The Perfect Decision Chap. 2 : Strange Feelings

[kumo_is_kumo]

Title: The Perfect Decision (Volume 2)

Pairing: Jongkey

Genre: Romance, Fluff, Smut, Drama, Angst, Fantasy

Length: Series

Summary: After getting into a steady relationship and discovering their mutual feelings for each other, fate says the other way and there are people who are trying to untangle their bond. How do they are going to overcome all the problems now?

Kibum wakes up when Secretary Hwang knocks on the door, calling for his name and politely asking him to wake up. He groans softly; Jonghyun really does not spare his ass. Secretary Hwang tells him that he is being called to the family room and to be expected there soon because there is an important guest.

With a tired huff, Kibum makes his way towards the said room.

Inside the family room, he could find Jonghyun and there is also the young minister Lee Jinki, and there is also the Queen and an old woman whom Kibum couldn’t realize who.

“Kibum-ah, you come. Are you okay? Are you tired?” Jonghyun comes to him, holding onto his waist gently while asking for his well being. Kibum would be scoffing in his face if not for the other people around them. He sends him a small smile and mutters that he is fine and so on.

The old woman is staring at them without saying anything.

Jonghyun brings him to sit on the sofa before the Crown Prince is leaving his side to sit beside the old woman.

“Kibum-ah, this is my grand mother. It’s the first time for you to meet. Grandma, this is my spouse, Kim Kibum.”

Kibum bows down as polite as he could on his seat. The Queen Dowager gives him a simple nod before she glances back at her grandson.

“How are you doing, my grandson? You have become so handsome now.” She speaks while running her hands over Jonghyun’s face. The Crown Prince laughs softly and nods his head. “I have never been better, Grandma. With Kibum by my side, he makes me happier.”

His last sentence should be considered romantic but it goes ignored by the Queen Dowager. She continues asking her grandson a few more questions and Kibum watches with slight interest. This is boring.

The Queen Dowager glances on the other side of the room where another young man is seated and she smiles. “Isn’t this our Jinki? Look at you! You look so attractive, young man!”

Lee Jinki laughs politely at the compliment. “It has been so long, Grandma. We all miss you a lot.”

“I do miss you, too, my grandsons. Now, now, tell me about your life, Jinki. I haven’t listened to your voice for a very long time!”

The young minister begins to speak and the Queen Dowager seems to be very happy. Jonghyun jokes around with them and they are having their time together, with the smiling Queen by their side.

Kibum feels his eyebrow twitch.

Is it just his feeling or he is indeed being ignored by this… this Queen Dowager?

He silently taps his foot against the carpeted floor, thinking another thing to distract himself from falling into a bad mood.

The Queen Dowager is chatting to his spouse with all that interest and so on and Kibum inwardly scoffs. For God’s sake.

Kibum glances away from the sight and his eyes meet Minister Lee Jinki’s eyes. He smiles as a greeting towards him and the older male gives him one dazzling smile as a reply of his politeness. Yeah, smile. Kibum thinks about bright smile and all he can think suddenly is Jonghyun’s. With that in mind, Kibum glances back at his spouse who is still talking to his grandmother.

Minister Lee Jinki keeps his eyes on the Crown Prince’s spouse, with a soft smile playin on his lips for the entire time. Kibum doesn’t seem to realize that there is a pair of eyes watching him.



The Queen Dowager claps her hands softly when she remembers something.

“Jonghyun-ah, I have great news for you!”

“What is it, Grandma?”

She smiles widely, face looking clearly in happiness. “So-eun will be coming tomorrow.”

Jonghyun’s ears perk up at the news. “Really? Our So-eun?” He seems to be so happy and he moves giddily. The Queen Dowager nods her head and Kibum watches Jonghyun’s face brightens by the news.

Who is this So-eun, Kibum asks in his mind.



The grandmother and her grandson continue to have a chat a bit more before Jonghyun glances at his spouse and speaks, “Kibum-ah, you can go back to rest first. I will be taking Grandma to her room. Okay?”

Kibum simply nods his head and gives the elderly woman a polite bow, before walking out of the family room. Minister Lee Jinki taps him by his shoulder with a smile.

“Hey. Do you mind if we walked together?”

“No, no, it’s okay.” Kibum smiles back to him.

They walk away from the family room and towards the center hallway when the older male speaks up.

“I’m sorry about the Queen Dowager. She always acts like that ever since forever.” He says softly with a laugh. Kibum chuckles and shakes his head. “No, it’s fine. I understand.”

“Anyway,” Lee Jinki smiles, all teeth and gummy, “I heard you are attending the private university right now.”

“Yes. I’m majoring in Social Communication.” Kibum nods his head.

Lee Jinki smiles and laughs softly. “I was majoring in it, too, before! You can come to me if you needed help with your lessons. I’m usually staying at my office or in the library.”

“Ah, yes. Thank you so much, Jinki-nim.”

The older male frowns at the way Kibum speaks his name and he shakes his head in disagreement. “No, don’t call me that, I sound so old. Call me hyung, it’s fine.”

Kibum laughs. “Alright, I’m sorry, hyung.”



“Grandma, are you tired? Shouldn’t you rest?” Jonghyun asks his grandmother and she tsk-es at him. “I may be old but I still want to hear my grandson’s voice.”

Jonghyun grins at her and nods his head, taking a seat beside her.

“We all miss you, Grandma.”

“I know. I miss you, too, and your father, too.” She laughs.

“But, Grandma, you didn’t come to my wedding.” Jonghyun says softly, feeling a pout forming on his lips. The elder woman’s eyebrow twitches and she smiles apologetically at him.

“I’m so sorry, Jonghyun. My treatment took a bit longer than I thought.”

“No, it’s fine. As long as you are healthy, I couldn’t ask for more.” Jonghyun reassures her.

“How are you and your spouse?”

“We are doing great, Grandma.” Jonghyun answers with a wide smile. The elder woman stares at his face and hums silently.

“Are you happy, Jonghyun?”

Jonghyun nods his head honestly and smiles. “Very happy. I love him so much, Grandma.”

She nods and forces a smile.



***



Kibum halts when Jonghyun hurriedly pecks his lips before apologizing to him on the next morning.

“I’m sorry I can’t take you to university today.”

“Where are you going?” Kibum asks, fingers unconsciously fisting the front of Jonghyun’s jacket. The Prince smiles and smoothers down Kibum’s damp black hair.

“I have to go the airport today. Actually, now. I have to go now, Kibum-ah. I will call you later!”

And then he runs away towards his private car. Kibum is left on his spot, clutching onto the thin air.

“What the hell?”



The lessons in the university go longer than Kibum imagines and he sighs loudly as soon as he gets into the car. The driver politely smiles at him. “Bad day, Young Master?”

Kibum rubs his face with his palms. “Yeah, you could say so.”

The car drives him back to the palace. He thanks the driver man before walking in by himself, being greeted by the officers and the maids.

After dropping his bag, Kibum walks out to try and find his spouse. He hears laughter coming from the living room and with curiosity, Kibum walks there, and he finds Jonghyun with someone else.

“Jonghyun?” He silently calls. His spouse glances at him and smiles.

“Hey, you are back? Come here,” he calls him and Kibum steps closer to him. There’s a girl around their age sitting very closely to Jonghyun and she smiles at him.

“Kibum-ah, this is So-eun. She is my childhood friend and she is the daughter of Minister Byun. She has just arrived here for she is having a free time to pay me a visit.”

Kibum nods his head and smiles to greet the girl, giving her a slight bow out of politeness.

“Yah, greet my spouse,” Jonghyun jokes and pokes the girl on her cheek. She rolls his eyes before greeting Kibum politely.

“Hello, my name’s Byun So-eun and I’m this silly Crown Prince’s childhood friend ever since forever.”

Kibum feels his lips twitch weirdly and he forces a smile. “Um, hi.”

“What do you mean with silly?” Jonghyun demands an explanation from the girl. She fakes a scoff and laughs.

“Please! I know everything about you, you silly boy. Do you remember that one time when you embarrassed yourself in front of the other kids because you dropped your cake?”

Kibum hears Jonghyun groans, before he says, “Oh, stop remembering that! It had been a very long time! You were also beside me and you were the one who bumped into me!”

“Hey, I did not!” She exclaims. “You did it yourself!”

Jonghyun cuts her off with banter of sentences.



Kibum blinks.

Jonghyun looks so happy. He rarely sees him laughing like this. Only a few times. And he seems so relaxed. This is so unusual.

The childhood friends are still talking with each other, completed with joking hits on arms or laughter and giggles along the time. Kibum has had enough of it.

“I think,” Kibum starts, stopping the two from chatting for a while, before continuing, “I would like to go back first. Excuse me, Prince.”

Kibum doesn’t know how slow Jonghyun could get and he watches his spouse smiles at him and tells him to get back because it’s fine. With a disbelief glare, Kibum excuses himself and walks out of the living room, and soon hears those two chatting away again.

He heads towards the library to calm himself and distracts his mind with doing his assignments. This is so ridiculous.

Kibum steps into the library after grabbing his books from his room, only to find Jinki sitting calmly on one of the seat, a book on the table in front of him.

“Hello, Kibum!” He greets and smiles widely. Kibum feels the smile is infectious and he finds himself doing the same. “Hello, hyung. Do I disturb you?”

“No, no! Come and sit here!” Jinki hyung says while dragging the seat beside him out from under the table and Kibum places his books down, sitting afterwards.

“Are you having an assignment?” Jinki hyung asks curiously while staring at the books. Kibum nods his head and grabs one of them, opening the page he marks before.

“Do you need help?” Jinki hyung offers with a toothy grin. Kibum chuckles and nods his head. “Sure!”



It turns out that Jinki hyung helps him a lot. He knows everything about what he is majoring and Kibum scribbles down the important things in his notes, nodding his head while Jinki hyung is explaining everything to him.

He laughs silently (because this is a library) when Jinki hyung pops out a few jokes out of nowhere. They chat for a while when Kibum has done his assignment and he has watched in awe at how fast he finishes it.

“Hyung, do you know someone named So-eun?” Kibum asks carefully, drawing random circles on a sheet of paper. Jinki hyung nods.

“Yes. She is the daughter of the Minister Byun and she is Jonghyun’s childhood friend. They were attached to the hips before, and they were so close. They still are. Why? Have you met her?”

“Yeah, just now,” Kibum grumbles, pressing a particular dot on the paper with his pen. Jinki hyung winces as he stares at the hole from the pen on the paper and he carefully grabs the poor paper away.

“Don’t ruin your pen,” he jokes. Kibum realizes what he has been doing and he pops the metal tip in, clipping it down in his book.

“Sorry.”

“You seem distracted, Kibum. Are you tired?”

“What time is it,” Kibum glances at the clokc hanging on the wall, “I think I should be going back now, hyung. Thank you so much for your help. Be ready to find me here whenever I need help,” he teases him, grabbing his books while standing up from his seat.

Jinki hyung laughs at shakes his head. “It’s nothing! You can come up to me if you needed help or needed someone to talk to!”

“Sure. I will bbe going first, hyung. See you around.”

After waving at the older male, Kibum steps out of the library and walks along the hallway connecting the study area, such as library and the offices with the resting palace. His mood is turning into a better one after he talked with Jinki hyung, but as soon as he sees who it is turning around the corner of the hallway; Kibum feels his mood drops down again.

“Hey!” The So-eun girl greets him with a smile, skipping towards him. Kibum forces a smile and bows to her. “Hello.”

“Fancy meeting you here.” She comments. Kibum feels his eyebrow twitches; what does she mean.

The friendly smile drops from her face and she watches his appearance from his head down to his toes, as if judging him.

“Say… How is it living in the royal palace?” She whispers with fake concern and Kibum feels like clawing her eyes off.

“It’s nothing to worry about.” Kibum tries to keep his politeness. She is the Minister’s daughter, for God’s sake.

She glares at him. “It must be hard for you, isn’t it? Moreover, you are a male. Your dignity must be hurt so much.”

Kibum replies her glare. “Not really.”

Oh so this is how you play, girl?

The expression on her face turns green and she fumes in anger.



Minister Choi Minho steps out of his office room and is about to walk out of the building when he hears something rather unusual in the study area. He steps closer and hides behind the wall when he sees the Crown Prince’s spouse and the girl he knows too well are exchanging glares.

“You have to know this! I have known Jonghyun since like forever and I know everything about him! That position… the one you are having right now… it shoule be mine.” She hisses in front of his face.

Kibum tenses his jaw and simply answers: “But I’m the one who is married to him right now.”

Her face shows that she is offended and she scoffs in disbelief. “This bitch!” She curses, a hand flying up to land a hit on Kibum’s face.

Kibum grips onto her wrist before she could hit him and he mutters, “No matter how hard you try, he is still mine.”

She is sprouting anger and Kibum smirks to her face. “And, oh. A true lady does not use violence.”

He yanks her hand out of his grip and walks off.

Minister Choi Minho smirks in amusement, thinking that the little spouse of the Crown Prince looks like someone who is not easy to be bullied.

She gaps at him in disbelief, chuckling bitterly while muttering curses at him. Stomping her foot in annoyance, she walks away to the opposite direction and halts immediately when a low voice talks to her.

“You have not changed even a bit.” Minister Choi Minho speaks to her. She eyes him in disgust before scoffing. “You are the one to talk. Look- before you are sticking your nose into my life, I think it would be better for you to find a way to get your father’s attention.”

She smiles sweetily at him before walking off with a disgusted scoff.

Minho watches her walks away; fists gripped tremblingly in annoyance and his teeth grit to hold himself back.



***



Kibum shoots the ball into the ring, yet the orange ball hits the side of the ring and bounces back to the other side of the court. He groans loudly in annoyance. He has not gotten any point for the past ten minutes. Feeling bad mood is distracting his play.

The ball rolls around and hits a polished formal shoes owned by someone else, before two longs hands grab the ball and steps closer to him.

“Having a bad day?”

Kibum glances at the one walking closer to him and recognizes the male as the young Minister Choi Minho. He does not know the male too well and it takes him a few seconds before responding to the request.

“You could say so.”

The taller male bounces the ball back to him and Kibum catches it, watching in confusion as the other shrugs his suit off and rolls his sleeve up.

“Are you up for one-on-one?”

Kibum chuckles in half-annoyance. “Bring it on.”



It takes a long time before the both of them stop playing and Kibum grits his teeth. The young minister easily wins the game and puts his hands on his hips in amusement.

“I heard you used to play in a team before. Seeing your skill, are you sure you were a captain?” He teases. Kibum glares at him and ignores the comments, panting in exhaustion.

It’s not that he is unskilled or what; his ass is still throbbing in pain from the last intercourse. Moving is a hard thing for him right now.

“Thanks for the game.” Minister Choi Minho smirks at him and grabs his suit, walking off soon. Kibum grunts and decides to head back to rest.



***



He has gotten under the thick comforter and tries to sleep. Slumber has not come to him yet and he sighs in annoyance. He is so tired yet his eyes refuse to close and give him the wanted rest.

And Jonghyun still has not come back yet.

Kibum doesn’t know what to do or what to say. He has tried calling Jonghyun a few hours ago and it went unanswered.



Jonghyun steps into his chamber at the midnight, shrugging off his jacket and unbuttoning his shirt before stepping into the bathroom to take a quick bath. He has been going around the huge palace to accompany his childhood friend, So-eun, because she tells him that she wants to greet everyone after a very long time she has left the place.

He is happy that his childhood friend is back here. She is a very dear friend to him.

He glances at the lump under the comforter and grins. Lifting up the thick fabric, he quickly joins into the bed and sighs in content. Jonghyun wraps his arms around his spouse and pulls him close, pressing his chest to Kibum’s back and planting a soft kiss on the other’s cheek.

Jonghyun snuggles close into his neck and soon drifts into a deep sleep.

Kibum opens his eyes and sighs silently, feeling the arms around him are not as calming as they usually are.









***








A/N: More drama to come. XD
I see that you all like the first chapter so let's just face the plot real soon.
What do you think about this chapter? Any annoyance towards some people? lol
Hope you like it, and please tell me what you think about this! ^^ Thanks for reading~!