I'm with you Chap. 1

[kumo_is_kumo]

Title: I'm with you

Pairing: Jongkey

Genre: Romance, Fluff, Drama, Angst

Length: Mini-Series

Summary: Kibum has never thought that his life will be turned over like this, by the young Prince that this country still has. But this is what’s exactly happening and he doesn’t even know how to escape from that.

001



Kibum has never thought that his life will be turned over like this, by a young Prince that this country still has. Yes, this is a story about a Prince in a modern time.



A boy is panting tiredly, but a smile is visible on his lips. He is enjoying this. When he hears the sounds of footsteps are getting clearer, getting closer towards him, he hides deeper between the walls and manages to escape from the people who are looking for him. He chuckles when he slips out from his hiding place. His big puppy eyes slowly widen in excitement when he sees an old building at the other side from where he is standing. Skipping happily there, he makes sure that no one sees him.

He pushes the door open and hums when he finds out that it is an old library. This school sure has pretty buildings all over the place. This is an old library, means that it isn’t used again, right? But then, why does he hear faint sounds coming from the deeper corner of the library?

He slowly walks there, curiosity taking over him. He can see how old books are still sitting there on the dusty shelves. Various old books are drawing his curiosity and he makes sure to check on them later before going out from here. Back to the first thing. He walks slowly, pass through some shelves and he clearly can hear that the sounds are coming from this direction.

But what is it? Or even... who?

Stepping out from behind the current shelf which is covering him by now, he gaps at the sight of a boy around his age, who is sitting on a wooden chair by himself, reading one of the old books. The said boy lifts his head up from the book when he hears someone is coming.

“Who are you?” The boy asks, the book still clutched tightly against his chest. The first boy gaps, not knowing how to answer since he is still amazed that there is someone inside this old building.

“W-What are you doing... here? Alone?”

“I ask you first,” the other boy says in defense even though his voice is soft, “and what is wrong with reading books here?”

The first boy gulps down his saliva before clearing his throat to break the awkward atmosphere.

“I-I’m Jonghyun. Who are you? And what are you doing here?”

The other boy nods in respect at his answer.

“My name’s Kibum. And I like reading here even before you come here.”

The boy—Jonghyun—slowly nods his head at the answer before deciding to take a seat on the dusty chair across the other boy--Kibum.

“Oh, well. Umm, what I mean is... what are you doing reading here all alone by yourself in this... old building?”

The boy shrugs, still with the same expression on his face ever since Jonghyun appears in front of him.

“Here is nice. And silent.” He answers nonchalantly and Jonghyun frowns at the sound of that. How dare this boy talks this comfortable with him? Doesn’t he know who Jonghyun is? Jonghyun is the second Prince of this country! Well, maybe he is not that famous since he has just come back from America, but, still...

“Do you know who I am?” Jonghyun tries his luck. The Kibum boy stares at him with those blank eyes before answering, “You said your name is Jonghyun.”

Jonghyun takes a deep breath before cracking a quick smile to cover his emotion.

“What I mean is... me? The real me?”

Kibum frowns but the frown is not clearly seen on his face. “I’m sorry but I don’t understand what you mean with that.”

Jonghyun freezes and has a sudden urge to face-palm himself. Okay, so basically this boy doesn’t know who he is. But, hey, isn’t that good so this boy won’t be able to tell everyone that he is here?

“Well, forget it. So, what are you reading?”

“Random.”

Seriously. Doesn’t this boy have another expression rather than looking blank all the time? There must be something wrong with his facial expression. He can’t be having that same blank face all the time, right?



***



His name is Kim Kibum. He is on his first grade in this prestigious school. This is a special school for people with noble blood. Random people aren’t allowed to be here.

Noble and aristocratic are the only ones allowed here. And Kibum is one of them.

He is silent. He avoids having too much conversation with people. He doesn’t want to make a proper relationship with too much people. He prefers to be alone. Not like he wants to be alone but he is always alone.

He has some problem with the way he is expressing his feelings. The problem is:

He gets no presence.

Because he gets no presence, people ignore him. More precisely, people don’t realize him.

It’s like he is just a shadow.

He is not expecting too much. As long as he is enjoying his current situation then it is fine with him. It has happened for a very long time that Kibum already forgets when the first time he is being treated this way. Maybe since he was born? Or maybe since his parents passed away?

Yes, Kibum’s parents had passed away already. There was one time when his noble parents were out in some business meeting and the plane ended up crashing down into the ocean. Kibum was a crying mess at that time. He feels like that was the first time he could express his feeling freely. But, that was so sad.

Kibum only remembers his mother’s words.

“Kibummie, you have to keep helping people, okay? So—”

And he can only remember that first part of that sentence. What is the last part? What is the continuation of that ‘so’?



Kibum wants to express his feeling freely. But he can’t.



***



“Hey, lend me your book,” Jonghyun says while closing the current book he has just finished reading. Kibum lifts his gaze from his reading and grabs the said book from the table beside him to give it to the other boy. Jonghyun happily accepts it and begins reading the said book.

It has been a whole week since Jonghyun has discovered this old library and the mysterious boy. This old library has become his favorite place to hang out and he enjoys the silence presence of the other boy. He thanks the boy who still hasn’t known who he is. He clearly needs and enjoys being treated as a normal person, not as the second Prince who has dozens of people kissing the path he walks.

They often chat simply. Like asking ‘how are you today’ or ‘what book is that’ and so on. Kibum ignores the boy most of the times but answers to all the questions Jonghyun throws to him.

Deeply, he enjoys this moment as well, because it has been so long since the last time he speaks this much to someone. But still, he won’t make any relation with him. Being alone is better, you won't feel pain and you certainly will not get hurt.

Relationship is like a poison. Venom.

It hurts people so bad.



Jonghyun steals a glance at the boy across him who is reading the book with blank face. For a week they have been hanging out together like this, he has never seen any different expression from Kibum. Maybe he is just being shy with him? Or maybe he is too intimidating that Kibum can’t speak out his mind?

His gaze travels from the boy’s face and focuses more on his eyes. Those feline-like eyes, they are so pretty. Jonghyun has never seen someone with those kinds of eyes, might it be in Seoul or America. Then, his button-like nose... before his gaze lands on the heart-shaped lips that are looking so pink. Does he use some kind of lip-balm, lipstick, and lip-color? His lips look so ravish able and Jonghyun swears that if Kibum were a girl, he would have asked him out in a heartbeat. Kibum also has pale skin that looks so bright under the dim light in this old library.

Oh gosh. Maybe he is reading too much books already!



Another week passes and Jonghyun learns that Kibum is a year younger than him. Kibum is still on his first year while Jonghyun is on his second year. The funny thing is: Kibum still doesn’t know that he is the second Prince of this country. Maybe because he is so blank for his entire life that he pays no attention to everything around him.

He also knows that Kibum takes the normal classes rather than special classes for noble and aristocratic. When he asks why, Kibum just mumbles the answer silently, not keeping his eyes away from the book he is reading, “No reason.”

Jonghyun silently pouts to himself at the simple answer and decides not to talk about it again. Maybe that is the reason why he never sees Kibum on the corridor and hallway on the third floor of the school.

The school they are attending is separating the classes with three levels. The first level on the third floor is for people with the high noble. The second level on the second floor is for people with standard noble and the third level on the first floor is for people with low noble.

Jonghyun can see that Kibum is indeed the high class noble from the way he dresses up and the way he talks. But why is he attending the low class level?

The sound of something ringing breaks Jonghyun out from his trance. He can see the way Kibum moves uncomfortably at the sound of his ringing phone and Jonghyun quickly throws him an apologetic smile. He hastily pulls out his phone and excuses himself between the shelves to answer the call.

“Yeah, hyung?”

“Jjong, where are you? Why can’t I find you nowadays?”

Jonghyun chuckles at his brother’s statement. Well, yeah, that is true. Once his classes are over, Jonghyun tells his guards to wait for his call to pick him up and tells them not to follow him around. He is too excited to read those nice books in this library and to meet his secret friend, Kibum. Well, he thinks Kibum is his friend since they spend most of the time everyday in here. At least, Kibum is his library friend.

“I’m somewhere, hyung.”

“Jonghyun, tell me right now. Do you know how worried I am when I see your guards come back with an empty car?”

“I’m fine, hyung. Don’t worry about it.”

“Jonghyun, I swear to God if you don’t tell me right now, I’m going to send all of the guards to search for you to the entire South Korea.”

“Hyung! Don’t do that! Fine, fine, I’ll tell you! Geez...”

“So, where are you now?”

“I’m still at school.”

“School? Why can’t I find you then?”

“You see, across the school building? There is an old library. I’m there.”

“Which building?”

“Besides the cherry blossom trees.”

“Ah, I see it! You are there? What are you doing?”

“Yeah. Just reading some random books.”

“Alright. Don’t even move a single inch. I’m so going to get you.”

“Hyung, don’t—Aish, he ends the call.”

Jonghyun shrugs and walks back to the reading place, only to find Kibum is still on the very same position. He silently chuckles to himself and takes his previous seat to continue reading his book.

Silence is filling the room before suddenly they can hear the sound of the heavy wooden door is being pushed open. Kibum glances at Jonghyun and he can see the puppy boy is grinning at him.

“Jonghyun? You there?” comes the sound from the front. Jonghyun nods and basically slaps his own head when he realizes that his brother can’t see him. “Yeah, I’m here, hyung!”

The sounds of footsteps are echoing against the wooden floor. Kibum squints his eyes at the hallway to see who is coming. “Jonghyun-ssi, do you know who is comi—”

The person greets from behind the shelf and smiles when he sees his younger brother is grinning at him. “Jonghyun, finally I find you!”

Kibum gulps down his saliva but his face remains blank. He can’t think properly as he is growing nervous. He quickly scrambles onto his feet and throws his book on the chair, only to bow deeply at the newcomer.

“Jonghyun, who’s that?” asks the newcomer. Jonghyun grins but suddenly he face-palms himself. He forgets that Kibum doesn’t know he is a Prince. Now how should he explain things to him?

“Hyung... he is my friend, Kibum. Umm, Kibum... this is my brother. You... You should have known him already... right?”

Kibum remains silent as he doesn’t dare to lift his head. There, standing in front of him, is the Crown Prince of this country, Jinki.

“Hey, it’s okay. Lift you head. I’m not that scary,” jokes the Crown Prince. Kibum closes his eyes tightly as he is too scared to move. How will he spend the rest of his life knowing that he has been ignoring the second Prince’s questions for the whole two weeks?

“Jjong, tell your friend to act normal. We are not mad at him or anything, right?”

“Yeah.Kibum, it’s fine. Don’t act like that. You make me feel uncomfortable.”

Kibum shakes his head slightly, keeping his eyes closed. He hears the soft sigh from the Crown Prince before his heavy voice speaks to him with authority, “Lift you head. This is an order.”

Kibum gulps his saliva before doing so. He stares down at the floor, watching his shoes fidgetting under his feet. He can see a pair of legs is making its way towards him and he holds his breathe when he realizes that they are Crown Prince’s legs.

“Jonghyun, you don’t tell him anything?”

Jonghyun scratches his not so itchy head in guilt before mumbling a ‘no’. The Crown Prince sighs at his younger brother’s stupidity and he takes the responsibility to explain everything to the boy.

“Jonghyun here, is my brother, means that he is the second Prince of this country. I’m terribly sorry that he has to lie to you.”

Kibum shakes his head no and manages to let out his stuttering voice, “T-That is my fault, Your Highness! I-I can’t recognize him!”

The Crown Prince—Jinki—places his hand on the boy’s shoulder and smiles weakly.

“That is not your fault. This stupid here, my brother should I say, has just gotten back from America a few weeks ago and he is spending time here without telling me. I’m glad that you can accompany him and I’m sure he makes some problems?”

“N-No, Your Highness!”

“Hyung, stop embarrassing me, will you? Umm, Kibum, I’m sorry about that. You don’t realize that I’m... a Prince and I’m happy with the fact that you treat me like a normal person. Don’t take it too serious, okay? This is my fault, so... yeah.”

Kibum remains silent and he gasps silently when he feels hands are holding onto each side of his face. He is greeted by the smiling face of the Crown Prince.

“Hey, look at us! We are not going to hurt you or anything. Okay?”

Kibum manages to nod his head slowly before letting himself being pushed down gently onto the seat he has previously sat on. The Crown Prince moves around the room to explore it while occasionally letting out a ‘wow’ and ‘hey’ and ‘oh’.

“I have never known that there’s this library here after attending this school for three years!”

“You are boring, hyung. You should have explored this world in an adventure like me!” says Jonghyun in excitement. Jinki snickers at his statement before walking back to where they are sitting.

“I’m glad I tell my guards to stay away from me for a while. This is a nice place. How can you find this, Jjong?”

Jonghyun grins before shrugging his shoulder.

“I was running from my guards. Seriously, they are following me everywhere! And when I was hiding, I accidentally found this place and this little friend!”

Jinki chuckles at the way Jonghyun addresses his friend.

“We are trying to stop you from doing anything stupid.”

Kibum, who is silently observing the situation, suddenly braves himself to speak out.

“U-Umm... This might not be my place to speak... But I just want to question something, Your Highness... Should I leave?”

Jinki and Jonghyun glance at each other before the oldest boy walks towards him. He takes a seat in front of Kibum and smiles.

“Why should you leave? You do nothing wrong. And please, stop calling me like that. You make me sound so old.”

Kibum stares at him from under his eyelashes before stuttering, “T-Then, how should I call you... Your Highness?”

Jinki taps his chin and hums. “Let’s see... You can just call me ‘hyung’ since I’m sure that I’m older than you.”

“H-Hyung?”

“Yes! Call me Jinki hyung!”

“Am I allowed to do that?” asks Kibum in a small voice. Jinki nods with a shining smile that can make you melt just by looking at it.

“Try it!”

“...j-jinki hyung...”

“That’s good! It sounds nice coming from you! When it comes from Jonghyun, it doesn’t sound that nice... I wonder why...”

“Hyung!” growls Jonghyun and the older brother laughs. Kibum lets out a small smile at the interaction between the two brothers and he frowns when he sees the Crown Prince stops laughing when he smiles.

“Did I do something wrong?” asks Kibum.

Jinki shakes his head before smiling, “You smile!”

Jonghyun, who is sitting at the end of the chair far from them, quickly scrambles from his place and practically runs towards them. He almost trips on the stack of thick books when he arrives beside his brother.

“Kibum, you smile?!”

“Yes! Oh, Jjong, you should have seen his smile! It is so pretty!”

Jonghyun gaps at the sentence and stares at the boy.

“Why do you smile in front of the person you have just met in ten minutes and not to me who you have met for weeks?!”

Jinki laughs while slapping his brother’s back. “Serve you right, Jjong!”

“Hyung! Oi, Kibum, this is not fair! Smile again! Come on!”

Kibum remains silent and takes his book to continue reading. When he hears the bickering of two brothers in front of him, he silently pulls the book higher to cover his small smile.









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A/N: I wonder how you guys think about this one, because this has been postponed for two years so please spare the mistakes, I write so childishly years ago. XD
Hope to read your thought about this chapter. ^^ Thanks for reading!