Of Lollipops and Sticky Notes (Project O.M.O.N.A.) (for nosehun)

May 18, 2014 11:43

For: nosehun
From: suhomygahd

Title: Of Lollipops and Sticky Notes (Project O.M.O.N.A.)
Rating: G
Length: 2340
Summary: If there is anything in this world that Junmi finds most precious, it’s Jongdae's smile.
Warnings: Fem!Suho, failed attempts at humor and fluff. General lameness.

Notes: This has strayed too far away from the original prompt. God. Please forgive me. TT~TT



If there is anything in this world that Junmi finds most precious, it's Jongdae's smile.

There is something calming, soothing and comforting in the way Jongdae's mouth lifts into a curve, the edges going an extra notch higher, his sharp cheekbones becoming more pronounced, and eyes turning into cute little crescents, that Junmi can't help but imagine glittering lights and blooming flowers appear out of nowhere around Jongdae, just to emphasize the perfection that is Jongdae's smile.

And when Jongdae laughs, it's enough to make Junmi believe that the world could still be a better place.

Long story short, Jondgae's smile has become Junmi's paradise.

Such is the reason why Junmi is at a loss whenever times come that Jongdae's signature Cheshire smile is gone and replaced by a sad frown, much like what is the case today.

Classes were over and Junmi, Minseol and Tao were hanging out at the bubble tea shop where their friend Yiying worked. Why their Chinese transfer-student friend would choose to work part-time despite being considerably well-off is beyond them. (“So I could practice my Korean!”)

"Aaaah what do we do? Have you seen his face today? It's enough to send the entire women of Korea crying! Junmi unnie what do we dooo?" Tao sobs, looking at Junmi who could only force a smile at her dongsaeng. She was stumped herself. What could a mere senior like her do? Junmi isn't even sure if Jongdae knows an inkling of her presence. Probably not.

"Drama queen," Minseol says with a roll of her eyes. Tao proceeds to punch her arm.

"Oh would you cut it out?" Minseol pushes Thao's face away. "And what do you mean, 'the entire women of Korea crying'? Do you see me crying?"

"Ugh you cold-hearted person!" Tao pouts, giving Minseol's arm one last punch. "And that's because you're not really a girl. You have a thing for my roommate Lu--mmpfh!"

Tao didn't get a chance to finish as Minseol put a hand over her mouth, other arm putting her in a headlock. "Take that back right now!" Minyoung growls to a squirming Tao, who looks a little blue and seems to be mumbling something that sounds like 'Can't breathe!', which was probably the case.

"Minseol, let Thao go," Junmi says in the most authoritative voice she can muster. Which is tough, considering she's trying hard not to crack up at her friends' banter.

Minseol grumbles but nonetheless complies, leaving Tao gasping (albeit a little too dramatically, Junmi thinks) for air. "You beast! You're lucky I don't have my wushu stick with me or else..."

"So!" Junmi decides to change topics before a full out brawl would occur. "Why do you think Jongdae's so down? Oh my, did he fail a test or something?? I sure hope not!" Junmi worries her lip.

"I heard from my lab partner that Jongdae's parents are having a...stony?...relationship," says Yiying who pops out out of nowhere, carrying their orders.

"Huh? Oh, you mean rocky?" asks a confused Minseol. Yiying blinks. "They're different?"

"Anyway, so they're fighting?" Junmi asks as she reaches for her drink, distressed.

Yiying nods while she takes a seat beside Junmi. It's one of those slow hours and only a couple other customers were in the shop, so Yiying can afford to step outside the counter and chat. "Apparently she caught him cheating with another woman." A collective gasp comes from the other three girls.

"That must suck," says Minseol.

"Poor Jongdae oppa! He must be completely devastated!" Tao looks like she's about to cry, eyes already starting to tear up.

"Yeah," Junmi mumbles, swirling her strawberry bubble tea absentmindedly as her mind wanders off to earlier in the day back at school, where she saw Jongdae trudge desolately a few paces behind his friends as they walked past her classroom, his usual shine gone. No wonder he and his usually rowdy group were silent. Junmi's heart gave an involuntary clench.

Fast forward to the present. "What's devas--?" Yiying starts, but is interrupted by Tao slamming her hands on the table. "That's it! We're gonna start Operation: Make Oppa Smile Again!"

The girls gape at her. Tao rarely gets this worked up. And when she does, the outcome usually isn't good. "Operation what?" asks Minseol, who's the first to recover.

Tao gives her a withering look and repeats her words slowly, like she's talking to a pre-schooler. "Operation: Make Oppa Smile Again. We're going to name it, O.M.O.N.A." She gives a satisfied smile, proud of herself for her cleverness.

"But doesn't 'smile' start with an--" Tao shuts Yiying up with another slam of her hands on the table. The handful of customers in the shop was starting to eye their table weirdly. Thank goodness it was a slow day; it’s embarrassing enough as it is. Junmi resists the urge to sink into her chair and hide under the table.

"We are going to do everything within our power to bring oppa's smile back again." Tao continues with much fervor, a determined look on her face.

"And how are you going to achieve that exactly?" asks Minseol.

Tao gives her a confident smile. "First off, we'll stick a lollipop with an inspiring quote written on a sticky note on his locker every day until he smiles again."

A short silence envelops the table before Minseol breaks it and cackles. Yiying is sipping Junmi's milk tea as pretense to hide her smile. Tao shoots an angry glare at the two of them. "What? It's super effective! That was how Pilsuk won Jason's heart in Dream High!" she huffs, crossing her arms.

Junmi feels a migraine coming. She clears her throat. "Okay... But I'll leave that to you guys," she gestures at the other girls. "I have other things to attend to; not to mention exams are already closing in. I have to study." She takes a sip of her own drink.

"Exams aren’t for a month. And you can't say no, really," Tao’s face curls into an evil smirk, "Since it's you who'll be putting our plans into action."

Junmi promptly chokes on her drink.

Yiying immediately pats Junmi's back. "What?!" Junmi spits out after a bout of ungraceful coughing. "Why me??"

Tao folds her arms and looks at Junmi like she's gone stupid. "Isn't it obvious? You're one of the earliest to go to school, plus your classroom's the nearest to his locker."

Junmi's head is beginning to throb. "But why not you? Or Minseol? Or Yiying? She's classmates with him, too!"

Tao huffs, "Oh please, do you really think Yiying unnie could pull off anything without messing up?"

All three girls turn to look at the girl in question, who was stealthily trying to take a sip of Tao's neglected milk tea. She has the decency to blush.

At that moment the door chimed, signaling new customers. "Oh! Welcome!" Yiying slides the said milk tea back across the table with a smile that's too wide to be considered innocent before standing up and running to the back of the counter.

"I...guess not. But what about--"

"Minseol unnie is too busy stalking Lulu unnie--"

"Am not!"

"--and the first years' building is at the other side of the campus." Tao says pointedly.

Junmi can't believe this is happening. "But but but... Oh shut it. I'm not doing it. And you can't make me." Junmi says with finality, crossing her arms, chin up.

Tao raises an eyebrow and oh my god Junmi does not like that look. Tao fishes out her phone and fiddles with it a bit before clearing her throat when she finally finds what she was looking for. "Dear J, I passed by the music room today and heard Chen-Chen singing. It was like passing through a perfumed garden, with flowers blooming, and birds chirping sweetly...” she starts.

Junmi draws a big gasp. “You read my diary?!” Minseol bursts into peals of laughter. “You call him Chen-Chen??”

Junmi scrambles and makes a lunge for Tao’s phone but she’s quick to hold it away. Damn those long arms. It didn’t help a bit that hers were, well, short. Curse her father’s genes.

Junmi slumps back into her chair after a few more failed attempts at swiping the blasted phone, choosing instead to glower at its owner and her good-for-nothing friend, who was only recovering from laughing her shapely ass off. The traitors. “I demand that be deleted!”

“Are you kidding?” Minseol wipes a tear. “This is gold! You should totally keep that.” Minseol nods to Tao and they both giggle. Junmi swears the two are the incarnations of evil.

“Anyway, it’s either you place the lollipops on oppa’s locker or these,” Tao wiggles her phone, “are going straight to our schoolmates’ news feeds.”

Junmi’s jaw drops. This can’t be happening. She groans and buries her head in her palms. “Wait. Did you just say ‘these’? As in plural??”

They giggle in response. Junmi plants her face on the table in defeat. Yep, totally evil.

* * *

Jongdae wakes up to a silent house. At first he felt disoriented, not used to having his parents argue twenty-four seven. It wasn't always that way, but things got worse after-- No. He's not about to go there. Instead he smothers a yawn and pushes himself off his bed to prepare for school.

Heading down to their kitchen, he notices the maids only set up one plate. "Where's mom and dad?" he asks Mr. Cho, their butler. Jongdae nibbles on a piece of bacon.

"They both went to work early, young master."

"Together?"

Mr. Cho shakes his head. "I'm afraid not, young master."

Jongdae puts down his fork. "Were they fighting again?"

A pause. "I'm afraid... I'm not in any position to speak of that, young master. I'm sorry." Sometimes Jongdae wonders why he even bothers hoping. It's not like things would get better overnight. He's old enough to know things don't work that way.

"No, it's okay." Jongdae pushes his plate away, his appetite gone. "I'm done eating. Oh, I'll be home late today..." There he goes again. "Just in case they ask where I am."

"Yes, young master."

"Hey, what's with the long face?" Chanyeol, his best friend of three years slings his huge arm over Jongdae's shoulders. "The day's too beautiful to waste with your brooding."

"I do NOT brood." Jongdae huffs, shrugging Chanyeol's arm off and heads towards the lockers.

"R-i-g-h-t. Kyungsoo, do you think Jongdae broods?" Baekhyun, his other best friend says as he joins the duo.

Kyungsoo, yep you guessed it, also Jongdae's best friend, gives him a once-over before turning to Baekhyun. "Deep scowl, wrinkled forehead, excessive pouting. Definitely brooding."

Baekhyun grins at him with all his teeth. "See? Case closed." Chanyeol guffaws.

Jongdae needs new friends. "You guys suck. Go away."

Baekhyun snorts. "Yeah, like you could ever live without us."

Jongdae looks at his collection of weird friends and thinks, although begrudgingly, that he really couldn't. Not that he'd ever admit it. "Whatever."

"Hey, what's this?" Chanyeol stops once they reached their lockers. Theirs were conveniently placed side-by-side. One of the perks of having the director's son as your best friend.

"Oooh~ Jongdae's got an admirer." Baekhyun nudges his side as Kyungsoo and Chanyeol snigger.

"What?" True enough, Jongdae finds a lollipop stuck to his locker, complete with heart stickers and sticky note.

Jongdae takes the sticky note off and reads it aloud. The edges of his lips quiver.

* * *

"Are you sure you put it there?" Tao asks for the nth time. "Did you make it pretty?"

Junmi's patience is wearing thin. "Of course I'm sure! I even came an hour earlier than I normally do just so I could decorate it properly." She was pretty proud of her work, to be quite honest.

"Well I can't see it."

"That's because that tall oaf is blocking our view!" Minseol grumbles. Tao, Minseol and Junmi were hiding behind a corner, trying to check if their plan worked.

"What're you doing?" Yiying asks as she regards the three weirdly.

"Sshhh!" They pull her to hide with them. "We're watching for Jongdae oppa's reaction." Tao fills her in.

"Which I don't see the reason for, by the way. I mean--" Jumni was interrupted by Tao barely covering a squeal.

"He's seen it! He's seen it!" Tao alerts them, and they go back to peeping behind the corner.

Oh my gosh, I can't look. Junmi thinks to herself. She covers her face with her hands. But of course she left a few holes on them, just in case.

The four girls watch with baited breath as Jongdae reads the heart-shaped sticky note attached to the lollipop. He smiles. The girls squeal. Jongdae and the other students, hearing the noise, look towards their direction. They immediately duck their heads back and pin themselves behind the wall.

"Did they see us?" Yiying asks, breathless.

"I don't know," Tao replies, "but OH MY GOSH it worked! It actually worked!" she jumps on Minseol.

"Tao, ow! You're heavy!" Minseol shakes her off.

"Not my fault you're all shorties." Three sets of hands pinch her all over. "Ow! Ow! Okay! Sorry! Not short! Not short!" Tao squirms as she slaps their hands away. "Geez."

The bells ring, signaling the start of class. "Oh crap, I'm late. Yiying jie," Tao rests her hands on Yiying's shoulders, "remember to keep a close eye at Jongdae oppa, okay? No sleeping!" Yiying nods confusedly. "Good. Have to go!" They watch her dash through the corridor.

"Uhh...I guess I'll go first. See you at lunch!" Yiying waves at them and heads to her classroom.

"Nice going there. But I'm curious, what did you write on the sticky note?" Minseol asks Junmi as they head to their own classroom.

"Hmm?" Junmi replies absentmindedly, still in bliss over seeing her beloved Jongdae smile again.

"Sticky note? What did you write?"

"Oh. Nothing fancy." Junmi blushes.

"Well...?" Minseol raises a brow.

"Let's love."

"What."

rating: g, critcap: round2

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