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kumo_is_kumo) wrote2017-02-04 04:43 pm
kumo_is_kumo) wrote2017-02-04 04:43 pm
Hello Chap. 16
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.
“What have I done to deserve this.”
Jonghyun laughs at the defeated question from Taemin as they lay together at the rooftop of his building; empty bottles of alcohols surrounding them. They have gone through a whole day of drinking their ass off. It’s not like they like it. Alcohol just serves as the best distraction. They need distraction from the cruel world.
“Nothing. You are just too much of a brat.” He responds, giving Taemin a teasing nudge with his elbow.
Taemin scoffs, ignoring his nudge. He says nothing but then he sighs.
“I… don’t want this. I want to go travel around the world. I want to meet handsome men with tall body and dance with them. I want to have one night stands with them. Then I want to meet a special someone, and that’s when I want to marry that one. Not like this.”
Jonghyun stares at the night sky, the night breeze is blowing and he shivers but he does nothing about it.
“I’m sorry to hear that, but… not in this life, Taemin. We don’t have that chance of freedom in this life.”
Taemin sighs.
“What about you? What do you want?”
Jonghyun ponders, before he lets out a bitter chuckle. “What do I want? Does it have any use to wish for something?”
“You can have a wishful thinking. Remember, nothing is impossible in this world.”
“Hmm. What do I want, huh? Well, for the first step, I want to be free.” Jonghyun starts, his tone somber and has a hint of sadness that Taemin can’t help but to notice. He glances at Jonghyun while the male continues, “I want to be free from all the things forced onto me. I’m thankful that I have everything. I have the position, I have the money, I have everything complete in front of me, but,”
He pauses, trying to find the right words to describe what he is feeling. Taemin waits patiently.
“But I, I don’t want all of those. I just want to live my life without being afraid of found out, without being afraid that someone would find me and accuse me of something, I mean, I just –”
“You just want to be with Kim Kibum.” Taemin concludes for him. Jonghyun shuts his mouth.
“I… I do, but… I can’t.”
“You love him, don’t you?”
“Yeah. I do. I love him, but maybe we are not destined to be together in this life. We met twice but we still couldn’t be together twice. If that’s not the sign, then what is it?”
Taemin shifts around, folding his arms under his head. “I don’t know. It still seems to be the destiny’s unfinished work to me.”
“What do you mean?”
“Let’s say. People always say to give your best for the second chance. I don’t think you have done your best here, Jonghyun. No offense, I’m not siding with anyone. Kim Kibum also hasn’t done his best here.”
“Taemin, drop it.”
“No, no, we need to talk about this. Tonight is about our miserable life so don’t leave any single thing out.” Taemin says and that forms a tiny smile on Jonghyun’s lips.
“Alright. What else?”
“You continue about what you want, Jonghyun. You are still at your first.”
Jonghyun smiles. “Okay. What’s next? Hmm, I don’t want to regret anything. If I have the chance, I would choose the only thing that I want the most, regarding what’s on the finish line.”
“Mm. Good one. Next?”
“The third one is,” Jonghyun pauses again, wetting his dry lips, “I want to go back to the time before I divorced him.”
Taemin smiles. “Uh huh. Why?”
“I don’t want to be a coward. I just want to tell him how much I love him and that I won’t give a fuck about what my dad said. It might sound selfish but I just want him. God, I love him so much.”
He gets a pat on his arm and Jonghyun glances at Taemin who is sporting a small smirk on his face.
“What?” He asks.
Taemin shrugs. “You seem like you need some kind of consolation pat, so here I am, buddy.”
A soft laugh bubbles out of Jonghyun’s mouth. “Thanks, but no, thanks.”
Taemin sends him a stinky look before he scoots closer. “Hey. Tell me more about your tall friend from the other day. Is he single?”
Jonghyun gives him a pointed look. “Oh wow. You ask about another man to your fiancé. Is this the life I will have in the future with you?”
Taemin rolls his eyes. “Stop pretending as if you are looking forward to this. Just tell me if he is still single, because he is handsome as fuck.”
Jonghyun smiles, breathing calmly. “Yeah, he is. Minho doesn’t have the time to date so I guess he is still single. He is hard to woo though, so you have a hard task to do.”
“I like challenge. Don’t worry about it.”
“Yeah? Well, he was the only friend who was very supportive towards Kibum and me. He still is.” Jonghyun murmurs. Taemin side glances him.
“Hey, Jonghyun?”
“Yes?”
“Can I know what happened between you and Kim Kibum a few years ago? What made you guys divorced?”
Jonghyun stills for a moment before he closes his eyes.
“Are you sure you want to know?”
Taemin watches him silently. “It still hurts you.”
“It always does.” Jonghyun replies softly.
“You don’t have to tell me if you are not ready. It’s okay.”
“No, I think it’s time for me to tell someone about it. I have been holding onto it for so long. I just hope you won’t be bored with my story though.”
Taemin shrugs. “I love story telling, so shoot.”
Jonghyun takes a deep breath.
“Oh wow.” Taemin breathes, blinking his eyes.
Jonghyun chuckles. “Is it boring? You seem sleepy.”
“No, I just need a moment to make a conclusion that your dad sucks.”
Jonghyun laughs, holding a hand over his stomach at the chosen words. “I know, right.”
Taemin says nothing as he laughs with him. The both of them lay down on the ground, watching the black pitch sky and relishing in the silence of the night.
“I know that this sucks,” Taemin starts again, his tone solemn and regretful, “but I still hope for a good marriage life with you, you know.”
Jonghyun glances at him, smiling. “Yeah. Me, too.”
Taemin sits up straight and looks down at him. He has a small smile playing on his lips as he offers a hand towards him. Jonghyun follows him suit in sitting up, staring at the offered hand in question.
“Let’s have a life together that we won’t regret because we understand each other.” Taemin says, grinning.
Jonghyun watches him for a second before he chuckles. “As long as I don’t get to see your bratty side too much.”
Taemin snickers at him. “As long as I don’t get to see your whiny side too much.”
Jonghyun chuckles then he clasps their hands in a handshake.
“Deal?”
“Deal.”
Kibum chews on his lip nervously. He keeps dialing Jonghyun’s numbers but he can’t get connected to him.
“Kibum? What’s wrong?” Jinki’s surprised voice greets him from the other line, not expecting him to call him after the whole confession fiasco.
“Jinki, I’m sorry for bothering you but… do you have Choi Minho’s numbers?”
Yes, his last resort is Minho. He hopes Minho knows something about what is happening here and that he could help him.
“Choi Minho? Why would you need his numbers?”
“Please, Jinki. Do you have it or not? This is urgent!”
“O-Okay, I will text you.” Jinki stutters and Kibum whispers a quick thank you before hanging up.
Jinki sends him a text in less than a minute and Kibum wastes no time in dialing the numbers.
“This is Choi Minho speaking. Who is this?”
“M-Minho, it’s me Kibum.”
“Kibum? Kim Kibum?”
“Yeah. Are you… are you busy? Can you talk?”
“Kibum, what’s wrong? Do you need any help?” Minho asks from the other line.
“D-Do you know anything about Jonghyun? I can’t reach him. He won’t answer my calls!” Kibum is practically screaming into the phone, feeling panicked.
Minho sighs. “I’m sorry but I can’t even meet him. He won’t let me in when I visit his building.”
Kibum slumps back in disappointment. “W-What about… his engagement plan?”
“Kibum, why are you asking this? What do you want to gain from this?”
“What do you mean?”
“You didn’t want him, why are you asking this right now?”
“What? I’m not- I don’t –”
“Jonghyun told me he wanted you back, but you didn’t.”
Kibum clamps his mouth shut.
“He told me he went to get you back but then he also told me you didn’t want him. He called himself a coward.”
“Jonghyun, he… I didn’t say that… I didn’t want him.” Kibum mutters weakly.
Minho is silent for a moment before he mutters a soft, “But you didn’t say you want him either.”
Kibum bends his head down. Yeah, he didn’t say anything. Well, he in fact said nothing.
“I… I want to meet him.”
“What for?”
“Minho, he is getting engaged in less than two days! What do you mean ‘what for’? We need to- to stop it!”
“Kibum, I want you to make it clear of what you want to gain from this. Why would you stop this? You are not his lover and anything.”
Kibum’s breathe hitches at the realness of the words. It’s like a direct slap to his face.
“I… I know but,” he chokes, “but I don’t want him to be with anyone else.”
Minho hums. “Why don’t you want him to be with anyone else?”
“I,” Kibum’s lips tremble, his grip is tightening on his phone, “I love him.”
He can almost see the smile forming on Minho’s face from the change of the tone he uses. “There. Is it that hard to admit it? Kibum, you are so hard headed, I don’t know what else to do with you.”
Kibum lets out a breathy chuckle. “I want him back. I love him. I love Jonghyun. I… I don’t want him to be with someone else other than… me.”
Minho hums in agreement. “I do agree with you, Kibum, and I really want to help you with all my might. But there is nothing we can do here.”
Dread fills Kibum’s heart and he curls into himself even more. “Are you sure? We really can’t do… anything?”
“This is Jonghyun’s father. You, of all people, should know the best of how cruel he could be.”
Kibum shudders. Yeah. He knew. He knows. He could still remember it like it had just happened yesterday.
“Yeah.”
“Kibum, I want you to be strong, okay? I believe in destiny and if you and Jonghyun are really meant to be together, then it would happen. Trust me.”
Kibum forces a smile. “Okay. Thanks, Minho. I don’t know how I should pay you back.”
Minho chuckles. “There’s nothing you should pay me back for. Just with you being happy with Jonghyun is enough for me. Look Kibum, I don’t know what I can do, but I’ll try to get in touch with Jonghyun. When I could do, I would call you immediately. Until then, don’t lose hope, okay?”
“Okay. Thanks, once again.” Kibum whispers before he hangs up the call.
Oh. This is stuck. All he can do right now is to wait for what the destiny has written for him.
No can’t do. He can’t be just sitting his ass of there in home when the date is getting closer on each passing second. No. He needs to do something, anything.
That’s how Kibum finds himself stepping down from the taxi and now is standing right in front of the high building of Kim Media Group. He needs an answer. He needs to stop Jonghyun from whatever this trap he has fallen into.
But— Kibum freezes. What would he say to Jonghyun? I mean, what could he do to stop this engagement? This is not something easy that could just be finished with a single flick of his fingers. He needs a plan, but what and how?
Kibum worries his lip as he chews down on it. People might be wondering why there is a guy standing in the middle of the walk street, looking all nervous and panicky, but Kibum could care less for now.
Okay, so now he is running out of idea.
A shadow looms in front of him and Kibum looks up, lifting his gaze off of his fidgeting shoes. There is someone standing there in front of him and Kibum wonders where he had seen this person before because the person seems oddly familiar. There is a smile sent to him and Kibum tilts his head aside questioningly.
“Um,” he stutters for a second.
“It’s been a long time, Kibummie… Don’t tell me you have forgotten about this old man?” The person asks with a warm smile and Kibum chokes on his saliva.
“G-Grandpa?”
A/N: One more angst chapter before we get closer to happy ending~! Four more chapters left!
AND! Do you see the poster up there? Finally, after 15 chapters, we got a poster for this story! It's created by my lovely hope, you are such a life saver, thank you, love! <3
Thanks for reading! Comments will be very much appreciated and will make me very happy! Hehe~
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okay i'll wait that next chapter :)))) though you say this is angst but i think it is still happy in some points, like when taemin and jonghyun were drinking or when kibum was trying to know about jonghyun's status.
but i just wonder about grandpa? will he be special? i think yes. but how special? i think i have to wait from now aigoo.
just love this fiction too much and really want to translate it despite being so busy :))))
update quickly please~ i'm waiting for you unnie.
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