[unfinished fic] - My Magical love story
When he was a 4 years old kid, he was just an ordinary boy with bubbly and cheerful attitude. He brought happiness and the king among those kids on his neighborhood. Where as the children follow him everywhere, worship him like he was their hero. And he was proud of it.
Until one night change his life forever.
No more friends, no one wanted to be friend with him, not even one dare to get close to him. They said he was cursed. Was it true? Oh, that was the funniest joke he ever heard.
Jokes that too bad was probably true.
He imagines a fairy tale. Probably he made it up, but that will be the best explanation for his weirdness - he refuse to say “it” as a specialty -
Believe it or not, just pretend so. Here is the story…
In a faithful day, angels are coming down to the earth for playing. They play all day long, and when they want to return to heaven, one of them accidently dropped their magic stick. The magical thing fload around the air and swaying along the wind take it to. It finally reach the ground but too bad before the stick touch the soil it hit his head. He winced for the pain feeling, but see nothing hit him and he shrugg his shoulders.
Nothing happen at him the day though, but when he wake up the next morning, the magic works.
‘abracadabra… ears, hear up’
Was that make sense to you??
No?
Believe me. It made sense. Because on that morning, the normal him was gone.
Because, since that morning, he, Kim heechul, can hear what people thought.
Sucks?
Really-really-really sucks.
‘oh my gosh, Choi shiwon is walking this way, what should I do? What should I do??’
‘geez, can he stop looking at me?! If he love me can he just confess and took me somewhere and having a hot sex!’
‘damn, my parents will kill me if they knew that I failed my test, maybe I have to sleepover at ryeowook’s house,’
Heechul yawn tiredly, his eyes barely open to eat his lunch. The buzzing bee of people thought really annoy to the core of him. He careless, this is something normal though in his life. He saw the blond man in front of him busy writing down the history notes, heechul eyeing him with bored eyes. He smirk inside his head when he hear what the other been thinking despite his seriousness,
‘what should I do? Do I have to call him back? But, I don’t want to give him chance. He is a playboy, I know that he only play with me.. but, but, if I’m not calling him back, will he leave me??’
Ohh, teukie, teukie.. who know that you fall in love with the super playboy kim youngwoon? Too stubborn to admit it, huh? He narrowed his eyes when he heard another buzzing voice of someone not far from him. Damn his ability, how far exactly he could hear someone thought?
‘come on, walk there! You coward, how could you that scared when you’ve known as the biggest playboy in the school!! stupid kangin!! Just go and ask him out!!’
Amazed, heechul raise his brows as his eyes caught the sight of the playboy’s big body in behind the announcement board. Is he playing stupid here?
Chuckle slightly, he doesn’t realize that he got his only friend’s attention. “why are you laughing? Is there something funny?”
Heechul shook his head lightly, “nope, nothing. It’s just… I don’t know that he is so stupid,” he pointed his chin toward a certain someone, who at the time took his chance to steal a glance at their side. Leeteuk who followed heechul’s stare blush in red when he locked eyes with the big man who also quickly turned his face around. Heechul can help but laugh full heartedly as he hold his stomach. They are so funny.
Suddenly there are many voices, the students walk into the cafeteria in the same time, the longing place turn like a fish market and in a fast speed deft heechul’s ears. It ringed so loud, left, right, front, back.. the voice come from everywhere. The big doe eyes man clutched his ears tightly, eyes shut close. Cold sweat appeared on his forehead,
Hurt, too loud, too many voices. His head now in a deep pain, clumsily he stood up, his feet bumping into everything in front of him and he stumble in his way.
He has to get out of here... hate this.. why can’t his life be more quiet?? More peaceful?!
“heechul, what happen?!” his friend worried face brought him more headache. He doesn’t need someone too close to him right now. He slapped leeteuk’s hand and walk out the crowded canteen with gritted teeth.
His life is sucks.
When he was out of the cafeteria, Heechul pain become lessen more and slowly disappeared and he finally fixed his gaze to the front. He is in the end of the corridor, panting slightly while trying to stand up still. Which way he has to go? Left or right?
He took a deep breath, and slowly his ears perking to every sound he could hear. He chose to the left where the voice more soundless.
Have this great special power, people will think if he was like a superman, huh, superman is shit. He doesn’t want this ability, he just want a peace life, he want his normal life like he ever had. 15 years live like this, tired him.
He didn’t know how to control it, it have been so long but he still can’t block all those voices. It made him suffered. One way this can be his advantage, he could know if people have intention to hurt him, how much he hate this power, he have to thank that he still live until today was because of his ability to hear people thought.
Nonetheless this power also his nightmare, how he could easily heard people hates toward him, how they tease him for his weird attitude, he was alienated because of this power too.
He cursed, that was what they called him. Devil. Demon. Even his parents thought the same too. When he was little, when he told his parents about his ability, they were scared and it makes him sad. Since then, they rarely talk to him and avoid him.
“don’t hear what they said, heechullie,”
“it’s so hard, halmunnie. They keep talking, and I can’t block them away,”
“then pretend that you never heard them, my poor child.”
“huh?”
“don’t tell them about this. keep what you’ve heard as secret, save it for you only. Take this as your advantage.” The old woman caressed his head softly.
“but don’t forget to help them if they need your help,”
“they hate me,” he pressed his small lips to a tiny line.
“they just don’t know that you’re special,”
“I don’t want to be special!!” he cried. He hug his grandma tightly, the only person who still love him despite her knowledge about his power. She didn’t scare of him, not like his parents. He is their blood and flesh, yet they avoid him as much as they could.
“but you are..” she smiles.
The next year when his grandma died, heechul changed, his bright attitude turn cold, he choose to sit alone and refused to speak how much they persuade him. He never too close to a person, not even his parents. He shut tight about his secret deep. He sent a cold glare toward everyone who thinking bad thing about him, but he do nothing. How hurt what they thought about him, whatever they accused him for anything he didn’t do, heechul just swallowed it down his heart.
When he attended high school, he live on his own, where he could see his parents relieved. His parents pay for his living still, but he never cared and not even once visited them. Sometime his mother called, but he chose to hang up.
When he reached the quiet corner, he slammed his body down on the floor. He bent his knees in front of his chest and hug it as he bury his face in between. The voices were there, but now soundless than before. He always hates crowd place, even though the classes, but he have to endure it.
His eyes felt heavy, and soon without he realized it, he fell asleep.
When? When he can finally have a peace life? Without all of this mess, all of this pain?
Can’t someone save him?
Take him out of this hell... he beg in his mind.
The doorbell really annoyed him. well if it’s rang for once or twice, he could still held back his anger. But this intruder rang the bell for more than normal people do. Heechul cringed at the annoying sound. He has a second thought to pull out the battery so that the fucking bell will never ring again.
And by the way, why didn’t he heard the people’s voice of thought?? that is so weird. Or maybe that someone is too dumb to even think about anything. He gave an exasperated sigh. Why does he care anyway?
He opened the wooden door a bit too harsh and showed his wrinkled eyebrows toward who ever in front of his door. soon, he met with a tall handsome man in blue jacket. He has a black bag in his shoulder that look a bit bigger for his size. Damn, the bag is so big.
‘who the hell is he?’ heechul grumbled in an inaudible voice.
“oh, hi.. my-my name is hankyung. I-“ the newcomer took out a white paper from his pocket and show it to heechul now raising eyebrows. “I want to rent the room,”
‘ohh! That one? I thought no one saw it.’ Heechul set a surprise expression. The facial is so cute that the man in front of his door chuckle. He looked up and frowned.
‘what the hell is he laughing for?’ he wanted to scold the man for his rudeness, but he was beat to speak,
“oh, I-I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to rude.” He waves his hands to sides, emphasizing his meant.
The room’s owner eyes go wider in surprise.
“what the-“ ‘did he just read my mind?’
“I’m not, you say it loudly,” the man stunned. They both said nothing in response.
Heechul saw the man in awe. “oh, crap,” he heard the man said.
Just then the door of his neighbor open up to reveal some girls laughing and giggling like they are the cutest creature on earth. Heechul snorted in his mind, bad mouthing all of his neighbor. Well ,actually only one girl that occupied the room, but she often invites her gang, whom always talking bad things about him, everything he did was nothing but mere teased source for them. His appearance, his accent, his clothes, heechul slanting his eyes in pierce glare. He doesn’t even realize his guess’s interesting gaze, he forgot about the tall man already.
One of the girl stop laughing and staring at him, lips create a small smirk when she saw the clothes he wore. What is wrong with white shirt with pink bunny print and khaki jeans?? He raised his eyebrow. He doesn’t realize when the stranger in front of his door’s gaze move down to the pink bunny print on his shirt. Eyebrows raised as high as he could with a shock still shown.
‘oh, my god.. who he think he is? Wearing that shirt?? He is not as cute as he thought.. huh, fag.’
Heechul saw the other girl switch her stare from him to his guess, he pressed his lips when she speak in his mind. ‘ohh.. who is that cutie? Carrying such a big bag, is that shameless fag taking beggar to live with him?’ heechul saw her rolled her eyes, ‘once a fag, will always be a fag. I don’t know if he was that slutty. That man has a nice body anyway.. too bad that bitch has him first.’
The third girl came out of the room, the owner. When she saw both of her friends are still standing in front of the door, she shifted her gaze and smirk wider when she met heechul’s face.
Heechul’s heart beat faster. That girl is the worst, not that heechul scared of her and her gang, but what she said was really hurting him. he doesn’t know how could she found such a cruel words when heechul never even touch her. His face frown and he was sad.
Before she found her breath to speak, heechul caught the stunned man’s wrist and pulled him. however when his hand touch him, heechul startled and quickly look up.
Quiet.
Everything is soundless, even though he could see those witch still stared at him like going to claw him with their sharp manicure’s nails, heechul cannot hear the voices. The other man looked at him in curiosity, still unmoving and stood in the middle of the door.
Heechul let the hands go, and he twitched when slowly the buzzing went through his head and made him dizzy.
‘oh, my god.. is he that horny??’
‘shameless still huh?’
‘aww.. I can’t believe that cutie want to be with him..’
Heechul grabbed the wrist again, and the sound miraculously disappeared again. ohhh…how could it be like this??
His big doe eyes staring at his going to be new roommate and grinned.
Welcome my savior…
“wha-“
Hangeng once in a while took a glance at the bluntly looking man. He itched to push the beautiful face away from staring at him, but holding himself from doing that at his new housemate. He put the clothes in his hand on the bed and sigh before turn around.
“kim heechu-“
“just call me heechul, or heenim, or chullie, or-“
“fine, fine, I get it! Heechul sshi-“
“drop the formality too,” heechul cut in again and grinned happily (too happy in hankyung case).
The chinese guy face palmed, he took another breath before start speaking again.
“about the payment, I think it’s too much if-“
“It’s okay, I can accept the down payment only. You can pay the rest next month, or the month after if you still don’t have the money,”
“I-“
“or is it too much??” heechul give him puppy dog eyes. His big doe glazing comically and somehow made hankyung felt defeated.
“you can pay half only, I can pay the rest!”
“do you never listen to what people said?? Oh please..” the pretty man gasped and clamped his mouth tight to a tiny line. His eyes though still staring at hankyung hopefully.
“I’m in a hurry to find an apartment, and I don’t have enough money with me right now...” heechul is still waiting for his next words, brows furrowed deep.
Please say you’ll stay, plase stay...
“I’ll make sure to pay the rest on Monday, my parents can only sent it next week,” his voice softened when he once again hear the whisper voice. He felt anxious of what was going on in this place. In instant the tall man could see a very wide smile appearing on his housemate’s face. Hankyung can’t help but smile too, his eyes following what the other man is doing.
“don’t worry!! I believe you!”
Suddenly the pretty man stop talking and just intensely staring at hankyung. The chinese raise his eyebrow, was about to asking when he can hear another voice eventhough the only people in front of him not speaking.
I can’t hear his thought. Nothing.. I really can’t hear anything...
“what did you can’t hear? You keep mentioning it..”
Heechul widened his eyes.