To Tie the Knot
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The sound of mad laughs filled the entire living room. It was his third comedy flick and it couldn’t get any better. Too bad he’s the only one filling the entire dorm with his mad laughs. Some of the members hit straight their sack after a day’s schedule. Some had their radio shows and have to stay at the studios a bit late. Luckily, tomorrow’s a free day for Donghae until their Star King taping on the afternoon. Nonetheless, he had the lightest schedule to binge in movies and popcorn tonight.
It’s been two and a half years and all goes well for their band. They were pretty much on li-lo though, after a much success for their sixth album. For the meantime, individual actvities are pursued.
KRY went huge in Japan, earning them a lot of awards from the Japanese and international fans a like.
Zhoumi and Henry now reside in Korea and are currently living with the rest of Super Junior as to expect a huge participation for the upcoming album.
Yesung and Sungmin opt to partcipate for more musicals.
Kangin had his big comeback from the army a few months ago and decided to take over Heechul’s Youngstreet as both he and Leeteuk had themselves enlisted in the army early this year.
For the meantime, Siwon gets to be the band’s front man for most of their group actvities, interviews, tours and whatnot, along with Hankyung(yes, Hankyung), whom, at last tied again his knot with SM’s new management after that chaos his lawsuit had brought them.
Shindong on the other hand, doesn’t live in the dorms anymore, after getting married and be settled with his girlfriend early last year.
Sure, they were in their late twenties. He’ll be 27 a few months from now and soon, they’re all going to leave their group of 7 years, get married, stay with their wives for good, have their own children, and come back for a reunion concert after 20 years, or even have their comeback for a reunion concert after 20 years as they witness their sons forming a new generation of Super Junior, thus making them Super Senior or something.
He couldn’t help but to ponder on those things he told the media during their interviews way back regarding some stuff about marriage. He did want to marry at an early age. He is known as a family guy and he wished that someday he could have a family of his own. The rest of the members even thought that the Lee Donghae was the first one to tie the knot amongst them.
It ended up as a silly perception though. Apparently, he’s having this weird feeling that he was the last one to even have him the perfect girl to marry.
Well, maybe because, there was no perfect girl to marry.
It’s been months though but the lost ofthe whole of Shindong himself inside their usual lively dorms would make him tear up to say the least. He was his confidante, they had so much fun like crazy high school boys, and he showed him the wonders of Twitter and earned him hundreds and thousands of followers up to date. Most of all, he knew the best and worst of Donghae. The best and worst even Hyukjae isn’t aware of...
.... Because Hyukjae doesn’t need to know that he was actually the best and worst of Lee Donghae.
He was in love with him. A kind of love a bestfriend shouldn’t give his best friend because it’s all too peculiar, dangerous and chaotic. It was a good love in a sense but worse in another. The good part here is he gets to be with Hyukjae most of the time---without taking him for granted of course, do things together like their unending passion for dancing, have fun with humble little things, being paired up on and off stage and how he hitch a breath, supressing his fan boy squeals after pretending to make fun of themselves on fancams posted on the net during their fanservices.
But the best part of being him is he gets to hug him each and every time and say “i love you” the easiest way possible. He knew at some point, Hyukjae doesn’t care about the deeper meaning that lies beneath those 3 small words. Yes he is very dense but a part from that, hearing it from a close person turns out to be the most natural thing to say, no biggie or whatsoever.
After all, he is just his best friend. And that’s the downside of it.
To make it even worse, he was dragged away from Hyukjae’s spotlight by a non-showbiz girlfriend of one year. It pains him to now see Hyukjae spends more time with her often than him.
Yet the feeling was wrong.
It was wrong to feel bad for his bestfriend that more than often shows his gleaming gummy smile whenever he is with her. He is happier with her. He is. It made him at some point, discover a new wave of strenght living inside of him that he was able to bear his bestfriend’s entire sickening story about him, his girlfriend and their precious moments together and stilll, manage to smile with his eyes and show off those sweet little dimples.
It pains him but he have to accept the fact that no matter how he turn the world upside down, bestfriends don’t fall in love with each other.
“Hey, still up?”
“What are you doing here?” Donghae scoot over the side as Hyukjae plopped comfortably beside him on the couch. Hyukjae came back for KTR even without Leeteuk and sometimes he gets to work with him as his-co DJ in the late night radio show.
“’Just came by to drop this.” As he was about to grab the black clearbook, Donghae noticed this animated grin ghosting along Hyukjae’s lips since he came. He looks somewhat foolish and a little distracted.
“Uhh...are you okay?”
“---what?” He answered with gleaming eyes and tight lips as if he was trying to supress another gummy smile to escape from them. The hell?
He looks like a love-sick junkie.
“Ohhkaay...” With one last puzzled look, Donghae shifted his view back on to the movie and throw a handful of popcorn onto his mouth. It took him a few moments before he could get himself back on what he was currently watching. The White Chick’s a classic fave amongst the guys and it never fail to give him good laughs throughout the entire movie. Plus, “A Thousand Miles” reminded him of how tremendously gay Heechul was. He reallly misses the guy.
All of a sudden, he felt a weight heavying onto his arms.
“Donghae-ah...” He thought Hyukjae had fallen asleep again. The blood came rushing onto his face when he felt the other push his temples against his arms, nuzzling on his hard biceps along the process.
Something is defintely strange about Hyukjae today. It’s not that he doesn’t like it. In fact, his heart began throbbing faster through his chest, taking his focus completely away from the movie.
The fact that he doesn’t actually do this often, leaning onto him, getting touchy and all, it was so unlike Hyukjae.
“Y-yeah?” It was a long pause, yet he could feel another lengthy smile creep onto the other’s lips
“We’ve decided to get married.”
And yes, the day he had feared to happen took its place in a very short notice.
His body froze in an uptight position.There was this cold sensation creeping out from his core, yet his skin felt cold sweat trickling from his pores. It’s as if his heart fell out of his chest, went down onto his stomach---wanting to barf the foolish thing out. It was a strange feeling.
Strange, in a horrible sense. For crying out loud, Hyukjae is getting married and it fucking, fucking hurts.
It truly is.
And he couldn’t do anything about it. Who was he to object? Afterall, he was only his bestfriend.
Nothing else.
“Really?” He tried his best to not let that initial reaction get off of his lips but it was just all too much.
He wanted to burst out and cry like there’s no tomorrow.
Staring blankly at the television, he continued, bitterness latched in every word.
“I’m happy for you--- both of you.” Hyukjae gave him a soft smile of satisfaction before throwing himself to the younger. The hug was tight but it could have been more intimate if Donghae was to wrap his arms back, but it was impossible to even breathe at the moment.
“So, I’ll be expecting you then...”
“...”
“Because I couldn’t do it without the bestman on my side.”
Bestman...
“Of course. “ Chuckling ,he felt nothing but a complete fool of himself. “I wouldn’t miss a thing.”
“Thank you Hae...I love you.”
And only those three hurtful words took his tears to flow in mere seconds.
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A/N:well I just thought of taking a break from guns and roses for a bit(oh but don’t worry!!!i’ll update I promise!) so I’ll start posting those multi-chaptered fics I’ve already started long ago after doing a little make-over to them so it will not end up fail-worthy0__0 anyways, thanks for reading!comments are always loved!<33