Shifting Fortunes 13/19
Title: Shifting Fortunes 13/19
Rating: NC -17
Pairings: Yunho/Jaejoong, Yoochun/Junsu, Changmin/Fic OC, Past!Jaejoong/Heechul, Eunhyuk/Donghae, Kyuhyun/Sungmin, Yesung/Ryeowook, ninja!Leeteuk/Kangin
Disclaimer: If I owned them, I'd make them act this out.
Summary: Jaejoong was raised in riches. Yunho has struggled most of his life just to keep food in his stomach. Jaejoong leaves his family and ends up working beside Yunho at a farm in the mountains. In a world of uncertainties, what is Jaejoong willing to give up in order to have everything?
A/N: Anything in italics is the present day, and then the fic goes back in time.
Part 13: A Series of Letters
Poster credit goes to sahmin I love you, my Failverto! ♥♥♥
A Series of Letters
To my other half,
I know I told you I would wait few days before writing but I can’t help it. It hasn’t even been a whole day and I already miss you.
Junsu misses you. He was a mess all day today. More than me, and I feel guilty for that, but I have to stay strong for the guys. Su can’t stop crying, he misses his Hero. You should write a letter just for him; it’d make him very happy. Yoochun did take the afternoon off to watch over him, and at dinner he was a little less distraught than before.
It’s about 4am right now. I can’t sleep. God, I miss you. I miss your body, your skin and the way your leg slides over mine in your sleep. All I can do is stare at the ceiling slats and listen to the foghorn that is Kangin. Leeteuk has already threatened to drug me again.
I hope all is well for you. I can’t wait to hear about your first days as a trainee.
When I close my eyes, sometimes I feel your lips on mine. Sometimes I can pretend you’re still here.
Write soon.
I love you,
Yunnie
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My Yunnie,
I miss you so much! I’m too busy during the day to remember, but at night, in my room, I think about you. It’s hard for me to sleep, too. I’m always so cold without your body next to mine.
It’s 4am here too! Fitting, isn’t it? But I hope you’re sleeping now. And if you’re being stubborn, I hope Leeteuk did drug you. There’s so much to tell. I’m so tired so I hope I remember it all.
First let me tell you about my roommates. There’s Shindong, who I share a room with. He’s so much fun. He’s always making jokes and laughing and dancing. He’s a great dancer and rapper. He’s teaching me a lot and helping me practice. He says that he debuted in a rap group called Snow and Ice, but nothing came of it. Now he’s a DJ on a radio show, and a host for a children’s program. He’s constantly doing variety shows. He’s got great comic timing and his facial expressions are hilarious! I can’t wait for you to meet him.
The other two are Yesung and Ryeowook. Yep, you read that right. I am rooming with the duo Voices. They’re absolutely amazing. They’re much better looking in person than on TV, impossible, I know, but true. And they’re both so nice. Don’t worry about them trying to seduce me. They’re completely in love with each other. And to further calm your fears, Shindong is straight.
You’ll never guess who I met the other day! I was walking to the training room with Shindong, he was giving me a tour, and we ran into SS501! Hyunjoong is breathtaking in person, but completely different than his BOF character. He’s so funny and talkative and all the guys were laughing. And Kyujong, man, talk about a good looking guy! They told me to stay strong and keep working hard and man, Yunho, it was the coolest moment. I promise as soon as I can speak coherently around them, I’ll get you guys an autograph!
I’m so tired, but my brain won’t shut off. There’s so much to do all the time. I’m on a strict diet, work out regiment and training schedule. I get up at 5am, go to the gym for two hours, then it’s vocals, and then dancing, more vocals and then piano lessons. Yesung says it sounds like they’re training me to be a soloist, which is fine by me. I don’t care what they do with me!
Tell Yoochun that Ryeowook and Yesung absolutely adore Love Bye Love. Yesung says that if I fight for it, I can probably put it on my first album. My first album. How cool is it to say that?
I’m lucky if I’m in bed by 2am, but like I said before, I can’t really sleep without you. I should have written before this, but there’s so much going through my brain that I don’t know how to put it into words.
I love you. And GOD, how I miss you. I sometimes think I can feel you, you know how you used to always come up behind a chair I was sitting in and drop a kiss to my cheek. I’ll sit in our living room, watching TV and wait for a kiss that never comes.
Oh, and I have a personal meeting with Lee Sooman next week. Talk about nervous! I’ll make sure and write again and tell you how it goes.
Well, I better go. I have to be to the gym in about a half hour. Looks like I’m not getting any sleep tonight. Oh, well. It’s better to pass the time writing you a letter than staring at the ceiling remembering all your kisses and god, your body. I miss that body. I think I may have to take a shower before my workout and remember just how much I miss your body.
Oh, and tell Junsu that I love him and I miss him, too. I especially miss his laughter. I now don’t have time to write him a personal letter, but I will try for next time. Give him a kiss from his Hero.
Give my love to all the guys (try to give Kangin a kiss for me, I dare you!)
I love you!!!
Forever your Joongie
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To my Joongie,
I was very excited to get your letter. Now I know how Changmin felt when he waited for each one of Sahar’s letters. Junsu made me read it out loud four times. He is so jealous that you know the guys from Voices. Junsu said to tell you to get their autograph for them. I think I’ll tell him to write you a letter. He still misses his Hero, but he’s getting better. Sometimes we catch him staring at that picture of us from Changmin’s wedding. I look at it a lot too. It’s the only picture I have of you.
I wish I could say I was doing better. Leeteuk drugged me the other night. It’s early morning again. And I can’t go to the river. I won’t go. Not without you.
As to farm gossip, Hangeng swears he heard KangTeuk making out the other day in the bathroom of all places, but both parties are hotly denying it. Kangin even went so far as to get into Kyuhyun’s face about it; but Sungmin put a stop to that immediately. I don’t understand why he doesn’t go do martial arts competitions.
I don’t know what else to write about. You know how my days are. You’ve been here, nothing exciting happens.
Just know that I love you a lot. I miss you a lot. And the selfish part of me wishes I had made you stay. I’m so glad you’re enjoying yourself and you’re getting to meet all these famous people. Keep writing me, please. Promise me that you’ll try to get some sleep. I’ll try too, but I doubt it will work.
Jaejoong fighting!
I love you!
The other half of Yunjae
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To the best half of Yunjae
I meant to write you yesterday but Yesung and Ryeowook were celebrating the release of their newest single and I didn’t get home until three and then I just crashed. But I’m up again, writing. I just got home from my piano lesson and I’m trying to eat and write this at the same time. I need you here to feed me. Well, I guess if you were here, I wouldn’t be trying to write this letter. God, I wish you were here.
My meeting with Lee Sooman was nerve wracking. He wanted to know why I didn’t call him to get in and then asked about you and the farm and everything else. He talked about the plans for me, and he says that I am going to be a solo performer. He said it’s hard to put someone my age in with a group and have them mesh. It’s better if they grow up together. The coolest thing is he asked me if I wanted to go by my own name. I know we were both thinking about my father and the attention of the press. I told him that it was up to him, but that I-except for legal purposes-had no family name. So he told me to pick a name. You’ll never guess what I chose. I was sort of on the spot, so if I debut, I’m debuting under Hero.
HERO! Can you believe that? And no need to tell Junsu. If you didn’t already notice, I wrote him a short letter about it.
Actual KangTeuk action??? Are you kidding? I won’t believe that until I see it for myself!
It makes me sad that you don’t go to the river. I can understand why you don’t, but I feel like I ruined that place for you. I know, that’s silly, but it’s still true. Please go. For me.
I just sat here and stared at this paper for five minutes trying to think what else to write. Everything is so jumbled.
Damn it, Yunho. This hurts so much. I feel like, every night when I lay in bed alone, that my heart is ripped out of my chest, and it’s like I die, but then I wake up in the morning and do it all over again.
I love you so much.
Your Jaejoong Forever
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My Jaejoong
How are you today? I’m okay. I actually slept last night, you’ll be happy to hear. Only for a couple hours, but it was enough. I can’t trust any drink that I don’t pour myself. And I’ve started rinsing out cups before I use them. Leeteuk is a sneaky bastard. I know he means well, but I don’t plan on needing medicine to get to sleep every night. I’ll get used to you not being next to me. I hate that I will, but I know I will. It’s just going to take forever.
Hero? Man, that is so awesome! Junsu practically squealed in delight when he saw your note to him. Don’t be surprised if he writes you a book in reply.
I’m glad your meeting with Lee Sooman went well. Work hard. I can’t wait until you debut.
I can’t go to the river. Please understand. It’s not my place anymore. It’s our place. If you want me to go to the river, then come and visit and go with me.
Oh, I almost forgot. Last week, Kyumin broke up. They had this amazing fight. I mean, it was like climatic. I don’t even think they understood what they were fighting over or what they were even screaming at each other. Yes, I said screaming. Kyuhyun, Mr. Quiet, was screaming. Kyuhyun is sleeping with Kibum now, and Sungmin is sharing with Hangeng. It’s odd. They don’t talk to each other. Even Leeteuk can’t get them to explain what was going on. Well, we’ll see how it goes.
I have to go. I’m writing this really fast during breakfast so it can get out in today’s mail.
I love you!
Yunho
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My Yunho
Sorry I didn’t write last week. And I’m sorry about the bad handwriting. I’m in the car on the way to my workout. Everything just seems to be piling up on me. Not even three months away and it feels like this is the only existence I’ve ever known. Wake up, beat myself with work, collapse in exhaustion.
I’m not telling you this to worry you. It’s that good kind of exhaustion, like when I first started on the farm. Not quite as good as after-sex exhaustion. Man, I miss that feeling.
And I miss you.
Tell Junsu I’ll reply to his letter as soon as I can. And I’ll try to write you a longer one next time.
I love you!
Your Jae
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Hey Jae!
Finally a free day. As you probably know, we’re busy doing the first harvest. Jonghyun is working us extra hard. We’ve had a lot rain up here so the crops are flourishing.
I don’t know what Junsu has told you in his letters, I can’t believe he writes to you more than I do. Sorry.
A new guy moved in last week. I just let him have the bed. He tried to refuse and sleep on the floor, but of course, I wouldn’t let him. He’s pretty nice. He works hard. His name is Seungri. Young kid. He says he’s eighteen, but he looks more like a runaway.
Kyumin are back together. One day they were ignoring each other, the next they were trying to crawl into each others’ mouths.
And KangTeuk, well, we’re not quite sure what’s going on with them. They sit together a lot. Leeteuk will lay on the couch, then Kangin will walk into the room, and without saying anything, Leeteuk will either sit up and put his head in Kangin’s lap, or move his legs and then put them over Kangin’s lap. Kangin’s even started running his fingers through Leeteuk’s hair at times. They do it without really noticing. We all notice, but we don’t dare say anything to them. I think that if we point it out, Kangin will stop, and I can tell that Leeteuk likes the attention
Did Junsu tell you about Hero? He found a lizard a few days ago. He said that the thing tilted its head and stared right at him like you used to do, so he scooped it up and named it Hero. Yoochun is freaked out, but you know he’ll let Junsu do whatever he wants. Yet another roommate in the attic, although this one lives in a glass tank.
I miss your book length letters. The short ones are nice, but you should write more. Your life is way more exciting than mine.
Even though I’m used to you not being here, sometimes when a door opens or I go into a room, I still look for you.
Yunho
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My Yunho,
I’m so sorry about all the short letters. I just don’t have time and sometimes energy.
So, as you may or may not know, my past has been revealed to the press, which means that Eunhae, Heechul and Siwon are constants in my life again. Not that I have a whole lot of free time to spend with them. Sometimes I’m lucky enough to meet them for lunch, but they usually walk right into the building like they own it and come and watch me practice. Man, you should have seen Donghae when he cornered me about not telling him that I had been signed.
I’ve seen Changmin a few times, too. He and Sahar are still crazy in love.
Damn it. I really meant to write a long letter, but I fell asleep writing this, and now it’s time for brutal exercise.
I’ll try to write again soon.
Jae
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Dear Jae,
I haven’t heard from you for awhile. Neither has Junsu. We know you’re busy, honest, it’s just that … nevermind. I know you’ll write to us when you can. We miss you.
I hope everything is going well. You must be training hard. One more step closer to debuting. Any word on that yet?
Fall harvesting starts tomorrow, so I don’t know how much time I’ll have to write. Things around here are the same anyway. Maybe once the snow flies I’ll be able to come to Seoul and visit you. I miss you the most when I write these letters. And it frustrates me that I don’t have more to say. And it frustrates me that I don’t know what you’re doing or how you are, but I feel like I should.
Please write.
Yunho
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Dear Jae,
We just saw the announcement that SM had a new solo artist getting ready to debut. We’re all assuming that it’s you. We hope so. We’ll keep our eyes on the entertainment pages.
The harvest is done. Hangeng and Kyumin have left for the winter already. Kangin looks like he wants to, but Leeteuk isn’t so certain. Kangin won’t come right and say that he’ll stay if Leeteuk does, but that’s what he’s getting at. He’s usually gone the day after harvest.
Hero died. Junsu is quite distraught about it.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Yunho
Part 14: Yunho's Decision
Part 12: Yunho's Goodbye
Part 11: Jaejoong's Opportunity
Part 10: Yunho's Second Taste of Luxury
Part 9: Jaejoong's Invitation
Part 8: Yunho's First Taste of Luxury
Part 7: Jaejoong's Confession
Part 6: Yunho's Culture Shock
Part 5: Jaejoong's Past
Part 4: Yunho's Sanctuary
Part 3: Jaejoong's New Life
Part 2: Yunho's New Roommate
Part 1: Jaejoong's Predicament
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Rating: NC -17
Pairings: Yunho/Jaejoong, Yoochun/Junsu, Changmin/Fic OC, Past!Jaejoong/Heechul, Eunhyuk/Donghae, Kyuhyun/Sungmin, Yesung/Ryeowook, ninja!Leeteuk/Kangin
Disclaimer: If I owned them, I'd make them act this out.
Summary: Jaejoong was raised in riches. Yunho has struggled most of his life just to keep food in his stomach. Jaejoong leaves his family and ends up working beside Yunho at a farm in the mountains. In a world of uncertainties, what is Jaejoong willing to give up in order to have everything?
A/N: Anything in italics is the present day, and then the fic goes back in time.
Part 13: A Series of Letters
Poster credit goes to sahmin I love you, my Failverto! ♥♥♥
A Series of Letters
To my other half,
I know I told you I would wait few days before writing but I can’t help it. It hasn’t even been a whole day and I already miss you.
Junsu misses you. He was a mess all day today. More than me, and I feel guilty for that, but I have to stay strong for the guys. Su can’t stop crying, he misses his Hero. You should write a letter just for him; it’d make him very happy. Yoochun did take the afternoon off to watch over him, and at dinner he was a little less distraught than before.
It’s about 4am right now. I can’t sleep. God, I miss you. I miss your body, your skin and the way your leg slides over mine in your sleep. All I can do is stare at the ceiling slats and listen to the foghorn that is Kangin. Leeteuk has already threatened to drug me again.
I hope all is well for you. I can’t wait to hear about your first days as a trainee.
When I close my eyes, sometimes I feel your lips on mine. Sometimes I can pretend you’re still here.
Write soon.
I love you,
Yunnie
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My Yunnie,
I miss you so much! I’m too busy during the day to remember, but at night, in my room, I think about you. It’s hard for me to sleep, too. I’m always so cold without your body next to mine.
It’s 4am here too! Fitting, isn’t it? But I hope you’re sleeping now. And if you’re being stubborn, I hope Leeteuk did drug you. There’s so much to tell. I’m so tired so I hope I remember it all.
First let me tell you about my roommates. There’s Shindong, who I share a room with. He’s so much fun. He’s always making jokes and laughing and dancing. He’s a great dancer and rapper. He’s teaching me a lot and helping me practice. He says that he debuted in a rap group called Snow and Ice, but nothing came of it. Now he’s a DJ on a radio show, and a host for a children’s program. He’s constantly doing variety shows. He’s got great comic timing and his facial expressions are hilarious! I can’t wait for you to meet him.
The other two are Yesung and Ryeowook. Yep, you read that right. I am rooming with the duo Voices. They’re absolutely amazing. They’re much better looking in person than on TV, impossible, I know, but true. And they’re both so nice. Don’t worry about them trying to seduce me. They’re completely in love with each other. And to further calm your fears, Shindong is straight.
You’ll never guess who I met the other day! I was walking to the training room with Shindong, he was giving me a tour, and we ran into SS501! Hyunjoong is breathtaking in person, but completely different than his BOF character. He’s so funny and talkative and all the guys were laughing. And Kyujong, man, talk about a good looking guy! They told me to stay strong and keep working hard and man, Yunho, it was the coolest moment. I promise as soon as I can speak coherently around them, I’ll get you guys an autograph!
I’m so tired, but my brain won’t shut off. There’s so much to do all the time. I’m on a strict diet, work out regiment and training schedule. I get up at 5am, go to the gym for two hours, then it’s vocals, and then dancing, more vocals and then piano lessons. Yesung says it sounds like they’re training me to be a soloist, which is fine by me. I don’t care what they do with me!
Tell Yoochun that Ryeowook and Yesung absolutely adore Love Bye Love. Yesung says that if I fight for it, I can probably put it on my first album. My first album. How cool is it to say that?
I’m lucky if I’m in bed by 2am, but like I said before, I can’t really sleep without you. I should have written before this, but there’s so much going through my brain that I don’t know how to put it into words.
I love you. And GOD, how I miss you. I sometimes think I can feel you, you know how you used to always come up behind a chair I was sitting in and drop a kiss to my cheek. I’ll sit in our living room, watching TV and wait for a kiss that never comes.
Oh, and I have a personal meeting with Lee Sooman next week. Talk about nervous! I’ll make sure and write again and tell you how it goes.
Well, I better go. I have to be to the gym in about a half hour. Looks like I’m not getting any sleep tonight. Oh, well. It’s better to pass the time writing you a letter than staring at the ceiling remembering all your kisses and god, your body. I miss that body. I think I may have to take a shower before my workout and remember just how much I miss your body.
Oh, and tell Junsu that I love him and I miss him, too. I especially miss his laughter. I now don’t have time to write him a personal letter, but I will try for next time. Give him a kiss from his Hero.
Give my love to all the guys (try to give Kangin a kiss for me, I dare you!)
I love you!!!
Forever your Joongie
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To my Joongie,
I was very excited to get your letter. Now I know how Changmin felt when he waited for each one of Sahar’s letters. Junsu made me read it out loud four times. He is so jealous that you know the guys from Voices. Junsu said to tell you to get their autograph for them. I think I’ll tell him to write you a letter. He still misses his Hero, but he’s getting better. Sometimes we catch him staring at that picture of us from Changmin’s wedding. I look at it a lot too. It’s the only picture I have of you.
I wish I could say I was doing better. Leeteuk drugged me the other night. It’s early morning again. And I can’t go to the river. I won’t go. Not without you.
As to farm gossip, Hangeng swears he heard KangTeuk making out the other day in the bathroom of all places, but both parties are hotly denying it. Kangin even went so far as to get into Kyuhyun’s face about it; but Sungmin put a stop to that immediately. I don’t understand why he doesn’t go do martial arts competitions.
I don’t know what else to write about. You know how my days are. You’ve been here, nothing exciting happens.
Just know that I love you a lot. I miss you a lot. And the selfish part of me wishes I had made you stay. I’m so glad you’re enjoying yourself and you’re getting to meet all these famous people. Keep writing me, please. Promise me that you’ll try to get some sleep. I’ll try too, but I doubt it will work.
Jaejoong fighting!
I love you!
The other half of Yunjae
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To the best half of Yunjae
I meant to write you yesterday but Yesung and Ryeowook were celebrating the release of their newest single and I didn’t get home until three and then I just crashed. But I’m up again, writing. I just got home from my piano lesson and I’m trying to eat and write this at the same time. I need you here to feed me. Well, I guess if you were here, I wouldn’t be trying to write this letter. God, I wish you were here.
My meeting with Lee Sooman was nerve wracking. He wanted to know why I didn’t call him to get in and then asked about you and the farm and everything else. He talked about the plans for me, and he says that I am going to be a solo performer. He said it’s hard to put someone my age in with a group and have them mesh. It’s better if they grow up together. The coolest thing is he asked me if I wanted to go by my own name. I know we were both thinking about my father and the attention of the press. I told him that it was up to him, but that I-except for legal purposes-had no family name. So he told me to pick a name. You’ll never guess what I chose. I was sort of on the spot, so if I debut, I’m debuting under Hero.
HERO! Can you believe that? And no need to tell Junsu. If you didn’t already notice, I wrote him a short letter about it.
Actual KangTeuk action??? Are you kidding? I won’t believe that until I see it for myself!
It makes me sad that you don’t go to the river. I can understand why you don’t, but I feel like I ruined that place for you. I know, that’s silly, but it’s still true. Please go. For me.
I just sat here and stared at this paper for five minutes trying to think what else to write. Everything is so jumbled.
Damn it, Yunho. This hurts so much. I feel like, every night when I lay in bed alone, that my heart is ripped out of my chest, and it’s like I die, but then I wake up in the morning and do it all over again.
I love you so much.
Your Jaejoong Forever
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My Jaejoong
How are you today? I’m okay. I actually slept last night, you’ll be happy to hear. Only for a couple hours, but it was enough. I can’t trust any drink that I don’t pour myself. And I’ve started rinsing out cups before I use them. Leeteuk is a sneaky bastard. I know he means well, but I don’t plan on needing medicine to get to sleep every night. I’ll get used to you not being next to me. I hate that I will, but I know I will. It’s just going to take forever.
Hero? Man, that is so awesome! Junsu practically squealed in delight when he saw your note to him. Don’t be surprised if he writes you a book in reply.
I’m glad your meeting with Lee Sooman went well. Work hard. I can’t wait until you debut.
I can’t go to the river. Please understand. It’s not my place anymore. It’s our place. If you want me to go to the river, then come and visit and go with me.
Oh, I almost forgot. Last week, Kyumin broke up. They had this amazing fight. I mean, it was like climatic. I don’t even think they understood what they were fighting over or what they were even screaming at each other. Yes, I said screaming. Kyuhyun, Mr. Quiet, was screaming. Kyuhyun is sleeping with Kibum now, and Sungmin is sharing with Hangeng. It’s odd. They don’t talk to each other. Even Leeteuk can’t get them to explain what was going on. Well, we’ll see how it goes.
I have to go. I’m writing this really fast during breakfast so it can get out in today’s mail.
I love you!
Yunho
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My Yunho
Sorry I didn’t write last week. And I’m sorry about the bad handwriting. I’m in the car on the way to my workout. Everything just seems to be piling up on me. Not even three months away and it feels like this is the only existence I’ve ever known. Wake up, beat myself with work, collapse in exhaustion.
I’m not telling you this to worry you. It’s that good kind of exhaustion, like when I first started on the farm. Not quite as good as after-sex exhaustion. Man, I miss that feeling.
And I miss you.
Tell Junsu I’ll reply to his letter as soon as I can. And I’ll try to write you a longer one next time.
I love you!
Your Jae
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Hey Jae!
Finally a free day. As you probably know, we’re busy doing the first harvest. Jonghyun is working us extra hard. We’ve had a lot rain up here so the crops are flourishing.
I don’t know what Junsu has told you in his letters, I can’t believe he writes to you more than I do. Sorry.
A new guy moved in last week. I just let him have the bed. He tried to refuse and sleep on the floor, but of course, I wouldn’t let him. He’s pretty nice. He works hard. His name is Seungri. Young kid. He says he’s eighteen, but he looks more like a runaway.
Kyumin are back together. One day they were ignoring each other, the next they were trying to crawl into each others’ mouths.
And KangTeuk, well, we’re not quite sure what’s going on with them. They sit together a lot. Leeteuk will lay on the couch, then Kangin will walk into the room, and without saying anything, Leeteuk will either sit up and put his head in Kangin’s lap, or move his legs and then put them over Kangin’s lap. Kangin’s even started running his fingers through Leeteuk’s hair at times. They do it without really noticing. We all notice, but we don’t dare say anything to them. I think that if we point it out, Kangin will stop, and I can tell that Leeteuk likes the attention
Did Junsu tell you about Hero? He found a lizard a few days ago. He said that the thing tilted its head and stared right at him like you used to do, so he scooped it up and named it Hero. Yoochun is freaked out, but you know he’ll let Junsu do whatever he wants. Yet another roommate in the attic, although this one lives in a glass tank.
I miss your book length letters. The short ones are nice, but you should write more. Your life is way more exciting than mine.
Even though I’m used to you not being here, sometimes when a door opens or I go into a room, I still look for you.
Yunho
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My Yunho,
I’m so sorry about all the short letters. I just don’t have time and sometimes energy.
So, as you may or may not know, my past has been revealed to the press, which means that Eunhae, Heechul and Siwon are constants in my life again. Not that I have a whole lot of free time to spend with them. Sometimes I’m lucky enough to meet them for lunch, but they usually walk right into the building like they own it and come and watch me practice. Man, you should have seen Donghae when he cornered me about not telling him that I had been signed.
I’ve seen Changmin a few times, too. He and Sahar are still crazy in love.
Damn it. I really meant to write a long letter, but I fell asleep writing this, and now it’s time for brutal exercise.
I’ll try to write again soon.
Jae
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Dear Jae,
I haven’t heard from you for awhile. Neither has Junsu. We know you’re busy, honest, it’s just that … nevermind. I know you’ll write to us when you can. We miss you.
I hope everything is going well. You must be training hard. One more step closer to debuting. Any word on that yet?
Fall harvesting starts tomorrow, so I don’t know how much time I’ll have to write. Things around here are the same anyway. Maybe once the snow flies I’ll be able to come to Seoul and visit you. I miss you the most when I write these letters. And it frustrates me that I don’t have more to say. And it frustrates me that I don’t know what you’re doing or how you are, but I feel like I should.
Please write.
Yunho
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Dear Jae,
We just saw the announcement that SM had a new solo artist getting ready to debut. We’re all assuming that it’s you. We hope so. We’ll keep our eyes on the entertainment pages.
The harvest is done. Hangeng and Kyumin have left for the winter already. Kangin looks like he wants to, but Leeteuk isn’t so certain. Kangin won’t come right and say that he’ll stay if Leeteuk does, but that’s what he’s getting at. He’s usually gone the day after harvest.
Hero died. Junsu is quite distraught about it.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Yunho
Part 14: Yunho's Decision
Part 12: Yunho's Goodbye
Part 11: Jaejoong's Opportunity
Part 10: Yunho's Second Taste of Luxury
Part 9: Jaejoong's Invitation
Part 8: Yunho's First Taste of Luxury
Part 7: Jaejoong's Confession
Part 6: Yunho's Culture Shock
Part 5: Jaejoong's Past
Part 4: Yunho's Sanctuary
Part 3: Jaejoong's New Life
Part 2: Yunho's New Roommate
Part 1: Jaejoong's Predicament
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