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Chapter 7

°Chan°

After arriving at the cafe and talked a bit, I got them to at least start their homework as I didn't want them or myself to forget it later. As I worked on my maths homework, both Changbin and Jisung asked for help here and there which would lead to one of us to step up and help another through their stuggles.

"Hey, Channie hyung, can you help me with this?" Changbin asked while scratching his head with frustration and pointing at his workpage.

"Yeah sure, it's English, right?" I take a look at his paper as he nods as a confirmation. "Alright, let's see what we have here." I continue my teaching and help guide Changbin through the studying of his English. Although, Changbin didn't understand it at first, I gentle pushed him a little more than a teacher would and slowly got him to improved and understand the problem on his paper.

"Ah—hold up, I need to contact my sister and brother real quick." As my phone vibrates, I realized I have not told Hannah nor Lucas where I was. I quickly called Hannah as she was most likely to answer her phone and told her about my whereabouts and that to let mom know as well in case she worries too much.

"WAIT—you have siblings and didn't think to tell us?" Hang up after speeching English, my attention was then pulled towards Jisung and I noticed the two boys' shocked expressions.

"Well you guys never asked." I responded with a calm tone that was a clear contrasted of the youngest. Additionally, I honestly never thought of having siblings would be much of a surprise, however, my assumptions were clearly wrong due to Jisung's inital reaction to what I thought was a simple, innocent statement.

"Touché," Jisung bounces back with a snapping gesture as he seemed accepting of the correction. "-Anyways, that's not the point, so tell us about them!" As if he had a light switch, Jisung started to buzzed with excitement as he was clearly intrigued just by the mention of my sister and brother.

"Well they are younger than you guys and are currently in lower secondary schoo-" as I start introduce them, I heard the familiar voices that belong to both Lucas and Hannah enter the cafe. "Oh—they're actually here, so now you can get to meet them, I guess."

Waving my hand and calling their names, I motioned to get their attentions. At their approachment, Jisung and Changbin turn their attention to the smaller figures that made their way towards our table.

"Hi Channie." Lucas was the first to greet his older brother while Hannah was the first to notice my two other friends. Before acknowledging both Jisung's and Changbin's presence, they both greet me in English before shifting to Korean.

"Oh, annyeonghaseyo." Both in unison turned their attention towards the two curious boys and greeted politely as they would be getting used to that now that we are here in Korea.

"Hannah, Lucas. This is Changbin, Jisung and they're my friends." As I introduce them to my younger siblings, a smile grew on my face as I had not said those words in a while now since having friends while frequently moving wasn't the easiest. For instance, most of the friendships I had made in other places didn't last long as I would've just moved away I less than a year. With our current situation, I hope that would change now that we are here back in Korea.

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"Oh—hey, Hannah, Lucas." As we were talking amongst ourselves, the sudden curiosity hits me. "Where—how did you manage to find us here after I just told you I was hanging out with some friends?"

"Well, actually we didn't know you guys would be here and Lucas wanted something to drink, so we came to see what they had here. Oh—plus, it's not too far from home anyways." I let out a sigh of relief that they weren't far from home as the realization that they came alone settled. If they were truly far, I would've worried to the ends of the earth just because they are pretty young and—what they say, "naive to the cruel realities".

"Ya, Chan you don't have to worry about us too much, we have phones and I, especially, have Hannah here." Lucas then was the only one to respond to my worried filled expressions. With giggling, teasing, and chuckles now filling around our cafe table, both Sungie and Binnie start to poke fun of my—what they call—"my "protective" behavior". I mean, can you really blame me? I now seem to have more children that needs to be taken care of besides Lucas and Hannah.