Kim Key Kibum, the first student of his class, known as the super diva of school, was never seen around the library. It’s not that he doesn’t like to read, in fact he quite enjoys to, it’s just that…the library was not his style.
And now, as incredible as it seems, he is sitting there, in that creepy place with those unfashioned blue chairs and green tables and oh my god! The librarian had been giving him that smirk for about 20 minutes now; still he is been waiting patiently (not really) to his chemistry project partner, that new transferred student, Lee stupid Jinki.
That Lee Jinki had just arrived like 4 weeks ago and he’s already extremely popular. Almost half of the girls from all the school are drooling over him; and that sick, idiotic nickname girls gave him Onew, because he is so “adorably cute and soft and his cheeks look like cotton candy and you just want to go and bite them” according to them. But for Key, this Jinki guy was nothing more than a stupid and arrogant jerk who just acts cute to gain attention!
So yes, he was unluckily paired up with the cocky new student because he was late for his chemistry class and that, I must say, was Kim Jonghyun faults, entirely.
*----Flashback----
“Fuck Jonghyun! Why the hell did you decided that it was a good idea to dye your hair during a 10 minutes break! Couldn’t you wait till lunch??”
“Well, excuse me, Key, but me dying my hair as soon as possible was a matter of do or die, blonde hair is already out and, besides, this brunette colour looks amazingly good on me! I couldn’t make the girls wait to see this god”
“Aish! Shut The Fuck Up and keep running or we’ll be extremely late for our chemistry class ag- “
“Again?” said their scary chemistry teacher as soon as they reached the class room. “Aish, Kim kids, is it possible that you, on purpose, decided to always be late for my class? I can expect this from Jonghyun, but you Kibum?” said this, a little smirk could be seen on Key’s lips while a pout appeared on Jonghyun’s ones. “Well, go to your seats, I’ll forgive you this time, but this is the last time. Oh! And by the way, Jonghyun, that hair colour suits you pretty nice”
A huge smirk appeared on Jonghyun face as he thanked the teacher and walked towards his place. Maybe, just maybe the teacher wasn’t as evil and scary as they thought; in fact she seemed quite…nice…
“So, I was telling the rest of the class, you are going to do a project about the atoms in pairs, everyone has already chosen their group, but since you’ve arrived late I’ll choose for you.” … or maybe Kibum was right and that woman was the daughter of devil. “Hmm, let me see….ah! The new student still needs some help and since Kibum is the first place, I’m sure he can help him properly. Then, Kibum you’ll be with Jinki.” Nope, he was wrong, that teacher was the devil himself, and you could totally notice that by the glim on her eyes and the smirked that appeared on her face. Kim Kibum was definitely doomed.
“B-But teacher, and what about the person he was pairing up with?” Kibum said trying to find an excuse for not being with that new student he kind of loathed.
“Oh, Taemin? Don’t worry, he’ll be with Jonghyun. And Kibum, if you have any complaints, better come early next time” said the teacher with a sweet smile that didn’t matched the creepy tone she used.
“O-oh…” that was the only thing left for Kibum to say, as he watched Jonghyun walking, as happy as a kid with a new toy, towards his new pair.
“Jonghyunnie, what did you do to your hair?”
“I dyed it just for you, baby, like it?” said Jonghyun before leaning in to kiss the cute boy that was now his partner. Key just couldn’t believe how much luck his best friend had with him.
“So…I guess we’re partners” And how unlucky he actually was, especially when Jinki plopped himself right beside him and rested his arm on his shoulder.
----Flashback----*
Key’s blood still boils every time he remembers that day. He was about to shave all of his so called best friend new hair for being the principal culprit for this disgrace to happen, though, he decided not to because then his best friend wouldn’t look good and that, considering that they were almost all the time together, would make him look bad too, which was prohibited for Key.
So, Key and Onew decided that it was better for them to meet at the library because Jinki’s house was still made a mess with the moving and all and because Key simply didn’t want Onew to step near his house, who know, he could perhaps break it all down with that clumsiness of him.
They’ve already have this little “meetings” at the library like 3-4 times in which they actually didn’t do anything more than quarrel, and Jinki had been late in ALL of them .Kibum had been waiting for 20 minutes, and he swore that if that boy doesn’t appear through that door in the next 5 seconds he was going to tear him into little pieces and leave him to do all the work alone, or whatever happens first. Luckily, for Jinki, he made it before Kibum could count to 3. Jinki walked slowly, with a smile on his face, towards the table in front of the one where Kibum was sitting. He then sat down facing Kibum, that stupid smirk still on his face. If it wasn’t because they were in the library, Kibum would have jumped on him and kill him for being so late right there and then.
Kibum kept fighting that murderous feeling inside him while he waited for Jinki to do something, when suddenly he saw how the other boy was writing something on a little post-it, before he made a ball with it and threw it towards his direction.
Key, not understanding what was exactly happening, unfolded the little paper ball with a suspicious face. “Hey beauty, mind telling me your name?” was written on the post-it and Kibum just couldn’t believe it. Lee Jinki was so daring to arrive late and even start a little sick game. He already knew his name; in fact, he kept calling him Kibummie when Key already told him that he was not permitted to call him that. Still, without knowing the reason why, Kibum grabbed his pencil and scribbled something on the paper, before he threw it back, following Jinki’s game.
“Nope. You’re late” looking at this Jinki smirked and wrote something quickly before throwing it again.
“Oh babe, you’re mad? Don’t be, you look too hot be mad, can’t you tell me your name?
“No, now tell me why you were late, and quit the “babe” thing!”
“Okay, so babe no, then you don’t mind me calling you beauty?”
“Fuck, no, quit it too I’m a man, men are not beautiful, now why were you late?”
“Oh, you were worried for me? Why? Are you checking if I wasn’t with anyone else?”
“What?”
“Dun worry babe, you don’t have to be jealous, you’re the only one for me”
“What the fuck is wrong with you??”
They spent almost all of the afternoon throwing little paper balls at each other until Key got tired of Jinki´s game, dragged him out of the library, gave him a whole lecture of how annoying his behavior was and told him that if they didn’t finished at least half of the work that day, then Jinki would be saying bye bye to his precious hair and eyebrows; afraid of losing the only facial hair he actually had, both of them reentered the library and started working properly, as it should have been from the beginning.
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The next day, after a pretty stressful afternoon working together, Kibum was having lunch with his friends at their usual spot, under the big oak tree at the campus.
“I’m telling you guys, this new kid is driving me crazy!” said Kibum munching angrily the peanut butter sandwich his mother prepared for him.
“Hmm…I don’t know Kibum umma, I’ve chat with him a couple of times and he actually looks pretty nice and funny”
“Gaaah! I can’t believe it! Taeminnie! That evil and cocky new kid has brought my own son against me!” said Kibum exaggerating things being the drama queen king he was.
“Aish, stop over-reacting, Key. You are going to kill my Taeminnie. The guy seems a bit cool. I think it’d be nice to hang out with him.” said Jonghyun hugging Taeminnie in a very possessive way.
“You shut up! I’m still mad at you; my disgrace is your entire fault!” and no response was heard, the two teenagers beside him were too busy cuddling to keep attention to their friend “And get your filthy hands off of my son!” said Kibum now trying to release Taemin from Jonghyun’s grab
“Yah! Umma! He is my boyfriend! It’s normal for us to cuddle!” said Taemin practically gluing himself to Jonghyun body “Minho-hyung! Make him stoop!”
“Kibum! Don’t you think you’re directing your anger towards the wrong person?” said Minho staring at Kibum. Kibum looked at him; he was still not letting Taemin go. Minho gave him that ‘you know I’m right’ look and with that, Kibum left the loving couple and puffing his cheeks he turned his back to them.
“I hate it when you give me that look” the boy said with a pout on his face. The taller boy leaned over him and hugged him by the back. “Haha, but you know it is necessary in order to tame the diva inside you.”
“The diva inside me doesn’t need someone to tame it” said Kibum while getting used to the intimate hug he was having with one of his best friends.
“Oh, but Kibummie-“
“EHEM!” the four friends looked up, to see who was the owner of that loud ‘ehem’ just now, and were quite surprise to see that boy that had mentioned in their conversation just some moments ago standing there, with a smile, that look quite forced in Kibum’s opinion, plastered on his face.
“Jinki” said Minho releasing Kibum from his hug.
“H-“
“What are you doing here? Are you stalking me?” said Kibum cutting Jinki on his speech.
“It’s funny how you think everything is about you. And no, baby, I’m not stalking you. I came here ‘cause Minho and the others happen to also be my friends, so I wanted to chat with them”
“The fact that they talked with you a couple of times doesn’t mean you’re friends with them, right guys?” said Kibum crossing his arms as he saw how Jinki sat between him and Minho.
“Hmm…actually…. don’t be mad Kibummie…. but we kind of like the fellow, he’s funny, seriously, like the other time we were entering the home economics class when suddenly he stumbled upon NOTHING and fell down making this extremely weird sound! It was hilarious! No wonder they call him Onew! Anything breaks him down!” said Jonghyun, with a little tear on his eyes, remembering that moment.
“Heey! Jjong-ah! I expected you to help me up but you just keep on rolling on the floor laughing! It hurt quite a lot!” whined Jinki in a playful tone to Jonghyun
“You said it didn’t hurt”
“Well…yeah…i lied” said Jinki before smiling to them and making everyone laugh with that dorky face he had.
“I-I can’t believe this! You’re supposed to be MY friends!”
“Sorry Key, but we also like Jinki”
“But, Jonghyunnie, you are my best friend”
“Sorry…” He didn’t look as sorry as he was supposed to in Key’s opinion. Feeling betrayed he left the people that were supposed to be their best to go to his favorite place in school, and perhaps of the whole town, a small fount hidden at the back of the school yard. He loved that place it has that magic that you can’t describe but you simply now is there and fills your heart with it. There he didn’t have to be the perfect student, there he didn’t have to be Key, there he didn’t had to worry about how he was going to do his hair tomorrow he just needed to worry about him and let himself be who he really is, Kibum. He went there every time he was worried about something, every time he wanted to be alone
He was in the middle of his usual relaxation when suddenly, from some of the bushes, which worked as a wall to hide the precious fountain, Jinki appeared stumbling awkwardly from between them.
“Wha- How did you got here?”
“Well, after you left I felt kind of sorry for …stealing your friends…so I started following you to apologized, but I must say Kibummie, you’re some sneaky little cat” said Jinki trying to get his foot out of a plant that kept him trapped, which didn’t worked at all, because he fell down face first.
Seeing this Kibum couldn’t help but to laugh out loud looking how ridiculous the boy in front of him looked while he struggled with a plant.
“Ha,ha , I-I’m sorry, it’s just that-“ as hard as Kibum tried he just couldn’t stop laughing, this was by far one of the funniest things he has seen in his entire life.
“Ah ha ha, Kibummie, you know, It’s amazing how you found this pretty funny, but could you please help me with this evil plant?” said Jinki losing his patience since he just couldn’t release his foot.
“Oh-ha ha-I’m really-ha ha- really sorry” Kibum approached Jinki and slowly started undoing the knot that the plants did around the other boy’s feet.
“Jeez, Onew, you really are as clumsy as people say” said Kibum finishing with the knot and peacefully sitting besides the now released boy.
“Well, you aren’t as diva-ish as they say”
“Wh-what are you talking about Onew?”
“You know, when ‘Key’ takes over your body and makes you act all mean towards everyone, especially this new fella that has recently come to school”
“’Key’ does not take over my body and I don’t treat you bad! At least not you especially! Don’t think too much of you!” Key said puffing his cheeks and crossing his arms in front of his chest.
“See! That’s Key talking right now”
“What!? It is not! And stop saying such weir things” said Key with a pout on his face.
“Aww! But don’t worry!” said Jinki while pinching Kibum’s cheeks “In times like this, when you let pretty Kibum out, I like you better and I’m sure most people do to.”
“Yah! Stop talking nonsense! And I already told you to quit it with the “pretty” thing! Men like me are not pretty, we are handsome.” Kibum said with a small, almost not there, rosy tone on his cheeks while trying to stand up before Jinki grabbed his hand and forced him back to the floor.
“Are we okay now?” said Jinki with his face pretty near Kibum’s
“We were never bad.” said Kibum in a dead tone and backing away a little
“Yeah, so all that rude talking was nothing. But no, I mean seriously, I don’t want to interfere between you and your friends”
“Don’t worry about that. That’s just the way I am. Minho often tells about how I should control this ‘diva-ish’ side of me, but-“
“Don’t let him.”
“What?”
“Don’t let him. Don’t let him be the one to control Key. I want to be that person. Don’t let anyone but me to control it.” After saying this, Jinki stood up living Kibum dumbfounded.
“J-Jinki?
“AAH!” said Jinki stretching his arms. “Well, Kibummie, we have to go back to OUR friends or they’ll come to get us and I don’t think you want your little hide out to be found by everyone.” Before Kibum could say anything, Jinki took him by the hand and dragged him out of his, now ‘their’ I think, secret place and leading them back to the oak tree.
“H-Hey! Stop holding my hand!” Kibum released his hand from Jinki’s grip and walked back by himself.
“And we’re back with Key” murmured Jinki
“Jinki, you’re not coming?”
“Ah, oh sure”
“But Onew, be careful, there are several ‘evil’ plants around here that can make you stumble upon them” said Key making some gestures with his hands before continuing on his walk.
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a/n: i don't really now why, but LJ is being annoying again, so this will have 2 parts!
Part 2