[PG13] I'm Gonna Make a Way
I’m Gonna Make a Way
By DAN (angeldan27, azuresiren, frozen_flame)
~*~
“Yah! Yunho-ah! Stand still will you?!” Yoochun exclaimed.
“Wah! Yoochun-ah… I’m so excited! It’s only a month until my wedding day!” I replied.
“Yah! I know! That’s why we’re hurrying with all the preparations… you know, you’re the sole reason why Min and I are all stressed out lately!”
“Aish! Can’t you people just be happy for me?!” I sneered.
“Yah! Who said, we aren’t happy?!” Changmin, the youngest of our bunch, butted in. “We’re actually very glad that you’re getting married…look at all the effort that we’ve put into this?! Besides… we all know how much you two love each other…” he explained.
The song ‘I Never Let Go’ suddenly rang in our ears. Someone was calling me on my cellphone.
“Hello?!” I answered it. “Oh… BooJae! Where are you? Mmm… you want me to go there? Yup, okay. I’ll be there in about twenty minutes. Bye…” I hung up and looked at the guys and smiled.
“Yeah, we heard… come on, let’s take that tux off you so you can go meet PRINCE CHARMING!” they said in unison.
“Thanks, guys!”
~***~
“BooJae!” I called him when I arrived at the café. “What are we supposed to talk about tonight?” I asked.
“Uhmmm… Yunnie… I have to Jeju Island… tomorrow,” My Jaejoong said, hesitating a bit.
“Huh?! Why? For how long?!” I asked quickly.
“Appa told me to go there… I’ll be gone for a month…”
“A month?! A whole month?! But Boo, our wedding is in a MONTH!” I exclaimed.
“I know… but I’ll be here on our wedding day. I’ll be here the even day before our wedding,” he replied.
“But…”
“Yunnie-yah… our wedding day is important… I won’t forget… I’m excited about it too you know… I just… I really have to go on this trip. But I’m sorry that I have to leave you like this,” he explained.
“Boo… can’t I talk to aboji?! Maybe I can persuade him to let you stay,” I asked, nearly begging.
“Yunnie… I’m sorry… but just stay here and get ready… I’ll go to Jeju Island… I’ll meet with one of our sponsors there… he said that he might not be able to attend the wedding ceremonies so he will just meet us, and since I’m going there for business, I asked him to meet with me at least… even without you, yet,” Jaejoong explained.
“Aish! Fine! You say there’s nothing I can do about it… then you should go. Just be careful ok?”
“I know, Omma…” he teased and smiled in a naughty way.
~***~
“Be careful, Boo… and eat healthy food… and”
“Yunnie-yah! You’re worse than my eomoni, you know that?!”
“Fine, I’ll ! Just… come back on time… I’m really gonna miss you!” I replied.
“And I’m gonna miss you terribly…” he replied as he took me into his arms and held me tightly. “I love you.”
I looked at him, “I love you, too.” And I leaned down for a kiss. We shared a long passionate and hungry kiss, in hope that it could last us a month… knowing deep inside, that no matter how long the kiss we share would never be able to lessen the longing he and I would feel.
“I’ll call you every two days alright… and I’ll just send you text messages… Bye, Yunnie!” he bade and kissed me on the cheek. I craned my neck as I followed him with my gaze. And just after a few minutes, he wasn’t visible to me anymore.
One day past… then the second. I longed for his call so badly that I found myself checking my cellphone every minute of that day.
I Never Let Go went off… finally! “Hello!” I answered it quickly. “Boo! How are you?”
“I’m fine… but I miss you…”
“Yeah, I do too… so badly…” I replied. I was nearly crying.
“So how’s everybody? The guys? Eomoni and aboji? How are you?” he asked.
“Were all fine… everyone’s getting more and more busy each day.”
“Hmmm… how about the preparations? It’s not too hard, is it?!”
“It is, but we can handle it… it’s nothing to worry about… Boo…”
“Mmm…?”
“I miss you so much! Please comeback soon…” I begged.
“You know I can’t do that… but I’m doing my best to get my work here done as early as possible… ok?”
“Yes… please be done with it soon. I’m miserable without you…”
“Me too. I love you, baby…”
“Hmmm… I love you, too. So much!”
“Aren’t you sleepy?” He asked suddenly.
“Yeah kind of… but I’ve waited for your call the whole day… I won’t hang up now…” I replied.
“Me neither… actually, I was thinking more on the lines of… me singing to you before you sleep…”
“You would?”
“Hmmm…” and he did… he’s got the most wonderful voice, my Kim Jaejoong, and he never seems to get tired of singing to me.
I think I fell asleep that night, before Jaejoong even finished his song… and I regretted missing his FINALE. Besides, I’m gonna have to wait his next call again.
That thing went on for two weeks. Seven times… I waited for his call again. But he didn’t call the next night, or the night after that. I was so worried. I cried just thinking about it.
Then, one night, I received an SMS. It was from him… but was only a quote.
From: BooJae
Message:
‘…Thank you…
For coming into my life
For making me better
For being my friend
For accepting me
And most of all…
For being MY Yunnie…’
But he didn’t call. And on the next night that he was supposed to call, just another SMS.
‘The word “miss” is also a part
Of the word “love” so when I say
“I miss you”
It also means that “I LOVE YOU”
I love you, Yunnie…’
My cellphone started off and I quickly grabbed it from my pocket.
“Yeoboseo… Boo?!”
“Yunnie baby… I’ll be coming home in two days…”
“Really? What airline? And flight number?” I asked excitedly.
“No, I won’t be on a commercial flight. You remember that sponsor I told you about?”
“Yeah… what about him?”
“Well, he’s giving me a flight home on his private jet. It’s an early wedding present for us,” he explained.
“Really?! That’s so generous of him, Boo…”
“Yeah… he’s really kind… now… I’m going to let you rest… see you in two days, my Yunnie. I love you.”
~***~
At the airport. I was so ecstatic for his return, so I went to the airport to fetch him…
One airplane…
No Kim Jaejoong…
Two airplanes…
No Kim Jaejoong… yet…
Three planes…
And still no sign of him… How I wish that he would arrive soon! Just then, a private landed on the tarmac, and familiar people started pour out of it. They unloaded a really big box, I think that’s the gift that he talked about. But still no sign of my Kim Jaejoong.
His eomoni spotted me in the crowd and waved for me to come closer to them…she looked… a lot older than I could remember… as if this past month had given her more than headaches… even tears…
“Yunho-ah,” she called.
“Eomoni…how are you?” I asked, “and where’s Jaejoong?”
She just looked at me as tears flooded from her eyes… then she looked at the big box I saw earlier. “Is-is… is that…?” I stuttered as I pointed at it. She nodded… “Oh my God… BooJae…” I was on my knees. Crying. I couldn’t believe what was happening, yet I couldn’t stand up.
“Come on, Yunho hyung,” it was Junsu, Jaejoong’s dongsaeng, he helped me up and half-carried me to the car.
“W-what happened…?” I asked.
“Hyung,” he said with tears in his eyes, “hyung had cancer, Yunho hyung.”
“C-cancer?! But I didn’t know… I never knew about it…”
“He didn’t want you to know… we thought that he could recover from it. His doctors in the US were confident that they could at lengthen his life for at least another year… but they were badly mistaken. And now, hyung is gone…”
“Since when?”
“Since Sunday last week,” he replied.
“Sunday?! But… that can’t be!” I exclaimed.
“Huh?! Why did you say that?!” he looked really confused, honestly… I was too.
“I-he just called two days ago… he called to let me know that he’s finally coming home… plus he sent me quotes… so you see?! He couldn’t have died before that! Hmmm… maybe it’s…”
“Hyung… you said he called you?!”
“Yes, he did! Here’s the record on my cellphone!”
“But hyung… that really is impossible…” he said and examined it.
“Did anyone else use his phone when he… went…”
“No! No one! I turned it off when he died hyung…that was his dying wish… he was scared that you’d call, and he won’t be there to answer it anymore… I turned his cellphone off…it’s been off since the day hyung died… that was exactly…
“…one week ago…”