The Cruel

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Foreword

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Key got out of the car behind Minho. Their fight was bothering him to no end. Since last night they’d barely said two words and to make it worse the rest of SHINee was busy with another schedule while Minho and Key had to go for their own on Star King. Minho also wasn’t happy about it.
He walked faster than Key so that he wouldn’t fall into step with him. Key knew what he was doing. He wondered if he should apologize first, but it was really both their faults.
“Minho, wait for me.” Key said as Minho walked into the elevator, 20 meters in front of him. Key began to run to catch up but Minho pressed the close door >||< button so Key stopped in his tracks.
“YAH!” he shouted as the doors closed. Irritated now, Kibum decided not to wait for the next elevator -he’d beat him there. Key ran up almost ten sets of stairs before he reached the floor that Minho was coming out on. Key heard the elevator doors begin to open as he was doubled up with his hands on his knees, panting like he’d just run a marathon. He straightened quickly so that Minho didn’t see. The rapper turned and glanced at Key leaning peacefully against the stair railing, shooting him dramatic lasers with his eyes. Minho rolled his eyes and turned away to walk in the opposite direction again.
“Will you please talk to me now?” Key had to walk fast to keep up with Minho.
“No.”
Key grinned. “HAH! But I just made you!”
“No you didn’t.” Minho glanced at Key.
“And again.” Key smiled. Minho rolled his eyes and kept quiet as they walked to make-up. Key gave up as they entered the room. Minho went straight to sit on the couch with NichKhun and Victoria. Key pouted and went to chat with Leeteuk who was getting his make-up done.

Jonghyun watched the TV that was in the top left corner of the room intently. Key and Minho were going to be on soon. Unfortunately the CF that he Onew and Taemin were shooting would take longer than expected. As his dongsaeng’s walked onto the screen he could see that Key was in a mood. Minho looked normal enough but he knew he wasn’t good at hiding his feelings on TV. Thirty minutes into the show Jonghyun’s suspicions were confirmed.
                                                      “Key, you don’t look happy today.” Hodong ahjussi stated.
                                                      “Yes.” Key replied quickly and then glared at Minho’s back.
                                                      “Do I sense some tension between you two?”
Minho kept quiet and just smirked to himself. Why did Key have to bring this up on air. Even if he was his hyung, Key still acted like a spoilt child sometimes.
                                                       “Honestly we had a fight last night.” Key admitted.
                                                       “Oh really? Can you tell us what the subject was?”
                                                       “I took his earphones the other day and I forgot to give them back.”
                                                       “That doesn’t sound so bad.” Pig ahjussi laughed.
                                                       “He broke them.” Minho said, glaring back at Key with his flaming charisma.
                                                        “HAHAHA! Look at the glare Minho’s giving him.” Hodong laughed again.
The audience laughed as well.
                        “Yah! It was by accident. You didn’t have to break mine too.” Key whined, then pouted again.
The camera focused on his face as digitally added steam came out of his ears and his face reddened.

Jonghyun made an ‘aah’ sound to himself. So THAT was what happened last night. They weren’t talking to each other during supper and even while they were watching TV. Jonghyun jumped up suddenly as he realized he was late for the shoot and the director was calling for him.

The car ride on the way home was quiet again as Minho stared out the window and Key texted Taemin. Key sighed as he looked at Taemin’s latest message.
Just say sorry.
‘Yeah right’, Key thought as he exited the message. ‘Why do I always have to say sorry first?’.
Minho continued to stare out the window. Maybe he was being hard on Kibum. He turned back to look at him. “What?” Key asked after a few seconds.
“I'm sorry.” Minho murmured and then smiled apologetically.
Key let out a small laugh. “Why all of a sudden? You didn’t get a message from Taemin right?”
“Anio.” Minho shook his head.
“I’m also sorry then.” Key said, getting his usual cute smile back. He climbed into the front row of the van’s seats to sit next to Minho.
“Can I just ask how you broke them?” Minho said as soon as Key sat down. Key looked embarrassed.
“I left them in my pocket when my jeans were washed.” He said, slightly blushing. Minho let out a loud laugh. Key felt better with the familiar sound. Minho suddenly noticed that their driver had changed. He looked at Key’s phone as if he was examining it as he whispered “Kibuma.”
Key responded “Yes?”
“Is that the same driver from this morning?” Minho looked towards the window, still keeping his left ear next to Key’s head. Key looked into the rear view mirror quickly. The driver’s eyes met his and Key smiled at him through the mirror. The driver didn’t smile but nodded respectfully.
“I think so.” Key whispered, barely moving his lips.
“Excuse me. How long is it going to take to get home?” Key asked the driver suddenly. Minho looked at Key weirdly.
“We are fetching the rest of your members as you are not done with your schedules.”
Key’s eyebrows rose. Minho sighed loudly. “Oh.” Key said, slumping in his seat. It was a long drive to where Onew and the rest of them were.

An hour later Key had his head on Minho’s shoulder and was in and out of sleep. Minho’s eyes were shutting. He looked at the time on his phone through blurry unfocused eyes.
18:27
Was it going to be another night shoot? Their manager hadn’t told them about it if it was. Minho fell asleep within the next three minutes, leaning his head on the window, imagining what kind of shoot it would be. Hopefully not another mini-drama.
Key suddenly jerked upwards, waking Minho up with his sudden movement. It felt like he’d been asleep for long but when he looked at his phone it was only 19:01. The car stopped then as they reached the destination of the CF. Minho looked out the window to see Taemin and Onew waiting together on the stairs. Jonghyun was just walking out of the building, completely focused on his Blackberry. Minho opened the door for them. It was surprisingly cold for Summer. They all piled into the car, looking suspiciously at Minho and Key. There was silence as Key and Minho sat across from Jonghyun, Taemin and Onew. The car began to drive away as they all looked at each other without a sound. Key broke the silence. “What’s wrong with you guys?!” He said widening his eyes.
Onew and Jonghyun kept quiet and shared a look. Taemin was the one to speak up. “Are you guys…still fighting?” He said, a little wide-eyed.
Minho laughed and him and Key said no at the same time. Onew let out a sigh. He was happy that the tension between them was gone. He hated it when they were fighting within the group. A few minutes later the subject of their next schedule came up.
“What? We have another schedule?” Taemin said, beginning to feel the lethargy creep up on him.
“Since when?” Jonghyun asked Minho and Key.
“The driver told us.” Minho said quietly, trying not to let the driver hear their conversation. He still wasn’t sure about him. There was something strange..
Jonghyun noticed the weary glance that Minho gave the drivers back and tried to slyly sneak a peak at the drivers face for himself by looking back nonchalantly. The driver carried on driving towards their destination. Jonghyun didn’t remember him, maybe he was just new. Key yawned again, causing a ripple affect of yawns between the members. They were all tired after such a long day. “How much longer until we get there?” Taemin asked with sleepy eyes. It was already dark out but he usually never felt this tired so early in the evening.
“Don’t worry boys.. I’ll tell you when we get there. You can sleep on the way.” The driver said calmly.
The boys decided to take his advice. Minho was too tired to worry about his suspicions. Taemin fell asleep with his head on Onew’s shoulder within the next two minutes. Onew’s head lay against the window. Key and Minho resumed the same position that they were in earlier and Jonghyun rested his head against his own window. After another two minutes everyone was asleep except for JJong. He looked across at Minho sleeping peacefully against the window as the car sped up slightly.

AndyDeppAckles
Ok so I'm REALLY sorry for taking my sweet time with this story guys, and I promise the next chapter is basically all done :3

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_Baozi_Minseok_
#1
Chapter 7: damn it's been like 4 years since you last updated? That's like when EXO debuted until now omg PLEASE UPDATE or at least give us a note if you decide to not continue this story?
_Baozi_Minseok_
#2
Chapter 7: AAH THIS IS TOO GOOD I ACTUALLY CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT CHAPTER NICE WORK AUTHOR-NIM
jonghyunsbae
#3
Chapter 7: Please update
i_am_not_here
#4
Chapter 7: Ohmygod UPDATEEEEEEEEEEE!! NOWWWWW!!!! Don't kill my SHINee ... The girl(s) ... I really shouldn't have read this in an empty house ... I'm freaking out now this is so descriptive its scary ... The grey armless thingies ... Key and Onew and ... Minho and Jonghyun my god dont kill them plzplzplzplzplzplz
plz update!
Love it so far great job!
<3
r34d3r #5
Chapter 7: Oh my word!!!!!! I am loving this but you left it at a cliff hanger! PLEASE PLEASE OH PLEASE UPDATE THIS!!!!
xXlivedreamerXx #6
Chapter 7: I should really check the last updated date before i get into a story ; w ;
I really wanna know the rest of this story but... idk if you'll be back considering the last time this was updated and the last time you signed in....
fbjemsnwjsmmd
izz_cutie #7
Chapter 7: could you update it? It was a nice story and it makes me want to know what happened to them..