Acknowledge It, It's SHINee Sangtae! ~ And When Jinki Tried to Drive Them ~
Title: Acknowledge It, It's SHINee Sangtae!
~ And When Jinki Tried to Drive Them ~Author: Ahra
Genre: Fail Crack, Fluff
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: OT5, but if you squint it really carefully it's onkey and 2min
Summary: 5 commoners. ordinary boys who live together in a dorm. what kind of absurd life they have?
a/n: this is originally written in Indonesian with my partner in crime (lmao). They used to be divided the parts thereof which is the odd numbers written by me. So here i rewrite my part into English and.. yeah :D
warning: excessive use of capslock. Read the 2nd a/n below the story. first attempt in writing crack. If this is a fail, don't bite me 8D
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So there goes Jinki, Jonghyun, Kibum, Minho, and the youngest maknae Taemin were five young man who lived under a same cheap dorm called 'SHINee'. No one knows from who and where was the designation originated. Each of boys had sort of past which made them live together. Somehow they called themselves as 'SHINee' family. They lived their family life which was kinda absurd.. like today.
Lee Jinki is kind of clumsy guy you’d met rarely. Albeit he works as a lecturer, his frivolity has been acknowledged among the collegians.
They even admit that Jinki is the easiest lecturer to make fun with since Jinki, always, comes up with atypical ideas.
So on that day, everyone was suprised of Jinki’s avidity to go sightseeing.. by a car.
Jinki bolted in rush. “ OH MY GOD HIIIIII GUYS I WANT TO ASK YOU ALL IF WE CAN GO TOMOR--- UGH”
The four witnessed Jinki slip onto their dorm’s floors, whereas nothing was there which could make Jinki trip over. But they had nothing to go against of, Jinki is well-known with his tripping-over-invicible-rope ability.
A silence hit Jonghyun, Kibum, Minho, and Taemin seeing the tripping scene, in the middle of watching baby cartoon on TV.
“ Hyung? Hyung? Are you still alive?” Jonghyun asked while munched his chips. Jinki got up and grinned, brandishing his right thumb. “ I am cool.”
“ Oh.”
Then the four continued watching the baby cartoon. According to them, the baby was similar enough to Taemin as if the youngest were watching at himself - and he really was, amusedly. The baby was a cutie pie. Taemin felt himself was cute.
Jinki stood up and wiped the dust sticking on his knees. “ Well, kids - “
“ We are not your kids,” Jonghyun informed, sharply.
“ Oh. I mean, my lovely dongsaengs Kibum, Jonghyun, Minho, Taem - “
“ Taemin is my child,” Kibum added firmly.
How Jinki wanted to throw his shoe onto their faces.
Jinki took a deep breath to restrain himself from harming them, and smiled wide, showing the white teeth proudly.
“ I want us to go on excursion together,” Jinki finally announced in a tone which was more likely, like this; ‘Hi-you-all-lucky-people-who-got-a-grace-to-have-a-one-night-trip-with-me’.
“ Say, what?” Kibum frowned, “ You said you wanted to take us picnic?”
“ Yes,” Jinki looked he had put forward a brilliant idea.
Taemin asked in wonder. “ By what? The nearest park can be taken in two hours, Hyung. You don’t intend to make us ride a bus, right?"
“ Last year you brought us out by a bus and eventually we were marooned in a somewhat jungle,” Jonghyun’s eyes were full of fright. Jinki snorted arrogantly and took out his wallet, holding up something.
“ TADAAAAA.”
They focused more at a small rectanguler thing. It was a card.
“ That’s - “
“ Driving license,” Jinki answered, sounded so much proud beneath his high voice, “ I just got it, in case you want to know.”
Kibum stared at Jonghyun, Taemin, and Minho, alternately, then looked back again at Jinki.
“ No,” they answered in unison. Jinki pouted in disappointment. “ Whyyy?!”
“ Because. You. Must. Have. Got. This. License. Ileggally,” Kibum accussed.
“ Mm.. No?”
“ Means a big yes to me.”
“ THE POINT IS,” A vibrancy hit back Jinki’s state of mind, “ You have to go with me! I even have prepared a cabriolet, taken a day-off for tomorrow, made a what-to-bring list, and - “
“ Hyung, did you hear us? We are definitely not going,” Kibum finally dropped the bomb.
Jinki fell silent. His gaze was somehow void and blank. His expression became strange. Kibum swore he could hear a background music of guitar’s loud thrum, or a sound of walls crumbling behind Jinki.
The said man turned heel, entering his room.
BLAM!
Taemin threw a questioning look to Kibum. “ Jinki Hyung is mad.”
Kibum sighed.
--
It was a dinner time but Jinki still had not shown a sign of Jinki walking off the room nor a noise came out of the room. Kibum, who shares his room with Jinki, had not been going in so he had no clue of what Jinki was doing now.
“ Yah, Kim Kibum,” Minho called, first time given a line by the author. “ You know, it’s dinner time and you’d better drag him out.”
“ But what should i say?” Kibum asked nervously. Minho pointed to the dining table. “ Just say about today’s dinner,” he replied calmly, “ Fried chicken.”
And that was Kibum intended to do. He walked over his room and sighed deeply, knocking the door.
But no answer was heard.
Knock knock knock.
Kibum turned round, making face of a guy who had a constipation for three days, miserably. Jonghyun, Minho, and Taemin approached him and they were all together facing the room’s door.
Knock knock.
Still no answer.
“ Aish,” Jonghyun clicked his tongue, “ We can just kick this door or else we will end up banging the door stubbornly.”
Jonghyun pulled out his hand, about to open the door, but he stopped.
“ Wait,” Something blocked Jonghyun’s throat. “ What's with this feeling?”
As if a black smog bursted out of the cracks of the door, somehow although they aren’t shamans, but they could see that black aura blown out.
Kibum elbowed Jonghyun whom was frozen like a mannequin, “ Yah! You said you are willing to open this!”
“ BUT YOU SEE THAT BLACK SMOG, RIGHT?!”
They nodded nervously and exchanged look. Minho, then, broke the pregnant silence by widening his orbs, or another in an impressive word, goggling his eyes.
“ Hyung!” Minho exclaimed, “ Please open this! You are a true man! Don’t be afraid of that door nor the black smog! Come on, you can do that!”
Jonghyun felt moved, tears to stream down. Tears stagnated the eyelids. “ Min.. Minho..”
“ Hyung..”
*The eye contact scene. So affecting. Background of the scene: flickering. Music: You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban*
Jonghyun wiped his watery eyes and scrutinized Minho,downright. “ Minho, you are the true man indeed. I lost. So i give the honor to you as the real man. Open this door, Minho.”
Minho showed his masculine smile.
“ Don’t wanna.”
“ ... Asshole.” Eventually Minho made Jonghyun to open the door, he rolled up his sleeves and inhaled oxygen as much as he could. You can do this, Kim Jonghyun. He grabbed the knob, pushing the door open.
A faint crack.
Jonghyun then stepped in and found the room was quite dark. He gulped an began to fringe the room in funk.
“ Hyung?”
Jonghyun kept walking, further.. and further..
Mm? Seemed like he had heard a murmur..
Jonghyun stepped on something and wondered, so he took a bow.
“ AIYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
BLAM!
“ JONGHYUN HYUNG! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!” Minho broke in heroically. Jonghyun, who was practically drooping on the ground, pointed to something shakily.
“ Jinki Hyu - “
“ What’s with --- AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
Taemin screamed. Kibum and Minho dropped their jaw. Jinki, who was at the corner of the room, huddled up, poking the floor.
Somehow they could see that as if behind Jinki was all bleak and dreary. Jinki was as white as a piece of blank paper, makes him nothing better than a ghost itself.
Alright. Jinki was officially mad. But he should not have been cranky and this desperated, to the extend that Jonghyun almost did a somersault, or flip flop.
Kibum was first who dared to call Jinki, even though he was horribly scared. “ Hyung?”
Jinki stopped from picking the ground for a while and glanced. “ What?”
Kibum tried to put up his best smile. “ Let’s have a dinner.”
“ I don’t want to.”
“ But you will get sick.”
“ Don’t care.”
“ Hngg,” Kibum shrugged and sighed. “ Whereas today’s dinner is fried chicken..”
Jinki’s ears perked up, were similar to a radar.
So he arised abruptly, shocking the rest. He turned over and drifted off the room, the youngers watching what Jinki was doing now.
Jinki led up to the dining table.
And he went back to the spot where he was cowering down earlier.
Gulp.
He took the chicken.
They saw how Jinki mucnhed his fried chicken combined with a sight of cloudiness surrounding him.
They swallowed up the spits. It was scary.
They were left with no choice, and understood what each other was thinking as if they had sort of telepathy skill between them. Kibum sighed and approached the eldest. “ Yah, Hyung. Can you stop acting so stressing like this? As the return, we accept your offer to have a picnic with - “
Had not yet finished his speech, the eldest got up immediately with eyes sparkling as if there was a flashbulb in his eyes, making Kibum to backtrack a step. Jinki’s eyes glistened with the chicken in his mouth. “ Really?!”
“ Err, yes. Now swallow your food first. It’s disgusting.” But Jinki paid less attention and stromed away all at once, in short he popped his head from the door.
“ LET’S GET PREPARED FOR TOMORROW’S EXCITING PICNIC.”
And he vanished over the door.
Jonghyun, Kibum, Minho, and Taemin, once again, exchanged their gazes.
“ Hyung,” Taemin asked, little bit unsure, “ Can we trust Jinki Hyung’s driving skill? I feel goosebumps all of a sudden.”
Kibum shrugged, taking lying down. Jonghyun side-eyed Minho. “ Mm, I know how to drive and have my driving license, but - “
“ Jinki Hyung would be crying mad if we didn’t allow him to drive us, that’s for sure,” Minho cut off, stroking his fringes backward to add the effect.
They then sighed in the some breathe, much to their solicitudes.
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“ GOOD MORNING, DONGSAENGS!”
Jonghyun felt butterflies in his stomach, wanting to puke. Taemin circled his arms around Minho, feeling wamble too. Kibum only stared at Jinki worriedly, though the eldest seemed not noticing and looking all excited to himself.
“ So I have prepared all of our necessity for picnic and,” Jinki hold up a car key, “ Good news. Our cabriolet has arrived. Now we only have to set out!”
They just didn’t know whether it was considered as a good news or the end of their absurd life news.
Finally they ambled following Jinki who was alreadly like dancing on his feet happily while heading towards the carbiolet. It was blue, parked in front of their dorm and everyone, beside Jinki of course, deemed the car to a something that would lead them to another world in no time.
Minho and Jonghyun lend a hand to Jinki, tucking the stuffs while Taemin and Kibum checked the fettle inside the car. After everything was in order, Jinki slumped into the car. The rest were exchanging glances, elbowing each other, doing paper-rock-scissor. After a long bet they held, it was decided that Jonghyun to sit in front, in case to escort Jinki who seemed still an amateur in driving. Even none of them knew how Jinki could get that god damn driving license.
Followed by the rest who chose to sit in the wake of car. Minho sat on the edge of seat, right behind Jinki. Taemin decided to sit next to Minho hoping to be affected with Minho’s calmness so later he would not freak the fucking of himself out. In the other side, Kibum, took a seat behind Jonghyun, having a thought if he could encourage Jonghyun who was clearly preparing his small weak heart.
“ SO! Are you ready, kids?!” Jinki asked, impassioned.
“ Err.. Yes?”
“ Well then..” Jinki trod the clutch, worked the gears, and ..
Jonghyun bawled his eyes out.
“ JINKI HYUNG! THROW OUT OF GEARS CAREFUL ----- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
The car was leaping.
Jinki declucthed hastily in the first gears. For a moment they could breath in relief. So far the car was going along quite well. When there was a crossroad, Jinki switched on the headlight to the left. Minho threw his gaze to the right, and eyes went wider. He pulled Taemin’s hand and covered the maknae’s eyes.
“ HYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
A loud noise of a horn reverbed.
Kibum jerked from his seat.
“ HYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNG YOU SHOULD HAVE LOOKED TO YOUR RIGHT AND LEFT BEFORE TURNED ASIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.”
“ What? What?”
“ I SAID CHECK YOUR LEFT AND RIGHT BEFORE ------------ OH SHIT THERE IS A TRUCK BEHIND ---- JONGHYUN! WHIP DOWN THE STEERING WHEEL! QUICK!!!”
Jonghyun, luckily was spry enough, immediately did what Kibum shouted at him.
Oh God. They were safe.
“ Jonghyun!” Jinki shot a glare, “ I told you, I can drive, didn’t I? Relax a little! Truck wasn’t a very big deal to me!”
“ BUT IT WAS A BIG MATTER TO US, HYUNG! IF JONGHYUNNIE HYUNG DIDN’T WHIP DOWN THE WHEEL, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO US?! THANK GOODNESS YOU DIDN’T BRAKE!” Taemin squeaked in panic, but Jinki didn’t take the tantrum, yet he was still driving happily.
Then they entered the highway. Jonghyun squinted at Jinki. “ Hyung, are you sure you can traverse the roadway?”
“ Sure I can.”
Taemin gulped down and he sank his body even in Minho’s embrace, closing his eyes tight. Kibum gripped Jonghyun’s shoulder, squeezing him tightly.
“ Well.. then i should increase the gears.”
Jinki worked the gears again to the number four.. without stepping on the clucth.
Amidst the highway, the car stopped working.
“ HYUNG! HURRY UP! SWITCH THE ENGINE ON!” Jonghyun shrieked. Kibum turned his head and eyes bugged out. “ BEHIND US!! I SEE A BUS! HYUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!!”
“ Hm.. Turn the engine.. on..”
“ TREAD THE CLUCTH WHILE CHANGE THE GEARS, YOU MORON.”
“ I see!” Jinki then stepped on the clucth abruptly and twirled the car key. Finally the car was working back again but they totally forgot that the gears were still on the number four.
Jinki declutched the accelerator in full of confidence.
“ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
Overtook one car.
Overtook to the right.
Overtook to the left.
Speed: 120km/hr.
“ JINKI HYUUUUNG SHOULD BE MORE CARE---- OH GOD DON’T SWITCH TO THE SIXTH! HYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!!!”
Kibum swore the car they were riding now was like about to take-off and fly. The car’s speed was more than 120km/hr and it kept increasing due to Jinki’s eager driving skill, and once they managed to get off the roadway, they drew ahead an avenue extend outward.
“ OH! I SEE A LAMB! I HAVE TO BRAKE!”
And why is there a lamb going across the street.
Jinki braked recklessly, making the other four crashing forward, then Jinki stepped the clutch again, not decreasing the gears and shifting to the accelerator, he whipped down the steering wheel to avoid any risk from bumping the lamb, causing the car to make an extreme motion.
“ GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
The road was empty, Jinki looked proud and happy. “ I DROVE PASSED THE LAMB!”
“ SO WHAT EVEN WHEN YOU COULD........... HYUUUUNGGG, CUT THE SPEED RIGHT NOW!!!”
But the sound of speedy car made Jinki not able to hear Taemin’s loud funk scream. “ Yes? What did you say?”
“ I SAY YOU HAVE TO ---------- WATCH OUT!”
As far as the eyes could see, there was a steep road greeting them.. and shit.
The four even hallucinated an angel of death was winking over there, waiting for their coming.
“ FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKK!!!”
“ OH! BRAKE! BRAKE!”
“ YES HYUNG, YOU BRAKE AND --- HYUUUNG! YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE STEPPED ON THE CLUTCH TOO!!”
And then they glided on the steep road briskly.
“Jonghyun? You said to not step on the clutch? But my student told me that, stepping on the brake should be along with the clutch too.”
“ That’s if you want to stop the car! But if you want to race down, you just only have to step on the brake! Clucth will make the car barrel along!”
“ Really? I haven’t tried it out yet."
Jonghyun goggled his eyes and his mouth formed an ‘O’ shape. “ OH MY GOD! SO WHAT DID YOU LEARN?”
Suddenly the car’s engine was broken off, Jinki had just throd the brake for his dear life. A smile coming up, he turned to the boys and winked. “ See? The car has just stopped. Don’t worry.”
Jonghyun gulped. “ You’re right, Hyung. I have nothing against you. But..”
“ ‘But’ ?”
“ We are in the midst of the steep road.”
If someone takes a look from the outside, the car they were using now was right amidst the steep highway. It was true Jinki stopped the car, but in a very wrong way he had taken.
“ Hyung,” Taemin squirmed, finally had a chance to speak, “ Where did you get the driving license?”
“ Hm? From my student. His father’s job is to create a driving license, I guess he is the officer of something? He owed me since his son’s marks of all subjects went up higher. He scored really well on the last test.”
“ And you learn how to drive from.. ?”
“ I just got some explanation from my student, about what to do in driving.”
“ WAIT A SECOND!” Kibum cut off, pushing between Taemin and Jonghyun’s seat. “ Does that mean you haven’t been at the wheel AT ALL?”
Jinki shook his head, but still put up his innocent smile. “ But my driving skill is good enough, right?”
Ah. So this is why they felt so threatened beforehand.
Jinki blinked twice. “ Ah, we have to go down this road now.”
“ Wait, Hyung, what are you trying to - “
Jinki shifted his right foot from the brake to the accelerator, while his other foot declucthed rapidly.
To add a information, when we want to operate the car again, the clutch must not be discharged rashly. Or else, the car will be leaping.
But since Jinki did that again, so the car did leap, in the midst of highway.
Then Jinki stepped the accelerator vigorously.
Again, without taking care of the gears.
Jinki acted really bungling now, because the car was swooping down incisively.
“ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHHHHH”
This time, not only the other four screamed the top of their lungs, but Jinki also joined along in their loud choir of fear.
“ HYUUUUUNGGGG STOP THE CAR RIGHT NOW!!”
Kibum was like one of the pregnant mothers who is ready to birth the first child.
“ I CAN’T SEEEE!!! MY EYESIGHT IS TOO HAZY! THE CAR IS MOVING TOO FAST!”
“ BECAUSE YOU SHOULD HAVE CUT DOWN THE SPEED EARLIER!”
Taemin regretted he had not prepared any testament. He hugged Minho tightly, as the older kissed on his lips softly, hugging back the scared boy as if they were hanging their life inside this stupid carbiolet.
Kibum shook Jonghyun’s body, frantically.
“ DO SOMETHING QUICK, KIM JONGHYUUUUUN!”
Jonghyun took a depe breath and sniffled.
Now or never.
180km/hr. The boys’ life was on his hand now. Jonghyun rotated his sitting position and lifted his legs, letting them fall on Jinki’s knees after kicking the older’s legs away. Then Jonghyun leaned forward, hands gripping the steering wheel. Jonghyun stepped the brake slowly, his other foot on the clutch, and in short, he whipped down the steering wheel to the left, grazing the trees.
Then, Jonghyun stomped on the brake pedal flat-out.
And it stopped.
Gulp.
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So that day, they finally spent the day surrounded by trees. They had no left-power to crawl to the sideroad and search for a help. After all they were dumped off in a dull, desolated highway. Then they decided to slump and take a rest under some big trees, five meters away from the stagnant car. Taemin laid on Minho’s wide chest, cuddling to the older man. Jonghyun rested his legs on Kibum’s. Jonghyun sprained his ankle after his heroic action which was forcing his leg strength out of its life, so his muscles were strained.
While Jinki, in the other hand, stared blankly at the highway.
All hail today’s hero, Kim Jonghyun to save the day.
“ So we are still alive?” Taemin asked softly. Minho nuzzled his nose in Taemin’s auburn locks. “ Oddly enough, yes. Thank goodness, my little baby,” Minho whispered while kissed his lovely maknae’s crown of head.
“ Wow.”
Kibum noticed Jinki look dazed, gawking at the sight of empty road. Kibum then patted Jinki’s shoulder and stroked his cheek.
“ I guess you have to take a driving lesson later, Hyung.”
Jinki nodded slowly, followed by Kibum circling his arms around Jinki’s neck and bit the elder’s earlobe to show his affection.
“ Hyung, I hope you understand that.. well.. It’s not like we don’t want you to drive us, but..”
“ Hmm.”
“ Hyung? You aren’t mad at us again, right?” Kibum asked worriedly. Jinki inhaled deeply and looked over his shoulder only to meet Kibum’s eyes, pecking the tempting lips first before he opened his mouth nervously.
“ Honestly, I am thinking about something else.”
“ And what’s that?”
Jinki then, contemplated at Jonghyun’s sprained ankles
“ It’s nothing, but..”
“ Yes?”
“ Well, who will drive us back to our dorm? It is a carbilator, has to be returned back safely.”
Silence.
2nd a/n: how's it everyone? :) I am sorry if some of the information about driving I gave aren't really close to righteousness. Some of the scenes are based from my past experience in learning them. So this is what basically my tutor told me. And the grammar too, I got severe fever so I am not really sure but I'll try to fix it later, meanwhile don't be too harsh on me :< lololol jk <3 If anyone wants a spot, please tell me firsthand, ty! :>
~ And When Jinki Tried to Drive Them ~Author: Ahra
Genre: Fail Crack, Fluff
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: OT5, but if you squint it really carefully it's onkey and 2min
Summary: 5 commoners. ordinary boys who live together in a dorm. what kind of absurd life they have?
a/n: this is originally written in Indonesian with my partner in crime (lmao). They used to be divided the parts thereof which is the odd numbers written by me. So here i rewrite my part into English and.. yeah :D
warning: excessive use of capslock. Read the 2nd a/n below the story. first attempt in writing crack. If this is a fail, don't bite me 8D
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So there goes Jinki, Jonghyun, Kibum, Minho, and the youngest maknae Taemin were five young man who lived under a same cheap dorm called 'SHINee'. No one knows from who and where was the designation originated. Each of boys had sort of past which made them live together. Somehow they called themselves as 'SHINee' family. They lived their family life which was kinda absurd.. like today.
Lee Jinki is kind of clumsy guy you’d met rarely. Albeit he works as a lecturer, his frivolity has been acknowledged among the collegians.
They even admit that Jinki is the easiest lecturer to make fun with since Jinki, always, comes up with atypical ideas.
So on that day, everyone was suprised of Jinki’s avidity to go sightseeing.. by a car.
Jinki bolted in rush. “ OH MY GOD HIIIIII GUYS I WANT TO ASK YOU ALL IF WE CAN GO TOMOR--- UGH”
The four witnessed Jinki slip onto their dorm’s floors, whereas nothing was there which could make Jinki trip over. But they had nothing to go against of, Jinki is well-known with his tripping-over-invicible-rope ability.
A silence hit Jonghyun, Kibum, Minho, and Taemin seeing the tripping scene, in the middle of watching baby cartoon on TV.
“ Hyung? Hyung? Are you still alive?” Jonghyun asked while munched his chips. Jinki got up and grinned, brandishing his right thumb. “ I am cool.”
“ Oh.”
Then the four continued watching the baby cartoon. According to them, the baby was similar enough to Taemin as if the youngest were watching at himself - and he really was, amusedly. The baby was a cutie pie. Taemin felt himself was cute.
Jinki stood up and wiped the dust sticking on his knees. “ Well, kids - “
“ We are not your kids,” Jonghyun informed, sharply.
“ Oh. I mean, my lovely dongsaengs Kibum, Jonghyun, Minho, Taem - “
“ Taemin is my child,” Kibum added firmly.
How Jinki wanted to throw his shoe onto their faces.
Jinki took a deep breath to restrain himself from harming them, and smiled wide, showing the white teeth proudly.
“ I want us to go on excursion together,” Jinki finally announced in a tone which was more likely, like this; ‘Hi-you-all-lucky-people-who-got-a-grace-to-have-a-one-night-trip-with-me’.
“ Say, what?” Kibum frowned, “ You said you wanted to take us picnic?”
“ Yes,” Jinki looked he had put forward a brilliant idea.
Taemin asked in wonder. “ By what? The nearest park can be taken in two hours, Hyung. You don’t intend to make us ride a bus, right?"
“ Last year you brought us out by a bus and eventually we were marooned in a somewhat jungle,” Jonghyun’s eyes were full of fright. Jinki snorted arrogantly and took out his wallet, holding up something.
“ TADAAAAA.”
They focused more at a small rectanguler thing. It was a card.
“ That’s - “
“ Driving license,” Jinki answered, sounded so much proud beneath his high voice, “ I just got it, in case you want to know.”
Kibum stared at Jonghyun, Taemin, and Minho, alternately, then looked back again at Jinki.
“ No,” they answered in unison. Jinki pouted in disappointment. “ Whyyy?!”
“ Because. You. Must. Have. Got. This. License. Ileggally,” Kibum accussed.
“ Mm.. No?”
“ Means a big yes to me.”
“ THE POINT IS,” A vibrancy hit back Jinki’s state of mind, “ You have to go with me! I even have prepared a cabriolet, taken a day-off for tomorrow, made a what-to-bring list, and - “
“ Hyung, did you hear us? We are definitely not going,” Kibum finally dropped the bomb.
Jinki fell silent. His gaze was somehow void and blank. His expression became strange. Kibum swore he could hear a background music of guitar’s loud thrum, or a sound of walls crumbling behind Jinki.
The said man turned heel, entering his room.
BLAM!
Taemin threw a questioning look to Kibum. “ Jinki Hyung is mad.”
Kibum sighed.
--
It was a dinner time but Jinki still had not shown a sign of Jinki walking off the room nor a noise came out of the room. Kibum, who shares his room with Jinki, had not been going in so he had no clue of what Jinki was doing now.
“ Yah, Kim Kibum,” Minho called, first time given a line by the author. “ You know, it’s dinner time and you’d better drag him out.”
“ But what should i say?” Kibum asked nervously. Minho pointed to the dining table. “ Just say about today’s dinner,” he replied calmly, “ Fried chicken.”
And that was Kibum intended to do. He walked over his room and sighed deeply, knocking the door.
But no answer was heard.
Knock knock knock.
Kibum turned round, making face of a guy who had a constipation for three days, miserably. Jonghyun, Minho, and Taemin approached him and they were all together facing the room’s door.
Knock knock.
Still no answer.
“ Aish,” Jonghyun clicked his tongue, “ We can just kick this door or else we will end up banging the door stubbornly.”
Jonghyun pulled out his hand, about to open the door, but he stopped.
“ Wait,” Something blocked Jonghyun’s throat. “ What's with this feeling?”
As if a black smog bursted out of the cracks of the door, somehow although they aren’t shamans, but they could see that black aura blown out.
Kibum elbowed Jonghyun whom was frozen like a mannequin, “ Yah! You said you are willing to open this!”
“ BUT YOU SEE THAT BLACK SMOG, RIGHT?!”
They nodded nervously and exchanged look. Minho, then, broke the pregnant silence by widening his orbs, or another in an impressive word, goggling his eyes.
“ Hyung!” Minho exclaimed, “ Please open this! You are a true man! Don’t be afraid of that door nor the black smog! Come on, you can do that!”
Jonghyun felt moved, tears to stream down. Tears stagnated the eyelids. “ Min.. Minho..”
“ Hyung..”
*The eye contact scene. So affecting. Background of the scene: flickering. Music: You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban*
Jonghyun wiped his watery eyes and scrutinized Minho,downright. “ Minho, you are the true man indeed. I lost. So i give the honor to you as the real man. Open this door, Minho.”
Minho showed his masculine smile.
“ Don’t wanna.”
“ ... Asshole.” Eventually Minho made Jonghyun to open the door, he rolled up his sleeves and inhaled oxygen as much as he could. You can do this, Kim Jonghyun. He grabbed the knob, pushing the door open.
A faint crack.
Jonghyun then stepped in and found the room was quite dark. He gulped an began to fringe the room in funk.
“ Hyung?”
Jonghyun kept walking, further.. and further..
Mm? Seemed like he had heard a murmur..
Jonghyun stepped on something and wondered, so he took a bow.
“ AIYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
BLAM!
“ JONGHYUN HYUNG! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!” Minho broke in heroically. Jonghyun, who was practically drooping on the ground, pointed to something shakily.
“ Jinki Hyu - “
“ What’s with --- AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
Taemin screamed. Kibum and Minho dropped their jaw. Jinki, who was at the corner of the room, huddled up, poking the floor.
Somehow they could see that as if behind Jinki was all bleak and dreary. Jinki was as white as a piece of blank paper, makes him nothing better than a ghost itself.
Alright. Jinki was officially mad. But he should not have been cranky and this desperated, to the extend that Jonghyun almost did a somersault, or flip flop.
Kibum was first who dared to call Jinki, even though he was horribly scared. “ Hyung?”
Jinki stopped from picking the ground for a while and glanced. “ What?”
Kibum tried to put up his best smile. “ Let’s have a dinner.”
“ I don’t want to.”
“ But you will get sick.”
“ Don’t care.”
“ Hngg,” Kibum shrugged and sighed. “ Whereas today’s dinner is fried chicken..”
Jinki’s ears perked up, were similar to a radar.
So he arised abruptly, shocking the rest. He turned over and drifted off the room, the youngers watching what Jinki was doing now.
Jinki led up to the dining table.
And he went back to the spot where he was cowering down earlier.
Gulp.
He took the chicken.
They saw how Jinki mucnhed his fried chicken combined with a sight of cloudiness surrounding him.
They swallowed up the spits. It was scary.
They were left with no choice, and understood what each other was thinking as if they had sort of telepathy skill between them. Kibum sighed and approached the eldest. “ Yah, Hyung. Can you stop acting so stressing like this? As the return, we accept your offer to have a picnic with - “
Had not yet finished his speech, the eldest got up immediately with eyes sparkling as if there was a flashbulb in his eyes, making Kibum to backtrack a step. Jinki’s eyes glistened with the chicken in his mouth. “ Really?!”
“ Err, yes. Now swallow your food first. It’s disgusting.” But Jinki paid less attention and stromed away all at once, in short he popped his head from the door.
“ LET’S GET PREPARED FOR TOMORROW’S EXCITING PICNIC.”
And he vanished over the door.
Jonghyun, Kibum, Minho, and Taemin, once again, exchanged their gazes.
“ Hyung,” Taemin asked, little bit unsure, “ Can we trust Jinki Hyung’s driving skill? I feel goosebumps all of a sudden.”
Kibum shrugged, taking lying down. Jonghyun side-eyed Minho. “ Mm, I know how to drive and have my driving license, but - “
“ Jinki Hyung would be crying mad if we didn’t allow him to drive us, that’s for sure,” Minho cut off, stroking his fringes backward to add the effect.
They then sighed in the some breathe, much to their solicitudes.
---
“ GOOD MORNING, DONGSAENGS!”
Jonghyun felt butterflies in his stomach, wanting to puke. Taemin circled his arms around Minho, feeling wamble too. Kibum only stared at Jinki worriedly, though the eldest seemed not noticing and looking all excited to himself.
“ So I have prepared all of our necessity for picnic and,” Jinki hold up a car key, “ Good news. Our cabriolet has arrived. Now we only have to set out!”
They just didn’t know whether it was considered as a good news or the end of their absurd life news.
Finally they ambled following Jinki who was alreadly like dancing on his feet happily while heading towards the carbiolet. It was blue, parked in front of their dorm and everyone, beside Jinki of course, deemed the car to a something that would lead them to another world in no time.
Minho and Jonghyun lend a hand to Jinki, tucking the stuffs while Taemin and Kibum checked the fettle inside the car. After everything was in order, Jinki slumped into the car. The rest were exchanging glances, elbowing each other, doing paper-rock-scissor. After a long bet they held, it was decided that Jonghyun to sit in front, in case to escort Jinki who seemed still an amateur in driving. Even none of them knew how Jinki could get that god damn driving license.
Followed by the rest who chose to sit in the wake of car. Minho sat on the edge of seat, right behind Jinki. Taemin decided to sit next to Minho hoping to be affected with Minho’s calmness so later he would not freak the fucking of himself out. In the other side, Kibum, took a seat behind Jonghyun, having a thought if he could encourage Jonghyun who was clearly preparing his small weak heart.
“ SO! Are you ready, kids?!” Jinki asked, impassioned.
“ Err.. Yes?”
“ Well then..” Jinki trod the clutch, worked the gears, and ..
Jonghyun bawled his eyes out.
“ JINKI HYUNG! THROW OUT OF GEARS CAREFUL ----- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
The car was leaping.
Jinki declucthed hastily in the first gears. For a moment they could breath in relief. So far the car was going along quite well. When there was a crossroad, Jinki switched on the headlight to the left. Minho threw his gaze to the right, and eyes went wider. He pulled Taemin’s hand and covered the maknae’s eyes.
“ HYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
A loud noise of a horn reverbed.
Kibum jerked from his seat.
“ HYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNG YOU SHOULD HAVE LOOKED TO YOUR RIGHT AND LEFT BEFORE TURNED ASIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.”
“ What? What?”
“ I SAID CHECK YOUR LEFT AND RIGHT BEFORE ------------ OH SHIT THERE IS A TRUCK BEHIND ---- JONGHYUN! WHIP DOWN THE STEERING WHEEL! QUICK!!!”
Jonghyun, luckily was spry enough, immediately did what Kibum shouted at him.
Oh God. They were safe.
“ Jonghyun!” Jinki shot a glare, “ I told you, I can drive, didn’t I? Relax a little! Truck wasn’t a very big deal to me!”
“ BUT IT WAS A BIG MATTER TO US, HYUNG! IF JONGHYUNNIE HYUNG DIDN’T WHIP DOWN THE WHEEL, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO US?! THANK GOODNESS YOU DIDN’T BRAKE!” Taemin squeaked in panic, but Jinki didn’t take the tantrum, yet he was still driving happily.
Then they entered the highway. Jonghyun squinted at Jinki. “ Hyung, are you sure you can traverse the roadway?”
“ Sure I can.”
Taemin gulped down and he sank his body even in Minho’s embrace, closing his eyes tight. Kibum gripped Jonghyun’s shoulder, squeezing him tightly.
“ Well.. then i should increase the gears.”
Jinki worked the gears again to the number four.. without stepping on the clucth.
Amidst the highway, the car stopped working.
“ HYUNG! HURRY UP! SWITCH THE ENGINE ON!” Jonghyun shrieked. Kibum turned his head and eyes bugged out. “ BEHIND US!! I SEE A BUS! HYUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!!”
“ Hm.. Turn the engine.. on..”
“ TREAD THE CLUCTH WHILE CHANGE THE GEARS, YOU MORON.”
“ I see!” Jinki then stepped on the clucth abruptly and twirled the car key. Finally the car was working back again but they totally forgot that the gears were still on the number four.
Jinki declutched the accelerator in full of confidence.
“ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
Overtook one car.
Overtook to the right.
Overtook to the left.
Speed: 120km/hr.
“ JINKI HYUUUUNG SHOULD BE MORE CARE---- OH GOD DON’T SWITCH TO THE SIXTH! HYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!!!”
Kibum swore the car they were riding now was like about to take-off and fly. The car’s speed was more than 120km/hr and it kept increasing due to Jinki’s eager driving skill, and once they managed to get off the roadway, they drew ahead an avenue extend outward.
“ OH! I SEE A LAMB! I HAVE TO BRAKE!”
And why is there a lamb going across the street.
Jinki braked recklessly, making the other four crashing forward, then Jinki stepped the clutch again, not decreasing the gears and shifting to the accelerator, he whipped down the steering wheel to avoid any risk from bumping the lamb, causing the car to make an extreme motion.
“ GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
The road was empty, Jinki looked proud and happy. “ I DROVE PASSED THE LAMB!”
“ SO WHAT EVEN WHEN YOU COULD........... HYUUUUNGGG, CUT THE SPEED RIGHT NOW!!!”
But the sound of speedy car made Jinki not able to hear Taemin’s loud funk scream. “ Yes? What did you say?”
“ I SAY YOU HAVE TO ---------- WATCH OUT!”
As far as the eyes could see, there was a steep road greeting them.. and shit.
The four even hallucinated an angel of death was winking over there, waiting for their coming.
“ FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKK!!!”
“ OH! BRAKE! BRAKE!”
“ YES HYUNG, YOU BRAKE AND --- HYUUUNG! YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE STEPPED ON THE CLUTCH TOO!!”
And then they glided on the steep road briskly.
“Jonghyun? You said to not step on the clutch? But my student told me that, stepping on the brake should be along with the clutch too.”
“ That’s if you want to stop the car! But if you want to race down, you just only have to step on the brake! Clucth will make the car barrel along!”
“ Really? I haven’t tried it out yet."
Jonghyun goggled his eyes and his mouth formed an ‘O’ shape. “ OH MY GOD! SO WHAT DID YOU LEARN?”
Suddenly the car’s engine was broken off, Jinki had just throd the brake for his dear life. A smile coming up, he turned to the boys and winked. “ See? The car has just stopped. Don’t worry.”
Jonghyun gulped. “ You’re right, Hyung. I have nothing against you. But..”
“ ‘But’ ?”
“ We are in the midst of the steep road.”
If someone takes a look from the outside, the car they were using now was right amidst the steep highway. It was true Jinki stopped the car, but in a very wrong way he had taken.
“ Hyung,” Taemin squirmed, finally had a chance to speak, “ Where did you get the driving license?”
“ Hm? From my student. His father’s job is to create a driving license, I guess he is the officer of something? He owed me since his son’s marks of all subjects went up higher. He scored really well on the last test.”
“ And you learn how to drive from.. ?”
“ I just got some explanation from my student, about what to do in driving.”
“ WAIT A SECOND!” Kibum cut off, pushing between Taemin and Jonghyun’s seat. “ Does that mean you haven’t been at the wheel AT ALL?”
Jinki shook his head, but still put up his innocent smile. “ But my driving skill is good enough, right?”
Ah. So this is why they felt so threatened beforehand.
Jinki blinked twice. “ Ah, we have to go down this road now.”
“ Wait, Hyung, what are you trying to - “
Jinki shifted his right foot from the brake to the accelerator, while his other foot declucthed rapidly.
To add a information, when we want to operate the car again, the clutch must not be discharged rashly. Or else, the car will be leaping.
But since Jinki did that again, so the car did leap, in the midst of highway.
Then Jinki stepped the accelerator vigorously.
Again, without taking care of the gears.
Jinki acted really bungling now, because the car was swooping down incisively.
“ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHHHHH”
This time, not only the other four screamed the top of their lungs, but Jinki also joined along in their loud choir of fear.
“ HYUUUUUNGGGG STOP THE CAR RIGHT NOW!!”
Kibum was like one of the pregnant mothers who is ready to birth the first child.
“ I CAN’T SEEEE!!! MY EYESIGHT IS TOO HAZY! THE CAR IS MOVING TOO FAST!”
“ BECAUSE YOU SHOULD HAVE CUT DOWN THE SPEED EARLIER!”
Taemin regretted he had not prepared any testament. He hugged Minho tightly, as the older kissed on his lips softly, hugging back the scared boy as if they were hanging their life inside this stupid carbiolet.
Kibum shook Jonghyun’s body, frantically.
“ DO SOMETHING QUICK, KIM JONGHYUUUUUN!”
Jonghyun took a depe breath and sniffled.
Now or never.
180km/hr. The boys’ life was on his hand now. Jonghyun rotated his sitting position and lifted his legs, letting them fall on Jinki’s knees after kicking the older’s legs away. Then Jonghyun leaned forward, hands gripping the steering wheel. Jonghyun stepped the brake slowly, his other foot on the clutch, and in short, he whipped down the steering wheel to the left, grazing the trees.
Then, Jonghyun stomped on the brake pedal flat-out.
And it stopped.
Gulp.
-
So that day, they finally spent the day surrounded by trees. They had no left-power to crawl to the sideroad and search for a help. After all they were dumped off in a dull, desolated highway. Then they decided to slump and take a rest under some big trees, five meters away from the stagnant car. Taemin laid on Minho’s wide chest, cuddling to the older man. Jonghyun rested his legs on Kibum’s. Jonghyun sprained his ankle after his heroic action which was forcing his leg strength out of its life, so his muscles were strained.
While Jinki, in the other hand, stared blankly at the highway.
All hail today’s hero, Kim Jonghyun to save the day.
“ So we are still alive?” Taemin asked softly. Minho nuzzled his nose in Taemin’s auburn locks. “ Oddly enough, yes. Thank goodness, my little baby,” Minho whispered while kissed his lovely maknae’s crown of head.
“ Wow.”
Kibum noticed Jinki look dazed, gawking at the sight of empty road. Kibum then patted Jinki’s shoulder and stroked his cheek.
“ I guess you have to take a driving lesson later, Hyung.”
Jinki nodded slowly, followed by Kibum circling his arms around Jinki’s neck and bit the elder’s earlobe to show his affection.
“ Hyung, I hope you understand that.. well.. It’s not like we don’t want you to drive us, but..”
“ Hmm.”
“ Hyung? You aren’t mad at us again, right?” Kibum asked worriedly. Jinki inhaled deeply and looked over his shoulder only to meet Kibum’s eyes, pecking the tempting lips first before he opened his mouth nervously.
“ Honestly, I am thinking about something else.”
“ And what’s that?”
Jinki then, contemplated at Jonghyun’s sprained ankles
“ It’s nothing, but..”
“ Yes?”
“ Well, who will drive us back to our dorm? It is a carbilator, has to be returned back safely.”
Silence.
2nd a/n: how's it everyone? :) I am sorry if some of the information about driving I gave aren't really close to righteousness. Some of the scenes are based from my past experience in learning them. So this is what basically my tutor told me. And the grammar too, I got severe fever so I am not really sure but I'll try to fix it later, meanwhile don't be too harsh on me :< lololol jk <3 If anyone wants a spot, please tell me firsthand, ty! :>