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Yellow Eyes, Warm EyesJoonmyeon walked down the hallway with his best friends; Do Kyungsoo the vice
president of student body and Kim Jongdae the secretary. They were chit-chatting
about school’s affair, on how to conduct a summer festival, about the
upcoming school trip for the student body, about the weekly report and the list go
on. As the president, Joonmyeon always makes sure all of the activities went well.
No complaint and only satisfaction.
“Ah, Joonmyeon hyung”, Jongdae stopped walking. The other also stopped
and turned to him. Joonmyeon’s eyebrow curved upward. “Can I come over
tonight?”, Jongdae looked at him. Joonmyeon tilted his head. “What for?”, he asked,
confused. Jongdae never, by means NEVER asked for permission when he visited
Joonmyeon’s mansion. He was the type who just barged in whenever he wanted to.
So this was new to him. Jongdae? Permission? No.
Jongdae scratched his temple sheepishly. He looked at Joonmyeon, eyes wavered.
Erm? Suspicious. "I- I something to tell you”, Jongdae stuttered. Joonmyeon
squinted his eyes but said nothing and just nodded. Jongdae’s facial brighten and
he hugged Joonmyeon. Joonmyeon gasped, shocked with the action. Jongdae
then released the poor president, flashed him his infamous Cheshire grins and
fled from the scene. Joonmyeon stared at Jongdae’s slowly fading back
dumbfounded. Kyungsoo blinked his eyes few times. He turned to Joonmyeon.
“What was that?”
“Beats me”, he muttered.
After school ended, Joonmyeon and Jongdae went to the mansion together. Along
the journey, Jongdae was silent. He kept looking outside, mindlessly. But
Joonmyeon knew he had something in his mind that bothering him, just by
looking. Joonmyeon glanced below, Jongdae’s leg thumping lightly on the floor.
Bingo. He turned back at Jongdae and frowned. Just what was in his mind? The
silent grew until they arrived at Joonmyeon’s house. They stepped out of the car
and bowed a little towards the driver. The driver bowed back and drove the car
away.
Kim Joonmyeon was always a polite and kind-hearted boy. He lost his parents at
the age of 8 and since then, he’s been raised by his father’s only younger brother,
Kim Minseok who older than him by 8 years. Minseok took Joonmyeon in when he
just barely 14 years old. But, he got no option when his brother and sister-in-law
passed away and left him and Joonmyeon. Minseok’s parents also passed away
together with his brother and sister-in-law. The accident was so bad that it killed
all the people in the car. Minseok, who just a teenager back then had to take
over the company. It was hard at first, but with some help from the members of
the board, he managed to lead the company towards success when he’s 16.
He’s a genius after all. He raised Joonmyeon with the help of their butlers and
maids. Joonmyeon was so grateful towards his hyung (Minseok asked him not to
called him ‘uncle’. It makes him feel old) for raising him.
Joonmyeon walked inside followed by Jongdae. He went upstairs to change out
of his uniform and asked Jongdae to use the guest room beside Minseok’s room.
Jongdae just nodded and told him he will do it later. After watching Joonmyeon
disappeared, he pull out his phone and pressed speed dial 1. After a few beep,
the other line connected.
“Jongdae”
He sighed contentedly. He missed the voice so much all day that he felt he nearly
losing his mind.
“I miss you”, Jongdae muttered softly. He closed his eyes, exhaling slowly.
“I miss you too, Jongdae”, the other person’s voice was so soft, so beautiful that
Jongdae could swear he would love hearing it every second, every day. How
can such a voice existed. He wondered sometimes.
“Are you in your room?”, he asked. He walked towards the stairs and started to
climb it.
“Yeah. I heard Joonmyeon came in just now. You came with him?”
Jongdae walked through the corridor and stopped in front of a door. The room
next to the guest room.
“Yes, baby”, he smiled. He knocked on the door a few times. The sound
resonated through his phone. There were footsteps approaching him from inside
before the door was opened. There, stood in front of him was Minseok. He
stepped inside the room and closed the door behind him, all while still pressing
the phone on his ear. Minseok smiled, phone on his ear too. Jongdae grinned
widely, all worries vanished.
“Hello, love”
Kim Jongdae is in love with Joonmyeon’s uncle. That’s the fact that will never
changed. But, what can he do? He fell in love with Minseok. He fell for Minseok’s
personality, of his intelligent, of his quiet nature, of his loveliness, of his charm.
He didn’t asked to fall in love with Minseok. But, weirdly he just did. It’s hard
when the person we loved was much older, much much older than us. Minseok
was older than Jongdae by 9 years. Jongdae didn’t care about all that, he just
care about his feeling. But, apparently Minseok did.
When Jongdae confessed for the first time, Minseok’s reaction was just shook
his head and ran away. That day, for the first time in his life his heart broke so
hard. He felt like someone cut him open, pulled out his heart and stabbed it
thousand times. It hurts so much. That day, he went home and cried in his
bathroom; muffled with his arms. He felt broken, yes, but Jongdae knew, he
knew that Minseok also love him. And he knew that Minseok thought that their
age difference makes it impossible. So, the next day he went back to the
mansion (fortunately, Joonmyeon was out that time) and confront Minseok. He
barreled in Minseok’s room without knocking and what he saw in front of him
just confirm what he has in mind. Minseok was on his bed, his red-eyes
widened, his nose and ears reddened, tears-stricken cheeks. He mouth gaped,
like a fish.
“J-jongd-dae.. W-what umph-”
Jongdae kissed Minseok squared on his lips. I knew it, he thought. He kissed
Minseok with great care, lapped at Minseok’s plush lips sweetly. He always
knew that Minseok tasted like honey but he didn’t knew that Minseok tasted
this good. He hummed while kissing Minseok, all while cupping the smaller
man’s cheeks.
Minseok’s eyes widened for the second time. What just happened? Minseok
was blanked for a second before he realized that Jongdae’s kissing him. He
needed to stop it, he must stop it. But, with the way Jongdae carefully kissing
him, he can’t. Not when the person he loves kissed him like he’s the center
of his world. Not long before Minseok surrendered, he closed his eyes and
kissed Jongdae back. He sighed dreamily. He loves how Jongdae’s lips felt
so warm, so hot against his. He let out a quiet moaned when Jongdae’s
bite his lower lip lightly. With that, Jongdae pulled away first. Minseok
whined unconsciously, lips finding Jongdae’s. Jongdae lightly chuckled at
the cute action and left a quick peck on Minseok.
“Minseok”, Jongdae rubbed Minseok’s cheek softly, liking the pink blush on
it. Minseok opened his eyes and starred back foggily. “Minseok.. Why were
you crying?”, Jongdae’s hand fell on Minseok’s back. He the older
back through his thin cotton shirt. Minseok sniffled. He shyly peered at
Jongdae, just to saw Jongdae’s twinkled eyes staring back. With that, he
knew he can’t resisted Jongdae anymore. “It was hurt”, his voice small
and quiet, unsure and insecure. “To push you away.. To break your heart..
To deny my own feeling”, Minseok bit his lip. Jongdae caressed the lips,
making sure Minseok stop biting it and he did. Minseok’s eyes filled with
tears. “I love you, Jongdae.. I really do.. Since the first time Joonmyeon
brought you home.. And I really really wanna be with you..”. The tears fell
freely on Minseok flushed cheeks. Jongdae frowned lightly, hands wiping
the tears.
“But, I can’t be with you Jongdae.. Not when there’s a big gap between
our age.. I’m 9 years older Jongdae! 9!”, Minseok cried, not caring about
Jongdae. Jongdae just brought Minseok into his arms, hugging him. He
shushed Minseok, rubbing his back softly. He let Minseok cried it out and
waited until Minseok calmed down. Soon after Minseok stop cried, Jongdae
pulled out from the hug and kissed Minseok on his forehead. Minseok’s eyes
instinctively fell shut.
“I don’t care about the age gap, Minseok”, a kiss on Minseok’s right eye.
“I just care about you” A kiss on the left eye.
“I care about my feeling of you and your feeling of me” A kiss on the nose.
“And I definitely care about our love, baby” A kiss on the lips.
Minseok started to cry but Jongdae kept kissing Minseok. Pressed after
pressed. Nipped after nipped. They both pulled out simultaneously after
kissing for a long time. They both gasped for needed air. Eyes closed, just
feeling the presence of each other. Jongdae opened his eyes first.
“So”
Minseok opened his eyes, starred at Jongdae lovingly.
“Would you be my boyfriend?”, Jongdae asked, smiled.
Minseok chuckled.
“Yes”
Jongdae had discussed with Minseok that they need to tell Joonmyeon about
their relationship. At first, Minseok disagreed about it but after much
persuasion from Jongdae (and maybe a tons of make-out session) Minseok
relented. That’s why Jongdae fidgeted all day earlier.
“Are you ready, Jongdae?”, Minseok hugged Jongdae’s mid-section. Jongdae
crawled his arms around Minseok, head leaned onto Minseok’s temple. “Kind
of. Yeah. I guess”, Jongdae said, unsure himself. Minseok starred at
Jongdae, he catched Jongdae’s lips in a kiss. Jongdae releaxed his tense
muscle and kissed him back. “It’s okay if you don’t. We can’t tell him next
time if-” “No, no.. It’s better telling him now,” Jongdae curved a small smile.
Minseok smiled back at him and pecked Jongdae. Before Jongdae could
captured Minseok’s lips in another kiss, someone knocked the door. They
pulled apart from each other before Minseok opened the door.
“Hyung, did you see Jongdae? Because he came home with me and I went to
change my clothes for awhile and when I searched for him, he’s-”,
Joonmyeon stopped blabbering when he realized Jongdae’s behind Minseok.
“-Jongdae? What are you doing here? Did you came to greet Minseok hyung?”,
Joonmyeon stepped inside the room. Minseok closed the door and stood by
Jongdae’s side. Jongdae felt his sweat broke out from each pores. He cleared
his throat. “Ah! Y-yes.. I came to greet Minseok h-hyung..”, he turned
towards Minseok, trie to gain some sort of strength. Minseok smiled. “-and
something else.. Joonmyeon hyung”, Jongdae looked at Joonmyeon.
“Yes?”
“I wanna tell you that Minseok and I-”
“Minseok hyung and you-”
“Minseok and I, we are-”
“Both of you are-”
“we-”
“you’re dating each other?”
“d-dating, w-wait.. HOW DID YOU KNOW?”
Jongdae and Minseok jaws dropped. Joonmyeon snorted before chuckled. He
cleared his throat before spoke. “Well, both of you were not that subtle, I
guess”, he shrugged carelessly. He laughed internally seeing his hyung and
dongsaeng’s expression. Jongdae starred blankly at Joonmyeon while
Minseok cheeks’ flushed. “-and I maybe eavesdropped when you guys
sort-of make up?”, he smiled secretly.
FLASHBACK
Joonmyeon walked into his mansion. Just before he went upstairs, one of
his maid said that ‘Master Jongdae is upstairs’. He nodded and said thank
you. When he neared Minseok’s room, the door was opened. ‘Weird’. He
walked slowly towards the door when he heard Jongdae’s voice.
How Jongdae called his hyung, Minseok; without hyung.
How Minseok told Jongdae about his feeling and insecurities.
How Jongdae asked Minseok to be his boyfriend.
And Minseok answered him with a ‘Yes’
To say he didn’t shocked, no. He’s shocked, yes. But, he saw it coming.
Not when he saw Jongdae’s eyes looked much livelier whenever Minseok’s
near him. Or, when he saw Minseok light blush whenever he accidentally
touched Jongdae. Or when Minseok’s head rested on Jongdae’s shoulder
and Jongdae leaned on Minseok when they fell asleep on the couch,
movie be damn.
He just, didn’t expected it to be this early.
But, he’s happy with them. He’s really happy. If Jongdae makes his
hyung happy, then he’s okay.
END OF FLASHBACK
Minseok was crying on Joonmyeon’s shoulder. Joonmyeon just smiled softly
and patted his hyung’s head. Jongdae looked at Joonmyeon with gladness.
Glad that Joonmyeon gave them a bless. Joonmyeon pushed Minseok
lightly, hands on Minseok shoulder. He lovingly starred at his hyung. “My
beautiful hyung”, he kissed Minseok’s hair.
“It’s time for you to happy, hyung”
Minseok cried louder. Joonmyeon and Jongdae both startled before laughed.
Minseok sobbed ‘When did you become so mature my baby’ he muttered
while sobbing. Joonmyeon just caressed Minseok’s hair. He smiled to both
of them.
“Be happy”
The next day, Jongdae told Kyungsoo about his relationship. Kyungsoo
starred at him boringly. ‘ing finally’. Joonmyeon gasped at Kyungsoo
before squeaked out ‘Language’. Jongdae just scratched his head,
confusedly. ‘Well, that went well than expected’.
A week after the ‘confrontation’, Jongdae dragged Joonmyeon and
Kyungsoo accompanied him watching weekly dance battle downtown.
Before they can react, Jongdae pushed Joonmyeon and Kyungsoo into
Joonmyeon’s car and asked the driver to drive them to the said place.
“What the- Jongdae!”, Kyungsoo squeaked. Jongdae just grinned at him,
patting his head.
“Shush shush. We’re gonna arrive soon”, Kyungsoo slapped Jongdae’s hand
from his hair. He brought Jongdae down twisted it behind. Jongdae howled.
The bickering continued until the car stopped at the downtown and Jongdae
ushered his friends out of the car.
He grabbed their hands and pulled them towards the stage. The place
packed of people already, mostly high school students. Majority of them
wore their school uniforms. They fitted in the crowd and stand at the center.
Some of the students recognized them, bowed and asked why they were
there and Joonmyeon replied that Jongdae just dragged him and Kyungsoo.
The students nodded and they chatted for awhile. Suddenly, the MC
appeared and introduced the groups that will battle out today.
“The last group is EXO”
The EXO members stepped up the stage and lined up before bowed. The
students went uproar, ecstatic with their favorite group joining in today.
Joonmyeon turned towards Jongdae. Jongdae just grinned. When he eyes
traveled back at stage, he saw his ‘brothers’ smiled widely at him. He smiled
back and waved. Not long after that, the dance battle begins. Joonmyeon
knew his school dance group ‘EXO’ gonna win and true to his prediction,
EXO won the battle. After all ended, he saw his ‘brothers’ ran at him. He
smiled.
“Hyung!” “Joon-ah”
“I didn’t knew that you guys have battle today?”, Joonmyeon raised his
eyebrow. The boys just looked at him sheepishly. The tanned boy walked
up him and hugged, with all the sweat. But, Joonmyeon didn’t mind. “I’m
sorry hyung. I forgot because we were so busy. But, I informed Jongdae
hyung to bring you and Kyungie here”, Jongin, the tanned boy said. He
nuzzled his head onto Joonmyeon’s shoulder. Joonmyeon just laughed,
patted the boy damped bangs. Suddenly Jongin was pushed away by
someone and he ended up into Kyungsoo’s arm.
“Don’t touch my hyung!”, the tall-blond boy hugged Joonmyeon, or more
like hugged Joonmyeon’s head. Joonmyeon’s face muffled onto the boy’s
chest. Jongin who found that he were thrown at Kyungsoo more than happy
to snuggle the owl boy. Kyungsoo just keep silent and raked his hand into
Jongin’s hair.
“Sehun-ah.. Joonmyeon can’t breath”, the one who looked like the blond
boy, only he’s shorter; said to Sehun. Sehun let go of Joonmyeon before
pouted at him. Joonmyeon catch a breath first and then just patted Sehun’s
cheek. Joonmyeon moved to hugged the shorter one. “Hi, Luhan hyung”,
Joonmyeon greeted. Luhan replied back by patting his back. Then Baekhyun
and Chanyeol crushed onto a big hug. Joonmyeon just laughed. Jongdae
who had been watching all the interaction just pouted. He turned towards
Yixing; a dimpled handsome boy, lied his head on his shoulder mumbled
‘Why people only love Joonmyeon hyung’. Yixing just laughed and patted
Jongdae’s bum. They talked their life for awhile before they separated and
went home.
Joonmyeon asked Jongdae to go home first since he want to walk around.
Jongdae nodded and told him to text Minseok about it. Joonmyeon just
laughed and waved him off. After makes sure he left, Joonmyeon send a
text to Minseok said that he will come home later. Minseok text back okay.
Joonmyeon put his phone back into his pocket and walked.
The basketball court was empty. Save for a tall boy. Even from a far the
boy looked so tall. Joonmyeon smiled. He always came here whenever
he felt stressed or simply want to be alone. The actual place he likes to
frequent was the river across the court. He need to pass the basketball
court so that he can reached the river. And whenever he passed the
basketball, there must be a figure there. Wu Yifan, a Chinese-Canadian
transfer student. He always practicing basketball whenever Joonmyeon
saw him.
Despite being a transfer student, Yifan snatched the Basketball Club Captain
title with his outstanding skills. At first, Joonmyeon just being curious of the
boy but gradually he developed a crush on the said boy. Being a shy
person he was, Joonmyeon just resort to watch him from afar. Joonmyeon
liked the way Yifan played basketball. Joonmyeon smiled at the memory.
Just like before, Yifan was there practicing. His jersey drenched with
sweat, his hair and forehead too. Even then Joonmyeon still found that
Yifan was cool. Joonmyeon smiled and walked towards the river.
A pair of eyes watched him walked away.
Joonmyeon jumped over the fence and landed on the other side of grass. He
slowly stepped on the lush grass and walked towards the bridge. He settle
down near the bridge with a deep sigh. He rested on his back, eyes straight
to the sky above him. The sky already streaked in orange and purple and
Joonmyeon knew he has to head home soon. But, just this time he ignored
what his brain told him to and instead closed his eyes. He’s dead tired and
short nap wouldn’t hurt. 5 minutes only.
And those 5 minutes turned into an hour. When he realized that he
overslept, Joonmyeon panicked, he fumbles around over his thing when
suddenly he caught a movement at the corner of his eyes. He stopped
fumbling, head turned towards the jungle ahead of him. His eyes widened
in horror when his eyes met a pair of bright yellow eyes in the straightest
stare ever. He should run for his life for he knew that eyes doesn’t belong
to a human. But, the more he looked at it, he felt more calm and it’s weird.
He stood up and walked towards the bridge, maintaining the eye-contact.
He crossed the river and once he arrived in front of the bush, his breath
hitched.
It’s a wolf. A big black wolf.
The wolf stood tall passed Joonmyeon’s waist. Joonmyeon just stared at it.
The wolf did nothing that looked like dangerous and surprisingly Joonmyeon
knew the wolf wouldn’t hurt him. He stepped towards the wolf and the wolf
stepped back. By that, Joonmyeon knew he’s safe. He walked through the
bush and walked deeper into the forest all while the wolf stepped back.
Once Joonmyeon deemed the wolf can’t see by people from the other side,
he knelt on the ground. He stretched his hands towards the wolf. He smiled
softly at the wolf. The wolf looked hesitated before it cautiously sniffed on
Joonmyeon’s hands.
Joonmyeon’s smile widened and he slide towards the wolf and rubbed his
hand on the snout. The wolf rumbled lowly, it nudged his snout deeper into
Joonmyeon’s hand. Joonmyeon giggled, his hands wandered all over the
wolf’s face. When he scratched behind the ears, the wolf lied his head on
Joonmyeon’s lap. Joonmyeon just smiled softly.
“Hello, Mr. Wolf”, Joonmyeon cooed, patting the head softly. “My name is
Joonmyeon”, he talked with the wolf. “What’s your name?”, he asked back.
The wolf just growled lowly, not the intimidate one. “I guess your nameless
since you came from the forest. Should I called you BenBen then?”,
Joonmyeon rambled. The wolf, lifted his head at Joonmyeon as if it can
understand. “I’ve always want a friend, I mean a non-human friend”, his
eyes raked over the wolf’s fur. “Human friends are good, of course. But, I
want a non-human friend at least one. Because then they can’t judge me
from human’s perspective”, Joonmyeon’s voice gradually turned soft.
He smiled and looked back at the yellow eyes.
“Will you be my friend, BenBen?”
Since then, Joonmyeon went to the place once a week. He found out he
felt happier when he’s with the wolf. He always talked about his week with
BenBen. What he did today, Minseok and Jongdae’s relationship progress.
On how Jongin has started to court Kyungsoo, even though Kyungsoo denied
it. All of it. Even about his crush on Yifan.
“You know, I always liked this person”, Joonmyeon raked the brush over
BenBen’s fur. He bought it just for BenBen. Because he knew BenBen liked
it when he rubbed his hands on his midnight black fur. BenBen just purred,
liking the attention.
“His name is Yifan”
He didn’t realized BenBen stopped purring, body hardened.
“At first I thought he’s just a mere transfer student and nothing more”,
Joonmyeon rubbed BenBen’s ear with his delicate hand. “But, after I
watched him from afar for awhile, I just liked him”, Joonmyeon’s hand
trailed over BenBen’s head. “I know he’s not gonna liked me back”,
Joonmyeon pouted sadly. “I’m just a normal boy. I’m not handsome. I’m
not tall”, he sniffed. “But, I think I need to confess to him or else I’m
gonna regret”, he sighed, hands stopped raking BenBen’s fur. He looked
below, eyes starred at BenBen’s yellow one. He saw an emotion flashed
over those bright eyes. Was it fear? He shook his head. No way. He smiled
sadly.
“Not now. But, maybe one day”
One day, Joonmyeon was called to the director’s office. He wondered why
the director want to meet him so sudden. He knocked on the office door’s
a few times and stepped in once the director asked him to. The first thing
he saw was there’s Wu freaking Yifan stood in front of The Director, with
all his glory. Joonmyeon shook his head lightly. Now is not the time to
worshiping him, Joonmyeon. Joonmyeon bowed at the older man and
smiled.
“I was told by your secretary that you need my presence here, sir”, he said
once he near Yifan, cheeks a bit flushed. The older man nodded. “Ah! Yes,
Joonmyeon. Are you aware that our basketball will organized a fund-raising
event next month?”, the Director entwined his fingers and put it on the table.
Joonmyeon glanced at Yifan before he returned his focus on the director.
“Ah. Yes, of course sir. I was informed that the basketball club will handle it
by themselves”, Joonmyeon recalled that Jongdae told him the matter last
week.
“Yes, they did asked me about it and I gave my permission. But, when I
brought it to the meeting, majority of them asked me to let the student
body worked together with the basketball club as the latter don’t have any
experience in handling such event by themselves before. So they thought
with the help of your organization, the event will be more success”
Joonmyeon went silent for awhile. He nodded, before turned to Yifan.
“What do you think, Yifan? I have no problem lending some extra hands
in this”, Joonmyeon lifted his head to looked at Yifan. Yifan watched
Joonmyeon back. The moment he saw Yifan’s eyes, Joonmyeon stumped.
That eyes, so familiar. Yifan’s eyes widened before he cleared his throat.
“Uhm. I guess that’s okay. I mean, it’s our first time handling an event on
our own. We could learn a few things from your organization”, Yifan voiced
out his opinion. Joonmyeon gulped. That voice ughh.
“Very well then. You both will cooperate with each other. And Joonmyeon”,
the director turned to Joonmyeon. “You know how to work”, the oldest
smiled warmly. Joonmyeon just replied with ‘Yes sir’ and left the office
after the director dismissed them both.
“Uhm.. Your number please?”, Joonmyeon pulled out his phone and gave it
to Yifan. “For communication purpose”. Yifan starred at the phone for a
moment before he took it from Joonmyeon’s hand. So soft, he thought.
After punching his number, he pressed the call button. A second later, his
phone rang. He gave back to Joonmyeon. Joonmyeon asked him about the
meeting and Yifan thought about the next day. Joonmyeon nodded and bid
him goodbye with ‘text you about all the details later’
The next day, the basketball club and the student body met and discussed
about the matters. Jongin, Sehun, Luhan, and Chanyeol also there because
they’re in basketball club. While Kyungsoo, Jongdae, Baekhyun, Yixing and
new transfer student, Zitao participated as the student body. The meeting
room roared with excited hoots. Yifan told them to silent and start the
meeting. They talk about the budget, the activities, the floor plan and so
on. There lots of ideas threw here and there. Joonmyeon and Yifan each
gave the final decision and decided that they will conduct the preparation
starting tomorrow.
A/N: See you on Monday!
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