E-P-I-T-A-P-H (Kyumin) - Chapter 22
Title: Epitaph
Pairing: Kyuhyun/Sungmin, Yesung/Ryeowook
Genre: Romance, Humor, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The boys are not mine, just the fic^^
Summary: Sungmin pretends from being Kyuhyun's fiancee, to his his sister, then back from being his fiancee...then his wife?
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"I wasn't crying," Sungmin chuckles but then he met Kyuhyun's gaze and he sighs painfully. "I just had to let it out all these years I guess..." He says honestly and Kyuhyun could almost smile in relief. Yet, Sungmin was blinking nonstop and Kyuhyun could see there are still tears left inside him.
Kyuhyun reaches his arms, embracing him and pulling him closer for a hug, a hug to make him feel better. He was relieved when Sungmin burst out once more, crying to his broad chest as he buries his head in his arms. Kyuhyun comforted him, Sungmin couldn't believe it himself but he needed it now, he desperately needed it this time. He definitely needed his warmth.
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"Hae...?" Hyukjae calls as he leans his back against the door of Donghae's room. He could hear him sobbing from inside, just on the other side of the door; he can feel Donghae's body close to his and guessed he was probably leaning against the door too. He's relieved; it means Donghae will be able to hear him properly. "Could you come out please?" Hyukjae asks, lifting his head and looked at the ceiling. He's exhausted, he always finds Donghae but he keeps on running away.
"You big fat mean liar." Donghae whispers, but Hyukjae could almost hear it though not really clear.
"Yah! When did I lie to you?!"
"I asked you...the first time we met if you had a lover before...you said no," Donghae says directly, his voice becoming softer. "Liar."
"You asked me if I have a lover currently back then and I said no because we already broke up," Hyukjae defends. "Don't change your question." He adds, carving a little smile.
He hears Donghae sniffing and was confused if either he wasn't crying anymore or he was again crying. "It’s still the same...!"
"You're an idiot, you know that?" Hyukjae sighs. "But that's why I love you."
Donghae paused for a moment. "How long?" He asks.
Hyukjae took a few moments to figure out the question before he can finally answer. "3 years," He says. "It has been 3 years."
"Does he call you Eunhyuk?"
"Yeah..."
"I see..." Donghe says and Hyukjae realizes Donghae wasn't crying anymore, he was relieved.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Hae," Hyukjae says, facing the door and touching it. "I love you." He slowly walks away, bowing his head, thinking to himself; tomorrow it will all be fine. He doesn't feel anything from Sungmin anymore, he knows that. He knows it to himself and he hopes Donghae will understand that past is past.
He tucked his hands inside his pockets and continued walking, not looking back and he spotted the guy he saw earlier at the living room. "Hey," He calls and Henry turns around, startled. "What are you looking at?"
Henry shook his head and smiled. "Nothing." He replies. "Hyukjae right?"
Hyukjae nods. "Yah, Lee Hyukjae, you?"
"Henry, Henry Lau, nice to meet you two-timer."
Hyukjae glares from a smile. "You do not know what you are talking about," He says and he continued walking and reached the living room where he saw two people, one familiar. "Huh?"
Yesung and Ryeowook turn their heads to him and smiles though clueless. "Hey." They say.
"Sorry for ruining the fun," Hyukjae apologizes. "I'm Hyukjae."
Though not used to people introducing themselves like that, well in this kind of situation, Yesung acknowledged him. "Oh, nice to meet you, I'm Yesung."
Hyukjae smiled at him and turned to Ryeowook. "Are you alright?"
Ryeowook smiles at him and nods. "Yeah..." He paused for a moment then added. "Are you alright?" He asks, emphasizing his question to Hyukjae.
Hyukjae sighs. "This is embarrassing...but who cares..." He stands uneasy and uncomfortable. "I'll see him tomorrow." He smiles at Ryeowook then walked away to the door. Ryeowook watches while smiling as Hyukjae opens the door and waved goodbye at them.
Henry then walked out from where he was hiding and went straight to Ryeowook and Yesung, clueless, probably. "What was that?" He asks Ryeowook.
Ryeowook turned to him, smiling pleasantly. "Hm? Oh nothing to worry about..." Henry simply nodded, not really agreeing but rather satisfied. He might as well not search deeper of their problems, it was none of his business anyway. But this, these two, he felt like he needs to do something with these two. All those glances at each other is irritating him, if they want to look at each other, then just look. He sighs and decided to investigate this, something is wrong with these two, he can feel it.
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Kyuhyun didn't know how long it has been sitting with Sungmin this time, it started with a simple comforting to the latter and they ended up sitting beside each other at the balcony. Sungmin was resting his head on his shoulder casually as they both relaxed, enlightened by the blue moon. It’s already night, he knows he's hungry but his stomach doesn't demand it. He slowly turned beside him and looked down at Sungmin, wondering why he has been quiet all this time and he almost gasped. "Sungmin...?" He whispers but Sungmin made no movement. "He's sleeping...?"
He curved a smile, brushing some of Sungmin's hair off his face. He looked at his watch and noticed it was already past dinner time, he gently held Sungmin's head as he kneels down low to reach him, he lifts Sungmin with both of his strong arms and carried him on his back as he stands up. It was much more easier now, he thought that maybe the exercise helped a lot. He complimented how lighter he is now than before. He then walks out from the balcony, through the hallways, slowly until he reached back at the living room.
He spotted Yesung playing arm wrestling with Henry, oh wait, he actually spotted Yesung losing to Henry in arm wrestling. "ARGH!" Yesung banged his hands on the small table in between them and then glared at Yesung. "One more!"
"One more? But hyung, we already had 15 games--"
"I DON'T CARE!"
Kyuhyun pffted hearing how many times Yesung have lost to him and hoped Yesung didn't hear him at all but Yesung turned to him and glared, opening his mouth. "Yah--"
"Sshh!" Kyuhyun cuts him. "He's sleeping...!" He whispers loudly.
"Oh," Yesung gasps and then softened his voice. "Sorry."
Kyuhyun then motioned to Yesung and Henry that he'll carry Sungmin back to his car first and so the other two nodded in agreement. He again, slowly walked out of the house and careful so he won't trip randomly over something he can't see in front of him. He grabbed his car keys from his pocket and unlocked his auto, reaching the car, he opened the door at the back seat and gently lied Sungmin on the seat. He stretched his arms and closed the door, walking back to Donghae's house.
When he got in, Yesung and Henry were still arm wrestling and Yesung is again, losing. "Yah!' Kyuhyun yells and Henry startles, turning behind him only to give Yesung a chance to continue the game and slam his hand on the table, making it his win.
"Wha--"
"I WON! Ha! Beat that, sucker!" Yesung yells, excitedly.
"That's unfair! Kyuhyun called me!"
"He didn't call you, duh!"
Henry glares at him and crossed his arms. "Alright fine, you win. What are 15 wins vs. 1 win anyway?"
"Yah! I still won so shut up!"
"Yeah you won hyung," Henry nods. "For the first time that is."
"Why you..."
"Uh guys, hello? CEO in here you're ignoring?" Kyuhyun interrupts.
Yesung turned to him and smiled, fakily. "Oh hi there." Obviously, Yesung is tired of hearing how many times Kyuhyun used that CEO title of his almost everytime.
"Where's Ryeowook?" Kyuhyun asks.
"Upstairs." "Bathroom." Yesung and Henry says at the same time in which Kyuhyun raised an eyebrow, questioning them.
"He said he was going to the bathroom!" Henry yells.
“Bathroom?! He said earlier he was going to check up on Donghae so he went upstairs you dumb!” Yesung yells back, completely forgetting that’s a lot younger guy he’s yelling at there.
"You’re the dumb one! Did you even listen to him earlier?!
"I heard him completely!”
Kyuhyun rolls his eyes and sighs, he shook his head and decided to find him on his own which he thought was completely easy. Walking towards a certain place, he didn’t feel much difficulty, knowing Ryeowook, he’s right here. “Don’t you do anything else besides cooking?” He asks, leaning by the door, crossing his arms to his chest.
“I clean too,” Ryeowook replies as he turns around. “I missed you earlier, sorry I passed out.”
“You were knocked out, you always apologize to people even though it’s unnecessary.”
“Really? Sorry about…” Ryeowook paused, realizing what Kyuhyun meant.
“See?” Kyuhyun emphasizes.
Ryeowook chuckles. “You know me too well.”
Kyuhyun smiles at him and stood straight. “I’m going home first, is it alright?”
Ryeowok nods. “Yeah, I’ll go home with Henli after this.”
“Henry? You’re not going home with Yesung hyung?”
Ryeowook almost flinched and he gulps. “No,” He shook his head and smiled. “Why would I?”
“Henry doesn’t have a car, Wookie.”
“It’s alright, we can take the bus together.”
“Are you sure? I could wait for you instead.”
“No! I’m fine really!” Ryeowook laughs, scratching his head. They noticed a sudden smell of burn and Ryeowook turns around realizing it was probably his supposed-to-be-another-delicious-food. “MY FOOD!” He exclaims as he quickly turned the stove off and coughs. “AWW! IT BURNED!!!”
Kyuhyun doesn’t know but he kinda felt guilty of distracting Ryeowook. “Are you alright Wookie?”
Ryeowook turned to him, tearing up. “It burned…Kyuhyun was alarmed and approached him.
“H-hey,” He shook Ryeowook when he saw his head bowing down. “Wookie, don’t cry! Come on!”
“It burned~~~!” Ryeowook whines and Kyuhyun realizes, the last thing Ryeowook would want to happen when cooking was his food getting burned.
“I know I know…sorry about that…now don’t cry...hey!” Kyuhyun tries again, afraid that Ryeowook might suddenly cry anytime. “You can cook again...hey...!" He almost panics but suddenly paused when he realized Ryeowook was chuckling. "Huh?"
Ryeowook looked at him and laughed until he fell to the floor while holding his stomach. "You...Kyu you are...you are so funny...!" He says, still laughing and ignoring Kyuhyun's death glares. That last thing Kyuhyun wanted to be was being laughed at.
"Yeah you keep laughing."
"Seriously Kyu, you love me too much..."
"Do you have mental problems? Just tell me, I'll pay the bills."
"Okay okay...sorry..." Ryeowook apologized yet still chuckling. "I thought you're going now?" He reminds, regaining his normal breath.
"Oh yeah, I'll be going first Wookie." Kyuhyun stands up, a bit pissed with a "tch" but smiled it out as Ryeowook watches him. He reached the living room and saw Yesung and Henry playing a card game this time. Both of them turned their heads to him, unpleasantly, so he didn't say anything anymore but he snarls at how too childish they can get, he doesn't even know why they're suddenly this close when as long as he remembers, these two doesn't even know each other.
He waves at them and walked out, sighing. He walked straight back to his car and found Sungmin still sleeping and snoring. He chuckles at how loud Sungmin's snores were but he looked cute nonetheless. He went in the car slowly and avoids waking Sungmin up. When he started the engine, Sungmin still wasn't moving and so he thought he must sleeping tightly but its early to sleep, still dinner time.
"If he wakes up, he'll be hungry," He thought. "I'll wait for him to wake up before I grab something to eat then." He decides and drives out from Donghae's place. He still doesn't know a thing about what just happened but he wasn't that bothered by it, Sungmin doesn't seem so too. Though he still kinda feel sorry for both of them, there's nothing much he can do and its none of his business to start with. He blames himself for being so clueless, he blames himself for not being able to protect Sungmin.
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"Give up! You lost like 125643 times already hyung!" Henry whines, banging his hands against the small table between him and Yesung. "If I win again, it'll hurt you more..."
"Like where on earth did you get that?!" Yesung yells back. "You've been losing and I've been winning you dumbass!"
Ryeowook peeks from the kitchen and smiled on both of them. Shouldn't it be the other way around? He thinks. I thought Yesung hyung would be able to win the arm wrestling game and Henry was supposed to win the card game... He adds. He ignores it and went back to the table, preparing Donghae's dinner. Supposedly, the four of them is gonna be eating together, that was what Donghae asked for but Ryeowook knows him too well, he should be alone this time and besides, he thinks he have the urge to eat with Yesung anyway. So he declines it, and Donghae didn't insist.
"Yah, Canadian, you're cheating!" Yesung screams, grabbing the cars from Henry as Henry moves back and hides it behind him, kicking Yesung away. "Damn!"
"I'm not cheating! Don't be so delusional!" Henry yells, crawling away and grabbing pillows he can find anywhere and throws it to Yesung.
"If you're not cheating then why won't you let me see your cards then?!" Yesung stands up and ran to Henry but ended up tripping though able to grab Henry's feet.
"You're the one cheating! You want to look at my cards!" Henry crumpled the cards accidentally while trying to get it way from Yesung as Yesung grabbed his arm and tried to pull it off his hands though receiving numerous kicks from Henry.
"Yah you two!" Ryeowok yells, interrupting them. Caught, Yesung and Henry paused in the middle of their 'fight' and turned to Ryeowook beside them. "You guys are so sweet." He says, tilting his head and smiling.
"HUH?" They both raised an eyebrow, processing what Ryeowook just said. "EWE!!!"
"YUCK!!!" They yelled, walking away from each other.
"I'd rather date you Wookie hyung!" Henry swore as he snarls to Yesung.
"You think I'd date you too?! I'd rather date Wo--" Yeusng paused as Ryeowook looks at him. "Women!" He continues and Ryeowook looks away.
"Henli, we're going home." Ryeowook says.
"Oh okay, let me grab my things first." Henry walks past Yesung as he grabbed his bag and his beloved violin that he brought with him. "Wookie hyung, how about Donghae hyung?" He asks, walking to him.
"He'll be fine, I cooked his dinner already," Ryeowook replies, smiling. "Let's go?"
Henry nods and turns around. "We're going home Yesung hyung. Thanks for killing my boredom."
Yesung smiles at him and he looks at Ryeowook. He could've sworn Ryeowook was looking at him just now, and he looked away. "Yeah, sure," He can offer them a ride but he knows Ryeowook will refuse to so what's the point anyway. "Take care." He says for the last time before Ryeowook and Henry closed the door in front of him. He sighs. He looks around him and realized the mess he and Henry made. Cleaning isn't his obligation so he can't really clean here.
He grabs his phone from his bag and texted Donghae, informing him that he'll leave. Though Donghae didn't reply back, he knows he read his message to he took out his keys from his pocket and walks out of the house.
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Sungmin woke up at the sound of car horns everywhere. It was noisy and it ached his head. He slowly sat up and massaged his neck, looking around and figured he's inside Kyuhyun's car. "Kyu?" He calls, rubbing his eyes and yawning.
Kyuhyun looks up the mirror and saw Sungmin's reflection. "Oh, you're awake."
"What happened?" He asks, stretching his arms.
"You fell asleep suddenly," Kyuhyun turns his head behind him. "You hungry, stupid?"
Sungmin glares at him but smiles afterwards. "Sorta. You hungry?" He asks back and he looks out of the window, reazling the cars weren't moving at all he knew why they were horning loudly now, its traffic.
"Ofcourse, duhh," Kyuhyun turned back in front and looks around, trying to find a place to eat at. "Its hard to find a place this time."
Sungmin smiles as he thought of something. "I know a place," He tells Kyuhyun. "Its just near here, Kyu."
"You sure?" Sungmin nods. "Where?"
"Drive to the intersection and turn left, I'll instruct you from there." Sungmin then went off the car and moved to the front sit. The traffic was suddenly moving when the huge truck Sungmin saw earlier was able to drive right. Kyuhyun drove forwards and as Sungmin told him, he turned left when he reached the intersection. "Drive straight until the fourth alley."
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Ryeowook and Henry waits patiently until they reach their destination inside the bus. Ryeowook was quiet, far from the usual one he was and Henry notices that. "Hyung," Henry calls him but it seems like Ryeowook didn't hear him as he was still busy looking out the window. "Hyung!" He yells and Ryeowook turned beside him, looking shock.
"What!"
"Are you alright? You're very quiet."
"Oh, I'm fine," Ryeowook smiles. "What makes you think that?"
"No, usually you'd be bragging about what you cooked earlier for Donghae hyung or you wouldn't want to go home, you would want to go shopping or go to places...or something like that...?"
Ryeowook pouts at him. "Ngawwhhh..."
"What?! What did I say?!"
"Oh nothing, you are so cute!" Ryeowook pinches his cheeks, giggling.
"HYUNG!"
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When Sungmin instructed Kyuhyun to pull through down the alley, he did though he was a bit clueless about this. Sungmin excitedly pulled Kyuhyun somewhere deeper the alley and as far as Kyuhyun knew, this kind of place is rather dangerous, normally, at night. Yet he was wrong. "Come on!" Sungmin jumps as he yells at Kyuhyun who was hesitating.
Somewhere at the end of this alley, is a very happy and lively place. Its like another world, he didn't think he'd be able to find a place like this. He was in awe. "Where the heck...are we?" He asks Sunmgin while looking around. He's not kidding, its like everyone are playing and partying here. He looks for Sungmin but he kinda lost him. He walks forward and saw children running around, playing with each other as well as teens younger than him and his age hanging around at the shops. "Sungmin?" He looks for him and unknowingly he was being pulled again. "Yah!"
"We're going to eat there!" Sungmin stops and points at a restaurant not far from their position.
As Kyuhyun looks at it, by his state, its more than cheap and yet its beautiful. Its a big restaurant, a simple and big restaurant. Normal chairs and tables, there's nothing special about it except the smiles of the customers he sees inside. "Sungmin, where are we anyway?"
"Hm? Oh this place? This is my Oasis!" Sungmin yells, throwing his hands on the air, smiling widely.
"Oasis huh?"
Sungmin then pulled Kyuhyun again, walking inside the restaurant only to be greeted by unfamiliar faces smiling at them. Sungmin smiles back but Kyuhyun was feeling rather awkward. "Noona!" He hears Sungmin yelling and running towards a certain person.
"Huh?" The lady turned and smiles at Sungmin. "Minnie!" He greets Sungmin, hugging him back. "We missed you here."
"I missed this place too!" Sungmin replies. "Oh, I have someone with me," He walks back to Kyuhyun and pulls him to his Noona. "This is Kyuhyun, Cho Kyuhyun, noona."
Kyuhyun smiles at her but the Noona decided to shake hands and so he did. "Nice to meet you, Kyuhyun-shii, I'm Hyori."
Kyuhyun nods, acknowledging her but ignoring her at the same time. "Are we gonna eat or what?"
"Oh right! Do you have a table Noona?" Sungmin asks.
"Ofcourse, you always have a table here." Hyori smiles at him and then lead them upstairs, at the rooftop. It was cold when they got there, it was very refreshing. The view of the mountains and the lights under the restaurant were so gorgeous and the stars are so beautiful, shining brightly. It was romantic.
And Sungmin just had to ruin it, tripping right infront of him. "AHH!" Sungmin yells. Kyuhyun rolls his eyes and sighs, looking down at Sungmin lying on the floor, sitting up. "Awwhh..."
"You're stupid and clumsy, great." Kyuhyun says, with an obvious sarcasm as he walks pass Sungmin to their table.
"You are rude, you're supposed to help me get up." Sungmin pouts as he stands up, cleaning his clothes and walking to the table as Kyuhyun sits down.
"You're not the one to decided that."
"Still, you were supposed to," Sungmin adds, sitting down and pouting. "You have no heart."
"Hey! What the fuck are you saying?!" Kyuhyun exclaims, exasperating.
Sungmin chuckles at him, he wishes this relationship will perdure but he knows it won't. So he's taking his time, every second, every minute. Just then, a guy approached them, holding the menu and a paper. "May I take your orde--" He got cut when Sungmin looks up at him. "Sungmin?"
"Oh, Shindong!"
"Am I blind or what? I can't be seeing the right thing!"
"Shindong, you're still fat."
"OMG, its really you! Where were you 40 years ago???"
Exaggerated. Kyuhyun thought. "Nahhh, somewhere, umm, my order?"
"Never mind, I know you and your orders!" He says, grabbing the menu from Kyuhyun and Kyuhyun glares. "I'll get your food doen as soon as possible!" He runs away suddenly.
"He is such a nice guy...really nice..." Kyuhyun says, glaring.
Sungmin giggles at him, whining like that. "You are so cute when your annoyed~!" He then squeals this time, trying to resist his fiance's annoyed face. He doesn't know why but he's fond of it.
"Not helping, Sungmin. Not helping."
"I know!"
Kyuhyun snobbed Sungmin and decided to look around. He was patiently waiting for the food while Sungmin was playing with the utensils on the table and finally after 50 decades their food arrived. It was nothing Kyuhyun had imagined, but it was something he predicted they're gonna get, especially in this kind of place. He sees Sungmin eating and he seems to be enjoying it, and he tastes it. It was perfect...in his tongue it was perfect but his mind kept on bragging about how Ryeowook's cooking is so much better.
He looks to Sungmin casually. "Pfft." He always chuckled when he saw ketchup on Sungmin's cheek, he doesn't even know how it went there.
Sungmin notices him and asks. "What? What're you looking at???"
"There's something on your cheek."
"Oh!" Sungmin wiped his cheek but Kyuhyun couldn't help but laugh at how he got the wrong cheek. "What????"
"The other cheek!"
Sungmin glares at him and wiped his other cheek and Kyuhyun laughed again on how Sungmin missed it. "KYU!"
"Here, I'll wipe it off for you," Kyuyun grabbed a tissue from the table and wiped Sungmin's cheek. Sungmin winked involuntarily as Kyuhyun was pressing on his cheeks hard. "God, you are so stupid." He chuckles, finishing.
Sungmin smiles at him. "Thanks."
"Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for you and your level of idiocy so I decided to help you out a bit."
"Still thanks," Sungmin insists. "Thought what you said was pretty unnecessary."
After the meal, Sungmin told Kyuhyun that he'll go to the comfort room for a moment and clean himself. Kyuhyun let him, thinking how he doesn't care anyway so he was left on their table. He looked around once again and he looked through each of the hung frames on the wall. They were all paintings and sketches, and he assumes, it was long ago, a memory of this place.
He paused at one frame, and it intrigued him. He stood up to approach it but can't seem to. Seeing a waiter near him, he called him and asked him instead. "Hey, can you tell me who's that woman at the sketch?" He points at the framed sketch at the wall, the 2nd one from the last.
"Oh that?" The waiter confirms with Kyuhyun nodding. "That's Sungmin's mom."
Kyuhyun was shocked, he let the waiter go as he went back to his seat. "She looks like my mom...how could that be?" He whispers to himself. He feels really uncomfortable and uneasy, like he wants an answers right at this moment but he knows its impossible. He noticed the date it was sketched, and it was the same date as her birthday but different years. So he assumes, it was sketched as a present for her? He was confused. "I'm sure that's my mom...I swear she is."
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/smacked
/bricked
/shot
/dead
ok...sorry this took so long, i was busy with other things >.<
aww...KANGIN'S LEAVING TOMORROW =( i will miss him dearly...T.T
anwys
COMMENTS ARE VERY MUCH LOVED <333
p.s: ignore the cameo hyori there, i can't think of anyone xD
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ a butterfly for kanginnnn <3
Pairing: Kyuhyun/Sungmin, Yesung/Ryeowook
Genre: Romance, Humor, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The boys are not mine, just the fic^^
Summary: Sungmin pretends from being Kyuhyun's fiancee, to his his sister, then back from being his fiancee...then his wife?
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"I wasn't crying," Sungmin chuckles but then he met Kyuhyun's gaze and he sighs painfully. "I just had to let it out all these years I guess..." He says honestly and Kyuhyun could almost smile in relief. Yet, Sungmin was blinking nonstop and Kyuhyun could see there are still tears left inside him.
Kyuhyun reaches his arms, embracing him and pulling him closer for a hug, a hug to make him feel better. He was relieved when Sungmin burst out once more, crying to his broad chest as he buries his head in his arms. Kyuhyun comforted him, Sungmin couldn't believe it himself but he needed it now, he desperately needed it this time. He definitely needed his warmth.
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"Hae...?" Hyukjae calls as he leans his back against the door of Donghae's room. He could hear him sobbing from inside, just on the other side of the door; he can feel Donghae's body close to his and guessed he was probably leaning against the door too. He's relieved; it means Donghae will be able to hear him properly. "Could you come out please?" Hyukjae asks, lifting his head and looked at the ceiling. He's exhausted, he always finds Donghae but he keeps on running away.
"You big fat mean liar." Donghae whispers, but Hyukjae could almost hear it though not really clear.
"Yah! When did I lie to you?!"
"I asked you...the first time we met if you had a lover before...you said no," Donghae says directly, his voice becoming softer. "Liar."
"You asked me if I have a lover currently back then and I said no because we already broke up," Hyukjae defends. "Don't change your question." He adds, carving a little smile.
He hears Donghae sniffing and was confused if either he wasn't crying anymore or he was again crying. "It’s still the same...!"
"You're an idiot, you know that?" Hyukjae sighs. "But that's why I love you."
Donghae paused for a moment. "How long?" He asks.
Hyukjae took a few moments to figure out the question before he can finally answer. "3 years," He says. "It has been 3 years."
"Does he call you Eunhyuk?"
"Yeah..."
"I see..." Donghe says and Hyukjae realizes Donghae wasn't crying anymore, he was relieved.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Hae," Hyukjae says, facing the door and touching it. "I love you." He slowly walks away, bowing his head, thinking to himself; tomorrow it will all be fine. He doesn't feel anything from Sungmin anymore, he knows that. He knows it to himself and he hopes Donghae will understand that past is past.
He tucked his hands inside his pockets and continued walking, not looking back and he spotted the guy he saw earlier at the living room. "Hey," He calls and Henry turns around, startled. "What are you looking at?"
Henry shook his head and smiled. "Nothing." He replies. "Hyukjae right?"
Hyukjae nods. "Yah, Lee Hyukjae, you?"
"Henry, Henry Lau, nice to meet you two-timer."
Hyukjae glares from a smile. "You do not know what you are talking about," He says and he continued walking and reached the living room where he saw two people, one familiar. "Huh?"
Yesung and Ryeowook turn their heads to him and smiles though clueless. "Hey." They say.
"Sorry for ruining the fun," Hyukjae apologizes. "I'm Hyukjae."
Though not used to people introducing themselves like that, well in this kind of situation, Yesung acknowledged him. "Oh, nice to meet you, I'm Yesung."
Hyukjae smiled at him and turned to Ryeowook. "Are you alright?"
Ryeowook smiles at him and nods. "Yeah..." He paused for a moment then added. "Are you alright?" He asks, emphasizing his question to Hyukjae.
Hyukjae sighs. "This is embarrassing...but who cares..." He stands uneasy and uncomfortable. "I'll see him tomorrow." He smiles at Ryeowook then walked away to the door. Ryeowook watches while smiling as Hyukjae opens the door and waved goodbye at them.
Henry then walked out from where he was hiding and went straight to Ryeowook and Yesung, clueless, probably. "What was that?" He asks Ryeowook.
Ryeowook turned to him, smiling pleasantly. "Hm? Oh nothing to worry about..." Henry simply nodded, not really agreeing but rather satisfied. He might as well not search deeper of their problems, it was none of his business anyway. But this, these two, he felt like he needs to do something with these two. All those glances at each other is irritating him, if they want to look at each other, then just look. He sighs and decided to investigate this, something is wrong with these two, he can feel it.
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Kyuhyun didn't know how long it has been sitting with Sungmin this time, it started with a simple comforting to the latter and they ended up sitting beside each other at the balcony. Sungmin was resting his head on his shoulder casually as they both relaxed, enlightened by the blue moon. It’s already night, he knows he's hungry but his stomach doesn't demand it. He slowly turned beside him and looked down at Sungmin, wondering why he has been quiet all this time and he almost gasped. "Sungmin...?" He whispers but Sungmin made no movement. "He's sleeping...?"
He curved a smile, brushing some of Sungmin's hair off his face. He looked at his watch and noticed it was already past dinner time, he gently held Sungmin's head as he kneels down low to reach him, he lifts Sungmin with both of his strong arms and carried him on his back as he stands up. It was much more easier now, he thought that maybe the exercise helped a lot. He complimented how lighter he is now than before. He then walks out from the balcony, through the hallways, slowly until he reached back at the living room.
He spotted Yesung playing arm wrestling with Henry, oh wait, he actually spotted Yesung losing to Henry in arm wrestling. "ARGH!" Yesung banged his hands on the small table in between them and then glared at Yesung. "One more!"
"One more? But hyung, we already had 15 games--"
"I DON'T CARE!"
Kyuhyun pffted hearing how many times Yesung have lost to him and hoped Yesung didn't hear him at all but Yesung turned to him and glared, opening his mouth. "Yah--"
"Sshh!" Kyuhyun cuts him. "He's sleeping...!" He whispers loudly.
"Oh," Yesung gasps and then softened his voice. "Sorry."
Kyuhyun then motioned to Yesung and Henry that he'll carry Sungmin back to his car first and so the other two nodded in agreement. He again, slowly walked out of the house and careful so he won't trip randomly over something he can't see in front of him. He grabbed his car keys from his pocket and unlocked his auto, reaching the car, he opened the door at the back seat and gently lied Sungmin on the seat. He stretched his arms and closed the door, walking back to Donghae's house.
When he got in, Yesung and Henry were still arm wrestling and Yesung is again, losing. "Yah!' Kyuhyun yells and Henry startles, turning behind him only to give Yesung a chance to continue the game and slam his hand on the table, making it his win.
"Wha--"
"I WON! Ha! Beat that, sucker!" Yesung yells, excitedly.
"That's unfair! Kyuhyun called me!"
"He didn't call you, duh!"
Henry glares at him and crossed his arms. "Alright fine, you win. What are 15 wins vs. 1 win anyway?"
"Yah! I still won so shut up!"
"Yeah you won hyung," Henry nods. "For the first time that is."
"Why you..."
"Uh guys, hello? CEO in here you're ignoring?" Kyuhyun interrupts.
Yesung turned to him and smiled, fakily. "Oh hi there." Obviously, Yesung is tired of hearing how many times Kyuhyun used that CEO title of his almost everytime.
"Where's Ryeowook?" Kyuhyun asks.
"Upstairs." "Bathroom." Yesung and Henry says at the same time in which Kyuhyun raised an eyebrow, questioning them.
"He said he was going to the bathroom!" Henry yells.
“Bathroom?! He said earlier he was going to check up on Donghae so he went upstairs you dumb!” Yesung yells back, completely forgetting that’s a lot younger guy he’s yelling at there.
"You’re the dumb one! Did you even listen to him earlier?!
"I heard him completely!”
Kyuhyun rolls his eyes and sighs, he shook his head and decided to find him on his own which he thought was completely easy. Walking towards a certain place, he didn’t feel much difficulty, knowing Ryeowook, he’s right here. “Don’t you do anything else besides cooking?” He asks, leaning by the door, crossing his arms to his chest.
“I clean too,” Ryeowook replies as he turns around. “I missed you earlier, sorry I passed out.”
“You were knocked out, you always apologize to people even though it’s unnecessary.”
“Really? Sorry about…” Ryeowook paused, realizing what Kyuhyun meant.
“See?” Kyuhyun emphasizes.
Ryeowook chuckles. “You know me too well.”
Kyuhyun smiles at him and stood straight. “I’m going home first, is it alright?”
Ryeowok nods. “Yeah, I’ll go home with Henli after this.”
“Henry? You’re not going home with Yesung hyung?”
Ryeowook almost flinched and he gulps. “No,” He shook his head and smiled. “Why would I?”
“Henry doesn’t have a car, Wookie.”
“It’s alright, we can take the bus together.”
“Are you sure? I could wait for you instead.”
“No! I’m fine really!” Ryeowook laughs, scratching his head. They noticed a sudden smell of burn and Ryeowook turns around realizing it was probably his supposed-to-be-another-delicious-food. “MY FOOD!” He exclaims as he quickly turned the stove off and coughs. “AWW! IT BURNED!!!”
Kyuhyun doesn’t know but he kinda felt guilty of distracting Ryeowook. “Are you alright Wookie?”
Ryeowook turned to him, tearing up. “It burned…Kyuhyun was alarmed and approached him.
“H-hey,” He shook Ryeowook when he saw his head bowing down. “Wookie, don’t cry! Come on!”
“It burned~~~!” Ryeowook whines and Kyuhyun realizes, the last thing Ryeowook would want to happen when cooking was his food getting burned.
“I know I know…sorry about that…now don’t cry...hey!” Kyuhyun tries again, afraid that Ryeowook might suddenly cry anytime. “You can cook again...hey...!" He almost panics but suddenly paused when he realized Ryeowook was chuckling. "Huh?"
Ryeowook looked at him and laughed until he fell to the floor while holding his stomach. "You...Kyu you are...you are so funny...!" He says, still laughing and ignoring Kyuhyun's death glares. That last thing Kyuhyun wanted to be was being laughed at.
"Yeah you keep laughing."
"Seriously Kyu, you love me too much..."
"Do you have mental problems? Just tell me, I'll pay the bills."
"Okay okay...sorry..." Ryeowook apologized yet still chuckling. "I thought you're going now?" He reminds, regaining his normal breath.
"Oh yeah, I'll be going first Wookie." Kyuhyun stands up, a bit pissed with a "tch" but smiled it out as Ryeowook watches him. He reached the living room and saw Yesung and Henry playing a card game this time. Both of them turned their heads to him, unpleasantly, so he didn't say anything anymore but he snarls at how too childish they can get, he doesn't even know why they're suddenly this close when as long as he remembers, these two doesn't even know each other.
He waves at them and walked out, sighing. He walked straight back to his car and found Sungmin still sleeping and snoring. He chuckles at how loud Sungmin's snores were but he looked cute nonetheless. He went in the car slowly and avoids waking Sungmin up. When he started the engine, Sungmin still wasn't moving and so he thought he must sleeping tightly but its early to sleep, still dinner time.
"If he wakes up, he'll be hungry," He thought. "I'll wait for him to wake up before I grab something to eat then." He decides and drives out from Donghae's place. He still doesn't know a thing about what just happened but he wasn't that bothered by it, Sungmin doesn't seem so too. Though he still kinda feel sorry for both of them, there's nothing much he can do and its none of his business to start with. He blames himself for being so clueless, he blames himself for not being able to protect Sungmin.
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"Give up! You lost like 125643 times already hyung!" Henry whines, banging his hands against the small table between him and Yesung. "If I win again, it'll hurt you more..."
"Like where on earth did you get that?!" Yesung yells back. "You've been losing and I've been winning you dumbass!"
Ryeowook peeks from the kitchen and smiled on both of them. Shouldn't it be the other way around? He thinks. I thought Yesung hyung would be able to win the arm wrestling game and Henry was supposed to win the card game... He adds. He ignores it and went back to the table, preparing Donghae's dinner. Supposedly, the four of them is gonna be eating together, that was what Donghae asked for but Ryeowook knows him too well, he should be alone this time and besides, he thinks he have the urge to eat with Yesung anyway. So he declines it, and Donghae didn't insist.
"Yah, Canadian, you're cheating!" Yesung screams, grabbing the cars from Henry as Henry moves back and hides it behind him, kicking Yesung away. "Damn!"
"I'm not cheating! Don't be so delusional!" Henry yells, crawling away and grabbing pillows he can find anywhere and throws it to Yesung.
"If you're not cheating then why won't you let me see your cards then?!" Yesung stands up and ran to Henry but ended up tripping though able to grab Henry's feet.
"You're the one cheating! You want to look at my cards!" Henry crumpled the cards accidentally while trying to get it way from Yesung as Yesung grabbed his arm and tried to pull it off his hands though receiving numerous kicks from Henry.
"Yah you two!" Ryeowok yells, interrupting them. Caught, Yesung and Henry paused in the middle of their 'fight' and turned to Ryeowook beside them. "You guys are so sweet." He says, tilting his head and smiling.
"HUH?" They both raised an eyebrow, processing what Ryeowook just said. "EWE!!!"
"YUCK!!!" They yelled, walking away from each other.
"I'd rather date you Wookie hyung!" Henry swore as he snarls to Yesung.
"You think I'd date you too?! I'd rather date Wo--" Yeusng paused as Ryeowook looks at him. "Women!" He continues and Ryeowook looks away.
"Henli, we're going home." Ryeowook says.
"Oh okay, let me grab my things first." Henry walks past Yesung as he grabbed his bag and his beloved violin that he brought with him. "Wookie hyung, how about Donghae hyung?" He asks, walking to him.
"He'll be fine, I cooked his dinner already," Ryeowook replies, smiling. "Let's go?"
Henry nods and turns around. "We're going home Yesung hyung. Thanks for killing my boredom."
Yesung smiles at him and he looks at Ryeowook. He could've sworn Ryeowook was looking at him just now, and he looked away. "Yeah, sure," He can offer them a ride but he knows Ryeowook will refuse to so what's the point anyway. "Take care." He says for the last time before Ryeowook and Henry closed the door in front of him. He sighs. He looks around him and realized the mess he and Henry made. Cleaning isn't his obligation so he can't really clean here.
He grabs his phone from his bag and texted Donghae, informing him that he'll leave. Though Donghae didn't reply back, he knows he read his message to he took out his keys from his pocket and walks out of the house.
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Sungmin woke up at the sound of car horns everywhere. It was noisy and it ached his head. He slowly sat up and massaged his neck, looking around and figured he's inside Kyuhyun's car. "Kyu?" He calls, rubbing his eyes and yawning.
Kyuhyun looks up the mirror and saw Sungmin's reflection. "Oh, you're awake."
"What happened?" He asks, stretching his arms.
"You fell asleep suddenly," Kyuhyun turns his head behind him. "You hungry, stupid?"
Sungmin glares at him but smiles afterwards. "Sorta. You hungry?" He asks back and he looks out of the window, reazling the cars weren't moving at all he knew why they were horning loudly now, its traffic.
"Ofcourse, duhh," Kyuhyun turned back in front and looks around, trying to find a place to eat at. "Its hard to find a place this time."
Sungmin smiles as he thought of something. "I know a place," He tells Kyuhyun. "Its just near here, Kyu."
"You sure?" Sungmin nods. "Where?"
"Drive to the intersection and turn left, I'll instruct you from there." Sungmin then went off the car and moved to the front sit. The traffic was suddenly moving when the huge truck Sungmin saw earlier was able to drive right. Kyuhyun drove forwards and as Sungmin told him, he turned left when he reached the intersection. "Drive straight until the fourth alley."
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Ryeowook and Henry waits patiently until they reach their destination inside the bus. Ryeowook was quiet, far from the usual one he was and Henry notices that. "Hyung," Henry calls him but it seems like Ryeowook didn't hear him as he was still busy looking out the window. "Hyung!" He yells and Ryeowook turned beside him, looking shock.
"What!"
"Are you alright? You're very quiet."
"Oh, I'm fine," Ryeowook smiles. "What makes you think that?"
"No, usually you'd be bragging about what you cooked earlier for Donghae hyung or you wouldn't want to go home, you would want to go shopping or go to places...or something like that...?"
Ryeowook pouts at him. "Ngawwhhh..."
"What?! What did I say?!"
"Oh nothing, you are so cute!" Ryeowook pinches his cheeks, giggling.
"HYUNG!"
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When Sungmin instructed Kyuhyun to pull through down the alley, he did though he was a bit clueless about this. Sungmin excitedly pulled Kyuhyun somewhere deeper the alley and as far as Kyuhyun knew, this kind of place is rather dangerous, normally, at night. Yet he was wrong. "Come on!" Sungmin jumps as he yells at Kyuhyun who was hesitating.
Somewhere at the end of this alley, is a very happy and lively place. Its like another world, he didn't think he'd be able to find a place like this. He was in awe. "Where the heck...are we?" He asks Sunmgin while looking around. He's not kidding, its like everyone are playing and partying here. He looks for Sungmin but he kinda lost him. He walks forward and saw children running around, playing with each other as well as teens younger than him and his age hanging around at the shops. "Sungmin?" He looks for him and unknowingly he was being pulled again. "Yah!"
"We're going to eat there!" Sungmin stops and points at a restaurant not far from their position.
As Kyuhyun looks at it, by his state, its more than cheap and yet its beautiful. Its a big restaurant, a simple and big restaurant. Normal chairs and tables, there's nothing special about it except the smiles of the customers he sees inside. "Sungmin, where are we anyway?"
"Hm? Oh this place? This is my Oasis!" Sungmin yells, throwing his hands on the air, smiling widely.
"Oasis huh?"
Sungmin then pulled Kyuhyun again, walking inside the restaurant only to be greeted by unfamiliar faces smiling at them. Sungmin smiles back but Kyuhyun was feeling rather awkward. "Noona!" He hears Sungmin yelling and running towards a certain person.
"Huh?" The lady turned and smiles at Sungmin. "Minnie!" He greets Sungmin, hugging him back. "We missed you here."
"I missed this place too!" Sungmin replies. "Oh, I have someone with me," He walks back to Kyuhyun and pulls him to his Noona. "This is Kyuhyun, Cho Kyuhyun, noona."
Kyuhyun smiles at her but the Noona decided to shake hands and so he did. "Nice to meet you, Kyuhyun-shii, I'm Hyori."
Kyuhyun nods, acknowledging her but ignoring her at the same time. "Are we gonna eat or what?"
"Oh right! Do you have a table Noona?" Sungmin asks.
"Ofcourse, you always have a table here." Hyori smiles at him and then lead them upstairs, at the rooftop. It was cold when they got there, it was very refreshing. The view of the mountains and the lights under the restaurant were so gorgeous and the stars are so beautiful, shining brightly. It was romantic.
And Sungmin just had to ruin it, tripping right infront of him. "AHH!" Sungmin yells. Kyuhyun rolls his eyes and sighs, looking down at Sungmin lying on the floor, sitting up. "Awwhh..."
"You're stupid and clumsy, great." Kyuhyun says, with an obvious sarcasm as he walks pass Sungmin to their table.
"You are rude, you're supposed to help me get up." Sungmin pouts as he stands up, cleaning his clothes and walking to the table as Kyuhyun sits down.
"You're not the one to decided that."
"Still, you were supposed to," Sungmin adds, sitting down and pouting. "You have no heart."
"Hey! What the fuck are you saying?!" Kyuhyun exclaims, exasperating.
Sungmin chuckles at him, he wishes this relationship will perdure but he knows it won't. So he's taking his time, every second, every minute. Just then, a guy approached them, holding the menu and a paper. "May I take your orde--" He got cut when Sungmin looks up at him. "Sungmin?"
"Oh, Shindong!"
"Am I blind or what? I can't be seeing the right thing!"
"Shindong, you're still fat."
"OMG, its really you! Where were you 40 years ago???"
Exaggerated. Kyuhyun thought. "Nahhh, somewhere, umm, my order?"
"Never mind, I know you and your orders!" He says, grabbing the menu from Kyuhyun and Kyuhyun glares. "I'll get your food doen as soon as possible!" He runs away suddenly.
"He is such a nice guy...really nice..." Kyuhyun says, glaring.
Sungmin giggles at him, whining like that. "You are so cute when your annoyed~!" He then squeals this time, trying to resist his fiance's annoyed face. He doesn't know why but he's fond of it.
"Not helping, Sungmin. Not helping."
"I know!"
Kyuhyun snobbed Sungmin and decided to look around. He was patiently waiting for the food while Sungmin was playing with the utensils on the table and finally after 50 decades their food arrived. It was nothing Kyuhyun had imagined, but it was something he predicted they're gonna get, especially in this kind of place. He sees Sungmin eating and he seems to be enjoying it, and he tastes it. It was perfect...in his tongue it was perfect but his mind kept on bragging about how Ryeowook's cooking is so much better.
He looks to Sungmin casually. "Pfft." He always chuckled when he saw ketchup on Sungmin's cheek, he doesn't even know how it went there.
Sungmin notices him and asks. "What? What're you looking at???"
"There's something on your cheek."
"Oh!" Sungmin wiped his cheek but Kyuhyun couldn't help but laugh at how he got the wrong cheek. "What????"
"The other cheek!"
Sungmin glares at him and wiped his other cheek and Kyuhyun laughed again on how Sungmin missed it. "KYU!"
"Here, I'll wipe it off for you," Kyuyun grabbed a tissue from the table and wiped Sungmin's cheek. Sungmin winked involuntarily as Kyuhyun was pressing on his cheeks hard. "God, you are so stupid." He chuckles, finishing.
Sungmin smiles at him. "Thanks."
"Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for you and your level of idiocy so I decided to help you out a bit."
"Still thanks," Sungmin insists. "Thought what you said was pretty unnecessary."
After the meal, Sungmin told Kyuhyun that he'll go to the comfort room for a moment and clean himself. Kyuhyun let him, thinking how he doesn't care anyway so he was left on their table. He looked around once again and he looked through each of the hung frames on the wall. They were all paintings and sketches, and he assumes, it was long ago, a memory of this place.
He paused at one frame, and it intrigued him. He stood up to approach it but can't seem to. Seeing a waiter near him, he called him and asked him instead. "Hey, can you tell me who's that woman at the sketch?" He points at the framed sketch at the wall, the 2nd one from the last.
"Oh that?" The waiter confirms with Kyuhyun nodding. "That's Sungmin's mom."
Kyuhyun was shocked, he let the waiter go as he went back to his seat. "She looks like my mom...how could that be?" He whispers to himself. He feels really uncomfortable and uneasy, like he wants an answers right at this moment but he knows its impossible. He noticed the date it was sketched, and it was the same date as her birthday but different years. So he assumes, it was sketched as a present for her? He was confused. "I'm sure that's my mom...I swear she is."
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/smacked
/bricked
/shot
/dead
ok...sorry this took so long, i was busy with other things >.<
aww...KANGIN'S LEAVING TOMORROW =( i will miss him dearly...T.T
anwys
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p.s: ignore the cameo hyori there, i can't think of anyone xD
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ a butterfly for kanginnnn <3