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*Hi! This is Jungkook.*
He smiles with his cute overbite showing, cheeks ready for squishing.
*He is a beta.*
[Disappointed sound in the background]
His smile drops, suddenly overcast with a nervous look at himself. "What's wrong with me? Why are you disappointed...? What did I do wrong...?"
"You're a beta, Jungkook-ah. You're not special like the rest of them." The voice of his mother looms over him, a shadow cast upon his face.
(Who is them?)
"You know, the other genders!" Her voice echoes with concern and a sigh. "Seriously, Jungkook-ah, you should know better! You're going to be one of the normals now."
(Normal?)
"As a beta, you should know that your superiors are the alphas and the omegas. They're special. You're unfortunately not. You're a nobody from now on."
Jungkook's face is laced with hurt. His mother is ignoring him by closing her eyes the entire time she is having this conversation.
"Jungkook-ah, because I have raised you for the past sixteen years, I will be nice. You won't be disowned, but from now on, do not associate yourself with the Jeon family in public. Although you are a Jeon by blood, you are no longer a main member of the family."
Jungkook thinks about the outcast members of families like his are shamed and scorned, and yet even though they were a public humiliation to them, some main members found amusement in, for a lack of better words, bullying them.
He wasn't sure how to comprehend all of this. After years of being told he would present as an alpha or an omega, and that being a beta was not an option, even though he couldn't decide for himself.
[It's shameful being a beta, you know! You're just...boring! It just means that, you know, there's nothing special about you.]
"I am?" Jungkook bites at his lip, eyes starting to well up with tears.
[It's such a shame as well; he was the Jeon's only hope, you know. The older brother turned out a beta and ran away from home, and the Jeons were betting on their youngest to be an alpha so he could continue the line. Shame that one of the bastard lines will have to take over the main line.]
(Bastards? Main line?)
"Soojin must be pissed. She always prided on being the daughter of the legal wife, proud to be the next one to carry on the lineage, but now all her half siblings are besting her with their alpha and omega kids."
"Ugh, those rich families and their confusing lines. I don't know which child is from which parent, all the illegitimate children get muddled up in my head."
(Wait, there's more children?)
"It's weird, you know, how Junghyun and Jungkook were the only children of the main line. Normally there would be more kids, but looking at the other lines, they seem to have plenty of choices to pick from now that Jungkook's a beta."
"But what's wrong about being a beta?" Jungkook asks, slowly starting to shrink into himself as he hears more of these words.
"I mean, there's nothing wrong, I guess. It's not like you're useless or anything, but it's nothing to scream about either. It's okay, Jungkook-ah. Perhaps you were never destined for greatness. Perhaps the main Jeon line was never meant to amount to anything."
"I- what happens to me then?" Jungkook trembles, avoiding the disappointment on her face.
"I don't know, you'll be let off I guess. Away from the Jeon family. Away from us."
[Lights black out.]