Childhood Love (25/?)
Author: kyumin86eunhaeGenre: Fluff, Romance
Pairings: main!KyuMin, quite-a-lot!HaeHyuk, minor!Yewook, mentions of other pairings
Rating: PG for now
Warnings: Hateable!OC, cliched!plot,
Summary: This is the love and also live story of Sungmin, Kyuhyun, Eunhyuk, Donghae and Ryeowook. The story tells about how they grow up and closer and also how they will find their first and maybe everlasting love.
Beta: jennypham7
So Sungmin was left with two quests from which he had chosen to solve one while the other one was more like a pressure of the moment that led him into that situation.
Make your brothers hoook up with their lovers. Sounded great, since he was the only one who had any experience with relationships. Which he sometimes really doubted by the way, having serious problems with getting along with his girlfriend recently. What the heck was even wrong with Haerim?
"What were you doing yesterday?", Haerim growled through gritted teeth when Sungmin had finally managed to collect all his courage to call her.
"It was Kyuhyun. He took my phone and turned it off, really!", Sungmin tried to save the situation by just telling the truth.
Didn't seem to help him though.
"What was Kyuhyun doing with you on the beach?", Haerim asked stiffly and Sungmin slapped himself mentally. What now? He was sitting on the breakfast table and was already earning weird glances from his friends, Zhou Mi, Donghae, Kibum and especially Kyuhyun who didn't exactly seem happy.
"Haerim, can we kinda, talk about it later? I'm eating right now."
"No, you'll forget it or Kyuhyun will take your phone again and who knows when I'll get through again to call you."
"He was keeping me company, okay?"
"Not okay! You didn't tell me that you were with Kyuhyun!"
"Haerim, what the heck is wrong with you- Ya! Stop staring at me! Go back to eat!", Sungmin growled in disapproval when he saw that the glares weren't stopping.
"Is Kyuhyun with you?", Haerim asked blatantely and yes, these were those moments where Sungmin wanted to throw himself out of the window.
"You are unbelievable.", he decided to say instead.
"Why?", Haerim immediately said and Sungmin was now convinced by the fact that she was having her period.
"Ever since I've arrived I couldn't relax for a second because you kept calling me and it makes me nervous, okay? Haerim, I appreciate that you care about me but you are slightly exaggerating, to be quite honest."
"Ya! Sungm-"
"No, you listen to me now.", Sungmin said growled irritatedly, inhaling deeply because it took a huge amount of his courage to do this. "I'm gonna hang up now. I'm turning off my phone for the whole week. You will see that I am actually in the condition to take care of myself and I'm not even alone. We'll see each other next week, okay?"
Then he hung up and exhaled in relief. Sungmin almost got a heart attack when he saw about five eye pairs being stuck on him.
"Uhm. Keep eating?", he said nervously while turning off his phone. He heard an amused chuckle and found out that it was Kyuhyun.
"What's funny?" he asked suspiciously.
"Nothing. You are cute." Kyuhyun grinned, causing a pout to appear on Sungmin's face.
"Am not." Sungmin said.
"Are too. Now eat." Kyuhyun said, his grin still not fading at all. No matter how much he tried, he couldn't suppress it. Actually he should have been sad about Sungmin's desperate situation but no, snarky boy couldn't be not-selfish for even once.
Sungmin kept pouting but soon found out that it was difficult to eat with a pout plastered on your face. He still couldn't figure out the reason for Kyuhyun's grin, no matter how hard he was thinking about it.
"Are you still hungry, Hyung?", Kyuhyun asked and could have scolded himself for his wide grin.
"No, I'm okay, Kyuhyunnie.", Sungmin said with a genuine smile.
"Are you okay?"
"Im perfectly fine. I feel relieved, to be honest. I just haven't realized what just happened. It seems too... good."
Oh yes, Kyuhyun's heart was doing a kind of weird dance now.
"Well then. Do you know what the teacher is planning for us today?"
"Hmm... I heard we would go to the beach.", Sungmin said, tilting his head while tapping his chin.
"Oh! Where we went yesterday?"
"I don't know, there are many beaches here, aren't there?", Sungmin laughed and continued eating. "You are so cute, Kyuhyunnie."
Kyuhyun continued his meal with a bright grin and a light heart. He hoped that his good mood wasn't too obvious though. Kyuhyun couldn't stop glancing over to his Hyung from time to time though.
Sungmin finished his breakfast first. "I'm going to our room first, okay? Do you need something? Just in case that there is no time left for you to go upstairs."
Our room. Hehe.
"Uhm, no, I actually don't need anything, Hyung!", Kyuhyun said, beaming like he never did before.
When Sungmin left, his seat was immediately claimed by someone else.
"Ya, Cho Kyuhyun.", Donghae said sharply to his brother.
"What is it, Donghae?"
"Hyung!", Donghae said, almost in desperation.
"Whatever."
"What are doing? Being all obvious and staring at him like a possessive boyfriend!"
"What?" Kyuhyun said, pouting.
"What do you think are you doing?"
"Make him falling for me?" Kyuhyun joked half-heartedly.
"First of all, I don't think you're his type. Second," Donghae said, voice dangerously lowering "he has a girlfriend."
"They have a quarrel. He is practically free. Plus, I need to cheer him up and distract him from that traumatic event." To be quite honest, Kyuhyun's voice couldn't have sounded more ironic.
"By flirting with him?" Donghae said, raising an eye brow.
"None of your business."
"It is!"
"I'm not flirting. Just cheering him up."
"Are you sure?"
"Sure." Kyuhyun smirked and stood up. He had finished his breakfast.
"Snarky brat." Donghae breathed out while his brother was leaving. That was sometimes such a jackass, he couldn't even believe it himself.
"I heard that." Kyuhyun said and even though his voice was low, Donghae could hear it.
"Fine!" Donghae exclaimed while Kyuhyun was almost out of the door. He turned back to his food and sulked. He looked over to his neighbor who happened to be Kibum. Said boy was reading a book. Donghae turned back to his food and his pout became even poutier.
After not receiving any attention for over five minutes, he began to hit Kibum's food tablet.
"Ya!"
"Ya!" Kibum replied with a yell as his food was scattered on his tablet.
"Answer me!"
"You didn't ask me anything."
"I mean, I'm sitting here, I'm pouting, I'm not eating and it doesn't bother you at all?"
"I seriously have no idea how Eunhyuk comes along with you the whole day."
"Ya!"
"If you want something, why don't you just tell me?"
"You are not better than Kyuhyun!"
"Calm down. After all, it'll still be Sungmin's decision."
Donghae replied with a grunt and sticked out his tongue.
"Seriously, how old are you?" Kibum sighed.
"Older than you."
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Kyuhyun entered his shared room and found Sungmin brushing his teeth while happily humming a song.
"You really are in a good mood, aren't you, Hyung?" Kyuhyun chuckled and laid down on
his bed.
Sungmin hummed in agreement and spit out the toothpaste, or at least what was left from its original form.
"Yeah, it feels good not to be bothered every three minutes anymore."
"I see. Are you breaking up with her?" Kyuhyun immediately wished to be dead. His mouth was working without his brain.
Sungmin just sighed and turned around to him. "You are so... well. Kyuhyun, that was blatant."
Kyuhyun knew it and blushed. "Sorry."
Sungmin, however began to squeak and jumped on Kyuhyun's bed, poking his cheeks.
"Oh my god, what are you adorable! Don't be sorry, it's okay! You just don't understand it yet, you know, it's not that easy to break up with someone just because you are having a hard time with the other person."
Kyuhyun just decided to nod, overhearing the, to him, absolutely non-sequitur part of Sungmin's explanation. Of course you break up with a person when you feel uncomfortable around him/her.
"You don't really get it, don't you?" Sungmin said, narrowing his brows. Kyuhyun then decided to avoid any further conversation about this topic.
"Not yet, but I'm sure that I'll understand once I'll get into that kind of situation."
"Right!"
Sungmin climbed down from Kyuhyun's bed and crawled over to his suitcase. Kyuhyun realized that Sungmin had been laying on him. He just hadn't realized it because he was too overwhelmed by his Hyung's outburst. He groaned.
"What's wrong, Kyuhyunnie?"
"Uhm. I was wondering if today's excursion will be exhausting."
"Hmm... I have no idea. I hope not?" Sungmin said while taking off his shirt.
Kyuhyun stared. And stared. And stared. Until Sungmin was left in boxers, still searching for his clothes.
It was an understatement to say that Sungmin was hot. At least Kyuhyun was thinking that as he felt his pants tightening a bit.
"You are really red, Kyu.", Sungmin noticed while still bending over in order to look for a shirt.
Really, how could he be that oblivious? Wasn't it all obvious? Didn't Sungmin ever expect Kyuhyun to have any more than brotherly feelings for him?
"Are you getting a fever?" Sungmin continued, raising an eye brow while pulling up his pants.
Uhm, and no, Sungmin didn't seem to ever see Kyuhyun as something else than his cute little Dongsaeng. Kyuhyun had the feeling that he had to shout it right into his Hyungs face. But hey, more chances to be his adorable little puppy. Kyuhyun thought bitterly.
"Aren't you changing?" Sungmin asked after dressing up completely. Kyuhyun just sighed. I'm too frustrated, sorry.
"No, it's comfortable this way." he muttered before turning his head away. "And I don't have a fever."
"Your face isn't red anymore!" Sungmin exclaimed and looked at his Dongsaeng suspiciously.
"Maybe you were just imagining things. We have to go anyway." Kyuhyun said, avoiding the topic of his blush and stood up.
Sungmin nodded but couldn't help his suspiciousness. "Are you locking the door? Keep the keys, okay?"
"Yeah."
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The teacher had changed the plan and they were visiting a museum about Marine Biology. It wasn't that big but the sea seemed to be windy that day, causing the teacher to go into that museum. It wasn't as big as the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in Taiwan but it wasn't small either. The main exhibition were Coral Reefs and Sungmin soon found himself completely engrossed over the sight of those interesting creatures.
"Corals neither are animals nor plants. Just like agarics on terra, there are corals in the ocean. They belong to the class Anthozoas of phylum Cnidaria. As you all can see, they are living in colonies and..."
Kyuhyun soon stopped paying attention as something else caught his attention. Sungmin was practically stuck on the aquarium's glass, his eyes bigger than Kyuhyun thought it was possible and nose flatted on the window pane. He looked like a little kid seeing such a big aquarium for the first time in his life. Kyuhyun stepped next to him, slowly, trying his best not to appear excited but calm.
"It's interesting, isn't it, Hyung?", he said in smalltalk style, hands in his pockets.
"It looks so, so awesome...", Sungmin murmured while his eyes were following the movements of the tentacles which were floating in the exposed water while little colorful fish were swimming around and between the plant like creatures.
Kyuhyun looked at the scene in front of him and had to smile. It was indeed a sight for the gods that was presented in front of them.
"Beautiful..", he murmured, earning a gentle smile from his Hyung who found his Dongsaeng being just as fascinated as he was.
"...most corals do photosynthesis to obtain their energy but they can also catch little fish and plankton. Mr. Lee, Mr. Cho, are you listening?", the teacher interrupted Kyuhyun's glorious moment with his Hyung, causing the younger boy to throw a mental insult to him but Mr. Park just ignored the glare.
"I see that both of you are indeed very interested into those corals but I doubt that you actually can pay attention to my words when you are obviously having your minds somewhere else."
Sungmin jerked away from the pane and muttered a shy 'sorry'. When the teacher was continuing his lecture again, drawing his attention away from them again, he glanced over to Kyuhyun and gave him an apologetic smile for causing him trouble.
Kyuhyun could just smile back, finding his heart very light, once again. He was hoping that he wouldn't get used to those amazing, butterfly-hurry-scurry.like feelings in his tummy. How would it turn out if he had to live without those moments again?
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"Remember that all the facts you are learning in this week are relevant for your exams. This is not a joy ride. Of course you are meant to have fun but you are here to learn about marine biology in first place. Have a nice meal!", Mr. Park ended the day on the dining table. He sat back on his seat again and had to smile a little as he saw all his students gladly devouring their food after a tiring but hopefully educating day.
Donghae was staring at his food, his mobile phone being uselessly put next to the tablet. Kibum was paying attention on his book, hoping that no one would accidentally spill food on the precious pages while trying to shove food into his mouth at the same time.
Kyuhyun was practically eating with a smile on his face. He hadn't been that happy for quite a while lately. Sungmin kept blabbering about more or less interesting stuff to him and that was enough to set his mood up into heaven.
"Have you seen all those colors? There were some I didn't even know that exist! It was smashing! I've never seen anything like this before!"
Oh yes, how incredibly cute his Hyung was. Especially when he had rice on his mouth corner without realizing it.
Kyuhyun had to grin when he remember that Haerim would probably have licked it off all by herself if she was here. Well, she was not.
"Hyung, you have some rice on your mouth corner.", he said and Sungmin stopped his waterfall of words.
"Oh, really?", he said, a tinge of pink flushing over his face as he brought his hand up to search for it. He was on the wrong side though and shot Kyuhyun a questioned look as he couldn't find the grain of rice.
Kyuhyun smiled lightly while he reached forward to wipe of the rice on the other side, causing Sungmin to grin as he realized that he had been searching on the wrong side.
"Thank you, Kyuhyunnie." he said and continued eating.
If you just knew what you are doing to me all the time, even though it is unconsciously.
Donghae was observing the situation with a worried glance but could not find the mistake in the picture in front of him. He had other problems anyway.
His phone hadn't been ringing for two days. It actually had but it was not the person he was expecting but his mother so it didn't count. Donghae's logics.
But he had to call! It had been two freaking days and Donghae could already feel how he was craving for some interaction with him.
Didn't Eunhyuk even miss him a bit? They did have a little fight before he had headed off but those little quarrels never affected their friendship.
Practical brotherhood for over ten years is nothing that breaks apart because of a little fight.
Though Donghae wasn't sure about the brotherhood part. He loved Eunhyuk, that was for sure but he knew that it was not in the complete platonic way.
Brothers don't feel the urge to kiss each other right? Incest had never been an option for Donghae but that was just the way he felt for a supposed to be brother. He bit his lower lip, scared of where his thoughts had led him to. Incest was gross. Eunhyuk was his brother. But Donghae had feelings for him that went way further than sibling love.
Donghae shot his cell phone an angry glare just as if the poor thing was guilty for his dilemma.
"Why aren't you just calling him?" the calm, smooth voice of Kibum ripped him out of his thoughts.
"Woah! You scared me!" Donghae complained, eyes widened from shock. "When did you come? I didn't notice you! Like, like... like a ninja!"
"I highly doubt that I fulfill the criteria for a ninja so I high precisely do no belong to the probably even obsolete braves of Japan."
Donghae just raised an eyebrow. "Earth to Kibum, homo sapiens speaking to you. Not Kyuhyun. Or Changmin."
"Despite the fact that you belong to the species of homo sapiens sapiens just as I do and Changmin and your brother too, I was just saying that your thought of me being a ninja was not realistic since you've known me for long enough to know that I'm not one."
"It was a metaphor, okay?" Donghae whined, pouting as the conversation didn't exactly go the way he would have wished it to.
"It was definitely not a metaphor. What you mean is a simile. You used the word 'like' to compare-"
"Shut up. Please!" Donghae whined and kept pouting at his cell phone.
"We really seem to have a serious issue over here." Kibum sighed exaggeratedly, earning a glare by Donghae.
A/N: Wooow. Long chapter again LOL I know it's kinda lame now but I have a really good plot for the 27th chapter up now :DDDD Based on personal experience ;) There will be some smut later, later, later on. I think this one is getting really long. Like, really long. Smut somewhere in Chapter 5439718075013854. LOL Okay, maybe a bit earlier? o.O By the way, there are going to be hints of crack in this fic. I just cannot live without it :O
By the way, I have no idea if Jeju Island has an Aquarium. That part completely came from my imagination^^