her face away in disgust. She had finally agreed to be Tzuyu and Momo's new best friend. But that was because her parents had coaxed her into doing it.

"Around four," was the muffled reply.

Mina rolled her eyes. She refused to glance over at her sister and her soon-to-be-husband. She would barf green and yellow food all over the white carpet. She looked at her watch. Twenty more minutes before she would put on her good girl act. "I'll just be up in my room," she said, "Not that you'd care," she mumbled running up the stairs.

"What's up? I thought the cavalry had arrived," Lucas, another one of Mina's older brother said looking over the banister. Then he recoiled away. "Yuck. They're doing it where everyone can see them," he muttered in disgust.

"I know," Mina said sarcastically.

She went to her room then lay quietly in her bed thinking of her four older brothers and her two older sisters, and what a big family she came from.

Jackson, the eldest, already married to Niki, was expecting his second child. The first was a girl who was named Jihye. Jaebum, the second eldest, was also married, to Suzy and was expecting his first child. Nayeon, again married to Jeongyeon, was probably in the process of making the first child.

Enter Jihyo. Not yet married, but will be to Kang Daniel. As for the first-born child, they were probably doing some planning already. Next were Lucas and Bambam, twins. Both just recently engaged (they proposed on the same night, same restaurant but on a different floor). They were planning on having a double wedding.

Then last and probably the least, Mina. Not married. No boyfriend. Status zero love life.

Mina sighed. Her life was way to boring. And no matter how hard she tried to please her parents, it didn't matter because her older brothers and sisters had done it first. There was also the pressure on her getting very good grades just like her older siblings. It all boiled down to that - she was always compared to her other siblings.

It had irked Mina to no end throughout her high school life, and even now, when she was at college, people had called her Jackson's younger sister or Jaebum's or Nayeon's or Jihyo's or even Lucas and Bambam's younger sister.

Yup, she didn't even have an identity except maybe to her close friends who called her by her given name, Minz.

Not only her parents compared her to her older siblings, but even teachers. They'd tell her that this older brother was good at Math, and why wasn't she? Or that this older sister was good at drama and why wasn't she?

"Yup, that's me," she said aloud staring at the ceiling. "Always in the shadow of my older siblings." And she rolled over, punching all her self- pity and frustration on her pillows. Just then, she heard the sound of car honking. "Oh great," she muttered against a pillow, "they're here."

"Mina! They're here!" Jihyo called from downstairs. "Jani, please get her!"

Mina grinned as a thought occurred to her. She could pretend to be asleep and she wouldn't have to entertain guests for now.

So she lay perfectly still and closed her eyes as she heard Jani's soft footsteps ap