Us, all about you and I (interlude)
title : Us, all about you and I
pairing : kyumin, kyuwook, slight hanchul.
rating : PG-13 to NC-17 (but PG for this chapter)
length : interlude/??
genre : drama, fluff, angst, gender switch
summary : when you only have one best friend in your whole life, yet you jealous of your only best friend. and when a chance of you to hurt your best friend comes, slowly, painfully without really dirtying your hands. will you take the chance? and without fell in love in the process? i, lee sungmin, didn't know what to think anymore...
previous chapters : 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
A/N : i was thinking that this is a chapter 5, but considering the lack of kyu-min in this chapter, so i change it to interlude. it's more of the root problem of this story, for reader who think that sungmin is just plain evil ^^ there's always 2 side of a coin.
so... you pick your choice,
FIVE
They know each other for life, literally. Their mothers were friend since high school, continuing their friendship until they graduated from college. Ryeowooki’s mother introduced her father to her mom, then her father introduced ryeowook’s father to her mother. The 4 of them married almost in the same time, and both hers and ryeowook’s mother were pregnant with few month difference.
With them have to life with few blocks away, it’s no wonder anymore if they’re still hang out together. When she and ryeowook were born, in the same hospital too, it was mutual that they became friends.
They play together, sharing stories, sharing happiness, sharing toys and clothes. Where there’s ryeowook, there’s sungmin. They’re like twins to their parents.
Everything was beautiful in sungmin eyes, that is until people start comparing them.
In each of their mind, ryeowook and sungmin fill each other weakness and strength. But to other people eyes, they’re one piece different from other.
Sungmin is an introvert.
Ryeowook is a cheerful girl.
Sungmin can’t interact with new people easily cause she depend on ryeowook so much for that part. Ryeowook is a bubbly girl, she can make other feel comfortable just with talk to her, but she’s someone who easily get bored so sungmin who had to cheer her and push her to finish what she’s doing.
When sungmin was little, she doesn’t understand why everyone gave a different treatment for them both. Every teacher in school dotted on ryeowook more than her, when actually she got a better mark in their school subject. Every girl in their neighborhood always loves to play with ryeowook more, and usually left her to be the last one to ask to join their games. When there’s someone have a birthday party, they gave her invitation to ryeowook so she can gave it to sungmin.
She felt like crying when people gave her that treatment, maybe its unintentional, but it showed her how unimportant she was in those people’s eyes.
Is she better than her? Why the other never care about her? What ryeowook have that sungmin don’t have?
The enviousness keep continuing, it’s make her become more a closed person. She’s prettier than ryeowook, but others chose the smaller one because they don’t understand sungmin.
It’s a bull.
They just didn’t spend their time more to understand her. No one try to reach her, never trying harder when she’s being hard to open up.
The jealousy became bigger.
And it’s eating her, slowly and slowly.
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“why are you smiling like that? It’s creepy, wookie” I blinked my eyes at my friend’s antic.
I just came to her house since we’re planning on shopping together. But the view that welcomed me made me raising my eyebrows.
Ryeowook is laying on the bed already dressed up, but she’s holding her smart phone tightly and keeping that cheeky smile on her face as she giggling like there’s no tomorrow.
“Minnie!! You arrived?”
I walk closer as she sat up on the bed. “what are you doing?”
I don’t answer her question because I was more curious of what she was doing.
She shoved the phone to my face, “TA-DDAA!!”
I starred at the scene with no emotion. Still don’t understand when I only see number on it.
“what is-“
“CHO-KYU-HYUN’S phones number!!”
I stiffed in my place, realizing my stupidity when I finally recognize those numbers. I gripped my bag tighter, noting myself to erase kyuhyun’s messages that were left in my phone.
“where did you get it?”
The owner of the phone giggles even more as she locks her phone and starts her gossip mode-on.
“I trade this with heechullie’s number.”
“you got this from hankyung sshi??” I blink in surprised.
Ryeowook nodded vigorously as I scoffed.
“you’ll be dead meat when heechul see you tomorrow,”
Ryeowook widening her doe eyes cutely, “why?? I help her to communicate better with hankyung ah. That girl needs to grow some back bone to admit that she like hankyung too,”
I rolled my eyes at her explanation, digging her own grave, but what she said is true. Heechul is a new transferred student from busan. A beautiful girl with strong accent and sharp mouth. She is a type which ‘kill-it-fast-short-but-accurate’. So no one dares to mess up with her.
Unfortunately, since day one, she becomes a bet target by the guys in school. Bet with money for guy whose succeed to get her as their girlfriend. Hankyung, which was in the same class as kyuhyun was one of them.
As a short long story, actually hankyung was really interested in her, but moving in the wrong time when he asked her out after heechul just bitch-slap other guy who dared to play with her. Hankyung got his shared of bitch-slap too, and it become a good commotion in the whole school. But the boy didn’t learn his lesson though, he kept going and seems like he’s succeed. Heechul’s looks like fell in his charm, but she’s too stubborn to admit it.
“are we going to shopping or not?” I ask ryeowook who still look daydreaming.
“ah! Come on!! There’s a sale in the mall. We don’t want to be late for war~!”
Ryeowook jumped up from the bed, chirping happily when she fixed her make up. My eyes follow her movement closely.
This morning, when I wake up suddenly I was remembering my childhood days. Where ryeowook and I playing house, happy. Have no ill feeling. I don’t hate ryeowook, just because we’re friends by default because of our parents, it doesn’t meant that we don’t match. I was thankful to have her as friend. We never fight, at least not a big one, we support each other and was there for everything.
But there’s this feeling of dissatisfied. A big hole of dissatisfied, things that I dislike from ryeowook, but couldn’t speak because of afraid it will mess up our friendships.
When we’re little, it’s all about sungmin and ryeowook, she always following me like plague, my shadow. But she’s a bad shadow since in the least she was the one who steal the spotlight.
Every times I like one thing, she always asks for the same thing. It’s cute at first, having the same items with your best friend, but it’s get tiring after a few years. When I started learning ballet, she did too when in fact she’s not that good in it. I can’t go to the next level because I have to look after her, waiting for her to excel it up. i don’t know if I should be happy to be her friend or not.
“isn’t that..” I frown at the thing in ryeowook’s hand. A pair of butterfly earrings.
“oh, this?” ryeowook laugh sheepishly,
“it’s the earrings that we saw in mall last week,”
I stood up, frowning even more, “didn’t you say it’s not good?”
“well~ after a second thought, I think it’s really pretty, so I go back to the store last Tuesday to buy it. It’s pretty isn’t?”
I don’t know if I should feel grateful to be her friend or not. Didn’t she have any consideration for me? Is she that dense??
I didn’t realize that I gripping my bag too hard that there’s a nail mark in my palm.
“huh, yeah, it’s pretty,” I said softly.
I was walking through the aisle of the accessories store, watching one by one every pairs of ear rings on the shelf. I saw ryeowook was seeing through the phone straps, so I concentrating to look one for myself.
My eyes caught a glimpse of one pretty pair of ear rings. Long ear rings which there are butterfly in the end, the silver accessories are so pretty with some green stone in the middle. I smile as i look at it, considering to buy it or not. Is it looking too cheap?
I was too concentrated that I didn’t see ryeowook already beside me, examining it too. When I see her, I asked.
“is it good or not? It has butterfly,” I showed her the said ear rings.
But ryeowook pouting and shake her head. “it’s ugly. looks cheap,”
My smile faded, “really?”
“too much ornament,” she make a last addition before giving last look then move on to the ring section.
I sighed in disappointed, I really like this ear rings, I think it looks good. But if other people think it’s bad, maybe it’s really bad.
And here she is buying it, things she called cheap and too much ornament.
there's a long deep inhales and exhales from me, my hands still digging the poor bag, but i'm calmer now. i twirl my body around, walking toward the door as i speak,
“it’s almost noon, let’s go,”
"okaaay~"