Dong Hwan sprawled on his bed, legs up against the wall, and contemplated the general unfairness of the universe. He was an adult! A fully qualified adult, who didn't need anyone's help and could get a part-time job wherever he wanted! Including bars! Just because his dad knew the bartender from some old fighting tournament back in the 90s didn't mean he could interfere to keep Dong Hwan on the "straight and narrow path of justice"! It was more than half restaurant anyway, so his dad was freaking out about nothing, as usual.

He could just go apply down at Woo. Sure, casinos were a little more strict about ages ever since the Feds cracked down, but they knew Dong Hwan, and genius fighters always got a bit of extra leeway in Second South. Dad would kick him out of the house for sure and losing free room and board would suck extremely, but then he could get own own place...

Dong Hwan stretched his arms out, imagining the possibilities. He could get an apartment, his own swinging bachelor pad. A nice big living room with a gas fireplace and a nice big rug in front of it. 56'' plasma TV. A fully stocked bar, courtesy of Dong Hwan's good pals down at Woo. Some tasteful nudes on the walls, really show his character - wild, sexy, but classy about it, of course. And the pièce de résistance: A king-size four poster bed with a down mattress. A dreamy smile crossed Dong Hwan's face as he pictured how it would all go down: Picking up a girl at the casino and bringing her home, both of them laying in front of the fire, the look on her face when he showed off that he was a genius fighter as well as a cool, cultured guy, and then...

The daydream broke off into a fit of wild laughter. God! It was perfect! Just perfect! Ah, all he had to do was reach out and take it!

Right. First things first. Tomorrow he'd march right down to Woo and ask for a job. And then...

"Hyung? You there?"

"What?" Rudely interrupted, Dong Hwan twisted his head around to glare at the interloper. Jae Hoon had come in without knocking again, because little brothers lived to annoy bigger ones. That he looked ashamed about it was small consolation. "And stop calling me Hyung already, this is America."

"That doesn't mean we should forget out heritage," Jae Hoon said in perfect imitation of their father. He grabbed Dong Hwan's desk chair and spun it around to sit straight backed on the edge, the prim little bastard. "One should always respect one's elders."

"Knock it off with the Confucius crap when you're speaking English." Dong Hwan shoved himself into a more-or-less upright position and sighed. "So? Whaddya want?"

A guilty look flashed across Jae Hoon's face. "What- What makes you think I want something?"

"'Cause you only come looking for me when you do. Well, what is it? Money? Girl tips? Finally wised up and decided to worship at the feet of the taekwando master?"

"As if," Jae Hoon snorted. Then he hunched his shoulders in and dropped his voice so Dong Hwan had to lean in to hear him. "It's...it's kind of delicate..."

"Ha! So it is girl tips! Well don't you worry little brother, the great master Dong Hwan will condescend to give you advice. First things first: how far have you gotten? Don't be shy now!"

Jae Hoon winced. "Well...it's like this. Don't make fun of me, all right?" He bit his lip and gave Dong Hwan a pleading look.

The look was dismissed with an airy wave. "Sure, sure. I won't make fun of you for screwing up getting to first base, I promise."

Geez, Jae Hoon could really blush when he had a reason. Even his ears turned beet red. "It was yesterday afternoon," he started mumbling, "and I was out with Hye-won. We were walking along the beach, you know, and it was getting a bit late. Watching the sunset, talking, all that..."

"So you did take her to the beach, just like I told you." Dong Hwan nodded, as benefited a wise elder brother. "It's got the best view in the city and it's free. Perfect date spot."

"Y-yeah! It really was good advice, Hyung, thanks. Um, anyway, since it was getting late I walked her home, and when we got there she invited me in. Her mom had just made cookies the other day, so...er, anyway, she invited me in for tea and cookies. They were really good."

Tea and cookies, yep. That was his little brother all right. Not a smooth bone in his body. "So? Then what happened?"

"I'd never been to her house before, and she wanted to show me her room, and...her parents weren't home..."

Dong Hwan sat up straight. "Huh?"

"And, well, one thing led to another and we...we did it."

No way.

"You what?!"

No.

Freaking.

Way.

"We had sex!" Jae Hoon turned red right down to his chest. "We were lucky, she had a condom from an event at school, and I wasn't thinking at all and...it just sort of happened. You know?"

"Are you kidding me?!" Dong Hwan flung himself flat on the bed, then had to immediately sit back up again to stare at Jae Hoon some more. "How do you - I don't believe this. You?"

"Yeah." Jae Hoon scratched behind his ears. "I can't believe it myself. I completely forgot myself in the heat of the moment! I turned my back on taekwando and all of its teachings! How can I ever look Father in the eye again?"

"Yeah yeah. Did you both have fun?" Dong Hwan cut his brother off before he worked himself up into going and proposing to Hye-won right that second. Cripes. Jae Hoon got laid. He was afraid to look out the window for fear of seeing a herd of pigs flying by.

"Um, yeah, I think so. She gave me a goodnight kiss and said to come over again sometime and then I came right home." Dong Hwan knew perfectly well Jae Hoon hadn't gotten in until after 11 last night, so either they'd gone three rounds without stopping or he was full of shit. He'd probably /actually/ spent two hours wandering around in a pleasant daze. "But that's not the point, Hyung! What do I do now? I mean, I like Hye-won, I like her a lot, but I don't know if I'm ready to get married yet!"

"So don't, geez. What's the problem there?" Dong Hwan flopped back down on the bed. "The real problem is that you somehow got laid before me! I can't believe it! Dong Hwan, god's gift to women, gets shown up by his dork of a little brother!"

There was a long silence.

"Hyung...you...?"

Dong Hwan realised, with a slow and terrible understanding, that he'd said that last part out loud.

He raised his head. From between his knees, he could see Jae Hoon giving him a wide-eyed and...slightly proud? look. "No, wait-"

"After all your talk, I had assumed...but you've been virtuous all this time! Hyung-"

"Shut up! If you tell anyone you're dead, Jae, you hear me?! Dead!"

He was never going to live this down. Never ever.

"Hyung" is Korean for "older brother", specifically for when it's a male doing the addressing. SNK officially translated Jae Hoon's nii-san as Dong Hwan's name, which is fine, but I feel like Jae Hoon is the kind of guy to keep using Korean honorifics in English.

Hye-won is just a random Korean woman's name. Near as I can tell, the girl delivering Jae Hoon water in his victory pose doesn't have an actual name, so I picked one out of a hat.