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shh...still dreaming

The year was 1995.

 

Summer, 1995. The year that marked Kim Jun Myun’s ungraceful downfall into the blackhole that was Wu Yi Fan.

 

Their love was at its peak.

 

Do you know when you love someone so much that you’re ready to risk everything for that person? Risk your whole life, your dreams, your future, just so that person can be happy, just so he can smile and stand by you, kissing away your pain? You know it’s wrong, you know he has a family, and that he will never love you back, but you keep trying, because just to be able to look into those eyes is enough.

 

But just loving Wu Yi Fan... would never be enough.

 

“Your wife came earlier. She told me to get out of your life.”

 

Jun Myun was lying on his favorite spot in the sun, at the beachhouse Yifan bought him on his eighteenth birthday. The vast blue sky stretched out before him, an expanse of cloudless cerulean on which Yifan and he painted their castle of love. He sighed deeply as memories of the last encounter with Yuri Wu replayed itself at the back of his mind, something bitter tasted bitter in his throat.

 

“And?”  

 

“Of course I say no. Yifan, you know I would never leave your side.”

 

Yifan moved his position so he could tower above Junmyun, sandwiching the younger between his body and white sand, both shirtless, both sweating in the heat of the summer. Junmyun found himself lost in the dark orbs of Yifan’s eyes that promised him a good future. But he remembered Yuri’s sneer when she slapped him, hard across the cheeks. Yifan kissed it better.

 

“Even if you leave me one day, hide well, Myun. Because I will find you. I will always find you.,” Yifan whispered, and Suho could almost hear the man’s heart beating against his chest. He closed his eyes momentarily, letting the lullaby of the ocean comfort his senses as Yifan’s warmth permeated throughout his body.

 

Back then, Junmyun was docile enough to believe every single word.

 

“What if one day, I wake up and you’re not here anymore?”

 

Junmyun was hopeless. Working night shifts at every bar he could get, Junmyun was making ends meet. Even living through the day was hard for him as he had to pay hospital fees for both of his parents who were suffering from the aftermath of a traffic accident. They went into a coma. It seemed like the pain never stopped coming.

 

“Why are you doubting me? Why are you doubting us? That day will simply not happen.” Yifan looked mad. Junmyun didn’t mean to make him mad. But how could he lay his worries at rest, when there was a vicious woman threatening their happiness? How could he pay no mind to the fact that he was being followed every second of the day, who would stop at nothing to get rid of him? Lovin Yifan came with all these things, so just loving him wasn’t enough.

 

“But...Yuri...she...”

 

“I will make sure she’s out of our lives, Myun. It will only be us. Only us.”

 

“Us against the whole world...” Junmyun said bitterly. Yifan leaned down to kiss him fully on the lips. Once. Twice. And Junmyun lost count of the times those lips trailed up to his eyes, his hairline, his ears, down, down, down his neck and hands,...Junymun found himself caught somewhere between the sea, the sky, and the love in Yifan’s eyes.

 

They seized his house. The loansharks. They took all of his possessions. He didn’t have enough to pay rent. The people at the hospital were about to unplug the machine that gave his parents life, if he hadn’t met Yifan. Yifan paid for everything. Yifan gave him a hug, a house, and a family. It wasn’t perfect, but Junmyun loved every bit of it.

 

How ironic. How hypocritical of him, Junmyun thought. How could he enjoy such a makeshift family when he was the one ruining Yifan’s? He wrecked Yuri and Yifan’s relationship. He caused the older to have irreversible arguments with his mother. He caused a married man to abandon his family to the mercy of the storm, so that the man could be his and his alone.

 

“I just want to be with you, Junmyun. To have kids, to raise them well and send them into dayschool so we can have all day long. To grow old together, to have a farm in the outskirts of the city, growing the flowers you love and the peach trees that I adore. Even in the next life, I still want to be with you.”

 

Yifan sounded like he meant it. And Junmyun didn’t doubt him, not once. Growing old together....that sounded like a ing movie.

 

But as long as Yifan stayed by his side and kept his parents breathing, everything should fall into place, right?

 

He had the whole beach house, furnished with imported furniture and luxurious things. He had a pool in his front yard, the beach in his backyard, and a king-sized bed steady enough not to creak when they made love every night. What was there not to like about being the Kim Jun Myun who had Wu Yi Fan locked in his tight embrace?

 

And the was great.

 

So what was he so worried about?

 

“Wu Yi Fan, I really don’t want sand in my so you better pick me up and carry me into your bedroom, or you’re getting nothing tonight.”


So why was loving Yifan never enough?

 


a/n:

brace yourselves for a major truth next chapter...why kris hates suho and out for revenge. why suho is running away. why the twins were seperated. everything will make sense. 

but some of you have guessed it right hohoho

also whoever made that pic above, i will love you forever T____T way to mess up with my feels T___T

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o3villem
#1
Chapter 33: This story is like, when you proposed to your crush, and they accepted, but in a dream 😂😂
The only difference is that dream was bitter and reality was sweet.
Ok, but I so wanted Sekai. Like ahhh, I was rooting for them. Or Chanhun also.
And Xiuhan at the end, at that para.
My brain is ed.
It was a nice, mind ing fic man.
Good work, Author nim.
I was remembered of Vanilla Sky movie by this fic.
_Carami_
#2
Chapter 33: Surprised with the ending
_Carami_
#3
Chapter 19: For god sake bro he is your child
_Carami_
#4
Chapter 18: That just freaking lied to both of them :‑X
AshleyChan
#5
Chapter 33: Mind ing blown..

Okay I finished it yesterday night and I'm commenting after finishing all my work of this day.

So idk if you'll read this comment or not but I've to say this fic was really something. This was a ing rollercoaster ride of emotions. And even after finishing this in one day I could not stop thinking about it. Every single that happened here was making my heart beat faster than it ever had. I regret never reading this fic b4 considering I'm a huge KrisHo shipper.

This fic really showed a harsh reality of this world. That not all stories are about rainbows and unicorns. That not all love stories have a happily ever after. Some do have a tragic end like KrisHo's. They decided to let each other go even tho they still had feelings for each other.

Jun's struggles, pain and downfall in this fic was too heart-wrenching. I felt like I was in his shoes, like I'm the one feeling and experiencing this. Sehun's innocence killed me, even after everything that happened to him he was still so innocent. He was still so oblivious to this harsh world. Sehun is just Jun's younger self; naive, stupid, believing in ppl easily, making a lot of mistakes which they have to pay the price terribly. Both Yifan and Luhan are victims of this harsh world just like Jun and Sehun, but the sad thing is that KrisHan blamed everything on HunHo and decided to make them suffer more than they already have. They decided to be monsters and break them beyond repair. Unfortunately they were successful in breaking HunHo leading to the older of them to living a meaningless life and younger to give up on life.

Yixing's comeback here was a bit suspicious to me tbh. As Kris said he had feelings for Jun since they were together. Is it possible that he was also involved in Yuri's plan? Like c'mon it's really weird to know that Yixing was coincidentally there when those guys were trying to execute Jun. And later faking his death and making Yifan as the first suspect. So that Jun will believe that Yifan really is a monster, that he'll do anything to get what he wants, even if it means killing his own cousin or lover in the future. I also feel like Yixing was the one who told Kris's mother that Jun gave birth to HunHan so that she'll take them away from Jun, making him believe more that he was just a playtoy for Yifan, or that he just used him to get an heir. So that Jun will hate Yifan and he will get a chance to win his heart. But these are just my thoughts.

The end tho.. I should've expected the end from the title of this fic, but I didn't and I went ing insane I wanted to scream but for the love of God it was 4 ing am when I reached the end and I couldn't afford to wake my parents. I don't want to die at this young age like Sehun here, thank you very much. Like those 20 yrs of struggles and pain was all just a ing dREaM?!?! Like Yifan was never married? Jun cannot get pregnant?? HunHan never existed in their lives until they met them coincidentally in church? The only funny thing about this is that Guru Chen-nim lmfao he said he gets dream about being a troll xD. And the last line tho... "Shh... stop . Quiet down, the kids are still dreaming.." it was kinda like a last straw for me. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry.

Lemme tell you I believe what Chen-nim said cos it is possible that whatever he saw might be his other self in alternate universe. That whatever happened in his dream might really happened in that universe. And it might also be possible to what Jun said either about it being a small clip of his past life.

And idk which interpretation to choose, cos both are so damn good. The first interpretation about Jun having a tumor and dreaming of living 20 yrs of his life with ups and downs more like downs then waking up and living his life happily with Yifan by his side and coincidentally adopting HunHan, the twins having his own blood in that dream. But being haunted by that dream from time to time. Or the 2nd one where he lost his son and that depression made him unconscious. In that unconscious state, the poor man's depressed mind making delusions about none of this ever happened. That he's living a happy life with his new formed family. I think I want to choose both and since I'm choosing both I don't want poor Jun to wake up. Cos waking up from a nightmare is good but waking up from a beautiful dream to a nightmare of a life is horrible. Idk if he ever wake up from this beautiful dream to this nightmare then how he'll react. I don't think he'll be able to live.

Anyway this long comment here is over. I'm still so affected by this fic I swear I'm not thinking properly. And this is one the best fics I've ever read.
infinitefan7 #6
Chapter 33: bish wtf i read this a long time ago and accidentally reread it today and woooo the rollarcoaster load of emotions and irrational plot twists like some kind of badly-written drama i can't believe you would leave us hanging like that come on
ephemeral24
2412 streak #7
bracing myself to read this again in 2019
Glojuncotton #8
Chapter 25: I think this fic needs a more tags...warnings
lilyurim
#9
Chapter 33: I must not suprised with this story cause the title itself already said 'shh..still dreaming'. BUT AT THE END I STILL SURPRISED ABOUT THIS WHOLE STORY LIKE WTF- ASDFGHJKL
and the part 'whether he wakes up from it later on, it's up to you to decide.' THIS SO FCKING BRILLIANT OMG YOUR REALLY IMPRESS ME;;;;; BEST. MINDBLOWN. FANFIC. I. EVER. READ.
Larrieblue #10
Chapter 33: wtf is all this, I have never been so frustrated over a fic.