"Noona, do you have a date for our cousin's wedding? I'm intending to bring Ten."

My younger brother Taeyong asks me curiously and I sigh. I was happy being single, but times like these when a plus-one was needed made me feel extremely lacking and undesirable.

Taeyong wraps a comforting arm over me.  "You're too picky," He nags, "You need to settle down someday, noona, stop breaking hearts."

I shake my head incredulously. "I don't break hearts, what are you talking about?"

He waggles a finger at me. "All of my friends, you're not interested in them!"

My nose wrinkles up at the thought of his friends. "Don't remind me," I murmur darkly. "Every friend of yours is a baby compared to your noona, Taeyong-ah."

Taeyong sighs despondently. "Why is age a factor?" He an eyebrow at me. "As in you can see, I'm dating a male."

I run a hand through my hair, vexed. "True, but it's my personal preference... I am uncomfortable with dating a boy younger than me."