Chapter 4

The Art Of Love []

JaeJoong's P.O.V.


Hurriedly crossing the street I smiled at Hyesung waving at me, right before I entered the café. I haven't seen him in a while and I missed our little chats. This was our place, we would always come here during the breaks between our classes, it was weird that we haven't met much during vacation. But I guess it was normal.

I met Hyesung on first day of college, two years ago. Being in the same class we've been spending a lot of time together and became good friends. We're different, but we always got along pretty well, talking about all kinds of stuff.

"Hey Jae!" Hyesung greeted me cheerfully.

"Hey Sungie." I smiled sitting down and turned to the waitress, ordering a coffee.

"How are you baby?" he asked suddenly, putting his hand on top of mine and I smiled knowingly, glancing at the waitress' shocked expression. I smiled sweetly back at Hyesung and poor girl quickly left us alone.

"New waitress again." I chuckled as Hyesung removed his hand and nodded glancing at the bartender. He flashed him a smile. I turned myself and waved at him, Heechul was an old friend.

I turned back to Hyesung.

"I'm fine, how have you been?" I asked back. I wasn't exactly fine, but that could wait.

"Well, good..." he said shrugging slightly and I could see he had something to tell me, but hesitated. He took a sip of his drink avoiding eye contact.

"That doesn't sound convincing Sungie. What happened?" I asked as waitress came with my coffee. I nodded smiling up at her, but I think it freaked her out, because she hurriedly went away from our table.

"Minwoo left me." He said looking down.

"No." I said widening my eyes. Okay, I wasn't exactly surprised, everyone knew Minwoo was a bastard, but his relationship with Hyesung was... well, relationship. That was new for Minwoo, we all knew that. At first we thought it's gonna finish faster then it started, but Minwoo surprised us all. It looked like he actually cared for Hyesung. Now it looks like he just wanted to prove us all wrong. A disgusting feeling filled me, was it just a game for him?

"Yeah... I know what you're gonna say, you were right from the beginning, you all were." He said.

"No, Sungie, I'm not gonna say anything. He's an idiot, he's not aware of it yet." I replied softly. "I'm sure you'll find someone who's million times better than him." I said knowing it's gonna be true. It was usually a line people were saying just to make someone feel better, but in Hyesung's case I knew it'll be true.

"Thanks Jae..." he whispered and I patted his hand smiling brightly.

"But hey! If it's gonna make you feel better, I got dumped too." I said trying to sound cheerful again and quickly took a sip of my coffee, hiding behind the cup slightly.


Hyesung's P.O.V.


"What? Yunho..." I asked shocked. They were like... a perfect couple. Everyone envied them for their relationship. How could it be?

"Yeah... I understand him actually." He said, although I could see he wasn't okay with it. "Maybe we became too much like... like an old married couple."

"But wasn't it good? Your relationship was so strong."

"Well, not really. We care about each other a lot, but he doesn't love me." He sighed and swallowed. "I don't know, maybe it's better this way. I know it would be a torture if we continued with it. I know there is no way to make him love me. I've been thinking about it a lot and I'm not so sure I loved him either. It's hard to think about us not being together anymore, but I can't blame him and I don't want things the way they used to be anymore." I nodded understanding. "However, I'm still not prepared to face him, spend time with him, be friends like nothing happened, you know." He chuckled. "I need more time."

"I understand." I nodded again. "I'm not gonna say you're gonna find someone better than him, but I'm sure you'll find someone who'll love you."

"Well, that kind of makes him better than Yunho, right?" he chuckled.

"True." I nodded and laughed. We drank a bit in silence, then I smiled. "Hey! You didn't tell me who's your new roommate."

"Oh, right!" he chuckled. "You don't know him, he's new, he just transferred here. Cool guy, we get along well so far. Oh, and he has a brother who's in our class."

"Great! Well, at least that's good." I smiled. "I'm with Dongwan."

"Things can't get better for you there." He chuckled. I smiled broadly, of course there was nothing better than sharing a room with your best friend. "Will there ever be any kind of progress between you guys?" he asked suddenly.

"What do you mean?"

"It's obvious Sungie, the boy wants you." He giggled playfully, like an excited high-school girl.

"Stop it, of course he does not, we're just friends." I said blushing deeply.

"My dear Hyesung, there is no such thing as 'just friends'. Once you start using that phrase it becomes obvious there is so much more then 'just friends' there. That's called denial my dear friend. D.E.N.I.A.L. Denial." He stated drinking the rest of his coffee and smiled. "Sungie I have to run, sorry. I'll see you tomorrow." He said getting up. "Think about what I said." He added patting me on the back, then waved to Hyesung and went out of the café.

Denial? No... it can't be... we're just friends.


Dongwan's P.O.V.


I put my pen down and leaned back, taking a break from my work when Hyesung entered the room.

"Hey." He said putting his jacket down and smiling at me.

"Hey!" I replied smiling back. "How was it with JaeJoong?"

"Okay..." he shrugged sitting down. "You know, as usual."

"Oh I know." I nodded. Jae was Hyesung's closest friend after me and Junsu and since Hyesung wasn't the most outgoing person out there it meant a lot. "So, how's he doing?"

"Well... well I guess... considering everything." He said.

"What? Did something happen?" I asked worriedly.

"Didn't you know? Yunho broke up with him."

"What? How? They're like... made for each other." I gasped. Now this was shocking news.

"I know... But yeah, it happened. I thought Yunho told you." He said.

"No. I'm not that close to him." I replied. "We haven't heard from each other in a while."

"Oh, I see." He nodded. "What are you doing?" he asked suddenly getting up and walking over to me. "Writing again?" he added as he looked at papers in front of me.

"Yeah, new film you know..." I trailed off.

"What's it about?" He asked picking up random page. I snatched it away from him.

"It's a secret." I said putting the paper back down and chuckled. "Nah, it's just this idea I had on my mind for a while... we'll see how it's gonna turn out."

"Okay... well, maybe it's better if it's a secret." He smiled. "Who's gonna be in it this time?" he asked sitting back down.

"Well, I was thinking about Eric and Yunho, but I haven't talked with them about it yet."

"I'm sure they'll be all for it." He chuckled.

"Yeah, I hope so." I nodded, collecting my papers.

"What? Done for today?"

"Yeah..." I replied, but got interrupted.

Junsu walked into the room. Well, more like barged in.

"Hey guys!" he said sitting down next to Hyesung.

"Sungie!" he exclaimed hugging him. "Help me, please! Save me!" he whaled. I raised my eyebrow.

"I think we should put 'Lunatics not allowed' sign on the door." I said to Hyesung, who chuckled in return.

"Yeah, well, it's better then 'Girls not allowed' is it?" Junsu snapped turning to me.

"I really wouldn't know. I don't need girls." I replied.

"Well, I do!" he said again. "And I can't have them anymore. I also can't do bunch of other stuff in my own room thanks to all these stupid rules that idiot thought of. I'm gonna go crazy by the end of the year!"

"By the end of the year? I thought you already went crazy. Or is it you were born crazy? Hmm..." I said pretending to think about which one was true. My little dongsaeng glared at me again.

"Shut up and help me will you?" he muttered.

"Wait a second, I don't get anything here anymore." Hyesung said. "Who's he? Who's your roommate?"

"That erted sadistic idiot, Shim Changmin." Junsu replied. "You know, the nerdy gay who's gonna me upon the first opportunity."

"Oh, sweety Min?" Hyesung smiled broadly. I smiled as well, Minnie was adorable smarty, loved by everyone. Well, everyone but Junsu.

"There is absolutely nothing sweet about that jerk!" Junsu said jumping up. "Right hyung?" he asked me for support.

"Sorry Junsu, I'm with Hyesung here." I replied.

"You're always with Hyesung... why did I bother coming?" he exclaimed again throwing his arms in the air helplessly. What a drama queen...

"Oh come on, it's not gonna be that bad. Maybe it's a sign, you should just become friends - it's about time you know." Hyesung continued smiling sweetly.

"Sign, my ..." Junsu muttered walking to the door to leave the room, but then turned to point at me. "Oh and if you think I didn't notice my shirt missing you're wrong mister." He said before exiting the room.

I looked at Hyesung and we both burst out laughing.


Yoochun's P.O.V.


"Did you wait long?" I asked as I approached JaeJoong in the park in front of the dorms.

"No, I just got here, don't worry." He answered smiling.

"Good. I'm still getting used to this place." I said looking around again.

"I understand, you just got here. It's all good, you won't get lost, you'll get used to it pretty soon." He said.

"Yeah, I like it here, it inspires me actually." I smiled. I already had a melody on my mind, I needed to write it down. And find the piano. That's the first thing I should do tomorrow. After classes, that is.

"That's great." He smiled broadly. "I can't wait to hear some of your stuff."

"I can't wait to see some of yours." I replied chuckling.

"I left all the stuff I was working on during summer at home, but that's okay, I'll have plenty of paintings and drawings for you to see." He nodded. "You know I have a big passion..." he added. I raised my eyebrows curiously. He chuckled. "It's nothing special, I just like photography. More than painting actually. It just... helps me in my work for some weird reason... I learned to look at stuff differently I guess. Thinking of composition and all, you know?"

"I get it." I nodded smiling. "That's great Jae!"

"Yeah... well, I need to improve a lot, but I love it, so yeah..." he smiled again.

"That's the most important thing. Loving what you do." I said.

"I absolutely agree." He nodded. "But, hey, enough about that, you'll see my works and I'll hear yours and than we'll talk."

"Alright, deal." I agreed and then proceeded to look at people around us. And then I spotted him. "Jae... Look... there... it's him. The guy I met yesterday." I said excitedly, pointing discreetly at the hottie that proved my homouality.


Eric's P.O.V.


"Yunho... I have to find him!" I said anxiously. I couldn't sleep properly last night and I was nervous as hell, cursing myself for not even asking for the guy's name yesterday.

"Later man, I told you Changmin is waiting for us." Yunho replied practically dragging me away from the dorms.

"Okay, but later... I just want to see him, you know." I said. I really just wanted to see him. And maybe introduce myself properly. But most important - find out who he was.

"Yeah, sure. Of course you're not gay." Yunho smirked knowingly and I shot him a glare. Wanting to meet someone better doesn't mean I'm attracted to him... like that.


Yoochun's P.O.V.


"Do you see him?" I asked looking back and forth from the guy to Jae.

"Yeah, I see him." He nodded, frowning slightly.

"Well? Do you know him?" I asked again, getting anxious.

"Yeah." He nodded again.

"Oh my god! You do?" I asked smiling widely and practically shaking Jae, who wasn't even looking at me. His eyes were fixed on the guy.

"He's my ex."

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LlyaAegi
#1
This story is a work of genius. Seriously I think I have read it about fifteen times now. <3<3<3 So amazing!!! Definitely one of my all time favorites!
LeeMizo #2
Chapter 51: Thank you very much! I loved it, and I've really learned a lot from Dongwan.
RisingSun #3
Thanks a lot =) I'm glad you enjoyed it!
dirtsafan29
#4
OMG-DRAGON!!!!!
this is one of the best fic i've read so far, and i've read a lot xD
You're an excellent writer :D
RisingSun #5
Thanks dear!!!
SuperHeesica
#6
YOUR MINSU WAS AWESOME <3
RisingSun #7
Wow... in-complete... sounds like some different past life XD I totally forgot about that - it was awesome hehe... I'm glad you found me again! Thanks!!!
jaehoyoosumin #8
oh oh!found this fic...I've read it years before in in-complete.net(i think) or was soompi ^.^ so nice to see your fic posted here
RisingSun #9
Go ahead! I think you'll enjoy this one!
Mangazit #10
*flaps wings* kekeke I'm gonna spam your stories for karma!