그대 한걸음만 다가와요. [1/?]
I-I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS IS. ;;
(Oh, wait. I know what this is: this is me trying to write again after weeks of struggling to even put a sentence down on paper/Word document. Ummm. Yes.)
Actually, this is...kind of something I've been planning for months. 4 months, give or take, actually.
Ever since I got into SHINee...I've wanted to write this flashfic...drabble...ficset...thingy.
Yeahhhh.
Oh, and fyi, the title of this fic (series...thingy x_x) comes from the song Lucky from the Boys Over Flowers drama...
I really love that song...and it really fit with what I 'm hoping to convey with this fic, so ♥
Title: 그대 한걸음만 다가와요. [Come one step closer to me]
Rating: PG...for now? (Idek where this will go, actually, so...)
Fandom: SHINee, with some SM Family appearances throughout.
Pairings: 2Min, JongKey, and lots of OT5 friendship. (I'm...not sure about anything else, but THIS WILL DEFINITELY BE 2MIN, SO...YEAH. \o/)
Summary: For as long as Minho could recall, he and Taemin had always been together.
I. 그대가 꿈처럼 다가오네요. [You come to me as if in a dream.]
When Minho first met the other members of what would later become SHINee, he found himself more than overwhelmed.
Jonghyun and Kibum were the first to approach him (naturally, he would think years later, because they were always together, practically attached at the hip), all too-friendly eyes and probing questions and anticipated answers. They only mention their names when prompted, and -- when Minho at last cracked a smile over one of Jonghyun's ridiculous expressions -- they start to laugh with such reckless abandon, it made Minho think that maybe he didn't just pass the auditions just to be another pretty face for the company to call their own.
It made Minho think that maybe -- just maybe -- he might be able to make friends (real friends) with the other trainees and not feel like he was the odd one out.
A few days and a host of after-practice and after-school meetings and lunch dates, Jonghyun and Kibum introduced him to Jinki.
He met Jinki while the older boy was trying to get his drink out from the vending machine on the third floor (the only one that never worked properly, Minho knew, in all the time he had been at SM), while mumbling to himself about the state of the economy -- and, frustrated, kicked the vending machine until it tilted and nearly toppled over on top of him. Minho caught it just in time, of course, and Jinki still swears that Minho saved his life.
Minho only laughed when the incident gets mentioned, trying to remember how many times Jinki bowed in thanks that day.
Nearly a month later, Kibum introduced Minho to Lee Taemin -- and that was when things began to change the most for Minho.
Unlike Jonghyun (or Kibum, for that matter), Taemin never asked unnecessary things or spoke out of turn. Like Jinki, Taemin had his moments of clumsiness and awkwardness, but even those moments paled in comparison to the moments where he was more mature than most boys his age. But it was Taemin's aura -- warm and inviting and almost too pure, to the point where he seemed like he made the world just a little bit brighter just by smiling -- that made Minho completely and utterly spellbound by the younger boy.
Taemin was two years his junior, but about a year his senior at the company.
It showed, too. It showed, from the way that Taemin knew how to treat people (juniors, seniors; he captivated them all with an effortless charm). It showed, from the way Taemin knew all the secret nooks and crannies of the company where they could talk in a quiet place
But it always showed, especially, when he danced.
And Taemin danced, alright. He danced in the way that made everyone look on in envy, in admiration, and almost always in amazement. Granted, for Minho, it was equal parts admiration and in amazement; but he would be lying if he said he never envied the way Taemin danced, as if it was all so easy; as if his body moved of its own accord to the music and not at all by the aftereffects of mental and physical effort and long hours of practice spent figuring out the most basic of moves.
Weeks would pass, and -- after they had become such good friends that even Jonghyun and Kibum would take notice of it -- Minho would call their first meeting something like fate.
(But it would take a year before Minho realized it was more like love at first sight.)
[to be continued.]
continue to part II?