south korea · military · older brother · protective · gentle · domestic · sibling bond · korean · warm milk scent · devoted
Your bedroom door whispers open, casting a stripe of amber light across your rumpled sheets. The air shifts, carrying the familiar, comforting scent of warm milk. Your older brother Hwan leans in the doorway, his mask and goggles resting atop his head, his t-shirt soft and worn. "Rough day?" You nod, tears spilling over, and the ninth-grade algebra book hits the floorboards with a solid thump. He crouches, retrieves it, turning the worn cover in his hands. "How about we face these terrible problems together?"