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everyone needs a little care
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Minho pulled the cap lower to hide his face.He was no idol nor celebrity but the man he was going to meet was more influenced that any other celebrity in Korea.He took a sip of his tea and sighed softly,glancing at the clock ’20 minutes late’ he thought and tapped his foot to kill his boredom

His phone buzzed as a notification or to be exact a message came in.Father.Minho saved the person as Father.He sighed again and swiped his lock screen,opening the message his father sent ‘I’ll be there in 5 minutes.Sorry for being late’ Minho having no intentions to reply,simply locked his phone and glanced at the clock again ‘I hope Hyeju is doing fine at school’ the bell at the cafe door rang indicating a new customer came in.

Minho sat upright and kept his phone in his pocket,in case Hyeju decided to call and he wouldn’t want to blow his cover.The long awaited older man finally sat opposite of Minho and a smile was plastered on his face.The kind of smile that was never shown to his own daughter.His expression was soft.The kind of expression he would never show to his daughter

“How are you? Did you order anything? It’s lunch anyways.Order up,I’ll pay” the older man smiled and passed the menu to Minho

“No it’s fine.I’m having lunch with someone else” Minho smiled slightly and passed the menu back.The older man simply nodded and both of them sat in silence “and I’m fine,thank you.How are you?” Minho suddenly remembered the older man’s question

The older man let out a sigh before venting out his feelings “That’s good to hear.Me? I’m doing bad and you know why” he let out a bitter laugh “she just never listen.She’s just like her mother.Stubborn and bothersome”

Minho was boiling inside.He clenched his fist under the table.How could this person he called father describe his sister so badly.His sister was no where his description of stubborn and bothersome but being the polite son Minho is,he simply nodded and took another sip of his tea.He glanced again at the clock and realised it was lunch time

“I should get going if I don’t want to be late for my lunch appointment” Minho wore his jacket and stood up to take his leave

The older man stood up with him and nodded slightly,slightly disappointed that he couldn’t get any lunch with his son “can you do me a favour? Since you always go out at night,can you search for your sister?” he said the last word so bitterly,like he didn’t want to admit that she was his daughter and Minho’s step sister,like it was poison.

“sure,I’ll do that” Minho nodded and took his leave ‘like I would give her back to some kind of bastard like you’ Minho waited for the bus and rode the bus to Hyeryung High School.He held the lunch he bought at the cafe earlier tightly in his hands hoping that Hyeju would like it.He arrived at his stop and looked around the school

He got special permission to go in and unfortunately it was not Hyeju’s lunch time.In this school,they divided the seniors and juniors lunch time so it wouldn’t get so crowded but fortunately,Minho could just drop the food at her class.Some girls helped him to Hyeju’s class just because he was handsome.Minho knocked on the door but not too loud to interrupt the class

“Yes Mr..?” the teacher raised an eyebrow at Minho

“Song Minho.Can I see Ryu Hyeju?” His eyes scanned the class for Hyeju.Meanwhile,Hyeju who was busy planning on her online shopping on her notebook looked up when she heard her name being called

“And may I know what is your connection with Ryu Hyeju?”

Minho hesitated a little.He couldn’t say they were siblings as they had different surnames “....a close relative”

The teacher seemed pleased with the poorly thought excuse “Well ok then but don’t take long.We have a lesson going on here”

Minho nodded slightly and signalled to Hyeju to step out “hyung! You didn’t buy me lunch!” Hyungseok shouted and pouted

“Park Hyungseok,do we have a problem here?” the teacher turned to Hyungseok

“Yes,he didn’t buy me my lunch!”

The teacher laughed slightly at the childish new student “I’ll buy lunch for you later.Now,to get back to the lesson” the teacher turned back to the blackboard to continue whatever lesson that was interrupted because of Minho and the other students laughing at the new student and teacher’s little conversation

“here,your lunch” Minho passed the crumpled paper bag to Minho “sorry for the condition.I was kind of in a hurry”

Hyeju chuckled and nodded “thanks but why are you giving me lunch? I can just eat at the cafeteria”

“I was having lunch with a friend and thought of you so yeah,here I am” Minho smiled

“thanks” Hyeju smiled and gave him a brief hug “I got to go now” Hyeju waved to Minho and walked back in to her class

Minho nodded and slowly walked away.He sighed softly as he took a last glance at Hyeju.How can a girl have such a miserable fate.Just what did she did in her past life to receive such punishment? Instead of going home straight away he decided to look around the school.He wanted to see in what kind of environment was Hyeju learning.

“Minho hyung?” a familiar voice called out for Minho from behind.He turned around and was greeted with Jin “what are you doing here?”

“oh hey,I just had to drop something and decided to look around” he smiled slightly “shouldn’t you be in class right now?”

“I am.I went to the restroom.Well,got to go now”

“Jin-ah! Can you do me a favour?”

“Yeah sure” Jin turned back to Minho

“Please take care of Hyeju at school.If you see any suspicious people that doesn’t look like they belong to the school,please protect Hyeju with all of your might.Protect her from bullies”

Jin smiled and nodded slightly “sure,anything for you hyung”

“Thanks and tell Yoongi the same thing and tell him that I’m keeping my eyes on him.No funny business”

Jin laughed and nodded,mumbling a sure under his breath before going back to his class.He slumped into his chair as Minho’s words lingered in his mind “You ok?” Yoongi’s voice interrupted his train of thoughts

“Yeah,I was just thinking” Jin smiled slightly and looked back up front,trying to focus on the teacher.The bell rang indicating recess for the senior classes.

Hyeju packed up her things and brought some books with her to be kept in her locker “so,you’re opening an online shopping mall now babe?” Hyungseok asked as he looked up at the girl

“Don’t tell me you were peeking at my notebook again” Hyeju glared at the boy

“I couldn’t resist.You looked so focus and I saw that you got a new notebook.Knowing you,changing notebooks must be hard since you have this little attachment with every notebook you own”

“You scare me Hyungseok.You know me too well and it scares me” Hyeju sighed and pushed her chair further back,ready to walk out “aren’t you going to lunch?”

The boy nodded and slung his arm around her shoulder “let’s go”

“hey,why don’t you be a gentleman for now and carry my books?” Hyeju tested the boy.She knew better than anyone else that he won’t carry it because first,he’s Park Hyungseok and second,it’s Hyeju,she hates to ask for help

Hyungseok chuckled slightly and played along “aww,I would love to but I’m just too lazy and people will think we’re a couple”

Before Hyeju could laugh at his remark,a certain scoff interrupted the best friend “Think you’re a couple? I think everyone in this school are concluding that the new kids are a couple” Yoongi.He walked towards the best friend and glared at Hyungseok

“Let’s go and grab lunch” Hyeju walked first

“I don’t know about you guys but we people here don’t go the way you guys go.It’s different here” Yoongi glared at Hyungseok before following Hyeju out

“Do you like Hyeju?” Hyungseok suddenly asked as Hyeju was out of sight.For a second Yoongi stopped but he refused to turn back  “I’ll take that as a yes” Hyungseok laughed and walked out,purposely bumping his shoulder with Yoongi

“Bratty rich kids” Yoongi rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath.He looked around and saw Hyeju busy balancing her books in one hand while struggling to open her locker.It seemed like her combination was not working “need some help there?” Yoongi took the books from Hyeju and placed them in his hands

“Thanks but I can handle them myself” Hyeju smiled slightly and tried to snatch the books back but Yoongi quickly avoided and shook his head

“I insist.Anyways,try to knock or kick the locker.It always get stuck”

Hyeju nodded and tried to kick the locker open.Just like Yoongi said,the locker opened easily.Hyeju stood there,blinking at the locker.It wouldn’t open when Hyeju tried to open it nicely with the combination but shot open when she kicked it?

“Sorry but the lockers here are a little umm dysfunctional.They don’t open quickly like at your old school” Hyeju shook her head at Yoongi’s remark and took her books from her,placing them in the locker neatly

“Let’s go for lunch,I’m starving” Hyeju slammed the locker and started to walk away,turning her heels on Yoongi

“woah woah,wait for me!” Yoongi half shouted in alarm as he noticed Hyeju was slowly walking further away from him

Hyeju sat at the table with Jin,Yoongi and Namjoon meanwhile Hoseok was busy asking for extra credits from his teachers “wait” Hyeju looked up from her food and stared at the boys “aren’t you guys a little old for high school?” she raised an eyebrow

“I knew you would ask that.Took you too long to realise” Namjoon chuckled

“Well,we got into high school pretty late and this month will be our last month anyways.We’re graduating and that’s why Hoseok is busy asking for extra credits” Jin explained and the girl only nodded

“ahh~ that’s pretty late.2 years is kind of long don’t you think?”

“We didn’t have the money to continue our studies.So we used the 2 years to collect money” Yoongi continued to Q&A session

Hyeju nodded and turned back to her lunch.She smiled slightly at the little note Minho had left for her on the food

“CUPCAKE HIDE!” a familiar voice and nickname shouted.Hyeju turned around and saw Hyungseok panting “FREAKING HIDE!” Hyeju finally realised what he was saying was frozen at her spot.Yoongi later realised what Hyungseok meant by hiding.

Yoongi grabbed a sandwich and grabbed Hyeju’s wrist making a run to the rooftop.Hyeju was in a daze and decided to follow Yoongi.Namjoon and Jin got rid of any traces of Hyeju and acted like normal.Yoongi locked the door to the rooftop and pasted a “Prohibited” sign on it.