Tangents and Parallels
Jinwoon / Nicole [2am; Kara] + Key [SHINee] & HahaMong
Gen
First posted here for: kpopfickink.
Request:
Who I want: KARA: Nicole and 2AM: Jinwoon
What I want: Something sweet. Phone calls, little gifts, secret meetings. It doesn't have to be sexy, it doesn't even have to be romantic. Just something cute between them because I adore this couple.
What I don't want: Heavy angst. Smut.
(If you posted that request, please tell me!)
Tangents and Parallels
Kibum tells her: “I don’t like that Jinwoon guy. Way to cocky. Wouldn’t be a good shopping-buddy at all.” He shifts his pur- man bag from his left shoulder to his right, walks a few steps, turns back and says:
“Well? You coming?”
Nicole tells herself she shouldn’t follow Kibum’s fashion opinion so much. She also doesn’t know what to do.
“I think…” Hara starts. “I think Jinwoon-sshi is sweet. And nice.” She hums thoughtfully and twists her scarf between her hands. “You should definitely go with him shopping!”
Nicole smiles at her - not because she’s relieved that someone finally agrees or something. She’s just glad- because-
“Thank you,” she tells Hara. “It means a lot to me.”
“Hey,” Hara says. “Buy me hairclips when you go. Mine are broken.”
Gyuri smiles. And smiles more. And more.
“Sure,” she purrs. “Go. With Jinwoon.”
Nicole shudders a bit, thinks of Alice in the Wonderland for an unknown reason, and decides to rethink her approach.
This was all, she reasons, girl advice. (Kibum aside. Of course.)
What she needs is to talk to a Man. Some kind of testosterone machine with big muscles and a steel-heart who can help her take a decision.
Im Seulong opens the door wrapped in a fluffy bathrobe. Nicole changes her plan at speed-light:
“Is Changmin-oppa here?” she asks.
“Wait,” Seulong tells her with a flip of hand. “HYUNG!” he then hollers, “Maknae’s GF wants to see you!”
By the time Changmin walks in the hallway, drinking organic tea, Nicole is beet-red.
“I see…” Jokwon declares darkly. He’s sat them all on the tiny couch, Nicole in the middle. Seulong is kind of crushing her and Changmin’s elbow digs into her ribs. Jokwon crosses his arms. He’s pacing in front of them, drawing a little path on the thick carpet.
“That slimy little rat, he didn’t tell us about that date thing!” Jokwon curls his lip and frowns. “That’s untolerable!”
“Untolerable,” Seulong approves.
“Give him a rest,” Changmin tempers. “He’s been working really hard.”
“It’s not a d-” Nicole wants to say.
MC Haha and MC Mong look at her, then at each other, and then they laugh. Loudly. Still sniffling and giggling, they pat her on the shoulder before adjusting their wigs and cupping their boobs, ready for their next appearance.
Nicole is: a) mad, b) not really further decided. (And, c) slightly creeped out, but that’s irrelevant.) She goes back to her dorm and buries herself under her blanket. Dead to the world.
“Nicole,” Jiyoung says, peeking through the slit of the door. “Are you awake?”
Nicole mms and turns back to the wall. She doesn’t want to chat, not now. No nail-painting and hot-chocolate drinking and candy-eating and hair-brushing. Nicole’s gonna turn 2PM on their faces. Beastly idols, ha! She bets they don’t give each other massages. Hopes.
“Phone for you,” Jiyoung says softly. “Jinwoon,” she whispers.
“Nicole!” Jinwoon is cheerful and oblivious to her dark, dark, depressive mood. “Is it still okay for that trip to the shopping mall on Saturday? I sneaked disguises out of our dressing room!”
Nicole opens her mouth to say: “Look, Jinwoon, yes but no, thanks but no thanks, this is entirely unreasonable, everyone says so”, but then she thinks of him going all ninja-like to Starbucks and Body Shop and Levi’s, and before she knows it, she’s laughing with him - was there a joke in the first place?
Amber, she figures, can become Kibum’s shopping-buddy.