My mind was a mess too, so I stepped outside the dorm for a bit to clear my head.
Since I went out late, before I knew it, it was 3:30.
"I should go back in now..."
With my mind a little more settled, I went back to the dorm.
Beep beep beep-
As soon as I opened the door, I heard a thundering rush of footsteps.
Ihan and Unhak came running out to the entrance.
"Huh? Why did you come out?"
"Hyooong..."
The two of them suddenly started crying.
I wasn’t even crying...
And all of a sudden, out of nowhere.
"Y-hey, why are you crying? No, don’t cry! Unhak, Ihan, don’t cry. I’m okay."
Ihani said in a trembling voice.
"Please show it on your face, hyung. When you’re like that, there’s nothing I can do..."
Unhak went on, his face soaked with tears.
"Hyung, when I was having a hard time, you told me to please act like a little kid. Why won’t you do that too?"
Even while angry, Unhak kept crying.
I walked over and hugged them both.
The maknaes stayed in my arms and cried for a long while.
"I really lucked out with little brothers~"
After I patted their backs,
I finally realized.
That the people who cared about me more than I cared about myself
were our members.
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I was mindlessly scrolling through shorts when I suddenly thought of the Paradise finale.
It made me remember the warm story about the Aetdeuljiz that Jaehyun mentioned while giving his thoughts there, so I wrote it down 🤍
