Please Believe Me
What year is it?"You said you were from... Where?" Minho repeated for the 100th time.
Jonghyun, Minho, Kibum, and Taemin all moved the conversation inside the lab because people next door started to stare
"Minho... We're from the future..." Taemin repeated
Speaking for the first time after he heard the big news, "That's impossible" Jonghyun said flatly. Kibum winced at Jonghyun's words
"But it is possible.." Kibum said desperate to convince him
"Jonghyun, I was in 1984 when I disappeared. I left because.. Well, I just didn't belong here.. Carlyle believes us.. Why can't you?" Jinki asked almost in tears.
Jonghyun had his back turned to everyone.. Thinking.
"It's just not logical...How could someone travel through time? I've read about time travel. There is just no way.." Jonghyun huffed, now appearing angry
"Jonghyun.. Please" Kibum tried to approach him
"I need some time to think" Jonghyun yelled, headed for the door.
"Wait!" Kibum stopped him
"What?" Jonghyun snapped at him
"I love you" Kibum smiled, hoping he'd say it back
Jonghyun just shook his head and left, leaving Kibum to fall to his knees and cry.
Taemin rushed to his hyung to help him up
"I blew it! He's never coming back! I lost him!" Kibum cried out in emotional pain
Jonghyun could hear this outside the door, but still walked to his woodshop. When he got there, he closed the door and in the dark, curled up in a ball in the corner and cried all night
"Here Kibum hyung. Lay down here" Taemin said as he put a blanket on Kibum shaky body
"So.. you really are.. From the future?" Taemin heard Minho ask behind him, forgetting that he was even there after Jonghyun made his dramatic exit
Taemin turned around slowly and walked over to Minho, taking his hands in his.
"... Yes.. We are.. Minho, I was born in 1966. And Kibum hyung was born in 1964." Taemin confessed. "Yes, I know there is no way to prove it.. But please.. You have to believe us.. If I didn't love you, I would've let you go" he ranted
Minho dropped his head and thought... Thought hard
"This is so hard to believe.. I want to believe you so bad.. But.." Minho said, almost speechless
"Please" Taemin whispered, his eyes started to water
Everyone leaned in to see what he'd say...
"Well, if you wanna take me with... I don't see anything I have to lose.. Only to gain" Minho sighed, cracking a small smile
"DOES THAT MEAN YOU BELIEVE ME AND YOU'LL COME WITH?!?!?!" Taemin asked, newly overjoyed
"... Yes Taemin.. I believe you.. And I'd love to come" Minho smiled and offered a hug to him.
"YAAAAAAAY!!!! I'M SO HAPPY JINKI HYUNG!" Taemin screamed while holding Minho around the waist
"I'm happy too, Taeminnie. But now our next concern is Kibum and Jonghyun" Jinki said while he sat by Kibum's bedside
Taemin turned around to see the dreadful scene. His mood dropped one hundred feet into the ocean.
"Oh hyung! I'm so sorry! I totally forgot! I'm sooo sorry!" Taemin begged for forgiveness
"It's okay Taeminnie. Everything will be okay.." Kibum could barely whisper. His feeling of loss for Jonghyun plagued him with sickness
Taemin started to cry.
"No! No! You have to feel better!" Taemin yelled
"I'm gunna go get Jonghyun right now!" Minho announced
"NO!" Jinki stopped him...
Minho stopped in his tracks and went down to Taemin to give him his shoulder to cry on
"W-We'll figure something out" Jinki improvised. Everyone decided to gather around Kibum to give him warmth. But all night, he couldn't sleep because all he could think about was Jonghyun
----->>>> The next day
Jinki was the first to wake up. With Carlyle at his side, and Taemin sleeping next to MInho, Jinki felt more sympathy than ever for Kibum, who was still sleeping alone.
That morning, Jonghyun had finally risen from his woodshop, red puffy eyes, wearing the same clothes he was wearing the day before. Not wanting to see Kibum yet, because of the amount of guilt sitting on his shoulders, he trudged over to the bar to have a drink.
When he walked in, there were about 30 people in the building, which was quite a few people for a sunday morning.
"Hello there Jay" The bartender called to him, obviously knowing him well, to call him by a nickname "What'll it be?"
"Whiskey please" Jonghyun requested in a low, sick voice. The bartender nodded his head and picked up from under the bar, a full bottle of whiskey.
"You sound a little sick, Jay. You sure you should be drinking? And I know you well. You usually drink in the morning when you're depressed, you've told me yourself." the bartender said
"It is fine, Larry. I am not sick. I just did not get a lot sleep.." Jonghyun lied
"Okay then." the bartender, still hesitating to hand over the alcohol, shrugged and put the shot glass down and poured the whiskey. Jonghyun took the glass and gulped the shot down fast. Larry looked at him and sighed
"Hey, if there's anything you need to talk about, you tell me and we'll duke it out together" he smiled. "Thank you very much" Jonghyun said, returning the smile.
After about an hour and a couple more shots, Jonghyun laid his head down on the table and fell asleep. While he was passed out, Minho had walked by the bar and saw Jonghyun sleeping on the table.
Minho sighed and just kept walking, thinking that if he might say something, it'll just create more problems.
Jonghyun was finally woken up by loud people entering the bar. It was a man with three other bigger men by his sides. Jonghyun kept his head low.
"Get me some beer Larry! For me and my friends!" the man yelled into the bartender's face
"Yes sir" Larry grunted and turned his back to get the beer.
While the four men waited, the man that ordered the drinks looked over at tiny Jonghyun and started laughing.
"Hey you!" The man yelled in Jonghyun's direction
"Hey! You there!" he yelled again
Jonghyun had no other choice but to look over to the man, or he'd risk getting punched or beaten
When Jonghyun finally revealed his face to the man "Hey you guys, look!" he tapped his friend's shoulder. They all looked over to Jonghyun and started to laugh.
"What's up chink?!" the man screamed the racial slur in his face.
Jonghyun rolled his eyes and put his head down
"What's your name dude?!" the man asked.
"Kim Jonghyun" he whispered
"What!!! Say it louder you sushi eating chink!"
"My name is KIM JONGHYUN" Jonghyun finally yelled back, causing an uproar in the bar.
The men that were teasing him were taken aback by his sudden retaliation.
"You wanna yell at me dude? You better find your place" the man said, takng out his gun.
Before Jonghyun knew it, the man with the gun started shooting down at Jonghyun's feet ordering him to dance.
"DANCE!! MAKE ME LAUGH CHINK!!" the man repeated over and over again.
Jonghyun jumped up and down, trying to dodge the bullets from shooting a hole in his feet.
"COME ON! YOU CAN DANCE BETTER THAN THAT!!!" another man behind the one the shooter said
Jonghyun didn't know what he was doing when he jumped on a loose floor board. He jumped on one end, on the other end, a bucket filled with chewed tobacco. When Jonghyun jumped on the end closest to him, the bucket flew up in the air and landed right on the shooter.
Jonghyun couldn't help but laugh, but was also disgusted at the same time. When the man realized he was covered in other people's spit and tobacco because of Jonghyun, a sudden anger swooned over him. He was shaking with anger when he raised his gun and aimed right in the middle of Jonghyun's forehead. As the man pulled the trigger, his gun made nothing but a clicking sound. He was out of bullets.
Jonghyun took this oppurtunity to run.
"GET HIM!!!" the man yelled as him and his boys ran out of the bar after him. All the men got on their horses and chased after Jonghyun, who only had his feet to run away. When the men finally got up to Jonghyun, the man covered in tobacco took his rope and wrastled Jonghyun like a bull.
Jonghyun fell to the ground. Now knowing that he was tied up, the men began to drag him all over town behind them. The men laughed while Jonghyun was beingd dragged like an animal, cuts and bruises, and dirt in his mouth, eyes, nose, and in his clothes. They dragged him all the way over to the clock tower, which was still being held up by only wooden planks, which gave the men an idea.
When they stopped, Jonghyun was drenched in dirt, cuts and bruises all over his face and body. He was barely conscious when the man with the rope pulled him up on his feet. Jonghyun could barely stand up because he was so weak.
"WE GOT OURSELVES A NEW COURTHOUSE!! IT'S ABOUT TIME WE HAD A HANGING!!" the man with the rope said. When Jonghyun heard this, he almost fainted. "They're going to hang me?" he thought in his mind.
Immediately, he felt another rope swing around his neck and swiftly tighten up, to wear Jonghyun can't breathe. Jonghyun gasped for air, making helpless noises for help to anyone who could hear. "Please!" Jonghyun could barely choke out of his throat.
Jonghyun started to rise off the ground. Inch by inch, the higher he got, the harder it was to breathe. The men who were hanging him were laughing and cackling at Jonghyun, who didn't have much life yet. He was now five feet off the ground
But just when Jonghyun could start seeing the light, he felt the rope loosen and gravity taking ahold of his body. He was now on the ground, coughing and gasping for air. When he was cut loose, he could hear a gunshot.
When Jonghyun could finally see again, he saw the person he's been wanting to see since last night..
It was Kibum.. About one hundred feet away, holding a long titanium colored gun aimed at the man's head.
"It'll shoot the flees off a dog's back at over 500 yards! And it's pointed straight at your head!" Kibum yelled, still aimed at the man.
When Jonghyun could finally identify that it was Kibum, he knew he was going to be alright, so he fell back on the ground to regain the air that he so desperately needed.
"Who are you??" the man asked Kibum.
"You kill him, I'll kill you" Kibum yelled in anger, slowly putting the gun down.
"You didn't answer my question" the man said back
Kibum started to walk closer to the men, spooking their horses. When Kibum got closer, they all realized what he was wearing. He was wearing a dark blue Michael Jackson shirt, green pants, a pink leather jacket, and red high top converse. The outfit he was wearing when he first time traveled to 1885. Jonghyun's eyes widened at his boyfriend's appearence
"It doesn't matter who I am" Kibum said, fierce and not afraid
"What the in the world are you wearing?!" the man asked
"Doesn't matter. But if you ever hurt my friend again, I'll put a bullet in your skull.. Got it??" Kibum yelled in his face
The man gulped. He never knew he could be afraid of one small Korean teenager.
"I'm not afraid to die" the man said, trying to sound tough
"Good" Kibum started, putting the gun up to the man's chin
"Because I'm not afraid to kill you"
Jonghyun has finally made it up back on his feet. His face and hair a mess, still coughing for air.
Kibum looked straight into the man's eyes and waited for him to make a move.
"Come on boys, let's get outta here.." the man said. He road off back into town with the others, still looking back at Kibum to see if he's following him.
Kibum's tough guy attitude suddenly vanished when he saw Jonghyun and the state he was in.
"I'm so sorry this happened to you" Kibum said, taking Jonghyun's body in his.
"I'm okay.. Listen I need to talk to you.." Jonghyun sighed.. his voice hoarse.
They both sat down in the dirt.
"What is it?" Kibum asked
"...The reason, I didn't know what to say is because, I used to believe in time travel. I read books about it all the time.. Oh, how I loved those books. I would always read them to my mom and dad before I moved here. And in school I would always write essays on them. I loved just the idea of time travel. But.. I was bullied, constantly for it. They would call me names and hurt me.. I was never normal because I believed in things that were unbelievable. I'd always come home with bloody noses and black eyes. My mom one day told me to just... Grow up.. And that's what I did. I never brought up the idea of time travel again.. And when you brought it up, I instantly thought that you were making fun of me...So.. I didn't know what to do.." Jonghyun explained
When he was done with his rant, he looked over at Kibum, Kibum was in tears.
"I'm... I'm so sorry.. Truly I am." Kibum said quietly
"But now that I see that you have used this new technology to save my life, and this outfit is so.. Bright.. It brings me back to my happiest days, when I was still a believer.." Jonghyun cried
"I want you to be a believer.. I can tell you so much about the future that you'll have to believe me" Kibum chirped
"... I've always wanted to travel through time"
"You can! You can go to the future with me.. I love you so much.. I can't leave you here!" Kibum cried on his shoulder
"... I believe you" Jonghyun smiled "Take me away Kibum. Take me away and I'll never look back!" Jonghyun declared
Kibum didn't squeal or jump and down with joy, he only put his head on Jonghyun's shoulder and sighed in relief
"I will, my love. I love you so much!" Kibum said
"I love you too" Jonghyun sighed. They both shared a long passionate kiss..
For hours until night fall, Kibum told Jonghyun all about the future. He told him about cars, new technology, MP3 players, skateboards, new foods, new discoveries, new artists, new everything.
Jinki, Jonghyun, Kibum, Minho, Taemin, and Carlyle all sat for dinner and talked and laughed and they all went to sleep happy
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