"All words were fabricated, the truth was overblown with lies," - Rumor ( TVXQ )

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“ Y-ye ?” I was stumbling with my own tongue, little bit shocked because of what he asked me earlier. What should I tell him ?


“ I—I’ve checked the hospital, but the results was zero, Jinki-ah..,” I lied. Again.


“ Geurae ?” Jinki asked cluelessly. And it’s a relief that he didn’t really insist on asking what’s the name of the hospital anymore.


“ Hey, up for some heoddeok* ?” I nervously asked him, just to get his attention off the hospital thingy.


“ Seeing those piles of paper, I assume that you won’t be sleeping even till midnight, right ? So, I’ll make you some heoddeok to keep you ‘alive’..,” Jinki then slightly curved a smile at the end of his lips and ruffled my hair.


“ Ahhh, talking about the heoddeok, I nearly forgot, I got something for you..wait a minute..,” Jinki who already got that lost wedding ring things out of his head held a pretty bright expression at his face as he handed me a medium-sized box from his drawer.


“ Wh-what is this ?”


“ Open up..,” he told me. And I instantly followed him to open the package. There I saw a pretty pink hello kitty apron set completed with the spatula that I’ve been dying for ever since last month.


“ How’d—how’d you get this ? The store had run out of the stock at the time ?” I was totally amazed and touched seeing Jinki’s simple yet breathtaking gift. I couldn’t help but smiling like ear-to-ear, waiting for his answer.


“ Well, you don’t have to know how did I get that set, I always have my own way..,” Jinki whispered soothingly with those glorious smile all over his face.


“ Komawo, Jinki-ah..,” I placed a quick peck at his lips.


“ I’ll definitely make you a yummy heoddeok, using this spatula…Jamkammanyeo..,”


“ Well, you have to, of course..,” he replied me. “ Geurom..I’ll get started now,”


*heoddeok = Korean style of pancakes, usually filled with melted brown sugar inside


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“ Aah, you come here so early, Sekyung-ah..,” Jonghyun mom welcomed her right at the door when she saw Sekyung had arrived right when the clock strikes four. Kinda too early, since the party would be started at six.


“ Ne eomeni..is it okay if I wait here ?” she asked her.


“ But Jonghyun’s still not here. He needs to take care of something first,” she said as guiding Sekyung to the living room and let her sit at the couch. “You don’t mind waiting for him, right ?”


“ Gwaenchana, eomeoni,” She nodded as plastering a weak smile at her face. She couldn’t help but had her head scanned around the whole room, as this is the first time she came to Jonghyun’s. There’s hung several family portrait at the wall and Jonghyun’s childhood photos. The atmosphere were so family-ish there.


“ Ah, Sekyung-ah…you want to look around the house ? I’ll take you to Jonghyun’s room if you don’t mind..,” this question was pleasedly replied by Sekyung glittery sparkling eyes. She didn’t even know why, but lately she’s so into everything ‘Jonghyun’.


As Jonghyun’s mom led her to Jonghyun’s room, she could really feel her heart skipped a beat. And once she stepped her feet to the room, she could literally smell Jonghyun’s scent within. The room was pretty neat, unlike other guy’s room. There lies a king-sized bed in the middle of the room and a pretty big Jonghyun’s graduation photo hung above the bed , while the other corner of the room is actually a walking closet filled with Jonghyun-ish outfit.


“ Feel free to look around, Sekyung-ah.. I got a call, jamkamanyo..,” she said in a hurry before leaving her all alone at the room. It’s awkward, even for a girl like her, being at a guy’s room all alone is awkward.


“ Oh, ige mwoya ?” she mumbled to herself when her eyes caught a sparkling little things laid under his side desk. She then bended her knee and took that little ring and studied it carefully. She was about to just put that ring at his desk, but something even more intriguing caught her eyes. “ Ah, what is this ? Lee Jinki ?” she scrunched her forehead and tried to put all these facts inside her head and digested it slowly. “Lee Jinki ?” she respelled the name at the ring once again.


‘A ring, with a name ? Wedding ring ?’ she silently thought.


‘And this diamond is proving that it’s a woman’s ring,’ another conclusion which happened to be true was made up by her head.


“ What would a married-woman do at Jonghyun’s room ?” she spoke to herself. Slightly terrified by the possibilities that might happened.


“ Yah! What are you doing here ?” a loud voice barged into the room and totally surprised her that she even jolted in shock.


“ J-jonghyun-ah..,” she exclaimed his name, still in her shock expression and instantly hid the ring at her purse so that he wouldn’t find out about that ring.


“ What are you doing here ?” he asked boldly. “ Y-yah ! Ever heard of knocking ? You totally shocked me !” instead of answering his question, she rumbled another irrelevant line from as trying out her best to hide her terrified expression.


“ Knocking ? This is my room, why would I do that in my room ?!” Jonghyun lost his temper and snapped roughly at her. “ Y-yah, you don’t have to yell at me like that..,” she replied him in a low voice, and hurted expression. She then silently walked towards the door.


‘Why is it so freaking hard making you at least like me, Kim Jonghyun ?’


“ W-wait !” Jonghyun yelled, and Sekyung did smile when she heard Jonghyun called out her name. With the thoughts of Jonghyun who might apologize to her, she turned her back proudly and replied him.


“ Ye ?” she asked. “ What the hell are you doing here, with that dress ?” asked Jonghyun sarcastically. Her face literally fell when those unexpected question came out from Jonghyun’s mouth.


“ What do you think I’m doing ? Of course I’m going to Kim Kibum’s party..,” she replied him.


“ I didn’t even invite you to come with me !” continued Jonghyun.


“ Your mom did, though..So, I’m officially invited,” she replied him as smirking evellishly to him.


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“ Blue, the blue tie is better that the striped one..,” Yoora barged into Jinki’s closet and finally helped him with the decision over what he should wear to Key’s party tonight.


“ Are you sure ?” Jinki, he’s like being turned into a some random overly-worried teenage boy who’s having his first date, kept asking if the blue was the perfect one. “ Tch, so you started doubting my choice, huh ?” Yoora chuckled lightly seeing her weird-behaved husband.


“ You know what, clothes doesn’t matter on a person like you.. How could a good-looking person like you still have times worrying if those outfits will look good on you or not, Tch..,” she mumbled those words as tying the tie over his neck and helped Jinki with the suit right after.


“ Aigoo..aigoo, since when my Yoora being such a sweet person like this ?” Jinki who was extremely flustered by her wife’s unstoppable compliments asked her. “What do you mean ? So I wasn’t sweet back then ?” she’s playing mad and jokingly pushed him at the chest.


“ H-hey..why haven’t you changed into your dress, baby ?” Jinki just realized that Yoora hasn’t even put her dress on, instead she still wearing those bunnies pajamas. He then pushed Yoora and hurried Yoora to go get changed before they’re late to Key’s housewarming.


An hour later…


They finally arrived at Kibum’s newly-built house, the entrance has already crowded by load of guests and there, Yoora spotted Taemin and Minho was about to get inside the house as well.


“ Tae-ah ! Minho !” Yoora waved her hands and dragged Jinki fast so that they could reach them.


“ Nuna !” Taemin replied her brightly. “ Hyung !” added Taemin when he finally saw Jinki walked along with her.


“ You guys just arrived ?” Minho asked them.


“ Ne..,” Jinki replied him right before the magnae started squirming like a little child and mumbling and unclear words that couldn’t help but caught their attention.


“ Where’s Jonghyun hyung ?” continued Taemin unclearly as he scanned to the whole direction. Minho then just despised him and dragged him inside. “ Jonghyun hyung jonghyun hyung---,” even after they finally entered the house, instead of looking for Key, he kept looking for Jonghyun.


“ Taem-ah, who are you looking for ?” Jinki tapped his shoulder and totally brought Taemin back to his sense.


“ Jonghyun-hyung, hyung..,” Taemin blatantly answered him. “ Jonghyun ? who’s Jonghyun ? I never heard about him ?” asked Jinki as he eyed his wife questioningly.


“ Jonghyun-hyung is our old friend, hyung, he’s Yoora nuna’s ex---,” Taemin stopped when he felt Minho’s ace-like power smacked him in the back. “ He’s—he’s Yoora’s ex-classmates, right Yoo ?” Minho awkwardly finished Taemin’s line. At the same time, Yoora’s face signed a relief and cued a ‘thank you’ sign to Minho.


“ Y-ye, he’s my ex-classmates, Jinki-ah..,” lied Yoora. And thankfully, Jinki’s not sensible enough to sense the made-up lie and just nodded right away as he heard Yoora’s answer.


“ Aa, geurae ? I’d love to see him later then..,” said him.


“ Let’s go find Kibum, Taem-ah..,” Minho who seemed uneasy with the atmoshphere took Taemin with him and excused themselves out. “ See you later, hyung, Yoo..,” added Minho before finally leaving Yoora and Jinki.


“ I think we should go find Kibum as well, Yoo..,” Jinki said as he let Yoora circled her hand to his. But even before they made it to find Kibum, a familiar voice called out Yoora’s name.


“ Yoora-sshi !”


Yoora then turned her head to find Sekyung stood there with Jonghyun like three feets away from her. She was slightly shocked, never really expected that the encounter would end up like this.


“ Who’s her, Yoo ?” whispered Jinki.


“ Aah, she’s Shin Sekyung, my new client..,” Yoora replied him.


“ Annyeong haseyo..,” greeted Sekyung politely.


“ Ah, Sekyung-sshi, this is my husband,”


“ Annyeong haseyo, Shin Sekyung-imnida,”


“ Annyeong haseyo, Lee Jinki-imnida..,” replied Jinki. “ Y-ye ? Lee—Lee Jinki ?” Sekyung just jolted in shock when she heard Jinki’s introduction. ‘ The ring..It’s the name at the ring..,’ she silently thought. ‘ So that means the ring is Lee Jinki’s wife’s, Kwon Yoora’s ring ?’ she couldn’t help but thinking even more.


“ Ye, Lee Jinki..Why ?” asked Jinki with a little confusion at his face. “ Ah aniyeyo.. I was just..I was---your name’s kinda familiar, just like an acquaintance of mine,” she lied and smiled nervously to him.


“ Ah, this is—my fiancé, Kim Jonghyun..,” she’s having a hard time dragging Jonghyun to her side but finally did it.


“ Annyeong haseyo..,” Jinki greeted him brightly. But at the other side, Jonghyun just couldn’t help but failed to hide that grumpy look all over his face.


“ Is this the Jonghyun that we’re talking about earlier ?” Jinki turned his head to Yoora who looked even more tense when she heard that question. She barely even said yes but nervously nodded her head.


“ I—I’m sorry Sekyung-sshi, but I guess I have to find Kibum first..see you..,” Yoora who’s having a hard time avoiding Jonghyun’s stare gave up and just decided to get away from this situation.


“ Geurae..see you..,” she replied her. And as soon as Jinki and Yoora left, Jonghyun too at the other side tried to get away from his so-called fiancée. But too bad, even before he successfully sneaked out from her, she grabbed his hand and stopped him.


“ Mind to have a talk with me ?” she asked him seriously. “Let’s move to a quieter place..,” even before letting Jonghyun replied her, she just roughly dragged Jonghyun with her hand. Then they finally arrived at a quieter place near the parking lot where Jonghyun pissedly shrugged his hands off her grip.


“ What the hell are you doing right now ?” Jonghyun who seemed lost his whole focus after that unexpected encounter with his ex and her husband shouted at her.


“ What is Lee Jinki’s wife to you ?” she just couldn’t stand and asked him straight to the point.


“ Wh-what ?” Jonghyun asked her in shock.


“ I’m asking you, what kind of relationship you have with Lee Jinki’s wife, a.k.a Kwon Yoora ?”