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♤Chapter 12♤

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"No! I mean- yeah! They all aren't rejection letters but-" Man Weol blabbered in complete shock.

"But what? Spit it out already" Leeseong said, getting impatient.

"Our names are on it"

"WHAT?!"

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"Surprise?" Ji-Rae chuckled awkwardly. All five of her brothers stared at her in disbelief.

"Y-You..." Seongjun stammered in disbelief. His hand limply pointing at Ji-Rae as if confirming if it was really true.

"Living room. Now" Baekjun grunted, walking towards the living room. The other four followed him while Ji-Rae kept fidgeting before Seongjun had to drag her with him.

'I messed up. I'm in big trouble. But shouldn't they be happy that I already applied them a scholarship myself?'

They all finally took their own seats in the living room. Ji-Rae was afraid to see the hard eyes of her brother.

He is already menacing enough to intimidate almost everyone with his normal face, but try to tick him off one bit, you would already want to dig your own grave just to avoid his deadly existence.

You would be extremely lucky if he spares you, more specifically speaking, if he wouldn't make you look directly in the eye while you talk to him. Just even one angry glare from him, you would see your life flashing before your eyes.

He's like a whole package of anything you could imagine. Menacing, deadly, intimidating, terrifying, name it all. He was THAT scary.

Yet, it was a wonder how girls would fall for him anytime, any day.

"Mind explaining?" Baekjun spoke, his voice deep like usual. Yet it seems a bit scarier considering the situatuon Ji-Rae was in.

She felt a hand pat her back, and she could already guess it could either be Joonsung or Leeseong.

"What was in your mind when you thought to do that? Hm?" Baekjun questioned and massaged his temples. Getting a bit upset and confused by what Ji-Rae was trying to plan. He was about to tell Ji-Rae to look him in the eye but decided against it, noticing how much she was fidgeting in her seat on the couch.

"I just thought it was a good idea. You all were supportive of me aiming for a scholarship in Korea, and I thought that why not apply for the rest of you too? I sort of didn't want to go alone if I got accepted... and I didn't want to leave you five behind" Ji-Rae replied, realizing her idea wasn't so great after she thought about it again.

"Did you not think how all six of us would travel to Korea? Or what if only some of us were accepted into the college there?" Baekjun grunted.

"I-I didn't... I'm sorry big brother" Ji-Rae hung her head lower than it was earlier.

She heard Baekjun sigh before hearing the sound of him standing up from his place on one of the sofa chairs. "It's alright... Just think it over next time and make sure to tell us" Baekjun said and patted hisnlittle sister's head.

"It's a good thing we didn't apply to other universities yet" Leeseong sighed in relief.

"I don't want to go to the university there" Seongjun frowned slightly.

"You have no choice, we're all continuing college in Korea. Besides, I think the education there is pretty good" Man Weol chuckled, trying to give his opinion and showing the others the bright side of Ji-Rae's plan.

"But what about our course? Man Weol? Baekjun, what about yours too? Won't we have to kind of start over?" Joonsung turned towards Man Weol and Baekjun in worry.

Baekjun was silent. Ji-Rae, on the other hand, felt guilty. Her four brothers noticec and looked at her excpet for Baekjun.

"This is all my fault-"

"This is no one's fault" They all turned to the tall man. "It's alright. She didn't know. Let's just go with what there is and just do our best. I don't see anything wrong with that"

"Okay.." Joonsung smiled a small smile, still a bit weary of how they will do once they transfer to a new university.

"But if you applied us a scholarship to a university, shouldn't they have emailed us instead of sending a letter?" Mam Weol asked in confusion.

"I managed to ask to send us a letter instead. I didn't have a phone like you five so I included yours to be a letter that would be sent to our address" Ji-Rae explained, getting a hum from Man Weol.

"I'll apply to a different college, I don't want to go to Korea" Seongjun spoke from tne side of fhe couch. He got a smack to the back of his head from Leeseong who was beside him.

"Quit that, will you. You already got accepted to a college overseas. Ji-Rae got us all in there, so you should at least be thankful" Leeseong lectured with a steady yet almost calm tone.

It was amazing how calm he was. Even if he was a little upset his face seemed to look as though he wasn't bothered by anything. But if he was angry, the only changes to his face would be a frown and furrowed brows. That was it.

"Alright, fine" Seongjun blurted out, scooting away from Leeseong.

"Yeah, sure we got a scholarship, we don't have to pay for education. Wow, yay, amazing" Seongjun shook his hands a bit in sarcastic joy. "But how are we supposed to pay for our flight? We barely have any money. Our passports are expired, all our luggage bags we own are rusted and could break at any moment. We don't even know Korea in the least bit, we don't have a place to stay in there. We can't even possibly afford a hotel if we ever do get to Korea" Seongjun rambled.

Hearing Seongjun's words, realization hit them and they went silent. Ji-Rae once again, felt even more guilty than she was earlier.

"See my point now? Let's just apply to another one here in Finland, that's much easier" Seongjun huffed.

"No" Baekjun answered bluntly. "We're going to college in Korea. We'll think of something"

Seongjun groaned, "alright..."

"Ah yeah!!" Man Weol cheered.

"It's been a while since we came to Korea. Can't wait to be back there" Joonsung hummed.

'So my plan was alright after all' Ji-Rae smiled to herself in relief, seeing how her brothers liked the idea.

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"Brother, there's a letter at the front door. Could you please get it for a bit? My husband and I are kinda busy with something.."

"Of course! No worries, love" The man smiled and went to the front door, seeing an envelope.

"I wonder who this is for.." he leaned down and took the envelope.

"Well isn't this great" he hummed seeing who the mail was for.

"Lad! Come down here! There's a letter for you!" The man went back inside and called his nephew.

"Coming!" A boy that appeared to be 19, came down the stairs to meet his uncle. "Who's it from?"

"Oh you'll see" his uncle hummed. "Open the letter"

The boy did as told and his eyes widened, his soft lips curving up into a smile. "It's a letter from the college I applied to!"

"What does it say chap?"

The boy read through the letter in excitement. His smile suddenly faltered. His uncle noticed and laid a hand on his shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

"I.... didn't get accepted.." The boy mumbled out.

"Well I never... How come?"

"I don't know..."

"Cheer up. There are more universities out there you can apply to!"

"But I want to go to college there... To the first one I applied to...Oh well. Good thing I applied to another one" The boy sighed, trying to look at the bright side.

As if on cue, his phone rang. He turned it on and he saw he got an e-mail from the 2nd university he had applied to. He unlcoked his phone and opened the e-mail.

He read the e-mail wearily, until his smile found its way back onto his lips.

"Did you..?" His uncle questioned.

"I got in!!" The boy cheered.