Missing Chances (Ch. 21)
Title: Missing ChancesChapter: 21/22
Pairing: Yesung/Hangeng, Many side pairings
Rating: PG
Genre: VERY AU High School, Romance, Humor, mild angst, and um many more
Disclaimer: own no one -sobs-
Summary: Yesung likes Ryeowook, Kyuhyun likes Ryeowook. So to make sure Kyuhyun gets time and attention from Ryeowook, Kyuhyun makes it so Yesung has to help the new transfer student who just happens to be the nice looking Chinese Hangeng.
A/N - Sry its kind of late xD i fell asleep. also didnt read back over it so there might be some small mistakes
Chapter 21
I could hear birds chirping outside my window, but for some reason it sounded like they were in my room; chirping their annoying high pitch cry into my ear. I groaned, rolling over placing a pillow around my ears, blocking out the sounds. This was not a pleasant way to wake up.
When I rolled over, I rolled right into a patch of sunlight and even with my eyes closed it felt like someone was standing over me, poking me in the head with an ice pick. I moaned and rolled right back the other way. I slowly opened my eyes to stare at my wall.
I felt like my head was trying to explode and I had no idea how I ended up in my room. I scooted closer to the wall, away from the evil light, and trying to remember anything from last night.
I was feeling really weird not being able to remember anything. The last thing I remembered was talking to Heechul. The more I tried to remember, the more I got only random images. I didn’t see how an image of Zhoumi and Leeteuk arm wrestling was going to help me.
I groaned to myself again when I realized I was awake. I laid there thinking for a couple minutes. ‘I should probably go get something to drink and hunt down some aspirin to get rid of this headache’ With that thought I slowly, oh so very slowly, rolled out of bed and stood up.
Even at the speed I got up with, it still felt like millions of tiny little Kyuhyun’s were poking my brain and eyes with tiny toothpicks. I moaned and quickly shut my blinds with my eyes closed. That helped tremendously. I was able to actually open my eyes and get dressed.
I was kind of shocked to see I was still in my clothes from last night. As quickly as I could, which honestly wasn’t fast, I switched shirts for a sweater and put on loose sweats.
I wasn’t feeling up to actually getting dressed. Not when I was just going back to bed after I scored myself some aspirin and water. Before I shuffled out of my room, I grabbed my beanie and put it on almost covering my eyes.
It took almost ten minutes for me to get to the kitchen and I was leaning on the wall most of the way down. I stumbled my way into the kitchen, not really looking around. I was aiming for the sink, but I only made it to the table. With eyes half closed, I slumped into a chair and put my head in my arms.
“So, I take it you are having a hard morning?” The voice made me jump, and then groaned from the sudden movement. With a hand covering most of my eyes, I peeked thru and saw Hangeng.
He was looking at me over the rim of his glasses. He had apparently been sitting there, just reading a book when I came in. How I missed him was a mystery, what with his hair falling over his eyes like that and the glasses perched on his nose, just so.
“Yesung!”
I snapped out of my daydream at the sound of him yelling my name, “I, uh, huh?” I bet I was winning on most intelligent response with that.
He smirked, “Sorry to yell. I was trying to get your attention. You seemed out of it. Are you ok?” He closed his book and leaned forward, showing concern.
I felt myself blush, “Uh. I’m ok. I just have this hangover and I’m still not fully aware of my surroundings yet.” I laid my head back on the table to stop myself from staring again. ‘I can’t believe I was just staring at him like that. What the hell is wrong with me?’
I heard him snicker, but I refused to look and see what was so damn funny. “After last night, I’m surprised you’re actually up.” I heard him say from somewhere above me.
I rotated my head and rest of my body, so I could face him without completely setting off the evil little Kyuhyun with the ice pick that was in my head again, “Last night? Do you know what I did last night?”
He gave me this look I couldn’t identify, “You don’t remember last night? At all?” he asked.
“No” I responded, “Did I do something horrible? Do you know how I got to my room?” I asked. I really hoped, I didn’t do something really stupid.
I watched as he pushed up his glasses and gave me that look I still couldn’t identity. “I was the one that helped you to your room. What was the last thing you remember doing or saying?” he asked.
‘Well at least one mystery solved, now for the rest.’ I thought. Before I could answer, Kibum came whistling into the kitchen, looking perky and well rested. I narrowed my eyes at him. I don’t remember him being at the beginning of the party.
I narrowed my eyes at him from my position on the table, “Why are you so perky?” I rolled my eyes over to Hangeng again. “As a matter of fact, why are you up so early and unaffected? I know you drank the punch.”
Kibum just ignored me, got a bowl out, some cereal, and some milk. He sat next me and started eating. Just watching him eat was making my stomach churn.
Hangeng just snorted, “I only had a couple. I had thought they tasted funny, so I made sure to keep it to a minimum. You, on the under hand, were slamming them back as if you were dying of thirst.”
I tried to show him my fuck you look, but I think all I was able to pull off was squinting at him.
Kibum spoke up around his cereal, “Yesung was drinking last night?” he was acting like I wasn’t even here.
Hangeng turned to him “Yes. I guess he knew the juice was spiked and start gulping them down.”
Kibum snorted, “Alcohol and Yesung do not mix. Although if you are ever curious about something, it’s a great way to find things out; that boy can not keep a secret while drunk to save his life.”
I was getting tired of him doing that, “Hey, hey. That boy is sitting right here and does not appreciate being talked about as if he wasn’t in the room.”
Kibum just smiled at me and ate some more. I knew, I had to eat something, but just the thought of getting up to get the food had my stomach protesting.
I must have been staring mighty hard at that cereal bowl. Next thing I knew there was a bowl in front of me and Hangeng was pouring the cereal and milk. I gave him a grateful look, pulled it close to me and start to slowly eat it.
Kibum spoke up again, “So, besides you getting completely hammered, did anything else happen?”
I looked at him as I chewed, “Honestly, I have no idea. All I remember is talking to Heechul, getting the drinks and sitting down on the couch. After that, I have no idea what is real and what are just random images my brain conjured up.”
Hangeng interrupted, “So, you remember nothing?”
The way he said had me sort of scared, “Nothing. Why? Did something happen? Did I do something?” I fired off questions.
I looked at him as he fidgeted, “Um, nothing super bad happened. Although it might be a good idea to avoid Ryeowook and Kyuhyun for a while; you sort of yelled at them. I wasn’t able to hear about what, by the time I got there it was over and you some how ended on the ground.”
I just stared at him. I thought my side hurt from how I had slept, but maybe it was because of that. Try as I might, I couldn’t formulate what Hangeng told me into a memory. I just got flashes of images. Just thinking about made my head hurt more. I just groaned, put my head in my hands and tried to get more food in me.
Kibum started snickering, “Oh man, I’m almost sad I missed that. I always wanted to be there when he finally blew up.”
I was curious as to where he actually was, “Oh, where were you last night? I was going to ask, when you walked in, but you started making fun of me and I forgot.”
Kibum just got up, put his bowl away and sat back down. Then he looked at me, “I was at that concert you gave me the tickets for.”
I thought back trying to remember. Then it hit me “Oh. Those two tickets, you were going to go with Donghae then. So, you just go by yourself or you take someone else?” I gave him a look at that.
He eyed me out of the corner of his eye and said “I went with Eunhyuk.”
Before I could call him on that, I heard whistling coming from outside the kitchen. We turned to watch as Sungmin came in the room.
Sungmin came in whistling, saw us and waved a little wave. He continued on his way to the fridge, grabbed a couple things and poured a huge glass of juice.
I couldn’t help but stare at him and what he was wearing. I knew that shirt and I knew it wasn’t his.
He gathered all the stuff up, said, “Good morning, see you all later.” and walked back out with all the stuff he got.
I turned to Kibum to see him looking at me with his eyebrow raised. I asked “Um, please tell me I wasn’t seeing things and that, that was in fact Sungmin, super happy, and wearing Kangin’s shirt.”
Kibum looked like he was holding in laughter, “That indeed looked like Kangin’s shirt. I don’t want to know why he was wearing it though and I absolutely don’t want to know why he was so happy this early in the morning.”
I finished my cereal and stood up, “I don’t want to know either. I know for a fact that’s Kangin’s shirt, since I got it for him a couple years ago for his birthday. I’m going to go take something for this headache and lay down for a few minutes to let the meds work. So, if either of you need me, I’ll be up in my room. Just text me or come up.” with that I nodded and headed to the stairs.
As I was climbing up the stairs, the pounding of my head seemed to be keeping in step with the actual steps. I was never again going to drink like that again. The aftermath sucks, headaches and memory loss are not good things.
I rounded the corner on the hall where my room was on and came face to face with Kangin as he was leaving his room. We just stared at each other. He was clearly looking for an escape and I was just trying to form a coherent thought around the evil toothpick wielding Kyuhyun in my brain.
Apparently, my mouth and brain weren’t connected anymore because next thing I know I was I’m blurting out, “So, are you and Sungmin dating now or just fooling around?” I could not believe I just asked that.
Kangin turned a very nice shade of red and started looking everywhere, but my face, “Well, you see, the thing is, maybe, yes.” he was starting to fidget and he finally looked at me, “Yes. Sungmin and I decided to start dating.”
He seemed to be waiting for me to object or make fun of him. All I felt was relief that they finally made it to this point because it was getting ridiculous. All I did was nod and start walking past him when I said, “It’s about time. We were starting to think you two would never make it.”
He just stared at me as I walked past, “What!?” I just ignored him and went into my room. I really needed something for this headache.
In my room, I quickly found the medicine I would need. Taking them, I lay on top of the covers on my bed and just closed my eyes waiting for the meds to kick in.
I couldn’t stop my thoughts from wandering. I tried again, to remember last night, but again nothing. My mind flashed to Hangeng this morning with those glasses on.
I quickly made myself think of other things. I knew it was just a matter of time before Kibum and Eunhyuk became official. I was happy that Kangin finally got someone else; it’s been a long time since Leeteuk.
I sighed and rolled over, feeling the medicine finally start working. My headache was way more tolerable now. I just laid there and dozed for 20 minutes. I was brought back to fully awake by my phone ringing.
I grabbed it and saw it was Hangeng. I hit accept and held the phone to my ear, “Hello?”
“Yesung, I didn’t wake you up did I?” he asked.
“Not really, I was just dozing the rest of my headache away. What’s up?” I asked.
He answered, “If you are feeling better, want to go a movie or something? I haven’t really had a chance to really go and see anything since I got here and Zhoumi is still passed out asleep. So what do you say?”
My chest and stomach felt like they had little butterflies in them just flapping away in them at that. I answered, “Um, sure I can go with you. What time?”
“Just come over to my room whenever you are ready and we can leave when I finish getting ready. Just come in, Zhoumi is out and won’t hear you. Bye.” and he hung up.
I just stared at my phone for a couple seconds trying to fully comprehend what just happened. Putting my phone down, I quickly got out of bed and grabbed some clothes, changed, and brushed my teeth. I decided to go ahead and head over there, to see if he was ready.
I lightly knocked on his door, but didn’t hear anything. I cracked the door open and stuck my head in. The room was littered with clothes and school books. I looked at the beds and saw Zhoumi curled as close to the wall as he could get and away from the lights in the room.
Figuring I might as well walk in and wait for Hangeng, I went in the room and sat on the edge of Hangeng’s bed.
I was only sitting there for 5 minutes, when Hangeng came out of the bathroom. I was glad he had his face covered with the towel because I’m positive I was staring. He was wearing a pair of faded jeans and a black wife beater; I could clearly see his muscles on his arms.
I was able to at least close my mouth and look at the wall across from me, as he threw his towel back into the bathroom. He saw me and stopped. Then he smiled and put his glasses back on. I was now subjected to a new view of his wet hair falling over his face, with his glasses on no less.
He started speaking, “You should have said you were already here. I was just in there brushing my teeth and washing my face. I would have come right out. Were you waiting long?”
My mind was busy memorizing the site in front of me, so I only caught the end part. “Um no, not long, only about 5 minutes.”
Hangeng smiled at me again, my heart did not flutter I tell you, and said, “Good. I’ll just pull this shirt on and we can go.”
I just stared and nodded. He turned and started pulling his shirt on. I watched his arm muscles flex as he pulled the shirt over his head. I turned away before he turned around.
I was thinking furiously, ‘What the hell is wrong with me? I mean yea, I know he’s good looking, but it was never this bad. It’s like something switched in me and I just can’t help myself now.’ I snapped out of when I heard Hangeng speak.
“Alright. We can head out now if you’re ready.” He was standing near the door.
I nodded “Yea, I’m ready. We can go now.”
He just smiled and closed the door after I passed him, “Good.”
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The next couple hours went by like a dream.
We went to a movie. I paid for myself and got my own drink. Even though it was just like when I went to the movies with Kibum, it felt different. It had me on edge.
We saw whatever action movie was playing. We whispered during the previews about random things and if my eyes happened to have strayed to him it wasn’t my fault, but his glasses fault.
After the movie, we went to a fast food place. Again, I got my own stuff. My mind kept rolling the word date over and over again. I picked a table with many chairs and he sat down right in front of me. I had a great view of him. We talked about the movie again, about how boring school would be next week and that was it. We were done eating and heading back to the dorm.
We were just walking in comfortable silence, when Hangeng grabbed my arm. We were on campus already.
“Hey, would it be ok if I came up to your room and talk with you?” he asked. His cheeks were slightly red.
This whole thing had me really curious as to what was going on. “Sure and this will give me a chance to ask about what I did last night. You seem to be the only one who can tell me what I did.”
He nodded and we continued on to my room. In the short distance to my room I could feel some sort of tension that wasn’t there a minute ago. I racked my brain yet again trying to remember if I did something to Hangeng last night, but nothing came up.
When we got to my room, I went and sat on my bed. I looked up at Hangeng, but he was just standing there near the other bed.
I thought I would speak first, “So, now that we are away from anyone interrupting. What happened last night, I seriously don’t remember anything.”
Hangeng smiled and started, “Well, first off, you yelled at Kyuhyun and Ryeowook. I wasn’t there for the whole thing. I was just able to catch the end of it. So, if you want to know more on that you have to ask one of them.”
I groaned and put my head in my hands “Great. I really want to know, but if I was yelling, I don’t want to have to go to them to find out about what.”
Hangeng snickered, “Yea, I would leave them alone for a while again.”
I nodded “Will do. Anything else happen?”
Hangeng sat down on the bed across from me “Well, after the fight with those two, I thought it was a good idea for you to be away from people and I brought you to your room.”
‘It must not have been easy carrying my drunken ass.’ I thought.
He continued, looking anywhere but my face, “Well, I brought you up here and dropped you on the bed. Then we started talking.”
Something about the way he said talking, had my mind working. I was getting more flashbacks, but I still couldn’t comprehend them. I got a flash of me crying into his shirt and then it was gone.
I looked at him, “I was crying.”
Hangeng looked at me, “Yes. You started crying because of you were yelling at Ryeowook.”
I continued, “I was crying on you though.”
Hangeng blushed, “Again yes. I thought you needed comfort so I was patting you on the back.”
I stared at him. Then, the more he talked, the more I was having flashes of memories. I looked at the floor, trying to pull a solid memory out. Only thing that stood out from that, was me remembering, when I asked him, if he wanted to know another reason why I was angry at him.
I looked at him again to see him staring at me. He asked, “Remember anything more?”
I sort of nodded “Yea. A flash of me asking you if you wanted to know another reason why I was angry at you.” he blushed, “Oh god what did I say.” I was freaking out hoping I didn’t say anything to scare him, hell I don’t even know what I could have said.
He blushed even more and looked at the floor, “Um, you were just rambling for most of it. You just went on about how I looked and about my glasses.”
As he was talking apparently my mind thought I should remember it now. I remember telling him all that and I felt my face flush with shame. I groaned and threw myself back on my bed, “Oh my god. I can’t believe I actually said that.”
He got up and sat next to me. I still had my hands over my face refusing to look at him. I felt the bed shift near my chest. Then he spoke, “Then you told me about your dream.”
I stilled, that was the last piece of the puzzle for my memory of what happened in my room, I remembered everything. I flew up and stared at him.
He was just sitting there looking at me, almost waiting. I remembered the kiss, if I could call it that, since I passed out. “Oh god, I kissed you and passed out.” I put my head in my hands again and just wished I could disappear, “I am so embarrassed.”
I heard him start chuckling. I turned to look at him, “You don’t hate me for it?”
Hangeng just smiled, “Hate you? No. As a matter of fact, I was afraid it was done in a drunken stupor.”
I just stared at him “Huh?”
He smirked, “All the stuff I did today was to see if it was true.”
I thought back over today and realized normally he doesn’t wear his glasses all day. “I’m sorry, what?”
He continued, “I made sure to wear my glasses around you today, since you were very adamant about it last night. When I found out you couldn’t remember anything, I was afraid it wouldn’t work, but I saw all your reactions today. You’re not very good at hiding your feelings.” and he chuckled again.
I narrowed my eyes at him “That’s not fair. I thought I was going crazy. Soooo, you’re not upset I kissed you?” I looked at him closely.
He got serious and stared back at me, “Are you?”
I looked at the bed thinking over his words, ‘Was I upset I kissed him? No. Do I want to do it again?’ I thought hard on that last one ‘Yea, I would want to do it again’
I looked up at him again, “No. I don’t regret it.”
I really hope I was reading into all this right; still staring at him, I leaned into him. I was thinking I was going to be the one moving in, but not even half way there I felt his lips on mine.
It wasn’t very deep, but it had shivers running down my spine. He put his hand on my cheek, moved it up to my hair and slightly deepened the kiss. I swear my skin was on fire from the contact.
I pulled back to look at him. I was sure my eyes were like his, slightly glazed over. I just had to ask, I couldn’t not know this, “Ok, what’s happening and what’s it going to mean?”
He pulled completely back and ran his hand thru his hair “What’s happening? I think I’m falling for you.”
I smirked “That’s a good answer, since you already know I fell for you. But where do we go from here?”
Hangeng looked at the wall for a second thinking. He turned to me with a smile “How about going out with me?”
I stared at him with wide eyes “Did you just ask me out!?”
His eyes got uncertain “Um, yes. Unless you don’t want to that is, but then I would have to admit to being confused.”
I started laughing, “I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t hearing things. Yes of course I’ll date you.”
He looked very relieved, “I was hoping you would say that.”
I spoke up “Can we wait for like a week before we tell everyone?”
He looked at me confused, “Why?”
I smiled, “Because I don’t want to have to explain anything yet. Also, we can spend this week just being ourselves without prying eyes. I don’t want to keep it secret for like ever, just till we work out and are comfortable with each other. Does this make sense to you?”
He smiled at me “Yea. This will be just our week without anyone knowing then.”
I smiled “Thanks.” I looked at the clock, “We have class tomorrow. We should be going to sleep soon.”
Hangeng stood up chuckling “Got it.” he walked over to me, “Then, I’ll just kiss my boyfriend good night and go to my room and sleep.” He, then proceeded to give me a very nice good night kiss.
When he pulled away, I was in a dazed state again. He chuckled, said good night again and left.
I started giggling to myself and then I started laughing. I threw myself back on my bed still laughing. ‘I couldn’t believe I was dating Hangeng now.’
I got ready for bed with a giant grin on my face. I’m pretty sure I fell asleep with the grin still on my face.
Chapter 22
(A/N- ok only one more to go <33 word of warning... i havent wrote it yet xD i have been going thru A LOT of stress in my real life and has my beta. so there is a very real chance chapter 22 will be late. i have written most of it but its still slow going. i just ask that if i don't post it Monday that you be patient xD it will only be a couple days late. so watch out for it <333 ) Also with the past 2 chapters comments...i'm sry i didnt reply xD i have been really busy ^^;; but i did read them and i loved them all xD i promise to reply to these comments -bows- SORRY xDD