Falling in Love
Title: Falling in Love
Pairing: Kangteuk
Genre: Romance/Fluff
Rating: PG
Summary: What Leeteuk knows about falling in love is completely wrong.
Leeteuk knew about love, or at least he thought he did, it was inevitable given his career choice. When you are an idol you get to sing sickly sweet bubble gum lyrics about the girl of your dreams. Songs about falling in love, staying in love forever, losing love, these were all things Leeteuk knew, and knew well.
Practically his whole life he had been inundated by images of love, his whole job depended on how well the fans loved him, and Leeteuk knew enough about love to manipulate that.
Falling in love is like sky diving off a cliff and hoping the other person is there to catch you. It’s like drowning in the ocean, being swamped by desire. It’s sweaty palms, and nervous laughter, it’s like butterflies in your stomach. Falling in love has been likened to a million cliché things. And that’s what Leeteuk knew.
Until he met Kangin.
More specifically until that one ordinary day over dinner when he realized he was in love with Kangin.
It was a surprise to be sure. Leeteuk hadn’t expected the revelation. Because falling in love with Kangin hadn’t been like drowning, or falling off a cliff, there were no violins playing a romantic melody in the background.
Falling in love with Kangin had been tired smiles over breakfast, practical jokes on fellow bandmates, giving up a few precious hours of sleep just to stay up and talk. It hadn’t been a wave of desire crashing over him, it had been a slow trickle building up over months and years of friendship.
The moment he realized that he was in love hadn’t hit him like a ton of bricks. They were sitting on the futon at 11:14pm eating their instant ramen and Leeteuk had looked at Kangin, and Kangin had smiled back at Leeteuk, and then Leeteuk had said
“Kangin, I think I’m in love with you”
And Kangin had said “Ok” and kissed back.
Falling in love was nothing like Leeteuk had expected, and until that moment Leeteuk never realized how short all the clichés fell.
The End