The present to the 26 year old, part 5/5
Kangteuk (Kangin/Eeteuk), various pairings, au, strong pg-13
Eeteuk doesn’t want to turn 26; he thinks it’s old. And then, on his 26th birthday, he gets a present from his friends.
A/N: Last chapter :D
The world is full of surprises, Eeteuk has always known that. There are the pleasant surprises, there are the unpleasant surprises. There are surprises which truly are surprises - those that happen like a bolt from a clear sky - and then there are these surprises which someone has made to look like a surprise. Someone very much like Heechul, for example. Heechul always does things like this, and the first thing that flashed through Eeteuk’s mind when he realized that Kangin was sitting next to him in the movie theater was ‘Heechul!’ But really, maybe he should thank Heechul; the way Heechul was smirking at him a few seats away told him that Heechul expected him to thank him later, whether he wanted it or not.
“Kangin?” breathed Eeteuk and leaned ever so slightly towards the man sitting to his left unconsciously.
“That’s my name,” Kangin whispered back, a hint of amusement in his voice.
“What are you doing here?” Eeteuk wondered and jerked as the speakers suddenly was blurting out some very loud pipe organ music.
“I’ve come to clear this mess up,” Kangin whispered and leaned forward and took Eeteuk’s bony hand in his large and warm hand.
“What mess?” Eeteuk asked, voice still in a whisper but Zhou Mi turned to look at Eeteuk anyway and when he saw the other man holding Eeteuk’s hand, he jumped in his seat; Kyuhyun, having thought that it was because of the movie, clutched his hand and whispered soothing words to the older man.
“It’s not that,” hissed Zhou Mi and pointed to his left. “There’s some man holding Eeteuk’s hand. Do you think he wants to rape Eeteuk?” Kyuhyun’s eyebrows shot up under his bangs and he leaned over Zhou Mi to look at who the man who was holding Eeteuk’s hand was.
“Ah, I believe that’s Kangin,” he whispered to Zhou Mi as he was sitting normally in his seat.
“That’s Kangin?” The Chinese man’s eyes went wide and Kyuhyun nodded once. Zhou Mi turned his gaze to Eeteuk and Kangin to continue inspecting them but his boyfriend tugged at his arm and made him look forward again.
“Give them some privacy, will you,” Kyuhyun mumbled into Zhou Mi’s ear. Zhou Mi emitted a low shriek as a very thin and bony dead-white face with totally black eyes and yellow-ish fangs with some blood on, suddenly appear on the screen - having been illuminated by a blue car’s car lights, only to disappear into the darkness two seconds later.
“What mess?” Eeteuk insisted as Kangin hadn’t answered him.
“This whole thing,” Kangin mumbled and looked firmly into Eeteuk’s brown eyes. One side of the older man’s face was white, blue and green-ish from the light that came from the big screen. Eeteuk realized what Kangin meant and drew a shaky breath and let out an “oh”. Kangin’s face was calm despite having Eeteuk’s face merely ten centimeter’s away from his and despite that some people were yelling on top of their lungs (Eeteuk’s mind noticed Zhou Mi, Heechul, Donghae, Henry and Sungmin). Eeteuk on the other hand, wasn’t as calm as Kangin - at least he didn’t feel like he was calm. A few minutes went by without either of them saying a thing. Then Kangin spoke.
“Listen, Eeteuk,” a small shiver of pleasure at the whisper of his name and the tone Kangin had spoken it in, went through Eeteuk’s body. Kangin sighed, seemingly struggling with the words.
“Yes?” Eeteuk asked silently and Kangin looked up at him; the corners of Eeteuk’s lips twisted upwards. Kangin looked so innocent and cute, but Eeteuk could see that he was at loss for words. Kangin closed his eyes for a brief second and then he opened them again and looked straight into Eeteuk’s eyes. His mouth opened and he softly, softly, started singing, just audible enough for Eeteuk to hear.
“Looking into your eyes, into your eyes. It’s as if I’m, it’s as if I’m tied to something. I can’t escape now the image of you, image of you walking to me it’s as if you stepped on my heart while coming. I can’t escape now.” Rather than the words, Eeteuk was shocked and spellbound by the low, deep and melodic voice. He could feel it deep inside of him and he got a warm and fuzzy feeling in his stomach. When Kangin stopped, he couldn’t help but to wish for Kangin to continue. But then it hit him what Kangin had sang.
“Wh-what?” he choked out. Someone hushed at him but he didn’t notice, the screams, the music from the movie, all it was just background sounds for him. He could hear his blood rushing around in his body in his ears but otherwise from that, it was only his own and Kangin’s breathing that he heard.
“I’ve fallen for you so much that I can’t turn back.” sang Kangin and took Eeteuk’s hand which he still had a firm hold of, and placed it over his heart. Eeteuk could hear the organ beat rapidly and Kangin smiled slightly at him.
“…” said Eeteuk and tried to figure out what really was happening. He was unconscious of his hand clutching tightly at Kangin’s white shirt, fingers gripping at the buttons. Why was Kangin singing that to him? Why was he here in the first place? Why had he his hand on top of Eeteuk’s? Why was Kangin looking at him like that? Why- Eeteuk’s train of thoughts got cut off, by no one else than himself when he suddenly understood. He understood why Kangin had sung that to him. He understood why he was there. He understood why his hand was on top of Eeteuk’s. He understood why Kangin was looking at him like that. Because he saw the same expression in Kangin’s dark orbs that he had seen in Kyuhyun’s eyes and in Sungmin’s, Han Geng’s, Heechul’s, Zhou Mi’s, Donghae’s, Kibum’s, Ryeowook’s, Henry’s - he saw what he had seen in basically every ones of his friend’s eyes when they looked at their respective boyfriend.
He saw love. And it was directed to him. Heechul might joke about Eeteuk being stupid and slow sometimes, but Eeteuk knew this. And it wasn’t because he had very high thoughts of himself, but because you learn to recognize the expression of love after seeing it so many times. Eeteuk wanted to scream of joy, he wanted to jump up and down(like Donghae, Henry and Zhou Mi did when they were high from too much sugar), he wanted to squeeze the life out of Heechul(because clearly this was his doing), he wanted to kiss Kangin, he wanted to - he wanted to do so many things but he weren’t going to do them(because he couldn’t jump up and down like Donghae, Henry and Zhou Mi - everybody would think he was a madman, he couldn’t squeeze the life out of Heechul - Eeteuk liked being able to see, thank you very much, he couldn’t kiss Kangin because they were in a movie theater). So he settled for blushing, smiling and whispering, “me too” to Kangin and clutching Kangin’s shirt even harder.
Kangin exhaled deeply - ‘had he been holding his breath this whole time?’ - and increased his hold on Eeteuk’s hand. Then he leaned forward and brushed his lips over Eeteuk’s. It was dark in the very big - almost huge room - except for the screen that sometimes illuminated the movie watcher’s faces, and so nobody saw when Eeteuk pressed his lips to Kangin’s again and kissed him as passionately as he possibly could. Nobody saw Kangin’s hand come to a rest on Eeteuk’s thigh. Nobody saw Eeteuk’s hand sliding down Kangin’s chest and down to the hem of the shirt. Nobody saw the hand sneaking inside and caressing the lower part of Kangin’s abdomen. Nobody saw Kangin’s other hand encircle Eeteuk’s neck and then travelling up to Eeteuk’s hair. And those who actually saw, quickly looked away, blushed, and turned their attention to the big screen instead, trying to ignore the kissing men on row eight.
It was when they had been kissing for a good ten minutes and their breathing was heavy that Zhou Mi thought that they were getting a bit too comfy on the seats, and so he poked Eeteuk in the back. Eeteuk let go of Kangin with a start and turned around in his seat to look at Zhou Mi. The Chinese man smirked at him. “Hyung, it’s good that you and Kangin are fine again, but there are people here that wouldn’t appreciate if you have sex here and now.” He winked at Eeteuk and the other man blushed and murmured “sorry” and promised to not do anything of that sort. Zhou Mi grinned and then poked Kyuhyun in the arm. Kyuhyun turned his head to look at Zhou Mi and Zhou Mi pointed at Eeteuk and Kangin who now were holding hands and leaning on each other. Kyuhyun grinned and then turned to his right to spread the new to the rest.
When the movie ended, Eeteuk and Kangin were the first ones out from the movie theater, only bothering to say bye to Kyuhyun and Zhou Mi before dashing away, hand in hand. Kyuhyun shook his head, amused, and took Zhou Mi’s hand and squeezed it. Heechul looked after Eeteuk and smirked before draping his arm over Han Geng’s shoulder. “I did it,” he said in triumph and sounded quite amused also.
The news spread fast in the office and soon Yesung found out that (“his”) Eeteuk was dating Kangin. Once again it happened while he was walking down the corridor and happened to hear Eeteuk’s name being mentioned inside the man’s restroom and as he had done the times before that, he pressed himself to the door and listened eagerly.
“I did it~” someone, sounding very much like Heechul, sing-songed.
“Yeah yeah, great hyung,” Kibum(Yesung guessed) said.
“But isn’t this wonderful?” Sungmin(Yesung was sure it was Sungmin) said happily. “Eeteuk and Kangin are finally together~” Yesung leaned away from the door and his eyes widened in shock. Then he pressed his ear to it again, refusing to believe he had heard right.
“I know,” someone with a Chinese accent said, sounding as happy as Sungmin had. “It’s so perfect; they really fit each other well.” The person finished with a small happy sigh. Yesung forgot himself and pulled the door open. Heechul, Han Geng, Sungmin, Zhou Mi, Donghae, Kibum and Jaejoong looked up at him with shocked expressions. Heechul was the one who pulled himself together first and smirked.
“Well, well, I think we’ve found our little eavesdropper at last.” Yesung blushed as he realized that they had known all along that he had been standing outside the door.
“What did you say about Eeteuk?” he finally managed to ask.
“Didn’t your mother ever tell you that it’s impolite to listen to other’s private conversations?” Heechul said, ignoring Yesung’s question.
“What did you say about Eeteuk?” Yesung repeated through gritted teeth.
“Oh Eeteuk? Nothing really…” Heechul said and grinned. “We were just talking about how he has a boyfriend now.” Yesung stared at them, Jaejoong’s, Sungmin’s and Zhou Mi’s expression confirming what Heechul just had said. And he made a 180 degrees turn and ran away, fighting his urge to burst in tears and missing the way Heechul laughed after him. Yesung had never before known what real heartbreak was like, but now he was experiencing a really, really hard one. It hurt. It hurt so much, knowing that the person you loved, loved another man. Yesung first thought about killing this Kangin person who had managed to steal “his” Eeteuk’s heart, but the he realized that he would probably end up in jail for that so he deserted that idea.
Then he thought about kidnapping Eeteuk, but he realized he would end up in jail for that too, so no thanks. At last he came up with one idea to forget Eeteuk (who was really happy now, Yesung had noticed. He was always smiling in the office and he looked like a whole new person and it made Yesung’s heart ache to know that it wasn’t he that had made Eeteuk so happy, but another man). Drink. Drink, drink, drink and then drink a little more. That was his plan. So he headed out to a nearby bar and sat down at a bar stool and ordered the strongest liquor in that they had in that bar. And he drank. And drank, and drank. Eventually, he became drunk and he realized that the bartender was actually very handsome.
He leaned over the bar disk and beckoned the bartender to get closer. When the bartender was close enough for his liking, he spoke, alcohol smelling breath hitting the pretty bartender in the face. “Hey, you’re cute,” he sluddered and grinned at the bartender who smiled politely at him.
“Thank you,” he said.
“Wanna - wanna have some fun with me?” Yesung waggled his eyebrows. The bartender froze a bit but Yesung didn’t notice.
“Eh, I’m sorry, but I already have a boyfriend,” he declined politely and gave Yesung an apologetical smile. Yesung groaned. Why were all the cute ones taken already? After one hour of more drinking, Yesung decided to get home and he began the short walk to his house. The walk which usually took Yesung about ten minutes, took now one hour. The next day when he woke up with a massive hangover, he cursed himself for being so stupid and drinking so much. So the drinking plan didn’t work either, because he still remembered Eeteuk and his damn charming dimple-smile. And it still gave him a hard-on. But after one month of mourning over losing Eeteuk to Kangin, a new girl started in the company.
Her name was SoEun and she was really pretty. She was not what people would call slim, but she was not fat or anything like that either. She looked very natural and soon Yesung found himself falling heads over heels in love with her. He eventually asked her out, she smiled at him and said that she would very much like to go on a date with him. After two weeks of going on spontaneous dates, Yesung asked her to officially become his girlfriend. SoEun smiled her blinding smile again and her brown eyes twinkled and nodded happily. Yesung was floating on clouds and he was happy again. So extremely happy.
The morning after the movie night, Eeteuk woke up. He smiled as saw that Kangin was curled up against his side. The sun shone in through the window and Kangin’s hair glittered. Eeteuk had this very nice and warm feeling in his stomach again.
“Morning,” Kangin mumbled and sat up while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and smiled at sleepily at Eeteuk.
“Morning,” Eeteuk greeted back and smiled so all his teeth were showing. The light pain which was shooting up his back didn’t matter. It didn’t matter that his stomach was a bit sticky from yesterday. It didn’t matter that his hair was really tousled and that he had a red mark on his chin from that the pillow had been a bit wrinkled under his chin. It didn’t matter because Kangin was here. Kangin leaned close to Eeteuk and kissed him softly, eyelids fluttering close. Not even the morning breath mattered. Kangin chuckled when Eeteuk’s hands circled his neck.
“Don’t you want to take a shower first? And perhaps brush your teeth?” Eeteuk frowned at the last part but then as the first part registered in his mind, he grinned.
“I’ll shower if you shower with me.” Kangin smiled at him and kissed him again. Then he slowly made his way off the bed and pulled Eeteuk with him into the shower.
After they were done showering, Eeteuk pulled on a pair of grey boxer shorts and Kangin’s shirt from yesterday. Kangin protested a bit at that but when Eeteuk kissed him and told him that if het him wear his shirt today, he would also promise to wear the boxers all day, Kangin was happy to let Eeteuk wear his shirt. Because who could say no to get to see Eeteuk’s legs the whole day? Certainly not Kangin. When they were seated at the kitchen table, busy eating and talking and laughing and feeding each other, the door slammed open and the whole gang came rushing inside the kitchen.
“Hey!” Eeteuk exclaimed and pulled away his spoon from Kangin’s mouth and Kangin frowned. “What are you guys doing here?”
“I told you it was a bad idea to come,” Kyuhyun hissed at Heechul but Heechul just smirked.
“Good morning to you too, Teukie and Kangin,” he said. Kangin nodded at them and Eeteuk sighed.
“Oh my god! So you two are actually together now?!” Henry shouted and ran over to Eeteuk. Eeteuk chuckled and pulled down Henry in his lap and ruffled his hair.
“Yeah,” he said and smiled lovingly at Kangin who returned the smile. Heechul made gagging noises in the background.
“Eeteuk~!” Jaejoong exclaimed and pushed away Henry from Eeteuk’s lap and hugged the older man. “I’m so happy for you!” And then it all became a mess, some(aka Kyuhyun, Zhou Mi, Sungmin, Donghae, Ryeowook, Junsu and Changmin) congratulated and hugged Eeteuk, some just smiled at Eeteuk and Kangin(aka Han Geng, Kibum and Yunho) and some dunked Kangin on the back(aka Yoochun, Eunhyuk and Shindong). Heechul was just standing there, smirking.
“Don’t I deserve a thank you?” He at last asked Eeteuk and Kangin with a raised eyebrow. “Sine this was all my plan. It was I who came up with the idea to send Kangin in a box to you, Eeteuk. It was my idea to invite Eeteuk to the movie theater and it was I who made sure Kangin would be there too.” Eeteuk sighed but smiled.
“Thank you, Chullie,” he then said and Heechul screamed.
“I told you, you can’t call me that!” Kangin laughed and Eeteuk laughed and suddenly everybody was laughing, except for Heechul of course. Eeteuk locked eyes with Kangin and smiled his dimple-smile and Kangin smiled back. And as one, they mouthed ‘I love you’. It had taken them quite long time to come to that realization and to this happiness, but now they finally had it and they weren’t going to let go of it. Not of it and not of each other.
Later, a lot of things happened. Eeteuk and Kangin moved together into Eeteuk's apartment, but because it was so small, they soon moved out and into a bigger one. Eeteuk decided to not prosecute or sue Yesung, despite his boyfriends eager insists. Yesung eventually became friends with them, and so did Sungmin's boyfriend Siwon(and everybody loved him, especially Heechul and Han Geng). Kangin and Eeteuk got an own nickname; Kangteuk. They became the mother and the father of their group of friends and they didn't complain(Eeteuk was secretly loving it). They had one fight, which lasted exactly 3 hours and 27 minutes. And they shoved and talked about their love to whoever was willing to see and listen.
(Heechul thought that they were totally gross because they were so in love and showing it to the world, but when Han Geng proposed to Heechul, he quickly shut up and started bragging instead with the huge diamond ring he now wore on his left hand’s ring finger. And one day when Kangin and Eeteuk announced that they were going to adopt a child, Heechul didn’t even roll his eyes, instead a time later Heechul and Han Geng also adopted a child and nobody commented on that.)
The End
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