Title: The puzzle
Author: kyu4ever
Pairing: JunSeung, DooSeob, KiWoon
Rating: PG-13
Genre: romance, slight angst
Disclaimer: I own them, in my craziest dream
Summary: The club contains of six students. The first, aka the head of the club, is a kind of perfectionist and so-called “statue”. The second is so dumb and lonely while the third is so annoyingly intelligent. The fourth, who genuinely is a clumsy person, joins the club just because of a certain “someone”. The fifth always thinks he knows everything, but truth be told he knows nothing. The sixth, the only person who’s kind of “normal” here, is pretty going crazy with his new life and an unexpected relationship after years trying to forget
Chapter 1 - Part b:
I stare blankly at the white, empty space where I’m standing…
Where am I…?
Have I dreamed?
Well, if yes, then I want to have a sweet dream… There has been a long time since the last day I had a proper dream…
But I see someone facing his back at me… Seems like there isn’t only me here…
Somehow he’s so familiar to me
Have I ever met him before…?
Gradually, he turns back…
It’s him!
No other than him…
I’m so dumbfounded, and shocked…. How can I dream about him like this, after years…?
He just simply stares at me...
He’s still so young even after four years, exactly looking like the way he was when he’s seventeen…
His lips curve in a smile. The innocent smile he used to show me whenever we were together. But it has been years ago…
And they move a bit…
He whispers…
“You want to talk to me, don’t you…?”
All of a sudden his image fades away, vanishing into the thin air. I try to hold him back, my bare hand reach out to touch you, but instead meeting nothing
You’re gone…
I even don’t have enough time to hold you again…
Even don’t have enough time to say that I miss you…
Saying that I’m sorry….
I’m really sorry….
Do you hear me…?
Please…
Come back….
***
“Bring… bring… bring…”
JunHyung groaned in frustration as he sneaked his hand out of the blanket to turn off the annoying clock. The boy buried his head deeper in the pillow, but knowing clearly that he couldn’t sleep again. His dark eyes half opened as JunHyung pulled the blanket down and took a small glance at the outside of the windows. The sky was deep blue and full of clouds drifted across slowly. Breezes were blowing, foliage of some trees in the garden gently sway in the slight wind. Today was definitely a beautiful autumn day, and he better get up, brushing his teeth, changing clothes and going to Seoul University before it was too late and DooJoon would have a chance to kill him.
But somehow JunHyung just felt so sad and didn’t want to make a single move
***
“What should I wear today?”
HyunSeung whined tiredly as he was trying on a red t-shirt, looking at his reflection in the mirror. Red is definitely not his color. He sighed before taking off the shirt, throwing it on the bed and taking up from his wardrobe another yellow one
“Does it look good? Aish… I really don’t know what to wear now”
He mumbled to himself before turning back and looking around. His clothes were lying everywhere and indeed his room looked like a battlefield. His grandmother would certainly go and scold him for messing up everything like that if she accidentally stepped into the room at that moment
“Since it’s my first day at a new school, I shouldn’t wear a t-shirt. Maybe a white shirt is the best choice”
The doe eyed thought and searched through the huge mess. Luckily he found a white shirt lying wrinkly at the bottom of the clothes pile. HyunSeung frowned a bit at the pitiful condition of the shirt. It has been long since the last time he used it. He wanted to iron that shirt but there had already been 7AM in the morning and he just only had one hour to prepare then go to the university and find his classes. The boy sighed as he picked up his bag with an apricot cardigan. The weather wasn’t cold much as it was just in autumn but he still wore it in order to hide all the creases on the white shirt
HyunSeung made his way to the front door of the room. With a soft click and the room was locked behind his back
It’s a new day
***
DooJoon just stared in disbelief at YoSeob. The smaller boy was curling into a ball, rolling on the cold, yet hard floor, mumbling something while his eyes still shut tight. How the hell could he sleep there? And why did he come to the office that early? The president asked himself and almost immediately got his answer when he shifted his gaze to the surroundings. The room looked so clean. YoSeob must have tidied it up. The boy caught sight of some files on his desk and remembered what happened yesterday…
Yesterday he had demanded YoSeob to write a report about the some extra-curricular activities in the university, along with the recent scholastic records. Actually he didn’t need those stuffs immediately, but knowing that the smaller boy was such an absent-minded dude, DooJoon decided to force him to do it without any hesitation. Even before going home, the president still didn’t forget to warn YoSeob that he had to stay until finishing the works and cleaning the room. If DooJoon didn’t see the reports the next day then he better quit his job as his personal secretary
It was just a harmless threat
But wait…
“Don’t tell me that he really did stay in the office the whole yesterday night and do the reports”
The president hissed as he looked at YoSeob again. The boy was still sleeping peacefully. Inattentively, without thinking DooJoon bent his knees to have a better view of the younger boy
It was really the first time DooJoon had a chance to look closely at the blonde. Contrary to his age, YoSeob just looked like a 17-year-old innocent boy. His face was very small, pale skin, slim torso and his eyes… All of a sudden DooJoon could remember YoSeob’s eyes though he hardly looked into them. Those eyes were really something special. They were big, round, soft, clear and looked like puppy eyes. Somehow DooJoon didn’t like looking at them as he seemed to see himself reflected in his eyes. It looked as if the other could read his mind and DooJoon simply hated that thought. He didn’t want anybody to see through him so easily
“Hey YoSeob”
DooJoon called and suddenly had a strange feeling with his voice. It sounded more softened and calmer than usual
In front of him the smaller boy was just lying and sleeping
“YoSeob. Yang YoSeob”
He called again, poking in YoSeob’s arm. The boy moved a bit and groaned, his eyes still shut tight
“Five more minutes mom…”
“You think I’m your mother?” DooJoon rolled eyes in frustration and he started shaking the smaller boy lightly: “Hey Yang YoSeob, wake up!”
And it was the first time (again) DooJoon was patient like that to somebody. If the person laying there wasn’t that blonde (for instance, it was JunHyung) then definitely he wasn’t being treated gently in that way
DooJoon kept on calling and shaking YoSeob for some more minutes until the smaller boy was awakened. Gradually YoSeob sat up; stretching while yawning lazily. He rubbed his half-opened eyes with the small hands and looked around sleepily. His gaze stopped at the president for a while. “It seems that he isn’t fully awake” DooJoon thought as he watched YoSeob. The smaller one looked as if he wasn’t scared of DooJoon as usual
“Morning DooJoon-ssi”
The sound of YoSeob’s sleepy voice broke the silence, which made the taller boy be pulled out of his train of thoughts. Inattentively he tilted his head just to find that the younger was looking at him and smiling brightly. Somehow DooJoon stopped in his track and just stared in awe. He was so dumbfounded. How could DooJoon not realize the beautiful smile of the other after one and a half semester working together? He thought and mentally gave himself a slap on his forehead. What the hell was he thinking???
“Why do you sleep here?”
It took the president some seconds to clear his throat and manage a question. YoSeob (who was fully awake at that time) just raised an eye brow and answered out of the blue:
“I don’t know”
“What?”
“No, I mean, I was so tired after finishing the reports and decided to take a nap on the couch here” YoSeob said and pointed at the leather couch behind his back “I remembered clearly that I had slept on it but I don’t know why I’m on the floor now”
“Don’t tell me that you fell from the couch and rolled on the floor”
“Yeah, maybe. I always make many moves while sleeping. When I was small I even kicked my sister out of the bed”
YoSeob answered sheepishly while scratching his nape. Inattentively DooJoon had a weird thought about how cute yet innocent the other boy looked at that moment, and all of a sudden he had an urge to pinch YoSeob’s cheeks. But he knew he couldn’t show what he felt. It was just so embarrassed
“Seeing you sleeping here isn’t something nice”
DooJoon stated bluntly and YoSeob just pouted. He bowed his head lightly:
“I’m sorry DooJoon-ssi”
“Whatever. Where are my reports?”
The president immediately stood up and approached his desk. YoSeob followed behind him, pointing at the files:
“Here they are”
“Good”
DooJoon gave a curt reply while pretending to read the reports. Secretly he stole a glance at the younger’s back and found that YoSeob was making his way to the main door. He was hesitated a bit but then calling:
“Hey”
“Yeah?”
YoSeob turned back and looked at DooJoon. There was an awkward enveloped them until the taller boy managed to say:
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to bring you some coffee. Do you want anything else?”
“No. No”
“Okay. Then I’ll go now”
The smaller boy stated before closing the main door behind his back. DooJoon seemed so weird, he couldn’t help but think
***
“Okay… Turn left… Go straight ahead… Then turn right… Turn right again… Then… What. The. Hell???”
HyunSeung cursed under his breath as he was facing a wall. It was the end of the passage and he didn’t see anything which could be called as “student association office”. The boy had already spent nearly fifteen minutes finding the office in vain; he didn’t know whether he still had enough strength and patience to try it again. It was so frustrated
“Where is the office? I should have asked someone about the direction instead of going and finding it myself”
The doe eyed boy turned around, tending to go but accidentally bumping into someone happening to walk behind his back. The other boy was lost his balance and nearly fell off, but luckily HyunSeung was quick enough to catch his wrist, so the brunette helped the latter stand up. The first thing that boy did was checking the plastic cup in his hands. He opened it carefully and sighed in relief as the hot liquid inside hadn’t spilled out. Then he tilted his head, bowing lightly at HyunSeung:
“I’m really sorry”
“No, it’s my fault. I should have been more careful. Are you okay?”
“Of course. What about you?”
The strange boy just smiled. HyunSeung noticed that his puppy eyes shone a bit as he gestured to the plastic cup holding firmly in his left hand
“I’m fine when it’s fine”
“I see”
HyunSeung replied. They stood in an awkward silence until the boy found something to say:
“I think I should go now. Good bye. And thanks a lot for catching me when I was about to fall”
“No prob.”
The latter smiled back and looked at the stranger’s back as he started going. All of a sudden he remembered something and quickly approached the other:
“Hey! Wait!”
That boy turned back and stared questioningly at HyunSeung
“What’s wrong?”
“Can you show me the way to the student association office? I’m new here and don’t know where to go now”
The other raised an eye brow at him before a big smile drawn across his lips and he chirped soundly:
“You’re the new student? Okay follow me”
“Where are you now Yong JunHyung? Where are you?”
DooJoon repeated impatiently as he was staring at his cell phone. As usual the vice president should have been there at 7.30AM, or at least 7.45AM. But it was already 8AM and there was no sign of him in that university. DooJoon had tried to call his cousin many times but he didn’t answer even a call
“What’s wrong with him?”
He asked himself, feeling half furious and half worried
At the other side of room there was sound of the main door cracked open. He looked at it and called:
“JunHyung?”
But there, standing at the entrance were YoSeob and a strange boy. The secretary quickly approached DooJoon’s desk, handing him the coffee cup in his hands and the older took it without a word. He stared at the stranger who had followed YoSeob and now was also standing near his desk. YoSeob saw it so immediately he introduced:
“He’s the new student DooJoon-ssi. I happened to see him”
“Oh”
The president stood up while stretching his hand out in front of the stranger politely. The other shook his hand and said:
“Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Jang HyunSeung. I’ve just moved from America”
“Yoon DooJoon, the president of the student association. Nice to meet you too”
***
“So you’re the personal secretary of the president?”
“Yeah”
HyunSeung asked as he, together with YoSeob, was walking along the passage. The shorter boy was in charge of going with HyunSeung to show him his first lecture hall. The brunette thought it didn’t hurt if he started a small conversation to get rid of the awkward atmosphere, so he decided to ask about the other’s work:
“How long have you started your work?”
“Um… I started working with DooJoon-ssi when I was in the beginning of my second year. About one and half year ago”
“You’re in the third year now?”
“Yeah. Why so surprised?”
“I thought you were a first year student. You look too young”
“Well, anyway I’m still only one year younger than you HyunSeung-ssi”
YoSeob laughed a bit and somehow the weird feeling between the two boys had gradually vanished into the thin air. They kept on talking about some random stuff:
“Actually the person going with you should have been our vice-president. But today he hasn’t gone to the university so here I am, replacing him”
“Oh really?”
HyunSeung tended to ask YoSeob some more questions about the vice-president for his curiosity but just when he looked up, he did realize that both of them had been already standing in front of the lecture hall. Suddenly HyunSeung felt a bit nervous but being known as someone who was always calm and sedate, he could easily hide his feeling away from other persons. Well, almost other persons, except for a certain “someone”
“Thanks a lot YoSeob-ssi”
HyunSeung smiled at the younger boy and he grinned back:
“No problem. Good luck HyunSeung-ssi. See you later”
“Yeah, see you later. Bye”
And with that, the doe eyed boy opened the door and stepped into the lecture hall