day 20 : unbelievable
pg
unbelievable || 1391wc
The salty smell of the ocean bring forth by the breeze greeted Taemin’s morning, entering from the open window of his room. Today, it is a new day. Not just another typical day. It is the day when his finger will be adorned with a wedding band to his lover and that thought itself send him to a trance. He looked at the vanity mirror and he found himself smiling to himself with delicate “bridal” glow emitting from him. And, when he glanced at the costume he’ll be wearing later this afternoon, he blushes. There was a loud barging on his door, which he assumed will probably be Key, his “maid of honour.”
“Coming!”he shouted as he rushes to the door and the loud tapping of his feet against the wooden floor echoed in the room
When he opened the door, he was embraced by Key tightly and the other muttered.”It’s finally today, you’re all grown up and going to be someone’s wife. I just can’t.”Key broke into little sobs, and Taemin patted his back in comfort. Key had been his best friend for as long as he could remember, he was like the mother he never had. Always there for him through thick and thin and now those moments seemed so near to his view , the sleepovers, the talks about boys and the fights they had when Taemin disagreed with Key. He started to cry as well when he realised he would be moving out from their shared apartment.
The burst of emotions was rudely interrupted by a knock on the door, they pulled away. They wiped off the remnants of tears sticking to their eyelids.
“I’ll get that.”Key said with a smile and Taemin nodded.
Taemin bent down drawing circles on the bed sheet, thinking probably it was one of the hotel employees.
“Taemin-ah,I brought you breakfast!”The voice he had grown accustomed from the day he was born, his one and only brother. If Key is akin to his mother, Jinki holds a dual role on his life,a brother and a father figure for him.
Taemin raised his head and produce a weak smile. Concerned, Jinki put down the tray on the vanity table and rushes to his side, hugging him tightly.
“Have you been crying?” Jinki asked, as Taemin snuggled closer for comfort and shakes his head mischievously.
“Don’t worry; you’re going to be in a good hand.”Jinki convinced Taemin,as well as a comfort for himself to let go his little brother.
“I’m going to miss you, hyung.”Taemin sniffled.
“You’ll going to be missed, little brother.”Jinki said while ruffling his little brother’s hair, trying to bottled up his emotion from popping out.
“If you guys don’t mind, Taemin still need to prepare for his big day!”Key said cheerily, already recovered from his previous condition.
They pulled apart, and Jinki placed a kiss on top of Taemin’s head affectionately, moving on to place a kiss on Key’s lips.
“Bye, my precious two.”Jinki said before disappearing behind the door.
“You should probably eat your breakfast; it will make you feel better.”Key smiled suspiciously and handed him the tray.
Well, now he knew why Key said so. There was a stalk of red rose and a small card embedded with it in Minho’s cursive writings.
Good Morning beautiful,
Can’t wait until I’ll wake up next to you every day of my life, most importantly can’t wait to make you officially mine.
With love from your-soon-to-be-husband,
Choi Minho.
He smiled in ecstasy with the bliss of love had casted upon him.
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The moment had arrived, when he will be the spending his life with the man he loved as he stared at the mirror on his vanity table. Clad in a white suit and a black organza bowtie wrapping the collar of his white shirt. His slightly long chestnut hair had been purposely waved like the waves outside his window. His face was free from those heavy make-up as quoted from Key, ”to allow the “bridal glow and your natural beauty to shine.”And he comprehended because Key knows better than him in things relating to cosmetics and beauty. Key had left him to attend few other things and he was left alone in the room consumed by this thoughts. He re-read the text fiancé send him while he was being attended with puffs of hairsprays.
Can’t believe it, we’re few minutes away than being declared as husband and wife. I wanted to run to your room but I have securities guarding this room tightly. I bet you look beautiful.
With love from your-few-minutes-away-soon-to-be-husband,
Choi Minho.
He chuckled lightly and thinks of how far and the challenges they had endured to reach this point and he was grateful that Minho loved him as he is and he him.
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Key ran frantically into the room with Jinki trailing behind like a lost puppy. It was funny watching those at times, sometimes they were like old married couple and some other times they’re just cute together like smitten young teenagers, Taemin hoped that his and Minho’s bond will be as strong as Jinki and Key’s.
Key toyed around Taemin’s hair, making sure it’s perfect and spraying some more hair products and announced.
“Yeobo,it’s time.”Key said with a wavering voice and from the beam of his feline eyes, Taemin knew Key was about to cry. And when Taemin around facing Jinki, he could see his brother trying very hard to conceal his feelings. Taemin embraced both of them with a smile and the roles were reversed, Taemin was being the parent and Jinki and Key are like his children wanting to be comforted.
Jinki pulled back and put on a serious face, extending his arm for Taemin to grasp, and both of them strode out from the room with Key tailing behind once in awhile dabbing his handkerchief underneath his eyes catching tiny droplets of tears.
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Soon, they arrived at the courtyard of the resort, decorated with bouquet of gardenia leading up to the wooden aisle facing the endless ocean with the man he loved standing clad in a sleek black suit with his leather shoes tapping restlessly on the wood. They had decided to have a small -scale reception with only their closest friends and family members. He retracted from Jinki’s arm, and hugged Key for support and assurance and Key returned the same warmth with a pat and a promising smile.
The wedding march slowly played by the long fingers of Minho’s best friend, Kim Jonghyun and Minho’s best man .And, Taemin could make out from the distance, Jonghyun was looking at Minho and muttering a word that he make out as beautiful and he blushes, and Minho’s tapping had subside. All eyes were on him as he walked along the wooden path, and he was slightly nervous, glancing sideways for his brother’s assuring smile.
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They arrived at the wooden aisle entwined with vines of gardenia hanging down. The clergyman they hired for the occasion smile lightly as he stood next to Minho.
”Go to your happiness.”Jinki whispered and hugged him for the last time as a single man.
Realising his arrival, Minho turned sideways grinning from ear to ear in appreciation, and whispered to him the words of praises and love. The clergyman cleared his throat to avert their attention. And, the procession took place.
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“And you may kiss your spouse.”The clergyman announced as Taemin’s ring finger had been ornamented and bonded with a smooth silver ring studded with 1-carat diamond. Minho took him by surprise, scooping Taemin from the ground, kissing him gently like they always do but with more emotion seeping in as their fingers entwined. The guests hooted teasingly, as they pulled back and wrapped his arms around Taemin’s waist. Strings of congratulation and good greetings were addressed to them, but all Taemin could see was the eyes of his husband, only could feel the shield the arms around his waist provided him with and somehow the nervousness he had felt earlier today had vanished, and he was sure that he is in a pair of good and capable hands of Choi Minho.
I feel like you've always been,
Forever a part of me.
And it's so unbelievable to finally be in love,
Somewhere I'd never thought I'd be.
- Unbelievable - Craig David