[Drabble] Boundaries [14/?]

Mar 12, 2012 22:31


14. My Girlfriend

Yoochun shoots Junsu a look and smiles when it is returned with a raised eyebrow.  Talk about awkward.

It was the first time either Yoochun or Junsu were going to officially meet the DBSK duo.  They had scheduled dinner at the Bum’s Story and decided on a noraebang to go afterwards.  Apparently all the plans had been made by Jaejoong and Yunho; Jaejoong on the JYJ side and Yunho with his young partner.

But neither host was there.

Shim Changmin sat across the table with his hands folded across his chest.  The young seventeen year old stared boldly into his sunbae’s eyes.  It wasn’t challenging or even rude.  Rather it felt like the teen was trying to figure something out but lacked the nerve to ask.

Well, Yoochun guesses that’s what made the younger so cute.

“So, did either of them say when they were getting here?” Junsu asks, his question directed to all and none of them.

“…” Changmin stayed silent but looked away.

There was something on that boy’s mind, Yoochun knew.  Something that probably had to do with a certain Jung Yunho and Kim Jaejoong.

Jaejoong had texted him five minutes ago saying he was going to be ten minutes late, delayed because of traffic, and Yunho was with him so they’d both be late.  But Yoochun wasn’t about to fess up.  In fact, he had a bit of digging to do.

“So Changmin-ah,” Yoochun started, friendly and charming.  Changmin immediately looked up in rapt attention.  Oh yes, being the elder had lots of perks.  “How has work been?  I hope you haven’t worn yourself out going back and fro, from Korea to Japan and back.”

“It’s really nothing,” Changmin said, his smile was hesitant but true.  Yoochun smiled back.

“I remember being in Japan,” Yoochun continues.  “It was lonely.”

“Yoochun, we-” we had Jaejoong-hyung, but Yoochun shifted his eyes to the musical actor and Junsu understood immediately.  Twenty plus years of knowing and working together had made the subtlest signals clear as day.  “-we had it hard as well.”

“While you’d think the three of us had each other, Jaejoong-hyung had Kim Hyunjoong,” Yoochun said with a sigh.  He looked up as though he could see the past just beyond the ceiling.  Quickly, he ‘snapped’ himself out of it.  “Oh, you know Kim Hyunjoong right?  From SS501?”

“Of course,” Changmin agreed.

“It was difficult at the time,” Yoochun continued.  He was careful to balance the sensitivity with some quiet sturdiness.  A feel of a man who took one for the team without complaining.  “Jaejoong-hyung and Junsu were really the only two I knew.  Yet…”

Yoochun looked down and let the natural lines on his forehead make a crease.

“Anyways,” Yoochun sighs.  “I bet you have it harder.  Only you and Yunho.  Especially since our hyung takes up so much of young Yunho’s time.  It must be difficult.”

Yoochun smiled at the younger boy while Junsu excused himself from the table. There was a deliberate pause as Junsu disappears toward the restrooms.

“Can I be frank with you, Yoochun-sunbaenim?” the younger asked.

“Of course.”

“Yunho-hyung is an idiot,” Changmin said with such a straight face that it shocked the older idol speechless.

“Excuse me?” Yoochun asks, completely confused.

“Jung.  Yunho.  Is.  An.  Idiot,” Changmin repeats slowly.

There is a long stretch of silence.  A long awkward stretch of silence.

“I don’t understand where you’re going with this,” Yoochun finally admits sheepishly.

“Wait,” Changmin pauses.  It’s his turn to look confused.  “Aren’t you asking me in an unnecessarily round about way whether Yunho-hyung likes Jaejoong-sunbaenim?”

And Junsu wonders whether it would be more awkward to walk in now or stand outside the men’s room for another five minutes.

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A/N: And here's to another drabble as the group meets (schemes)~!

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