Matchmaking
Description
A boy and a girl with clear feelings to one another, yet seemingly unclear to others. Another boy and a girl who seems perfect for one another. Two secret games of match-making. As simple as that may sound.
Foreword
Well, this isn't really a foreword.
Since this is a one-shot. I think I`ll just post it as is x)
Enjoy :D
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Part I
JongHyun walked out of the shower with a pair of loosely-fitted sweatpants and a towel on his shoulders while he scrunched his hair. The rest of the SHINee members were each individually tending their own business. Minho sat in front of the television, eyes glued to the soccer game he was watching. TaeMin sat at the kitchen table, attempting his summer homework, while Onew sat besides TaeMin, supposedly helping, but instead was spinning TaeMin’s calculator. After a long day of performing, this was SHINee’s down time at night, where they were free to relax in their dorm.
As JongHyun walked past the book shelf, he heard a vibrate come from one of their mobile devices. Taking a look at all five cellular devices, the vibration came from Key’s phone. He picked up the phone to look at it, but letting it vibrate. The incoming call was by a person by the name of “Baby”.
JongHyun sighed, “ Who else could it be…” He walked over to Key, who was in front of his notebook computer, busy doing something.
“ Key, your phone is still vibrating.” JongHyun dropped off Key’s phone on the table.
Key‘s face lit up as he picked up the phone, “ Yeboseyo? ”
His mouth formed a wide grin, “ Hey baby. ..Now? ...Sure. Bye ”
Curious, JongHyun seated himself right next to Key, hoping to dig out some information at his dongsaeng’s sudden excitement, “ Did something good happen?”
Key’s eyes were still on his screen, “ Nicole’s coming over.”
JongHyun seemed slightly shocked with his expression, “ Where? ”
Finally averting his eyes, Key answered the obvious question, “ Of course here.”
“ Right now?”
Key nodded casually.
“ And you know you’re dead if Manager-hyung comes tonight? ” JongHyun still seemed skeptical of Key’s idea.
Except Key nodded with confidence again, “ Hyung, you must’ve been dreaming about Shin SeKyung when Manager-hyung told us about how he won’t be in Seoul tonight.”
JongHyun was left with nothing to retort about the idea, so he simply left Key alone in their room, while he joined TaeMin and Onew at the kitchen table with his iPod.
Some 2 hours later…
“ Minho-ah, are you sure you didn’t hear any doorbell in the past two hours? ” Key finally left the room, still waiting for Nicole’s appearance any minute.
Minho merely ignored Key, not wanting to answer for the hundredth time in the past 15 minutes; he continued to watch his sports channel without disruption.
“ Yah, TaeMin-ah--” Before Key could even finish, TaeMin already shook his head.
“ Nicole got lost? ” Key pulled out his phone and dialled the girl’s number once again, hoping that the device isn’t shutted off like the last 20 times he tried.
He was in luck as the voice sounded through the ear piece, “ Key~”
“ Cole-ah, where are you? ”
“ Sorry”, Key’s hope dropped a bit at the first word, “ I ran into an old friend and got caught in a conversation. Do…you mind if I bring her with me? ”
Key was skeptical of the idea at first, not knowing this old friend of Nicole’s, but soon enough, he gave in. After all, he hasn’t seen Nicole since their last collaboration stage together.
“ Sure.”
“ I’ll see you in a few minutes. Bye, baby.”
Key dialled the end button on his phone, not realizing JongHyun eavesdropping on the conversation the whole time right besides him, “ B-bwoh? What are you doing? ”
JongHyun only smiled cheekily, “ Is she coming? ”
Key gave JongHyun an odd look, “ Are you…” He paused, “ Do you like Nicole or something? ”
“ … ” He tried to contain his laughter at the question as he watched Key’s face with only one word written obviously right across it: jealousy.
“ So…” Key continued interrogating, “ Do you?”
JongHyun couldn’t help laughing, but before he could give a clear response, TaeMin came barging into the room, shouting as the doorbell rang.
“ HYUNG HYUNG HYUNG. Someone’s ringing the doorbell! It must be a stalker! ”
Key smiled at the innocent maknae, “ It must be Nicole.” He got up to go answered the door, leaving a confused TaeMin, who had no knowledge of SHINee’s female guests. JongHyun assured TaeMin that its wasn’t a stalker as he followed Key outside.
Part II
The two rare female guests walked into the boy’s dorm. Minho averted his eyes from the television screen to greet the girls, but continued without more delay. TaeMin was surprised, but politely greeted his noonas, then went back to sit down at the kitchen table.
Onew walked over to Nicole, “ Nicole-ssi, what are you doing here? ” Onew was just as lost as TaeMin was.
“ Annyeongha--can I talk comfortably? ” Nicole asked Onew, who was older than she.
“ Of course. ” Onew stood with JongHyun and Key near the entrance.
“ I’m visiting Key since I finished dance practice early. And well, on the way here, I ran into an old friend of mine. ”
Of course, Onew wasn’t particularly interested in such, “ Oh…” He was looking for a different part of the answer.
Nicole soon caught on to what Onew was asking, “ Ah, oppa, you want me to tell SeungYeon-unnie that you said hi? ”
Onew nodded, smiling at the smart dongsaeng.
They all sat down in the living room as JongHyun watched Key and Nicole give each other suspicious glances, but he wasn’t particularly paying attention to that. He was quite interested in the girl who sat besides Nicole, “ Nicole…”
Nicole answered JongHyun, “ de? ”
He smiled at her, “ Mind introducing your friend besides you? ”
Before Nicole could introduce her, she spoke up for herself, “ I’m SungHee. ”
JongHyun studied her face though it seemed inpolite, “ Why do you look so familiar? ”
Key interrupted bluntly, shouting “ AH! You used to be in Kara, right? ”
SungHee smiled and nodded, while JongHyun nearly gasped. Though she wasn’t his ideal type like Shin SeKyung and Lee MinJung was, he couldn’t deny how pretty she is and how amazing her vocals are.
“ Key~” Nicole shouted his name suddenly as though remembering something.
Key looked at her.
“ You…you had something to show me, right? ” Nicole’s eye winked like crazy.
Key looked confused initially, but soon caught on that his best friend was up to something and decided to play along until he found out what she was up to, “ Y-yeah. ”
“ Is it in the room? ” Nicole tried to get Key to be alone with her.
Key could read her face, “ Yeah, let’s go. ”
The two best friends walked into the bedroom together and even closed the door, as though making sure their secret actions wouldn’t be revealed.
Key sat down on the bed, “ So what are you up to? ”
“ Do you think JongHyun-oppa is hot? ” Nicole asked with a bit of giddiness in her tone.
Key’s expression dropped immediately, while jealousy and suspicion replaced the happiness he had in seeing her, “ What?! ”
Nicole already expected Key to take it the wrong way, “ Just answer my question.”
“ I’m a guy. You expect me to know? ” Key was still jealous.
Nicole gave up on the question, but shot another one at Key while she was at it, “ Then you think SungHee-unnie is pretty? ”
Key could not read Nicole’s abstract train of thoughts at once, “ Of course. ”
Nicole gave Key a specific look that only Key could decipher, “ You don’t mean…”
She only smiled as she dragged Key to the door, peeking at the two they left alone in the living room. Although they couldn’t hear what they were saying, it was certain the two were having quite a good time.
Nicole tugged on Key’s arm, “ So what do you think? ”
“ Baby, you’re such a genius.”
They turned around and high-fived at their ingenius-matchmaking plan.
In the Living Room…
“ SungHee-noona, how long is it until you graduate college?” JongHyun asked.
She looked at him, “ why? ”
JongHyun smiled at her, “ Because I expect you to come back to the music scene.”
She was confused in a way since they had only met for less than an hour, “ Why should that matter? ”
“ Well…” He began “ To someone like me, its obvious when you meet someone with a similar passion to music as I do. ”
She was engrossed in his words while he continued, “ It’s as if don’t sing because you want to anymore--you sing because you need to…”
There was silence between the two of them awkwardly as they had the living room to themselves since Minho went to sleep. JongHyun soon realized that he had said something way too cheesy to keep a normal atmosphere.
He suddenly began to talk again, “ I wonder where Key and Nicole went? ”
SungHee’s face lit up, “ JongHyun-ah, do you think Key has a thing for Nicole? ”
He smiled suspiciously as though remembering an inside joke. “ Oh that…”
“ It’s not like our Nicole to go visit male-idols after work, you know…”
Although JongHyun knew the answer very obviously, clearly remembering Key’s suspicious face with jealousy plastered all over it, he decided to be witty and act dumb.
“ I don’t know. Key’s thoughts are way too abstract for me to figure out at times.” He lied deliberately.
“ Oh…”
But it wasn’t long until the two looked at one another perhaps plotting the same evil plan.
She smiled playfully, “ Do you think great minds think alike? ”
He only smirked, “ Of course. Unless you want to perhaps experiment it out? ”
“ I don’t see why not.”
They turned around and high-fived quietly, then exchanging numbers.
Part III Extra
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The whole plan they plotted may seem like merely something to figure out their friends’ feelings, but inside, JongHyun was beyond happy as he triumphed in now having excuses to talk to her. Little did he know though, she felt the same; SungHee felt extremely attracted to the lead vocal of SHINee.
The words he said before replayed in her head, again and again while she secretly stared at the boy with chestnut brown hair.
“It’s as if don’t sing because you want to anymore--you sing because you need to…”
His few words told the meaning of her life.
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