Chapter 37

One year of Taemin
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I had to get back into work pretty much straight away.  I had SHINee commitments to deal with as well as learning the new choreography for my own song, which I was having to film the MV for in a few weeks just before Christmas. 

It was busy and Jen was home a lot alone.  I knew she had been in contact with Chanyeol again but somehow, I wasn’t feeling as bothered by it as I thought I would be.  I don’t know if it was because I was busy or because I was happy she was not going crazy, or whether somehow the fact we were public made it more difficult for Chanyeol to try and pursue her, I wasn’t sure.

 

The fans reaction to our statement pretty much went down as we thought.  Not great initially, as it usually doesn’t when an idol is found to be in a relationship, but thankfully the threatening letters had decreased a lot. 

I told Jen about all the articles that we had found, and while I stayed up late and read them and got more and more angry, she refused to read any of them, saying she just didn’t need to know what was being said about her.  I marvelled at her ability to cut it off, and detach from it, even though I knew I would be the same if it was about myself, this was different, I couldn’t not read what they were writing about the person I loved.  I needed to know, and while there was the occasional nice thing said about her, there were at least 10 nasty and untrue things said to go with it. 

One-day Jinki pulled me aside after Jonghyun had told him I was torturing myself reading them and he told me seriously I just had to stop.

‘It’s not good for you Taemin, we can see it affecting you, and it will affect you on stage, you’ve got to stop.  If Jen doesn’t read them you don’t either.  It’s for your own good.’ He told me.

I knew he was right and I tried to stop.  It got easier as they stopped writing so much about us, and I was also so busy with work.

 

One night after me and the other members had been in the practice room, I found myself there alone.  I wanted to keep practicing for a little longer as I didn’t feel I had completely got it right the way I wanted it too. 
I had been in there about 45 minutes constantly practicing before I sat down on the floor with a bottle of water and took a break.  The noise of the door behind me jerked my head backwards as I saw one of the dancers who usually worked with us walk in.  Her name was Hae-Soo and we usually got on quite well.  She was a little younger than me but had always been a little flirty.  I thought she was a little cute, but she was so flirty in a way I didn’t like that it always put me off her.

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minaho
For Jonghyun who features predominantly in this story. To his band members, his beautiful sister, everyone who knew him, my heart breaks for you. It is easy to say 'if only we knew' but I hope he is at peace, I hope his pain is gone. I hope he knows he did well until the very end.

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snowtaems
#1
Chapter 10: The way Minho is more curious about which football team she supports! Help hahahaha
snowtaems
#2
Chapter 9: Omg I feel terrible. I was in the middle of reading this story and then I forgot I was reading it for months until now *facepalm*
snowtaems
#3
Chapter 4: She knows is full name? Damnnnnn.
snowtaems
#4
Chapter 2: Meeting her in his dreams first and seeing her in real life after HAHAHAHA
It was kinda funny to read!
snowtaems
#5
Chapter 1: It’s been years but here I am going through a Taemin phase again thanks to criminal.

Reading about vacations during a pandemic is so... How do I describe it? It kind of hurts your feelings because you really want to travel around but it’s not safe to do so.
So you just stay powerless at home wishing and longing for better times to come.

But back to your story, it seems promising.
Can’t wait to keep catching up :-)
britishtae
#6
Chapter 67: omg wow thank u so much for wrting this beautiful and emotional sotry, i loved it so much, i loved how u protraid the charatres and sayed true to the sotry and not just go crazy and put smth impossible to happen...like u stayed as true as it can get if u know what i mean hahaha i like how u incorporated taemin jpn concert and songs into the story tbh i was kinda lost on thhe time and space xd
overall i hope u continue to write beautiful stories like these and dont get sad if it doesn't get much attention at first, these things take time ;)
fighting!!<3
noomin #7
Chapter 67: Yessss i loveee the endinggg reallyyy
ts6258 #8
Chapter 67: Sweet, sweet ending. Love that you brought in some of Taemin's VLive show in the chapter. This was perfect, thanks so much.
britishtae
#9
Chapter 66: WHAT NOOOOO
noomin #10
Chapter 66: Noool plzz don't end it like that noooo