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20.35 pm @ Main Ballroom, Bar Area

“Gun-Bae!!”

*clank!!*

Three glasses raised by three men were clashing at shoulder’s height. They were cheering for the unexpected reunion with ice bourbon on their hand. Two of the three had known each other from the past.

“Still live in Dukryang?” Kangin asked after gulping his drink.

“Oh please. I love that sin city.” Heechul was side-glancing Kangin on his right and put the half contained glass on the table before continued. “Dukryang is like my life... Without rules.” He pulled his side lips upwards to make a smirk.

Kangin chuckled in response before replied. “Yeah, very much like Kim Heechul… Tell me something new.”

“Hmmm, nothing much except… After you left, I work and live in Super Generation.” Heechul put both of his elbows on the bar table.

Kangin was startled for seconds before said. “The club?”

Heechul smirked wider in confirmation before took his glass and finished his drink in few gulps. When he wanted to say something again, the auburn haired man who had been introduced as Youngwoon’s partner suddenly barged into the conversation.

“Kangin, where’s Min?” the Psychiatrist, who had been observing the crowd, asked with his warning tone.

The man in question was suddenly turned his body around on his stool and scanned the crowd in the ballroom. “Is that the brat and his Mom?” Kangin asked when he spotted Kyuhyun and Hanna in the crowd, not in a very good term with each other. The rebel was seen grabbing the woman’s hand and leading her towards the entrance door.

Leeteuk stood up from his seat right away. “Something’s wrong. You go follow the brat, I’ll be looking for Min.” He said before taking his steps in haste to the crowd.

Without waiting for another second, Kangin stood up. “See you later Chullie.” The bodyguard said before rushed somewhere, leaving the alone at the bar.

Heechul’s eyes were following the way where Kangin had went and narrowed his eyes in suspicion when he saw Kyuhyun and Hanna ahead of the big guy’s direction.

*****

“Father look, look! I can finish this rubik’s cube in a minute!”

“Sungmin, your father is working now! So please leave and don’t come again until I allowed.”

“Min…”

“Father, how is Mother look like?”

“Sungmin!! She’s already gone, so don’t ask about her again, you understand?!”

“Min, can you hear me…”

“Father, are you staying for Christmas?”

“Sungmin, how many times do I have to tell you that you can’t call me at this time! Go to sleep, and don’t call me without Mr. Shin’s approval!”

“Min, this is Leeteuk Hyung. I’m here for you.”

“Listen, just do whatever you want with that delinquent kid! I don’t want to pay anything for him.”

“Sungmin, please…”

“Don’t.”

“Sungmin, please say something for me…”

“Leave.”

“Min, please answer me.”

“What are you doing?!?!”

“Please say something for your Hyung.”

“And you, you… ruin it all!”

“Min, please Min, I need you…”

“It is hard.”

“I need you now Min.”

“We are too different to be in the same path.”

 “I need you now, I need you to be here with me, Min…”

A voice…

Sungmin bowed his head, glancing down at arm that wrapped around on his shoulder. He turned his head a little to his left and found strands of auburn hairs.

“Say something Min… I need your presence now.” Those soft whispers were heard again in Sungmin’s ear.

Leeteuk Hyung…

Sungmin realized that his body was hugged by Leeteuk right now. Since when? He was not sure, and why? He didn’t know either. It seemed his mind had stop working. Everything was blurred for the blonde after he saw Kyuhyun’s back out of his sight. He couldn’t even register the moment he dropped down to sit on the hallway’s floor.

You’re warm Hyung…

Sungmin lifted his hands and wrapped it around the other’s body, giving him a same motion of act. Afterwards, the blonde heard a soft sigh from the older before he felt a hand caressed his head fondly from behind.

“Leeteuk…Hyung…” The blonde said with his hoarse voice, finally responded to Leeteuk.

“I’m here Min…” Leeteuk answered, while holding Sungmin tighter. With his right hand, he buried the blonde’s head deeper onto his shoulder, making sure his presence was real, not a mere dream for Sungmin.

“You’re here Leeteuk Hyung.” Sungmin repeated the older’s words, confirming his discovery while snuggling his head.

“Of course. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, I’m always at your side when you needed me.” The Psychiatrist said softly.

Why your voice and words are always warm Hyung?

Sungmin moved his arms slightly on the other’s back, securing his hold.

Sensing Sungmin’s trust by the hold of his hands, Leeteuk smiled before said. “Thank you for letting me in.” He said breathily. “I won’t let you alone Min.”

The blonde nodded slightly on the older’s shoulder in response.

“Hyung…” Sungmin finally voiced out something again, with ruffled kind of tone that came because he refused to lifted his head up from the embrace.

“I tried… I only tried to make him smile Hyung…” The blonde started to mumble. “But he got mad…” He was trembling in between his talk when he suddenly remembered the conversation with Kyuhyun. “He was angry. Really, really angry…”

*****

20.40 pm @ Main Ballroom, Entrance Hall

“-me go!”

High pitched female’s voice suddenly reached within Kyuhyun’s sense. Nevertheless, he wasn’t responding to that voice as his mind was still occupied with many things. One of it, was about the President, Sungmin’s expression and gesture when he poured out his anger. In his eyes, the blonde looked…broken.

The rebel was overwhelmed with his own emotions. He was furious, sad, upset, pissed off, and everything he couldn’t think of. All things were messed and mixed up in his mind. Right now, for him, running away and leaving it all behind were the best solution. That was why, after his conversation with Sungmin, Kyuhyun rushed to the Dance Hall, scanned for his Mom and grabbed her hand harshly. Without any words spoken, Kyuhyun led Hanna away from the event as soon as possible, ignoring whispers, looks and judgments from all of his surroundings.

“Kyuhyun!! Stop! Where are we going?!”

Hanna’s irritation was clear in her protest, making the rebel aware of his current state. Kyuhyun stopped his walk promptly as his Mom suddenly took her hand back from his grip. Still in his angry expression, the rebel turned around to face his Mom.

“Tsk! This kid! Not even said hi to me!” Hanna stood in her position, both hands on each hips. “I never raised you to be such a snob ignorant brat!” she scolded while pointing her finger to Kyuhyun.

“It’s not the time to talk about that Mom! Let’s go back to Dukryang!” Kyuhyun stepped forward to reach for his Mom’s hand.

Hanna retreated back a little, ducked her hand out from the rebel’s attempt. “No. Who said I wanted to go back? I don’t want to go. This is the first time I come to your School’s event, and I’m still enjoying myself.”

“Enjoy?! With that judging looks and bad mouthing about you and me, you still say you enjoy this event??!!” With a high tone, the rebel snapped right away.

“Don’t tell me you don’t know what happened around you!!” He raised his left hand at shoulder’s length and pointing at the entrance door.

“These ers are bashing and treating us like some kind of filthy trash!!” His forehead was wrinkled, eyes narrowed in stern expression.

“And you still say you enjoy it, when they spit you on the face as a ?!?! You’re sick Mom!!”

*SLAP!!*

Harsh noise resulted from a sharp blow evoked, stopping Kyuhyun’s mad rants in spur of the moment. “You’re the one who gone insane.” A strict-firm tone was coming from Hanna.

A little bit contrast to her words, the woman had a calm expression on her face. “Look at me!” She commended.

Kyuhyun, who had his head turned side way because of the open-hand smack he got, shoved his head back to look at his Mom.

“What do you see?!” Keeping her calm face, the Mother asked.

Kyuhyun only twitched his face a little in response.

Not waiting any reply from her son, Hanna was gesturing her appearance with hand from up to bottom and asked again. “With this look, do I look like a to you?!”

Hesitate to answer, the rebel went silent, and only gulped down after few seconds.

“Do I have a ‘’ written on my fore head?!?!” She asked again, her tone was higher than before.

Feeling confuse to say something to his Mom, Kyuhyun shook his head a little in reply.

“Then why are you acting like a mad man?!?! I’m not humiliating you or anything, right?!” Hanna yelled. “Or, are you feel ashamed of me?!”

“No! It’s not like you’re embarrassing me-” Kyuhyun sudden protest was stopped when Hanna took steps forward to him, closing the distance between their bodies.

“I’m a e Kyuhyun. It’s what I do to provide food on our plates, it’s my job.” She narrowed her eyes and glanced up a little, looking intently at her son. “But, doesn’t mean I act like a cheap … So stop treating me like one!”

“I don’t!! I never treat you like that!!” Kyuhyun shouted, arguing back to his Mom’s words.

“You just did.” Hanna pulled her lips a little, making a cynical smile. “How you never involve me in any kind of School’s related things, hiding me from School even though I asked you many times to bring me here and show me around, even now, when you shoved me to go home.” Keeping the little smile, she continued. “Why? Am I not worth for you to brag around? Or shown up to your School?!”

Kyuhyun gritted his teeth in pique. “I never ashamed of you Mom!! I just don’t want you to receive their ’s words or their pathetic treatments!!” Kyuhyun released his heavy breath, feeling burdened to hold it inside. His expression suddenly turned softer than before.

“I don’t want you to be sad because of them.” He said while turned his head a little.

Hanna kept their distance close, her eyes were still focusing on his son’s neglected eyes. “You know why you have that thought, feeling worried about me?” her tone was much softer this time. “Because you see me as a e all the time…”

Kyuhyun turned his head back in disagreement and opened his mouth to say something back, but nothing came out from his lips, he was speechless.

“Maybe you hadn’t figured it out, but you know what Lee Sungmin did to me?” Hanna continued, she was not expecting some words from his son either.

“He wanted to give the invitation to me in person, asking Heechul if it’s okay to give me this dress that he had chosen himself for this event because he was afraid that kind of thing will insult me, even treated me gently, accompanying me in there when you’re out of nowhere.” She smiled a little.

When Kyuhyun wanted to say something again, Hanna overtook the chance and added.

“I’m not trying to compare, or wishing you’ll be like him… I’m just saying that, the way he treated me like a lady, proving that he never at once regard me as a e. Since the beginning, in his perspective, he only sees Cho Hanna as Cho Kyuhyun’s Mom, a single Mother with a son, who deserved to be appreciated and treated like any other Mothers in that room, regardless their background.”

Min…

The rebel’s mind suddenly remembered about the said boy who looked very much shocked and afraid by the way the blonde turned his head side way and closed his eyes the whole time, when he threw anger at him. It bothered Kyuhyun, making him guilty and feels really bad to react that way towards his boyfriend.

Hanna took her handkerchief from her purse before reached for Kyuhyun’s dry-blooded hand. “Kyuhyun…” She said while started to bandage her son’s right hand.

“I am a e. I don’t care what they said behind my back. I never feel sad and ashamed being of it…” She knotted the two ends of the handkerchief to make a perfect wrap around Kyuhyun’s palm.

“You know why?” She glanced over to look at her son. “Because I can raise my attractive, not to mention y, son with it.” She smiled and kissed Kyuhyun’s bandaged hand.

“Mom…” Kyuhyun was out of words to say anymore. Tonight, too many things he discovered, and learned at the same time. Too much thoughts were going inside his head. And plenty emotions he felt at the moment.

Perspective, something unfamiliar Kyuhyun had learnt from his Mom. She's right, it is because Kyuhyun labeled her as a e, then Kyuhyun wanted to protect her by keeping her away from School. If he changed his point of view, his perspective, to regard her as a regular Mom, then he would never treat her that way. Kyuhyun would never reject any request from his Mom to show her around his outstanding School. He would gladly tell his Mom to come at parents meeting.

“I’m going back inside.” She released her son’s hand and turned her body around before said. “And you, after cooling down in here, must go inside to have a dance with me.”

She stepped slowly towards the entrance door. When she was at the door frame, she paused for a moment, turned her head a little and added. “We can show it to them that we are filthy, trashy, and proud.”

His Mom’s giggling laugh was what Kyuhyun heard before the said woman was gone inside the Main Ballroom.

*****

20.45 pm @ Main Ballroom, Back Garden Hall

“I never meant to hurt him Hyung…” Sungmin was laid on the floor with head placed comfortably on his Psychiatrist's right thigh. The older was siting with one leg flat on the ground, supporting the younger's head.

“But he said don’t… Just like Father always told me in between his words.” Even with his scalp getting massage gently by the older, the blonde still felt very much depressed. It seemed Leeteuk’s magical touch didn’t have it charms tonight.

“I hate that word……” Sungmin dilated his eyes and gritted his teeth. He was trying his best to hold the tears at the brim of his eyes.

Leeteuk slid his hand from the blonde’s crown onto his eyes, covering the laying boy’s eyes with his palm. “If you wanted to cry, then cried a lot… If you wanted to hate, then scream and curse…”

The Psychiatrist was trembling as he felt his fingers and palm suddenly wet because the blonde already shed his tears immediately. It was the first time he saw his blonde at a state like this. And his heart was sunk, following the blonde’s broken hearted one. “Do it whatever you want, show it as much as you can…”

The blonde finally gave up to let his tears pouring down. He couldn’t hold it anymore.

Maybe it was the effect when his eyes got covered by Leeteuk, so he couldn’t, and wouldn’t feel disgrace about himself to cry.

Or maybe Leeteuk words made Sungmin comfortable to be weak for a while.

Or maybe, the pain was just too much, Sungmin didn’t know what to do to heal it, except with crying his tears.

Either way, Sungmin was justified to cry because he couldn’t find any reason not to. It was too much, too cruel and too painful for him. No matter how strong a person live his life, some tragedy just forced them to shed a tear.

The blonde didn’t make any sobbing sound when he poured out his inpouring tears. The only sound he made was a choking sound, which happened few times.

“But afterwards… Promise me you will stop blaming yourself Min…”

*****

20.45 pm @ Main Ballroom, Entrance Hall

*SMACK!!!*

Another blow was perfectly landed on Kyuhyun’s cheek, this time, on his left side. The rebel was balancing his standing position when blurry colored bruise was slowly emerged from a certain area on his face.

Contrary to previous reaction when he got this certain kind of punch from a certain kind of guy, Kyuhyun accepted it with a lot of resignation. He atoned the violence act for his wrongdoing in throwing anger toward someone precious to him, and to the puncher.

“We warned you before.” With a voice full of hatred, Kangin threatened.

The boy at fault opened his mouth a little and felt a stung pain following after. He gritted his teeth to hold the pain occurred before brushed the bruised area a little, measuring the injury.

Even though Kyuhyun wanted to make a scorn laugh to mock the body guard, his condition–of feeling a pain whenever he moved his face–forced him to stay silent, making the older guy to continue his threat.

“Listen brat, starting today, stay away from Sungmin.” Kangin said before turned his body around and walked towards the entrance hall.

*****

20.55 pm @ Main Ballroom, Back Garden Hall

After few shouting voices, quite violent act, writhing confession and dropping tears, the night seemed very peaceful and quite at the back garden area. The place witnessed how all of those things happened, and how it was much better now. Sungmin was calmer, tears were nowhere to be seen on his face. All of his worry, anxiety and emotion had already thrown out, nothing left, at least in Sungmin’s mind. And Leeteuk was there the whole time, listening to all of the blonde's problem.

“Min… I’m not trying to point out a finger to you or anybody else.” The auburn haired man said softly. “But in life, feeling heartache and hurt are needed.” His hand was back on the blonde’s scalp, caressing slowly. “Therefore we know how wonderful love is.”

Sungmin lifted his head up a little, trying to grasp the meaning of those words by looking at the speaker’s eyes.

The Psychiatrist pulled his lips to smile before said again. “You know Min, you will get hurt if you always expect something in return in everything you do for other people.” The older glanced down to accept the younger’s staring eyes.

“You can’t control people or the world as you please… But you can control your heart to forgive and be sincere to everything you done for others.”

Forgive and sincere…

If he traced back all the things he had done to the point of Kyuhyun’s resentment, yes, true, he admitted, he did expecting something with his plan in surprising Kyuhyun. By inviting Kyuhyun’s Mom, Sungmin wanted the rebel to be happy and like him more, at the same time knowing the said woman and wanted her to like him. The hope or expectation was there. So when his plan got bad result from Kyuhyun, the blonde felt truly disappointed and heartbroken.

“I know it’s hard… But change your perspective Min…” Leeteuk let his hand, the one which massaging the younger’s scalp, to be moved by the blonde onto the latter’s cheek. “Forgive your pain, and be sincere in everything you do…”

The blonde snuggled his cheek onto the older’s palm and nodded in reply. “Yes, Hyung, yes...”

*****

21.50 pm @ Main Ballroom

*slap!!*

“Ouch!! What was that for???” Cho Kyuhyun, while holding his right cheek, protested in annoyance. It was the third smack he received on his face tonight.

“For still not saying that I’m beautiful.” Hanna snapped, while placing both of her hands on the other’s chest.

“Tsk! You’re pathetic Mom.” He replied, still resisted to compliment the demanding woman.

The Cho’s mother and son couple was standing on the dance hall right now, trying to enjoy the rest of the event by slow dancing.

“What happened to your face?” After observing closely to her son, Hanna asked. She was referring to Kyuhyun’s bruised left cheek.

“Just a reward that I got from being a madman.” He swayed around in little steps, leading his Mom along with his feet’s movement.

Hanna chuckled in reply and added. “Serves you right.”

When Kyuhyun was about to say something, few whispers were spreading around the dancing Cho’s couple, turning their attention in a mere seconds. It was hard not to notice those bad words about them when it was being spoken in obvious audible voices.

Look at them! They’re really disgusting!

Maybe they don’t have any shame left?

“Oh well, look at this…” In between hearing those whispers, a greeting voice was coming from small eyed boy with black hair, who suddenly appeared beside the rebel.

Kyuhyun stopped his dance move and slowly released his hold on his Mom with eyes narrowed in suspicion. He didn’t know anything about the newly arrived student, including his name, except the fact that he is the Principal’s son and few times trying to humiliate his boyfriend.

Without warning, the said boy took out few bills from his trouser and slipped it inside Kyuhyun’s pocket shirt, before he said “Is it enough to ask for a dance with your Mom?”

When Kyuhyun was getting ready to reply the insult with punches, Hanna immediately grabbed both of his hand, stopping him to take any violence measures.

Their action was being at hold when the President of Student Council was suddenly appeared on stage, halting the music played by the live band and stealing all of the guest’s attention once again.

“Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, pardon for the sudden interruption.” Sungmin’s voice echoed throughout the Ballroom.

“This is important announcement I need to say, especially to all Students in here.” The blonde’s eyes were scanning the crowd.

“I’m aware of what was going on. Yes, I’m talking about few insults and bullying directed to certain Student.” He paused for a moment before continued.

“We are here to appreciate something had been done from strong-willed women, and value it through donations and actions. Please respect the dignity of this Charity Ball event’s objective by not downgrading other and not feeling more important than other. We are breathing the same air, and equal in terms of rights.” A little smile was seen on Sungmin’s hollow expression.

“Thank you. Enjoy the rest of the night.”

*****

22.20 pm @ Student Council President Office

Lee Sungmin inhaled a long, deep breath into his system, held in for few seconds and released it through his mouth slowly. Tonight had been a very tiring night he ever experienced in his life. Feeling not very presentable with slightly eye-bags, wrinkled suit, and hollow expression, Sungmin made Ryeowook to do the closing of Charity Ball, while he went to his office room. The blonde took few documents that the Principal asked from his desk.

It was quite relaxing to leave Charity Ball for a while. With that amount of crowd, and a lot of things happened in a night, Sungmin felt a bit relieve from some kind of strangle he felt caused by the said event.

Need to be back immediately because the Principal was waiting for him, Sungmin directly went to the door after he had the documents on his hand.

As if the night was still young to shock him with another surprise, what he found outside his office room was something that made him stop, stopping his steps, stopping his mind, in fact it was almost stopping his breath.

The blonde’s pair of eyes was capturing the image of a person whose name he had been groaning for in his mind along with his cry. That person, who was leaning on the wall in front of his office room, already set his dark eyes on him.

Sungmin was frozen in his position when he felt shiver all over his body, the usual reaction he got from that person whenever their eyes met in intense gaze. It feels like that person’s eyes could easily trap him in helpless state.

After a minute passed, without saying anything, nor doing something, Sungmin finally got the willpower to break the eye-contact. With a calm body language, the blonde closed his office room’s door and locked it afterwards. When he wanted to take his first step, Kyuhyun finally lifted his body to stand and said something.

“Min, I want to talk.”

*****