Baby
I’ve fallen, so why treat me like this?
Don’t run away in fear
but why not try trusting me.
My lady

 

 

***

 

I stepped out of the flower shop holding 11 roses.

 

Suddenly, what the flower shop attendant said to me when I bought the roses floated back into my mind.

 

“Did you know that sending a girl 11 roses mean that “You are my treasured one; the one I love most in my life” ? The girl you’re sending it to is very lucky sir!”

 

I looked at the roses in my hands and smiled.

 

Today was the day in which I was going to ask her out.

 

My best friend.

 

Or, not really my best friend.

 

She was the best friend of Onew’s girlfriend, Jae Song.

 

Her name was Ki.

 

Jonghyun had gotten to know her for the past two years or so and he found her really different.

 

He was different from the way his fans was to him.

 

She didn’t squeal when she sees him.

 

She doesn’t hang onto his every word.

 

She didn’t annoy him every day.

 

Jonghyun found her different and for once, he had fallen in love.

 

On radio shows he was always asked questions about his first kiss with a girlfriend or what type of a girlfriend he would want and wouldn’t want.

 

He was sick of it.

 

No, wait, he wasn’t sick of it, he was jealous, he was jealous because Onew hyung now had a girlfriend and had been dating each other for nearly three years, Minho and Taemin was becoming really close, or closer that they should be and Key was too busy flirting with his hair stylist.

 

He wanted his own girlfriend, his own romantic life and right now, he didn’t care whether or not he could stay as a singer or not.

 

He just wanted a girlfriend and wanted a future wife.

 

Jonghyun walked down the street and soon their apartment came into view and Jonghyun stopped walking.

 

He looked down at the 11 roses on his hand and smiled at them.

 

“Don’t fail me okay?”

 

He whispered to the roses with his unique voice and kissed it.

 

He looked back at his apartment and took a deep breath and began to walk towards the apartment, becoming more and more nervous by the second.

 

When he had reached the apartment front door, he was about to enter when his iPhone rang.

 

“Annyeonghaseyo?”

 

Jonghyun said to his phone.

 

“It’s Onew. Where are you? Ki is here and she’s been her for awhile. How can you ask her to come to our dorm and let her wait for you so long?”

 

Onew lectured Jonghyun through the phone.

 

“Mianhae hyung. I’m just outside the apartment front door and I’m about to go in. I’ll be up there in a few minutes okay?”

 

Jonghyun heard Onew sigh.

 

“Ye…”

 

Jonghyun suddenly remembered something and tried to stop Onew from hanging up.

 

“Wait! Hyung!”

 

“Yes?”

 

Onew said just as he was about to hang up.

 

“What’s wrong now?”

 

“Can you take everyone outside the dorm?”

 

“Why…?” Onew asked, his voice curious.

 

“Umm…well…I…I just…”

 

“Jonghyun. Just tell me so I know what to say to them!”

 

“Ok…fine…well, I want to ask Ki to be my girlfriend.”

 

-SILENCE-

 

“CHINCA?!”

 

Onew screamed down the phone making Jonghyun pull his phone an arm’s width away.

 

“Ye…”

 

“Ok, I’ll do it for you.”

 

“Komawo hyung…”

 

Jonghyun said and then he hyung up.

 

He stood in front of the elevator and looked at the screen above it.

 

6…5…4…3..2…

 

*DING!*

 

1.

 

Jonghyun stepped into the elevator and pressed the number 6 and the doors closed.

 

Jonghyun smiled and looked down at the roses again.

 

“Saranghae Ki…”

 

Jonghyun whispered.

 

*DING!*

 

The elevator stopped and opened its door.

 

Jonghyun stopped out of the elevator and suddenly, he heard some shouts from his ear.

 

“CONGRATULATIONS JONGHYUN [HYUNG]!”

 

Jonghyun stared at his friends in surprise and then saw Onew there, his arms out side and a deep smile on his face.

 

“Hyung!”

 

“What?! You never told me that I can’t tell them!”

 

Jonghyun blushed.

 

“Be nice to her okay? She’s very fragile and innocent.”

 

Out stepped Jae from behind Onew.

 

Jonghyun smiled at Jae and nodded.

 

“I won’t. I promise.”

 

“You better not be! If I see her cry or get angry because of you, you are so dead!”

 

Jae said and everyone laughed.

 

Jonghyun smiled and replied,

 

“I won’t. I promise. Really, I love her…to bits.”

 

Jonghyun said to his roses and then looked at Jae.

 

“I promise.”

 

Jae smiled.

 

“I trust you.”

 

Jae said and gave Jonghyun a hug.

 

“Hey! Don’t hug another guy Jae! You’re my girlfriend!”

 

Onew said pulling Jae away from Jonghyun and wrapping her arms around her waist, stopping her from escaping.

 

Everyone laughed again, Jonghyun included.

 

“Well, what are you waiting for then?! Go get her Jonghyun! She’s been waiting for quite awhile now!”

 

Jonghyun smiled and nodded.

 

He turned around and was about to walk towards the dorm when he turned around curious.

 

“By the way, how did you guys get out without her following you?”

 

Everyone looked at each other.

 

“Easy. I told her that me and Onew oppa was going out for a date.”

 

Jae stepped up and said.

 

Onew nodded and put his hand around Jae’s waist.

 

“I said that I was going to play basketball.” Minho said quietly.

 

“I’m going shopping.” Key said happily.

 

“And I’m going…I’m going…I’m going to…”

 

Taemin didn’t know what to say.

 

“What are you doing?”

 

Jonghyun asked Taemin.

 

“He’s going to play basketball with me.”

 

Minhostepped forward and put his hand on Taemin’s shoulder.

 

Jonghyun laughed.

 

“Komawo…”

 

“Stop acting like a girl Jonghyun! Just go get her!”

 

Key said, pushing him away towards the dorm.

 

“Okay, okay. I get it.”

 

Jonghyun waved his friends away and walked in front of their dorms.

 

“Okay Jonghyun. You can do it!”

 

Jonghyun said to himself.

 

Jonghyun punched in their password number to their dorms and when he heard a click he took a deep breath in and opened the door.

 

“Annyeong?”

 

Jonghyun said to the living room.

 

“Finally.”

 

A sweet voice said to Jonghyun.

 

Out from the kitchen stepped Ki, an apron on her waist and around her neck.

 

“Sorry…I went to do something…”

 

Jonghyun said, clutching the bunch of roses behind him.

 

“Come on. Dinner’s ready.”

 

Jonghyun looked at the feast and smiled at Ki.

 

“You didn’t have to…”

 

“I was bored.” Ki said shrugging.

 

“Oh…ok…”

 

Ki smiled at Jonghyun and his heart skipped a beat.

 

“Hang on a second. I’ll be right back okay?”

 

Ki nodded and waved him away.

 

Jonghyun walked to his room and took something out of his drawers.

 

It was a necklace that he had bought for her the week before that was shaped in a heart with the word love in the middle.

 

Jonghyun smiled and he put the necklace box into the middle of the roses and walked out of the room.

 

Ki was working on scooping the rice into the bowls when Jonghyun put the smiles to her face.

 

Jonghyun say Ki freeze and he could some how feel that her eyes was wide.

 

Ki turned around slowly and Jonghyun took a step back, the roses in front of him.

 

He looked down at the roses and then back up at Ki.

 

“I know that this is really sudden…”

 

Jonghyun took a deep breath in and continued to speak.

 

“But...I want to ask you something…it’s okay if you reject me…I’ll understand…”

 

Ki stared at Jonghyun and Jonghyun looked at Ki.

 

“Will you...be…my…”

 

Jonghyun trailed off.

 

“Will I be you…what?”

 

Ki asked, her eyes on the roses in front of her and then she looked up at Jonghyun.

 

Jonghyun closed his eyes and said,

 

“Will you be…my…WILL YOU BE MY GIRLFRIEND?”

 

Jonghyun shouted at Ki and when he finished asking her the question he shut his eyes.

 

Suddenly, he felt a pair of lips on his cheek and he opened his eyes.

 

Ki looked at Jonghyun and put his hands on Jonghyun’s hand that was holding the roses.

 

She took the roses and smelt them.

 

Ki looked back up at Jonghyun and smiled at him.

 

“Will you be my boyfriend then Jonghyun?”

 

She asked him.

 

Jonghyun stared at Ki and then all of a sudden, he was hugging her.

 

Ki laughed and hugged him back.

 

“Saranghae Ki…saranghae…”

 

Jonghyun whispered to Ki’s ears.

 

“Saranghae oppa…Jonghyun oppa…”

 

 

***

 

Complicated girl
Please don’t respond with a ‘no’
I’m an pretty decent guy
But I might go crazy
Silly girl (silly girl)
You’re my miracle (my miracle)
If I could only have you
I don’t need anything else