Title : Love Me, Forget Me-Not
Author :
seetwopm Rating : PG
Genre: AU, Drama, Romance, a bit of angst
Pairing : Minho/Key, Jonghyun/Key
Warning : M-PREG
Summary : Nothing hurts like an unrequited love. Choi Minho, the most quiet boy in his school, swore that he had his heart only for Kibum, eventhough Kibum had already fell for Jonghyun who fortunately loved him back. But what would happen if an accident happened and changed their life forever? Would Jonghyun accept Kibum the way he was? Or as the time goes by, would Kibum open his heart for Minho and for... The baby?
A/N : Finally, the chapter 8 is up guys ^^ it’s a bit longer than the other chapters and I think I quite satisfied with this one, at least it’s better than the previous chapter, enjoy reading guys <3
Love Me, Forget Me-Not
CHAPTER 8 : REVELATION
“Well…. Ah I don’t know how to say this, but… There’s a strange rumor circulating in our school. Uhm… Are you… Pregnant?”
Junhyung suddenly asked that sharp question out of the blue. Minho and Jonghyun really had no idea that he would ask such question. It was really unexpected. They exchanged a worried look between each other before slowly turned their gaze to Kibum. Kibum’s expression was… Unreadable. They couldn’t guess what was on his mind. Well, nobody could guess it actually. Kibum was petrified, blank stare plastered on his face. The atmosphere was getting uncomfortable. Silence covered that room, it seemed like nobody could say anything at the moment.
“… Kibum-sshi?” Junhyung finally said after a while, glancing up at Kibum a bit.
“… Y-Yes? Sorry I was just….” Kibum could not manage to finish his sentence. His mind was full of the thought about many things, he couldn’t think straight right now.
“Ah, just forget it… I mean, you don’t have to answer it, sorry for as-“
“Yes, I am.” Kibum said, cutting off Junhyung’s word.
“Sorry?”
“Yes, I am. I’m pregnant hyung.”
Everybody was shocked, even Minho and Jonghyun. They never expected that Kibum would be this straight forward and told Junhyung about it. Junhyung’s eyes widened, he could not believe that the rumor was true. At first He thought that it was just a random absurd bullshit which had been created by some jerks out there. But never, even just once, in his mind that it was true.
“And you guys… Know about it?” Junhyung asked Jonghyun and Minho with his shaky voice, palming his forehead in disbelieve.
The said two once again exchanged a glance then nodded weakly. There was no use of lying this time. They always knew that sooner or later this thing would happen.
“But… How could you… Since when?” This time Junho tried really hard to finish his sentence.
“Almost four months ago…” Kibum said, glancing down, he felt his tears were formed in the corner of his eyes.
Minho, who noticed this, quickly approached Kibum and patted his back lightly to soothe him, while giving Jonghyun the look. The other man nodded, Jonghyun perfectly understood what Minho meant.
“F-Four? Oh Damn… But who’s the-?”
“I think it’s better if we excuse ourselves now, Kibum needs some rest.” Jonghyun abruptly said to their friends which still looked so confused.
“Well, yeah hyung, I think we should go back now, it’s already 5PM anyway.” Elli agreed, he threw Minho an understanding gaze.
Junho, Junhyung, and Dongjun nodded silently, they knew that it was better if they didn’t keep talking about this, beside, as what Jonghyun had said before, Kibum really needed to take a rest, especially after they knew the truth about Kibum’s pregnancy.
“Take care of him while I’m going out, Minho.” Jonghyun said sternly, reminding Minho so that he wouldn’t forget about his position as Kibum’s boyfriend.
“I’ll do it even without your command.” Minho snatched. For Heaven’s grace, how many time he had to tell Jonghyun not to act as if Minho did all the things because of him and as if Kibum was his responsibility.
They were heading to the door when suddenly Junhyung stopped walking and turned his body around.
“You don’t have to worry Kibum-sshi… I mean, about our conversation earlier, we won’t tell anyone. It’s a promise.” Junhyung glanced at Kibum with full of concern.
“Thank you so much hyung, it would be nice if it’s true, we’ll really appreciate it.” Minho bowed his body toward him. Junhyung nodded steadily, then they left the room, leaving Kibum and Minho alone.
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“I’m sorry…”
Minho sat on the edge of the bed, eyeing Kibum which still didn’t let any word came out from his mouth.
“What for…?” Kibum finally tilted his head to the side, staring at Minho.
“For causing so many troubles in your life.”
He then brought Kibum closer and hugged him from behind.
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Jonghyun leant his body to his car, which was being parked on the roadside near the riverbank. He decided to take some fresh air, relaxing his mind from all of the shocks that happened before. Elli and Dongjun had already excused themselves before, because they got some personal things to do while Junho and Junhyung were staying with him. He looked up at the crimson red sky above him, some birds were flying freely, How he wished that he was one of them, flying up above the sky, leaving all the things behind.
“Here.” Junhyung said, poking his shoulder while handing him a can of coke.
“Thanks…” jonghyun mumbled, grabbing the coke and opened the can.
“Feeling better?” staring at Jonghyun worriedly, Junho asked hesitantly.
“I guess so.” Jonghyun replied while gulping his coke.
“Dude, why don’t you tell us?” Junho continued, he felt bad for making his buddy had to face his problem without him.
“I’m just… not ready yet.”
“But at least you could have said something about it, we’re your friends, okay? Gosh, I even consider you as my own brother.” Junhyung grunted. “Man, I still can’t believe you’ll be a dad soon. It must be really hard, I can’t even imagine how I would be if I was in your position.” He continued.
“Well, I….”
It seemed like Junho and Junhyung thought that he was the father of the baby, well, everybody would think the same. Jonghyun was Kibum’s lover after all.
“What’s your plan then?” Junho asked curiously.
“I don’t know… I don’t even know…” He answered honestly.
Jonghyun’s gaze was tracing forward blankly. Plan? What was his plan? He didn’t even think about it yet, what was he going to do? Did he really understand about what situation he was going through? Was he ready to accept all of the consequences?
What if he was really going to marry Kibum in the future? Could he accept that child as his own child? Could he love that baby sincerely? And what if that child really looked like Minho? Would he hate that child? There were hundreds questions in his mind right now which he himself couldn’t even answer them. But one thing he knew, he would try to accept and to love that child as much as he loved Kibum.
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“Minho, we’re going to the same high school right?”
The taller boy nodded lightly, He was really happy to know that he would be together with Kibum again, even in their high school.
“It’s Great then! We won’t be separated.” Kibum smiled widely.
“… I love you.” Minho said, almost inaudible but still loud enough to be heard by Kibum.
“I love you too… -Kibum linked his arm with Minho’s-
Chingu-yah…”
And Minho took Kibum’s hand, with a broken smile on his face while holding his shattered heart in his hand.
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“…Minho-sshi?”
“… Excuse me, Minho-sshi?”
“Ah, yes?”
Minho found Kevin in front of him, shaking his body lightly. He just realized that he was dozing off in his class. To be honest, he was really tired, he could barely sleep because he had to take care of Kibum, and because Kibum had a sleeping problem last night so he was awake all night long.
“I’m really sorry for interrupting you, but the headmaster wants to meet you. He’s waiting for you in the principal office.”
‘Why does the headmaster wanna see me?’ Minho thought in his head.
He had no idea about it at all, so he decided to find it out himself. He bowed thanks to Kevin and quickly made his way to the office.
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Junhyung was right. When Minho walked outside the class, he could hear some whispers about Kibum in the corridor, some students were talking about the rumor, Minho wondered how could the students know about it this fast. Then he was a bit surprised as he found Jonghyun in the corridor. It seemed like he was heading to the principal office as well.
“What are you doing here?” Minho quickly asked him.
“The headmaster wants to see me.”
“He wants to see me as well.”
Jonghyun shrugged and both of them continued their walk to the office.
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“Well, Mr. Choi and Mr. Kim, have you already found out why are you being called here?” Mr. Park, their headmaster, said with his serious tone.
Jonghyun and Minho shook their head, they really had no idea what was going on.
“As you may already know, I call both of you because there is a rumor about Mr. Kim Kibum’s pregnancy, and according to the story, it seems like both of you have something to do with this. All I want to know is…. Is it true that the reason behind Mr. Kibum’s absence is because there’s a problem with his pregnancy? Since some of our students said that they saw you, Mr. Choi, bringing Mr. Kibum to a maternity hospital two days ago.
Hearing what the principal said, Minho and Jonghyun were just looking at each other, didn’t know what to say or what to do. They never thought that the rumor would be this serious.
“ If you two still wouldn’t say anything, then I might assume that the story is actually happened.”
To be honest, Minho was not really a religious person, but this time he prayed to the God, he asked, he begged for some graces, for the forgiveness, for the mercy. He really didn’t know what to do, he wasn’t ready for this situation.
“Yes, Sir. It’s… true.”
Jonghyun finally said after a long silence between them. It was really shocking for both Minho and Mr. Park. Minho turned his gaze to Jonghyun, demanding for an explanation.
Mr. Park took a long and deep breath before getting up from his chair and started to walk toward Jonghyun.
“So… it’s really true. Mr. Kim, I have one more thing to ask you about the rumor, considering the fact that you are known as Mr. Kibum’s… Lover, is it true that you are the father of the baby?”
Jonghyun glanced down but Minho’s eyes quickly widened when he heard the question, he almost got up from his chair if he wasn’t being detained by Jonghyun.
“I-I….”
“But if that was true, then unfortunately Mr. Kim… You and Mr. Kibum would be expelled from the school. We have our rules, in which clearly stated that there are some kind of intolerable violations, and I’m afraid that… this can be considered as one of those violations.”
Jonghyun closed his eyes, he was already determined, he had to do this for everybody’s sake. He didn’t care if he would be expelled. Sooner, or later, there was no difference, this would be happened after all.
“Yes Sir, I am the f-“
“No. It’s me, It’s not him. I’m the real father of the baby. I’m the one who supposes to be responsible for these things.” Minho snatched in a sudden, he didn’t let Jonghyun to finish his sentence.
This time it was Jonghyun’s turn who glared at Minho. The headmaster seemed to be shocked as well.
“Besides, I forced Kibum to do that thing with me, I raped him. He’s innocent. You can expel me, but please don’t expel him.”
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The sky was cloudy, it was going to rain soon. And Minho finally arrived at his house, his real house. He was just coming back from his work and he decided to drop by for changing his uniform before he went to the hospital. But when he opened the door, his brother and his brother’s best friend, Jiyong, was already waiting for him. Minho could see that that Seunghyun was holding a piece of paper in his hand.
“What is this Minho? What is this!” Seunghyun shouted in anger, emphasizing the last word while smashing the paper to the floor.
“You’re being expelled! Gosh, seriously, after all of those craps you did, then this, how could you-“ Seunghyun grabbed Minho’s collar harshly and punched him hard on the face.
“God, Seunghyun! Please don’t, oh gosh, he’s just a kid!” Jiyong abruptly grabbed Seunghyun’s arm, stopping him from beating Minho again.
“Get out now! I don’t care about you anymore!” Seunghyun pointed at the door, urging his little brother to leave.
“Fine hyung, if that’s what you want. I’ll leave, and I won’t come back again.” With those words, Minho ran to the outside and slammed the door behind him.
Seunghyun’s knees were limp, he then fell to the ground with a blank expression on his face. Jiyong sat himself beside him and brought Seunghyun to his embrace.
“This is my fault Ji… I’ve failed as a brother, I can’t be the best brother for him, I’m sorry, I’m sorry...” Seunghyun finally cried, burying his face in Jiyong’s embrace.
“Shush… You didn’t fail… You did great, it’s just that sometimes, everything doesn’t have to be as what we expect to be.”
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Minho peeked inside before entering the hospital room slowly, he didn’t want to wake Kibum up. But when he stepped inside, he found Kibum was already sitting on the bed, staring at him with those perfect eyes.
“Oh Gosh, what happen to your left cheek?” Kibum’s eyes widened when he saw Minho’s cheek, complete with the bruises.
“Ah, no, I… fell on the stair earlier.”
“Don’t lie to me. Are you fighting again? Who did that to you?” Kibum looked right through his eyes, and Minho was weak of that look, he just couldn’t seem to lie to Kibum.
“My brother. But I’m fine, no need to worry.” Minho assured Kibum with a smile on his face.
“is that related to the things which happened today in school…?” Kibum said with a sadness plastered on his face.
“Jonghyun already told me about everything….” Glancing down, Kibum said when he saw a question knotted on Minho’s face.
“Why Minho? Why don’t you just tell the truth? Why do you let yourself bear these things alone?” Tears were now rolling down to Kibum’s cheeks.
Minho sighed, he brought himself closer to Kibum and wrapped his arms around him before Kissing the top of his head.
“I would still be expelled even if I said the truth, so it’s better to be this way. Besides, it’s my fault from the beginning.”
Kibum buried his face in Minho’s chest, he cried his heart out. They were too young, too young to understand the real cruel world.
And somehow, being embraced in Minho’s arm was much warmer than Kibum had ever thought.
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A/N : Yay, finally I could finish it ^^ actually I already finished this chapter yesterday, but I was too tired to post it, so yeah, I decided to do it today :D I feel relieved that finally this story is already reaching this point ^^ and in the next chapter Kibum’s belly will be a bit bloated, because he’s going on his 5th month period of pregnancy :D
Anyway, thank you so much for reading this fic, and as always, comments are always loved :)
I love you guys ^^