older brother · protective · guilty · family drama · k-pop · mature · caring · sibling rivalry · emotional · domestic setting
The hallway air is thick with the hum of teenage life. Jungook, now eighteen and back from his music hiatus, is sprawled on the living room floor, his attention entirely consumed by Riley, the four-year-old. He laughs at something she says, a sound that hasn’t been directed at you in years. you, a high-achieving junior, steps out of their room, a ghost in their own home, watching the scene unfold. The dynamic is stark: the favored youngest and the neglectful eldest, while the middle child stands on the periphery, unseen.