Author's Note: This is the new story and it's Junsu's! There is no BoF character for him to be with but F4 is in it. This will also take place at the same time as Junho's. Junho won't be present during this story but Junsu will be present in his.

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Junsu jerked awake, cold sweat running down is neck and back. It was the same nightmare that had been plaguing him for the last month. The nightmares of watching the little girl die in the street, in the crosswalk in front of his family's bakery. The nightmare that had started because he hadn't made it out the door in time to save her. How could he call himself a man?

A hand lifted his head then set it down on a warm thigh. He looked up as a cool cloth went over his forehead. Eri met his eyes as she soothed him. He had been crashing on her couch for a week, since his brother had gone to France to learn a few new pastries.

"You couldn't have stopped it, Jun," she muttered. "The car was going too fast. Even if you had made it outside, it happened too fast."

He buried his face in her hip, soaking in the abrupt comfort she always exuded. His heart ached for the family who would never frequent his bakery ever again.

"It was the mother's birthday," he muttered. "They had specifically ordered a cake from us and were picking it up."

Eri forced him to look up at her. "Listen to me, Jun. it was a freak accident that you had no control over. You feeling guilty isn't going to help anyone. To make yourself feel better, you've wallowed in pity, and it's tiring. If you want to stay here, get out of the funk and go back to work. If not, find someone else's couch to lie on."

True to her personality, Eri rarely ever held pity for anyone. She believed that you had to take everything you were dealt. She had taken him in when it had happened because she knew he was going to need someone since Junho had left for France a few weeks ago. He had been at the shop when the little girl had been killed. He had been the one combating the nightmares, but Junsu had thought hard about what his twin felt. But like usual, Junho had kept everything inside even as he left for France.

Eri's fingers worked magic in his now green hair. She may be hard on him because she loved him, but it was that love that also urged her to soothe him too. He wasn't going back to sleep any time soon so he might as well enjoy what little comfort he was going to be given until Woo Bin woke up.

"Is the house coming along?" he asked.

"I wouldn't know. Woo Bin won't let me see it. He just tells me to paint whatever I feel like, create whatever I want, and do what I want. I have no idea what he's doing but I trust him enough to let him keep his secret. He's doing this because we're in the process of adopting another baby."

Junsu looked up even though he was barely able to see her face in the dim light. "When did you make this decision?"

"Bin's friends just had another baby. He was talking to them about it and they told him one of their friends just had a set of twins. Unfortunately, they were in a traffic accident that killed the parents and orphaned the children. The parents' parents are no longer here as well. They've been taken to an orphanage until someone can adopt them. Without asking me, Woo Bin put in the paperwork to adopt them. The process should be done soon. He's doing his best to get the house ready by then."

"Twins. You're going to have your hands full. Twins aren't easy to take care of, especially if they're identical like Junho and I are."

"I'm not afraid of it. I don't have to be. The entire family will raise them. Besides, they can play with Ga Eul and Yi Jeong's baby when it's born in January."

He had forgotten that. Yi Jeong and Ga Eul had gotten married almost seven months ago. Things had been hard on them since the whole ordeal with Woo Ahn, Woo Bin's older brother, nearly three years ago. Ga Eul had been dealing with some things with intimacy but Yi Jeong was patient. When they got married, they had taken things slowly. Like Eri, she hadn't known she was pregnant when she had gotten married. Now they were getting everything ready for their baby.

"That would put those babies at nearly four months then since there's only two months left until the child is born."

Eri nodded. "Not only that, but it's been five years since I came to Korea. Bin Ji will be five in July and Ahn Na three in May. The twins' birthdays are at the end of June on separate days. Woo Bin will be thirty-three in February, as will I next month."

"Junho and I will be twenty-seven in a month, on December 15. You'll be thirty-three on the twenty-seventh. And Ji Hoo and Kyu Lee's anniversary is the seventeenth. Too many things to remember." He heard the alarm clock going off and wondered if she heard it. "Are the hearing aids to your standards?"

Her fingers never stopped their motions. "I feel much better having hearing aids than cochlear implants. With these I am able to put them in and take them out as much as I like. I can be fully hearing one day and fully deaf the next. It just depends on how I feel. Tonight I've been working on a new piece for Yi Jeong so I kept them in to listen to music."

"Still listening to Super Junior I take it."

Her smile was slight. "Always."

The bedroom door opened and Woo Bin emerged rubbing his bedraggled head. Like usual, he was shirtless and his pajama pants hung low on his hips. His bare feet didn't make a sound as he padded through the living room to the kitchen in search for coffee. Eri turned her attention to him, keeping an eye on him even though he didn't need it.

"How many should I make?" he asked, his voice husky with sleep.

Junsu sat up and swung his legs off the couch. "Junho made bread before he left for France. He said we need to eat it before it goes bad." He pulled a loaf out of the fridge and smelled it. "Cinnamon honey bread. It goes well with coffee."

Woo Bin smiled and took the packed food from him. "Did you keep her up all night?"

The younger man shook his head. "No, she was up working before I woke up. She was working over in the corner when I went to bed. She must have been working up until I had a nightmare."

He watched as Eri came around the counter and wrapped her arms around Woo Bin's waist. He hugged her back as he leaned against the sink and waited for the coffee to brew. Being rich had its perks. They had a better coffee pot than he had ever had other than at the café.

"Are you going to tell me?" he asked. She shook her head against his chest. "Is this payback for not tell you what's going on with the house?" She looked up at him. "That's what I thought."

"Ooo, cuddling in the kitchen. That's a big no-no," Yi Jeong quipped as he walked to the fridge.

"No one asked you," Woo Bin snarked. He sobered immediately. "How's Ga Eul?"

"Irritated. She doesn't want to go to work, but she hasn't got the time off just yet. Next month will be when she can take off, but it hasn't come around yet. I don't remember you being this bad."

"She wasn't. Then again she was at a hospital when she was pregnant so she could rest when she needed."

Eri tapped Woo Bin's chest then stepped away from him. "You have to get ready for work and I have work to finish. The kids have to be up in an hour for school and Ga Eul has to take them. Junsu has work as well. So let's quit yapping and get ready."

Yi Jeong shook his head as she went back to the corner she had made her work space. "That never gets old. She's always so bossy."

"It makes for good entertainment." Woo Bin poured three cups of coffee and set them on the counter. "Now, why aren't you picking yourself up like you should be? It's time for you to go back to work at your family's shop and put that little girl's death behind you."

Junsu should have known that Woo Bin would know what his source of nightmares was. Living under the roof as the four of them, Ga Eul was included, meant he was going to be at a severe disadvantage. It was part of the reason he had come to live with them for the time being.

"I keep seeing her face." He hadn't even told Eri that and she had been the one dealing with it these last few days.

"How old was she?" Yi Jeong asked before taking a sip of coffee.

"Seven. She hadn't even begun to live life before it was snatched from her. Her brother is never going to know his sister as he grows up. Her parents are always going to long for the daughter they lost in front of my shop."

"You do know that it's not your fault right?" Woo Bin wondered. "There was no way you could have stopped that man from speeding through the intersection and hitting that girl. We talked to the police. They said he had been drinking and driving way too fast. Nothing anyone would have done could have stopped him."

"If only I had…"

"If you had, we would have been burying you too," Yi Jeong snapped. "Think about what that family had gone through. We would have gone through it. Your mother, your brother, your F4 brothers, all of us would have had to bury you. Your twin would have lost part of himself. Your mother has already buried her husband. She would not have survived if she had buried you. Then there's this family you would have left behind. That woman," he pointed to the corner, "would have pulled so far into herself we wouldn't be able to bring her out. Do you really want to put all of us through that? Especially your twin?"

It was harsh but that was how this family was. They never sugarcoated anything, preferring to give it straight. It was brutal and callous but it was the way things tended to be. And it always worked out in the end. He didn't think bitterly of them because they were doing it out of love for him.

Woo Bin tossed a piece of bread at his face. "Go back to work. Go help your mother. Hoon already told us he'd give you time to get things back on track. You have classes to finish and your qualifiers. Don't trample on that little girl's memory by withdrawing from the world. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't want that."

The door beeped as the pass code was accepted. Min Ho walked in carrying a huge easel and a bag of canvases. He carried them over to Eri where he exchanged a brief conversation before walking over to them.

"You haven't heard yet. Good," he sighed.

"Heard what?" Yi Jeong asked.

"My sister and her husband are going to challenge the validity of your birth. She says your mother cheated on your father and you're not biologically his."

Woo Bin slammed his cup down. "This again? Last time my mother showed the documentation that I was my father's son. I look just like him! Bin Ji looks just like him!"

"We know, but she's still sore that I have all the backing of F4 and the most powerful families in all of Korea. Does she know that Eri is head of the DeArgint family, one of the most powerful families in France?"

"I don't think so. But if your sister wants to take over the family, I know a way to prevent that. It's going to piss her off too."

"What are you going to do?" Yi Jeong asked. He had a truly menacing smile like he already knew what his best friend was going to do. Knowing them, they probably knew each other's moves before they did them.

"Just wait. It should be in the news tomorrow. I can fix Miss Cho Min Hae in a way that she will never go against anyone in F4 again."

Min Ho and Junsu looked at each other, kind of scared at what Woo Bin could come up with. Knowing them, it was probably the most scandalous thing that would cause a boom in Song Construction and So Art Gallery.