Youngjae knows that Jackson isn’t doing it to aggravate him, knows that he only has the best intentions at heart, but every time he treats him like a child he wants to pull out fistfuls of his own hair. His eighteenth birthday has come and gone, and the little get together the group had was centred on him becoming a man, but Jackson still treats him like the bumbling seventeen year old he used to be. What frustrates him the most is how he kind of enjoys being babied even while he wishes it would stop.

When he jumps in fear at the horror film Jackson and Mark insisted the group watch to celebrate Halloween, he doesn’t resent the arm Jackson wraps around his waist as the older boy flinches in kind. When he’s attempting ageyo at a fansign while wearing the kitten ears a noona fan gave him, he can’t deny how warm he feels when Jackson coos at him as he crosses the stage.