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So Kibum holds hand with Taemin and goes to a certain spot to talk… Taemin breaking the ice…

Taemin:           (immediately hugs Kibum) Key hyung… I am going to miss you so much…

Kibum:             (hugs Taemin tightly too) I will miss you too Taeminnie… (hold Taemin’s face) Please be
                         well, ok… Take good care of yourself… I don’t know when I will be back but let’s hope
                         soon…

Taemin:           (sighs and shakes his head) Key I am not a type of person who waits; I will grab any 
                        opportunity to chase my wish and dream…Key can I make a request?

Kibum:             (looks concern) sure Taeminnie, what is it?

Taemin:           I know that somehow Minho hyung had already confessed his love for you – I may not be
                        in the level of competing myself as to the period of time Minho hyung and you have been
                        together… I can only be contented on the times I first met you… up to now... I know I am
                        short in comparison as to time … but when it comes to the level of how each of us feels for
                        you – I can compete with that…

Kibum:             (shock at the earnest personality of Taemin) Taeminnie, yeah Minnie did…

Taemin:           (panics) did you accept his confession?

Kibum:             (remembers) Ohh… I have a letter for him… (gives the letter to Taemin) could you give it
                         … I was hoping he’d change his mind to come see me off but I guess my hope is gone…

Taemin:           (chest tightens) o-okay… regardless, when I reach my college… I will go to Paris and
                        study there… I will follow you Key and I hope you will not abandon me nor forsake me…

Kibum:             (smiles) of course, I won’t Taeminnie… you two brothers are really scaring me sometimes
                        due to your intense emotions…

Taemin:           (smiles) coz both of us – Minho hyung and I are really definitely and totally in love with Key
                        hyung….

Kibum:             I greatly appreciate all the love you two have been showing me – but I hope while I am
                        gone – both of you can move on gradually without me by your side…

Taemin:           (shake his head ferociously) No I won’t Key… I will follow and chase you… no matter 
                        where you are… please wait for me – I will grow up you will see…

Kibum:             (hugs Taemin) calm down Taemin…calm down…

Taemin:           (looks at Kibum seriously) Key can I make a request?

Kibum:             what is it?

Taemin:           (pulls Kibum’s left hand) let’s go somewhere private, I have something to show and give 
                        you…

Kibum:             (surprised) oh! Alright… there’s a private washroom area over there…let’s go there…

And they go and enter the washroom area, Taemin opens the door, quickly closes it and let Kibum sits on a cushioned sofa then…

“Taeminnie… what is it?” asks Kibum…

Taemin in complete silence looks at Kibum and comes closer then he sits on Kibum’s thighs and hugs him tight. Kibum chuckles at the cuteness of the other and hugs him back…

“Taemin what a silly cute guy are you” says Kibum…

“Key hyung, I will miss you… I promise when I reach college – I will go to Paris and find you…(raises his face) and I will never let you go again”…says Taemin…

Kibum:             (smiles) aawww you are just so sweet… aaahh… let me give you a kiss for being so sweet
                        and cute (gives Taemin a kiss on the forehead)...

Taemin:           wwwaaaeee!!  I don’t like that kind of kiss – it is more like a mother to her daughter or
                        father to his son…oh… dad does not kiss me… so mother and daughter…yeah…

Kibum:             (laughs out loud) Taeminnie… silly boy… so what kind of kiss do you like? Don’t tell me a
                        lover’s kiss… aaaiiisshhh… Taeminnie…you are only 13 years old… and you should
                        experience that to a girl you will love in the future…

Taemin:           eeehhh?? I don’t think so but Minho hyung taught you how? And he deliberately has been
                        kissing you for a long time now… and I am not 13 I am 14 already… remember…

Kibum:             (gulps when he talked about Minho kissing him) oh..ok 14 yeah… and still you should not
                         know about this kind of thing…

Taemin:           (grumbles) hhhmmpphh… I won’t let you leave this place if you don’t kiss me... Key
                        hyung…

Kibum:             (sighs and blows his cheek when exhaling and gives up) fine… I really don’t know why
                         you choose me to be the one kissing you Taemin… There are so many girls who would
                         want to experience a kiss with you…

Taemin:           (mumbles) aaahhh I am gay… I am not into them… I like you and I am in love with you the
                        first time I met you….  (raises his head and says further) I know that Minho hyung slept
                        with you last night and I cried the whole night coz I know Minho hyung’s character when he
                        gets serious… I just know… (and the tears roll down on his cheek) … how I wish I was
                        born earlier… I could have been in the position of Minho hyung right now… but
                        unfortunately I wasn’t …no… so I was always and still have been prioritized second in your
                        life….and I feel sad about that…

I wish there will come a time when I can become a first in your life and not Minho hyung… I am praying for that and If it so happens, I will be the happiest person in the world – this I will continue to pray… (sobs hard) I love you Key hyung … I love you so much… Minho hyung is so lucky but he is a coward… I am here saying courageously what I feel and I am not afraid of the outcome… I say what I feel… and very honest about it…

When I first met you… I was so happy… that I felt like shouting it out to the whole world that I met a very beautiful person with a very kind heart…. I was babbling the whole time to Mom and Dad especially Minho hyung thus at that time they laughed at me coz I would not tell them your name… (hics) I still have your hanky and treasuring it so much… one day Minho hyung showed me inside his room – a large framed portrait of you and him on the wall…

I was so devastated; I felt like crying but controlled myself… I have always known that Minho hyung has loved you endlessly coz he told me so… (sobs) he said that you are the most important person in his life and that he has loved you from the very first time you met…

I could not say a word so instead I smiled at him but Minho hyung loves me so much too that he didn’t stop me from loving you too… (pants) but it just hurt so much… so when he said that… I went back to my room and cried the whole time… and questioning life… why does it have to be my brother…why… (then he cries endlessly… then gets something from the pocket of his pants)….

Key (hics) … here’s my gift on your birthday… sorry, I was not able to give you something at that time coz I didn’t know what to give you… then I find this… in a stall shop when we went for a walk at the park in Paris….for you… (gives his gift to Key while continuously crying)….

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