[One-shot] The Love Theorem
Title: The Love Theorem
Author: Sylchunnie
Pairing: YunhoXJaejoong
Rating: PG
Genre: Fluff, Romance, Humor
Length: One-shot
Summary: The kingka falls in love with the clueless nerd. He tries to seduce him but here’s the problem; the clueless nerd is clueless.
the love theorem
Ignoring the food in front of him, he keeps his eyes fixed on the brunette sitting alone five tables away from him. His eyebrows rose in amusement as he watched the brunette arranged his lunch on the table. The brunette aligned his lunchbox with the table line and then put his chopstick besides the lunchbox but he keep changing the distance between the two and sometimes bow down to be at an eye level with the table as if making sure that the angle of the chopstick and the lunchbox is placed properly. Once he is satisfied with the arrangement, he has this smile on his face that looks like he had won an award.
Cute. Jaejoong concluded.
+++
Three days ago.
Jaejoong fumbled with the note in his hand, reading it (more like scanning it) but he still couldn’t understand a single word written on the parchment. He had a chemistry assignment to be handed the next day which he had forgotten to do until Yoochun mentioned about it. So he decided to stay back after school and started doing his assignment in the school lab but there’s a tiny problem, he doesn’t know what he should do. The instruction for the assignment was written but he did not understand it.
“What the fuck is NaCl?” He grumbled as he stared at the entire unknown chemicals, stored in the lab chemical closet. Decided to try his luck, he grabbed for two of the closest bottle and brought it to his table. He poured the first chemical into a cylinder and was about to poured the other one too when-
“Stop!”
Startled, the chemical jar almost slipped from his hand. With a glare, he turned around to find the source of voice only to meet with a guy sitting at a table in the far corner. When did he get here? Wait, had he been here the whole time? Why didn’t I realize him earlier? Jaejoong manage to observe the small face with glasses before realizing that he was unfamiliar to him. The raven was going to yell at him for startling him but then the other guy let out an exasperated sigh and had this absurd look on his face as he looked at Jaejoong.
“You can’t mix those two chemicals together, you’ll blow up the whole lab.” He sounded like everyone should already know about that fact and the only thing missing from his words was ‘duhh’.
“Yikes!” Jaejoong quickly put away the chemical jar in his hand and push the one in the cylinder fairly afar. “Damn. I will never get this thing finish.” Throwing his head down onto the table in defeated manner, he let out a frustrated scream, muffled by the marble table. He let himself drown in self-pity and only lifted his head when a ‘thud’ of something could be heard as it was placed on his table. He watched as the other guy arranged a few jars of chemicals in front of him.
“These are all the substances you needed,” he said as he shoved back Jaejoong’s assignment paper. When did he take it? “You need to mix this two first and stir them together until they turn yellow then you can add the other two. Use the Bunsen burner and simmer them for 10 minutes. You need to keep stirring or else they will turn dark red instead of the pink that you want. And one more thing, do not use this-“he pick up the spoon that Jaejoong had grab randomly from the apparatus closet, “-but use this glass rod to stir them.” He handed Jaejoong the glass rod and the latter took it without any question.
For the whole length of explanation from the guy, Jaejoong just stared at him in amazement. But then Jaejoong noticed the corner of the guy lips raise slightly for a moment. Was he smirking? Was he mocking me? Was he trying to say that I’m stupid?
“You-“he was planning to argue with the other guy but then the latter took off his glasses and wipe them with a patch of cloth. Any words coming from the raven’s mouth was lost as his world suddenly became slow motion from the moment the other guy took off his glasses. The wind blew the other guy’s hair and the brunette locks look so soft as wind glided gently through them. A strand of hair fell onto his eyes and Jaejoong’s attention was drawn to that pair of almond orbs, the dark lashes surrounding those orbs flipped slowly, teasingly, as he blinked his eyes. The pair of brown eyes met directly with his eyes and Jaejoong’s breath hitched, lost in the deep gaze.
He put his glasses back. The world became normal again.
“I’m leaving now.” With that the guy turned around and left the lab.
Jaejoong found himself stuck on his seat, still in daze after experiencing the breathtaking moment. “What the hell.”
+++
“Do you know that guy?” Jaejoong nudge Junsu who is sitting next to him.
The red-haired looked up from his lunch to look at Jaejoong. “Which guy?”
“That guy,” he said with a slender finger pointing at the lonely looking brunette.
Yoochun who have been concentrating in full filing his stomach stop eating and look at the direction that Jaejoong pointed.
“I’m not sure,” Junsu reply before digging into his packed fried rice again for another spoonful.
“The one that’s sitting alone?”
“Yes, him. Do you know him, Chun?”
“Yeah. Jung Yunho.”
“Jung Yunho.” Jaejoong try and decide that he like the name of the other guy. “Is he new?”
“Of course not. He’s in the same year as us,” Yoochun said the obvious and added, “-duhh,” to emphasize it.
“Same year as us? Why do I feel like I had never seen him before?”
“Ah! Jung Yunhooo. Now I remember,” Junsu exclaim between bites of fried rice.
Ignoring Junsu, Yoochun continue, “maybe because he spent most of his time hibernating in the school lab than socializing, that’s why.”
“And how do you know him?” Jaejoong pointed an accuse finger at Yoochun, stealing a slice of kimbap from the latter’s lunchbox at the same time.
“He’s in our English class.”
Well that really explains the reason, Jaejoong hardly present at the class. English is not his favorite subject.
“Why are you suddenly interested in him?” Yoochun look at Jaejoong with eyes that say i-know-you’re-planning-something.
“Yes, why?” Junsu interject.
The raven glance back and forth between his two best friends, with his I’m-not-guilty-face. “No reason.”
“No reason my ass. You had never know him, never noticed him though he had sit at that exact same table for lunch since two years ago but then suddenly you just felt like asking about him without any reason? I don’t believe you.”
“Stop trying to be a smart bastard,” the raven said in joking manner before ruffling Yoochun’s curly hair. He get up from his seat and pick up his lunch tray, “see you two at practice,” he said whilst flashing a toothy grin at the two.
“Yes captain!”
+++
As soon as he sits at his table, Yunho started his lunch ritual like every other day. First, he takes out his lunchbox, placing it right above the table line. Squinting his eyes to make sure every angle is aligned, he then took out his chopstick before placing it next to his lunchbox. It doesn’t look straight enough, he observes. So, he place the chopstick 4.5 cm from his lunch and adjust it about 13 degrees to get the perfect arrangement. Satisfied, he can’t help the small smile that decorated his face. Today is Wednesday, so he’ll be having sweet and sour chicken with rice for lunch.
Suddenly, someone stand in front of his table. Yunho look up and he was greeted with a smile from the guy standing opposite him.
“May I sit here?” the raven asked.
Yunho stare blankly at him as his mind process the request. He began by developing a research question, why does this guy want to sit here at my table when no one else had ever wanted to for the last two years? Then he observes all the possibilities; he is holding a lunch tray obviously with his food on it, and other tables look full at the moment. He creates a hypothesis, if the other tables are full, he does not have other place to sit and eat his lunch. Finally, he makes a conclusion that the raven want to sit with him because there are no other empty tables for him to have lunch. Then there’s no harm in letting him sit at my table.
“Sure.”
The raven put his lunch tray down on the table and takes his sit opposite Yunho. “Hi,” he timidly greets.
“Hi.” Yunho stiffly reply before returning his full attention to his food and began eating.
“I don’t know if you remember me but-“
“Of course I remember. I have a great memory. You’re the guy who almost blew up the school lab which happen to be my most favorite place in this school,” Yunho said without even looking up from his lunch.
“I did not,” Jaejoong retort.
“No, you did not. That’s why I said ‘almost’.”
Jaejoong huff in annoyance. “Well I just want to say thank you for helping me.”
“You’re welcome.”
Jaejoong stick out his tongue at the other guy considering that the other guy would not raise his head at all to look at him. This is harder than he thought, making friends with Yunho. But I’m Kim Jaejoong, I will not give up.
“I’m Kim Jaejoong, you?” Jaejoong try to strike a conversation with this guy even if Yunho refuse to look at him.
“Jung Yunho.”
“Ok Jung Yunho, I’m in class D. What about you?”
“A.”
“A. So you’re a science major?”
Yunho nodded as he takes a bite of the chicken, “Chemistry more specifically, and you’re a sport major.”
“Yup.” Jaejoong chirp happily. “Basketball team. I’m the captain.”
“Wow, impressive.”
Jaejoong pouted at that. The brunette doesn’t sound like he’s impress at all. “You don’t sound like you’re impressed,” he complains out loud.
“I am,” the brunette said nonchalantly. “This is me being impressed.”
Jaejoong sigh. He wonders to himself why the hell is he making an effort to talk with this guy. Sure, Yunho is responsive with his words but there’s no feeling in them, he sounds emotionless, like a robot. Jaejoong take a moment as he study the brunette intently, now that he is sitting close enough from him, he manage to see those small almond orbs hidden behind the thick glasses, the mole at the corner of his upper lips, the lips that is currently smear with tiny stains of sweet and sour sauce.
It is amusing to watch Yunho eat especially when he took a bite of rice from his chopstick, the way the metal chopstick glided through his lips and into his mouth before pulling it back out slowly, Jaejoong found it sensual. Yunho also have the tendency to bite his food slowly and he stops for a few moments after each bites before having another one.
His gaze snaps away from Yunho’s face as he felt vibration on his thigh. He reaches for his phone in his pants pocket and pulls it out. There’re two messages, each from his best friends.
Chunface: You’re drooling.
Junbutt: You’re salivating.
His hand shot to his face in an attempt to wipe any trace of drool away but he found none. Shoving his phone back into his pocket, he sends a glare at the two snickering idiots sitting at their table.
“Aren’t you eating?” Yunho’s voice pulls Jaejoong’s attention back to him. He stare at the crown of Yunho’s head as the latter still had his head down, staring only at his food.
“I will. I just don’t particularly like my noona’s cooking.” He stabs his chopstick through the half burn sausage and stirs his fried rice aimlessly. “Would you like to try some?”
“No, thank you. Today is Wednesday.”
“Huh?” What the fuck does Wednesday got to do with this.
“I have sweet and sour chicken with rice on Wednesday, so I can’t eat your fried rice. My whole schedule will mess up.”
“You schedule your lunch?” Jaejoong asked, a hint of laughter in his voice. This guy really is interesting.
At Yunho’s curt nod, Jaejoong can’t help and let out a chuckle but he quickly covers it with a fake cough.
“So, when can you have fried rice?”
“Friday.”
“Ok, I’ll offer you my fried rice on Friday then.”
“No, thank you.”
“Why not?”
“Because after two days, spores which are cells produced by bacteria and fungi that can develop into new bacteria and fungi, will form on your fried rice and eating it will cause unspeakable stomachache. Trust me, I’ve already done the experiment.”
The raven bite his lower lips in an attempt to hide his laughter as he watch Yunho’s face scrunch into disdain probably at the memory of the stomachache. How naïve can this guy be?
“Yunho, I’m not going to let you have this fried rice. I will bring a new one on Friday.”
“Oh, is that so? I guess its ok then.”
Jaejoong lose it. He laughs his heart out. Seriously, Yunho is just damn cute.
“Why are you laughing?”
Taking a deep breath, Jaejoong wave his hand signaling for Yunho to wait as he catches his breath. I’m laughing because you are so adorable and I wish I can eat you up. “It’s nothing Yunho. Hey, do you want to be my friend?”
At that request, Yunho finally lifted his head and stare straight at the boy sitting opposite him. Friend? This is confusing. Why does he suddenly want to become friend?
“I don’t even know you,” Yunho said as matter of fact.
“Well, that’s the point of being friend. So that we can get to know each other better.” Grinning, Jaejoong hold out his hand to Yunho for a handshake.
Yunho just look at the out stretch hand as he deliberately considers his decision. Maybe being friend with Jaejoong is not such a bad idea since that other than his cousin, Changmin, he hardly have any other friend in his whole life.
Jaejoong is enjoying the whole thing at the moment. The look on Yunho’s face is adorable as he’s thinking, obviously judging his decision. Yunho’s expression is unguarded as he focus on thinking, compared to before, now every flicker of emotion show on his face.
The brunette makes a hypothesis to help him make decision better, if he accept Jaejoong’s friend request, who knows someday he could be helpful to him and maybe Yunho can use him for some of his experiment in the future. Besides, it will be great to have another person to talk to other than his cousin, the lab rat and his pet chameleon; and Jaejoong is very fun to talk to, he enjoyed their conversation just now. He was about to achieve a conclusion when his ultra sensitive ears (claimed by him) pick up the sound of whispers around him. He glances around the cafeteria and finally notices that a lot of eyes are on him and Jaejoong. It feels weird. No one ever care about him before, they hardly even look at his way, why now?
“Yunho?” Jaejoong’s voice boom out causing Yunho’s gaze to divert onto Jaejoong’s face instead. The raven flash a bright smile at him and Yunho finally realize the catalyst of the attention. They are staring at him because of Jaejoong. For a moment when they are having a normal conversation Yunho almost forgot who he is and who Jaejoong is.
“Sorry, I can’t.” He watch as the smile on Jaejoong’s face fall and a flicker of hurt adorn his face.
“Oh,” was the only word Jaejoong could mutter.
Yunho was never really good in expressing his feelings nor understanding other’s feelings since he hardly have to think about them before but looking at the hurt in Jaejoong’s eyes, he felt a foreign heavy feeling in his heart and decided that he hate this feeling.
“I don’t understand,” Jaejoong said after he found his voice again. “Why?”
Yunho shrugs. “Because you’re a sport jock which makes you popular and I’m just a nerd that no one care about. We can’t be friends.”
“That is ridiculous,” Jaejoong retort.
“No, it makes perfect sense and logic. I have come up with this theory of friendship and it is logically correct and acceptable to say that your kind should not mix with my kind because it will affect your reputation and give me unwanted public attention, to which I do not want.”
The raven let out a sigh and grabs Yunho’s hand instead. He smirk at Yunho’s startled gasp. “I don’t know why you have to come up with such theory but I’m going to prove you wrong. Here, we’re friends now.”
“You are impossible, Kim Jaejoong.” Yunho shake his head in disbelief but the raven just smile at him. “Fine, I accept this friendship but you are responsible for any consequences of this deal.”
“Ok, friends.” Jaejoong swear his face muscles are going to hurt from all the smiling but it is a normal occurrence for him since he always throw smiles at his fan girls.
When Yunho pull his hand away finally Jaejoong realize that he haven’t let go of the brunette’s hand. As soon as he loosens his grip, he quickly regrets it for his hand miss the warmth emitted from the latter’s hand.
Yunho’s hand shot up to his glasses and he takes it off in an attempt to adjust the offending glass wear. Jaejoong’s world becomes slow motion.
+++
“Here,” Jaejoong handed Yunho the packed lunch that he has prepared that morning. “Today is Monday, so we’re having kimbap!”
Yunho’s lips curve a timid smile at the cheerful and excited expression on Jaejoong’s face. It had been more than two weeks since he agreed to be Jaejoong’s friend and he had long cross out his friendship theory from his ‘Yunho’s Journal of Discovery’.
“Thank you, Jae,” Yunho accepts the lunchbox from Jaejoong and settle it on his lap.
A day after Jaejoong sat with him in the cafeteria, Yunho found his usual table gone. It was confusing at first as he tries to figure out how the table just disappears. Since he doesn’t believe in magic he refused to accept any kind of magic involvement hypothesis at the mystery of his missing table. But then he heard the snickering and mock laughter around him, realizing that it’s an immature prank from his obviously immature and retarded schoolmates, Yunho calmly turn around to leave the cafeteria. Suddenly, Jaejoong came from out of nowhere and put his hand around his shoulder.
“Come sit with me, Yun,” the latter said with a smile.
Yunho felt his face become hot and recognize the feeling as a sudden wave of embarrassment. Probably from the friendly tone and way Jaejoong treats him but deep down he knows, it’s the stupid endearment that Jaejoong had call him. Seriously, Yun? That sounds like a puppy name.
So that day he sat at Jaejoong’s table and that is how he found out that Kim Junsu and Park Yoochun from his English class are Jaejoong’s best friends. Yunho used to hate Park Yoochun because the English teacher loves him and he always gets higher mark than him in English. He had a resolution and mission to beat Yoochun’s mark after every test, but it was a failure. He finally acknowledge that he will always be second best in his English class. However, after spending that short lunch time with the Virginia guy, Yunho found him quite a fine fellow. And Junsu, he likes him. The latter is weird in Yunho’s opinion but at the same time funny, especially his laughter.
That day was fun until some girl spilt orange juice on his head, definitely in purpose. Jaejoong was mad and yell at the girl as she cried and keep saying that Yunho had put Jaejoong under some kind of spell. Seriously? This is not Hogwart, woman. Though it will be fun if it is. Maybe he can create all kind of potions and really used an Imperius curse for real on the girl and let her jump from the Gryffindor Tower though he highly doubt he will be sorted into Gryffindor, Ravenclaw maybe.
“-to the game?”
“Huh?” Yunho look up only to meet with Jaejoong’s frown. He then realizes Jaejoong was asking him something but he hasn’t heard it. “What?”
Jaejoong sigh. “Were you thinking about another experiment to shrink Junsu’s butt?”
He let out a laugh at that. “No. Yoochun will not be pleased.”
“Thank God. I was asking if you’re coming to the game next week?” Jaejoong asked between mouthfuls of kimbap.
“About that,” Yunho hesitates. He slowly picks a slice of kimbap with his chopstick and shoves the well-made food into his mouth. “I don’t think that would be a good idea.”
“But why, Yun?~”
Yunho doesn’t cringe anymore at the puppy-like nickname that Jaejoong called him but the way Jaejoong whine with his lips pouting and the hurt expression in his big doe eyes did make his body feel weird. It’s a foreign feeling for him and he doesn’t understand it.
“Because based on my observation on how people react to our friendship and my hypothesis, I can make a conclusion that other people will not like it if I’m there to support you. Especially your fans.”
“I hate my fans,” the raven pout even harder and Yunho chuckle at that.
It is true however and both of them know it. After the missing table incident, Yunho had made the conclusion that other students do not accept him in the cafeteria anymore. That is when Jaejoong suggest for them to have lunch on the rooftop of the Chemistry department since others hardly go there. Since that day, the rooftop had become their secret haven whenever they want to run away from others. Yunho like it here on the rooftop because it’s near to his lab and he like it when the wind blow softly, particularly when it blow through Jaejoong’s black hair; strands of hair will stuck on the latter’s face and Yunho always make himself helpful by helping the other tuck back his hair into place. He just likes the feel of Jaejoong’s silky hair, they even smells so nice. He wonders what kind of shampoo that Jaejoong used. But that is not the point now.
Yunho shifts his back against the metal railing when he feel Jaejoong leans his head on his shoulder, lately the raven been doing that a lot but Yunho doesn’t mind it at all. This close, he can smell Jaejoong’s scent better.
“I really want you to be there,” Jaejoong whine.
“I really don’t think that’s a good idea. Besides, I don’t know the first thing about basketball. It boggles my mind when I try to reasoned why you have to chase after a ball when there’s like hundreds of them in the sport storage and everyone can have one each. Plus, why must you put it into that ring thing to get a point, why can’t you just juggle the ball around and then get points based on the number of balls you’re able to juggle? It’s so confusing.”
The raven can’t help but laugh. There’s no way he can argue with Yunho’s logical theory though it does entertain him. “This sucks.” Jaejoong nuzzle his cheek against Yunho’ surprisingly muscled arm. Seriously, for a nerd, Yunho have a great body. Wonder what kind of sport he plays?
“Shit! I forgot I have detention. Arghh!”
“Again? For what?” Yunho put down the lunchbox in his hand onto the floor and nudge Jaejoong’s head with his shoulder but the raven won’t budge and now had his hands sneak around Yunho’s arm, embracing it firmly.
“Mr. Han caught me smoking in the toilet. I hate him.”
“Really Jae, you should stop smoking. Do you know what could happen to you if you smoke? There’s a substance in the cigarette called tar, and it will-“
“Shushh.” Jaejoong clasp his palm over Yunho’s mouth. “I’m gonna stop you right there before you lecture me about all of the scientific details which I will not understand no matter how many times you explain it to me and clarify to you that it’s not that I don’t want to stop smoking but I can’t.”
Yunho manage to pull Jaejoong’s hand away from his mouth and hold it in firm grip as he flicks Jaejoong on his forehead. “Nonsense. Lots of studies showed that it is possible for smokers to stop smoking when they have the will.”
“Well, I don’t. I’m addicted to it.”
“I’m sure there’s a cure for such addiction. I will research for it in the library later and you mister, need to go to your detention.”
“Tsk, I don’t’ want to.” The raven lean closer to Yunho and had his head on Yunho’s chest as his other hand that is not in Yunho’s grip crawl across Yunho’s torso. He felt a thrill when he heard Yunho’s heart beat faster at the sudden caress. “Maybe I should skip this one today.”
The brunette shift slightly when the gentle touch of Jaejoong’s fingers ran along his torso. The weird feeling is back and it seems to be getting stronger to the point that he found it hard to breathe. He really needs to start doing some research to found out about this weird feeling he’s been having around Jaejoong.
“No, you’re not skipping anything.” With a strong determination from his part, Yunho manage to push Jaejoong away. “You should go now and I have an experiment that I need to finish.”
+++
“Hey, Jae.”
“Yeah.” Jaejoong turn around and saw that Yoochun is grinning like an idiot he is as he point at the class doorway.
“Yunho is looking for you.”
He glances behind Yoochun and the clown is right, there’s Yunho standing stiffly by the door. Jaejoong almost fly off his chair in excitement but since he’s cool and does not want to give Yoochun the satisfaction of teasing him later, he decided to calmly approach the brunette.
“Hi.” Yunho greet him first. The brunette is wary of all the eyes of Jaejoong’s classmates are on him at the moment but he try to ignore them.
“Hi, you.”
Yunho swear the smile that Jaejoong have on his face right now could blinded anyone for its brightness. “I’ve done my research and just want to drop by and show you the cure for your smoking addiction.”
“Really? What is it?”
Yunho look around the hallway, making sure its empty before pulling Jaejoong behind the door by his necktie. Hidden from Jaejoong’s classmates, Yunho planted a quick kiss on the raven’s full lips. He pull back and look at Jaejoong’s face, the raven had his eyes wide and his mouth open in shock as he speechlessly stare at Yunho.
“Does it work?” Yunho cautiously ask.
“Did you just kiss me?”
“Yes but that is irrelevant at the moment and you still haven’t answer my question. Does it work?”
“You kiss me,” the realization come in a whisper as Jaejoong slowly let himself acknowledge the fact that Jung Yunho just kissed him.
“Jaejoong, stop stating the obvious and help me clarify whether my cure to your addiction worked or not.”
“Your cure to my addiction is by kissing me? What kind of research have you been doing?”
“Well,” Yunho scratch his head guiltily, “I haven’t been doing any research on it since I was busy doing other research.”
“What kind of research?”
Researching on why my heart beats faster than usual when you’re close to me which I still haven’t found the solution yet. “Nothing important.” Yunho lied but never been good at lying, he’s fidgeting on his feet.
Jaejoong manage to gather his calm wits back and decided that he like the fluster look on Yunho’s face. He leans against the door as he sends an accusing look at the squirming brunette. “Then, how did you come up with this oh-so-brilliant-cure of yours?” It’s the truth, the feel of Yunho’s lips on his even just for a flicker of second was brilliant. There is just no way Yunho himself come up with such solution. The thought of kissing would never cross his naïve, scientific mind unless someone else force them into it.
“I asked Changmin and he said that the best way to beat a bad addiction is by replacing it with a good addiction and when I asked him what can be a good addiction and he said kissing,” Yunho innocently tell Jaejoong with a serious expression.
Jaejoong almost laugh at that. Oh Shim Changmin you evil genius, I love you. “Ok, so you try to cure my smoking addiction by making me addicted to your kiss instead. That makes sense.”
“Isn’t it? When I first heard it, I thought it was logical enough that’s why I’m willing to give it a try. So does it work?”
“Hmm, I don’t know.” The raven teasingly lick his lips, “it was too sudden, I haven’t got the chance to really feel it. Maybe you should kiss me one more time.”
Yunho nodded and lean forward to peck Jaejoong on the lips again before pulling his head back to look at Jaejoong’s reaction.
“I think it does work a little bit.”
“Great!” Yunho beam in enthusiasm. “From now on whenever you feel like you want to smoke, you should kiss me instead. That way, you will no longer be exposed to the danger of cancer.”
“Whenever I feel huh. I’m fine with that.”
+++
After ordering the first year to collect all the balls and clean up the gym, Jaejoong headed to the locker room but he was stop on his way by none other than his clown friend, Park Yoochun.
“I know what you’re doing,” the latter said with a sleazy smile.
“What are you talking about?”
“You’re taking advantage of him.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Grinning, he shoves the younger guy aside ad walk to the locker room with Yoochun trailing behind him.
“You’re taking advantage of that Jung Yunho. Just because he innocently allow you to kiss him for the sake of curing your stupid smoking addiction which I think is a stupid act coming from a guy who won the Mathematic Olympiad three years in a row, does not mean you should kiss him 20 times in a day.”
“What’s wrong with that?” The raven open his locker but Yoochun stop him and slam his locker close, using his body to block it by leaning against it.
“It’s wrong unless you kiss him because you want to kiss him not because you want to smoke.”
“Of course I kiss him because I want to kiss him.”
“So you’re finally admitting that you have a crush on him and you want his sweet virgin ass?”
“Yes! But not to the second part… I prefer he want my virgin ass instead.”
“My god, Jae! Just tell him you like him. I’m tired of watching you chasing after him like a puppy.”
“Puppy is cute, right? So you’re saying I’m cute?” The raven blinks his big doe eyes and laugh when Yoochun snorted.
“Great. Being with Yunho has made you into a ridiculous-conclusion-maker.”
Jaejoong chuckle at that. With a heavy sigh, he leans against the locker next to Yoochun. “You don’t understand. It’s complicated when it comes to Yunho because he doesn’t think like we think. I already told him I like him but he just doesn’t get it.”
“Did you actually use the words ‘Yunho, I like you’?”
“Well, not really. But I did tell him that I prefer being with him rather than going to detention and I like his kisses better than cigarettes. I even hug him a lot lately and sure his heart beat faster when I did that but he always push me away after that.”
“See, that’s your problem. You already know that the way Yunho think is different from us so stop being subtle because he will just make a scientific conclusion from your actions. Just tell him straight-forwardly that you like him and you want him to be your boyfriend. And you want him to take your virginity.”
“I don’t want to. I want to hear he said it first,” Jaejoong pouted.
Yoochun rolled his eyes at that. “You sound like a girl.”
“So what? Go and take care your own girl.”
“I already did. That duckbutt is probably having a hard time walking right now.”
“Eww, Chun. Spare me the details.” Jaejoong slaps Yoochun hard on his chest before pushing the latter away so that he can have access to his locker.
“Pfft, you’re just jealous because you can’t have Yunho to do that to you.”
“Whatever.” The raven change from his jersey into his school uniform, after a few spray of body cologne to cover the sweaty scent, he shut his locker close. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a date with Mr. Adorable-but-oblivious-to-Jaejoong’s-feelings.”
+++
Where am I?
“Yun.”
That’s Jaejoong’s voice. Jae.
“Yun, open your eyes. You’re okay now.”
He slowly blinks his eyes open and the first thing that greets his view is Jaejoong’s worried face staring back at him. His doe eyes seem to be wet probably from tears. “Jae,” Yunho manage to choke out.
“Ah, Yun~” Jaejoong couldn’t control emotion anymore. He drops on the not so soft bed (seriously, the school should invest more in buying a better bed for the nurse room or else kids will never get better after they lay on it) and embrace Yunho, careful to avoid from coming in contact with the bruises on the brunette’s face. When his tears leak out, wetting Yunho’s shirt, Jaejoong thought maybe Yoochun was right; he is a girl when it come to Yunho.
“What happened?” Yunho place his palm on top of Jaejoong’s head where the latter is nuzzling on his chest.
“You don’t know how worried I am,” trail of tears stain his cheek as he lifted his head to look at Yunho.
Indeed he was worried when he arrived at the rooftop not to find Yunho but a group of girls hurdling in the corner. As he approach them did he realized, they were ganging up, beating Yunho to unconsciousness. He exploded right there and then. Yelling, pushing, and shoving to get to Yunho. He remembered threatening to hex those girls into oblivion if they don’t leave them alone. Hell, he even almost curse them with Avada Kedavra, one of the effects of spending too much time with Yunho is he become familiar with Harry Potter though he had never read the books nor watch the movies.
“Why did you let those girls beat you up? I thought you know hapkido.”
Yunho smile at the nagging tone in Jaejoong’s voice. “You’re not supposed to hit girls. Because I’m a man.”
“That’s ridiculous. You can hit girls when the threatened your life. I almost used Avada Kedavra on them.”
“Really?” Yunho chuckle, he wiped the tears stain on Jaejoong’s face and pinch the older guy’s nose. “You must really mean it if you want to use AK.”
“I did mean it. I really want to kill them after what they did to my Yunho.” There, I’ve give you another hint. You should get it by now.
“Or maybe I could create a potion and change their hair color. That will be fun.”
He doesn’t get it. Jaejoong sigh but he forces himself to smile at the childlike expression on Yunho’s face. “Aren’t you hurt?” He softly caresses Yunho’s cheek, checking the purplish bruise there.
Yunho flinch at the touch, not because it hurt him but more because of the weird feeling the touch makes him feel however, he did not pull away from Jaejoong’s hand. “No, it doesn’t really hurt much.”
Jaejoong let his hand caress Yunho’s face as his other hand settle on the brunette’s chest. Yunho had his glasses off and Jaejoong can see his eyes clearly from this close. The almond orb is staring intently at him probably trying to make out his sight. The world is becoming slow motion again and Jaejoong can’t tear his eyes away from Yunho’s lips, the lips that he had taste so many times yet could never get enough of. Yes, he is addicted to Yunho’s kisses. Feeling overwhelmed with warm feelings, Jaejoong lean forward and capture Yunho’s lips in a full kiss. Compared to the numerous quick pecks, this time the raven let his lips linger longer, licking and sucking on Yunho’s lower lip.
When he pulls back for breath, he saw Yunho’s eyes were confused and that look actually is quite adorable on him.
“Do you feel like smoking?” Yunho asked in daze.
“Nope,” and Jaejoong lean for a kiss again, this time longer than before.
+++
Yunho slam the book shut in irritation. Why does no great scientist ever made a discovery on human’s emotion and feelings? Now how am I supposed to understand what I’m going through? The memory of Jaejoong’s kisses in the nurse office two days ago is still fresh in his mind. Sure they’ve kiss a lot but somehow those particular kisses felt different and it sent a wave of tingling sensation to his whole body. He is confused, there’s nothing in books that could tell him about that feelings. Frustrated, he sighs heavily.
“You’ve been sighing a lot lately. What kind of research is bothering you?” Changmin flopped down on the couch next to Yunho, carelessly pushing the stack of books on the coffee table as he places his long legs on it.
Yunho shove his ‘Yunho’s Journal of Discovery’ at the younger guy as he chose to close his eyes for a short nap. Changmin read pages after pages of Yunho’s hand scribbling, snorting and scoffing as he reads. After he had done reading, he nonchalantly throws the book on the desk. He glances at side and saw Yunho with his eyes close, on the verge of falling asleep. Being an evil person he is, Changmin smack the older guy on his chest. It was a powerful smack as Yunho’s eyes go flying open.
“Aww, what is wrong with you,” Yunho whine, rubbing his abused chest.
“I’m seriously starting to doubt that you’re the receiver of Young Scientist Award, hyung. Why in the world are you creating a theory on love?”
“I’m not creating theory on love.”
“Fine, you’re not working on theory of love.” Changmin rolled his eyes, sarcasm clearly hinted in his tone. “But you’re working on a theory of feeling flustered, warm, happy, and extremely weird tingling sensation whenever you’re with Jaejoong hyung?”
“Err… yeah.”
“You stupid hyung. All of those feelings when sum up is call love.”
“And from which study did you come up with this conclusion?”
“Hyung!” Changmin cry out in exasperation. Why must his cousin be so clueless when it comes to the matter of his own feelings?
“You can’t conduct a research to justify love. Not all of the things in this world are logical to our mind but it is still acceptable, like love. And not everything have theories to explain its existence, love is something that you can’t explain by theory. If it happens, it just happens.”
“But-“ Yunho was going to argue but the glare that Changmin sent him manage to shut him up.
“I want you to tell Jaejoong hyung that you love him and stop doing stupid research that won’t help you win Nobel awards!”
+++
Jaejoong turn the corner after the stair and finally arrive at the Chemistry lab. He peek his head inside through the open door and when he see Yunho sitting at one of the table, he quickly shuffle towards the taller guy.
“Hi,” he shyly greeted as he take a seat next to Yunho.
“Hi, Jae.”
Jaejoong’s eyes blink in astonishment. Yunho had his glasses off. Damn, not that slow motion thing again! Yunho is smiling, Jaejoong notice but this smile is different. He is smiling so bright that Jaejoong find himself mesmerized by the blissful expression on Yunho’s face.
“Are you wearing contacts?” Stupid stupid Jaejoong! Why must that be the first thing come out of your mouth?
“Yeah. Changmin broke my glasses so I have to wear contacts for the mean time while my new glasses are made. I can’t clearly see in them compared to my glasses and I don’t think they suit me.”
“No. You look great in them. Very handsome,” Jaejoong blush when he whisper the last word and look down immediately as he found it hard to look straight at Yunho’s face now that his glasses is gone and his intense eyes could easily took his breath away.
“Thank you, Jae. Erm… the reason I called you here is that I wanted to share with you my latest research discovery.”
“Oh, I didn’t know you were working on a research. What is it about?”
“It was stupid.” Yunho squirm on his seat, his fingers keep scratching the marble table surface in nervousness. “Changmin help me solve the problem.”
“And? What is it that you’ve found out?”
The brunette inhale a deep breath before turning sideways on his seat so he could look at Jaejoong. With trembling hands, he grab for Jaejoong’s and hold them firmly. Jaejoong bite his lips as he wait for Yunho to continue.
“I love you, Jaejoong.”
“…”
“O-kay. Judging from you reaction, I guess Changmin was wrong and I should really worked on my theory so that I can come up with the right concl- mpphh.”
Jaejoong straddle Yunho’s lap as he capture the other guy in a tight lips lock. “Do not scientifically justify my feelings or yours again,” Jaejoong warn between kisses and he smile when he feels the vibration of Yunho’s laughter against his chest.
They pull back, breathless as they stare at each other. “Aren’t you supposed to say something to me?”
Jaejoong giggle before pulling Yunho into an embrace. He cuddle in Yunho’s arms and whisper against the crook of Yunho’s neck, “I love you too, my crazy scientist.”
end
Sylchunnie
28th May 2012
Author: Sylchunnie
Pairing: YunhoXJaejoong
Rating: PG
Genre: Fluff, Romance, Humor
Length: One-shot
Summary: The kingka falls in love with the clueless nerd. He tries to seduce him but here’s the problem; the clueless nerd is clueless.
the love theorem
Ignoring the food in front of him, he keeps his eyes fixed on the brunette sitting alone five tables away from him. His eyebrows rose in amusement as he watched the brunette arranged his lunch on the table. The brunette aligned his lunchbox with the table line and then put his chopstick besides the lunchbox but he keep changing the distance between the two and sometimes bow down to be at an eye level with the table as if making sure that the angle of the chopstick and the lunchbox is placed properly. Once he is satisfied with the arrangement, he has this smile on his face that looks like he had won an award.
Cute. Jaejoong concluded.
+++
Three days ago.
Jaejoong fumbled with the note in his hand, reading it (more like scanning it) but he still couldn’t understand a single word written on the parchment. He had a chemistry assignment to be handed the next day which he had forgotten to do until Yoochun mentioned about it. So he decided to stay back after school and started doing his assignment in the school lab but there’s a tiny problem, he doesn’t know what he should do. The instruction for the assignment was written but he did not understand it.
“What the fuck is NaCl?” He grumbled as he stared at the entire unknown chemicals, stored in the lab chemical closet. Decided to try his luck, he grabbed for two of the closest bottle and brought it to his table. He poured the first chemical into a cylinder and was about to poured the other one too when-
“Stop!”
Startled, the chemical jar almost slipped from his hand. With a glare, he turned around to find the source of voice only to meet with a guy sitting at a table in the far corner. When did he get here? Wait, had he been here the whole time? Why didn’t I realize him earlier? Jaejoong manage to observe the small face with glasses before realizing that he was unfamiliar to him. The raven was going to yell at him for startling him but then the other guy let out an exasperated sigh and had this absurd look on his face as he looked at Jaejoong.
“You can’t mix those two chemicals together, you’ll blow up the whole lab.” He sounded like everyone should already know about that fact and the only thing missing from his words was ‘duhh’.
“Yikes!” Jaejoong quickly put away the chemical jar in his hand and push the one in the cylinder fairly afar. “Damn. I will never get this thing finish.” Throwing his head down onto the table in defeated manner, he let out a frustrated scream, muffled by the marble table. He let himself drown in self-pity and only lifted his head when a ‘thud’ of something could be heard as it was placed on his table. He watched as the other guy arranged a few jars of chemicals in front of him.
“These are all the substances you needed,” he said as he shoved back Jaejoong’s assignment paper. When did he take it? “You need to mix this two first and stir them together until they turn yellow then you can add the other two. Use the Bunsen burner and simmer them for 10 minutes. You need to keep stirring or else they will turn dark red instead of the pink that you want. And one more thing, do not use this-“he pick up the spoon that Jaejoong had grab randomly from the apparatus closet, “-but use this glass rod to stir them.” He handed Jaejoong the glass rod and the latter took it without any question.
For the whole length of explanation from the guy, Jaejoong just stared at him in amazement. But then Jaejoong noticed the corner of the guy lips raise slightly for a moment. Was he smirking? Was he mocking me? Was he trying to say that I’m stupid?
“You-“he was planning to argue with the other guy but then the latter took off his glasses and wipe them with a patch of cloth. Any words coming from the raven’s mouth was lost as his world suddenly became slow motion from the moment the other guy took off his glasses. The wind blew the other guy’s hair and the brunette locks look so soft as wind glided gently through them. A strand of hair fell onto his eyes and Jaejoong’s attention was drawn to that pair of almond orbs, the dark lashes surrounding those orbs flipped slowly, teasingly, as he blinked his eyes. The pair of brown eyes met directly with his eyes and Jaejoong’s breath hitched, lost in the deep gaze.
He put his glasses back. The world became normal again.
“I’m leaving now.” With that the guy turned around and left the lab.
Jaejoong found himself stuck on his seat, still in daze after experiencing the breathtaking moment. “What the hell.”
+++
“Do you know that guy?” Jaejoong nudge Junsu who is sitting next to him.
The red-haired looked up from his lunch to look at Jaejoong. “Which guy?”
“That guy,” he said with a slender finger pointing at the lonely looking brunette.
Yoochun who have been concentrating in full filing his stomach stop eating and look at the direction that Jaejoong pointed.
“I’m not sure,” Junsu reply before digging into his packed fried rice again for another spoonful.
“The one that’s sitting alone?”
“Yes, him. Do you know him, Chun?”
“Yeah. Jung Yunho.”
“Jung Yunho.” Jaejoong try and decide that he like the name of the other guy. “Is he new?”
“Of course not. He’s in the same year as us,” Yoochun said the obvious and added, “-duhh,” to emphasize it.
“Same year as us? Why do I feel like I had never seen him before?”
“Ah! Jung Yunhooo. Now I remember,” Junsu exclaim between bites of fried rice.
Ignoring Junsu, Yoochun continue, “maybe because he spent most of his time hibernating in the school lab than socializing, that’s why.”
“And how do you know him?” Jaejoong pointed an accuse finger at Yoochun, stealing a slice of kimbap from the latter’s lunchbox at the same time.
“He’s in our English class.”
Well that really explains the reason, Jaejoong hardly present at the class. English is not his favorite subject.
“Why are you suddenly interested in him?” Yoochun look at Jaejoong with eyes that say i-know-you’re-planning-something.
“Yes, why?” Junsu interject.
The raven glance back and forth between his two best friends, with his I’m-not-guilty-face. “No reason.”
“No reason my ass. You had never know him, never noticed him though he had sit at that exact same table for lunch since two years ago but then suddenly you just felt like asking about him without any reason? I don’t believe you.”
“Stop trying to be a smart bastard,” the raven said in joking manner before ruffling Yoochun’s curly hair. He get up from his seat and pick up his lunch tray, “see you two at practice,” he said whilst flashing a toothy grin at the two.
“Yes captain!”
+++
As soon as he sits at his table, Yunho started his lunch ritual like every other day. First, he takes out his lunchbox, placing it right above the table line. Squinting his eyes to make sure every angle is aligned, he then took out his chopstick before placing it next to his lunchbox. It doesn’t look straight enough, he observes. So, he place the chopstick 4.5 cm from his lunch and adjust it about 13 degrees to get the perfect arrangement. Satisfied, he can’t help the small smile that decorated his face. Today is Wednesday, so he’ll be having sweet and sour chicken with rice for lunch.
Suddenly, someone stand in front of his table. Yunho look up and he was greeted with a smile from the guy standing opposite him.
“May I sit here?” the raven asked.
Yunho stare blankly at him as his mind process the request. He began by developing a research question, why does this guy want to sit here at my table when no one else had ever wanted to for the last two years? Then he observes all the possibilities; he is holding a lunch tray obviously with his food on it, and other tables look full at the moment. He creates a hypothesis, if the other tables are full, he does not have other place to sit and eat his lunch. Finally, he makes a conclusion that the raven want to sit with him because there are no other empty tables for him to have lunch. Then there’s no harm in letting him sit at my table.
“Sure.”
The raven put his lunch tray down on the table and takes his sit opposite Yunho. “Hi,” he timidly greets.
“Hi.” Yunho stiffly reply before returning his full attention to his food and began eating.
“I don’t know if you remember me but-“
“Of course I remember. I have a great memory. You’re the guy who almost blew up the school lab which happen to be my most favorite place in this school,” Yunho said without even looking up from his lunch.
“I did not,” Jaejoong retort.
“No, you did not. That’s why I said ‘almost’.”
Jaejoong huff in annoyance. “Well I just want to say thank you for helping me.”
“You’re welcome.”
Jaejoong stick out his tongue at the other guy considering that the other guy would not raise his head at all to look at him. This is harder than he thought, making friends with Yunho. But I’m Kim Jaejoong, I will not give up.
“I’m Kim Jaejoong, you?” Jaejoong try to strike a conversation with this guy even if Yunho refuse to look at him.
“Jung Yunho.”
“Ok Jung Yunho, I’m in class D. What about you?”
“A.”
“A. So you’re a science major?”
Yunho nodded as he takes a bite of the chicken, “Chemistry more specifically, and you’re a sport major.”
“Yup.” Jaejoong chirp happily. “Basketball team. I’m the captain.”
“Wow, impressive.”
Jaejoong pouted at that. The brunette doesn’t sound like he’s impress at all. “You don’t sound like you’re impressed,” he complains out loud.
“I am,” the brunette said nonchalantly. “This is me being impressed.”
Jaejoong sigh. He wonders to himself why the hell is he making an effort to talk with this guy. Sure, Yunho is responsive with his words but there’s no feeling in them, he sounds emotionless, like a robot. Jaejoong take a moment as he study the brunette intently, now that he is sitting close enough from him, he manage to see those small almond orbs hidden behind the thick glasses, the mole at the corner of his upper lips, the lips that is currently smear with tiny stains of sweet and sour sauce.
It is amusing to watch Yunho eat especially when he took a bite of rice from his chopstick, the way the metal chopstick glided through his lips and into his mouth before pulling it back out slowly, Jaejoong found it sensual. Yunho also have the tendency to bite his food slowly and he stops for a few moments after each bites before having another one.
His gaze snaps away from Yunho’s face as he felt vibration on his thigh. He reaches for his phone in his pants pocket and pulls it out. There’re two messages, each from his best friends.
Chunface: You’re drooling.
Junbutt: You’re salivating.
His hand shot to his face in an attempt to wipe any trace of drool away but he found none. Shoving his phone back into his pocket, he sends a glare at the two snickering idiots sitting at their table.
“Aren’t you eating?” Yunho’s voice pulls Jaejoong’s attention back to him. He stare at the crown of Yunho’s head as the latter still had his head down, staring only at his food.
“I will. I just don’t particularly like my noona’s cooking.” He stabs his chopstick through the half burn sausage and stirs his fried rice aimlessly. “Would you like to try some?”
“No, thank you. Today is Wednesday.”
“Huh?” What the fuck does Wednesday got to do with this.
“I have sweet and sour chicken with rice on Wednesday, so I can’t eat your fried rice. My whole schedule will mess up.”
“You schedule your lunch?” Jaejoong asked, a hint of laughter in his voice. This guy really is interesting.
At Yunho’s curt nod, Jaejoong can’t help and let out a chuckle but he quickly covers it with a fake cough.
“So, when can you have fried rice?”
“Friday.”
“Ok, I’ll offer you my fried rice on Friday then.”
“No, thank you.”
“Why not?”
“Because after two days, spores which are cells produced by bacteria and fungi that can develop into new bacteria and fungi, will form on your fried rice and eating it will cause unspeakable stomachache. Trust me, I’ve already done the experiment.”
The raven bite his lower lips in an attempt to hide his laughter as he watch Yunho’s face scrunch into disdain probably at the memory of the stomachache. How naïve can this guy be?
“Yunho, I’m not going to let you have this fried rice. I will bring a new one on Friday.”
“Oh, is that so? I guess its ok then.”
Jaejoong lose it. He laughs his heart out. Seriously, Yunho is just damn cute.
“Why are you laughing?”
Taking a deep breath, Jaejoong wave his hand signaling for Yunho to wait as he catches his breath. I’m laughing because you are so adorable and I wish I can eat you up. “It’s nothing Yunho. Hey, do you want to be my friend?”
At that request, Yunho finally lifted his head and stare straight at the boy sitting opposite him. Friend? This is confusing. Why does he suddenly want to become friend?
“I don’t even know you,” Yunho said as matter of fact.
“Well, that’s the point of being friend. So that we can get to know each other better.” Grinning, Jaejoong hold out his hand to Yunho for a handshake.
Yunho just look at the out stretch hand as he deliberately considers his decision. Maybe being friend with Jaejoong is not such a bad idea since that other than his cousin, Changmin, he hardly have any other friend in his whole life.
Jaejoong is enjoying the whole thing at the moment. The look on Yunho’s face is adorable as he’s thinking, obviously judging his decision. Yunho’s expression is unguarded as he focus on thinking, compared to before, now every flicker of emotion show on his face.
The brunette makes a hypothesis to help him make decision better, if he accept Jaejoong’s friend request, who knows someday he could be helpful to him and maybe Yunho can use him for some of his experiment in the future. Besides, it will be great to have another person to talk to other than his cousin, the lab rat and his pet chameleon; and Jaejoong is very fun to talk to, he enjoyed their conversation just now. He was about to achieve a conclusion when his ultra sensitive ears (claimed by him) pick up the sound of whispers around him. He glances around the cafeteria and finally notices that a lot of eyes are on him and Jaejoong. It feels weird. No one ever care about him before, they hardly even look at his way, why now?
“Yunho?” Jaejoong’s voice boom out causing Yunho’s gaze to divert onto Jaejoong’s face instead. The raven flash a bright smile at him and Yunho finally realize the catalyst of the attention. They are staring at him because of Jaejoong. For a moment when they are having a normal conversation Yunho almost forgot who he is and who Jaejoong is.
“Sorry, I can’t.” He watch as the smile on Jaejoong’s face fall and a flicker of hurt adorn his face.
“Oh,” was the only word Jaejoong could mutter.
Yunho was never really good in expressing his feelings nor understanding other’s feelings since he hardly have to think about them before but looking at the hurt in Jaejoong’s eyes, he felt a foreign heavy feeling in his heart and decided that he hate this feeling.
“I don’t understand,” Jaejoong said after he found his voice again. “Why?”
Yunho shrugs. “Because you’re a sport jock which makes you popular and I’m just a nerd that no one care about. We can’t be friends.”
“That is ridiculous,” Jaejoong retort.
“No, it makes perfect sense and logic. I have come up with this theory of friendship and it is logically correct and acceptable to say that your kind should not mix with my kind because it will affect your reputation and give me unwanted public attention, to which I do not want.”
The raven let out a sigh and grabs Yunho’s hand instead. He smirk at Yunho’s startled gasp. “I don’t know why you have to come up with such theory but I’m going to prove you wrong. Here, we’re friends now.”
“You are impossible, Kim Jaejoong.” Yunho shake his head in disbelief but the raven just smile at him. “Fine, I accept this friendship but you are responsible for any consequences of this deal.”
“Ok, friends.” Jaejoong swear his face muscles are going to hurt from all the smiling but it is a normal occurrence for him since he always throw smiles at his fan girls.
When Yunho pull his hand away finally Jaejoong realize that he haven’t let go of the brunette’s hand. As soon as he loosens his grip, he quickly regrets it for his hand miss the warmth emitted from the latter’s hand.
Yunho’s hand shot up to his glasses and he takes it off in an attempt to adjust the offending glass wear. Jaejoong’s world becomes slow motion.
+++
“Here,” Jaejoong handed Yunho the packed lunch that he has prepared that morning. “Today is Monday, so we’re having kimbap!”
Yunho’s lips curve a timid smile at the cheerful and excited expression on Jaejoong’s face. It had been more than two weeks since he agreed to be Jaejoong’s friend and he had long cross out his friendship theory from his ‘Yunho’s Journal of Discovery’.
“Thank you, Jae,” Yunho accepts the lunchbox from Jaejoong and settle it on his lap.
A day after Jaejoong sat with him in the cafeteria, Yunho found his usual table gone. It was confusing at first as he tries to figure out how the table just disappears. Since he doesn’t believe in magic he refused to accept any kind of magic involvement hypothesis at the mystery of his missing table. But then he heard the snickering and mock laughter around him, realizing that it’s an immature prank from his obviously immature and retarded schoolmates, Yunho calmly turn around to leave the cafeteria. Suddenly, Jaejoong came from out of nowhere and put his hand around his shoulder.
“Come sit with me, Yun,” the latter said with a smile.
Yunho felt his face become hot and recognize the feeling as a sudden wave of embarrassment. Probably from the friendly tone and way Jaejoong treats him but deep down he knows, it’s the stupid endearment that Jaejoong had call him. Seriously, Yun? That sounds like a puppy name.
So that day he sat at Jaejoong’s table and that is how he found out that Kim Junsu and Park Yoochun from his English class are Jaejoong’s best friends. Yunho used to hate Park Yoochun because the English teacher loves him and he always gets higher mark than him in English. He had a resolution and mission to beat Yoochun’s mark after every test, but it was a failure. He finally acknowledge that he will always be second best in his English class. However, after spending that short lunch time with the Virginia guy, Yunho found him quite a fine fellow. And Junsu, he likes him. The latter is weird in Yunho’s opinion but at the same time funny, especially his laughter.
That day was fun until some girl spilt orange juice on his head, definitely in purpose. Jaejoong was mad and yell at the girl as she cried and keep saying that Yunho had put Jaejoong under some kind of spell. Seriously? This is not Hogwart, woman. Though it will be fun if it is. Maybe he can create all kind of potions and really used an Imperius curse for real on the girl and let her jump from the Gryffindor Tower though he highly doubt he will be sorted into Gryffindor, Ravenclaw maybe.
“-to the game?”
“Huh?” Yunho look up only to meet with Jaejoong’s frown. He then realizes Jaejoong was asking him something but he hasn’t heard it. “What?”
Jaejoong sigh. “Were you thinking about another experiment to shrink Junsu’s butt?”
He let out a laugh at that. “No. Yoochun will not be pleased.”
“Thank God. I was asking if you’re coming to the game next week?” Jaejoong asked between mouthfuls of kimbap.
“About that,” Yunho hesitates. He slowly picks a slice of kimbap with his chopstick and shoves the well-made food into his mouth. “I don’t think that would be a good idea.”
“But why, Yun?~”
Yunho doesn’t cringe anymore at the puppy-like nickname that Jaejoong called him but the way Jaejoong whine with his lips pouting and the hurt expression in his big doe eyes did make his body feel weird. It’s a foreign feeling for him and he doesn’t understand it.
“Because based on my observation on how people react to our friendship and my hypothesis, I can make a conclusion that other people will not like it if I’m there to support you. Especially your fans.”
“I hate my fans,” the raven pout even harder and Yunho chuckle at that.
It is true however and both of them know it. After the missing table incident, Yunho had made the conclusion that other students do not accept him in the cafeteria anymore. That is when Jaejoong suggest for them to have lunch on the rooftop of the Chemistry department since others hardly go there. Since that day, the rooftop had become their secret haven whenever they want to run away from others. Yunho like it here on the rooftop because it’s near to his lab and he like it when the wind blow softly, particularly when it blow through Jaejoong’s black hair; strands of hair will stuck on the latter’s face and Yunho always make himself helpful by helping the other tuck back his hair into place. He just likes the feel of Jaejoong’s silky hair, they even smells so nice. He wonders what kind of shampoo that Jaejoong used. But that is not the point now.
Yunho shifts his back against the metal railing when he feel Jaejoong leans his head on his shoulder, lately the raven been doing that a lot but Yunho doesn’t mind it at all. This close, he can smell Jaejoong’s scent better.
“I really want you to be there,” Jaejoong whine.
“I really don’t think that’s a good idea. Besides, I don’t know the first thing about basketball. It boggles my mind when I try to reasoned why you have to chase after a ball when there’s like hundreds of them in the sport storage and everyone can have one each. Plus, why must you put it into that ring thing to get a point, why can’t you just juggle the ball around and then get points based on the number of balls you’re able to juggle? It’s so confusing.”
The raven can’t help but laugh. There’s no way he can argue with Yunho’s logical theory though it does entertain him. “This sucks.” Jaejoong nuzzle his cheek against Yunho’ surprisingly muscled arm. Seriously, for a nerd, Yunho have a great body. Wonder what kind of sport he plays?
“Shit! I forgot I have detention. Arghh!”
“Again? For what?” Yunho put down the lunchbox in his hand onto the floor and nudge Jaejoong’s head with his shoulder but the raven won’t budge and now had his hands sneak around Yunho’s arm, embracing it firmly.
“Mr. Han caught me smoking in the toilet. I hate him.”
“Really Jae, you should stop smoking. Do you know what could happen to you if you smoke? There’s a substance in the cigarette called tar, and it will-“
“Shushh.” Jaejoong clasp his palm over Yunho’s mouth. “I’m gonna stop you right there before you lecture me about all of the scientific details which I will not understand no matter how many times you explain it to me and clarify to you that it’s not that I don’t want to stop smoking but I can’t.”
Yunho manage to pull Jaejoong’s hand away from his mouth and hold it in firm grip as he flicks Jaejoong on his forehead. “Nonsense. Lots of studies showed that it is possible for smokers to stop smoking when they have the will.”
“Well, I don’t. I’m addicted to it.”
“I’m sure there’s a cure for such addiction. I will research for it in the library later and you mister, need to go to your detention.”
“Tsk, I don’t’ want to.” The raven lean closer to Yunho and had his head on Yunho’s chest as his other hand that is not in Yunho’s grip crawl across Yunho’s torso. He felt a thrill when he heard Yunho’s heart beat faster at the sudden caress. “Maybe I should skip this one today.”
The brunette shift slightly when the gentle touch of Jaejoong’s fingers ran along his torso. The weird feeling is back and it seems to be getting stronger to the point that he found it hard to breathe. He really needs to start doing some research to found out about this weird feeling he’s been having around Jaejoong.
“No, you’re not skipping anything.” With a strong determination from his part, Yunho manage to push Jaejoong away. “You should go now and I have an experiment that I need to finish.”
+++
“Hey, Jae.”
“Yeah.” Jaejoong turn around and saw that Yoochun is grinning like an idiot he is as he point at the class doorway.
“Yunho is looking for you.”
He glances behind Yoochun and the clown is right, there’s Yunho standing stiffly by the door. Jaejoong almost fly off his chair in excitement but since he’s cool and does not want to give Yoochun the satisfaction of teasing him later, he decided to calmly approach the brunette.
“Hi.” Yunho greet him first. The brunette is wary of all the eyes of Jaejoong’s classmates are on him at the moment but he try to ignore them.
“Hi, you.”
Yunho swear the smile that Jaejoong have on his face right now could blinded anyone for its brightness. “I’ve done my research and just want to drop by and show you the cure for your smoking addiction.”
“Really? What is it?”
Yunho look around the hallway, making sure its empty before pulling Jaejoong behind the door by his necktie. Hidden from Jaejoong’s classmates, Yunho planted a quick kiss on the raven’s full lips. He pull back and look at Jaejoong’s face, the raven had his eyes wide and his mouth open in shock as he speechlessly stare at Yunho.
“Does it work?” Yunho cautiously ask.
“Did you just kiss me?”
“Yes but that is irrelevant at the moment and you still haven’t answer my question. Does it work?”
“You kiss me,” the realization come in a whisper as Jaejoong slowly let himself acknowledge the fact that Jung Yunho just kissed him.
“Jaejoong, stop stating the obvious and help me clarify whether my cure to your addiction worked or not.”
“Your cure to my addiction is by kissing me? What kind of research have you been doing?”
“Well,” Yunho scratch his head guiltily, “I haven’t been doing any research on it since I was busy doing other research.”
“What kind of research?”
Researching on why my heart beats faster than usual when you’re close to me which I still haven’t found the solution yet. “Nothing important.” Yunho lied but never been good at lying, he’s fidgeting on his feet.
Jaejoong manage to gather his calm wits back and decided that he like the fluster look on Yunho’s face. He leans against the door as he sends an accusing look at the squirming brunette. “Then, how did you come up with this oh-so-brilliant-cure of yours?” It’s the truth, the feel of Yunho’s lips on his even just for a flicker of second was brilliant. There is just no way Yunho himself come up with such solution. The thought of kissing would never cross his naïve, scientific mind unless someone else force them into it.
“I asked Changmin and he said that the best way to beat a bad addiction is by replacing it with a good addiction and when I asked him what can be a good addiction and he said kissing,” Yunho innocently tell Jaejoong with a serious expression.
Jaejoong almost laugh at that. Oh Shim Changmin you evil genius, I love you. “Ok, so you try to cure my smoking addiction by making me addicted to your kiss instead. That makes sense.”
“Isn’t it? When I first heard it, I thought it was logical enough that’s why I’m willing to give it a try. So does it work?”
“Hmm, I don’t know.” The raven teasingly lick his lips, “it was too sudden, I haven’t got the chance to really feel it. Maybe you should kiss me one more time.”
Yunho nodded and lean forward to peck Jaejoong on the lips again before pulling his head back to look at Jaejoong’s reaction.
“I think it does work a little bit.”
“Great!” Yunho beam in enthusiasm. “From now on whenever you feel like you want to smoke, you should kiss me instead. That way, you will no longer be exposed to the danger of cancer.”
“Whenever I feel huh. I’m fine with that.”
+++
After ordering the first year to collect all the balls and clean up the gym, Jaejoong headed to the locker room but he was stop on his way by none other than his clown friend, Park Yoochun.
“I know what you’re doing,” the latter said with a sleazy smile.
“What are you talking about?”
“You’re taking advantage of him.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Grinning, he shoves the younger guy aside ad walk to the locker room with Yoochun trailing behind him.
“You’re taking advantage of that Jung Yunho. Just because he innocently allow you to kiss him for the sake of curing your stupid smoking addiction which I think is a stupid act coming from a guy who won the Mathematic Olympiad three years in a row, does not mean you should kiss him 20 times in a day.”
“What’s wrong with that?” The raven open his locker but Yoochun stop him and slam his locker close, using his body to block it by leaning against it.
“It’s wrong unless you kiss him because you want to kiss him not because you want to smoke.”
“Of course I kiss him because I want to kiss him.”
“So you’re finally admitting that you have a crush on him and you want his sweet virgin ass?”
“Yes! But not to the second part… I prefer he want my virgin ass instead.”
“My god, Jae! Just tell him you like him. I’m tired of watching you chasing after him like a puppy.”
“Puppy is cute, right? So you’re saying I’m cute?” The raven blinks his big doe eyes and laugh when Yoochun snorted.
“Great. Being with Yunho has made you into a ridiculous-conclusion-maker.”
Jaejoong chuckle at that. With a heavy sigh, he leans against the locker next to Yoochun. “You don’t understand. It’s complicated when it comes to Yunho because he doesn’t think like we think. I already told him I like him but he just doesn’t get it.”
“Did you actually use the words ‘Yunho, I like you’?”
“Well, not really. But I did tell him that I prefer being with him rather than going to detention and I like his kisses better than cigarettes. I even hug him a lot lately and sure his heart beat faster when I did that but he always push me away after that.”
“See, that’s your problem. You already know that the way Yunho think is different from us so stop being subtle because he will just make a scientific conclusion from your actions. Just tell him straight-forwardly that you like him and you want him to be your boyfriend. And you want him to take your virginity.”
“I don’t want to. I want to hear he said it first,” Jaejoong pouted.
Yoochun rolled his eyes at that. “You sound like a girl.”
“So what? Go and take care your own girl.”
“I already did. That duckbutt is probably having a hard time walking right now.”
“Eww, Chun. Spare me the details.” Jaejoong slaps Yoochun hard on his chest before pushing the latter away so that he can have access to his locker.
“Pfft, you’re just jealous because you can’t have Yunho to do that to you.”
“Whatever.” The raven change from his jersey into his school uniform, after a few spray of body cologne to cover the sweaty scent, he shut his locker close. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a date with Mr. Adorable-but-oblivious-to-Jaejoong’s-feelings.”
+++
Where am I?
“Yun.”
That’s Jaejoong’s voice. Jae.
“Yun, open your eyes. You’re okay now.”
He slowly blinks his eyes open and the first thing that greets his view is Jaejoong’s worried face staring back at him. His doe eyes seem to be wet probably from tears. “Jae,” Yunho manage to choke out.
“Ah, Yun~” Jaejoong couldn’t control emotion anymore. He drops on the not so soft bed (seriously, the school should invest more in buying a better bed for the nurse room or else kids will never get better after they lay on it) and embrace Yunho, careful to avoid from coming in contact with the bruises on the brunette’s face. When his tears leak out, wetting Yunho’s shirt, Jaejoong thought maybe Yoochun was right; he is a girl when it come to Yunho.
“What happened?” Yunho place his palm on top of Jaejoong’s head where the latter is nuzzling on his chest.
“You don’t know how worried I am,” trail of tears stain his cheek as he lifted his head to look at Yunho.
Indeed he was worried when he arrived at the rooftop not to find Yunho but a group of girls hurdling in the corner. As he approach them did he realized, they were ganging up, beating Yunho to unconsciousness. He exploded right there and then. Yelling, pushing, and shoving to get to Yunho. He remembered threatening to hex those girls into oblivion if they don’t leave them alone. Hell, he even almost curse them with Avada Kedavra, one of the effects of spending too much time with Yunho is he become familiar with Harry Potter though he had never read the books nor watch the movies.
“Why did you let those girls beat you up? I thought you know hapkido.”
Yunho smile at the nagging tone in Jaejoong’s voice. “You’re not supposed to hit girls. Because I’m a man.”
“That’s ridiculous. You can hit girls when the threatened your life. I almost used Avada Kedavra on them.”
“Really?” Yunho chuckle, he wiped the tears stain on Jaejoong’s face and pinch the older guy’s nose. “You must really mean it if you want to use AK.”
“I did mean it. I really want to kill them after what they did to my Yunho.” There, I’ve give you another hint. You should get it by now.
“Or maybe I could create a potion and change their hair color. That will be fun.”
He doesn’t get it. Jaejoong sigh but he forces himself to smile at the childlike expression on Yunho’s face. “Aren’t you hurt?” He softly caresses Yunho’s cheek, checking the purplish bruise there.
Yunho flinch at the touch, not because it hurt him but more because of the weird feeling the touch makes him feel however, he did not pull away from Jaejoong’s hand. “No, it doesn’t really hurt much.”
Jaejoong let his hand caress Yunho’s face as his other hand settle on the brunette’s chest. Yunho had his glasses off and Jaejoong can see his eyes clearly from this close. The almond orb is staring intently at him probably trying to make out his sight. The world is becoming slow motion again and Jaejoong can’t tear his eyes away from Yunho’s lips, the lips that he had taste so many times yet could never get enough of. Yes, he is addicted to Yunho’s kisses. Feeling overwhelmed with warm feelings, Jaejoong lean forward and capture Yunho’s lips in a full kiss. Compared to the numerous quick pecks, this time the raven let his lips linger longer, licking and sucking on Yunho’s lower lip.
When he pulls back for breath, he saw Yunho’s eyes were confused and that look actually is quite adorable on him.
“Do you feel like smoking?” Yunho asked in daze.
“Nope,” and Jaejoong lean for a kiss again, this time longer than before.
+++
Yunho slam the book shut in irritation. Why does no great scientist ever made a discovery on human’s emotion and feelings? Now how am I supposed to understand what I’m going through? The memory of Jaejoong’s kisses in the nurse office two days ago is still fresh in his mind. Sure they’ve kiss a lot but somehow those particular kisses felt different and it sent a wave of tingling sensation to his whole body. He is confused, there’s nothing in books that could tell him about that feelings. Frustrated, he sighs heavily.
“You’ve been sighing a lot lately. What kind of research is bothering you?” Changmin flopped down on the couch next to Yunho, carelessly pushing the stack of books on the coffee table as he places his long legs on it.
Yunho shove his ‘Yunho’s Journal of Discovery’ at the younger guy as he chose to close his eyes for a short nap. Changmin read pages after pages of Yunho’s hand scribbling, snorting and scoffing as he reads. After he had done reading, he nonchalantly throws the book on the desk. He glances at side and saw Yunho with his eyes close, on the verge of falling asleep. Being an evil person he is, Changmin smack the older guy on his chest. It was a powerful smack as Yunho’s eyes go flying open.
“Aww, what is wrong with you,” Yunho whine, rubbing his abused chest.
“I’m seriously starting to doubt that you’re the receiver of Young Scientist Award, hyung. Why in the world are you creating a theory on love?”
“I’m not creating theory on love.”
“Fine, you’re not working on theory of love.” Changmin rolled his eyes, sarcasm clearly hinted in his tone. “But you’re working on a theory of feeling flustered, warm, happy, and extremely weird tingling sensation whenever you’re with Jaejoong hyung?”
“Err… yeah.”
“You stupid hyung. All of those feelings when sum up is call love.”
“And from which study did you come up with this conclusion?”
“Hyung!” Changmin cry out in exasperation. Why must his cousin be so clueless when it comes to the matter of his own feelings?
“You can’t conduct a research to justify love. Not all of the things in this world are logical to our mind but it is still acceptable, like love. And not everything have theories to explain its existence, love is something that you can’t explain by theory. If it happens, it just happens.”
“But-“ Yunho was going to argue but the glare that Changmin sent him manage to shut him up.
“I want you to tell Jaejoong hyung that you love him and stop doing stupid research that won’t help you win Nobel awards!”
+++
Jaejoong turn the corner after the stair and finally arrive at the Chemistry lab. He peek his head inside through the open door and when he see Yunho sitting at one of the table, he quickly shuffle towards the taller guy.
“Hi,” he shyly greeted as he take a seat next to Yunho.
“Hi, Jae.”
Jaejoong’s eyes blink in astonishment. Yunho had his glasses off. Damn, not that slow motion thing again! Yunho is smiling, Jaejoong notice but this smile is different. He is smiling so bright that Jaejoong find himself mesmerized by the blissful expression on Yunho’s face.
“Are you wearing contacts?” Stupid stupid Jaejoong! Why must that be the first thing come out of your mouth?
“Yeah. Changmin broke my glasses so I have to wear contacts for the mean time while my new glasses are made. I can’t clearly see in them compared to my glasses and I don’t think they suit me.”
“No. You look great in them. Very handsome,” Jaejoong blush when he whisper the last word and look down immediately as he found it hard to look straight at Yunho’s face now that his glasses is gone and his intense eyes could easily took his breath away.
“Thank you, Jae. Erm… the reason I called you here is that I wanted to share with you my latest research discovery.”
“Oh, I didn’t know you were working on a research. What is it about?”
“It was stupid.” Yunho squirm on his seat, his fingers keep scratching the marble table surface in nervousness. “Changmin help me solve the problem.”
“And? What is it that you’ve found out?”
The brunette inhale a deep breath before turning sideways on his seat so he could look at Jaejoong. With trembling hands, he grab for Jaejoong’s and hold them firmly. Jaejoong bite his lips as he wait for Yunho to continue.
“I love you, Jaejoong.”
“…”
“O-kay. Judging from you reaction, I guess Changmin was wrong and I should really worked on my theory so that I can come up with the right concl- mpphh.”
Jaejoong straddle Yunho’s lap as he capture the other guy in a tight lips lock. “Do not scientifically justify my feelings or yours again,” Jaejoong warn between kisses and he smile when he feels the vibration of Yunho’s laughter against his chest.
They pull back, breathless as they stare at each other. “Aren’t you supposed to say something to me?”
Jaejoong giggle before pulling Yunho into an embrace. He cuddle in Yunho’s arms and whisper against the crook of Yunho’s neck, “I love you too, my crazy scientist.”
end
Sylchunnie
28th May 2012