Innocent Days | By : soleil Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > SHINee Views: 1135 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 14
“This is the final check-in call for Flight Number KE 2712 to Seoul Incheon International Airport. After completing your check-in, please proceed immediately to gate 7... “
“So..” Jonghyun said and looked down at his feet. “Yeah, it’s time.” Key casually replied and discreetly tried to disentangle his fingers from Jonghyun’s.
“That’s not what I meant, bapo!” Jonghyun looked up again, a soft shade of pink now covering his cheeks. “I meant, take care, don’t eat strange foods, call at least twice a day and … and I… I’ll miss you…”
“Awwwww!!!!!!” Key would have already been reduced to a mushy pile on the floor if it weren’t for the fact that they were in public and he had to keep his cool appearance. “Stop that, bapo! You are killing me! I feel as if I’m heading out for military service!” he whined but nevertheless smiled lovingly at Jonghyun who suspiciously looked like he was about to cry. “It’s just one week.” he said nonchalantly while pulling out his sunglasses and putting them on. Then, as an afterthought he shortly leaned into the shorter boy and whispered: “I’ll miss you too.” Turning to Minho he said: “Have an eye on this dino for me, will ya? I’m counting on you!”
“Yeah. And you go and have some fun!” the taller boy replied and gave him his most reassuring smile. Smiling back, Key hesitated only for a split second before he finally freed his hand and turned around to pass his gate following the other band-members who had already said their goodbyes.
“Aish.” Jonghyun sighed and buried his hands deeply into his pockets. “I so do hate farewells.”
“Well, it’s just for a week, so...” Minho mumbled and stiffly crossed his arms in front of him. Standing there silently next to each other, watching the by now empty gate made the atmosphere very awkward and when the older boy didn’t seem about to stir soon he decided to say something that would make him move: “Coffee first and then shopping?”
“Sounds good.” Jonghyun agreed lifelessly but as predicted and turned on the spot to head to the nearest coffee-place. Grabbing a newspaper from a stand he sat down at the most secluded table he could find and handed Minho the sports-section on auto-pilot. Along the years it had become a habit that whenever he got his hands on a paper he had to split it accordingly to the members. Somehow it made sense to him that the lifestyle-section immediately had to go to Key, while Minho always got the sports. Then Taemin got the children’s pages and Onew the stuff about politics, because Jonghyun was funny like that. Well, that also meant that he himself was stuck with the parts about economics and business, but as he never meant to read it in the first place, but hide behind, it didn’t really matter in the end which part he got. When he had finally settled behind his makeshift magic hood, he allowed himself to sigh. “How could I forget that they were leaving today? And I thought we’d just have a somewhat quiet week.”
“Don’t beat yourself up about it. This event was planned so secretly that they almost forgot themselves. I also forgot.” Minho rationalized, feeling as if he was talking to himself.
“Hn.” was the only comment uttered from behind an upside-down graph portraying some small European country’s road to financial insolvency. Jonghyun’s uncharacteristic listlessness drove Minho crazy and he had to suppress the urge to grab the paper and smack him on the head. Instead he remembered his promise to Key and averted his attention to his part of the paper which he actually was going to read. If only the constant sighing from his hyung would let him. “Don’t be like that!” he decided after a while to try again “You’ll see, they’ll be back in no time! After all it’s just for..”
The newspaper came crushing down on the table and a pair of angrily glittering eyes fixated him with menace. “If I have to hear one more time that it is ‘just’ for a week, I’m out of here! You’re making it quite clear that you don’t care that he’s gone for ‘just’ a week, but *I* do, so shut up and let me read my paper!”
Yep, Jonghyun obviously had decided to be difficult. Minho only sighed and thought that he was in for a hell of a week.
Four days into the week and Minho’s fears couldn’t have become truer. Their constant irrational arguing whenever they were at their dorm, made him want to stay out as long as possible -even after finishing his daily schedule. Jonghyun had become quite insufferable behaving as if everything wrong on the planet was Minho’s fault and never missed a chance to remind him how much he was missing Key while accusing him that Minho probably didn’t. At first the younger one had been trying to simply ignore him, not because the singer wasn’t already grating on his nerves but because of his promise to Key. After a while and when he saw that his efforts bore no fruit he began actively avoiding him, which if anything seemed to be making everything even worse, as the nagging and bitching seemed to escalate whenever he caught him around.
Needless to say that Minho was finally at the point where he just wanted to kick him in the face.
So it was quite late that night when he returned from his extended visit at SuJu’s dorm and was now sneaking like a thief into their own, in fear of running into their resident menopausal-house-dragon. While he quietly took off his shoes he shook his head in disbelief at his own behavior and what his promise to Key and stupid Jonghyun had reduced his flaming charisma into. “I am no coward damnit!” he thought, but contradicted himself immediately when he almost had a heart attack as his phone in his breast-pocket suddenly started to ring loudly in the otherwise silent apartment.
“Yeah?” he answered with immense relieve that it was finally silent again only to hear Key’s shrill and hyper voice from the other end and promptly have the irrational urge to tell him to be more quiet.
“Minho-baby, hola!! Guess what? Come on, guess! Oh nevermind, you’ll never guess it right, so I’ll tell you right away: I’m gonna go see David Guetta live tomorrow! Isn’t that awesome????” he shrieked into Minho’s ear and he was sure if his ringtone hadn’t already woken Jonghyun up, Key’s excited screeching would -even if he wasn’t on speaker.
“Yeah, great!” Minho breathed not very enthusiastically and strained his neck to take a better look at Jonghyun’s door. “Why are you whispering? Oh right! How could I forget -it’s night for you right now! Sorry baby, did I wake you? I was just so excited to…”
“No, you didn’t. I just came home, but Jonghyun is probably sleeping and I didn‘t want to wake him.” he mumbled staring anxiously at the -thank god- still closed door.
“Aw! Look at you! I knew that you two would get along and grow closer once left alone! You should always listen to the almighty..” Key happily started rambling and Minho’s strings finally broke.
“Closer?” he hissed suddenly not giving a damn anymore if he’d wake shorty. If it was their fate to have another round that evening so be it. Minho wouldn’t back out anymore. “Closer?!” he asked again this time even louder. “Yeah we’re quite close, but not as close as we’ll be when I smash my fist into his face making his nose meet his brain!” Venturing his anger for the first time in more than a week felt unbelievably liberating. He felt like being able to breathe for the first time.
“Wha..?” was Key’s reply and the shock he got became obvious when he didn’t seem to find any more words in the next few seconds. “But you promised that…”
“Listen Kibum, I know I promised, but I’m sorry: he’s not worth it that I end up in a mental-clinic!” He didn’t even hear the -Don’t you ‘Kibum’ me!- from the other side as he was about to express all his frustration over their vocalist. “He is simply unbearable! Yesterday night he locked me out in my shorts and house-shoes as I was taking out the thrash. Then he pretended to be asleep and left me out there to freeze to death and when I called him from the hyung’s apartment he had the nerve to yell at me for not having my house-keys while ‘going out partying’ and waking him up when he’s going through such a rough patch missing you! I swear, I’m just this close to…” Minho’s rant ended abruptly when he registered Key’s obnoxious trademark laugh. “Keke, that’s priceless!” he heard the blonde say and was perplexed hearing the careless reaction. “How can you laugh when he’s deliberately driving me insane?” Minho asked incredulously just to hear more laughter. “But baby, don’t you see? He’s doing it on purpose and you just rise to the bait!”
“I KNOW that he is doing it on purpose, but I don’t see what he’s going to get out of it when I strangle him in the end!” Minho was starting to feel a little insulted now.
“I’m sorry baby, but you can be really dense sometimes! He pisses you off to keep you as far away as possible. Offense is the best defense and he’s scared shitless, because you are a threat to him.”
“That doesn’t make sense, babo. I’m no threat to him while you are thousands of miles away and I’m stuck here with him..”
“Not because of me! He’s afraid to let you close! He’s already admitted that he is attracted to you and now he is stuck alone with you in the same house. He is driving you away to ensure that nothing is gonna happen again between the two of you!”
“What!? You think ..?” He had to admit that Key knew Jonghyun best and what he suggested was uttered with absolute confidence. “I know! Trust me, a year ago he did the same with me! Just test it out and you’ll see I’m right!”
“Test it out?!” Minho asked incredulously, but didn’t have any more time to think about Key’s words as the door to Jonghyun’s room opened wide to reveal a disheveled and angrily blinking singer. “Yah! What the hell is wrong with you, hm? Do you know what time it is?” he snarled as soon as he spotted the boy in the hall, but his features softened abruptly when he realized that he was on the phone. “By any chance, is that Kibummie?” he asked hopefully, suddenly in complete puppy-mode and Minho could almost see his imaginary tail waggling in excitement. “Deh.” he answered and immediately had the phone snatched away from him. Minho didn’t really mind as he right now had lots to think about, and a distracted Jonghyun seemed convenient. He slowly got out of his jacket and put it away all the while keeping an eye on the other. Curiosity had suddenly replaced all his anger and he could only wonder if Key was right -could it really be that Jonghyun was that much attracted to him that he feared being alone with him? And how could he test that out? What could he possibly do to either confirm or reject Key’s theory? ‘Corner him!’ suggested a voice in his mind that sounded suspiciously like Key. ‘Unleash that flaming charisma and you’ll see!’ Minho almost laughed out loud at himself and the voice in his head, but he couldn’t deny that he was tingling all over in excitement at the idea of playing a little game with Jonghyun -not to mention that he still owed him one from the day when his hyung had jumped him in that hotel-corridor…
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