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I cried "corn beef" in a demonic voice in front of people I'd just met. If that tells you anything about me...
Other than that, the name is Nabilah Johari who goes by her days embarrassing friends with her shameless antics.
[ONESHOT] It's the game we choose to play


I will never feel the same. I will never ever be able to let go.

Pairing : Kim Jaejoong and Jung Yunho (Jaeho)
Length : One-shot
Summary : How could someone yearn for such a dramatic illusion? Taking in everything that life had thrown towards him, typical Grade-A student, Kim Jaejoong, found himself facing the greatest hurdle yet.



“Asshole.” Kim Jaejoong muttered under his breath as he picked up the pieces of paper that had fallen onto the dirty cement floor. He frowned as he adjusted his heavily framed spectacles, smiling as he saw that his assignments were still usable.

A screech could be heard from his left as he turned around to see his best friend taking up the next seat to him. “Don’t you think it’s just too tiring to be doing that every single day?” Park Yoochun muttered as he faced his friend, resting his head on his palm as he frowned.

“I would feel better this way.” Jae shrugged as he sat back on his chair once again.

“Being nerdy didn’t seem to be doing you any good.”

“Don’t bother.” Jae rolled his eyes. “I’m fine with the way I am right now.”

Yoochun’s eyes hardened as he heard the resignation tone in Jae’s voice. “Students that fell in love with you shouldn’t be your burden to carry. They made it hard for you anyway when you rejected them in the end. Do you like it? Having to see your things being thrown on the floor each day just because you said ‘no’?”

“No, of course I don’t but it makes them feel better about it.” Jae smiled.

“Baka.”
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Jae loved nothing more than to walk down the school garden; to make sure that every single plant was in place. But due to some obvious reasons, he couldn’t do just that. Sitting down on the grass, under the huge Angsana tree, he looked at his heavily bandaged leg.

He remembered how furious Yoochun had looked the day before. It was an accident, Jae rebutted silently. A student, one of his usual admirers, had confessed to him in the middle of the cafeteria, with everybody else looking. Jae couldn’t bear to hurt the boy but he couldn’t say yes either.

The torn expression on his face was enough to give the boy an answer. Jae didn’t know that the boy would push him. He sure didn’t know that he would fell right on his butt, twisting his left ankle on the way.

Everybody gasped but not Yoochun.

The next moment, Jae saw a flash of white (Yoochun’s jacket) and found the boy falling down on the floor beside him. Without uttering much, his best friend grabbed his hands and pulled him up slowly. And he found himself in the school infirmary a few minutes later, with the school nurse tending to his injury.

It was just an accident, an event that no one would ever want to find themselves in. Leaning against the trunk of the tree, he looked up, seeing the green leaves swaying with the wind. Smiling foolishly to himself, he closed his eyes, feeling content.

Poke.

Poke. Poke.

Poke.

“Stop it, Yoochun!” Jae barked as he opened up his eyes, frowning. But the frown quickly changed into an apologetic look as he realized that the man beside him was not his best friend at all. “I’m sorry.”

“What for?” The stranger replied as he winked. “I’m the one who was poking you on your injured ankle.”

“Right.”

“So, yesterday was quite a show, huh?”

Something stilled inside of him when Jae heard the sentence from the other man. “It’s not a show.”

“If you say so.” The man replied, shrugging his shoulders, not at all being intimidated by Jae’s cold voice.

“Who are you? I have never seen you before.”

The other man could only smile before standing up slowly, Jae’s eyes followed his every move, frowning once again. “Yunho. Jung Yunho, nice to meet you.” He winked but didn’t reach out a hand for Jae to shake. “And don’t worry, we will be meeting each other a whole lot more that you will get uneasy should I disappear one day. Good day, Kim Jaejoong, it’s been a good day.” _____________________________________________________________________

Jae didn’t think much of the meeting of course. Who could be so weird as to say something like that? Even when the other man had left him alone in the garden, his face was still flustered, his heart somehow beating faster.

But it’s stupid; he chided himself as he locked the door to his shared hostel room with Yoochun. He was not interested in committing himself to any relationship right now, especially with someone that could be as weird as that. Jae had wanted to ask his best friend about Yunho back last night but he found out that the room was empty. Yoochun must be out partying with Junsu again.

Jae shook his head as he though of the two men. They should just stop threading around each other already. Being a watcher was a tiring 24/7 job and to see the two men trying to get the other person jealous was ridiculous. They should just have confessed to each other and be together. That would be a good happy ending for the both of them.

Clutching his bag on his right hand, he walked down the road, walking towards his school as he contented himself with the amazing view around him. The sun was shining brightly today as he smiled foolishly to himself.

“Another good morning, I see.”

Jae didn’t need to turn around to know who it was but he didn’t need to stop either to acknowledge the owner of the voice. Walking a little bit quicker but hopefully not noticeable, Jae kept his focus in front of him.

“Ignoring me, I see.”

The sentence made him stopped in his tracks. Jae could only turn around, watching the man from yesterday standing in front of him, smirking. “I’m not ignoring you. I’m just not acknowledging you.”

“Wow. That’s another way to put it.” Yunho replied, smiling now as he put his left arm around Jae’s shoulders, forcing him to turn around once again before continuing the walk down the road.

“You might think that I’m feeling uncomfortable around you.” Jae started after a few minutes of walking in silence. It was a puzzle how the other man’s arm had moved down to snake around his waist. “I am.” Jae replied bluntly.

“Ouch.” Yunho replied, putting his free right hand over his chest, pretending to be hurt. “I’m honoured to be the one making you feel uncomfortable.” He winked before pulling Jae closer towards him. “And I know your weakness, Kim Jaejoong.” Yunho leaned in, whispering into the other man’s ear.

“Weakness-s?”

“You always find it hard to see no, don’t you? That’s the reason why you are not punching me right on the face the moment I put my arms around you.”
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Kim Jaejoong was a man that respected a person’s privacy. He was also the type of guy that would never ever force someone to talk about something he or she wouldn’t want to. And that included a certain Jung Yunho.

He was everywhere, Jae thought silently. It was as though the other man had replaced Yoochun’s place in being his best friend. They went everywhere together, even the darn school’s toilet.

Yunho was right, damn it! He couldn’t imagine himself snapping at the other man to leave him alone. He would never do that and because of that, he couldn’t very well get out of Yunho’s grasp.

Well, not that he had wanted to.

“You are frowning.”

The soft question forced Jae to tear his attention away from his theory book to take a look at the other man beside. Something struck Jae’s attention as he saw how nonchalant the other man was. “Why are you not studying?”

“Huh?”

“Exams are coming in a month. Everyone is busy, getting ready to start their revision.”

“Yoochun didn’t.”

Jae frowned at the mention of his roommate who was currently bunking in with Kim Junsu. “Yes but at least he attended the lectures and classes. You didn’t.”

“So?”

“So you should be studying harder than the rest of us. Not sitting under the tree, goofing off, wasting your time like this.”

Yunho remained silent, not replying as he closed his eyelids slowly. Jae frowned, feeling uneasy all of the sudden. “You know, sometimes, a thing could consume our life and we wouldn’t even know it. And you keep on going, day after day, striving to be the best. But when you finally reach the top, you had found out that you had just lost to life.”

“What are you saying?” Jae whispered.

Jung Yunho was a chameleon, Jae thought silently as the other man opened his eyes quickly ands smiled like a fool he always was. “I’m just saying, studying too hard could make you go crazy.”

“….”

“Oh well, I’m already crazy anyway.”

Jae could only turn back to his book, not really reading. “We could be crazy together.”

And Yunho’s mouth curved into a tiny smile.
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Jae didn’t blink.

His orbs were starting to tear but still, he refused to even take a tiny blink. The class was silent behind him. He could feel pairs of eyes burning through his back but still, he didn’t move.

“Mr. Kim, you are going for detention this afternoon.”

Jae looked at his homeroom teacher, Alexander, as his hands balling into a tight fist. “I have done it. It’s just that I had forgotten to bring it to school.”

Alexander could only shake his head sadly as he saw what used to be the top student in the class. “You had said that yesterday and the day before. It’s been a week; you can’t keep going on the same lie forever.”

“I’m not lying.”

“Look at yourself!” Alexander’s voice boomed as it echoed in the almost-silent classroom. “You used to be at the top of the class but now, it’s a different matter altogether. I won’t even bother to mention about your grades! Is being late your style now?”

“The bus is late.”

“3 o’clock. Detention, no arguments.”

“I won’t go.”

Alexander froze as he stared into his student’s eyes, seeing the defiance raging in those orbs. “What had happened to you, Jae? You didn’t use to become like this. I thought that I would never have to be worried about you.”

“That’s not your problem.”

“You are my student.”

“Fuck that.”

Soft gasps could be heard throughout the classroom as the teacher’s eyes hardened. “What did you just say?”

“Fuck off. I’m leaving. I had enough of school anyway.”
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“How could a guy who always seems to be following the rules suddenly becomes a guy who could be so defiant?”

Jae didn’t need to look up to know that it was Yunho. Eyes still focused on the book on his lap, his vision began to blur as he stared deep at that one spot on the yellowed page. Choking back a sob, his hand flipped the page to the next one.

“You are trembling.” Yunho whispered as his hand closed around the other man hand, their hands lay in the middle of the page, resting softly on top of each other. Jae slowly turned his hand around so that their fingers could intertwine.

“Things change, you know.” Jae replied as his eyes bored on the linked hands. “One moment I’m at the top of the game and the next, I’m being pushed to the ground.”

“I heard about your parent’s divorce. I-”

“I had expected it.” Jae interrupted. “One way or another, there would be a time when even the harshest of words couldn’t win a fight. I’m happy for my parents, you know. Happy that they could now be freed of the other’s grasp, they don’t fit well, I know that. My sisters do too. They didn’t want to admit it at first, wanting to hold on to something that’s not theirs.”

“Everyone should have a chance to hope.”

“And not every hope could be turned into a new day. They paid the price for all these years of fighting and screaming. But I’m stuck.” Yunho could see the other man’s lips trembled. “They won’t let me go. Up until now, they still won’t let me go.”

“I think you are old enough to decide who you would want to live with.”

Jae looked up, smiling wistfully. “And tell me, how could a son ever choose his father or mother?”
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It was eight in the morning when he heard noises in the living room. Rubbing his sleepy eyes as his feet touched the cold floor; he took slow and steady steps towards the largest space of the apartment.

“Nuna?” Jae whispered softly as he saw his oldest sister sitting on the couch, smoking her usual brand of cigarette. “What are you doing here?”

“Well, I want to check on my bratty brother.” Hye Jin replied as she patted the empty seat beside her as Jae moved to sit on the space mentioned. “You are not doing well in school.”

Jae snorted, not at all surprised. “My homeroom teacher called you?”

“Hey.”

The sudden voice stopped the smirk on Jae’s face as he muttered a soft apology. “I have nothing against Alexander.”

“You better not; I’m getting married to him in a month. And it’s not him who had called me.”

“Huh?” Jae looked up, confused.

“Yunho. Jung Yunho. I didn’t know that you had found yourself another best friend.”

He found me, Jae thought silently.
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SIX MONTHS LATER:

The fallen leaves were on the ground, making sounds with every step that Jae was taking. His hand was holding a familiar black book with exactly 323 pages of English’s Shakespeare translated into Hangul. Sitting down on his usual spot, he put the old book on his lap.

Waiting, he was waiting for someone.

“Hey.”

Jae frowned, his heart screaming in frustration as he turned around, seeing Yoochun taking the empty space beside him. “What are you doing here?” Jae asked bluntly, not bothering whether he had offended the younger man or not.

“Ouch, that really hurts, Jae-ah.” Yoochun muttered as he threw a small punch onto Jae’s left arm. “I can’t see my best friend now? How long had it been since you had moved from the school hostel to your mom’s place?”

“Six months.”

“You had beaten the whole state, what a surprise.” Yoochun replied sarcastically.

“I have been gone far too long, I guessed. I’m sorry, for not mentioning it to you personally. You are too wrapped up with Junsu to even bother where I was.”

“Jeez, thanks for the insult.”

“Listen, I come back to look for someone.”

“Oh great. Now I’m really hurt.” Yoochun pouted, his eyes darkened when he realized that the other man wasn’t looking for him at all.

“Hey, don’t be a baby, alright?” Jae rolled his eyes. “Where’s Jung Yunho? Did he passed the exams?”

Yoochun frowned as his mind searched for face to match the name that Jae had just spoken. “Jung Yunho? I have never heard of him before.”

“Very funny.” Jae threw a punch back. But when he saw the puzzled look on Yoochun’s face, his irritation gave way to confusion. “He’s the guy that always had the knack to stick with me. We were always together, remember?”

“Jae-ah…” Yoochun was hesitant, as though afraid of saying something in his mind. “You became rebellious the moment your parents are going through a divorce. You always came to school late, started to smoke, missed out on lessons and didn’t even bother to hand in your homework.”

“Was I that bad?”

“That’s not the worse of it.” Yoochun whispered. “You were always talking to empty air, as though there was someone beside you when it was obvious that there wasn’t anyone there. The school was alerted you know but your sister refused to send you for treatment. She said that you were going to leave soon anyway.

“Is this a joke? Because if it is, then it’s not really funny.”

“It’s not, Jae. It’s not. You were always spending most of your time under this tree, reading that old book on your lap. It was a normal view from my point of view, back at the classroom but then I saw your mouth opened as you turned around, smiling into the empty air beside you.”

“I-I…”

“I wanted to help, fuck, I should have but Junsu was so scared for me that he refused to let me out of his sight. But I never fail to follow you to school every single day and right at the moment when you were at the main road, you will stop for a while before smiling. And you began talking as though there was someone beside you when in reality, there was no one at all.”

“That couldn’t be. He’s real.”

“You looked happy.” Yoochun replied as he stared out at the school backyard’s garden. “Maybe that’s the only reason why I didn’t confront you even when I was tempted to. You have never looked so happy, as though you were with someone that you loved. And I decided that it’s better that way, to leave you alone and just keep on protecting you from afar. You are my best friend, Jae-ah, you always are. I couldn’t stand seeing you hurt.”

“I know.”
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Jae’s hands trembled as Yoochun passed him what seemed to be an old piece of newspaper. Yoochun prodded him to take a look at it as he realized that it was last year news.

December 17th, 2006

A high school student of Kim Yeok High had met with a fatal car accident at 3.30pm on Mkei Jin Main Road. Jung Yunho, son of the infamous poetry writer, Jung Huanwee, was pronounced dead when….

Jae couldn’t bear to continue reading on as his eyes gazed down to the small familiar picture of the boy that he used to know. The boy that had brought a tremendous amount of sunshine in his life.

“I-I…I have been talking to a ghost?” Jae whispered weakly as the piece of newspaper fell to the ground.

And Yoochun didn’t know what to answer to that.


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First of all, this is a one-shot and would remain as a oneshot; no sequel is intended to be written at all. So I take this chance to clarify.



How Yunho could call Jae's sister?

- Well I have two ways to say this. Firstly, call. Technically it's impossible but I don't know. I mean if ghost really exist in real world then it's quite possible that they could call... right? Second, mind to mind. Letting his sister know(maybe in a dream) of Jae's problem and making her think that it was a phonecall.



Well there are other ways - though impossible - but hey it's just another fanfiction.



P.S



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[FICLET] MaxxieTony


You told me things. Things that made me happy. Remember the B+ you told me? My face contorted in different repressed expressions of joy that it looks weird now that I imagine it.

But it's long gone now and I'm no longer the person you confide in, not that I'm really upset about it. Really, I'm not. Maybe a tad bit upset but what the hell. It'll be convinient if Blogger provides password-protected entries so I could mention a name. Just one.

I can't lie that I'm not missing SKINS a lot. A whole lot. Especially Maxxie and Tony! I want moaarr of the last bit of Episode 6. I just want MORE. I'm really deprived of the sexy MaxxieTony affections-showing. The cig sharing. *_______* I see an indirect mouth to mouth contact over tharr!

"We're in Russia. I wanna try something new."

Tony, take me to Russia. TAKE ME TO RUSSIA!! *breathe* *wheeze* *wheeze*

I still can not believe that Maxxie rejects Tony. Why Maxxie? WHY?? Screw Michelle. Screw her. Bust my brain with that mind blowing manflesh and many many muscle flexing. I get goosebumps recalling that scene.

Is it sad that I made a quickie of MaxxieTony? Yes, well, at least it partially quenches my desire for MaxxieTony.

`~`~`~

“You’re such a fucking idiot. You know, I work all day and I come home to this fucking bullshit?! It’s a mystery why I stay with you, Maxxie.” Tony Stonem, 27, shrieked loudly.

Perhaps he had a bad day at work, Maxxie, 23, thought. “I’m s-sorry, honey—”

“Don’t you ‘honey’ me, you stupid bitch. What the hell were you trying to do?!”

“I-I thought I would m-make you a nice dinner o-or something…”

“Well there is nothing nice about a burning kitchen!”

“It was just the stove!”

“Yeah in my fucking apartment!”

“It’s our apartment!” Maxxie feeling upset now.

“Well, I bought it! And I’ll be paying for the repairs!”

“You made me move out of my own place and quit my job so I can clean up after your messy ass and take all your bullshit!”

SLAP.

Maxxie stumbled towards the ground from surprise, knocking a chair from the kitchen table over, hot tears stinging their way out of his eyes.

“Don’t you ever speak to me like that again! Or I will throw you out. You ungrateful, little bitch.” Tony lowered his hand, smirking down at Maxxie. “What a pitiful sight.”

He pulled the refrigerator door open, pulling out a bottle of beer, slamming the fridge door shut. He twisted the cap off and threw the tiny metal directly right into Max’s sobbing face.

Maxxie waited to hear Tony slam the bedroom door, and the TV to turn on before he slowly got up and sit the chair upright. The tears continued to pour down his face as he cleaned up his failed dinner, and all the dishes.

“It’s probably my fault…we go out for dinner every night for a reason. I’m lucky to have Tone. I’m lucky.” Maxxie thought, feeling remorseful for being such an idiot.

He made his way into the living room, grabbing a fleece throw and curling inside of it on the black leather couch. He knew Tony wasn’t going to come out until morning, so it would be best to not bother him and just sleep on the couch.

Maxxie only wanted to make Tony happy.

××××××××

“You know how I feel about you hanging out with those friends with yours. I don’t like them.” Tony snapped, tightening his necktie.

“They wanted to take me out for a lunch for a few hours. I won’t be long at all.” Maxxie tucked Tony’s shirt in for him, smoothing out the creases in the white dress shirt. “You look so handsome!”

“Don’t try to suck up to me.” Tony frowned, smacking Maxxie’s hands away. “Anyway, you better be back before dinner, because if you are late, like last time, I’d rather not even come home. I make time to spend time with you, and you get carried away with your idiot friends and end up coming home late.”

“I was only late once!”

“You were still late.” Tony opened the front door, and was just about to head out when Maxxie shouted, “Wait!”

“What the hell do you want?”

“I love you! Have a good day at work!”

Tony scowled. “You just wasted 3 seconds of my precious time.”

He slammed the door, a picture frame sitting on a table beside the door slamming forward, a twinkle of glass filling the air.

Maxxie sighed and lifted up the frame, revealing spider legs of cracked glass. He stared at the picture, wondering where Tony lost his smiling face. The photo in the frame was of them on a camping trip. Dressed in sweatpants, sweaty faces, dirty t-shirts.

Tony was so happy then.

But Tone is still Tone, Maxxie thought to himself. The Tony he fell in love with.
He pulled the photo out of the expensive silver frame, throwing out the glass. He would have to find a new frame for now.

Maybe Tone will buy him a new one.

××××××××

“Ah, it’s great seeing you again! It seems like you don’t have time for your friends anymore!” Maxxie’s best friend, Anwar Kharral said with a mouth full of food.

“It’s so true! Come out with your friends more often! And bring Tony too! I mean, we’ve only met him a few times.” Another good friend, Jal Fazer said, nodding furiously.

“I’m sorry guys, there’s a lot to do at home. Tony is pretty busy with work too. But I’ll ask him to come out with us when he has the time, ok?” Maxxie knew he wasn’t going to.

“Well, alright.” Anwar knew not to talk about Tony too much. Maxxie seemed pretty touchy about the subject. “Oh this salad is amazing!”

Anwar grinned, a large piece of lettuce in his teeth.

“You are so gross.” Jal laughed.

××××××××

“Ah, the weather is nice today, isn’t it?” Maxxie took a deep breath of fresh air, letting the sunlight soak his face.

“Definitely. It’s been so rainy and gloomy lately, so this is a nice change.” Jal nodded. “So, what are we going to do now?”

“Ah…Tone is taking me out for dinner tonight…so I think I should head home. I don’t want to be late.” Maxxie said sadly. “I’m sorry, guys. That was a really short meeting.”

“Well…you’re walking home, right? I’ll just give you a ride home, instead.” Offered Anwar, pointing to his car.

“A-Are you sure? My apartment is totally out of your way!”

“Nah. I’m taking Jal home too, so we might as well hang out for a little more.”

“Well…ok…thank you so much!”

“Quit being so formal. We’re best friends.”

“O-Oh! Sorry!” Maxxie smiled sheepishly. He almost forgot what it was like to have good friends. It was like he didn’t know how to act.

He should really convince Tony to let him hang out with his friends more.

`~`~`~

Not as good as expected but I warned you that it was a quickie. One shots are better and easir to make than a chaptered one. MWAHAHAHA!

Someone please break my internet with MaxxieTony. I beg you.

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[FICLET] Ephemeral Child


Zati made me lose my confidence, and I regret listening to her. So I wandered off in gayland to cheer myself up.

I was on the net randomly looking at pictures, then I saw this intriguing abstract miniature statue of... something beautiful I couldn't make out what.

I am deprived, man. I'm pretty much desperate now.

So I wrote this, surprisingly around more or less 4 hours, including breaks.

And voila! It's short though.



Ephemeral Child

Pairing : Yoochun/Jaejoong

"Jaejoong is Yoochun's best, worst secret, held safe behind closed doors and drawn curtains."

Everyone who visits Yoochun's dorm room comments on the figurine that stands at the far corner of his desk.

When asked, Yoochun replies, his fingers just touching the curve of a porcelain cheek, "Oh, that's Jaejoong. He's been my best friend since I was a kid."

In general, people think it's a joke, smile at the whimsy, or decide Yoochun just doesn't want to talk about it, move on to speak about other, safer, things. What they don't know is that after the door's closed behind them, Yoochun takes down the statue, sets it gently on the carpet and says, "They're gone, you can come out now." They don't see the statue grow and stretch, bend the air and become a young man just Yoochun's height, with pale skin, honey-gold hair, and strange eyes that glint brown and blue by turns. (He used to be a boy just Yoochun's height, and then a teenager who grew as Yoochun did. Now, he's this.)

No-one else has seen Jaejoong - stretched out on Yoochun's bed with a computer game, beating Yoochun's high scores; humming along to the radio as he proof-reads Yoochun's essay; half-helping, half-getting in the way as Yoochun tries to make dinner; laughing and drying Yoochun's tears at the end of a sappy romantic movie that Yoochun wouldn't even admit he owned to anyone else. Jaejoong is Yoochun's best, worst secret, held safe behind closed doors and drawn curtains.

Sometimes at night, with Jaejoong breathing against Yoochun's shoulder, Yoochun dreams about dropping the statue, watching it fall and shatter. In his dreams, he wonders if that would set Jaejoong free, if Jaejoong would step out of the shards of broken china, if he would open the curtains and let the unfiltered sun touch him for the first time. Yoochun dreams about taking Jaejoong to lectures, leaning together and complaining about the boring ones; about walking next to Jaejoong in the park, barefoot in the grass; about showing him the world outside Yoochun's room, the everyday, ordinary life that Yoochun leads when he's not with Jaejoong.

Yoochun wakes up terrified that he's actually done it, that the statue is gone, that the door is open, that Jaejoong has walked out of Yoochun's life; or worse, that with the statue broken, Jaejoong has just ceased to exist (that he never existed at all?). Yoochun's heart pounds in his ears, desperate, until he finds the courage to open his eyes and sees Jaejoong, sitting in the desk chair, staring at photographs of distant cities on Yoochun's computer screen, until Jaejoong turns and says, "Good morning, sleepyhead," and smiles.


Gah, that's done. My writing's a bit rusty though but bear with it yeah? I've been uselessly emo after I got home, and now that I think of it -- it's still very painful and bitter.

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[FICLET] Breakdown


Title : Breakdown
Pairing : Jaeho; Jaechun
Genre : Angst(what else? It's the only genre I'm good at)
Length? Uhh, drabble.

Breakdown

"Jae, stop," Yoochun pushed JaeJoong away from the door, "Stop it, calm down."

"Chunnie, let me out," JaeJoong whispered, his voice breaking, "Let me go... stop..."

"Jae, listen to me!" Yoochun grabbed his arms, "Jae, stop!"

This is how things break apart. This is how lives become torn. This is how people break.
Yoochun had known of JaeJoong's difficulties with Yunho. He knew about Yunho's drinking problem, he knew about Yunho's 'nights' with women, and he knew JaeJoong knew. He knew JaeJoong pretended to smile when Yunho would come home after a long night of clubbing, wrapping his arms around him, telling him how much he loved him.
In some ways it made JaeJoong a fool, or perhaps it showed how much he truly loved that man. Whatever the case, he was the reason that this happened... Yunho was the reason JaeJoong was now what he was.
Yunho broke his heart. He hit him. JaeJoong came home, in a state that scared Yoochun. A state that really scared him.

"Let me go!" JaeJoong shouted, "Chunnie go away! Let me go! Stop!"

Tears were streaming out of his eyes at this point as he tried to throw Yoochun off of him, trying desperately to reach the door. He didn't know where he wanted to go, and he didn't care, all he knew was that he needed out... needed to get away...

"JaeJoong!" Yoochun pushed him to the bed, holding him down, "JaeJoong stop! I can't let you go," his voice cracked, as he too, started to cry, "Jae stop..."

"No..." JaeJoong pushed at him again, "Get off... Get off!"

"Jae," Yoochun wrapped his arms around his waist, "Jae."

JaeJoong screamed. He was flailing around, hitting Yoochun's back, kicking him, screaming endlessly, trying to escape... trying to escape the world... everything. Yoochun took it, he took the beating as he held onto JaeJoong, his face pressed firmly against JaeJoong's chest, "Stop, Jae, just breathe!"

The screaming began to die down, being replaced with quiet sobbing, "Chunnie..."

"Jae," Yoochun lifted his face to look his friend in the eyes, "Jae... why you?"

JaeJoong lifted his hands to encircle Yoochun's slim form, entangling their legs... molding their bodies together, "Chun make it stop..."


The three main characters : Jaejoong (love this smexy man to bits!)
Yoochun (You just gotta love this bespectacled man! STARE AT HIS SEXINESS!!)
And the bastard in the story(but a man I love second to Jaejoong),
Yunho.


The pairing : Jaeho, Jaechun. (I friggin love these two pairings!!)


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[FICLET] Coffee


Oh my goodness I love Metamorphosis Jazz Band's Godot - Fragrance of Dark Coffee that I kept on playing it on repeat for weeks now. This song is smooth, dark, and rich. Just like the name implies, right?

Imagine, if you will, you're in a jazz club. It's late, and the club's about to close for the night. Before the band packs up their equipment and goes home, they dedicate one last song to everyone still listening. A few couples romantically slow-dance on the floor, while the employees sweep underneath tables and wipe down the bar for the night. That same understated finality, underscored with a tinge of melancholy, is present in this song. It's beautiful, though.

Yeaahh. I'm feeling hiiigh thinking about it. :)

Then I got inspired. By coffee, despite my dislike of coffees. Bleh. And I finally got it finished after many sleepless nights. MWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! *twitches* *mouth foaming*

[Note : And the above temporary mental shortcircuit is the result of countless sleepless nights and less than 3 hours of sleep. Please do not try this at home.]

Coffee
Pairing: YooSu
Genre: Romance
Summary: You remembered meeting him for the third time and still, you couldn’t figure out whether he likes coffee or not.


- It's not the usual love story because it's ours -
Blame fate for her devious plans.

The café’s doorbell rang and you looked up from your cleaning, straightening your crumpled uniform as you watched a young man entering the small but cosy space. You were amused by the way he took slow but steady steps towards the counter.

He was buried in his thick book that you wondered if he was walking with his full attention on the book, if so, you were amazed that he was still in one piece. He wasn’t a student, you noted, just wearing a plain shirt which mentioned nothing about his status.

“May I take your order?” You prodded gently as he stood in front of the cashier, head still buried under the thick book. You frowned when he pulled out a dollar bill from his pocket and handed it over to you.

“One cup of mocha please.” He muttered softly and you had to strain yourself before you could hear him and you nodded your head, taking the money and proceeded to make his order.

Five minutes later, he walked out of the café with a cup of mocha in his left hand, mind still deep into the book. And you could only conclude that he was a nerd. With a shrug, you went back to cleaning the counter, resuming your job.

Nothing fazes you anymore since you worked in this café.

---

It’s only co-incidence and nothing more.

The second time you saw him wasn’t at the café you worked in but at a convention on pianos. You were browsing through the catalogue, searching for a new piano to replace your old worn one.

Then you saw it, a white piano standing at the corner of the whole exhibition and you felt yourself being pulled towards it. It was nothing special, just a normal instrument but somehow you felt that it held so much more potential than those expensive ones.

“Good choice.”

You turned around, surprised when a man stared at the piano, touching his thick-framed red glasses which you figured out must be a habit. And somehow, you didn’t know why you felt irritated that he was staring at the same piano that you were going to buy.

“I want to buy it.” You gave out a hint of warning, and he nodded his head.

With a shrug, he patted your shoulders and you wanted to shout at him for being so rude. What kind of stranger patted another man’s shoulders? He must be crazy or introvert, you wondered silently to yourself.

“That’s why I say it’s a good choice.” He smiled and he walked away. Then something struck you, the way he walked, the cautious footsteps that he was taking.

He was the same nerd that you had met a few days ago.

It’s not fate, you muttered to yourself.

---

People come and go because that’s life.

The third time you met him was at the café, strangely, you had the feeling that he would be there today and your sixth sense was never wrong. It wasn’t a surprise when he walked in but this time he didn’t have his thick book or a catalogue in his hands. There was nothing he was holding and you had to admit that it was strange to see him this way.

He walked up towards you, giving you a slow smile and you replied with one of yours. He ordered a cup of black coffee and a piece of toast before moving to a seat. You guessed he would be here for a while and you wondered why.

You didn’t have to guess long because ten minutes later while he was sitting comfortably with his order, the doorbell rang once again and a woman came in. She was wearing a dress, with a matching handbag and you knew that she was the new model for the top-fashion magazine, ‘Hazied’.

What was she doing here? You were surprised when she took a seat in front of him and you could see him smiling at her. You frowned, not knowing what was going on the other side of the café.

Then you realized that it wasn’t your business to care. You were just an employee at the café and you should be working instead of snooping around other people’s business. With a stupid smirk, you resumed back your work, whistling your favourite tune.

But once again, your attention was turned towards him when the woman stood up, the chair screeching against the floor. Other people wouldn’t think that it was unusual but from the way she was dressing, you knew it was not normal for her to do something so ‘unlady-like’.

And the moment you looked up, you saw the glint of anger in her eyes as she walked out of the door. You couldn’t help but felt uncomfortable when you met his gaze and he shrugged his shoulders. A moment later, he too walked out of the door, his coffee untouched.

You wonder if he even likes coffee at all.

---

Life isn’t about candies or happy endings describe by the fairytales.

You went home to a neighbour cussing at another neighbour and the stray cats scratching on the old walls. It was nothing unusual; you had grown in this kind of living conditions. Gangsters or mobs lived a floor below you and you had your flat being broken into once because they had gotten the wrong address.

What could you do? You could barely afford to pay the rent to this place with the pathetic wage that you had, working at the café. It was hard to juggle between studying for the master degree at night while working in the day, cleaning the dozens of used cups and glasses.

Without much ado, you entered your small apartment, watching your beloved new piano at the corner of the tight space. You knew that it might be stolen, but you didn’t know what you would do without playing the instrument for a day.

The usual tunes filled the air as you touched the keyboards, trying to fight the din that your surroundings were making. Half-way through a music sheet, you lighted a cigarette, inhaling the smoke.

There were only two things that made your life worthwhile; playing the piano and smoking. And thus, you were lucky enough to have both.

It was enough for you. You didn’t want anything else but this.

Kim Junsu preferred life this way.

---

Surprises come in many forms.

You found him sitting on your doorstep when you wanted to throw the rubbish out. It was surprising to see him leaning against the peeling paint of the wall, humming what appeared to be a slow tune. For a while, you could only greet his presence with a gaping mouth until you found him tilting his head to look at you.

“What-t? Why are you here?” You stuttered, your eyes widening in shock as you saw him standing up, brushing away the non-existent dust. With a smile, he reached out his hand like a polite gentleman.

“I’m Park Yoochun.” He introduced himself and you clasped his hand tight, nodding your head. “I follow you back home today, I’m sorry.” He bowed down in apology and you finally noticed that he was wearing a three-piece suit, his tie was crooked, was he back from work?

“Did I owe you something?” You asked him, frowning. As far as you were concerned, you had managed to fulfil his order and had given him the correct change.

He shook his head, smiling sheepishly. “I want to talk to you but never get the chance to. I thought I might as well follow you home.” He shrugged as though it wasn’t bizarre at all in following you home.

“Why didn’t you ring my bell then if you have taken the time to follow me home?” You continued asking him and he could only shrugged his shoulders, showing that he didn’t know the answer to your question.

And what else could you do besides asking him to come in?

---

Turn around when you are sure that you have nothing to lose.

You made coffee, the strongest and blackest of all because you liked it that way. Even with his two visits to the café, you still didn’t manage to figure out type of coffee he liked.

“I hope you like black coffee.” You replied with a smile as you passed him a mug filled with the beverage you had just made a few minutes ago. He gave you a grateful smile as you sat opposite to him, sipping your own mug of coffee. “Mind telling me why you are here?” You asked him, going straight to the point.

“I don’t know.” He replied simply, shrugging his shoulders. “I just feel like following you, that’s all.” He made a non-committal sound as he took another sip of the coffee.

“Do you always follow strangers home without knowing why?” You asked, frowning and if he replied with a yes, you should really be calling a mental hospital because he desperately need some help.

“I wonder sometimes…” He replied as he stood up and walked towards your beloved piano. You wanted to retort, saying that no one but you could touch this precious instrument but you saw his fingers ghosting over the keys with utmost care just like you did and you found yourself staring at him. “…why must human know about every single detail when they meet a stranger? Couldn’t we just meet and talk without being a FBI agent towards each other?”

“That would be hard since you followed me home.” You pointed out the obvious and you could see again the careless shrug that he threw. Finally he sat down and played a tune, you didn’t know what the title was but it was catchy.

“Let’s just say I’m a being full of surprises.” He replied as he drowned himself into the world of music.

And you had to give him full points for saying that.

---

Don’t go digging about things you don’t know about.

There was this saying that you should never delve into things that you are not sure about.

But then, you weren’t the kind of guy who followed some stupid sayings. The both of you had become close, somehow you had managed to notice his way of doing things, always with care and steadiness. It was as though he tried so hard not to fail.

He had never asked you about things that you didn’t want to say. In a way, there was an unknown limit to your friendship but you decided to breach it today. This one question had been gnawing you from the moment he stepped into your apartment.

“That day, there’s this woman with you, she seemed angry when she left.” You replied softly and you noticed the automatic stiffening of his body as he stopped playing with the metal spoon. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have asked.” You muttered softly, feeling guilty that you had asked such a personal question to your new friend.

There was a tense silence following your sentence. He kept staring hard at the metal spoon, as though willing the spoon to move by itself. “It’s ok; people keep asking me that too. She’s my sister.” He laughed when he saw the surprise etched upon your face. “People are always surprise when I said that, a top model has a nerdy brother; that has to be funny. But it’s just me. She wants me to do something for her that day.”

You frowned when he said that, it was as though he had wanted to say something but couldn’t fathom the words out. “Do you want to talk about it?” You whispered, trying to give him a helping hand.

“You want to know the reason why I follow you that night?” He asked as he tapped his fingers on the table’s surface. “Let me tell you about this story. There’s this girl who liked coffee, so much till she will search for the best coffee shops. One day, while going through a small town, she found this cute café, tucked in between a butcher shop and a sandwich shop. But the reason why she enter is not because of the coffee itself, it’s because of this one guy who is cleaning a table facing the window. To make a long story short, it’s love at first sight.”

“I-I…is that guy me?” You stuttered, horrified at his sudden story.

“So the girl begs her brother to find out more about this guy and so he did since he loved his baby sister more than himself. The brother then walked into the café, too many times but didn’t make such a big impact unless he wanted to be noticed. The café boy didn’t really notice the brother since he’s a big nerd and so the brother continues watching the boy from afar.” He replied and you started to feel pretty much freaked out. “But then he realizes something important and decides to tell his sister about it. When the sister heard the truth, she became very angry and decided to disown her own brother.” He whispered the bitter truth and you didn’t know what to say to make it better. It was as though a big rock was being pushed down your throat.

“I-I…”

“It’s a twisted story; you want to know why, Su?” He asked, chuckling as though he was telling some stupid story that should be laughed at. “It’s because instead of introducing the café boy to his sister, he was so stupid as to fall in love with the boy.” And if this didn’t knock you out cold, you didn’t know what would.

You watched as he pulled a dollar bill out of his pocket, gave you a sad smile before standing up to leave the café.

And still, you didn’t know what to say.

---

Take the leap with me, my perfect stranger.

He didn’t come to the café for a month till you began to doubt that you would ever meet him again. Deep inside, you felt this foreign feeling, as though it was sucking you into this big hole that you could never come out of.

You were missing him, badly.

He was there for you always, chatting with you, in these mere months of friendship with him, you had found this eternal friend that you could never find anywhere. But your conscious was mocking you. ‘It’ knew the big difference between love and friendship.

You loved him, the sinking feeling the moment you heard him walking away from you. You wanted to say that it wasn’t this stupid emotion; you were just shocked at the sudden turn of events. But it wasn’t.

You knew this feeling since the moment he had stepped into the café. It just took you a moment to figure that one out.

It was raining right now as you stared out of the starry window; there wasn’t a single star that you could see under the hazy vision. You pressed your forehead against the cold window, feeling as though you were never going to be complete.

Why must he torture you this way? Why couldn’t you breathe now without seeing him? The first tear fell; this feeling of missing someone really was breaking your heart. You couldn’t describe it, this horrible feeling, you wanted it to go away badly but you didn’t know how to.

Then you heard it, the soft thud on your front door. Something wasn’t right, you thought to yourself. You didn’t expect anyone but yourself. With cautious step, you took a peek through the peep hole.

Within seconds, you pull opened the door, revealing a very wet Yoochun.

“Why are you here?” You replied in a calm manner when you let him into the apartment, watching as he clamped his hands together, trying to introduce friction. You took one look at him and frowned. “You. Toilet. Now.” You muttered as you his arm and dragged him bodily to the bathroom

What the hell were you going to do about this?

---

Why let go when you can’t anyway?

In a few minutes, he was wearing your clothes, a pair of pants and sleeveless shirt. His hair was wet from the shower he had taken earlier. You passed him a mug of black coffee and you sat opposite him, watching as he took slow sips from the beverage.

“Why are you here?” You whispered; trying to act casual about it but your eyes betrayed you. “Do you like rain so much till you take a shower in it?” You couldn’t help but commented on the incident.

“The rain helps me to think better.” He shrugged his shoulders, not at all bothered by your sarcasm. “How are you doing?”

You didn’t know how to answer that. Should you lie and said that you were doing fine without him when you had been shedding tears because you missed him? Or should you tell the truth and be cursed for breaking a pair of siblings up?

“Fine.” You answered simply, not wanting to delve more into the question. “You?”

“It’s a good thing then.” He nodded his head as he put the mug on the table between the both of you. “I would be going off then.” He replied as he stood up, giving you another smile of his.

“What-t? Are you telling me that you are here to know how I have been doing?” You muttered, once again couldn’t’ help but put sarcasm in your voice.

He nodded his head even though he knew it was the most stupid reasoning that you had ever heard. “I just want to ask that.” He replied; his back on you but you knew how hard it was for him to say that.

“That’s all?” You whispered, hoping that he could say more, anything to wipe this terrible feeling inside your heart.

“Then what do you want me to say, Su-ah?” He lashed out on you as he whipped around, seeing you with teary eyes. “Should I say that I have been going to the stupid tasteless cheesecake shop so that I could see you just across the road? Should I say that every night, I miss you so much that I play the piano till I fall asleep? Should I say how much my life has stopped, as though I’m useless without you?” He replied, trying to wipe away the angry tears that were flowing down his cheeks. “You are fine without me and I will continue my life with that! I’ll live with that even though it kills me because I don’t expect anything when I say I love you. I don’t.” He seemed so defeated when he took a step back away from you but you felt as though he had taken a hundred steps away.

You didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when he said those words. You took a step towards him and he frowned to see that. And when you were in front of him, all that you could ever do was to smile, you had wanted to say so many things to him but right now, words didn’t matter.

“And I love you too.” You whispered as you leaned in towards him, pressing your lips into his.

There were many things that you didn’t know about him. Heck, you still didn’t know if he likes coffee or not. But one thing would continue to bond the both of you together and that’s the love you have for each other.

And Kim Junsu didn’t need anything more than that.
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Ugh. Writing this hurts me. Fullstop. Jack Sparrow. Siiigh. I hate you for making me miss you so much. But let me see him again. If it's possible. *pulls hair roughly*

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[FICLET] Jaeho UNTITLED


Damn. It's been a long while since I've last written anything. Well, anything that's not against my will and for my own entertainment and yadaa yadaa.

Firstly, it is yet again a... yaoi-ish, shounenai-ish fic. Plus this is a new fandom and pairing I'm making. JAEHO of DBSK. *prances around*

And as always I suck at thinking up for titles thus I'm leaving this one once again, titleless.

Title : (untitled)
Genre : A mixture of angst and fluff
Pairing : Jaeho
Summary : Jaejoong's knee injury has created an inner turmoil within himself. When he felt the walls of his world crashing down, the other members was there to keep them up. One-shot.


He watched, consumed in regret and bitter hatred for himself in the shadows. The man who had been chosen to replace him danced in sync with the others, playing his role as part of the team. One half of his face was painted white, the other black, in an attempt to symbolize the co-existence of teamwork like the ying yang.

“Dong Bang Shin Ki can not be broken so easily.” Yunho had voiced in determination at one of their press interviews.

Jaejoong had believed him for a while but bickering arose among the members, verbal and at times, almost physical fights on disagreements of performance changes, and who was going to cover Jaejoong’s part. He had sat silently, eyes downcast, his throat working to voice the words that he didn’t want to say out loud.

Please don’t fight because of me.

His knee throbbed, a dull reminder that he had been standing too long.

They don’t need me. He thought to himself as he watched them perform flawlessly.

He was tired. A mental anguish that had consumed his mind was slowly consuming his heart.

As if sensing his thoughts, Yunho glanced over his shoulder in his direction before sliding into the final steps of the song. The audience automatically reacted in a thunderous applause. Fangirls sobbed in joy, their voices straining as they continued to scream shrilly.

The group gazed on, eyes blinded as the bright spotlight shone onto them before slowly dimming. Jaejoong smiled slightly, seeing the slight tremor in their tired limbs, their shoulders heaving as they collected their breath, and the sweat coating their face and neck.

They put their souls into their performances.

Slowly, he moved away toward backstage for the dark solitude it provided. In mid step, the energy suddenly rushed out of him and his knee buckled. Jaejoong clenched his teeth and closed his eyes, dreading the pain that would follow once he hit the floor.

Strong hands grabbed him, one on each arm and two around his waist.

“Hyung!” Four voices cried out in unison and Jaejoong stiffened in shock, eyes snapping open to see Changmin look up worriedly from the floor. His hands were outreached, just below his knee to cushion his impact if he happened to hit the ground.

The hands around his waist moved across his stomach, circling as he was pulled upwards into a warm chest. He looked from side to side where Junsu and Yoochun were standing as they released his arms and knew automatically that Yunho was embracing him.

“The audience…” Jaejoong croaked. He cleared his throat before trying again, composing his voice to be calm. “The audience is calling you.”

“Hyung, the audience is calling us.” Yoochun corrected.

Jaejoong blinked and felt Yunho’s chin rest on his shoulder, his arms tightened a bit in reassurance before loosening slightly.

“Us?” Jaejoong repeated. The four members exchanged exasperated looks.

“Yes, Hyung.” Junsu said, cheerfully.

“Do you need your crutches?” Changmin asked, looking around for them.

“Crutches?” Jaejoong repeated in confusion. “Oh no, I don’t need them.”

“Are you sure?” Yunho’s quiet voice next to his ear startled him and he knew the taller man had felt him jump. “It’s okay.”

Jaejoong knew he wasn’t referring to his crutches but rather his internal struggle.

That dancer is only temporary. We can’t exist without you.

Everyone’s eyes were on him, recognizing him and his flaws.

You’re not a burden.

Accidents can happen.

No one is perfect.

Learn to lean on us a little.

Smiling brightly, Jaejoong let out a joyful laugh that made everyone backstage turn to look at them.

“Let’s go before they scream themselves into a heart attack.” Jaejoong joked. Yunho loosened his arms slowly and stepped back, grabbing his hand. Their fingers entwined unhurriedly as they moved back onto the stage.

Dong Bang!

Dong Bang!

Dong Bang!

“Sorry to keep you waiting!” Yoochun called out while grinning into his microphone. “We had a small incident backstage.”

“What kind of incident?” Junsu asked, in mock confusion as he turned to Micky.

“Oh, our leader had a problem keeping his hands to himself.” Yoochun sighed.

“Hey! I thought that was my job.” Junsu complained.

The audience erupted in approving screams.

“Please don’t take them seriously.” Changmin commented. Yoochun and Junsu glanced over at him in amusement.

“Yunho-sshi, why are you holding hands with Jaejoong-sshi?” Yoochun remarked as if finally noticing the two of them.

Like the ying yang whose light and darkness can not exist without the other…

…Dong Bang Shin Ki can not exist without Youngwoong Jaejoong.

“Why?” Yunho met his gaze with warm eyes. “It’s because I want to.”

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[FICLET] Some...Yamabu fic. Untitled.


“Shoon! Want a kiss?”

This may have been a very strange thing to ask, if it wasn’t for the tiny piece of chocolate wrapped in foil that Yabu was offering to him. Even with that as an explanation, Shoon was slightly weary of the smile on his face, which mirrored the one that Tegoshi-senpai often got when he was planning something.

Even so, he couldn’t resist Yabu. “Sure…”

Yabu’s eyes were on him the whole time that he carefully unwrapped the candy, placed it in his mouth, and chewed it carefully.

“Want another?” he asked when he saw Shoon swallow. Well, he was offering…

“Yes, please.”

Yabu leaned closer to him, hand clenched into a fist, and Shoon expected that he would give him another chocolate kiss. Which Yabu did. What he didn’t expect was that, as Yabu dropped the wrapped kiss into his hand, he surged forward and pressed a very real kiss to his lips.

“Don’t worry, the candy was an added bonus,” He said happily at Shoon’s shocked face.

*

I'm bored and I'm hungry yet again. And for some odd reason I was craving for... Kiss. Then at that same time I read this ShoonxYabu fic and since my mind was a blur two hours ago, and an hour ago I had this idea in my head and voila! A short simple spur of the moment ficlet!

P.S.

I am faaammiisshhheedddd... Feed me!

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Imperfect, unfinished and plain ugly


I seriously can't get enough of PIN~ YamaPi + Jin = rabu rabu
Siiigh. This one is a draft, so it ain't finished. It is finished baru tadi. But I don't think the ending is good. I suck at it. I suck at description. I can't even write a good kissing scene!

Ah well. Title is... unknown. Ah yeah, I suck at making titles too. I'm a failure~! And it's rated um, I don't know how to rate too! *emos somewhere* But it has rough Pi and a clueless Jin(as always). And Pi dominates!

TONIGHT WE WILL DINE IN HELL!!!!
Err that was just plain random. Couldn't think of anything better to end an introduction.
*
"YES!" 14-year-old Akanishi Jin cheers as he watches the last basketball fall into the hoop flawlessly. He turns to his best friend who is currently pouting, a basketball still in his hands. "I win again," he says, smirking at the younger boy. He walks over to the stand next to it and picks out a stuffed animal (a panda) and adds it to his bulging bag of prizes he had won that entire day. It must be my lucky day, he thinks as he lugs the bag home with him, walking alongside a quiet Yamashita Tomohisa.
Jin animatedly recounts most of the day's games, his voice not hiding the excitement he was feeling from having won so much in one day when usually he's the loser at the end of these games. Beside him though, Yamapi has not said a single word in reply.
"Pi?" Jin asks, when he realizes that the boy appears lost in his thoughts.
"Hmm?" Yamapi grunts out, his hands stuffed in his pockets and his head staring down at the ground. He looks up, his eyes slightly dulled over and Jin frowns.
"Ne," he says, stopping in his tracks and rummaging through his bag.
"Jin, what are you doing?" Yamapi asks, his voice curious as he stops beside his best friend.
Jin finally finds what he's been looking for and picks out a plushie of Tuxedo Mask. "Ne, you can have this! I know you think he's cool and all and well, I have too much already."
Yamapi stares at the plushie in front of him and then looks into Jin's anxious face. However, the reaction from the younger boy isn't exactly what Jin is expecting. He glares at Jin as he snaps, "Taking pity on me? Just because I lost today doesn't mean you have to act as though I'm so pathetic I'll take the scraps from my best friend."
"Wha?" Jin starts, his heart pounding as he watches Yamapi's glare get darker. "That's not-" he starts, but is cut off.
"I don't need to take this from you," he snips, turns on his heel and then dashes away, leaving Jin frozen in his spot with his arm still outstretched and the plushie in his hand.
Jin's shoulders droop as he puts the plushie back into the bag and lifts his bag up and clutches it to himself. He hadn't meant it like that, not in the least. He had just thought he'd do a nice thing, like whenever Yamapi won, he'd always give one of the prizes to Jin and thought he could finally do the same. He trudges all the way home, kicking rocks and little puppies alike, minus the puppies, of course.
He enters the house, muttering out a weak "Tadaima" and rushes up into his room to avoid any questions from his mom. He can hear a faint "Jin!" coming from his mom, but he promptly ignores it.
Throwing open the door to his room, he expects to be able to toss the bag aside and just flop onto his bed, but he's extremely mistaken when he finds Yamapi sitting on top of his bed, staring at a spot on his wall while eating some popcorn from a bowl on his lap. Jin promptly drops the bag in front of him.
Jin stares for a long minute, blinking and then goes "Pi?" a second later. The younger boy doesn't react to the comment at all, and Jin knows that he's just being stubborn again. The older boy sighs, moving to pick up the bag and tossing all the fallen plushies back into it.
Crunch. Crunch.
Looking up, Jin sees Yamapi casually plopping in the popcorn into his mouth like this is nothing and that he's not in Jin's room, getting on Jin's nerves with his little silent act.
Crunch. Crunch-crunch-crunch.
Jin manages to put the bag aside without attacking Yamapi at the irritating sound of crunching popcorn in his mouth, but when he goes "Pi?" a second time and Yamapi doesn't react, he snaps. He moves to grab the bowl, his hands tugging on one end of the bowl.
Quickly, the fury in Yamapi's eyes comes back as his hands automatically move to take it back. The two struggle a little with the bowl, making it into a mini-tug of war battle when the bowl slips from both their hands and lands all over Jin's bed. The buttered-popcorn scatters onto his sheets and onto the floor and the two stare at each other for a long minute.
"Now look at what you did!" They snap at the same time, identical glares on both of their faces. Jin grunts a little, lying back on the rug in his room and he tries desperately to hold himself back from strangling the younger boy.
Yamapi grunts in reply, falling back onto Jin's bed and ignoring the crunch of the popcorn beneath him when his body hit the bed.
It's silent between the two for a long while, to the point that Jin could've sworn that at least half an hour passed without any dialogue being shared between them.
"I'm sorry," Yamapi mutters out, breaking their silence and then he leans over to his side and still not looking at Jin at all.
Jin sits up abruptly, not sure if he was hearing things or not. "Wait, what?"
Yamapi purposely keeps away from Jin's gaze, trying to look at any spot other than his eyes and mutters again, albeit a little louder this time, "I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry; I can't hear you." Jin snaps, crawling over to his bed and trying to get closer to Yamapi.
This time, Yamapi turns his head and faces Jin, eyes on eyes. "I'm. Sorry," he repeats, this time loud and clear.
Jin stares and then a smile grows on his face. "It's okay, Pi." He turns over, leaning back on the side of his bed. "You're a sore loser, I understand."
Yamapi growls behind him, "I am not!" he exclaims, smacking Jin in the head with one of his pillows.
Jin is laughing when he falls back against the floor, ignoring, as Yamapi did, the crunching of the popcorn underneath him. "Who'd've thought you'd be such a brat when you lost?"
Yamapi huffs, "Shut up." He moves to lie beside Jin and the two lay next to each other, the silence in the room more comfortable than it had been in a long while.
"...Still want that plushie?" Jin asks, one arm behind his head.
A pillow smacks him on the face in reply. "Not Tuxedo Mask, baka. I never said he was cool," Yamapi snaps with a roll of his eyes.
"Ahhh, must be mixing you up with someone else." Jin leans over to his side so he can look at Yamapi and the younger boy moves to do the same. "But you can definitely take any one that you want."
Yamapi's smile is comforting to him. "Thanks, Jin. I appreciate it."
Jin smiles back, "No problem."
The smile changes to a wicked grin as Yamapi says, "But next time, I won't have to take one of your plushies because I'll be winning my own and you'll be the one asking one from me."
Jin hits Yamapi in the face with the pillow and the two collapse on the floor in laughter.
*
"Akanishi-kun!" A girl's voice coos as he walks down the street with his best friend.
Jin, now at the ripe age of 21, flashes her one of his best smiles, giving her a small wave as well, and she turns to her friend, squealing in excitement. A block later, it happens again. Only this time, it's two girls and this time, Jin actually knows them. He can hear Yamapi "tsk" and can just see the male rolling his eyes as he listens to Jin flirt with the girls. It's a common enough occurence for Jin that he's surprised when Yamapi curtly excuses himself and heads off without giving Jin any heed.
Jin stares at Yamapi's departing back, biting at his lip as he looked from the girls to Yamapi, then back to the girls. "Yamapi!" he calls out, but the boy doesn't turn around. Jin's eyebrows furrows together as he continues to stare at Yamapi walking away. He turns to the girls, his face with apology written all over it, "Sorry, I should go see what's the matter. See you tomorrow?" He runs off before hearing their apology, but he's sure they'll agree. (He was Akanishi Jin, after all.)
By the time that Jin has caught up to Yamapi, the male's already inside of Jin's house, sitting on his bed... With popcorn in his lap. Jin blinks for a second and then tries to keep calm, assuring himself that this does not mean what he thinks it means. (And how'd he get there so quickly and cook popcorn? Did he have some hidden supply somewhere that Jin just didn't know about?)
"You know, I could definitely hook you up with one of the girls," Jin says casually, tossing his back-pack wherever and throwing himself against the floor, leaning against one of the sides of the bed. "I know you have a thing for girls with big breasts, and you have to admit that Sakura does have them. I'm sure she'd jump at the chance to date the famous Yamashita Tomohisa." Jin leans back on his elbows and tilts his head back far enough so he can get a good look at Yamapi's face.
He only finds Yamapi still crunching annoyingly (a sound that never ceases to piss Jin off) on popcorn and is still staring at the wall blankly.
"Tomohisa," Jin calls and Yamapi just pops another kernel into his mouth.
"Yamashita," he snaps, turning his whole body around to get a good look at Yamapi. "Will you stop eating and talk to me already?" The male still doesn't react and Jin always did have a short fuse.
"Damn it, Pi! You keep doing this!" Jin picks up a random plushie from the floor and throws it at the younger male on his bed. "We're not kids anymore. You have got to stop giving me the silent treatment whenever you're pissed at me!"
Yamapi's glare almost causes Jin to lose his nerve.
"No, Pi," Jin snaps, his glare matching Yamapi's. "For once, you're going to have to say something and not stay silent for over half an hour."
Yamapi huffs, snatching the pillow he had been lying on and throws it at Jin's head. Jin ducks to avoid it and looks back up only to find Yamapi had moved in front of him. He leans forward against his hands which rest at Jin's sides. Jin arches back slightly, feeling his back ache from the uncomfortable position. Yamapi whispers softly with a tinge of darkness to it, "Do you really want to know what the problem is, Jin?" His breath mixes with Jin's and Jin takes in a deep breath unconsciously, inhaling all that is Yamapi.
"Yes," Jin murmurs. They lock eyes and the world freezes for Jin. All he can focus on is on the male in front of him, who is breathing on him and whose warm breath is tickling his nose. His eyes dart to focus on Yamapi's and he follows the line of his nose to his eyes which haven't blinked once and the thought causes Jin to blink. In that one second, Yamapi pounces, his lips press against Jin's and Jin falls back on the floor in shock.
Yamapi is persistent though and he presses against Jin's body as he leans forward, trying to keep their lips from separating. Jin's hands move to push the boy off of him, but when Yamapi's tongue pokes at his lips and Jin gasps in reaction, causing Yamapi to plunge his tongue into his mouth, his hands stop trying to push and instead are tugging at Yamapi to get closer.
They separate and Jin opens his eyes to find Yamapi still on top of him. He suddenly acutely aware of the fact that his hands are clutching at the front of Yamapi's shirt and Jin just blinks dumbly. "Um," he says after a long uncomfortable pause.
"That's my problem," Yamapi whispers, his eyes looking more vulnerable than Jin thinks he's ever seen them. "And I can't help it anymore." He moves to get up, but Jin doesn't let go. Instead, Jin tugs him forward and when Yamapi collapses against Jin's body, Jin throws his arms around the younger male.
"Then, don't worry about it any longer," Jin mutters into Yamapi's hair, his hands tangling in the black hair that he always found soft and was pleased to find that it actually was. "This is one thing that you definitely won't have to throw a tantrum over." When he feels Yamapi's hands gripping at Jin's shirt, Jin looks down to find Yamapi staring back at him. Jin flashes him a smile and the younger male snorts and rolls his eyes.
"I guess not," Yamapi says, leaning his head against Jin's chest and listening to the sound of his heart beat. "I guess not."

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