35. My Uncle's Son.
"I've told you before, Bro." Ji Min rolls his eyes lazily, he's not sure what he's saying, it's just that the man just needs and can be silent with Jung Ki's answer.
Ji Min knows, she remembers how Jung Ki put her limits on her so as not to interfere in her personal affairs, and saw how the man who was sitting pretty in the chair near the cafe's front door was confident.
"Why are you silent Jung Ki I saw it all with my two eyes when the guy threw his bag and spilled it all. Deliberately pushing the drink to break, Jung Ki I'm not blind." The man chuckled, he sipped his drink casually and took one of the leftovers from this morning, and ate it up.
"I know you're not blind, Bro." Ji Min rolled his eyes lazily, the man glanced at Ji Hoon with a look of hatred. "Oh?"
"You're getting more and more daring to show your dislike for me," said Ji Min making Jung Ki smile faintly and raise one eyebrow slowly. "Since I've received you so well and so close, I'm open to how you ask for it. So I'm telling you." Ji Min rolled his eyes lazily, he glanced back at Ji Hoon where the man was still busy with his work.
"Are you sure he heard us talking?" Jung Ki shrugged his shoulders lazily, but with the same steps, he glanced and did the same thing. "Not."
"I don't know and I don't want to know," continued Jung Ki, making Ji Min's curiosity about him even higher. "Who is that man? Is he your real brother?" Ji Min asked Jung Ki making the man surprised with a made-up face which made Jung Ki a little annoyed to see him. "Don't make fun of me, Bro." Jung Ki is displeased by raising one eyebrow lazily.
"Should I talk to you?" Jung Ki asked Ji Min to make the man also return Jung Ki's eyes on purpose because he needed the trust of a close friend from Jung Ki too.
"Why not? At least not to the point, can't you just talk to me a little bit?"
"As a friend if you don't mind." Ji Min looked at Jung Ki with a hopeful face and not long after that Jung Ki could only sigh heavily.
"I'll tell you if I can, at least later." Ji Min chuckled at his answer, he was a little annoyed but he chuckled.
This is a good turn of events, and Ji Min is relieved to hear that. Five years of working with Jung Ki doesn't get Ji Min a chance to come, and he's relieved to hear that.
"I'm waiting," he replied again making Jung Ki chuckle, he looked back at Ji Hoon as the man looked back at him with hate and squinted his eyes at Jung Ki.
Finished with his drink, Ji Hoon immediately packed up the books and put some of the equipment he took out again.
Surprisingly when Ji Min was about to approach the cashier to count drinks and some payment receipts, the man walked away straight out of the cafe.
Ji Min who saw this shouted for Ji Hoon to come back. "HEY! YOU DON'T PAY FOR THE DRINK!!" But the man walked away from the cafe and was completely lost on the road.
Ji Min sighed heavily, he paid for the drink Ji Hoon bought with his money. Nut the transaction is again detained by Jung Ki. "Just let me, Bro."
Jung Ki takes the wallet in his trouser pocket and gives the exact money, writes down the transaction, and keeps it. "I'll be the one to take responsibility if that guy does any trouble, here again, you just need to contact me, or replace him. Then I'll replace it with mine." Ji Min grabbed his hair so hard he didn't understand and why did Jung Ki have to do it too.
"You can talk to me now about the man," said Ji Min asking for an explanation with all the problems that the man had done to Jung Ki.
First came by throwing the bag, causing the drink to spill and making the floor dirty, then ordering a drink, deliberately pushing the drink order made the glass shatter, the coasters also broke with Jung Ki having to clean it again and replace the broken glass with money.
And the last one with Jung Ki paying for the drinks the guy drank?
"You need a story and I need an explanation, Jung Ki." Ji Min presses again at least so that Jung Ki understands that what Jung Ki just got was harassment.
This is not good.
"Bro, do you want to keep everything I'm about to tell you a secret by promising not to tell anyone, including people who will claim to be close to me?" asked Jung Ki first to confirm to Ji Min if the man had to do what Jung Ki wanted.
Only one, not big. Yes, keep everything a secret. "You mean the one who claims to be close to you?"
"If you want to know a little about my life's problems, you have to be able to take care of everything Bro. I don't have anyone, so you have to be willing to accept everything because I already believe in me."
"Besides, if you really can't afford it, I won't tell you, Bro." Ji Min is getting more and more hesitant to refuse, but he's even more afraid to accept it.
"Bro, how are you? You still want to be close to me?" Ji Min chuckled, he scratched his head as the atmosphere became more and more awkward. "I'll still want to know, I accept it." Jung Ki smiled a little and the man walked closer to Ji Min and gave a small smile.
The taller man walked to Ji Min and hugged Ji Min tightly because he needed him. "I just want to be honest first, Bro."
"Your hug is the third-best hug I've ever had from someone. The best," he continued, making Ji Min knit her brows together slowly.
"Who's first?" Ji Min asked a little disappointed but he couldn't just be sensitive because he also just wanted to know. "Bro Yoon Seok."
Ji Min knitted her brows together perfectly with her eyes almost popping out. "So you're very close to him?" Ji Min asked as she still hugged Jung Ki because the man hugged him tightly before letting go.
"Bro Yoon Seok is my best friend as well as an older brother who can make me feel that I need him."
After the death of my parents, I didn't know anyone at all. I was only good friends with Yoon Seok before I lived with my maternal uncle. I lived with my mother's older brother.
Ji Min swallowed hard, the man didn't expect Jung Ki to have so many hard days.
Looks like his parents, and lives with his uncle who is either kind or not to the man. "I was very young at the time, it seemed that I was twelve years old. I don't know anything, only know Sis Yoon Seok as a friend, it happened very quickly too."
"I was sent from Bu San to Seoul by the police because my house and parents disappeared at the same time." Jung Ki sighed heavily as he felt very depressed and couldn't do anything.
"Bro, I have neither father nor mother because someone blew up my house, both my parents were at home. I was playing with Bro Yoon Seok and the rest of my friends at the park, but when the sound of the explosion was so loud, everyone came out and ran towards the sound of the explosion.
"I can only cry seeing my house has been crushed to nothing left, crying in Yoon Seok's arms and I don't remember what happened after that."
"Bro, don't cry. You have to comfort me if you hear it. You're not like Yoon Seok's brother, he even kissed the top of my head and didn't cry at all. You make me weak." Jung Ki greeted Ji Min's tears as the man hugged his small body tightly and tightened his embrace again.
"You are very kind, you are very lucky, you are very strong, you are smart, handsome, and you have everything Jung Ki. Don't feel like you are alone anymore, you have me from now on." Ji Min said with a rocking voice, tears kept falling and the hands that kept tightly gripping his hand on the shirt Jung Ki was wearing at that time.
"It's all happened, Bro. Almost fourteen years. I'm fine, I've accepted it. You're right, I'm a very strong man." Jung Ki let go of his hug with Ji Min and showed the arm muscles that he had because every day off he always came to the gym to exercise.
"You are real!" Ji Min gets annoyed when she can see how Jung Ki is working hard not to make Ji Min cry more. "Why? I'm not even crying, I don't want to cry."
Jung Ki chuckled with a faint smile at Ji Min, he pointed his second finger again.
"I want to tell you three things Bro, and two more things I still haven't." Jung Ki explains it with his fingers playing with random movements making Ji Min chuckle.
"If the first is the death of both my parents, the second is that my uncle's family is very good. I'm happy living with them." Ji Min managed to knit her brows together confused to hear the lies Jung Ki said.
"Are you trying to trick me?" Jung Ki shook his head slowly, the man was trying to be honest. "Not."
"My uncle and aunt are really good," he repeated in response, Jung Ki couldn't help but chuckle at that too. "Then?"
"For the third time you are free to ask me, I will answer honestly." Jung Ki folded his hands on his desk, making Ji Min think about things that made Ji Kin get more information.
"I know you have two questions, that's why I'm asking you on purpose. Just ask," said Jung Ki urging Ji Min to ask Jung Ki according to the questions he wanted to throw.
What Jung Ki thinks is only two. First, is Jung Ki the same as Kim Seok Jin. Or secondly, this is what makes Ji Min feel heavy. "Think carefully, Bro." Ji Min sighed heavily.
"Who gave you wounds every time you came with wounds all over your body. Didn't you say your uncles and aunts weren't bad, where did all your wounds come from?" Jung Ki chuckled, he snapped his fingers lightly.
"It's a big secret, you must guard it. Even Bro Yoon Seok doesn't know, you have to promise to keep it a secret from anyone, Bro." Ji Min nodded his head a little doubtfully.
"He's Bro Ji Hoon, my uncle's son." Jim Mim's wide eyes opened unconcerned.
"ARE YOU KIDDING?"