Unreachable [Chapter 11/12]
Title: Unreachable
Rating: PG || Genre: Romance/Drama || Status: On-Going || Chapters: 11/12
Pairing(s): YooSu
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Basic Synopsis: Yoochun and Junsu's lives get entangled the moment their parents decide to marry each other. Yoochun is older, shorter and not cool at all. Junsu is younger, taller and overly cool. For Yoochun, his "brother" is perfect and that is annoying. For Junsu, Yoochun is perfect in his own way.
Sometimes, looking for something won't let you see what is already there...
Year of 2008 - “Break away”
Kim Junsu, 22 years old, junior year of my political sciences major in the National University of Seoul.
This was a year that I want to forget. At least part of it.
During this year I decided to estabilish my priorities and given the fact that I wouldn’t have to try very hard during that year due to my brilliant grades, I defined my social life as my priority.
I was the legal age to be able to drink now - not that it was ever a problem for me in that area - and I started going to a new night club where almost every night my classmates would gather and had fun.
I started by inviting Yoochun to go with me, since it wouldn’t hurt him to be a little more sociable and go out at night - and be with me for that matter. Ever since what had happen in Paris he had changed his attitude towards me and was even more ‘boring’ than before, always telling me what was right or wrong.
I would have preferred to have a serious talk with him about what had happen, but he brushed the topic everytime I mentioned it.
I decided to give him his last chance, but he kept refusing. Everytime I asked him to go out to the club with me he’d say he had to study and even I knew there was a limit to how an excuse wears out when you use it too many times.
I gradually started insisting less and as the days went by I would ask him if he wanted to go with me, having yet some hope that just maybe he’d say yes, but that didn’t happen. In the end I stopped insisting; I would just grab my things and leave.
I gave him his last chance and he didn’t take it. Probably because he didn’t want to. After all, it’s like I said: he had never given me false hopes, simply because he never gave me hope to start with. It was probably just my one-sided love so I lost hope he would never return it and decided to move on.
That was when I met her.
On one of the nights that I went to the night club where I was already a regular, I noticed a girl that would be there almost every night also with her friends. Her looks were simple, which made her stand out actually. Long, wavy brown hair and a shy, yet captivating, smile.
We were introduced by a friend in common and we realised that both of us went to the same college, despite her being majoring in economy. Her name was Jang Ri In and she was half chinese and half korean but despite being born in China, she had come to Korea when she was ten years old.
I won’t deny that she captivated me, but I won’t say that I fell in love immediately either because I would be a hypocrite if I said so and unfortunately there was still someone who filled most of my thoughts, but she started working her way into my heart.
A few months later and I managed to stop thinking about the past or about what could have been and I was grateful to her for that.
At the end of the year, came a chance for me to participate in a internship during my seniour year and the chance to get a solid job offer afterwards. I was so thrilled with all those great news that I thought of sharing them with Yoochun, thinking that he would be happy for me.
“Beijin?! But that is in China!”
“Yes, and one of the biggest political and economical centres...”
“You are moving to China and you talk about it so casually?” he scoffed
“How did you want me to tell you? It’s a great opportunity, Yoochun. It’s going to allow me to do what I really want to do in the future and I’ll be working on my field. I’ll have time to come back to Seoul later”
“What about me?” He beamed
“What about you?
What did he want after all? Make me go crazy? Make me doubt myself and the latest decisions I had made?
Meanwhile he appologized for his sudden reaction and I felt like that was the time to tell him about Ri In but that would only turn out to be the worst idea I had ever had because as soon as I told him I had a girlfriend, he made a scandal.
We ended up arguing, but this time things got ugly.
“What is your problem exactly? First you get paranoid because of my internship in Beijin and now you freak out when I tell you that I have a girlfriend? You weren’t expecting me to stay here all my life playing with you, right?”
“I am warning you: You better stop having that attitude with me Kim Junsu.” He said, pointing his finger at me.
“Take that out of my face!” I pushed his hand away with a slap and that argument soon got into a more physical one when I hit his face with my fist. He fell on the floor.
Almost immediately, he got up and we ended up hitting each other nonstop until our classmates came and made us separate. Oh and this scene was right in front of the college’s front gate. There goes my reputation...
“I am glad this internship came up. I don’t know how I would stand to keep looking into your face!” I yelled, still trying to get out from my friend’s grip.
That fight was the final straw, we went through our separate ways and after that day, we never talked again.
Year of 2009 - “The return”
Kim Junsu, 23 years old. At the time I was finishing my internship in Beijin.
After departing with Ri In to Beijin - she was part of the few chosen ones to be able to participate in that internship - I didn’t go home once and so I ended up not going to the graduate ceremony that happened in my university. I was kind of busy with the last preparations that had to do with the projects I had developed during the internship and the final presentations for them. If my idea was approved, than that would get me a contract in a prestigious company.
I ended up succeeding and was finally able to start preparing for my return. I was actually anxious. As much as I had loved the experience that the internship outside my country gave me, I missed home. I missed my parents and... my older brother.
A lot happened during the months I was away and mostly thanks to my patient girlfriend, I had thought about how things between me and Yoochun had stayed when I left and I ended up regretting for leaving our relationshiop like that.
Of course that Ri In didn’t know that I had ever liked (or still did) Yoochun in a more than brotherly way and so she convinced me that the first thing I had to do after getting back to Korea was to hug him and appologize even if I thought that he, more than me, was to blame for what had happen.
In a way, that was how she got me. Her huge heart and her pure thoughts that had no evil whatsoever in them made me feel that being with her was the best decision I had made in years and it really made me think of how one person can mend our heart without us even realizing it.
One month prior to my schedduled date to return to Korea, I called my parents to let them know about it. And I was not only talking about the fact that I was going home.
“Oh, by the way dad, I have something else to tell you and I bet I’ll surprise you. I decided to get married.”
“Are you serious, Junsu? When did you decide on that?”
“It’s been a while now. Me and Ri In thought a lot about it and decided that it’s what both want to.”
My father sounded insecure. Maybe he thought that it was a last minute decision or a sudden capricious idea, but it was far from being that. It was something to which I had given a lot of thought and something that seemed right and natural to do since my relationship with Ri In was deeper than anyone could think.
I was anxious to see how Yoochun would react to it though. After all, he was still a big part of who I was and who I had become...
A/N: It's short, I know, but that's because it had more descriptions than actual dialogue ^_^ So...... there's only one chapter until the fic is over and next Friday it'll be the last chapter. I'll ask for the same as last week: If you want to know how this will end, please comment. It'll make the update faster. So, more than 15 comments again? It's up to you ~ *hugsssssss*