Hold my Hand Chapter 2
Yunho frowned and was about to say something but stopped at the scared look on Jae’s face.
“What’s wr-”
“Jung Yunho, I don’t pay you to sit on your ass and gab to your friends.”
Yunho felt chills go down his back as he looked up behind him. Oh shit, it’s the manager. Shouldn’t he be in the backroom watching the morning news?? Damn he’s actually doing work today…
“I’m sorry sir, but Yunho has to go back to work now.” The manager grabbed Yunho by the ear and started to drag him out of his seat.
“Ow ow ow!! There’s no reason to manhandle me!!” Yunho immediately began flailing due to the pain in his ear. “We were talking about important life issues!!”
The manager was merciless, “Yeah, yeah, talk about them in your own time.”
“Look! You’re scaring the customer with your use of brute force!” The fact that you look like a constipated gorilla doesn’t help either, Yunho thought silently.
The manager just ignored him.
As Yunho was dragged away he didn’t forget to look back to wave goodbye to Jaejoong. He nearly forgot the pain in his ear when he saw him.
Jaejoong was shaking in laughter, so sheer and so free.
***
“Can I have your phone number?” The next Saturday Yunho and Jaejoong were in the usual spot. Due to the harsh scolding last week Yunho didn’t dare sit down by Jaejoong but merely walked back and forth around Jaejoong’s vicinity, pretending like he was waiting on nonexistent tables. I feel stupid…
Jaejoong shook his head, “I don’t think my boyfriend would like that very much.”
“That damn boyfriend of yours…” Yunho muttered to himself. But then he brightened up again, “Well we’re just friends! I mean it’s not like he’ll go through your contacts anyway.”
Jaejoong looked uncomfortable as he shifted his eyes from Yunho’s gaze. “I’m sorry, but no.”
Yunho sighed a little. He didn’t want to have to go this far.
“Okay, well that’s cool. I’ll see you around.” Before Jaejoong knew what hit him Yunho bent down and gave him a hug. Ignoring Jaejoong’s squirming and twitching Yunho gave him a tight squeeze and let go.
As Yunho walked away he looked down at the unfamiliar red Blackberry in his hand. I guess I can always go into pickpocketing if the whole architecture thing doesn’t work out, Yunho thought to himself.
***
“What the hell?” Yunho looked down at the phone in disbelief from the safety of his own apartment room after he got off his shift in the afternoon.
Going through Jaejoong’s contacts he found that there were only five people listed. One was Jae’s boyfriend Janghyuk and then four other names, all girls that Yunho didn’t recognize. There was no sign of even any family members, father, mother, any of that. Yunho thought back to what Jaejoong said about his mom and frowned.
What was even weirder though, was that the only guy listed on Jae’s phone was his own boyfriend. Either he doesn’t have friends or his boyfriend is really possessive.
Yunho decided not to dwell on it and went to work putting in his phone number. Leaning back on his couch, Yunho wondered what he should put his name as. Just plain Yunho is boring. And Jae probably wouldn’t like it if I put Bestie or Hubby.
Then Yunho felt a spark go off in his mind and typed into the textpad furiously. Yunnie. It had been his nickname ever since he was a kid and people really close to him had always called him that. Though Jae wouldn’t know that fact. Yunho imagined what it would be like if Jaejoong called him Yunnie softly with his pretty lips and Yunho laughed to himself like a crazy person. When he was done with his delusions he pressed the send call button for his own number and then saved Jae’s number on his own phone.
Yunho lied on his couch peacefully but was startled by the beeping from the Jaejoong’s phone. It was a text from Janghyuk.
[Baby where are you]
Yunho wondered to himself if he should reply but decided to ignore it. A few minutes later another text came through.
[What the hell I’m getting really pissed]
Yunho frowned, was Jaejoong standing this guy up or something? Interesting…
It was at that moment the bell went off on the Blackberry to signal an incoming call. The ringtone was Pachelbel Canon. How fitting, Yunho thought to himself.
It was an unknown number that Yunho assumed was Jaejoong calling from another phone. Well, I had to return the phone sooner or later…
“Hello~”
There was a pause on the other line and the sound of heavy breathing. [“Hello?? Who is this??”] Jaejoong’s voice had a note of urgency to it.
“It’s Yunnie!” Yunho laughed to himself but added when there was silence on the other end, “It’s Yunho.”
[“Why do you have my phone? Are you some kind of stalker??”] There was a shrillness to Jaejoong’s voice that Yunho had never heard before. If he thought about it, Jaejoong always spoke really quietly but right now he felt like he was going to go deaf.
“Whoa whoa, calm down. I’m sorry, okay? I just-”
Before Yunho could finish Jaejoong cut him off. [“Can you please come meet me? Bring my phone to the Kal Noodle shop across the street from our school entrance.”] With that Jaejoong hung up.
Yunho sighed and clutched his face in his palm. He didn’t know Jaejoong would react as if he was some kind of psycho. He hoped Jaejoong hadn’t needed his phone for something important today. Judging by Jaejoong’s voice, that might have been the case. Why don’t I think things through before I act? Damn, I might have messed up big time.
***
When Yunho got to the restaurant his breath was heaving and his knees were weak from running so hard. He looked around for Jae. Even at this moment when he knew Jae was mad at him his heart was elated to be seeing him.
Jae was standing in the doorway of the restaurant next to a bigger guy who had his arm around Jae’s tiny waist in what looked like a death grip.
Janghyuk was considerably tall, perhaps a similar height to Yunho himself. He was glaring at Yunho suspiciously. Yunho glanced at him from the side of his eye. He’s pretty muscular but I can take him any day, Yunho thought.
Yunho went up to Jaejoong holding out the phone, “I believe this is yours?”
Jaejoong smiled brightly, “Thank you so much!”
Janghyuk glared at Yunho looking him up and down, “Baby, you know this guy?”
Jaejoong turned to Janghyuk, “No, this guy found my phone for me though, isn’t that great?”
Yunho looked at Jaejoong in surprise.
Janghyuk grunted, “Okay let’s go inside, I’m fucking hungry thanks to you.”
“You go on ahead inside, I wanted to thank him alone. It’s only the polite thing to do,” Jaejoong said softly to Janghyuk.
Janghyuk looked like he wanted to argue but eventually released his grip on Jaejoong’s waist. Before he did he glared at Yunho one last time and bent down and grabbed Jaejoong’s head, giving him an almost vicious kiss. Jaejoong struggled in his grasp but Janghyuk didn’t let go, hungrily eating Jae’s lips and sticking his tongue in before he let go.
Yunho stared in disbelief as this action went on for a good two minutes or so. When Janghyuk finally let go Jaejoong looked like he was about to cry.
“That’s your punishment for being late today,” Janghyuk muttered to Jaejoong and stalked off into the restaurant.
Jaejoong and Yunho stood awkwardly for a while.
Yunho tried to joke to break the weird atmosphere, “Hi my name is Yunho what’s your name?”
Jaejoong was looking down, “That’s not funny.”
Yunho tried to push Jae playfully but Jae flinched violently. “Oh c’mon. Are you mad about today?? I was just kidding around.”
“Because of you my boyfriend is really mad at me…I was looking for my phone everywhere so I was late to our date…” Jaejoong murmured.
Yunho couldn’t help but scoff a little, “Maybe that’s a little harsh on his part don’t you think? I mean everyone’s late to an appointment once in a while.”
When Jae finally looked up his face displayed all his frustration, “You always say you want to be friends but the way you act isn’t like that at all!”
Yunho was taken aback by Jae’s burst of emotion but he decided it was for the best anyway. “You’re right. I don’t really want to be friends.” He sighed and ran a hand through his hair, “Look, at first I just thought you were pretty so I guess I was interested. But now I really like you, okay?”
“Go out with me Kim Jaejoong.”
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A/N Hola everyone!! Hope you weren't fooled by the beginning hehehe Yunho's scary manager hyung >.< Oh by the way, Janghyuk is purely fictional!
Thanks for reading y'all~~