Mending broken hearts (4/10)
Title
: Mending broken hearts
Author : marnidoo
Rating : pg-13
Pairing : Junhyung/ Hyunseung
Chapters : 4/10
Summary : Hyunseung and Junhyung took different paths in the past but fate seems to think otherwise.
Mending broken hearts (4/10)
The month of June had already started when Junhyung got Mr. Park’ s phone call. He has to meet him at one in the afternoon. Junhyung gets ready and decides to stop by Yoseob’ s place first. He throws his bag pack on his shoulder, grabs his phone and keys and calls Alf out of the room. Alf is Junhyung’ s young German shepherd dog. Why Alf? Well, no one will never know, not even Junhyung himself. The said dog runs happily towards its master, tail waving with excitement. Junhyung locks the front door and both man and dog go down the street.
About half an hour later Junhyung and Yoseob are chatting in the latter’ s living room, Alf lays at Yoseob’ s feet.
‘Nervous?’ Yoseob asks eying his friend above his glass.
‘Hm’ Junhyung looks up as well. ‘More excited actually’
‘You’re right, there’s no need for you to worry, he already gave you the job. Everything will be fine’ Yoseob adds.
Junhyung nods before emptying his own glass.
‘I should get going now’ he states.
‘But you’ve got plenty of time, it’s only ten’ the younger pouts and Junhyung chuckles.
‘Yes, but I don’t really know the place. I’ll explore the neighborhood if I’m early’ Junhyung explains and gets on his feet. Yoseob and Alf follow immediately. They reach the door that Junhyung opens before turning back to his friend.
‘Well, wish me luck then’
‘Haha, I thought you didn’t need it’ Yoseob playfully answers arching a brow.
‘Yeah, whatever’ Junhyung takes a step back. ‘You take care of him, he’ll probably goof around’ he warns.
‘Don’t you say that, he’s kind to me’ Yoseob replies.
‘I know. I was talking to Alf actually’ Junhyung adds with a devilish smile on his face.
‘Yah! Go make some money already!’ Yoseob kicks him out of the apartment. Junhyung laughs and Yoseob sticks his tongue out before closing the door at the other’ s face. Junhyung is still smiling when he arrives at the train station. He studies the map he printed earlier this morning after sitting by a window and sighs. He’s ready to meet with destiny, he has a good feeling about this.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
As Hyunseung wakes up, he feels slightly drunk. He isn’t though. Or maybe he is but only with expectations, excitement, hopes. Mr Park came last night in the practice room, he told him about the meeting today at one in his office. His routine is left unchanged. He wakes up, dresses up and leaves in a hurry grabbing something to eat on his way. Hyunseung only has one class this morning, nonetheless he remains in his dancing room until the clock reads 12:20pm. Then he decides to go out and eat something before heading to Mr Park’ s office. He sits down on a bench in the park near to the school, and takes a mouthful of his sandwich. His mind suddenly slips to something he had tried to avoid for days.
A while ago he went where Junhyung worked when they used to live together. What Hyunseung didn’t expect was that Junhyung quit his job. He went to his apartment, then his work place, but the younger was nowhere to be found. No matter how hard he tried to hide it and keep it locked somewhere deep in his brain, Hyunseung was upset. He is upset. There’s no way he’d give up but hell, Junhyung seems to have put great efforts in hiding himself from him. At this, Hyunseung smiles bitterly. Or maybe Junhyung just forgot about him and moved on. After all, he’s not necessarily missing him, right? He must have felt as he was thrown away, and he was, kind of. Hyunseung shakes his head. Junhyung probably doesn’t think about him anymore and there is no point for him to hide from someone who ran away from him. He glances at his watch and gets on his feet. It’s nearly one and he dreads to be late as he heads to the building.
Hyunseung makes his way to Mr Park’ s office and the door is already closed, which usually isn’t. Great. He’s late. He knocks softly and waits for a ‘come in’ before stepping into the room.
‘Ah, Hyunseung. Great, you were the only missing’ Mr Park says with a warm smile. He isn’t mad at him for being late which is a good thing, Hyunseung thinks. He bows to him and turns to face the other people in the room. When he expected three or four there are actually about twenty men and women in the room. That’s when he realizes how huge this project is. Mr Park gestures him to sit down and he settles in the available chair.
‘Well, now that everyone’s here, I’d like to introduce each of you first’ Mr Park says. Immediately starting as he tells someone’s name and job, the said man stands up and bows to the other, but Hyunseung’ s oblivious to the whole scene for his eyes lay on something, no, someone unexpected. At the far left corner of the table is a face Hyunseung hadn’t seen in a while. His heart is racing, he seems to have forgotten how to breathe. He can’t move and his eyes act on their own will, staring into the other’ s. He had never thought it would be that breathtaking to see Junhyung again. And judging by the look on the younger’ s face, neither had he. Junhyung’ s eyes are wide in surprise. He seems frozen, his only actual movement comes from a muscle in his jaw that pulses in and out as if it were following a metronome. They stare at each other, the world totally forgotten. They don’t hear nor see anything except each other. Somehow, the room seems a lot hotter than earlier and they both slightly sweat with discomfort. Before they can realize it, all heads turn to Junhyung as it’s his turn for speaking. He presses a shaking hand against the wooden table and slowly stands up as if he isn’t sure that his legs can support his weight. It takes all his might not to seem weak or weird. He finally drops his look away from Hyunseung.
‘I’m Yong Junhyung, stylist’ he manages to say hoping his voice isn’t as shaking as he feels he is.
Hyunseung for his part is recovering from his previous condition. He straightens on his chair but he can’t get his eyes off of Junhyung whereas the other makes a point not to look anywhere but at his hands on his lap. Hyunseung just observes, contemplates, trying to read the other’ s feelings on his face. A stylist? Since when is he a stylist? It seems like in two years, Junhyung made his way through as well. And then Hyunseung understands. That’s why he moved out, and that’s why he quit his job. He’s throwing himself into a challenge. He’s taking a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Now Hyunseung feels odd. Something inside him says ‘See? He’s doing great without you’ but the voice is different from what he expected, and maybe he should be hurt, or scared but instead he’s rather happy that the younger didn’t spend those two years crying over him. There’s a selfish feeling of relief in his heart seeing the other ruling his life, and an ignored pain seeing his lover doing great without him, but that he won’t admit. He smiles though. He has reasons to. He has looked for him for weeks and now Junhyung stands in the same room. He’ll finally have his talk with him. Now all he wishes is that the meeting won’t last long. Just as the thought passes his mind, Mr Park turns to him. He stands up and smiles.
‘Jang Hyunseung, choreographer’
His eyes not once leaving Junhyung who barely lifts his head up as he hears Hyunseung’ s name. Somehow Junhyung feels betrayed. Today he had great expectations. It may seem silly but he had hoped that he would meet his “destiny”. He expected to feel different, to feel proud, finally taking that path. But now, all he wants is to get the hell out of here. He doesn’t want to see Hyunseung, he doesn’t want to talk to him. He’s not ready. He should have known something like that would happen when Hyunseung came to Yoseob’ s. After two years, things couldn’t have stopped here, right? Junhyung doesn’t know but he’s frowning. He just registered what Hyunseung said. Choreographer. He didn’t even know that Hyunseung could dance. If he were alone, he’d have sport a bitter smile right now. As if he truly knew the other anyway... But he’s in the office with nineteen others and Hyunseung and he just stays still. Mr Park is now addressing to two men on Hyunseung’ s right. Something about music for the show. The one who seems to be the oldest nods at Mr Park. He sports dark spiky hair and a serious look. Then the other says something about using a piano. As he hears his voice, Junhyung wonders if he’s really younger than the other. It’s deep and calm. Only his childish smile contrasts with his manly features. Mr Park seems to agree and he then talks about rehearsals. Junhyung tries to process what he says into his mind but he just can’t focus. For those who watch The Simpsons show, he feels like he’s got that stupid little monkey with cymbals inside his head. Or more like the monkey’s screaming “Oh fuck, Hyunseung’ s here!” again and again. That doesn’t help. At all. And then that’s it. Mr Park says something like ‘Alright, everybody thank you for coming, let’s meet again next week when I get the final schedule’ and the man at Junhyung’ s left stands and heads to the door. Junhyung immediately follows without thinking, he really needs to get out.
Hyunseung stands as well and catches a glimpse at Junhyung’ s attempt to leave. He makes his way towards the door when a hand presses on his right shoulder and he has to turn around.
‘Hyunseung, there’s someone I want you to meet’ Mr Park says and smiles.
‘Not now!’ is what he wanna say, ‘Oh really? Who is it?’ are words that come out his mouth instead and he smiles back politely. He lets his boss lead him towards a young man, the one with spiky hair, who greets him. Hyunseung bows to the supposedly older and listen to the conversation more than actually being part of it. He really needs to go after Junhyung. His eyes on the door he watches as Junhyung disappears in the corridor. ‘Do something’ his brain shouts.
‘Em... Mr Park I’m really sorry but I need to get going now’ he tries.
‘Oh well, I don’t want to stop you then’ his boss replies but his hand’s still on Hyunseung’ s shoulder and the young man is quite uncomfortable with the idea of leaving when his boss obviously doesn’t want him to. He looks from Mr Park to the other whose name remains a mystery to our mind-totally-focused-on-Junhyung-right-now Hyunseung.
‘I’m sorry, is there something you want to ask me?’ and the man just smiles.
‘No. It’s okay. We’ll see each other soon enough, you should go’ he imperceptibly winks and Mr Park lets go of his shoulder. Okay what was that? ‘Oh go to hell with your silly questions! You better run!’ his brain shouts again. So Hyunseung does. He runs down the hall, his eyes are scanning every face around him. He exits the building and he spots him. He starts to chase after him but suddenly he freezes. A dog is running in circles around Junhyung and... Yoseob? Didn’t the little blond say that he didn’t know him? Hyunseung’ s eyes widen as the smaller boy bounces happily and throws his arms around Junhyung. Definitely not what a stranger would do. As he watches the scene from afar his heart aches.
>> Junhyung exits the office as fast as he can and runs down the stairs. He expects Hyunseung to chase after him. After all he came at his old place, he’s obviously looking for him. As he speeds up to the train station he hears a bark, somehow familiar. He turns his head and he eyes fall on Yoseob walking towards him, Alf running before him.
‘What are you doing here?’ he asks when Yoseob reaches him and gives him a hug.
‘Couldn’t wait I guess, plus I thought you’d be bored alone on your way back’ he gives his familiar childish smile. Junhyung can’t do nothing but smile back at his friend. ‘So, how did it go?’ Yoseob asks.
‘Well, you won’t believe it-’ Junhyung starts but Yoseob cuts him right away.
‘Oh Junhyung’ he pauses ‘don’t look back but Hyunseung is there’ he adds in a whisper as if he doesn’t want Hyunseung to hear him, which won’t happen since he’s too far from them anyway.
‘Yeah’ Junhyung looks down ‘I know that’
Yoseob leans closer. He can see concern on his face. Did he speak to him? Is Junhyung okay? He doesn’t look like it.
‘Junnie are you okay?’
‘I just...’ he looks in Yoseob’ s eyes and now the younger can tell how confused Junhyung is. ‘I didn’t expect this’
Yoseob pats his shoulder warmly.
‘I don’t know if I should go and talk to him’ he shakes his head ‘I don’t feel like it right now’
‘You don’t have to’ Yoseob says confidently. As the other remains silent he adds ‘Junnie, don’t do this to yourself. He’s the one who ran away’ his hand is now trailing down Junhyung’ s arm. ‘You did no wrong’ he adds and his fingers curl around the other’ s hand. His grip on Junhyung’ s hand is tight and he waits for the other to say something.
‘You’re right’ Junhyung manages to say and he squeezes the hand inside his. ‘Let’s go’ he says with a small smile and with that both of them head back home, Alf walking along with them.
Hyunseung watches them walk away. It feels like he’s never been so close to Junhyung but so far at the same time.
A/N: This is it! Junhyung and Hyunseung in the same room! But, still... not together -___-’’
I’m sorry >< but things can’t be that easy...
Plus, this chapter turned out... weird. Idk why.
I think you’ve already figured it out but the >> is a change of focus from Hyunseung’ s to Junhyung’ s.
PS: Please! Don't be mad at Yoseob! :( I swear he is a good kid! YANG YOSEOB IS GOOD! You'll see!
Author : marnidoo
Rating : pg-13
Pairing : Junhyung/ Hyunseung
Chapters : 4/10
Summary : Hyunseung and Junhyung took different paths in the past but fate seems to think otherwise.
Mending broken hearts (4/10)
The month of June had already started when Junhyung got Mr. Park’ s phone call. He has to meet him at one in the afternoon. Junhyung gets ready and decides to stop by Yoseob’ s place first. He throws his bag pack on his shoulder, grabs his phone and keys and calls Alf out of the room. Alf is Junhyung’ s young German shepherd dog. Why Alf? Well, no one will never know, not even Junhyung himself. The said dog runs happily towards its master, tail waving with excitement. Junhyung locks the front door and both man and dog go down the street.
About half an hour later Junhyung and Yoseob are chatting in the latter’ s living room, Alf lays at Yoseob’ s feet.
‘Nervous?’ Yoseob asks eying his friend above his glass.
‘Hm’ Junhyung looks up as well. ‘More excited actually’
‘You’re right, there’s no need for you to worry, he already gave you the job. Everything will be fine’ Yoseob adds.
Junhyung nods before emptying his own glass.
‘I should get going now’ he states.
‘But you’ve got plenty of time, it’s only ten’ the younger pouts and Junhyung chuckles.
‘Yes, but I don’t really know the place. I’ll explore the neighborhood if I’m early’ Junhyung explains and gets on his feet. Yoseob and Alf follow immediately. They reach the door that Junhyung opens before turning back to his friend.
‘Well, wish me luck then’
‘Haha, I thought you didn’t need it’ Yoseob playfully answers arching a brow.
‘Yeah, whatever’ Junhyung takes a step back. ‘You take care of him, he’ll probably goof around’ he warns.
‘Don’t you say that, he’s kind to me’ Yoseob replies.
‘I know. I was talking to Alf actually’ Junhyung adds with a devilish smile on his face.
‘Yah! Go make some money already!’ Yoseob kicks him out of the apartment. Junhyung laughs and Yoseob sticks his tongue out before closing the door at the other’ s face. Junhyung is still smiling when he arrives at the train station. He studies the map he printed earlier this morning after sitting by a window and sighs. He’s ready to meet with destiny, he has a good feeling about this.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
As Hyunseung wakes up, he feels slightly drunk. He isn’t though. Or maybe he is but only with expectations, excitement, hopes. Mr Park came last night in the practice room, he told him about the meeting today at one in his office. His routine is left unchanged. He wakes up, dresses up and leaves in a hurry grabbing something to eat on his way. Hyunseung only has one class this morning, nonetheless he remains in his dancing room until the clock reads 12:20pm. Then he decides to go out and eat something before heading to Mr Park’ s office. He sits down on a bench in the park near to the school, and takes a mouthful of his sandwich. His mind suddenly slips to something he had tried to avoid for days.
A while ago he went where Junhyung worked when they used to live together. What Hyunseung didn’t expect was that Junhyung quit his job. He went to his apartment, then his work place, but the younger was nowhere to be found. No matter how hard he tried to hide it and keep it locked somewhere deep in his brain, Hyunseung was upset. He is upset. There’s no way he’d give up but hell, Junhyung seems to have put great efforts in hiding himself from him. At this, Hyunseung smiles bitterly. Or maybe Junhyung just forgot about him and moved on. After all, he’s not necessarily missing him, right? He must have felt as he was thrown away, and he was, kind of. Hyunseung shakes his head. Junhyung probably doesn’t think about him anymore and there is no point for him to hide from someone who ran away from him. He glances at his watch and gets on his feet. It’s nearly one and he dreads to be late as he heads to the building.
Hyunseung makes his way to Mr Park’ s office and the door is already closed, which usually isn’t. Great. He’s late. He knocks softly and waits for a ‘come in’ before stepping into the room.
‘Ah, Hyunseung. Great, you were the only missing’ Mr Park says with a warm smile. He isn’t mad at him for being late which is a good thing, Hyunseung thinks. He bows to him and turns to face the other people in the room. When he expected three or four there are actually about twenty men and women in the room. That’s when he realizes how huge this project is. Mr Park gestures him to sit down and he settles in the available chair.
‘Well, now that everyone’s here, I’d like to introduce each of you first’ Mr Park says. Immediately starting as he tells someone’s name and job, the said man stands up and bows to the other, but Hyunseung’ s oblivious to the whole scene for his eyes lay on something, no, someone unexpected. At the far left corner of the table is a face Hyunseung hadn’t seen in a while. His heart is racing, he seems to have forgotten how to breathe. He can’t move and his eyes act on their own will, staring into the other’ s. He had never thought it would be that breathtaking to see Junhyung again. And judging by the look on the younger’ s face, neither had he. Junhyung’ s eyes are wide in surprise. He seems frozen, his only actual movement comes from a muscle in his jaw that pulses in and out as if it were following a metronome. They stare at each other, the world totally forgotten. They don’t hear nor see anything except each other. Somehow, the room seems a lot hotter than earlier and they both slightly sweat with discomfort. Before they can realize it, all heads turn to Junhyung as it’s his turn for speaking. He presses a shaking hand against the wooden table and slowly stands up as if he isn’t sure that his legs can support his weight. It takes all his might not to seem weak or weird. He finally drops his look away from Hyunseung.
‘I’m Yong Junhyung, stylist’ he manages to say hoping his voice isn’t as shaking as he feels he is.
Hyunseung for his part is recovering from his previous condition. He straightens on his chair but he can’t get his eyes off of Junhyung whereas the other makes a point not to look anywhere but at his hands on his lap. Hyunseung just observes, contemplates, trying to read the other’ s feelings on his face. A stylist? Since when is he a stylist? It seems like in two years, Junhyung made his way through as well. And then Hyunseung understands. That’s why he moved out, and that’s why he quit his job. He’s throwing himself into a challenge. He’s taking a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Now Hyunseung feels odd. Something inside him says ‘See? He’s doing great without you’ but the voice is different from what he expected, and maybe he should be hurt, or scared but instead he’s rather happy that the younger didn’t spend those two years crying over him. There’s a selfish feeling of relief in his heart seeing the other ruling his life, and an ignored pain seeing his lover doing great without him, but that he won’t admit. He smiles though. He has reasons to. He has looked for him for weeks and now Junhyung stands in the same room. He’ll finally have his talk with him. Now all he wishes is that the meeting won’t last long. Just as the thought passes his mind, Mr Park turns to him. He stands up and smiles.
‘Jang Hyunseung, choreographer’
His eyes not once leaving Junhyung who barely lifts his head up as he hears Hyunseung’ s name. Somehow Junhyung feels betrayed. Today he had great expectations. It may seem silly but he had hoped that he would meet his “destiny”. He expected to feel different, to feel proud, finally taking that path. But now, all he wants is to get the hell out of here. He doesn’t want to see Hyunseung, he doesn’t want to talk to him. He’s not ready. He should have known something like that would happen when Hyunseung came to Yoseob’ s. After two years, things couldn’t have stopped here, right? Junhyung doesn’t know but he’s frowning. He just registered what Hyunseung said. Choreographer. He didn’t even know that Hyunseung could dance. If he were alone, he’d have sport a bitter smile right now. As if he truly knew the other anyway... But he’s in the office with nineteen others and Hyunseung and he just stays still. Mr Park is now addressing to two men on Hyunseung’ s right. Something about music for the show. The one who seems to be the oldest nods at Mr Park. He sports dark spiky hair and a serious look. Then the other says something about using a piano. As he hears his voice, Junhyung wonders if he’s really younger than the other. It’s deep and calm. Only his childish smile contrasts with his manly features. Mr Park seems to agree and he then talks about rehearsals. Junhyung tries to process what he says into his mind but he just can’t focus. For those who watch The Simpsons show, he feels like he’s got that stupid little monkey with cymbals inside his head. Or more like the monkey’s screaming “Oh fuck, Hyunseung’ s here!” again and again. That doesn’t help. At all. And then that’s it. Mr Park says something like ‘Alright, everybody thank you for coming, let’s meet again next week when I get the final schedule’ and the man at Junhyung’ s left stands and heads to the door. Junhyung immediately follows without thinking, he really needs to get out.
Hyunseung stands as well and catches a glimpse at Junhyung’ s attempt to leave. He makes his way towards the door when a hand presses on his right shoulder and he has to turn around.
‘Hyunseung, there’s someone I want you to meet’ Mr Park says and smiles.
‘Not now!’ is what he wanna say, ‘Oh really? Who is it?’ are words that come out his mouth instead and he smiles back politely. He lets his boss lead him towards a young man, the one with spiky hair, who greets him. Hyunseung bows to the supposedly older and listen to the conversation more than actually being part of it. He really needs to go after Junhyung. His eyes on the door he watches as Junhyung disappears in the corridor. ‘Do something’ his brain shouts.
‘Em... Mr Park I’m really sorry but I need to get going now’ he tries.
‘Oh well, I don’t want to stop you then’ his boss replies but his hand’s still on Hyunseung’ s shoulder and the young man is quite uncomfortable with the idea of leaving when his boss obviously doesn’t want him to. He looks from Mr Park to the other whose name remains a mystery to our mind-totally-focused-on-Junhyung-right-now Hyunseung.
‘I’m sorry, is there something you want to ask me?’ and the man just smiles.
‘No. It’s okay. We’ll see each other soon enough, you should go’ he imperceptibly winks and Mr Park lets go of his shoulder. Okay what was that? ‘Oh go to hell with your silly questions! You better run!’ his brain shouts again. So Hyunseung does. He runs down the hall, his eyes are scanning every face around him. He exits the building and he spots him. He starts to chase after him but suddenly he freezes. A dog is running in circles around Junhyung and... Yoseob? Didn’t the little blond say that he didn’t know him? Hyunseung’ s eyes widen as the smaller boy bounces happily and throws his arms around Junhyung. Definitely not what a stranger would do. As he watches the scene from afar his heart aches.
>> Junhyung exits the office as fast as he can and runs down the stairs. He expects Hyunseung to chase after him. After all he came at his old place, he’s obviously looking for him. As he speeds up to the train station he hears a bark, somehow familiar. He turns his head and he eyes fall on Yoseob walking towards him, Alf running before him.
‘What are you doing here?’ he asks when Yoseob reaches him and gives him a hug.
‘Couldn’t wait I guess, plus I thought you’d be bored alone on your way back’ he gives his familiar childish smile. Junhyung can’t do nothing but smile back at his friend. ‘So, how did it go?’ Yoseob asks.
‘Well, you won’t believe it-’ Junhyung starts but Yoseob cuts him right away.
‘Oh Junhyung’ he pauses ‘don’t look back but Hyunseung is there’ he adds in a whisper as if he doesn’t want Hyunseung to hear him, which won’t happen since he’s too far from them anyway.
‘Yeah’ Junhyung looks down ‘I know that’
Yoseob leans closer. He can see concern on his face. Did he speak to him? Is Junhyung okay? He doesn’t look like it.
‘Junnie are you okay?’
‘I just...’ he looks in Yoseob’ s eyes and now the younger can tell how confused Junhyung is. ‘I didn’t expect this’
Yoseob pats his shoulder warmly.
‘I don’t know if I should go and talk to him’ he shakes his head ‘I don’t feel like it right now’
‘You don’t have to’ Yoseob says confidently. As the other remains silent he adds ‘Junnie, don’t do this to yourself. He’s the one who ran away’ his hand is now trailing down Junhyung’ s arm. ‘You did no wrong’ he adds and his fingers curl around the other’ s hand. His grip on Junhyung’ s hand is tight and he waits for the other to say something.
‘You’re right’ Junhyung manages to say and he squeezes the hand inside his. ‘Let’s go’ he says with a small smile and with that both of them head back home, Alf walking along with them.
Hyunseung watches them walk away. It feels like he’s never been so close to Junhyung but so far at the same time.
A/N: This is it! Junhyung and Hyunseung in the same room! But, still... not together -___-’’
I’m sorry >< but things can’t be that easy...
Plus, this chapter turned out... weird. Idk why.
I think you’ve already figured it out but the >> is a change of focus from Hyunseung’ s to Junhyung’ s.
PS: Please! Don't be mad at Yoseob! :( I swear he is a good kid! YANG YOSEOB IS GOOD! You'll see!