One day in the beginning of Spring...

Lee Jungshin reviewed his sketch of a sweater design for the next knitting class in front of the door of CNBLUE's practice room. It was only the first week of his third semester in college, but assignments had burdened him like hell. Jungshin wondered if Minhyuk also experienced the same so that someone could actually share with him the pain of being a second year student.

But all the thoughts about the sweater's color and materials—is it black or grey? wool or cotton?—vanished when someone suddenly opened the door and rushed out from the room, bumping his right shoulder. 

"Aish, mind your—" Jungshin swallowed the curse words from the tip of his tongue when he realized that the person was a woman.

And she was crying.

"Eh, miss? Are you okay?" Jungshin suddenly panicked. What in the world is happening?

"I'm sorry," she bowed and ran away before Jungshin could recognize her face.

Flustered, Jungshin opened the door while wondering about the reason behind the woman's tears. Almost unsurprisingly, at least for him, he found the only person in the room, sitting with a guitar on his lap; Lee Jonghyun, the cold Busan man.

Jungshin sighed as he threw his backpack on the floor. "So, what have you done now, hyung?"

The question just hang in the air as Jonghyun chose to remain silent, picking on the guitar strings in a melody that sounded like Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven.

"Hyung!" Jungshin called again, louder.

"What?" Jonghyun glared.

Frustrated, Jungshin ran his fingers through his shoulder-length hair before repeating his question, "I asked, what have you done now?"

"Have I done something wrong?" Jonghyun asked, nonchalantly.

"Oh, God," Jungshin uttered under his breath. He spoke in a higher tone afterwards. "What have you done to that girl? She was crying, for God's sake!"

"Oh, that," much to Jungshin's annoyance, Jonghyun responded too casually. "I refused to go with her to the Fine Arts Exhibitions. That's all."

"But why did she cry? Were you being rough to her?"

"No! Gosh, I just honestly told her 'I don't want to go with you. Sorry.' What's with all the fuss?"

The maknae stared at Jonghyun with a 'you don't say' look on his face.

"Look, I was just being honest—and polite!," Jonghyun paused, "Besides, I don't like Hara anyway."

"Wait. It was Goo Ha-Ra? The so-called princess of Business Administration department?" Jungshin's jaw dropped in shock. "Hyung, tell me, are you gay or basically stupid?"

Jonghyun sneered, "D'oh. I thought you know I had a girlfriend before. Chill, won't you?"

"So why don't you like Hara?" Jungshin asked in disbelief. He pulled a chair and sat next to Jonghyun. "Seriously, hyung, it's been years since the last time you dated someone, yet recently you always rejected the girls who confessed to you. Why don't you just try to date and see how it goes?"

Jonghyun remained silent, appeared to be uninterested with the topic. Jungshin shrugged it off and decided to start tuning his bass. He initially thought that Jonghyun refused to answer the question, but suddenly he heard a husky voice, saying,

"When you fall in love, you fall hard and then you hurt yourself. All kinds of love obsession is poisonous.

That's why love is not easy, Jungshin-ah."

 

 

 

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Author's Note:

Hello everyone! It's been awhile. I know I'm still far from finishing my Yongseo story, but I want to take a break just now.

Just like you all know, I am a big fan of CNBLUE and especially Lee Jonghyun. So when there are rumours about Jonghyun-Yoona couple, I am totally excited to write their story!

Let me explain first. The background of this story is university life. All of them are enrolled in the same imaginary university, Seoul International University (SIU). For the year of enrollment, I just make it the same as their real age. The SNSD unnies and Yonghwa are in their fourth year, Jonghyun and Yoona (Our couple!), and probably Sooyoung and Yuri are in their third year, while the maknaes are in their second year. It's pretty simple.

Hope you enjoy this foreword and soon (I mean it, soon) I am going to update the first chapter.

Subscribe and comment if you are interested! Thank you so much xx