(Preview) Whenever
Pairing: JongKey
Rating: tbd
Genre: Sci-Fi
Summary (tentative): Time is to Jonghyun as colours are to the blind.
A/N: I have no idea who will see this but I’m merely posting an excerpt from what I’ve already written as an incentive for me to actually continue and perhaps finish this story. I hope I get to *crosses fingers*.
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“Aren’t you curious?” he asks simply. Kibum knows he is looking at him but he does not reciprocate, does not want to acknowledge it.
He remains mute. The stranger seemed to have been expecting that much because he chuckles and it makes Kibum feel very uncomfortable, more so than usual.
“Or can’t you talk,” the strange boy adds with a crooked, teasing smile and it feels like there is something implied in his words. Kibum looks up suddenly and thinks he sees the stranger’s eyes widen for a fraction of a second.
“I don’t want to,” Kibum replies shortly. He shouldn’t speak to strangers, but can this black-haired boy be considered a stranger, still, after all those years?
“Suit yourself.” The tone is neither bitter nor hard, but playful somehow. Kibum feels sudden irritation crawl beneath his skin, fists clenching by his side and around the strap of his backpack.
“Look, just what do you want?” Kibum has a sharp tongue for a fourteen year old, but the stranger’s reaction is not what he had been hoping for.
The boy tilts his head to the side like Kibum has seen him do many times before, but this time there are words rolling off his tongue.
“I’m just curious.”
“Do you always speak in riddles?” Kibum bites back, keeping up his brisk pace.
The stranger merely chuckles to that and it has Kibum blatantly rolling his eyes towards the grey sky.
“You wouldn’t have let me follow you around for so long if I didn’t intrigue you a little,” he simply says.
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