Hello Chap. 4

[kumo_is_kumo]

Title: Hello

Pairing: Jongkey

Genre: Romance, Fluff, Smut, Drama, Semi-Angst

Length: Series

Summary: They were young when it all happened; the young love, the separation, the sadness, the fake hurting words. They are matured now when it all happens; the second meeting, the hesitation, the fear of getting hurt, and… the bit of remaining love inside.

Chapter 4



The whole journey away from the bus stop is silent and Kibum finds himself fidgeting uncomfortably on his seat. He could feel Jonghyun stealing glances once in a while towards him and he might have hit him if he continued any longer.

“So, where do you live?” Jonghyun asks him quietly. Kibum opens his mouth, clearing his throat before answering, “Just drop me at the street later.”

The CEO lets out a ‘tsk’. “No way. It’s late and dark. I won’t let you walk alone.”

Kibum feels his heart does flip again. Why should he talk like that? Like he cares?

“N-No, it’s fine, I could—”

“I insist.” Jonghyun cuts him, looking straight to the road. Kibum sighs in defeat.

“By the way,” the CEO starts again. “What are you doing this late?”

Kibum glances out of the car. “T-That’s not your business.”

Jonghyun chuckles at his act. “I’m just starting a friendly conversation, Kibum.” He says softly. Kibum grips onto his bag.

“I-It’s ‘Teacher Kim’ to you!” He shrieks, because hearing Jonghyun calls his name again after all this time, it doesn’t make his heart healthy.

“Really, Teacher Kim? We are out of the working field right now. Acting friendly would be better, don’t you think so?” Jonghyun says, voice teasing. Kibum huffs, keeping his eyes darted away from the other male’s.

“I-I would prefer you to keep the professionalism!”

Jonghyun chuckles and says nothing. Kibum inwardly curses himself for acting so childish and stuttering.

“Still so hard-headed.” Kibum hears Jonghyun murmurs under his breath. It does weird feelings again for him.

Jonghyun talks as if they were acquaintances, as if they were close, as if nothing had happened, as if… as if he cared.

Kibum ignores the way he feels his face flushes warm and keeps his eyes out. The whole ride is driving him crazy.

“P-Please turn right,” he instructs the driving male and Jonghyun gives him a slight nod. It takes no more than another five minutes before Kibum sees the sight of his small apartment building and he curses inwardly because he has to thank the man for the ride.

“T-This is where I live. Um, t-thank you for the ride, Mr. Kim. I really appreciate it. Um—”

“Give me your phone.” Jonghyun speaks in authority; a palm opens in front of him. Kibum blinks questioningly and lets out a soft ‘eh?’ before Jonghyun sighs and grabs his bag from him, rummaging the inside for his phone.

Kibum could barely realize that Jonghyun is practically harassing his personal things before the CEO is holding his phone in his hand and begins to tap on the screen. He hands the device back to the owner and sends him a teasing wink.

“Good night, Teacher Kim.”

“O-Oh, g-good night, Sir. T-Thank you for your… um, ride.”

Kibum scrambles out of the car and runs softly, before Jonghyun is calling him with a ‘hey’. Turning around in horror, Kibum gulps when he sees that lopsided smirk on the male’s face.
“Wait for my call.”

Then he drives away. Kibum shrieks in realization as he handles his phone and sees that there’s a new addition in his contact list.

“Damn you!” He curses with red face.



***



Kibum could barely sleep for the night because despite pressuring the point of him not being affected by the sudden presence of the certain CEO back into his life, he still finds himself secretly waiting for that call. Yet none comes blaring through his phone.

He grits his teeth, munching on his scrambled eggs as his breakfast while muttering soft profanities under his breath towards that CEO; yet his eyes are still glancing at the way his phone sits still on the counter.

“I’m not waiting for his call!” Kibum grunts for himself. He slams his fork and plate into the sink, making a mental note to wash them at night and grabs his phone.

The bus ride towards the school is not enough to take Kibum’s mind away from the CEO. He is so sleepy but his night beauty sleep was spent with staring at his phone, or pretending to play games in the device.

Kibum simply groans at the feeling of how heavy his eyes are. He feels sorry for his students today.



His fellow teacher friends greet him on that morning and some even take the note of his mental breakdown state.

“Teacher Kim, are you okay?” Teacher Zhang, the Mandarin Language teacher asks him in concern. Kibum waves the question with one small smile and nods. “I am. Thank you for asking, though.”

The teacher nods and pats his shoulder gently, before walking out of the teachers’ office to get ready for the first class of the day. Kibum groans and grabs the stack of papers from inside his bag, because his students will be having a test today. Thankfully, he doesn’t have to explain anything today.

The test goes well enough, save for a few occasional students who try to glance at their friends’ paper, but with one annoyed glare from Kibum, they gulp nervously and instead write anything in their mind down on the paper.

He goes back to his desk in the teachers’ office after his classes are done and slumps down with a soft groan.

Oh my life, Kibum protests in his mind.

One more class is left for him after the lunch break yet Kibum couldn’t find the urge to teach anything today.

His phone blinks for a new text message when he is in the middle of sipping on his lemon water and Kibum leaps to grab it from his bag pocket.

It’s a very simple message yet Kibum finds himself blushing like a school girl.

‘Bet you are waiting for my call.’

This should be offending yet Kibum finds himself biting down on the rim of his tumbler. He furiously types back a reply of ‘In your dream.’

He stops from sending the message. Doesn’t he sound so friendly and waiting if he reply to him now? He should be waiting for a while before doing so. Kibum nods, yeah, he should not sound so easy or—WAIT WHAT.

Kibum slams down his phone to stop himself from acting so irrational because he does not want this. Their story is over years ago and he should not be doing this—

Message sent.

“What?!” Kibum shrieks, grabbing onto his phone and sees the draft message is empty. “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD WHAT SHOULD I DO DAMN IT HOW—”

The bell rings and it’s time for his next class. Kibum grips his fists and takes some deep breathes to calm himself before deciding to leave his phone back into his bag and go teaching.

Let’s just say, Kibum’s last class for the day does so much better than the first ones in the morning. The students giggle at their English Language teacher’s smiling face.



***



He carefully checks phone, eyes squint in worry and breathes out in relief when there is no new text message. Jonghyun must be busy because he has not—WAIT NO HE IS NOT WAITING FOR HIS REPLY.

Doing his works of marking the tests for another hour, Kibum finally decides to go back home and walks towards the bus stop with his colleague.

“So, Kibum.”

“Yeah?”

“I heard you acted quite weird today.” Another Teacher Kim asks him, tone teasing. Kibum feels warmth creeping up his face and he snorts.

“No, I did not.”

“Tsk, you can’t lie to Joonmyeon. No one lie to me.” He says, throwing an arm over Kibum’s shoulder. Kibum rolls his eyes and chuckles silently.

“What did you hear?”

“The students were saying that you acted like a satan in the morning, and you are an angel after the lunch break.”

Kibum laughs softly. “Indeed I did.”

“What’s going on? Do you get a girl or what?”

“Not telling you.”

“Why?”

“Just because.” Kibum grins at him. “The bus’s coming. Get up, Myeon.”



He glances at his phone for a reply but when there’s none, Kibum finds himself pouting for the rest of the bus ride. Joonmyeon can’t stop teasing him about that.



***



Kibum changes out from his formal shirt and pants, getting more comfortable in his t-shirt and sweatpants. He sighs loudly as he slumps down on the couch. Dinner be damned, he is not in the mood to cook right now. Might as well order food.

He grabs his phone from the coffee table and unlocks the screen, only to find the sudden new text message into his phone.

Kibum blinks in surprise and opens the message.

‘Coming in 5’



“What… is this?” He grumbles. Jonghyun has the tendency to talk weirdly and Kibum doesn’t understand what he means with ‘5’.

5…?

5 years? 5 months? 5 days? 5 hours? 5 min—



The front door is knocked and Kibum flinches in surprise, because he is not expecting a guest and he has not ordered his food yet.

Don’t tell me—



“Open the door, Teacher Kim.”



With a shriek, Kibum runs to the small window beside the door, peeking from behind the curtain. Indeed he is.

Jonghyun is standing there, right in front of his door.



“Teacher Kim, open the door right this instant or I’m going to scream and your neighbors will get angry at you and you will be kicked out of this building—”

“A-Alright, alright!” Kibum squeaks while unlocking his door. He sticks his head out and frowns at the sight of the CEO in front of him.

“Finally.”

“What are you doing here?” Kibum barks softly at him.

“Are you not going to let me in?” Jonghyun asks, eyebrows furrowed handsomely while one of his hands is in his pocket pants. Kibum gulps and shakes his head no.

The CEO chuckles in disbelief.

“Too bad because I’m coming in by myself.”

He then grabs the door and pulls it open, making Kibum stumbles forward. Jonghyun chuckles at him and walks pass him, entering his apartment like he owns it.

Kibum gaps at him and huffs in half-annoyance, because seriously, there’s something swirling all around in his stomach.

Jonghyun walks to his living room and drops a big paper bag onto the coffee table, before slumping down on his only double couch. Kibum eyes him strangely, pouting in disbelief because he has the nerve to barge into his place without any warning.

“Seriously, what are you doing here? What do you want?” Kibum asks with arms folded in front of his chest, his foot tapping onto the wooden floor impatiently.

Jonghyun’s eyes seem to catch the movement of his foot and he drags his eyes up and down on him.

“Nice pants.”

Kibum shrieks and crosses his legs. He is a bit lucky that he has shaved his legs hair yesterday.

“P-Pervert!”

“I did nothing.” Jonghyun shrugs at him. Kibum stomps around and stands in front of him, towering down.

“Please stop annoying me.”

“I’m just being friendly.” Jonghyun replies him with a cocky grin on his lips, staring up to him with an amused expression. Kibum’s fuming face is quite cute.

“You –”

“Sit down.” Jonghyun simply tugs him by his wrist and Kibum topples over to sit beside him, with their shoulder pressing together because of the small couch.

“Mr. Kim –”

“Aish, it’s past working time, Kibum. Stop being so formal!”

“But still –”

“I don’t care. Here, I bring food. Bet you are hungry.”

As if on cue, Kibum’s stomach growls and he clutches it in embarrassment. Jonghyun chuckles amusedly at his cute act and grabs burgers out from the paper bag.

“Here eat.”

Kibum scrunches up his nose because he is indeed very hungry but to accept food from Jonghyun means he will owe him something.



The CEO has bit down on his own burger when he catches the sight of Kibum still staring down at the wrapped burger in his hand. With a sigh, he grabs the burger and unwraps it, before stuffing it into Kibum’s mouth.

The teacher yelps and glares at him, much to Jonghyun’s obliviousness and hesitantly chews down on it. Wasting food is a no-no.

“And I bought them,” Jonghyun motions towards the bottle of sojus in the plastic bag on the floor. Kibum’s eyes bulge out open and he screeches at him.

“Seriously?!”

“Why not?” Jonghyun shrugs while reaching for one.

Kibum watches him chugs it down his throat, his Adam’s apple moving as he swallows. Jonghyun lets out a loud ‘ah’, satisfied with the taste as he loosens his tie and throws it somewhere. He unbuttons the upper buttons and slumps down against the couch to find a more comfortable position.

“What are you waiting for? Let’s get wasted!” Jonghyun presses the bottle he is holding against Kibum’s lips.

It makes him blush a bit for the thought of indirect kiss, but who is he kidding? He is no longer teenager; it’s not the time to swoon over silly thing like that.

With that in mind, Kibum grabs the bottle from his hands and drinks the remaining liquid down. The drink burns his throat because it has been a while since the last time he drinks, but it feels refreshing enough for him.

Kibum finishes the bottle in a few seconds and lets out a soft burp, similar to a baby. Jonghyun laughs at that and reaches over to ruffle his hair. Kibum fakes a scoff to cover the nervous feeling and swats his hand away.

He reaches two new bottles and hands one towards the CEO, bumping it as if they are doing a toast.

Morals are damned tonight.



Empty bottles of sojus are littering around the living room and Kibum slumps down on the couch, his sanity slowly leaving him.

Lifting his head up, Kibum finds the CEO is staring at him intensely.

Kibum sends him one drunken smile and lifts his hand up, digging his index finger against Jonghyun’s cheek.

“Why… are you… acting so friendly… to me?” He asks the question which has been bugging his mind for a while, because as far as he knows, they have not been in contact for so long.

“Can’t I?” Jonghyun whispers, grabbing his finger and scooting closer to him.

“You can’t!” Kibum blurts, eyes rolling everywhere.

“Why?” He asks softly, clearly drunk as well but it makes no different because they are going to forget this in the morning. Right?

“It makes me feel things… I should not… feel.” Kibum drags his words and opts to stare into Jonghyun’s eyes.

The CEO stays silent, but he is not even looking away. He stares through his blurred eyes as Kibum’s head is moving up and down, clearly in the drunken state.



It might be impulse, but Jonghyun finds himself grabbing Kibum by his face and smashes his lips down onto his.









***








A/N: Wow, oh wow. Update again, lol xD
So, the puppy walks back to its owner(?) I don't know what I am saying, forgive me XD

Hope I can update soon later.
Thanks for reading and do tell me what you think about this chapter!