[FIC] The Way You Look At Me 6/?
Title: The Way You Look At Me
Author: addicted_tvxq
Length: 6/?
Pairing: YUNJAE/JAEHO, bits of SuMinChun
Genre: Drama, Romance and Fluff etc
Rating: PG-13
Summary:
*Hero Jaejoong has always wanted to meet his idol, Jung Yunho. Ever since he saw Yunho dance on stage, his dream was to be able to meet him. So Jaejoong and his best buddy, Yoochun take a trip to Seoul, and try out for the SM auditions, in hopes to pass, and meet Jung Yunho. But it's not easy, considering that there are many, many applicants who are trying to make their way into the SM entertainment business.
*Jung Yunho, a famous solo SM artist/dancer, isn't having a blast at all. Being a fierce solo artist and a lonely outcast, he likes things done his way, but when he was told by his manager that he was no longer going to be a solo artist, his world came crashing down.
That is..till Jaejoong and Yunho meet, comes misunderstandings, complications, new friendships and an unspoken bond..and perhaps love?
A/N: Here's Chapter 6, enjoy! Chapter 7, here I go! Thanks again to my awesome readers! <3
*credit : phyunjae for the amazing poster of this fic! thanks! <3
[Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter3] [Chapter 4] [Chapter 5]
Chapter 6:
Great News!
Yunho woke up with a smile on his face as he looked at the clock, he woke up an hour early and was feeling great from last night’s sleep. The first thing he looked at was his phone and he got another text.
He pressed the button to reveal the new text, and it was from Jaejoong.
“Sweet dreams, Yunho. ^.^”
He could feel a smile beginning to form on his face and this strange warm feeling, and it was definetely a sign that it was going to be a great day today.
He placed his bambi on the coffee table and got up and stretched. He felt like today was going to be a great day, as he headed straight to him bathroom to freshen up. He switched the light on and went straight to the shower.
After 10 minutes of being in the shower, he finally came out, put on his jogging clothes, he’ll put his stuffy suit later. He went straight to his kitchen, grabbed a cereal box from one of the kitchen cabinets and grabbed a bowl, milk and made some cereal. This was his usual breakfast every day, he didn’t trust himself to cook, because almost everything he cooked would be on fire or just burned.
He began to munch down on his cereal and looked at the folder that his manager gave him. Besides judging-he was thankful that it was the last day---, his job after the auditions was to call the new trainees, each judge had a set of four new trainees and it was their job to see that they get the special training they need to strengthen their talent and even have the chance to one day debut and share with the world their talent.
He placed his phone beside him as he looked at his schedule, he had a hour to get to SM, go over whatever information his manager had for him, then five to seven hours of judging during the auditions, fifteen to twenty minute breaks in between and then afterward, comes home, peace and relaxation.
He continued crunching on his cereal and wondered who he was going to train, there over 5,000 people who were auditioning, and he wondered who the lucky four were going to be trained by him. He continued to munch on his cereal a bit more and wondered what surprise Lee Soo Man had for him, why he chose him out of every single artist in SM to train the newbies and why he wasn’t allowed to be a solo artist no longer.
He finished his cereal and grabbed himself a bottle of orange juice from the fridge and drank it. It was going to be another big day, and he had -according to his watch-15 minutes from now before he steps into SM entertainment and before the day is done, had to make some calls to the lucky new SM trainees.
Ring~*
Yunho put down his orange juice and placed it on the table. He pressed “Open” and to his surprise, it was Jaejoong again.
“Morning, Yunho-ah! ^O^”
Yunho’s face instantly broke into a smile, and thought that maybe today was going to be a great day, afterall.
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Jaejoong didn’t know how it happened exactly; he just turned his phone and began to text Yunho.
“Morning, Yunho-ah! ^O^” (JAEJOONG)
Maybe it was a little too early for Jaejoong to be texting him, but to his surprise, Yunho was wide awake like him as well.
“Morning, Jae. ^^” (YUNHO)
He smiled and began to text him back, with a wide smile on his face.
“Hmmm…if I’m Jae…can I call you, Yunnie? >.< (JAEJOONG)
He almost started laughing out loud, but held it in. He wondered how Yunho would take the joke, it was weird how they became text buddies after yesterday.
“Yunnie?....um..sure, I guess. ^^” (YUNHO)
Jaejoong laughed softly, covering his mouth so that he wouldn’t wake up the others. He thought Yunho would protest, but surely enough he agreed. He shook his head and began to text some more.
“Are you working right now? ^__^” (JAEJOONG)
Jaejoong wondered if he text him at the wrong time, since he was one of the judges for the auditions, he doubted that he’ll have time to even use the phone.
“Nope, I’m in the car, on the way to SM. ^^” (YUNHO)
Jaejoong smiled and wondered what else to ask him. Yunho was his idol, he had all these questions to ask him about his family, what he likes to do when he’s bored, he’d rather hear it from Yunho than the information he gathered about Yunho from the newspaper, magazines such and such. There was that one question that bothered him the most and what most fan girls were wondering about, especially with all those rumors about his relationship with other female celebrities.
He was thinking about it for a while and Yunho text him.
“Jae. Sorry, but I’m at SM now, got to work.” (YUNHO)
Jaejoong pouted in annoyance with himself for thinking about that question when he should’ve spend more time communicating with Yunho.
Ring~*
Jaejoong pouted and looked at his phone screen. Another new test message from Yunho.
“Will talk to you soon, Jae. ^^”
Jaejoong smiled like a kid who was just given candy and turned off his phone to save the battery. He got up slowly and stretched--and smelled smoke. He looked around and realized that his friends were gone. The smell of the smoke got stronger, Jaejoong rushed to the kitchen, taking a quick peek.
"YAH, HYUNG, your scrambled eggs are burning!” Changmin yelled at Junsu who was suppose to be watching the eggs on the stove, but was playing with his soccer ball instead. Junsu rushed to the stove and began flipping the almost black, but brown scrambled eggs.
“Err..Junsu, I think the colors of scrambled eggs are supposed to be yellow and white.” Yoochun said, trying to hold in his laughter in and shaking his head at Junsu’s frown.
Across from the stove, was the kitchen table, in which Changmin was making some cookies, by grabbing the cookie cutter and placing it on the flat dough that he made. He was wearing Jaejoong’s favorite apron, Changmin was in deep concentration with a trace of flour on his face, as he placed the cookie cutter hard on the dough, creating a star.
Junsu let Yoochun take over as he washed his hands to go help out Changmin. He placed his soccer ball on the chair and sat on it, as he looked at the cookie cutters, searching for something.
“Junsu-hyung, I already got the soccer ball cutter.” Changmin said, as he continued to press the cookie cutter deep in the dough while looking at Junsu’s confused expression as Junsu continued to search for a specific cookie cutter.
“It’s not that one, I’m trying to find ---Junsu smiled and held it up-dolphin cutter!” Junsu said, and erupted in another round of EU KYANG KYANG, as he pressed it on the other piece of dough that Changmin made and looked at the dolphin shaped cookie proudly.
Yoochun erupted with laughter as he looked at Junsu’s happy face, when he continued to make more dolphins appear on the dough, Changmin shook his head and smiled at his silly hyung.
Jaejoong was still peeking from the corner and wondering if he should come in and join them, or take more silly pictures of them on his phone. Afterall, this was one Kodak moment that he couldn’t miss.
Thank god for camera phones he thought to himself, as he positioned to take pictures of his friends. He got Yoochun first , who was tossing the scrambled eggs up and down like it was pancakes he was cooking and almost flung it to the ceiling. After that, he took pictures of Changmin who was smiling proudly at his finished dough cookies art of work and frowned a little when he noticed that half of the dough cookies on the tray were Junsu’s dolphin cookies. Jaejoong took at least 10 pictures ofYoochun and Changmin, and he went searching for Junsu. He pressed on the “zoom in” part of his phone to find Junsu, but he was no where around Yoochun or Changmin. Jaejoong scratched his head and zoomed in a little more, and then came face to face with large eyes.
“Long time no see, Jaejoong-hyung!” Junsu squealed out loud in front of Jaejoong and laughed with his EU KYANG KYANG, causing Jaejoong to almost drop his phone.
“Morning, everyone.” Jaejoong said, placing his arm around Junsu’s shoulder, while shoving his phone in his jean pocket. Yoochun and Changmin smiled at him, as they continued to finish their own cooking.
Junsu kept him company by talking about a soccer match in which he score the winning goal and passing marks on his exam (Changmin snorted and smirked at Junsu). Jaejoong smiled at him and laughed at Junsu’s funny expressions as he described the highlight of his soccer match.
“The calls are coming in today, hyungs.” Changmin said, interrupting Junsu’s soccer moment, as they all turned to look at Changmin with confused looks on each of their faces. Changmin realized he was in the center of attention and embarrassingly began to explain.
“SM spokepeople are going to call in the new trainees today, since it’s the last day of the auditions.” Changmin said, slowly as each of his hyung’s eyes widen.
“I almost forgot about that.” Yoochun said, placing the half brown and half yellowish scrambled eggs onto the plate and placed it on the table. Yoochun placed the kettle of water on the stove to boil some water for their coffee.
“Same here, I hope I make it.” Junsu said, getting the bowls from one of the kitchen cabinets and went to go scoop some rice for everyone.
Changmin grabbed the cookie trays and placed them in the oven , and set the timer to the right degrees and sat down next to Jaejoong, wiping his hands on the apron he was wearing.
“What about you, Jaejoong-hyung, what are you planning to do if you pass the auditions?” Changmin asked him, taking off Jaejoong's apron.
“I’m going to meet Jung Yunho, for sure.” Jaejoong said shyly as the whole room became quiet and the only noise that could be heard was the kettle on the stove and birds whistling outside. Then all three of the boys, but Jaejoong, started laughing.
“W-what’s so funny?” Jaejoong asked, turning red and getting embarrassed, as the boys continued to laugh at their older hyung.
Changmin placed his hand on Jaejoong’s hand, Junsu’s hand on other hand of Jaejoongs’ and Yoochun’s hands on Jaejoong’s shoulders as they looked at him.
“We know, Jaejoong-hyung, we know.” Changmin said, looking at Jaejoong then he looked at Junsu.
“We know that you’re an obsessed fan boy.” Junsu said, as Jaejoong was beginning to frown, but lost in defeat from Junsu’s angelic smile.
“We also know that it’s a dream come true.” Yoochun finished saying, as Jaejoong smiled widely at them and got up slowly, and playfully slugged them each on the arm.
Jaejoong turned to them and smiled at his dorky friends who were rubbing their arms from Jaejoong’s surprised attack and held out a bowl of rice to each of them.
“Can’t fulfill a big day without a terrific breakfast, right?” Jaejoong said, smiling at them, as Yoochun,
Changmin and Junsu placed their rice bowls on the table and looked at Jaejoong’s smiling face.
Without a word, Changmin, Yoochun and Junsu looked at each other and as Jaejoong stared at them curiously as they whispered in each other’s ears. They all nodded and with a smile in each of their faces, glomped their older hyung.
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For some reason, Yunho was happy. He was so happy that he almost hugged his manager when he saw him that morning. After his texts with Jaejoong, he was smiling almost the whole day that he took the time to wave at his fans who screamed like crazy when he turned to them when his name was being chanted.
Auditions were finally over, and this time it ended pretty early. He had an hour left before he’d go back to his apartment and make the calls to the new SM trainees. He smiled as he headed upstairs to the dance studio, hoping that the annoying girl from yesterday was not there. Luckily she wasn’t there, turns out that the girl band had a tour going on and Super Junior were holding concerts in Korea and in other countries like Thailand etc.
He should feel envious right now, but he just felt really happy. His hand was healing and the cuts were almost no longer noticeable as he put on a new bandage. He looked at his rolex watch, he had lots of time. He decided to leave the door open for once, besides the rest of the SM artists excluding him weren’t in the building anyways.
Instead of dancing, he decided to do something that he hasn’t done in a long time. The black polished YAMAHA piano that was always next to the stereo, he remembered practicing and playing on it when he was a SM trainee, he wondered if he still had the skills to play. If there was something that he was good in besides dancing, it was playing piano, for sure.
He positioned his hands on the piano keys and began to play. He still had his piano skill that’s for sure, he began to think about his trainee days. Those days were long and difficult; he remembered not getting enough sleep and barely having enough time to eat at all, practice, practice, it all paid off. Now it was his turn to teach the new trainees everything he knew about the entertainment industry, and hopefully they’ll catch on quickly like him.
On the ride home, he began to think about Jaejoong, or should he say Jae? Why did he suddenly agree so quickly when Jae asked him if he could call him “Yunnie”, it was the same childhood name that his friends used to call him before he became the “JUNG YUNHO”.
But his manager was right, she had an amazing singing voice, a voice that really stood out and was just really beautiful. He looked at his phone and stared at her contact number and wondered what her reaction would be like when he called her and told her that she was going to be the new trainee for SM and was going to be trained by him.
He had no idea that he was still smiling when his manager threw him a weird and suspicious look.
“Yunho.... you’re not on drugs or anything , are you?” His manager asked him, turning around to look at Yunho’s still smiling face.
“What? No, I’m not on drugs, hyung.” Yunho said to him, now frowning and putting his phone back into his pocket. What the hell gave his manager that idea? He was just happy. ^_^ see?
“You’ve been smiling the whole day without any complaints or with any frowning involved, it’s actually a miracle, really.” His manager said, turning back to look through his schedule and scribbling his signatures on the papers.
Yunho sighed and did his usual habit of throwing his arm over his eyes and wondered that maybe the reason he smiled so much was because of -----
“Yunho, sleep when you’re done calling the new trainees, right now I want you to look inside this folder that Lee Soo Man gave us all, except with different trainees that is.” His manager said, tossing the black folder with silver, bolded words on the front that read “S.M. ENTERTAINMENT” on Yunho’s lap.
“Is it going to be same stuff I learned when I was a trainee, hyung?” Yunho asked, looking through the papers and that had tons of writing, contact numbers and sections for each lesson to be taught. Maybe it was just a bit more than what he learned during his trainee days.
“Not this time around, Yunho, there’s going to be a lot more lessons and more practice combined than what you did during your trainee years. There’s a rumor going on from the agency that a couple of SM trainees will be debuted elsewhere than just Korea, similar to Super Juniors’ members in China and some here in Korea.” His manager said, rubbing the bridge of his nose as he concentrated on the mess of papers on his lap.
Yunho looked through the papers as he read the separate papers, so far he concluded that each of the trainees must have a talent in the criteria, singing, dancing, even a part for dealing with interviews and publicity etc. Yunho was already getting a headache by looking at all the words on each page, there had to be at least thirty pages of work that needed to be fulfilled.
“Hyung, how many days am I given to train the new trainees all these things?” Yunho said, closing the folder, thankful that he was finished with his trainee days.
“It’s usually six months or so, depending on the trainee leader of course, it’s up to you, Yunho, if the trainees need more time and experience to practice, but of course, Lee Soo Man has the last word for everything.” His manager said, signing one last paper before closing his folder and realized that he forgot to give Yunho something.
“Here, Yunho, I forgot, here’s the list and contact numbers of the trainees, contact them as soon as you step foot in your house and report back to them, so I can call them back for more information.” His manager said, giving him a list of the new trainees.
Yunho took them, as the car stopped, and this time, he went out on his own and bowed in thanks to the driver as his manager waved him off and Yunho walked into his apartment with another mission to fulfill.
He threw his keys on the dining table and grabbed the contact paper and looked through the list as he began to dial the
numbers of the new trainees, his new trainees, that is.
Of course, he knew who one of them was already.
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Jaejoong was left all alone in the house, as the rest of the gang went grocery shopping in attempt to try Jaejoong’s delicious cooking of kimchii and other surprises of well-cook meals that Jaejoong bragged about.
Jaejoong took a quick shower and wrapped his medium long hair in a towel as he changed into his newly freshed, cleaned clothes. He was wearing black jogging pants and white beater and of course his matching black jogging jacket. He let his hair down, and Yoochun was right. He should get it trimmed, he was starting to look like a girl, like one of his older sisters. He sighed as he dried his hair and concealed it in his black skull beanie, letting only a few strands come down, so he wouldn’t look like he was bald.
He went out the bathroom and threw his clothes in the laundry basket as he headed straight for the kitchen to grab the materials needed to start making some food. He had the knives that he borrowed from his sister’s restaurant, and some spices, spoons, a couple of bowls, cooking oil etc. He set the materials on the table to avoid making the place too crowded for him to cook. He almost forgot to put on his apron, there were still traces of dough on it since Changmin wore it to make cookies.
He laughed as he remembered the breakfast scene this morning, Changmin and Junsu were eating quickly and bickering at the same time over who cooks best. Yoochun was trying hard not to laugh or otherwise he would’ve choked on Junsu’s brown scrambled eggs and Jaejoong was just smiling at his dorky friends as he ate the well-baked cookies that Changmin made that morning.
He went into their room, and realized that the place was still messy. Junsu’s game controllers were tangled up on Yoochun’s bed, not to mention cookie crumbs on his bed and a small pile of Yoochun’s crumbled papers lying around everywhere. Jaejoong shook his head, as he picked up the mess that they left behind. after 15 minutes of cleaning, and spraying of the air freshner, they finally came home.
“Jaejoong-hyung, we’re back!” Junsu yelled as Jaejoong jogged into the kitchen, and saw Yoochun and Changmin with bags of grocery of each other their hands. They looked tired, but Junsu was looking happy and energetic.
Junsu went to the room to get his soccerball, as Yoochun and Changmin placed the grocery bags on the table and sat on the chair and slumped against it, sounding a bit out of breath.
“I…am..not challenging Junsu to race ever..”. Yoochun said, tiredly as Jaejoong gave him a cup of water and the same to Changmin.
“Thanks, Jaejoong Hyung…that is why, I suggested not bringing Junsu-hyung with us.” Changmin said, also in sweat as Junsu came jogging into the room kicking his soccer ball back and forth.
“I heard that.” Junsu said, smiling as he watched Jaejoong begun cutting up the vegetables they bought. It looked like Jaejoong didn’t need his help and he knew that if anything, anyone can cook better than him, so he gathered another plan.
“GAME TIME, who wants to challenge me?” Junsu said, running to the room with his soccer ball in his hands. Yoochun immediately got up to challenge Junsu, as Changmin followed behind with a smirk on his face, more like a -I’m-going-to-beat-Junsu-hyung-again look.
Jaejoong chuckled to himself when he heard them bickering at each other again and heard Junsu’s EU KYANG KYANG. Jaejoong began washing the rest of the vegetables, then his phone started vibrating.
“Wait, pause the game, I have a call.” Junsu said, as he reached for his phone, Changmin was going to continue kicking his hyung’s butt, when his phone started to ring too. Yoochun was going to grab Changmin’s game controller and finish the job himself, when his phone suddenly rang too. Maybe it was his little brother, Ricky.
“Hello?” They answered at the same time.
Then a familiar voice answered them.
“Hello Hero Jaejoong, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
“Hello, Xiah Junsu, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
“Hello, Max Changmin, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
“Hello, Micky Yoochun, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
Then Yunho hanged up. Jaejoong dropped the washed vegetables that he was holding on the kitchen floor, Junsu dropped his soccerball, Yoochun dropped the game controller and Changmin dropped his bag of cookies, all of them with the phone in their hands and still glued to their ear.
Jaejoong joined them in the room as they continued to stare at each other.
“Did you-“ [Jaejoong]
“SM right? Y-yeah, what about you, Yoochun?" [Junsu]
“Yeah…what bout you, Changmin?” [ Yoochun]
Changmin nodded looking like he was in a daze. Then Junsu interrupted the silence by squealing happily and hugged Yoochun who was the closest. Yoochun started crying and Changmin eagerly went to hug them, but not before dragging Jaejoong and then they enveloped in a big group hug. Junsu started crying too, as he blew his nose loudly in his shirt, and Changmin was in the verge of tears too, but one look at Yoochun’s face, Changmin gave in and started letting the tears flow down his own cheeks. Jaejoong wiped Changmin’s tears gently with his apron and the same with Yoochun’s face.
Jaejoong sighed happily, as the tears fell down his face, his dream to meet Yunho was finally going to be accomplished, as he tried to brush his friends’ tears away,he had difficulty doing it due to his own tears falling down his own cheeks.
This was it He and his friends made it, and he was finally going to see him again.
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Yunho sighed and hanged up his phone, and drinking water after the long repeated speech he gave to each of his trainees. He saved his trainees’ contact numbers on his address book, feeling a bit more happy, knowing that his address book in his phone no longer contained only his manager’s contact number and Lee Soo Man’s.
He smiled again and placed his phone in his jeans pocket and began to look through the folder containing all the lessons that his trainees were going to practice and study. It was going to be another big day tomorrow, and this time, he wanted to be prepared and ready, after all he was one of the new trainee leaders.
Out of 5,000 applicants for SM entertainment, these were around ten to fifteen people that were chosen to come into the entertainment company or as many SM artists know it by "SM Academy", besides what surprises Lee Soo Man had for him, he wondered what these new trainees had in store for him.
Of course, he had one final thing to do, he took out his phone and text one of his new trainees.
"Congrats, Jae. See you tomorrow. ^^"
Author: addicted_tvxq
Length: 6/?
Pairing: YUNJAE/JAEHO, bits of SuMinChun
Genre: Drama, Romance and Fluff etc
Rating: PG-13
Summary:
*Hero Jaejoong has always wanted to meet his idol, Jung Yunho. Ever since he saw Yunho dance on stage, his dream was to be able to meet him. So Jaejoong and his best buddy, Yoochun take a trip to Seoul, and try out for the SM auditions, in hopes to pass, and meet Jung Yunho. But it's not easy, considering that there are many, many applicants who are trying to make their way into the SM entertainment business.
*Jung Yunho, a famous solo SM artist/dancer, isn't having a blast at all. Being a fierce solo artist and a lonely outcast, he likes things done his way, but when he was told by his manager that he was no longer going to be a solo artist, his world came crashing down.
That is..till Jaejoong and Yunho meet, comes misunderstandings, complications, new friendships and an unspoken bond..and perhaps love?
A/N: Here's Chapter 6, enjoy! Chapter 7, here I go! Thanks again to my awesome readers! <3
*credit : phyunjae for the amazing poster of this fic! thanks! <3
[Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter3] [Chapter 4] [Chapter 5]
Chapter 6:
Great News!
Yunho woke up with a smile on his face as he looked at the clock, he woke up an hour early and was feeling great from last night’s sleep. The first thing he looked at was his phone and he got another text.
He pressed the button to reveal the new text, and it was from Jaejoong.
“Sweet dreams, Yunho. ^.^”
He could feel a smile beginning to form on his face and this strange warm feeling, and it was definetely a sign that it was going to be a great day today.
He placed his bambi on the coffee table and got up and stretched. He felt like today was going to be a great day, as he headed straight to him bathroom to freshen up. He switched the light on and went straight to the shower.
After 10 minutes of being in the shower, he finally came out, put on his jogging clothes, he’ll put his stuffy suit later. He went straight to his kitchen, grabbed a cereal box from one of the kitchen cabinets and grabbed a bowl, milk and made some cereal. This was his usual breakfast every day, he didn’t trust himself to cook, because almost everything he cooked would be on fire or just burned.
He began to munch down on his cereal and looked at the folder that his manager gave him. Besides judging-he was thankful that it was the last day---, his job after the auditions was to call the new trainees, each judge had a set of four new trainees and it was their job to see that they get the special training they need to strengthen their talent and even have the chance to one day debut and share with the world their talent.
He placed his phone beside him as he looked at his schedule, he had a hour to get to SM, go over whatever information his manager had for him, then five to seven hours of judging during the auditions, fifteen to twenty minute breaks in between and then afterward, comes home, peace and relaxation.
He continued crunching on his cereal and wondered who he was going to train, there over 5,000 people who were auditioning, and he wondered who the lucky four were going to be trained by him. He continued to munch on his cereal a bit more and wondered what surprise Lee Soo Man had for him, why he chose him out of every single artist in SM to train the newbies and why he wasn’t allowed to be a solo artist no longer.
He finished his cereal and grabbed himself a bottle of orange juice from the fridge and drank it. It was going to be another big day, and he had -according to his watch-15 minutes from now before he steps into SM entertainment and before the day is done, had to make some calls to the lucky new SM trainees.
Ring~*
Yunho put down his orange juice and placed it on the table. He pressed “Open” and to his surprise, it was Jaejoong again.
“Morning, Yunho-ah! ^O^”
Yunho’s face instantly broke into a smile, and thought that maybe today was going to be a great day, afterall.
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Jaejoong didn’t know how it happened exactly; he just turned his phone and began to text Yunho.
“Morning, Yunho-ah! ^O^” (JAEJOONG)
Maybe it was a little too early for Jaejoong to be texting him, but to his surprise, Yunho was wide awake like him as well.
“Morning, Jae. ^^” (YUNHO)
He smiled and began to text him back, with a wide smile on his face.
“Hmmm…if I’m Jae…can I call you, Yunnie? >.< (JAEJOONG)
He almost started laughing out loud, but held it in. He wondered how Yunho would take the joke, it was weird how they became text buddies after yesterday.
“Yunnie?....um..sure, I guess. ^^” (YUNHO)
Jaejoong laughed softly, covering his mouth so that he wouldn’t wake up the others. He thought Yunho would protest, but surely enough he agreed. He shook his head and began to text some more.
“Are you working right now? ^__^” (JAEJOONG)
Jaejoong wondered if he text him at the wrong time, since he was one of the judges for the auditions, he doubted that he’ll have time to even use the phone.
“Nope, I’m in the car, on the way to SM. ^^” (YUNHO)
Jaejoong smiled and wondered what else to ask him. Yunho was his idol, he had all these questions to ask him about his family, what he likes to do when he’s bored, he’d rather hear it from Yunho than the information he gathered about Yunho from the newspaper, magazines such and such. There was that one question that bothered him the most and what most fan girls were wondering about, especially with all those rumors about his relationship with other female celebrities.
He was thinking about it for a while and Yunho text him.
“Jae. Sorry, but I’m at SM now, got to work.” (YUNHO)
Jaejoong pouted in annoyance with himself for thinking about that question when he should’ve spend more time communicating with Yunho.
Ring~*
Jaejoong pouted and looked at his phone screen. Another new test message from Yunho.
“Will talk to you soon, Jae. ^^”
Jaejoong smiled like a kid who was just given candy and turned off his phone to save the battery. He got up slowly and stretched--and smelled smoke. He looked around and realized that his friends were gone. The smell of the smoke got stronger, Jaejoong rushed to the kitchen, taking a quick peek.
"YAH, HYUNG, your scrambled eggs are burning!” Changmin yelled at Junsu who was suppose to be watching the eggs on the stove, but was playing with his soccer ball instead. Junsu rushed to the stove and began flipping the almost black, but brown scrambled eggs.
“Err..Junsu, I think the colors of scrambled eggs are supposed to be yellow and white.” Yoochun said, trying to hold in his laughter in and shaking his head at Junsu’s frown.
Across from the stove, was the kitchen table, in which Changmin was making some cookies, by grabbing the cookie cutter and placing it on the flat dough that he made. He was wearing Jaejoong’s favorite apron, Changmin was in deep concentration with a trace of flour on his face, as he placed the cookie cutter hard on the dough, creating a star.
Junsu let Yoochun take over as he washed his hands to go help out Changmin. He placed his soccer ball on the chair and sat on it, as he looked at the cookie cutters, searching for something.
“Junsu-hyung, I already got the soccer ball cutter.” Changmin said, as he continued to press the cookie cutter deep in the dough while looking at Junsu’s confused expression as Junsu continued to search for a specific cookie cutter.
“It’s not that one, I’m trying to find ---Junsu smiled and held it up-dolphin cutter!” Junsu said, and erupted in another round of EU KYANG KYANG, as he pressed it on the other piece of dough that Changmin made and looked at the dolphin shaped cookie proudly.
Yoochun erupted with laughter as he looked at Junsu’s happy face, when he continued to make more dolphins appear on the dough, Changmin shook his head and smiled at his silly hyung.
Jaejoong was still peeking from the corner and wondering if he should come in and join them, or take more silly pictures of them on his phone. Afterall, this was one Kodak moment that he couldn’t miss.
Thank god for camera phones he thought to himself, as he positioned to take pictures of his friends. He got Yoochun first , who was tossing the scrambled eggs up and down like it was pancakes he was cooking and almost flung it to the ceiling. After that, he took pictures of Changmin who was smiling proudly at his finished dough cookies art of work and frowned a little when he noticed that half of the dough cookies on the tray were Junsu’s dolphin cookies. Jaejoong took at least 10 pictures ofYoochun and Changmin, and he went searching for Junsu. He pressed on the “zoom in” part of his phone to find Junsu, but he was no where around Yoochun or Changmin. Jaejoong scratched his head and zoomed in a little more, and then came face to face with large eyes.
“Long time no see, Jaejoong-hyung!” Junsu squealed out loud in front of Jaejoong and laughed with his EU KYANG KYANG, causing Jaejoong to almost drop his phone.
“Morning, everyone.” Jaejoong said, placing his arm around Junsu’s shoulder, while shoving his phone in his jean pocket. Yoochun and Changmin smiled at him, as they continued to finish their own cooking.
Junsu kept him company by talking about a soccer match in which he score the winning goal and passing marks on his exam (Changmin snorted and smirked at Junsu). Jaejoong smiled at him and laughed at Junsu’s funny expressions as he described the highlight of his soccer match.
“The calls are coming in today, hyungs.” Changmin said, interrupting Junsu’s soccer moment, as they all turned to look at Changmin with confused looks on each of their faces. Changmin realized he was in the center of attention and embarrassingly began to explain.
“SM spokepeople are going to call in the new trainees today, since it’s the last day of the auditions.” Changmin said, slowly as each of his hyung’s eyes widen.
“I almost forgot about that.” Yoochun said, placing the half brown and half yellowish scrambled eggs onto the plate and placed it on the table. Yoochun placed the kettle of water on the stove to boil some water for their coffee.
“Same here, I hope I make it.” Junsu said, getting the bowls from one of the kitchen cabinets and went to go scoop some rice for everyone.
Changmin grabbed the cookie trays and placed them in the oven , and set the timer to the right degrees and sat down next to Jaejoong, wiping his hands on the apron he was wearing.
“What about you, Jaejoong-hyung, what are you planning to do if you pass the auditions?” Changmin asked him, taking off Jaejoong's apron.
“I’m going to meet Jung Yunho, for sure.” Jaejoong said shyly as the whole room became quiet and the only noise that could be heard was the kettle on the stove and birds whistling outside. Then all three of the boys, but Jaejoong, started laughing.
“W-what’s so funny?” Jaejoong asked, turning red and getting embarrassed, as the boys continued to laugh at their older hyung.
Changmin placed his hand on Jaejoong’s hand, Junsu’s hand on other hand of Jaejoongs’ and Yoochun’s hands on Jaejoong’s shoulders as they looked at him.
“We know, Jaejoong-hyung, we know.” Changmin said, looking at Jaejoong then he looked at Junsu.
“We know that you’re an obsessed fan boy.” Junsu said, as Jaejoong was beginning to frown, but lost in defeat from Junsu’s angelic smile.
“We also know that it’s a dream come true.” Yoochun finished saying, as Jaejoong smiled widely at them and got up slowly, and playfully slugged them each on the arm.
Jaejoong turned to them and smiled at his dorky friends who were rubbing their arms from Jaejoong’s surprised attack and held out a bowl of rice to each of them.
“Can’t fulfill a big day without a terrific breakfast, right?” Jaejoong said, smiling at them, as Yoochun,
Changmin and Junsu placed their rice bowls on the table and looked at Jaejoong’s smiling face.
Without a word, Changmin, Yoochun and Junsu looked at each other and as Jaejoong stared at them curiously as they whispered in each other’s ears. They all nodded and with a smile in each of their faces, glomped their older hyung.
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For some reason, Yunho was happy. He was so happy that he almost hugged his manager when he saw him that morning. After his texts with Jaejoong, he was smiling almost the whole day that he took the time to wave at his fans who screamed like crazy when he turned to them when his name was being chanted.
Auditions were finally over, and this time it ended pretty early. He had an hour left before he’d go back to his apartment and make the calls to the new SM trainees. He smiled as he headed upstairs to the dance studio, hoping that the annoying girl from yesterday was not there. Luckily she wasn’t there, turns out that the girl band had a tour going on and Super Junior were holding concerts in Korea and in other countries like Thailand etc.
He should feel envious right now, but he just felt really happy. His hand was healing and the cuts were almost no longer noticeable as he put on a new bandage. He looked at his rolex watch, he had lots of time. He decided to leave the door open for once, besides the rest of the SM artists excluding him weren’t in the building anyways.
Instead of dancing, he decided to do something that he hasn’t done in a long time. The black polished YAMAHA piano that was always next to the stereo, he remembered practicing and playing on it when he was a SM trainee, he wondered if he still had the skills to play. If there was something that he was good in besides dancing, it was playing piano, for sure.
He positioned his hands on the piano keys and began to play. He still had his piano skill that’s for sure, he began to think about his trainee days. Those days were long and difficult; he remembered not getting enough sleep and barely having enough time to eat at all, practice, practice, it all paid off. Now it was his turn to teach the new trainees everything he knew about the entertainment industry, and hopefully they’ll catch on quickly like him.
On the ride home, he began to think about Jaejoong, or should he say Jae? Why did he suddenly agree so quickly when Jae asked him if he could call him “Yunnie”, it was the same childhood name that his friends used to call him before he became the “JUNG YUNHO”.
But his manager was right, she had an amazing singing voice, a voice that really stood out and was just really beautiful. He looked at his phone and stared at her contact number and wondered what her reaction would be like when he called her and told her that she was going to be the new trainee for SM and was going to be trained by him.
He had no idea that he was still smiling when his manager threw him a weird and suspicious look.
“Yunho.... you’re not on drugs or anything , are you?” His manager asked him, turning around to look at Yunho’s still smiling face.
“What? No, I’m not on drugs, hyung.” Yunho said to him, now frowning and putting his phone back into his pocket. What the hell gave his manager that idea? He was just happy. ^_^ see?
“You’ve been smiling the whole day without any complaints or with any frowning involved, it’s actually a miracle, really.” His manager said, turning back to look through his schedule and scribbling his signatures on the papers.
Yunho sighed and did his usual habit of throwing his arm over his eyes and wondered that maybe the reason he smiled so much was because of -----
“Yunho, sleep when you’re done calling the new trainees, right now I want you to look inside this folder that Lee Soo Man gave us all, except with different trainees that is.” His manager said, tossing the black folder with silver, bolded words on the front that read “S.M. ENTERTAINMENT” on Yunho’s lap.
“Is it going to be same stuff I learned when I was a trainee, hyung?” Yunho asked, looking through the papers and that had tons of writing, contact numbers and sections for each lesson to be taught. Maybe it was just a bit more than what he learned during his trainee days.
“Not this time around, Yunho, there’s going to be a lot more lessons and more practice combined than what you did during your trainee years. There’s a rumor going on from the agency that a couple of SM trainees will be debuted elsewhere than just Korea, similar to Super Juniors’ members in China and some here in Korea.” His manager said, rubbing the bridge of his nose as he concentrated on the mess of papers on his lap.
Yunho looked through the papers as he read the separate papers, so far he concluded that each of the trainees must have a talent in the criteria, singing, dancing, even a part for dealing with interviews and publicity etc. Yunho was already getting a headache by looking at all the words on each page, there had to be at least thirty pages of work that needed to be fulfilled.
“Hyung, how many days am I given to train the new trainees all these things?” Yunho said, closing the folder, thankful that he was finished with his trainee days.
“It’s usually six months or so, depending on the trainee leader of course, it’s up to you, Yunho, if the trainees need more time and experience to practice, but of course, Lee Soo Man has the last word for everything.” His manager said, signing one last paper before closing his folder and realized that he forgot to give Yunho something.
“Here, Yunho, I forgot, here’s the list and contact numbers of the trainees, contact them as soon as you step foot in your house and report back to them, so I can call them back for more information.” His manager said, giving him a list of the new trainees.
Yunho took them, as the car stopped, and this time, he went out on his own and bowed in thanks to the driver as his manager waved him off and Yunho walked into his apartment with another mission to fulfill.
He threw his keys on the dining table and grabbed the contact paper and looked through the list as he began to dial the
numbers of the new trainees, his new trainees, that is.
Of course, he knew who one of them was already.
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Jaejoong was left all alone in the house, as the rest of the gang went grocery shopping in attempt to try Jaejoong’s delicious cooking of kimchii and other surprises of well-cook meals that Jaejoong bragged about.
Jaejoong took a quick shower and wrapped his medium long hair in a towel as he changed into his newly freshed, cleaned clothes. He was wearing black jogging pants and white beater and of course his matching black jogging jacket. He let his hair down, and Yoochun was right. He should get it trimmed, he was starting to look like a girl, like one of his older sisters. He sighed as he dried his hair and concealed it in his black skull beanie, letting only a few strands come down, so he wouldn’t look like he was bald.
He went out the bathroom and threw his clothes in the laundry basket as he headed straight for the kitchen to grab the materials needed to start making some food. He had the knives that he borrowed from his sister’s restaurant, and some spices, spoons, a couple of bowls, cooking oil etc. He set the materials on the table to avoid making the place too crowded for him to cook. He almost forgot to put on his apron, there were still traces of dough on it since Changmin wore it to make cookies.
He laughed as he remembered the breakfast scene this morning, Changmin and Junsu were eating quickly and bickering at the same time over who cooks best. Yoochun was trying hard not to laugh or otherwise he would’ve choked on Junsu’s brown scrambled eggs and Jaejoong was just smiling at his dorky friends as he ate the well-baked cookies that Changmin made that morning.
He went into their room, and realized that the place was still messy. Junsu’s game controllers were tangled up on Yoochun’s bed, not to mention cookie crumbs on his bed and a small pile of Yoochun’s crumbled papers lying around everywhere. Jaejoong shook his head, as he picked up the mess that they left behind. after 15 minutes of cleaning, and spraying of the air freshner, they finally came home.
“Jaejoong-hyung, we’re back!” Junsu yelled as Jaejoong jogged into the kitchen, and saw Yoochun and Changmin with bags of grocery of each other their hands. They looked tired, but Junsu was looking happy and energetic.
Junsu went to the room to get his soccerball, as Yoochun and Changmin placed the grocery bags on the table and sat on the chair and slumped against it, sounding a bit out of breath.
“I…am..not challenging Junsu to race ever..”. Yoochun said, tiredly as Jaejoong gave him a cup of water and the same to Changmin.
“Thanks, Jaejoong Hyung…that is why, I suggested not bringing Junsu-hyung with us.” Changmin said, also in sweat as Junsu came jogging into the room kicking his soccer ball back and forth.
“I heard that.” Junsu said, smiling as he watched Jaejoong begun cutting up the vegetables they bought. It looked like Jaejoong didn’t need his help and he knew that if anything, anyone can cook better than him, so he gathered another plan.
“GAME TIME, who wants to challenge me?” Junsu said, running to the room with his soccer ball in his hands. Yoochun immediately got up to challenge Junsu, as Changmin followed behind with a smirk on his face, more like a -I’m-going-to-beat-Junsu-hyung-again look.
Jaejoong chuckled to himself when he heard them bickering at each other again and heard Junsu’s EU KYANG KYANG. Jaejoong began washing the rest of the vegetables, then his phone started vibrating.
“Wait, pause the game, I have a call.” Junsu said, as he reached for his phone, Changmin was going to continue kicking his hyung’s butt, when his phone started to ring too. Yoochun was going to grab Changmin’s game controller and finish the job himself, when his phone suddenly rang too. Maybe it was his little brother, Ricky.
“Hello?” They answered at the same time.
Then a familiar voice answered them.
“Hello Hero Jaejoong, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
“Hello, Xiah Junsu, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
“Hello, Max Changmin, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
“Hello, Micky Yoochun, I’m Jung Yunho, your new trainee leader, congratulations on passing the auditions for SM entertainment of 2010, please report to the SM entertainment at 7:00 am tomorrow sharp for a mandatory meeting. Please leave your phone lines open for another call from my manager regarding any important questions you need to ask and other information that I have not given you. Once again, congratulations, S.M. trainee and welcome to the SM family!”
Then Yunho hanged up. Jaejoong dropped the washed vegetables that he was holding on the kitchen floor, Junsu dropped his soccerball, Yoochun dropped the game controller and Changmin dropped his bag of cookies, all of them with the phone in their hands and still glued to their ear.
Jaejoong joined them in the room as they continued to stare at each other.
“Did you-“ [Jaejoong]
“SM right? Y-yeah, what about you, Yoochun?" [Junsu]
“Yeah…what bout you, Changmin?” [ Yoochun]
Changmin nodded looking like he was in a daze. Then Junsu interrupted the silence by squealing happily and hugged Yoochun who was the closest. Yoochun started crying and Changmin eagerly went to hug them, but not before dragging Jaejoong and then they enveloped in a big group hug. Junsu started crying too, as he blew his nose loudly in his shirt, and Changmin was in the verge of tears too, but one look at Yoochun’s face, Changmin gave in and started letting the tears flow down his own cheeks. Jaejoong wiped Changmin’s tears gently with his apron and the same with Yoochun’s face.
Jaejoong sighed happily, as the tears fell down his face, his dream to meet Yunho was finally going to be accomplished, as he tried to brush his friends’ tears away,he had difficulty doing it due to his own tears falling down his own cheeks.
This was it He and his friends made it, and he was finally going to see him again.
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Yunho sighed and hanged up his phone, and drinking water after the long repeated speech he gave to each of his trainees. He saved his trainees’ contact numbers on his address book, feeling a bit more happy, knowing that his address book in his phone no longer contained only his manager’s contact number and Lee Soo Man’s.
He smiled again and placed his phone in his jeans pocket and began to look through the folder containing all the lessons that his trainees were going to practice and study. It was going to be another big day tomorrow, and this time, he wanted to be prepared and ready, after all he was one of the new trainee leaders.
Out of 5,000 applicants for SM entertainment, these were around ten to fifteen people that were chosen to come into the entertainment company or as many SM artists know it by "SM Academy", besides what surprises Lee Soo Man had for him, he wondered what these new trainees had in store for him.
Of course, he had one final thing to do, he took out his phone and text one of his new trainees.
"Congrats, Jae. See you tomorrow. ^^"