Chapter 8 - MY YOUNGER BROTHER IS ACTUALLY...? (2/2)

”Ah Jin, you can go. I know you don't like being with me,” he said showing a sad expression.

Luo Jin looked down and saw this. ”I already told Brother that I'll be here so I won't leave,” he said with his usual annoyed tone.

”Really?” Luo Yan looked up as if happy to hear what Luo Jin said but when he saw that Luo Jin was scowling at him, the happy expression on his face immediately vanished. ”Ah Jin, do you hate me?”

Luo Jin was startled by this question. And when he saw Luo Yan's clear eyes turned watery, he started to panic. ”Don't cry!”

As if on cue, big fat tears fell down from Luo Yan's eyes. ”I knew it, you really hate me.”

Luo Jin was fl.u.s.tered. He didn't know what to do. This was the first time he felt so helpless and useless at the same time. But one thing's for sure, he didn't want to see his brother cry. So he crouched down in front of Luo Yan and looked straight at him. ”I don't hate you. So please don't cry.”

That's right. Luo Jin didn't hate Luo Yan. How could he? If there's someone he hated, it's himself. After that car accident, he often asked why was he the only one who was saved? Why did their mother have to die? Why did his favorite brother have to suffer a coma with little to no chance of waking up? While he only had some minor injury.

All those whys piling up and he just slowly turned into this child who's full of anger. Anger at the world, anger at the unfairness of life, anger at that driver who smashed his truck at their car, and anger at himself. He released that anger by the only way he knew. Fighting. But no matter how much he fought with others. He was still filled with so much anger.

When Luo Jin received that call from his first brother, telling him that Luo Yan was awake, of course he was happy. Happy beyond anything. But he couldn't properly express that happiness. So when he's faced with his second brother's thin form, he couldn't help but become rude. Especially everytime he saw the effect of that accident on Luo Yan.

He was so thin and small. His head probably couldn't even reach Luo Jin's shoulder. Even his memory was gone. And here was Luo Jin, completely healthy. It just made him even angrier.

But looked at where it got him. He made his second brother cry. The brother who just woke up from a long coma. He hurt him without even meaning to. How could he be such a jerk?

”I don't hate you,” he repeated.

”Y-you really don't?”

He wiped Luo Yan's tears with his fingers. He was not used to acting gentle, but he wiped it as gently as he could. ”I don't.”

”Then don't show such unhappy expression when you're with me. It makes me sad.”

”I won't.”

”And you also have to visit me whenever you don't have school.”

”I will.”

Luo Yan raised his pinky finger at Luo Jin, his eyes clear and full of expectation. ”Pinky promise?”

Looking at the expectant face of his second brother, Luo Jin had no choice but to hook his pinky finger with Luo Yan's. ”Promise.”

”Then you have to call me 'brother'. Father said that I'm older than you, so you have to.”

”Don't push your luck, pipsqueek.” As he stood up, he couldn't stop the small smile that appeared on his lips.

Luo Yan, of course, saw that. A bright smile crossed his face as well. So, Luo Jin didn't really hate him. He's just a big tsundere.