#parksarewe

It was just another ordinary day at the Park Residence. Well, perhaps not very ordinary. Dara, the eldest among three siblings is making herself busy at the kitchen trying to whip up something edible to feed her brother and sister who are just procrastinating in the living room. It’s very rare that the three siblings get to be home together just lounging and doing nothing. Considering the nature of their works, today is indeed not a very ordinary day for this house.

“Nuna, I’m telling you let’s just order pizza.” suggested Sanghyun, the youngest and the only male sibling. He has been playing with their cats the whole morning. Lying comfortably on the couch, he had all five cats huddled around his chest and neck area, keeping warm.

“Aigoo~” Dara sounded weary. “I can’t let that happen on the first day mom’s not here. She wanted to go back home to Busan so we let her because we are all capable adults now. To start that off: I am cooking.”

“Does adulting also mean being capable of eating your food?” Durami, the middle child, looked up from the book she was reading just to interject. Sanghyun who’s only two feet away from Durami snickered at her comment and gave her small a low five to which she naturally reciprocated and she focused back to what she’s reading again. Having only a year in age gap, Sanghyun and Durami are definitely closer. They get along better and can be dubbed partners in crime. They are certainly a handful of trouble for Dara.

But of course the eldest wouldn’t just easily back down. “If you eat and finish what I cooked for you I’ll take you both out and treat you to anything you like this Wednesday. Like a date! But for siblings.” Hearing this, both Durami and Sanghyun’s ears perked up. Dara noticed this and secretly smirked. ‘They are kids still.’ She said to herself quietly. She got them. She could still easily manipulate them by giving out candies as a reward.

“I have plans on that day.” Sanghyun was quick to decline the offer however. But he looked a bit disappointed.

Shocked that her little trick actually wasn’t able to go through the maknae, Dara exclaimed. “What?”

“I have plans on Wednesday.” Sanghyun repeated.

“But it’s Valentine’s day! You’re not taking your sister out on a date?” Dara whined childishly despite her age.

On the other hand, Durami’s peeking through her book, eyeing their little brother. “You have a date.” She sneered to which Sanghyun reacted and twitched on the couch. Needless to confirm already, she triumphantly announced, “Eonnie, Hyunnie has a date on Valentine’s day!!”

Dara gasped at what she just heard. “WHAT?!”

“Yah, tell me who is it huh?” Durami already started her interrogation, kicking Sanghyun with her feet lightly. While Dara had to turn the stove off first, wiped her hands on her apron and marched over to join her sister in the investigation. “Before mom left, she was oddly talking about how difficult it would be for her to see her son getting married. Does mom know?” “What?” Dara has said that word for the third time already. “Doong-ah are you planning to get married? No way! I should be first!”

“Eonnie, if you really want to get married first, you should stop taking your brother on Valentine’s dates.”

“Irrelevant!” Dara snapped at her sister’s comment. It scared all their cats away they started scurrying off Sanghyun, stepping on his face in the process. With his sisters bombarding him with questions, he definitely looked bothered. “Doong-ah, why won’t you go out on a date with your sisters--?”

“--I don’t want to--” Durami interjected in the middle of Dara’s sentence so Dara changes it.

“--Why won’t you go out on a date with me? Who’s the girl? Who is she?” Dara continued asking, tugging at her brother’s shirt like some jealous girlfriend.

“Seriously?” Sanghyun sat up from the couch, weirded out. “I’m not telling.”

Dara gasped again--even more dramatically this time--and whispered, “So it’s true...”

Durami just snorted and smirked. “I knew it.”

Their eldest sister started crying and whining. By now you’ll notice the most immature “capable adult” among the siblings is the eldest. “I can’t believe it!” She cried. “At least tell us who she is! Doong-ah, please~” And she begged.