when the sad music plays (i think of you) [1/2]
when the sad music plays (i think of you) by heartshaker
requested by jaji (skunkypoo )
kibum (key)/minho [main], implied!jonghyun/luna [because i can], jonghyun/minho [bff-ery] - romance/angst/drama - PG (this part)
cameos by; f(x) [luna mostly, victoria, amber] - mentions of jongwoon (yehsung of super junior), joohyun (seohyun of snsd)
notes;
the title is from a line in "JoJo" by SHINee, which was partly responsible for inspiring this.
who can name all the ninja pairs here? anyone? ;]
and the little plays/jokes? (not as many as ninja pairs though, haha) ♡
seven years ago, they'd been somewhere between boys and men, but definitely, they'd been in love. love that lasted quite some time, but then the group broke up. he went his way, and he did too. it fell apart without either of them opposing it, the both of them just separated without saying anything. while one chose to continue to be in front of the camera, the other chose to be behind it instead. neither of them said anything against what the other wanted, they were both stubborn people, and they knew they'd never be able to persuade each other to pursue anything else. and that was how it happened, seven years ago.
seven years later, minho, former member of shinee, stands in a studio with a camera hanging on his neck. he's just wrapped up another photoshoot, his subject this time luna, formerly of f(x). she has grown into a beautiful young woman of 25 years. she is a soloist now, with a voice most loved.
she really is beautiful. she's let her hair grow longer, and it cascades in lovely sable waves over her shoulders and back. she's lost some of the baby fat in her face, and her cheekbones are more noticeable now.
she smiles at him in that charming way that has still stuck to her even after all these years. she has become older, more mature, and had gone through rocks and bumps after her group's breakup, just like he had. but she still retains that glow, that shine to her.
minho envies her.
he envies how she was able to pick herself up, get to her feet, and move on with her life. it's something he has never been able to do, though it's been almost seven years. almost. there is still one more day until it's been exactly seven years since shinee announced their breaking up.
he looks like he's standing tall and strong, unable to be knocked down. but like they always say; the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
"oppa! minho-oppa!" he blinks to find luna coming quickly to him, waving. he envies her, yes. but he doesn't hate her. he isn't petty like that. he loves her dearly, like an older brother to a younger sister. like oppa to dongsaeng.
"what is it, sunyoung?" she smiles brilliantly. he can't help but smile along.
"are you going to the reunion party? jonghyun-oppa wants to know." she says. he frowns a little, and his brows knit. reunion party? when had this happened? did he miss the memo?
"where's jonghyun-oppa then? what kind of man is he, making you play messenger for him?" luna laughs behind her hand.
"aish, what are you saying about me behind my back, minho? at your age, shouldn't you know how to respect your hyungs?" jonghyun comes around, looking irritated. they aren't fooled by it though; the mirth dancing in the well-to-do singer's eyes give everything away.
"what's this reunion party sunyoung is telling me about?" minho asks right away. jonghyun looks surprised, then a little annoyed.
"i can't believe it, were you really not paying attention to me? i told you about it weeks ago." minho frowns; he recalls no such thing.
"aigoo, just tell him again. he looks so lost." luna says, lightly smacking jonghyun on the arm. he sighs, running his fingers through the front of his caramel coloured hair. he ticks his head to the side slightly and the bangs jump perfectly into place as he crosses his arms.
"sme is holding a reunion party for its former groups. super junior, so nyeo shi dae, trax, dong bang shin gi, f(x), they're all going to be there. the ones that aren't busy with whatever anyway. i don't know who exactly is going to attend, but as far as i know, most of them are going to come."
minho doesn't say anything for some time, prompting jonghyun's brow to raise in question. "so? are you going?"
his expression is unreadable, even to jonghyun, who has become his best friend after all these years. finally he speaks.
"you two are going?" both jonghyun and luna nod. "you're going together?" they both shook their heads. minho raises an eyebrow, but understands. the two aren't the type to invite scandal, and going there separately would keep rumours from erupting on a grand scale.
"i'm driving some people to the site. i was wondering if you could take sunyoung there for me."
"if you want, i can be your escort instead." luna pipes up, winking. it makes jonghyun laugh, and he's glad to see that even impenetrable minho's lips are curling into a very nice broad smile.
minho considers it for a moment. he's not really into the whole feeling of nostalgia, he doesn't like getting depressed. but he's even more curious to see how everyone is doing; he last heard that jongwoon had married (he hadn't been in attendance because he was out of the country, for a photoshoot in new york city) and now had a daughter, and that joohyun had been proposed to by her boyfriend of several years (it was all over the news).
in the end, "alright. what time is it?" with those words, he suddenly feels something sink heavily in his stomach, and gets the feeling that he is somehow sealing his fate. but he can't go back on his word now.
"8:30 pm, tomorrow night. it's not black tie, but it's still formal. (jonghyun nods, "clean up nicely, yah?") pick me up at my house at 8:30, no one is coming on time for this anyhow." luna answers.
minho's fingers curl involuntarily into his palm, pulling and picking at his sleeve lightly. none of them notice.
"okay. see you tomorrow night then."
★★★
tomorrow night comes, and minho gets out of his white maserati. the car is not so much his taste as it is jonghyun's; then again, the older had gotten it for his birthday. minho remembers him saying something about how he needed to have his own car, because he couldn't just borrow his all the time.
he walks up to the door of luna's house, pressing the doorbell once.
he's cleaned up nicely, as per jonghyun's orders. he wears a steel grey suit jacket with an all-black ensemble of dress shirt and well-fitting suit pants. he doesn't accessorise much, his usual cartier watch peeks out at his wrist. a tie felt too stuffy for him, so he forwent that and left his collar and the first button undone.
luna opens the door, with of course, her brilliant smile in place.
she's beautiful. she's dressed in nothing flashy, but in nothing short of pretty. she's wearing a sophisticated number of charcoal grey, a mini-dress with shirred elbow length sleeves and a round neck, displaying her collar. her hair are in loose waves swept over one shoulder, bangs pinned to the side by a single barely noticeable pin. little black diamond studs glitter on her lobes, and two black bangles decorate her wrists.
"hey, we match!" she says, and laughs. minho likes this about luna, that she can pull off such a striking sort of look but is really a humorous, down-to-earth person at the same time.
"ready?" he gets the feeling that he should be asking her that, but just nods, smiles. the two of them get in his car and they go to the place where the reunion is being hosted.
★★★
they're early, even though they're technically late. not many people have arrived yet, so it's easy to spot jonghyun, who was already in attendance. well, it was more like jonghyun had spotted him.
"oh there you are! jesus, i was about to think minho got cold feet or something." he says, as he walks up to them. minho looks a bit miffed.
"why only me, hyung?" jonghyun laughs and reaches up a hand to mess up the younger's hair. minho swats his hand away.
"hyung, i'm too old for that now!" he fixes his hair with a rather deflated expression. jonghyun grins. "you'll still be my tall alien dongsaeng, who i'll pester as i please."
he looks him up and down, nodding in approval. "good, you listened to me."
minho scrutinises the older's appearance in return. he finds nothing wrong with it. jonghyun was clad in a grey dress shirt, with the sleeves folded up so they matched the length of his elbow-cut black blazer. his collar was unbutton and a pair of thin platinum chains worn around his neck under the collar replaced his tie.
"you look good." jonghyun grins. "as always." he replies. minho rolls his eyes. luna giggles, and then upon seeing victoria and amber, she excuses herself and goes over to them, and the
minho glances over long enough to get the gist of their appearances. victoria is impeccably beautiful, with a mature, womanly aura. she's a well-beloved actress now, minho has heard.
"ah, minho-hyung, you don't look a day older!" minho turns towards the unfamiliar (yet unfamiliar voice) to see taemin.
"ah, taemin! wow.. you've changed a lot!" he exclaims. taemin smiles cheekily in reply.
the boy-- no, taemin is 25 now, not a boy any longer. taemin is as tall as him now, and he's grown up nicely. he's no longer as skinny (still rather slim though), looking more wiry than bony, and he looks dapper in a white blazer and a slippery looking black silk shirt, paired with black slacks and white shoes.
the pianist's eyes are bright and shiny as they ever were, and his honey coloured hair is styled attractively messy, strands falling softly around his face. his cheekbones stand out more now; his face has lost the fat of several years ago. his voice is deeper now, but it still retains the tenor he's always possessed.
"what about me, eh?"
minho turns again, and is once again surprised when he's met with another familiar. the man his eyes fall on is dressed appropriately in a burgundy dress shirt and light grey single-button vest, with pants in a darker grey shade. his hair is styled up, and an amused smile sits on his lips.
"jinki-hyung!" his former leader's lips quirk up a little more on one side in a smirking sort of smile. he doesn't bounce off the walls, like he would have done years ago, but minho can see him itching to do something like that. his eyes glimmer like starlight, and he starts to laugh.
the nostalgia makes a smile grow onto minho's face, and his dimples show. he would cry if he were the person to.
they start talking about what they've been doing with their lives, catching up. though minho is a photographer for celebrities, and watches the news, so he knows the gist of their public lives. it's their private lives they catch up on.
taemin is a single man. the younger says this to him, while waggling his eyebrows teasingly and winking. it catches minho off-guard, and he laughs. jinki snickers, not seeming like a 28 year old at all when he gives taemin a slap on his bottom and jokes with "let's make some music, me and you, eh taemin?"
speaking of jinki, the older is a songwriter/singer/composer now. he still works for sme; one can say he's as brilliant as yoo young jin was and kangta. his only rival is jonghyun, who is just as brilliant, if not more. minho listens as jinki asks about jonghyun's record label, lupis empire. taemin is under a rather new label, whisper entertainment.
"those were your photos then, minho? ahh, i should get you to do the photography for mine and taemin's duet single~" jinki says after jonghyun makes a comment about minho being the photographer for a recent issue of high cut he was in.
minho smiles, "i'll be glad to, hyung."
about now, jonghyun frowns very obviously, and holds up his wrist to check the time on his rolex. minho pauses to watch as his best friend makes a "tch.." in discontent and then reaches into the inside of his blazer. he takes out his phone, and looks at the display before frowning and putting the phone away.
minho raises an eyebrow; "what's the matter?"
jonghyun seemed to be ignoring him, as he sighed and muttered to himself; "idiot, you say yes but you back off? aish..."
at that moment, the door opens and another man walks in. he looks to his left first, away from them. his hair is black, cut into perfect feathered layers. random streaks of reddish pink stand out against the raven colour. from the back it looks like he's wearing a sharply cut black vest. his shirt is a plum colour, and his well-tailored black pants skim his legs.
minho hasn't looked yet, taemin had said something that he didn't quite understand and he'd asked him to repeat it.
"finally! you know, i'm pretty sure i told you 8:30, not 9:30." he doesn't hear the rest of the conversation, because jonghyun goes across the room to bring the new arrival over to the rest of them.
minho turns around as jonghyun returns.
the feeling he gets is sickeningly cliche.
but at that moment, minho finds that time's stopped. the feeling of dread he got the night before returns full-force, but he finds himself unable to tear his eyes away.
"kibum-hyung~!" taemin goes quickly past him to hug the older man. kibum hugs the younger back, and is about to smile. he's about to, but right there, minho's eyes meet his. just like that.
it feels as though a lead curtain has suddenly dropped over all of them.
requested by jaji (skunkypoo )
kibum (key)/minho [main], implied!jonghyun/luna [because i can], jonghyun/minho [bff-ery] - romance/angst/drama - PG (this part)
cameos by; f(x) [luna mostly, victoria, amber] - mentions of jongwoon (yehsung of super junior), joohyun (seohyun of snsd)
notes;
the title is from a line in "JoJo" by SHINee, which was partly responsible for inspiring this.
who can name all the ninja pairs here? anyone? ;]
and the little plays/jokes? (not as many as ninja pairs though, haha) ♡
seven years ago, they'd been somewhere between boys and men, but definitely, they'd been in love. love that lasted quite some time, but then the group broke up. he went his way, and he did too. it fell apart without either of them opposing it, the both of them just separated without saying anything. while one chose to continue to be in front of the camera, the other chose to be behind it instead. neither of them said anything against what the other wanted, they were both stubborn people, and they knew they'd never be able to persuade each other to pursue anything else. and that was how it happened, seven years ago.
seven years later, minho, former member of shinee, stands in a studio with a camera hanging on his neck. he's just wrapped up another photoshoot, his subject this time luna, formerly of f(x). she has grown into a beautiful young woman of 25 years. she is a soloist now, with a voice most loved.
she really is beautiful. she's let her hair grow longer, and it cascades in lovely sable waves over her shoulders and back. she's lost some of the baby fat in her face, and her cheekbones are more noticeable now.
she smiles at him in that charming way that has still stuck to her even after all these years. she has become older, more mature, and had gone through rocks and bumps after her group's breakup, just like he had. but she still retains that glow, that shine to her.
minho envies her.
he envies how she was able to pick herself up, get to her feet, and move on with her life. it's something he has never been able to do, though it's been almost seven years. almost. there is still one more day until it's been exactly seven years since shinee announced their breaking up.
he looks like he's standing tall and strong, unable to be knocked down. but like they always say; the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
"oppa! minho-oppa!" he blinks to find luna coming quickly to him, waving. he envies her, yes. but he doesn't hate her. he isn't petty like that. he loves her dearly, like an older brother to a younger sister. like oppa to dongsaeng.
"what is it, sunyoung?" she smiles brilliantly. he can't help but smile along.
"are you going to the reunion party? jonghyun-oppa wants to know." she says. he frowns a little, and his brows knit. reunion party? when had this happened? did he miss the memo?
"where's jonghyun-oppa then? what kind of man is he, making you play messenger for him?" luna laughs behind her hand.
"aish, what are you saying about me behind my back, minho? at your age, shouldn't you know how to respect your hyungs?" jonghyun comes around, looking irritated. they aren't fooled by it though; the mirth dancing in the well-to-do singer's eyes give everything away.
"what's this reunion party sunyoung is telling me about?" minho asks right away. jonghyun looks surprised, then a little annoyed.
"i can't believe it, were you really not paying attention to me? i told you about it weeks ago." minho frowns; he recalls no such thing.
"aigoo, just tell him again. he looks so lost." luna says, lightly smacking jonghyun on the arm. he sighs, running his fingers through the front of his caramel coloured hair. he ticks his head to the side slightly and the bangs jump perfectly into place as he crosses his arms.
"sme is holding a reunion party for its former groups. super junior, so nyeo shi dae, trax, dong bang shin gi, f(x), they're all going to be there. the ones that aren't busy with whatever anyway. i don't know who exactly is going to attend, but as far as i know, most of them are going to come."
minho doesn't say anything for some time, prompting jonghyun's brow to raise in question. "so? are you going?"
his expression is unreadable, even to jonghyun, who has become his best friend after all these years. finally he speaks.
"you two are going?" both jonghyun and luna nod. "you're going together?" they both shook their heads. minho raises an eyebrow, but understands. the two aren't the type to invite scandal, and going there separately would keep rumours from erupting on a grand scale.
"i'm driving some people to the site. i was wondering if you could take sunyoung there for me."
"if you want, i can be your escort instead." luna pipes up, winking. it makes jonghyun laugh, and he's glad to see that even impenetrable minho's lips are curling into a very nice broad smile.
minho considers it for a moment. he's not really into the whole feeling of nostalgia, he doesn't like getting depressed. but he's even more curious to see how everyone is doing; he last heard that jongwoon had married (he hadn't been in attendance because he was out of the country, for a photoshoot in new york city) and now had a daughter, and that joohyun had been proposed to by her boyfriend of several years (it was all over the news).
in the end, "alright. what time is it?" with those words, he suddenly feels something sink heavily in his stomach, and gets the feeling that he is somehow sealing his fate. but he can't go back on his word now.
"8:30 pm, tomorrow night. it's not black tie, but it's still formal. (jonghyun nods, "clean up nicely, yah?") pick me up at my house at 8:30, no one is coming on time for this anyhow." luna answers.
minho's fingers curl involuntarily into his palm, pulling and picking at his sleeve lightly. none of them notice.
"okay. see you tomorrow night then."
★★★
tomorrow night comes, and minho gets out of his white maserati. the car is not so much his taste as it is jonghyun's; then again, the older had gotten it for his birthday. minho remembers him saying something about how he needed to have his own car, because he couldn't just borrow his all the time.
he walks up to the door of luna's house, pressing the doorbell once.
he's cleaned up nicely, as per jonghyun's orders. he wears a steel grey suit jacket with an all-black ensemble of dress shirt and well-fitting suit pants. he doesn't accessorise much, his usual cartier watch peeks out at his wrist. a tie felt too stuffy for him, so he forwent that and left his collar and the first button undone.
luna opens the door, with of course, her brilliant smile in place.
she's beautiful. she's dressed in nothing flashy, but in nothing short of pretty. she's wearing a sophisticated number of charcoal grey, a mini-dress with shirred elbow length sleeves and a round neck, displaying her collar. her hair are in loose waves swept over one shoulder, bangs pinned to the side by a single barely noticeable pin. little black diamond studs glitter on her lobes, and two black bangles decorate her wrists.
"hey, we match!" she says, and laughs. minho likes this about luna, that she can pull off such a striking sort of look but is really a humorous, down-to-earth person at the same time.
"ready?" he gets the feeling that he should be asking her that, but just nods, smiles. the two of them get in his car and they go to the place where the reunion is being hosted.
★★★
they're early, even though they're technically late. not many people have arrived yet, so it's easy to spot jonghyun, who was already in attendance. well, it was more like jonghyun had spotted him.
"oh there you are! jesus, i was about to think minho got cold feet or something." he says, as he walks up to them. minho looks a bit miffed.
"why only me, hyung?" jonghyun laughs and reaches up a hand to mess up the younger's hair. minho swats his hand away.
"hyung, i'm too old for that now!" he fixes his hair with a rather deflated expression. jonghyun grins. "you'll still be my tall alien dongsaeng, who i'll pester as i please."
he looks him up and down, nodding in approval. "good, you listened to me."
minho scrutinises the older's appearance in return. he finds nothing wrong with it. jonghyun was clad in a grey dress shirt, with the sleeves folded up so they matched the length of his elbow-cut black blazer. his collar was unbutton and a pair of thin platinum chains worn around his neck under the collar replaced his tie.
"you look good." jonghyun grins. "as always." he replies. minho rolls his eyes. luna giggles, and then upon seeing victoria and amber, she excuses herself and goes over to them, and the
minho glances over long enough to get the gist of their appearances. victoria is impeccably beautiful, with a mature, womanly aura. she's a well-beloved actress now, minho has heard.
"ah, minho-hyung, you don't look a day older!" minho turns towards the unfamiliar (yet unfamiliar voice) to see taemin.
"ah, taemin! wow.. you've changed a lot!" he exclaims. taemin smiles cheekily in reply.
the boy-- no, taemin is 25 now, not a boy any longer. taemin is as tall as him now, and he's grown up nicely. he's no longer as skinny (still rather slim though), looking more wiry than bony, and he looks dapper in a white blazer and a slippery looking black silk shirt, paired with black slacks and white shoes.
the pianist's eyes are bright and shiny as they ever were, and his honey coloured hair is styled attractively messy, strands falling softly around his face. his cheekbones stand out more now; his face has lost the fat of several years ago. his voice is deeper now, but it still retains the tenor he's always possessed.
"what about me, eh?"
minho turns again, and is once again surprised when he's met with another familiar. the man his eyes fall on is dressed appropriately in a burgundy dress shirt and light grey single-button vest, with pants in a darker grey shade. his hair is styled up, and an amused smile sits on his lips.
"jinki-hyung!" his former leader's lips quirk up a little more on one side in a smirking sort of smile. he doesn't bounce off the walls, like he would have done years ago, but minho can see him itching to do something like that. his eyes glimmer like starlight, and he starts to laugh.
the nostalgia makes a smile grow onto minho's face, and his dimples show. he would cry if he were the person to.
they start talking about what they've been doing with their lives, catching up. though minho is a photographer for celebrities, and watches the news, so he knows the gist of their public lives. it's their private lives they catch up on.
taemin is a single man. the younger says this to him, while waggling his eyebrows teasingly and winking. it catches minho off-guard, and he laughs. jinki snickers, not seeming like a 28 year old at all when he gives taemin a slap on his bottom and jokes with "let's make some music, me and you, eh taemin?"
speaking of jinki, the older is a songwriter/singer/composer now. he still works for sme; one can say he's as brilliant as yoo young jin was and kangta. his only rival is jonghyun, who is just as brilliant, if not more. minho listens as jinki asks about jonghyun's record label, lupis empire. taemin is under a rather new label, whisper entertainment.
"those were your photos then, minho? ahh, i should get you to do the photography for mine and taemin's duet single~" jinki says after jonghyun makes a comment about minho being the photographer for a recent issue of high cut he was in.
minho smiles, "i'll be glad to, hyung."
about now, jonghyun frowns very obviously, and holds up his wrist to check the time on his rolex. minho pauses to watch as his best friend makes a "tch.." in discontent and then reaches into the inside of his blazer. he takes out his phone, and looks at the display before frowning and putting the phone away.
minho raises an eyebrow; "what's the matter?"
jonghyun seemed to be ignoring him, as he sighed and muttered to himself; "idiot, you say yes but you back off? aish..."
at that moment, the door opens and another man walks in. he looks to his left first, away from them. his hair is black, cut into perfect feathered layers. random streaks of reddish pink stand out against the raven colour. from the back it looks like he's wearing a sharply cut black vest. his shirt is a plum colour, and his well-tailored black pants skim his legs.
minho hasn't looked yet, taemin had said something that he didn't quite understand and he'd asked him to repeat it.
"finally! you know, i'm pretty sure i told you 8:30, not 9:30." he doesn't hear the rest of the conversation, because jonghyun goes across the room to bring the new arrival over to the rest of them.
minho turns around as jonghyun returns.
the feeling he gets is sickeningly cliche.
but at that moment, minho finds that time's stopped. the feeling of dread he got the night before returns full-force, but he finds himself unable to tear his eyes away.
"kibum-hyung~!" taemin goes quickly past him to hug the older man. kibum hugs the younger back, and is about to smile. he's about to, but right there, minho's eyes meet his. just like that.
it feels as though a lead curtain has suddenly dropped over all of them.