[FIC] Love Me Twice (… because I just can’t let you go) [23/??]
“Here are the batteries you asked for” a male staff said handing Changmin four of them for his camera.
“Thanks” he murmured; quickly replacing the old batteries with the new ones he just received.
He examined the other cameras to make sure they were all working properly before checking the lighting of the location site. After overseeing all the technical commodities, he called his two models over to start the photoshoot.
“Just lean back against the board and Kibum will do the same and sort of drape your arm over her shoulder” Changmin instructed them.
They nodded before complying and Changmin began snapping pictures one after the other, zooming in and out of them in order to get a good angle of his models. “Lift your head up a little Ara … good!”
After capturing a few dozen shots more of the two, they called it a day an hour and thirty-seven minutes later.
“Good work everyone. We’ll let you know when we decide to print the pictures in the magazine and distribute it to the public” Changmin told their managers.
“Great” both men said, shaking hands with him. Changmin smiled at them and turned back to his computer to check up on the images once more before closing out the file. Just as he was on his way to the bathroom, he saw his phone vibrating near his laptop and answered it uncertainly when he didn’t recognize the number displayed on the caller ID.
“Hello?”
“Hey, it’s me.”
Changmin squinted his eyes in confusion as he glanced across the room to Kibum. “And exactly how did you get my number again?”
“I took your phone when you weren’t looking and went through your contacts” he answered innocently.
“That’s a total invasion of privacy.”
“There’s no such thing as privacy now that we’re together.”
“Really? We’re together? How come I wasn’t informed of this?” he asked amusedly.
“Oh don’t act so surprised” he chuckled.
For a while, neither of them said anything except stare deep into each other’s eyes.
“S-so, I was wondering if you were busy after the shoot?” Kibum asked.
“No, I don’t have any plans, why do you ask?”
He smiled embarrassedly at him, “well, coming up the road I noticed this small, dainty café down the street corner and I was wondering if you’d want to meet up there?”
“What if we get caught?”
He smirked, “It’s strictly business, remember?”
Changmin nibbled on his bottom lip, biting back the urge to smile. “You really know how to keep a guy on his toes.”
“Should I take that as a yes then?” he asked with a hint of hope in his voice.
Changmin laughed at his expense, running a hand through his hair. Once he gazed back up at Kibum, he felt his heart beating so hard against his chest that he thought it was seriously going to burst open any minute now from all the pressure he felt. The way his eyes pierced right through him was enough to show Changmin how far all this would take them, and by his guess, it was very far. “Wait for me; I’ll be there in about 15 minutes.”
*~*~*~*~*~*
Pacing back and forth across his apartment worriedly, Junsu feared the thoughts Yoochun was beginning to think of him because of what happened that night at the restaurant with Dong-Wook. Yoochun hadn’t replied to any of his calls lately, and he figured the man wouldn’t do so anytime soon. Junsu decided then to take matters into his own hands. If Yoochun wasn’t going to listen, Junsu would make him listen to anything and everything he had to say.
He grabbed his coat from the closet and slipped it on quickly, jogging down the steps of the building hastily in order to get to his car. Putting the vehicle in drive, Junsu eased off the curb smoothly and drove away nervously to his next destination.
*~*~*~*~*~*
“Its cold umma” Na Young shivered as JaeJoong wrapped her bath towel around her naked body.
“Well look at the bright side, we’re halfway done. All that’s left to do is put lotion on your skin and get some clothes on” he said using the towel to dry her wet hair.
“Where’s appa?”
“He’s changing the twins” he told her as he attempted to remove the towel from her which was clasped tightly around her body so as to rub lotion on her.
“It’s cold” she shrieked, holding on to the piece of cloth with all her strength.
“Please don’t give me a hard time Na Young, appa needs my help taking care of the twins too.”
She shook her head at him. “I don’t want to. It’s cold.”
JaeJoong sighed out in defeat, “If you don’t want me to do it, then you have to promise me you’ll put cream on yourself’ he warned her.
“Ok ok, you do it” she answered quickly, handing her towel to him.
He smiled victoriously at her before lathering the vanilla-scented lotion over her and slipping a new outfit on her to wear.
“There, that wasn’t so bad now was it?”
“No” she mumbled.
He stretched his arms out in her direction and she ran to him and hugged him back tightly. He lifted her up from the floor and carried her over to Yunho and the twins in their room.
“Hi appa” Na Young squealed as JaeJoong set her back down on the floor.
“Hey sweetie” he answered, “I’d give you a hug and kiss right now but I doubt you’d want to get, uh …” he paused, unsure of how to continue, so instead he motioned to the two dirty diapers he was holding.
“Eww” she said, backing away from his slowly.
He laughed her at before tossing the diapers in the trash, “want to give appa a hand?”
“No” she answered bluntly.
JaeJoong too chuckled at her right before the three heard the phone ringing.
“Could you get that please?” Yunho asked him.
“Sure” he answered and left the room to retrieve the call. “Hello?”
“… JaeJoong?” a woman on the other line questioned puzzled. “Is that you?”
He didn’t say anything for a while and tried to register the voice in his mind. It sounded way too familiar, but JaeJoong figured he was just imagining things.
“Yes, and may I ask whose speaking?”
The woman on the phone completely ignored him and he heard her yell in the background, “honey, JaeJoong’s on the phone. Did you know he was back?”
JaeJoong felt his heart clenching obstructively against his chest as it finally dawned on him who the woman on the other line was. “No way …” he whispered.
“I’m so confused right now. Yunho never told us you were back. We thought when you left you left for good.”
He literally felt like he’d been slapped hard across the face. After all these years, could she really have not changed at all? He didn’t understand how a human being could be as heartless and cruel as the woman he was speaking with now.
“Is Yunho around?” she asked.
“H-he’s a little busy right now.”
“Doing what?”
“He’s l-looking after our kids.”
“Kids?”
JaeJoong fought back the urge to hang up on her that very minute, “Y-yeah, kids. I-is there something you wanted? Maybe I could help you with -”
“We want to come over to visit” she cut him off, “if that’s ok of with you of course?”
He cleared his throat momentarily, trying his best to control his shaky voice, “Of course it fine.”
“Great, you two still live at the same address right?”
He nodded, “yes.”
“Perfect, we’ll come by tomorrow for lunch, so make sure you cook something edible the two of us could eat” she snickered.
“I-I will” he assured her.
“See you then.”
“Bye” JaeJoong whispered, dropping his hand down to his side slowly with the phone still on.
Yunho came out to join him a few minutes later and took a seat besides him with Ji Hoo in his arms. He gazed at JaeJoong worriedly and asked, “What’s wrong? Why do you look as white as a ghost?”
JaeJoong turned to him and their eyes met momentarily, fear filling him up inside as each second passed. “We’re having visitors tomorrow.”
Yunho gazed at him oddly, “who is it?”
JaeJoong turned away from him then and played with his fingers on his lap nervously, “your parents.”
Yunho stared back at the latter for a really long time before he got a chance to let it sink into his mind. “You’re lying” he accused.
“Truthfully, I wish I was.”
“What did they say?”
“They want to come over for lunch tomorrow afternoon.”
“I wonder what mom has up her sleeve this time. I never even told her you were back.”
“Yeah well, apparently she knows now, and she didn’t exactly sound too happy about it.”
“Listen, I promise I won’t let her hurt you again. As long as I’m here, she won’t have a say in anything” Yunho reassured him. “There’s no need for you to get intimated by her.”
“Oh get real Yunho, your mom hates me, or did you forget that already?” he asked with tears rolling down the sides of his cheeks.
Yunho held his face and brushed away his tears with his thumbs. He leaned forward and rested his forehead against his own. “I didn’t forget, but like I said before, I’m not going to let anything else come between us, especially not them.”
JaeJoong threw his arms around his neck then, “How can you be so sure that won’t happen?”
Yunho rested his hands gently on his back and rubbed it up and down comfortingly, “We took them on before; there should be no reason why we can’t do it again.”
“I’m a little scared” he murmured on his shoulder.
“Don’t be, I’m here.”
“Can we ... really pull this off?”
“I believe we can, and right now, I need you to do the same, ok?” Yunho told him.
“… Ok.”
*~*~*~*~*~*
As Yoochun was on his way to his office, he flipped through a file of reports he needed to look over for tomorrow’s meeting. He studied the paper’s content intently and stopped in front of his secretary’s desk to ask for a favor.
“Could you photocopy these papers and bring them back to me in my office?”
She nodded, “I’ll do it right away.”
“Thanks.”
Yoochun tiredly loosened the tie that hung from his neck as he opened the door and entered his work area. He walked sluggishly to his chair lying behind his computer desk to take a load off, but was surprised to see Junsu sitting there. When Junsu saw him staring, he stood up slowly and walked over to his direction.
“H-how did you get in here?” he asked the younger.
“Your secretary let me in” he answered simply.
“… Why do you want?”
“I’m only here to ask for 5 minutes of your time, and if after that you’re still upset with me, I’ll leave if you want me to.”
Yoochun eyed him and took a few seconds to think about it. “Fine” he finally agreed.
“Look” Junsu began, cutting right to the chase, “I’m really sorry about what happened. I didn’t intend for you to get hurt because of what I did. First of all, you have to know that I didn’t go to meet Dong-Wook because I couldn’t tell hyung that I didn’t want him to set me up, but because I wanted to apologize to him and let him know that I have no interest in dating anyone because I already have someone I love.”
Yoochun looked up at him stunned, and he continued, “I wanted to tell you this sooner, but you never even gave me a chance. You kept jumping to conclusions without even hearing my side of the story or taking my feelings into consideration.”
“… Why didn’t you at least let me in on your plan then?” he asked, averting his eyes elsewhere.
“I was … afraid that you’d blow up on me and take things out of proportion” he murmured sadly. “Believe me Yoochun, I am desperate for hyung to accept us just as much as you are, but if I have to do things like this that’ll put our relationship in jeopardy then I’d rather give all that up so that there can still be an us.”
“Junsu …” he breathed out.
Junsu wiped his tears away quickly with the back of his hand, “I already told hyung that I didn’t want him to set me up either. He was a little disheartened about it but he got over it eventually. I told him there’s someone already who caught my eye that I’ll introduce to him soon -”
Yoochun cut him off by grasping his shoulders then and crushing him into his chest. He held Junsu close, running a hand through his hair while leaving small kisses down his smooth neckline.
“I’m sorry for being an obnoxious jerk to you Su. I should’ve known better. It’s just that … when I saw you having such a good time with that guy something just snapped in me” he told him.
“You’re right, you were being a jerk, but there really wasn’t a need to be jealous. We didn’t even do anything” Junsu snarled.
Yoochun used his two fingers to lift his head to look at him, “do you forgive me?”
“Of course, idiot” he answered quickly, wrapping his arms around Yoochun’s waist tightly.
They remained entangled in each other’s arms for a few minutes longer before Junsu broke away first and pressed his lips against Yoochun’s aggressively. Quickly regaining his senses back from the sudden mind-blowing kiss, Yoochun caressed his thumb over his hipbone and gently pushed Junsu backward. His legs hit against something hard before falling back onto a soft, black leather couch. A smile appeared on his lips once the elder slipped his wet, pink flesh between his plump lips, swirling his tongue with his own. Junsu felt his stomach fluttering out of pure joy, never wanting this moment to come to end.
“There’s something else I need to tell you” he whispered to him.
“What’s up?”
“I want to tell hyung about us now.”
Yoochun gazed at him uncertainly, “are you sure? You don’t have to if you don’t want to Su; I already told you that I don’t mind waiting longer to tell them.”
He shook his head, “you were right before. It doesn’t make a difference if we tell them today or tomorrow because their bound to find out about it sooner or later. I just want this big fat lie I’ve started once and for all to just disappear now.”
“You do know that once this is all out in the open there’s no turning back right?”
“I know” he replied, reaching up to entwine their hands together, “but I’m ready for anything as long as I go through it together with you, because I know you won’t abandon me if anything goes wrong.”
Yoochun smiled down at him, “you know me oh too well.”
Junsu chuckled at him, “I love you.”
Yoochun layed himself down carefully on top of Junsu’s fragile body before pressing another chaste kiss upon his lips, “I love you too.”
*~*~*~*~*~*
“You’re lying” Changmin laughed, “You’ve just got to be lying. That can’t be true at all!”
“It’s true” Kibum said defensively. “The staff members took about three hours to teach me how to swim and stay afloat in the water for the shoot, and when I couldn’t do it they ended up casting someone else as their model for the concept. It hurt and I felt embarrassed, and since then I told my manager to let me take swimming classes so now I know how to swim perfectly.”
Changmin laughed even harder at him, “that’s got to be the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. I wish I had been there to see it all.”
“Now that I think about it, it was pretty funny” he chuckled. “Ok, now it’s your turn.”
The two men had been swapping stories with one another in order to get to know each other better, and ever new thing Changmin learnt of Kibum, the harder he fell for him
Changmin thought for a moment before telling Kibum the time when one of the models from America had a hard time getting into one of the clothes they had prepared for her and how she ended up ripping the dress in half.
“The entire staff was furious at her and we ended up delaying the photoshoot for another three weeks. She cried that same day and -”
Kibum cut him off completely as he leaned over the table and kissed him. He pulled away a few seconds later and Changmin stared at him dumbfounded.
“Sorry, but I couldn’t resist” he murmured embarrassedly.
Changmin smiled at him and reached across the table to hold his hand, “its ok, I didn’t mind it anyways.”
Kibum turned even redder than before and looked back up at him slowly, “I can’t really explain it, but whenever I’m with you I feel like I can just be myself. That’s never happened to me with anyone else before.”
“You don’t think you’re manager will mind us then do you?”
“Please, all they care about is maintaining my image. He might think it’s alright, but as for my fans and the public is another story.”
“No one has to know then, I’d prefer things to be that way anyways.”
“Come’ on” Kibum stood up and said, “Let’s go somewhere else. Besides, I’m really a bit stuffy in here.”
“Where should we go then?” he asked and followed after Kibum.
“Just for a drive, we don’t necessarily have to go someplace in particular.Hey ... can I drive?” he asked Changmin.
“My car?”
He nodded, “please?"
“Have you ever gotten into a car accident?”
“Only four times but that was a long time ago” he admitted.
Changmin’s eyes went wide, “no way, four times is far too many.”
“Aw come’ on” he whined. “I’ll do whatever you want me to.”
“There isn’t anything I really want you to do for me” he murmured.
Kibum walked up to him and laid one of his hands on his waist and the other over his crotch. He stroked Changmin’s long sex and he groaned lowly as the latter swiped his tongue across his ear.
“D-don’t” Changmin pleaded, “I-it’s not going to ahh …”
Kibum smirked once he noticed Changmin was aroused, panting, and in desperate need of releasing himself.
“You were saying?” he asked him playfully.
“A-alright, you can drive, but one way or another, y-you’re going to pay for what you did.”
He smiled at Changmin, “I plan on doing just that tonight.”
*~*~*~*~*~*
JaeJoong layed down on his back in bed and tried his hardest to fall asleep, however, he didn’t, or rather, he couldn’t.
“… JaeJoong … Is that you?”
“… Honey, JaeJoong’s on the phone. Did you know he was back?”
“… I’m so confused right now. Yunho never told us you were back. We thought when you left you left for good.”
He kept moving in bed trying to brush away the hurtful comments his mother-in-law made to him today, but he found it impossible to do so.
Yunho, whose back was facing him, sighed as he asked, “What’s wrong Jae?”
JaeJoong jumped when he spoke because he hadn’t meant to wake him up, “n-nothing” he answered shortly.
Yunho turned to face him and wrapped his arm around his waist, “you’re not worried are you?”
“A little” he murmured sheepishly.
He shifted closer to the younger and pressed a kiss against his forehead, “I know it’s hard, but try to get some sleep tonight ok?”
He nodded, “ok.”
“If you want, I can go buy the ingredients you need to make lunch tomorrow morning?” he offered.
JaeJoong faced him also and buried his face in his chest, “thanks.”
Yunho rubbed his back soothingly and ran his hand through his silky hair, “you sure you’ll be ok?”
“… The thought of seeing your mother again scares me” JaeJoong whispered. “She doesn’t exactly like me and I know she’s not afraid to show it either.”
“Don’t worry; I’ll make her change her mind about you this time. I’ll make her accept you as her son-in-law for sure” he told him with determination.
Little did they know that was the least of their worries. Tomorrow would be a day full of surprises in store for them just waiting to be discovered …
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A/N: As you guys might've guessed already, the drama will begin in the next chapter :D I'm really excited to finally be getting to the climax of the fic and I hope you guys are too^^