Practice makes perfect, ch 12 A
Title: Practice makes perfect, chapter 12
Paring: Haehyuk, side Teukchul and Sibum
Rating: PG ~ NC-17 (PG-13 for this chapter)
Warning: Betaed by myself so I guess I should say it's unbetaed…
Summary: Donghae sees Eunhyuk at school for the first time when they have to do a presentation in biology together. He has never seen him before even though they have been in the same class for two years. And suddenly his whole life is one big mess that he needs to clean up.
(Just realized my old summary didn't quite fit anymore! Sorry that the new summary sucks... -.-'')
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Donghae looked at the screen of his phone. He reread the message over and over again, trying to understand it. He was curious and at the same time he was a bit worried. He had no idea why Eunhyuk suddenly canceled the invite to the barbeque party. But it was late and Donghae was too tired to call him back. He decided to call him as the first thing he would do after he'd woken up.
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It was afternoon already when Donghae finally got a change to call Eunhyuk. He tried many times but Eunhyuk didn't pick up, which made Donghae more worried than he had been at night. Then an idea came to his mind: why wouldn't he visit there and talk to Eunhyuk face to face? The only problem was that he didn't know where the dancer lived. But Kibum knows!
The younger male didn't pick up immediately and Donghae had to call him twice before he answered.
“Yoboseyo?”
“Kibum-ah, can you tell me Hyukkie's home address? I tried to call him but he didn't answer.” Donghae asked.
“He didn't answer when I tried to call him either.” Kibum said, more to himself than Donghae, and then told the address. “...but I don't know if he wants to see you.” He added.
Donghae frowned. “What do you mean?”
“I didn't mean to hurt you...” Kibum hurried to say. “But I spoke with Sungmin-hyung. He said that Hyukkie had called him over but he didn't tell me the reason. He told me only that Hyukkie won't come to school next week and that he doesn't want to see anyone.” There was a moment of silence when neither of them said anything. “Hyung, I'm worried about Hyukkie. This isn't something he'd do without a good reason.”
“Mm... And Sungmin didn't tell you what's going on?”
“No. And I bet Hyukkie wouldn't let me in so that I could ask him what's wrong since he doesn't answer to my calls nor text messages.”
Donghae thought about the other's words for a short moment. “How is he going to keep up with the others if he won't come to school for a week?” He asked. Eunhyuk was an A-student but there was no way he'd be able to survive after being away that long.
“He'll get home teaching. His family is rich so I'm sure he'll be okay with studying.” Kibum answered like it had been the most known thing in the world. “But could you try to meet him?” The younger asked.
“I will. Thanks for the address.”
“Tell me what's going on then, neh?”
“Sure.” And then Donghae ended the call. He was glad that Kibum had told him all he knew but now Donghae had so much information in his head with so many questions. He was probably as confused as Kibum was.
He needed to get that god damn key so that he could get out of the house and see Eunhyuk. He still hadn't convinced his mom to give him the key to the front door -even though he had tried to act nice- so he had to make a little plan to get it.
“Mom, I need the key so that I can take the trash out.” Donghae shouted from the kitchen. His mom appeared to the doorway, looking suspicious. But when Donghae walked to her with the trash bag she couldn't hold back a smile and gave him the key. Donghae took it into his palm but didn't thank her. Instead of words he gave a kiss on her cheek as he passed by.
Once Donghae was out he started to run. He threw the trash bad to the trash bin as he passed it. He didn't know exactly where he should go but he remembered passing the street as he had been jogging with Siwon. He ran pass the school and kept on running to the direction Leeteuk and Heechul lived. He was just about to turn around a corner when he saw someone walking towards him. Donghae was sure he had seen that guy before, at school. Sungmin?
“Hey!” Donghae called the guy. “Are you Sungmin?” The said boy looked a little confused at first but then a smile grew to his lips and walked towards Donghae until they were face to face. His gaze roamed all over Donghae, from head to toe.
“Isn't this the little celebrity from our school?” Sungmin asked sarcastically. Donghae didn't like the tone of his voice at all but tried to act cool and just rolled his eyes. “Are you going to meet Hyukkie?” Sungmin asked and now he was looking right into Donghae's eyes.
Is he challenging me? Donghae thought. Somehow he found it a bit amusing. “Yes...” But before he could say anything more Sungmin cut him off.
“He doesn't want to see you.” His voice was ice cold. The statement was so harsh and so unexpected that Donghae had to take aback. He didn't know what to say to the cocky guy in front of him.
“Why?” He managed to split out. Something inside him wanted to hear the reason but there was also a part that screamed him to run, that didn't want to know what Sungmin was about to say. He was afraid it would hurt him unlike anything had hurt him before.
Sungmin didn't miss the sudden change in Donghae. His gaze softened a little and a small, barely seen smile appeared to his face. “You have to figure it out yourself.” He said and started to walk pass Donghae.
What's with the sudden change?
The latter was frozen on his place when Sungmin stopped and turned to him. “Hyukkie lives in that way.” He pointed to where he had come. It took Donghae a moment to realized that Sungmin was actually helping him. He didn't even thank before he was running again, now to the direction Sungmin had shown him.
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The house Eunhyuk lived was huge. The whole area looked rich and wealthy with all those shiny cars in the yards and big, fancy houses but Eunhyuk's house was the most outstanding. It was cream white, the yard was so big that Donghae couldn't even guess its area. There were three cars in front of the house; the coolest Mercedes Donghae had ever seen, yellow Porsche and white Honda -which probably belonged to Eunhyuk's parents. If Donghae would have been just passing the house he would definitely have forgotten himself there and stared at the cars for a long moment. But now he didn't have time for that.
He jumped up the few stairs to the front door and immediately pressed the door bell. He didn't have to wait long before a young woman in a butler's dress opened the door.
“Hi. Does Eunhyuk live here?” Donghae asked before she could even greet him.
“Yes, but...” That was all Donghae needed to hear. He didn't care how rude he was being when he rushed inside the house. The lady was screaming after him, telling him to stop or she'd call police. But Donghae couldn't care less as he ran up the stairs that were right in front of the front door. He just hoped he would see Eunhyuk there, maybe he would be able to find his room.
As he made it to the second floor, he cursed out loud. This is so my luck. There were two hall ways, on his left and the other one on his right, and they both looked exactly the same with the white doors and lamps on the walls. Donghae didn't look back as he heard people coming after him and he decided to try the hall way on his right. Everything or nothing... He thought as he began to run again. He opened every door he passed, hoping to find Eunhyuk from one of the rooms. People were still running after him and he could hear them getting closer.
The last door! Donghae yanked the door open and ran in slamming the door shut right after himself and leaning his back on it, trying to keep it closed. He tried to even his breath as he quickly looked around in the room. It was bigger than Donghae had expected and it looked pretty much alike with Goo Jun Pyo's room in the drama Boys Before Flowers.
And then Donghae saw him. Eunhyuk was laying on the big, king sized bed, his back facing Donghae. Without a word Donghae pushed himself off the door and hurried to the bed as the door flew open and God knows how many butlers and other people rushed into the room.
“Hyukkie!” Donghae shouted when the said boy didn't react at all to the mess around him. At the same time two men, strong and build as hell, took a hold of Donghae and started to drag him away.
“Eunhyuk!” Donghae yelled again and tried to break free but he knew he wouldn’t be able to fight against the men holding him, whose bodies were rock-hard and Donghae himself looked so little between them. “Aish! Let go of me!” Donghae cursed and still tried to get free.
The more he struggled, the more power the men used to keep him on his place. But they seemed to get enough because before Donghae even realized it, the other had released his grip and a hard punch landed to Donghae’s stomach. He felt the air escaping from his lungs and he lost control of his body, his reflexes taking over. And because he unconsciously tried to cover his face and hold his stomach at the same time he earned another punch, this time the target was his face. He felt how the corner of his right eyebrow started to bleed, the blood flowing down on his cheek.
“Enough!” The voice was cold, Donghae barely recognized it and realized it belonged to Eunhyuk. The men immediately stopped and pulled Donghae up to his feet -Donghae didn’t know when he had fallen onto his knees- still keeping hold of his arms. His vision swung and he felt like throwing up in any moment, his breath was uneven and it hurt as he breathed in.
Eunhyuk had gotten up from his bed and was now standing in front of a large window and looking out. “Leave us.” He said. Donghae was practically thrown forward as the men released their grips. He stumbled on the floor before he gave up and just laid there, trying to regain his breath and clenched his stomach. When the men were gone and the door was closed Eunhyuk spoke again. “Why are you here?”
PART B