Post #27

[seoulfulness]

Fics (# 26)

broken, unbroken shinee/exo, minho/kai, implied!minho/taemin
untitled exo, kris/lay
How To Snag An Attractive Bodyguard, by Prince Sehun Exo; Sehun/Kai
girlfriends soloist/f(x), iu/sulli
bulletproof but has everything to lose dbsk, yoochun/changmin
put on a happy face vixx, n/ravi

Comments

wish you were here from the beginning (1/2) ; exo/b1a4, lu han/baro

[anonymous]

Lu Han is eight when he gets his first letter.

His teacher had given him the idea when he had raised some interest on South Korea when they were looking at a map of their country. She smiled at him and placed her hand on his shoulder, stating that if he wanted to learn more about the country, he should get a pen pal.

Problems arose. He didn’t know Korean and he doesn’t even know how to set up a pen pal with someone in South Korea let alone start writing to them. Thankfully, his teacher comes to school the next day with a website that he can go onto with his parent’s permission that allows him to get matched with someone around his age from South Korea. He would be writing in English too, but the point of the exercise was that they would teach each other words from their own language as they go along.

He gets an e-mail from the site with a small description of who he will be writing with. It is a cute little boy, two years younger than him, named Cha Sunwoo. The e-mail states that the little boy will be writing to him first, and to wait patiently for the letter to arrive.

When his mother waves the letter in front of his face upon returning home, he screams with excitement and rips the envelope open. Inside is pretty, white paper with a pink trim and drawings all around. At the top reads Hello Lu Han-ge! Lu Han’s heart swells.

The first letter describes Sunwoo, his family, his friends, his school (and the annoying Lee Junghwan that is in his class) and how excited he is to have a pen pal from China-and especially one like Lu Han. Lu Han is smiling ear-to-ear the whole time, even if some words are a bit difficult and he has to ask his mom what they mean and Sunwoo’s handwriting is a bit hard to read. He grabs his dictionary and starts writing the letter back.

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Sunwoo finds it startling and amazing that Lu Han is one of his best friends, even if he has never met him in real life. Sure, he has spent a couple of minutes talking to Lu Han via skype, but he has never seen much more than his head and neck compared to the friends that he has had in his classes since he was two. Internet chats have become omens, but nothing was like the coarse feeling of the paper between his fingertips whenever they wrote to each other.

Lu Han had moved once; Sunwoo twice. They made sure that they always knew where they were, what was going on in their lives. Sunwoo knew of Lu Han’s best friend besides him, a guy named Zhang Yixing, and heard of the small misadventures of the two. He learned of the wooing process of Wu Fan, a Canadian exchange student that Yixing had fallen for. He had laughed at the description of the scary Huang Zi Tao by Lu Han, and had cried when Lu Han had lost one of his pets.

Lu Han was a very big part of him, even if he had never looked into his real eyes, hugged his real body, listened to his real voice. The letters were enough and they were learning-he could now write a bit of Mandarin and Lu Han, who was always better in languages than he was, was writing to him in Korean. He had a box filled with the letters that sat right next to him on the bed. He was the only person that had ever read them.