LOVE
Author: chunlovesu/babychunsu
Length: oneshot
Pairing : yoosu(유수) (mention of; Yunjae, Eunhae, Seungri, Changmin)
Genre: romance
Rating: pg 13
Disclaimer: yoosu and other characters belong to their respective companies. I do not own any of them in any way.
Summary: Junsu’s short journey to find the meaning behind the saccharine word that he never experience in his life.
“Does ‘love’ really exist? How does it feel? Tell me.”
What is love? Is this feeling really exist or Shakespeare just invented that word just like other romantic words that he created? The nineteen years old, Kim Junsu wondered.
It is funny that a young man likes him still battering about love’s definition when all his acquaintances have already been through the order due to their raging hormones.
Out of curiosity, he seeks for his twenty-seven years old hyung about the quandary. He was after all married to a young thriving entrepreneur that he claimed as ‘the love of his life’
The answer he received was not as clichéd as he thought he would receive. In any case, he deliberately thought he would receive the legendary reply as of the hero in soaps always say when the heroin demand for their worship apparent.
“Love is difficult to define. Love is much more than a risk, but it is a risk that one can take and grasp and fall into a dark abyss or dig oneself a hole and only crawl back when you overcome your emotions.”
It’s uncanny, twisted and deviant yet it leaves big impact on him upon hearing his only brother’s conclusion.
Love is hard to define? That is so true. In fact, ‘hard to define’ did not do it justice. Even until now, he still cannot identify the real denotation of that word.
However, the characterization really suits his brother. The answer itself mirrors his brother. Bold but bleak when it comes to love. Working as a civil servant and married to a prominent young entrepreneur, he’s always being critic by the envious eyes. Falling for the almighty Jung Yunho is a risk. A risk that his hyung seized three years ago and it ends adequately with his brother being the mogul’s other half.
When he asked his competent brother-in-law about the identical article, it wasn’t for his own record but solely out of curiosity. He wonders if he will receive the same interesting answer like his hyung’s.
His one-year period brother-in-law just smiled at him and then looked at his wife who is cooking in the kitchen and answer, “Love lie in one's heart, where memories are but shadows lingering in your soul. Love is giving someone the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to,” and then he smiled at Junsu, excused himself and went to the modern-styled-kitchen to help his spouse who is cooking for their dinner.
He had to smile at Yunho hyung’s respond. He obviously could see the love Yunho has towards his hyung. It was saccharine and poise that it makes his heart swelled with jealousy.
Why is it hard for him to cooperate with love? Deep in his heart, he really hope that someday he’ll understand what love means so that he will trail a good ending like his brother.
It seems like love itself deserting from him. Maybe he is the wrongdoer who is absconding from that simple word. Perhaps, love may have knocked his heart but he is too naive to acknowledge it. Perhaps.
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A couple days later, when he was hanging out with his best friend; Eunhyuk at the bowling arena, he asked him the same question. Eunhyuk was shocked at first but he answered his inquiry nevertheless. With an amused smile plastered on his chiseled face, he replied Junsu’s question, hoping to ease his quest.
“Love is characterized by the desire to want good things for that person no matter what. And you're willing to work out your problems together,” he stood up, “And you can hardly breathe when you're around them. Even though you may see them all the time or hardly ever,” wearing the brightest smile that can make the sun envious of its intensity, Eunhyuk patted his shoulder and continued, “…it's as if you get that rush of what you felt when you got your first kiss.” And after that, he left the perplexed Junsu and went to a fine-looking man with raven-haired that was standing behind a counter near the foyer.
Junsu can’t help but to smile enviously at his besotted friend. He might not found the real description of that wicked word but at least he knew what it means to his close friend. He can only beseech that the raven-haired guy is the one for his hopeless pal. He was after all madly in love with that Donghae guy.
Sighing, Junsu excused himself from the amorous couple and walked aimlessly around the Lotte Mall that locates the bowling arena he was once occupied minutes ago.
Tiredness immersed in his soul after an hour of wandering. With a groan, he went to the nearest dine and sat on the cozy French style chair. Scanning around the place with familiarity, he smiled when he spotted his favorite dongsaeng sitting not far from his table.
He walked to Shim Changmin with a preposterous smile. That weird fellow never fails to make him laugh. Shaking his head contemptuously, he sat in front of the maknae and crossed his arms. “If I were your parents, I won’t allow you to be in our own restaurant. I definitely don’t want to be penniless because of my own son eating ritual.”
The imp snorted at his remark and continues to devour his pasta without sparing another glace at his senior.
“Does ‘love’ really exist? How does it feel? ¹말해봐. 말해봐요 [Tell me. Tell me].” He boomed at Changmin with the question when the fellow shoved almost everything on the huge plate into his wide-opened mouth.
Changmin stared at his hyung for a split second before swallowing the food in his mouth. Being the cleverest kid in their school, Changmin answers his inquiry with ease. However, he toned down all the detail because he knew that his senior is not as smart as him and too much information will only make him even more puzzle.
“Love exhilarates and motivates us,” he looked at his hyung to make sure that he was still there, “It is also critical to the continuation of our species. Without the attachment of romantic love, we would live in an entirely different society that more closely resembled some of those social circles in the animal world. The chemicals that race around in our
brain when we're in love serve several purposes, and the primary goal is the continuation of our species. Those chemicals are what make us want to form
families and have children. Once we have children, those chemicals change to encourage us to stay together to raise those children. So in a sense, love really is a chemical addiction that occurs to keep us reproducing,” he ended his speech with a smile.
However, his smile turned into a smirk when he looked at his gawking senior. Yup. Definitely not that bright.
“I-I don’t understand. Don’t use that alien conundrum with me!” Junsu tried to defend his dumbness although he knew that Changmin has already realized his act judging by how his smirk kept on growing on his handsome facade.
“Love happens unexpectedly. Like yours. You didn’t even know you are in love. That’s why love is special. You’ll never know when you’ll stumble upon it,” Changmin tried again using unsophisticated words hoping that Junsu will catch his hints. His dumbness and denseness bother him so much.
“Me? Love? When?” he squeaked at Changmin. Changmin just smiled and continued stuffing the pasta into his already jam-packed mouth.
Pouting, he looked around the eatery when he heard familiar voices. Not far away from him were Yoochun and his cousin Seungri. Smiling upon registering his best friend figure, he scuttled to their table and sat next to Yoochun, startling the boys.
“I’m pleased I met you two here. I want to know what love is?” he asked without waiting for them to say anything. Both boys looked at him strangely; Yoochun crooked his eyebrow while Seungri laughed mockingly at his immature and weird question.
“Hyung are you in your right mind?” Seungri asked the naive Junsu with sarcastic tone. He might be three years younger than Junsu and Yoochun but he can be wayward sometimes.
Junsu just smiled and nodded at him enthusiastically, wanting to hear the respond from Seungri already.
“Well hyung, you're too young to know and learn about love. Why don’t you just go and read some books? Perhaps that might help to kick some intelligence in your brain?" Seungri mocked him.
Pouting his plump lip, Junsu looked at Yoochun, hoping to hear some reply that can leads him to an ending for his quest. Yoochun however just looked at him and smiled.
“What does love means? Love can be very subjective. It depends on the person Suie” Yoochun spoke almost fluently that even he was amazed by his ability to summarize the mysterious word.
Junsu smiled. He smiled because he acknowledged Yoochun’s answer and he too thinks that his answer is the most accurate one. Love is subjective indeed. Shrugging cutely, he smiled at Yoochun warmly before he shoved the menu into his face jokingly, only to be laughing at Yoochun’s silly faces afterward.
Yoochun follow suit and smiled at Junsu cuteness. Out of the tail of his eye, he glanced at Changmin who was smirking at him whilst still stuffing his face with foods.
“Love happens when you least expected it to happen”.
Undeniably.
¹말해봐. 말해봐요 - tell me.
a말[mal] means talk/speak[it also means horse]
a하/해[ha/hae] means to do
a봐[bwa] depend on the sentence. Can also be ‘see’
a요[yo] is a polite form. Basically, it is meaningless. However, it shows respect and politeness.
aThis oneshot is suppose to be post months ago but somehow I don’t finish it and I just leave it in my desktop due to uni and now I’m havin my sem break so yay I can finish this story and post it but I don’t think I might post another story during my holidays because it’s just for a freakin week :(
aAll the answers Junsu received were not mine. I googled it LMAO. I just copy and paste without changing any words.
aun beta and I didn’t even proofread it yet =__=