Practice Makes Perfect, ch3
Title: Practice makes perfect, chapter 3
Paring: Haehyuk
Rating: PG ~ NC-17 (PG for this chapter)
Summary: Donghae is one of the most popular guys in his school but his studies aren't going that well. He needs help with his the studies but all he wants to do is dance and sing. Eunhyuk on the other hand is not a popular kid and he's doing really well with his studies. What happens when the two of them suddenly have to study together?
<-- previous--
It was Sunday afternoon already. Donghae's mom was still at work so Donghae was home alone, bored to death. He had tried to watch a few movies from TV to entertain himself but with poor succeed: the first one sucked and he fell asleep in the middle of it. And the others were as boring movies as the first one.
He hadn't eaten, only the breakfast but nothing more on that day. It was a miracle that he had even changed his clothes so he wasn't wearing his pajama pants anymore.
Aish... this is KILLING me! He thought and threw the remote control to the couch and got up. He dragged his feet to his room and let his gaze roam around, trying to find something to do. Failed attempt. The room was one huge mess: school books were laying randomly on the floor; clothes were here and there -he didn't see his laptop under all those clothes- and his CDs were all over on his desk. How had he manage to get his room to this condition in one day? He had no idea.
I really should do something to this mess... But his legs didn't make a move to start the cleaning. He just looked around. 'Nah, I'll do it tomorrow.' He decided and walked to his desk, trying to not to step on the stuff blocking his way, and searched for his favorite CD. The music would cheer him up. It always did. But that attempt failed as miserably as the idea of watching movies. 'Where the hell is it?!'
He turned around and leaned against the desk, sighing. He couldn't find the CD from the desk so it must be on the floor. And he had to clean up if he wanted to find that god damn CD.
It didn't take that long when Donghae actually saw the floor of his room. The clothes were in the laundry, the school books were in one tidy pile and he had found what he had been looking for, which was now playing in his CD player. The volume was high but Donghae didn't care. He was alone, nobody was there to complain! ...and their neighbors had gotten used to it already, no one came to ring their door bell because they knew already that Donghae wouldn't open -because he didn't hear it or he just didn't care.
The music took over his mind. The rhythm hit him, the bass made its way to his spine and soon he was moving his body smoothly along the music without him even noticing.
The song ended and Donghae dropped himself back first onto the bed, panting and smiling happily. He looked out of the window while the next song -a ballad this time- started. The day had darkened into night, the sun had fallen to the horizon and colored the sky into bright orange and red.
"That was really something...!" Donghae swore his heard skipped a beat when he heard someone talking at the door. He turned to look who it was a little too quickly and the next thing he realized was that his side was hurting because he had dropped from the bed to the floor. He jumped up, literally, and quickly checked his clothes.
"What the fuck are you doing here?!" Donghae screamed before he even got himself gathered back to the comer. "And how the hell did you get in?!"
"From the front door." Hyukjae said with a bored tone and rolled his eyes while he walked to the CD player to turn down the volume. "You shouldn't listen to music that loudly. I tried to shout to you but all I heard back was the music."
Donghae didn't know what to say. No one had ever seen him dancing, except for his few closest friends, and now Hyukjae had just walked in. He didn't know how he should feel about it or what he should say, so he decided to keep his mouth shut. And awkward silence fell between them when Donghae lowered his gaze and looked to his toes while Hyukjae kept his eyes locked to him.
"Why aren't you in the dance club?" Hyukjae finally broke the silence.
"I... I'm not sure actually." Donghae managed to say though he was still looking at his feet. He felt how Hyukjae's eyes were all over him and it made him feel fragile. Him, Lee Donghae, the most wanted guy in their school, felt fragile!
Hyukjae chuckle a little. "You should join to the club. You're talented."
Donghae lifted his gaze and met Hyukjae standing just an inch away from him. When did he come that close? He bit his lip and muddered 'thanks' but when he didn't say anything else and the silence was dangerously close to fall between them again, Hyukjae changed the subject.
"Well... I only came to change our books. I accidentally took your biology book yesterday and I just can't study from it without all my notes I've written to my book." He laughed a little awkwardly and then looked at Donghae with an amused look. "Have you ever even opened your book? It looks like brand new."
"Yah! I've opened it!" Donghae answered. He really didn't like how everyone -only Siwon and now Hyukjae- laughed to his studying. He maybe slept through most of his lessons but he still wasn't stupid.
"It doesn't look like you'd opened it..." Hyukjae laughed and patted Donghae's shoulder before he went to the desk to pick up his own book from the of the book pile. He checked it carefully before he put it to his bag and took Donghae's book and put it to the pile. Then he turned to Donghae and gave him a gummy smile of his. "I must go now. We'll see tomorrow at school, I guess?"
"Yeah..." Donghae murmured when Hyukjae was already out of his room. Then it suddenly it him and Donghae ran after the other. "Hyukjae...!" The other stopped at the door and turned to face Donghae. "Umm... that dance club. I've been thinking of join to it. And you're in it?"
Hyukjae looked at him with an are-you-kidding-me? -expression on his face. "Then why haven't you showed up?" He asked and the way he looked at Donghae made him feel like he'd faint in any moment.
"Y-yeah, well... I was..." He muddered and when he realized how miserable and pitiful he sounded he cursed out loud, making Hyukjae rise his eyebrow. Something in that guy always made him struggle with his words!
"You want to come with me tomorrow?" Hyukjae asked and stepped one step closer. Donghae lifted his head up and nodded a little as an answer. "Great. Meet me at the main hall tomorrow at 2pm!" Hyukjae cheered. Now it was Donghae's turn to lift his eyebrow. How can that guy change his mood so quickly?! "Let's see tomorrow. Bye!" Then Hyukjae was out and the door closed behind him, leaving Donghae standing there alone, only staring the door before him.
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"Hey! Donghae-ah!" Donghae turned around as he heard his name and saw Siwon walking towards him, smiling brightly.
"Hey." He said while looking at his friend from head to toe. He looked a little different, but Donghae just couldn't figure out what it was. "Had a good weekend?" He smirked and turned to lock his locker.
Siwon chuckled a little. "Yeah... We made the project and had... well, good time together."
Donghae turned back to Siwon and gave him a smirk. "We?"
"Me and Kibummie." Siwon said. Actually it was rather a whisper. And it made Donghae to smirk even more widely.
"OH! You and that geek, Kim Kibum?! What a goal!" He laughed with a mocking tone in his voice, which earned him a smack from Siwon. The taller male was blushing madly when he ushered Donghae to keep it low so that not everyone heard him.
"Yah! Keep it low. I don't want everyone to know about..." But he couldn't finish his sentence before he almost fell onto Donghae because of Heechul's sudden appearance and jump on Siwon's back.
"About what?" The eldest grinned over Siwon's shoulder, though he was a lot shorter than him. He must be on his toes...!
Donghae smirked wildly, as to warn Siwon of what was coming, before he opened his mouth. He couldn't be without enjoying Siwon's expression, which clearly showed how much he'd like to sink through the floor in that red second.
"About him and Kim Kibum."
Siwon sighed loudly and let his head drop. It was all that it took to make Donghae burst into laughing and it got even worse when he looked at Heechul's face. Heechul's eyes were as wide as they could be as he looked at the tallest of them and ihis jaw was on the floor ,if it could have been possible.
"You and that pretty boy?!" He practically screamed into Siwon's ear.
"Oh no! Not him. The geek one. He's Wonnie's partner in the biology project." Donghae managed to say as he wiped his tears away from his eyes. Heechul on the other hand looked even more shocked. He had clearly thought that Siwon would have been with the other Kim Kibum from their school, but he was better known as Key and he really was a pretty-boy. He was almost as wanted as Donghae himself was, though mostly guys wanted Key. He was too pretty for girls to want him, at least that was what Donghae had heard.
"An innocent Christian and a book worm?" Heechul asked, voice teasing and amused, and it was quite clear that he had really hard time on keeping his expression calm and not to burst into laughing just like Donghae had done. (And he was still laughing!)
Fortunately for Siwon, the bell rang, telling them it was time to run to the next lesson. Heechul was immediately dragged away by Leeteuk (Where the hell did he come from?! O.o) to their next lesson, leaving the two youths there alone.
Siwon sighed in relief and said byes to Donghae before he left for his lesson.
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The lunch time! And Donghae's stomach was growling like crazy. He hadn't had time to eat the breakfast before he had had to leave to school so now he didn't waste any time to get something to eat. He stuffed his stuff into his bag and ran out of the classroom, only to bumb into something. Rather someone.
"Hae! You really should start looking where you're going." Siwon groaned and took his bag from the ground, which had dropped from his shoulder when Donghae ran into him.
"Going to canteen?" Donghae asked and ignored Siwon's complay. And before Siwon even had time to answer, Donghae had already walked pass him, towards the canteen.
"Yeah. Kibum wanted to eat with me." He said as he reached Donghae again. "You wanna sit with us?"
Donghae stopped on his tracks and looked up at Siwon. "Shouldn't you ask if he could sit with us?" He didn't mind to cover his recentment, which was clearly heard from his voice.
Siwon decided to be quiet and not to answer. He knew how Donghae would get mad no matter what he said.
Soon they were in the canteen and searching for a free table where they could eat. Siwon spotted Kibum from the back of the canteen and gave a questioning look to Donghae, who only frowned and followed Siwon without saying a word.
"Hey. I hope you don't mind if Hae sits with us?" Siwon asked from the maller boy, who lifted his gazed up right when they arrived and smiled brightly.
"Of course he can." He said and made some space for Siwon, who gladly sat next to him. For Donghae it was too much flirting but he only rolled his eyes and sat to the other side of the table.
"So, you have already started the project?" Donghae asked, trying to greate something to discus so that he didn't have to only watch those two, who were smiling to each others. It was good that they didn't do anything else since if that happened, Donghae could have vomited to his tray. They were already way too sweet and lovely couple.
"Yeah. Wonnie came to my place yesterday." Kibum answered and gave Siwon a smile. 'Wonnie'?! I gave that nickname!!! "Have you and Hyukkie started already?" Kibum asked.
Donghae almost choke to his rice. Did he just say 'Hyukkie'?
"Hyukkie?"
"Yeah, Hyukjae. Have you two started?" Kibum asked again but something in his voice made Donghae look at him to the eyes. Was he playing with Donghae?
"Yes we have started." Donghae said with a fake smirk on his face.
PART B here
A/N: MY PERMANENT SPOT GOES FOR MY HONEY mjaku <3
I'm so sorry it took me quite long to update this....!!!
And I'm so sorry 'cus this story is going on WAY too slow... I'll try to fix that in the next chapter *haha*
I just lost my inspiration... and ran out of ideas x( I hope I'll find them again soon, 'cus I have a vacation and A LOT of time to write this week! :D
But I think I won't be able to type it on computer before I get home 'since this computer is literaly from stone-age and it's killing me! And sorry about all those typos I might have there... Since I don't have any proper writing program in this computer so I had to write that to my email...! -.-''
Wish me luck so I'll survive with this computer
and comments are always welcome!!! <3 ^^ (no silent readers, please :D)