Title: Shining Star (Chapter 4 - completed)
Paring: Kangin/Leeteuk, Yunho/Jaejoong from DBSK
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them, only the plot.
Summary: It all started when Jungsu and Youngwoon were still the trainees.
Previous Chapters
(Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 3)
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Chapter 4
Jungsu was pacing back and forth restlessly in front of the door of the lesson studio. All lessons were over for the day and most trainees had left the building already. It took two weeks for him to finally decide to stand at this place, at the door of the studio prepared for the upcoming group, to see Youngwoon. It was going to be almost two months since they met last, and the last two months was the longest time Jungsu had ever experienced. He was not sure what he would say or do once he met Youngwoon, but he couldn’t bear holding this huge anxiety any more.
Holding a breath, Jungsu opened the door slightly to peek into the room, and felt disappointed and relieved at the same time because all he could find was Yunho and Jaejoong who were cleaning up the room. It seemed that the lesson was already over and Youngwoon and Heechul were gone somewhere.
As looking for the hint of Youngwoon coming back to the room, Jungsu noticed the gaze Jaejooong was sending to Yunho. Jaejoong never averted his eyes from Yunho who was mopping the floor, and Jungsu was surprised a little because he had never seen Jaejoong smile softly and affectionately like that.
Everybody knew Jaejoong was beautiful, but he never sold smiles cheap to anyone so people regarded him like an ice queen. The boy before Jungsu’s eyes now, however, was far from the reputation. Yunho walked up to Jaejoong sitting on the floor, and bent down to place a small peck on the tip of his lover’s nose. Jaejoong smiled like a flower in full bloom as Yunho helped him standing up and held him in his chest softly.
Jungsu was smiling unconsciously at the scene. He could see how important they were to each other from the eyes and touches. He could see the love between them.
Because he was so absorbed in the beautiful scene in front of him, he didn’t notice a guy watching him curiously from his back until the person giggled.
“You must be Park Jungsu, right?”
Jungsu looked back instantly and opened his eyes in surprise finding an unexpected person there. Kim Heechul was standing there, a well-known smirk on his gorgeous face.
“Y-Yes, how did you know?”
He didn’t expect the guy in front of him to know his name, because he was not that conspicuous unlike the other one. He closed the door behind him quietly, feeling embarrassed for being caught in spying.
“I happen to know a talkative bear who’s always blabbing about you”, giggled Heechul.
Jungsu immediately tensed hearing that, worrying about how Youngwoon talked about him, a nameless trainee, to this famous celebrity. Heechul caught the nervousness on Jungsu’s face and smirked, taking it in different way.
“Don’t be worried, wild bear is not my taste.”
“W-what? I didn’t mean… I… uh, …”
Jungsu blushed furiously, which made the other one smirk even wider.
“Easy, easy! Now I understand why he’s so stuck on you. You’re kind of interesting.”
Licking his lips, Heechul came up to the other and caught its chin with his fingers. Jungsu swallowed and froze, completely admired by the gorgeousness of the man only inches from him. He couldn’t believe a guy could be so beautiful.
“Ya! Heechul hyung! What are you doing!?”
The voice sounded all of a sudden, and Jungsu was released from the spell because he spotted the face of a man he had been longing to see. Youngwoon was standing behind Heechul, glaring at the man.
“I was just saying hi to your friend”, smiled Heechul with a mock pureness.
“By grabbing his face? That’s a very unique way of greeting”, said Youngwoon satirically. “Stop flirting on everyone. Especially on him.”
Youngwoon threw his arm around Jungsu’s shoulder protectively, and the elder found his eyes dimmed with tears just by feeling the warmth of the young man.
“You’re just jealous because I didn’t flirt on you, huh?”
Grinning teasingly, Heechul patted Youngwoon on his chest, waved at the two and left. Youngwoon shock his head, smiling.
“That man is always like this.”
“He looks as unique as I heard, but I think he is a good person.”
Jungsu smiled at the younger. He didn’t know the reason himself but he strangely liked that beautiful yet naughty guy.
“See, he has already seduced you in ten straight seconds.”
Youngwoon said with a fake pout, and then the two laughed at the same time, which made Jungsu feel happy. He had been missing this, this small jokes and smiles shared with the man in front of him. Once they stopped laughing, Youngwoon looked at Jungsu in his eyes.
“It feels like ages since we met last… are you doing fine? You look even thinner than before.”
Youngwoon caressed the elder’s cheek with the back of his hand softly.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t make calls, and for the missed Fridays.”
Jungsu just shock his head, unable to utter a word because his throat was choked up. He wished he could tell the younger how much he had been missing him. Youngwoon smiled tenderly at the elder.
“Anyway, you’ve come here to see me, right? Come in and wait a minute, the lesson is already over and I can go soon”, said Youngwoon, inviting the elder to the lesson room.
As they entered the room, Yunho and Jaejoong just finished cleaning and bowed them for goodbye. As sending them off, Jungsu noticed that their hands were joined tightly and he couldn’t take his eyes off from it until the door closed and hid the picture of happiness from his sight.
“It’s been crazily busy for this several weeks because of the mass of lesson and preparations the management put on us, you know. Still I’m lucky because the members are all nice and talented, and we’re going well somehow.”
Youngwoon laughed and sat on the floor to pack his properties into his backpack. Jungsu looked down the younger and found the pile of used towels, sweaty t-shirts and worn-out shoes around him. Those told him how hard the younger had been working on the practices, and he was sincerely proud of his friend for that. Jungsu sat down next to the younger and put his hand softly on the other one’s, smiling tenderly.
“I wish the project will work well for you.”
He meant it. Though he was feeling some kind of loneliness, like being left behind, he was always hoping his best friend would be rewarded for his hard work and achieve a great success someday. Youngwoon smiled back, weakly somehow, and caressed the small hand on his own one with the other hand.
“You know”, started Youngwoon hesitatingly, “Actually I’m not so sure if I want this project to proceed.”
That remark made Jungsu confused.
“Why? You said the members are doing well each other, and I think you can see a big success in front of you with them.”
“Yeah, I want a success. That’s why I’m here.”
Youngwoon kept caressing the elder’s hand, staring down at the sensitive line of those fingers. Silence fell between then for a while, and the younger raised his face to stare at Jungsu in his eyes directly, speaking again in the determined voice.
“But whenever I think of the day my dream comes true, there is always you next to me, as a team. I want my dream only to be that way, no other.”
The intenseness in his eyes and the sincerity in his voice made the elder completely still. Youngwoon didn’t avert his eyes, and neither did Jungsu. Keeping his gaze on the elder, Youngwoon leant forward, and Jungsu watched the younger’s face approaching as if he was in a dream.
A lot of things came up and faded in his mind at a burst. The thick hand which held his when they first met, the muscular arm dragged him out of the club at that hot night, and the hot body pressed against his at the dance studio. The voice, warmth and laughter. And every concern and protection the younger showed to him.
Then, the scene of Yunho and Jaejoong hand in had flashed in his mind at the end, and the two figures overlapped Youngwoon and himself.
Jungsu leant forward.
Their lips met.
The kiss was soft like air. Youngwoon pulled his body a little to see the elder’s expression and when he found no hesitation there, he held the other one’s arm, pulled him close and met their lips again, longer and more eagerly this time. Jungsu clung to the other one’s shirt and returned the kiss absorbedly until their lips finally parted and they looked into each other’s eyes.
“I missed you.”
Jungsu whispered softly, and felt so relieved because he could finally say what he had been longing to tell the younger. He didn’t notice he was crying until the younger wiped away the tears on his cheeks softly.
“I always make you cry though I want to see you smile, I want to make you happy.”
Youngwoon said as he looked the elder with sincerity and concern.
“I’m happy now. I really am.”
Jungsu insisted heartily, and lapped the younger’s hand on his cheek with his hand for ensuring. He felt their heat mixed together there, melting into each other as if they were originally one.
“I’ll never make you cry.”
And Youngwoon sealed the promise with another kiss.
The promise was to be broken sometimes later on, however. Jungsu would cry a lot because of Youngwoon, though he would receive much more smile and happiness thanks for his younger lover at the same time. Their road wouldn’t be easy, they would face many difficulties and pains. Still, they had already found the reason to endure it in the warmth of each other’s hands.
It all started at a small room of lesson studio before they became Kangin and Leeteuk, when they were just a Youngwoon and Jungsu.
END.
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Thanks to all people who read this series, I hope you enjoyed it.
As the title says, Shining Star by Super Junior is the theme song for this story.
I personally think that song is totally a KangTeuk song, the heart from Kangin to Leeteuk <3
KangTeuk love... till the end of time ;D