What are you doing New Year's Eve
what are you doing New Year's Eve?
luhan-centric; sehun/luhan, ninja!jongin/kyungsoo ; pg; ~1000 words
In Luhan’s defense, it isn’t his fault that he’s into Disney. Like really, really into.
His first movie had been The Lion King and Luhan never forgave his parents for the emotional scarring that came with Scar killing Mufasa. Then later Peter Pan, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, so on and so forth.
It was safe enough to say that Luhan sold his soul to the D(isney).
Luhan also believed, that the great moral behind Disney movies was to sing when things got tough. His parents thought it was adorable as he belted his heart out to Aladdin at six and very enthusiastically recorded everything on their camcorder.
He very nearly got punched in the face when he sang “Be a Man” to the school bully during gym class in high school.
Regardless, Luhan never stopped believing that Disney was an angel sent down from the heavens to bless the world with sing-along songs, and that one should sing always through tough times.
(Also Luhan’s favorite film, the Little Mermaid, came out only 6 months before he was born. Coincidence? Luhan thinks not.)
Unfortunately, not everybody shared his opinion.
“Life is not a Disney movie, Luhan.” His ex-girlfriend had said to him the day before Christmas. “You can’t fucking sing your way out of every difficulty you have and expect everything to magically work out at the end.”
She broke up with him the day after.
Six very sad and weepy days after the said breakup, Luhan finds himself wedged into a corner of Baekhyun’s couch, fruit punch in hand. (Instead of her hand in his, he thinks forlornly.)
Baekhyun had declared himself unable to tolerate Luhan’s moodiness no longer and invited him over for a “dude’s night out” aka New Year's Eve party with just about everybody he knows.
He doesn’t know if he should marvel at Baekhyun’s ability of stuffing half the earth’s population into his apartment or be very scared of it. Baekhyun had been threatening to stuff Luhan into his oven if he kept whining about his girlfriend crisis. Luhan thought he was joking. He hopes Baekhyun is joking.
“Why the glum face?” Jongin asks, sliding an arm around Luhan’s shoulders as he knocks his plastic cup against Luhan’s. Some of the punch spills on Luhan’s new fake Chrome Hearts shirt. “It’s New Year's Eve buddy!”
“My girlfriend just dumped me.”
Jongin shrugs. “Plenty of other fish in the sea.” He offers unhelpfully and Luhan groans.
“But we’ve been dating!” He retorts. “For nearly two years! And!! She quoted Disney!!! As her reason for breaking up with me!!!! Disney!!!!!”
“Wow. I can hear the amount of exclamation marks in your sentences steadily increasing.” Jongin deadpans. “Oh wait no that was my eardrums dying.”
Luhan glowers at him. Jongin is clearly unaffected. Luhan withers in his seat.
“Cheer up buddy. At least now you know she doesn’t appreciate the fine art? Of Disney?”
“I can hear the question marks in your voice are you doubting Disney because I swear to god,” Luhan seethes and the other holds his hand up in mock surrender.
“I would never.” He replies solemnly and Luhan nods in approval. At least somebody understands, he sighs. Jongin pats him on his head.
“Cheer up, old sport.”
“Are you quoting The Great Gatsby. Are you pretending you’re Gatsby because Kyungsoo’s into it now. Kyungsoo is not Daisy.”
“That’s besides the point,” Jongin frowns. “You’ll meet a better girl someday.”
Luhan feels the urge bubbling inside of him and resists it for a whole three seconds before he gives up. Nobody's able to resist Disney. Resistance is futile.
“SOMEEEE DAAAAAY MY PRIIINCE WILL COOOOME.” He yells. “SOOOOOME DAAAAAAAAAY WE’LL MEEEEET AGAAAAAIN.”
He ends up leaving the party early.
Apparently his love for Disney was not a shared trait with Baekhyun’s many other guests and Luhan huffs angrily as he trudges home.
The streets are empty-everybody’s indoors, in the comforts of their own homes with their loved ones, laughing and chattering merrily while he shivers in the cold with nobody to hold. Windows are bright and inviting and Luhan just really feels like sinking into the ground or rolling about in silent tantrum.
So, he does what he does best. Luhan sings.
“Maybe it’s much too early in the game, ah, but I’d thought I’d ask you just the same.” He starts, voice shaky. He’d sung this to his girlfriend last New Year's Eve. “What are you doing, New Year's Eve? New Year's Eve.”
He hums, getting ready to sing the next verse but a voice interrupts him and Luhan stops in his tracks.
“Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight when it’s exactly twelve o’clock that night.” Luhan looks up. A blond haired man stares back down at him, leaning against the balcony railings. “Welcoming in the New Year, New Year's Eve.”
The stranger isn’t the best singer in the world, but Luhan finds it absolutely adorable. Feeling a little better, he sings louder.
“Maybe I’m crazy, to suppose, I’d be the one you chose out of the thousand invitations you receive.”
The man grins and sings alongside him.
“Ah, but in case I stand one little chance, here comes the jackpot question in advance.” Luhan’s absolutely beaming now, and he feels his heart thumping against his chest. “What are you doing, New Year's. New Year's Eve.”
By the end of the song, he’s breathless and possibly on cloud sixty-nine. (He giggles.)
“What’s your name?” He hears the stranger call out. Luhan feels a flush creep up and he hopes that his face isn’t too red.
“Luhan.”
The stranger nods. “I’m Sehun.”
There’s a cheer echoing through the streets, and a chorus of voices counting down from ten.
“Nine, eight, seven, six!” Sehun shouts.
“Five, four, three, two!” Luhan joins in. “One!”
“Happy New Year, Luhan!” Sehun wishes. It feels like something out of a movie, a Disney movie, to find a prince after a song and fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
Disney is never wrong, he concludes.
Later, Luhan absolutely gushes about how Sehun looks like a cross between Prince Phillip and Prince Eric aka perfection.
Baekhyun and Jongin fake-retch while Luhan dreamily recounts his story of how he met Sehun and their first date together. Sehun had serenaded him with “Whole New World”. Luhan is pretty certain he’s in love.
"I'm going to claw my eyes out if you keep talking." Baekhyun warns. "I am going to claw my eyes out and stuff them down your throat if you keep talking."
Their little single gay asses can deal, Luhan sniffs.
(“I swear, Luhan. If I get another fucking e-card of you and Sehun singing that New Year's Eve song again like you guys have been doing for the past five years I’m going to go to your place on fucking New Year's Eve and smash that god-damned ukulele of yours.” Reads Baekhyun’s text message a day before New Year's Eve.
Luhan grins, watching Sehun adjust the guitar on his lap. He puts his phone away.)
Ah, but in case I stand one little chance, here comes the jackpot question in advance. What are you doing, New Year's. New Year's Eve.
*bc jgl and zooey deschanel are the cutest and im eternally upset over how not-together they are.
*yeAH IDEK IM SORRY
*also happy new year!!!!
luhan-centric; sehun/luhan, ninja!jongin/kyungsoo ; pg; ~1000 words
In Luhan’s defense, it isn’t his fault that he’s into Disney. Like really, really into.
His first movie had been The Lion King and Luhan never forgave his parents for the emotional scarring that came with Scar killing Mufasa. Then later Peter Pan, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, so on and so forth.
It was safe enough to say that Luhan sold his soul to the D(isney).
Luhan also believed, that the great moral behind Disney movies was to sing when things got tough. His parents thought it was adorable as he belted his heart out to Aladdin at six and very enthusiastically recorded everything on their camcorder.
He very nearly got punched in the face when he sang “Be a Man” to the school bully during gym class in high school.
Regardless, Luhan never stopped believing that Disney was an angel sent down from the heavens to bless the world with sing-along songs, and that one should sing always through tough times.
(Also Luhan’s favorite film, the Little Mermaid, came out only 6 months before he was born. Coincidence? Luhan thinks not.)
Unfortunately, not everybody shared his opinion.
“Life is not a Disney movie, Luhan.” His ex-girlfriend had said to him the day before Christmas. “You can’t fucking sing your way out of every difficulty you have and expect everything to magically work out at the end.”
She broke up with him the day after.
Six very sad and weepy days after the said breakup, Luhan finds himself wedged into a corner of Baekhyun’s couch, fruit punch in hand. (Instead of her hand in his, he thinks forlornly.)
Baekhyun had declared himself unable to tolerate Luhan’s moodiness no longer and invited him over for a “dude’s night out” aka New Year's Eve party with just about everybody he knows.
He doesn’t know if he should marvel at Baekhyun’s ability of stuffing half the earth’s population into his apartment or be very scared of it. Baekhyun had been threatening to stuff Luhan into his oven if he kept whining about his girlfriend crisis. Luhan thought he was joking. He hopes Baekhyun is joking.
“Why the glum face?” Jongin asks, sliding an arm around Luhan’s shoulders as he knocks his plastic cup against Luhan’s. Some of the punch spills on Luhan’s new fake Chrome Hearts shirt. “It’s New Year's Eve buddy!”
“My girlfriend just dumped me.”
Jongin shrugs. “Plenty of other fish in the sea.” He offers unhelpfully and Luhan groans.
“But we’ve been dating!” He retorts. “For nearly two years! And!! She quoted Disney!!! As her reason for breaking up with me!!!! Disney!!!!!”
“Wow. I can hear the amount of exclamation marks in your sentences steadily increasing.” Jongin deadpans. “Oh wait no that was my eardrums dying.”
Luhan glowers at him. Jongin is clearly unaffected. Luhan withers in his seat.
“Cheer up buddy. At least now you know she doesn’t appreciate the fine art? Of Disney?”
“I can hear the question marks in your voice are you doubting Disney because I swear to god,” Luhan seethes and the other holds his hand up in mock surrender.
“I would never.” He replies solemnly and Luhan nods in approval. At least somebody understands, he sighs. Jongin pats him on his head.
“Cheer up, old sport.”
“Are you quoting The Great Gatsby. Are you pretending you’re Gatsby because Kyungsoo’s into it now. Kyungsoo is not Daisy.”
“That’s besides the point,” Jongin frowns. “You’ll meet a better girl someday.”
Luhan feels the urge bubbling inside of him and resists it for a whole three seconds before he gives up. Nobody's able to resist Disney. Resistance is futile.
“SOMEEEE DAAAAAY MY PRIIINCE WILL COOOOME.” He yells. “SOOOOOME DAAAAAAAAAY WE’LL MEEEEET AGAAAAAIN.”
He ends up leaving the party early.
Apparently his love for Disney was not a shared trait with Baekhyun’s many other guests and Luhan huffs angrily as he trudges home.
The streets are empty-everybody’s indoors, in the comforts of their own homes with their loved ones, laughing and chattering merrily while he shivers in the cold with nobody to hold. Windows are bright and inviting and Luhan just really feels like sinking into the ground or rolling about in silent tantrum.
So, he does what he does best. Luhan sings.
“Maybe it’s much too early in the game, ah, but I’d thought I’d ask you just the same.” He starts, voice shaky. He’d sung this to his girlfriend last New Year's Eve. “What are you doing, New Year's Eve? New Year's Eve.”
He hums, getting ready to sing the next verse but a voice interrupts him and Luhan stops in his tracks.
“Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight when it’s exactly twelve o’clock that night.” Luhan looks up. A blond haired man stares back down at him, leaning against the balcony railings. “Welcoming in the New Year, New Year's Eve.”
The stranger isn’t the best singer in the world, but Luhan finds it absolutely adorable. Feeling a little better, he sings louder.
“Maybe I’m crazy, to suppose, I’d be the one you chose out of the thousand invitations you receive.”
The man grins and sings alongside him.
“Ah, but in case I stand one little chance, here comes the jackpot question in advance.” Luhan’s absolutely beaming now, and he feels his heart thumping against his chest. “What are you doing, New Year's. New Year's Eve.”
By the end of the song, he’s breathless and possibly on cloud sixty-nine. (He giggles.)
“What’s your name?” He hears the stranger call out. Luhan feels a flush creep up and he hopes that his face isn’t too red.
“Luhan.”
The stranger nods. “I’m Sehun.”
There’s a cheer echoing through the streets, and a chorus of voices counting down from ten.
“Nine, eight, seven, six!” Sehun shouts.
“Five, four, three, two!” Luhan joins in. “One!”
“Happy New Year, Luhan!” Sehun wishes. It feels like something out of a movie, a Disney movie, to find a prince after a song and fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
Disney is never wrong, he concludes.
Later, Luhan absolutely gushes about how Sehun looks like a cross between Prince Phillip and Prince Eric aka perfection.
Baekhyun and Jongin fake-retch while Luhan dreamily recounts his story of how he met Sehun and their first date together. Sehun had serenaded him with “Whole New World”. Luhan is pretty certain he’s in love.
"I'm going to claw my eyes out if you keep talking." Baekhyun warns. "I am going to claw my eyes out and stuff them down your throat if you keep talking."
Their little single gay asses can deal, Luhan sniffs.
(“I swear, Luhan. If I get another fucking e-card of you and Sehun singing that New Year's Eve song again like you guys have been doing for the past five years I’m going to go to your place on fucking New Year's Eve and smash that god-damned ukulele of yours.” Reads Baekhyun’s text message a day before New Year's Eve.
Luhan grins, watching Sehun adjust the guitar on his lap. He puts his phone away.)
Ah, but in case I stand one little chance, here comes the jackpot question in advance. What are you doing, New Year's. New Year's Eve.
*bc jgl and zooey deschanel are the cutest and im eternally upset over how not-together they are.
*yeAH IDEK IM SORRY
*also happy new year!!!!