Title: Best Friend (10a/12)
Author:
stolenflowerRating: G - PG16
Pairing/Focus: Taemin/Key
Summary: Lee Taemin and his best friend, Kim Kibum, couldn't be any more different from each other but somehow they click like two peas in a pod.
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nineteen&twentyone;
Taemin is an adult when he falls into the trap of benefits.
"Kibum, you know I like you, right?" Taemin asks one day as Kibum's heading out the door to his job at a fashion magazine office.
"Uh, yeah, I like you too, baby, but I have to go now. Bye," Kibum says back and shuts the door behind him. Taemin leans back on the couch and pouts.
It's been almost half a year since Taemin's disastrous relationship and he can say that he's completely over it. He still attends the academy, and so do the other two. They run into each other here and there but Taemin is always friendly to them, because, hey, he fell for his best friend, why can't Jonghyun and Jinki?
They're both still awkward around Taemin because of the words that had been exchanged but Taemin brushes it off because he's over it.
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"You know what I realized?" Kibum asks, his body hanging out the window and a cigarette clipped in his hand. He had already cut the habit but still smokes whenever he's stressed. "You never call me hyung anymore."
"Hyung," Taemin says to tease Kibum, "I'm an adult now, I don't need to respect you."
"Uh, yeah you do." Kibum kills his cigarette using the brick wall outside and pulls himself inside before closing the window. He plops onto the couch beside Taemin and curls up against him. "I miss my respectful Tae-baby."
"I miss my adorable baby face too," Taemin agrees.
"Yah, you still have your baby face, so quit complaining." Kibum pinches both of Taemin's cheeks for good measure.
"Ow, ow, ow," Taemin brushes Kibum's slender fingers away and rubs his cheek roughly. Kibum sighs and lays his head on the armrest, thighs sitting on Taemin's lap. "Work?"
"Yeah," Kibum sighs loudly once again. "Stupid boss being stupidly stupid."
"Only person who's a bigger diva than you, Kibum," Taemin teases and flicks Kibum's nose lightly with his pointer finger.
"I'm not a diva," Kibum pouts.
"Unfortunately, yeah, you are," Taemin disagrees.
"I'm not." Kibum adds some eyebrow-furrowing to his pout.
Taemin smiles fondly down at Kibum before straddling him. "Yes, you are," he sing-songs against Kibum's pouting lips before placing a kiss on them.
Kibum responds back immediately and Taemin feels his arms circling around his neck before they pull him down. He lets Kibum hold him for a few more seconds and then breaks the kiss. Kibum stares up at him, eyes wide and innocent, lips red and abused, and hair completely mussed up, even though neither of them had touched it.
"You ain't getting any of this until you agree to be my boyfriend," Taemin says sternly. Kibum frowns at the words and pushes Taemin off of him and onto the floor. "Ow, that hurt."
"Serves you right, you little brat," Kibum snarls and stands up. "I have a date in a couple hours and I have to go get ready. Entertain yourself," Kibum concludes and dramatically catwalks out of the living room.
"Ugh, the one you're looking for is right here, you know!" Taemin yells from his position on the floor.
"When pigs fly!" Kibum replies.
"One day they will!"
"Then wait for that day, we shall!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
"Okay!"
"Okay!"
"Fantastic!"
"Shut up!" A comb comes flying into the living room and lands a good distance from where Taemin is lying and he laughs.
"Fail!"
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