Chapter 5: Of Meddling an (1/2)

<tt>Chapter 5: Of Meddling and Muffins</tt>

<tt>"Sungjin. No!" Sungmin scolded and wrestled the tablespoon with a lump of salt from his baby brother's hand.

"But Sungmin Hyung. Trust me. We need to show this brat never to mess with my Hyung-nim again." Sungjin protested trying to add the mountain of salt into the muffin concoction.

Sungmin rolled his eyes and chided,"I can take care of myself you baby. Dont go ruining my muffins because of your twisted ideas!"

"But Hyung." Sungjin whined as his elder brother snatched the spoon from him and proceeded to throw the salt into the sink

"Now be a good boy and do your math homework! I'll be watching you." Sungmin pushed Sungjin to the dining table and forced the latter to open up his notebooks.

"Let's see. If you manage to complete your homework in an hour, I'll give you two muffins." Sungmin tried to convince his baby brother.</tt>

<tt>Sungjin eyed Sungmin skeptically and asked "You promise?"</tt>

<tt>"I promise. Now start working on those problems and stop distracting me!" Sungmin huffed before turning towards the low bottomed bowl.

He preheated the oven to about four hundred degrees and placed the greased muffin lines carefully next to the sink.</tt>

<tt>Sungmin hummed softly to himself while blending the flour, baking powder, abraded sugar and a pinch of salt.</tt>

<tt>He glanced over his shoulders to see whether Sungjin was working out the math problems dilegently. Sunhee and Chunhwa,had put him in charge of his baby brother as their parents spent an evening to enjoy a musical.

Sungmin slightly cracked the shell of the egg and then gently poured in the yolk into the bowl and proceeded to add in some fresh milk and a small slab of butter.

"Sungjin-ah. You better not be texting." Sungmin warned as he moved the spatula slowly trying to break the lumps.

Sungjin jumped slightly and put away his phone with a guilty smile,"Sorry hyung.."

"I'll be done in another half an hour, Jinnie-ah.. Finish your work and then we can watch some tv,okay?" Sungmin remarked while gingerly pouring in the mixture into the cup lininings set on the tray.

Sungjin sighed dramatically and pulled his notebook towards himself," Okay hyung.."

Fourty five minutes later, Sungjin jumped to the couch after grabbing Sungmin's freshly baked blueberry muffins. He lazily bit on one and then squealed in delight as the delicious flavour of blueberries evaded his senses. It was just so damn yummy.

Sungmin smiled amusedly at his brother squirming in happiness while chomping on the muffins. Sungjin was almost seventeen but he would always be his little baby brother. And nothing would ever change that.</tt>

<tt>He arranged the blueberry muffins delicately into a brown box, meaning to drop them off to Kyuhyun's office the next morning.

Well, they had texted each other a few times during the day and he had asked for the address to Kyuhyun's work place. It wasnt anything major. Kyuhyun had asked him out for lunch that day but due to clashes in their work schedule, the luncheon had been pushed to the following day.

Sungmin placed the box gingerely into the cupboard,after peeking into the drawing room to see whether Sungjin was watching him or not. Knowinging his baby brother well, he would probably sneak into the kitchen at night and might sabotage the muffins or worse, gobble them all up.That wouldnt do at all.

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<tt>"Kyuhyunnie.." Yesung drawled while poking his head inside Kyuhyun's cabin.

"Whatcha staring at Kyuhyunnie?"

Kyuhyun coughed awkwardly and shifted his eyes from the brown box back to the screen of the computer," I wasnt staring!"</tt>

<tt>Yesung rolled his eyes and remarked,"Sure you werent."

He wrapped his fingers around the box and then proceeded to shake it twice.

"Yah. What are you doing?" Kyuhyun yelled as he stood up hurriedly and snatched the box from his ever so inquisitive hyung's hands.

Kyuhyun rambled while placing the box next to his computer,"Stupid hyung. What if they crumble?!"

Yesung blinked curiously and asked,"They? What's..."

"Nothing." Kyuhyun immediately answered.

"No. Kyuhyun. Tell me. What does the box contain?" Yesung persisted while drawing out a chair and sitting on it. He eyed a scowling Kyuhyun who grabbed the box and proceeded to keep it inside the drawer of his work desk.</tt>

<tt>"Is it porn?!" Yesung exclaimed loudly earning sniggers and smirks from Henry and Zhoumi who just happened to be passing by Kyuhyun's office hand in hand.

"Yesung Hyung! Just what are you saying?!" Kyuhyun protested.</tt>

<tt>"Then what is it?"

"Stop interrogating me! You're behaving like Ahra Noona.."

"That isnt gonna work on me Kyubaby." Yesung replied in a typical Ahra's voice while flailing his hands just like how his fiance would.

Kyuhyun snickered," What was that?"

"Im telling Noona."

"No you arent, brat. And she would probably forget everything when I'll talk about you hiding something." Yesung answered in an accusive tone.

Kyuhyun rolled his eyes and tried for a last time," Im busy hyung. I'll tell you later."

"I know you Cho. Nice try but Im not buying it. Now tell me before I burn the box down."</tt>

<tt>"Whaaa? No." Kyuhyun protested immediately.</tt>

<tt>Seeing the look Yesung was throwing him Kyuhyun mumbled a low voice,"Fine.."</tt>

<tt>Kyuhyun had run into Sungmin at the lobby of the office building that morning. The brunette was looking around like a little lost puppy while clutching a chocolate brown box to himself.

He had walked behind the smaller male slowly and mumbled,"Sungmin?"

Kyuhyun felt his heart flutter strangely as Sungmin turned around and smiled warmly at him.

"Kyuhyun!"

Sungmin scratched the back of his neck nervously and simply pushed the box to Kyuhyun's chest before he could say a word.