"Yoo Sijin! I gonna get you!"
At times, he knows that he had some of the best friends he could ever have. And he knew that those friends loved him as much as he treasured them. Even though at times, he wondered if he pushed it too far. Then again, wasn't your bests of friends tend to be the very same ones that annoy you a lot as well?
He remembered how scary Myeongju used to be when she found out that he was the source of that bad rumour about her and Daeyoung. (Well, his words got twisted a lot but that didn't change the fact that he was the source.) Boy, he still remembered how he ended up being chased all around the camp and having the run of his life, trying to escape her wrath.
Scary. The last time he ever ran that hard from her was when he accidentally kicked her doll into the mud puddle. And that was even before he got to know her properly! He was playing with his ball in the yard; the commander—at the time was a major—visited his father at their house one time. That time the then Major Yun also brought along his daughter, but they never really introduced themselves properly to each other. Because he was out playing, and he didn't bother to greet random kids he might as well won't meet again.
He didn't even realise there was a little girl watching him from some corner. By the time he realised that he kicked his ball towards her direction, the damage was already done.
One couldn't even imagine how such a small kid manage to have a lot of energy to chase him all over the neighbourhood.
"I need to beat you up too. When I was in the Army Academy you tormented me a lot. Don't you remember?"
"Yes, I do. Do you want to beat me up now?"
Oh. and he remembered just how many times Daeyoung got mad at him whenever he dragged him along with the things he did. Or when he pushed all of his report-writing to him. Not that he doesn't occasionally write his own reports at times, but most of the times he had his 'Tolstoy' do all the work. What else could he do? He had enough trauma over all the reports he had to write while in the academy to spend the rest of his military career to do even more reports.
Kinda funny how the two ended up together, really.
But at times, he did wonder if his friends were more annoyed with him or if they really loved him a lot to let him annoy them so much.
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"I guess everybody's okay."
"See? No one died. Isn't that what matters?"
Dayoung jumped on the guy even before he could blink an eye. His friend was that angry. Sometimes he's just amazed at how much his friend cared about him. He usually downplays the situation whenever he barely escaped any life and death situation, but at times, he couldn't help being aware of how worried his friend can be about his safety. Manager Jin really was just unlucky, to want to mess with Daeyoung...
That guy was so cool...
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Ah... but he still didn't get it. Why must he also be punished? Not his fault if Manager Jin managed to sneak back into the site to operate the digger. He wasn't around to keep that guy in check. He was busy working to save people! In fact, that blasted Manager Jin almost killed him! Why must he also be punished?
"If my wrist were okay, I would've..."
"Hit me?" he asked, cautiously. Did Daeyoung finally reach his limits with him?
"Hit that scum."
Scum? Meaning Manager Jin? But why did he still feel uneasy? Words can be so confusing...
"Your timing's not good."
Oh, Myeongju's here... did she hear about...
"Was that the best you could do? You could've completely destroyed him."
Either he was being overly sensitive, or did Myeong really meant to say that to...
"Wow! Me? My timing's not good."
He felt so attacked right now!
A/N: Personal headcanon. Yeah. Because despite Sijin saying that he only knew Myeongju for 7 years, it felt like they knew each other far longer than that. Like childhood friends. Or indirect friendship. Because you CAN actually have interaction with people without properly getting to know each other. And Myeongju didn't sound like she barely knew Sijin when she made the deal with Daeyoung.