Sad Melody
Various Pairings
Pg-13, Angst/Romance
★ A collection of very short and sad fanfictions.
→ For those who want to read only one of the pairings, I'll list the pairing names with the titles of the short stories about them:
Minho/Key: Losers
Jonghyun/Key: Promises & Last Waltz
Minho/Onew: Responsability
Onew/Key: Eavesdropping & Manipulation
Jonghyun/Taemin: Secret
Onew/Taemin: Crawling Away
Minho/Taemin: Familiar Stranger
Onew/Jonghyun: Patience
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Losers (Key/Minho)
Minho stayed speechless as Kibum threw down his whole CD collection. He was crying hard as he screamed random insanities; nothing to make Minho feel better. The tall boy knew he had done exactly what Kibum feared the most.
Another bruise would surely appear on his already battered heart and Minho wasn't proud to be the one who caused the wound. He had heard of so many people who had used Kibum and broken his soul. Minho knew he'd eventually do the same, but he didn't back down. He did the same disgusting thing.
He did the only thing left for him to do, he made his way to the boy throwing a tantrum in his apartment. Even the flailing arm that got him right on the nose didn't stop him from wrapping his long arms around the smaller boy.
As he felt Kibum shake and go limp in his arms, he realised they were both losers.
Promises (Jonghyun/Key)
"Someday, we'll run away from here!"
Jonghyun took Kibum's hand in his and tug it ever-so-lightly. The younger boy just stared at him in confusion without any desire to move from his spot. He didn't want to follow the blond man with a tight grip on his hand.
Sure, Kibum liked Jonghyun, but he liked so many other people. The idea of being chained to Jonghyun for the rest of his life was making him scrunch his nose in disgust. He was nothing like a sweet little faithful wife. Being caged in a relationship was something way too boring for Kibum. It wasn't the way he lived his life.
"No,"
He didn't want to hurt Jonghyun, but there was no way he'd make promises he couldn't fulfil.
Responsibility (Onew/Minho)
Jinki had always looked up to Minho. Even if he was younger than him by a couple of years, he still felt like the boy had so much more confidence than he did. Minho was oozing charisma and was definitely shining in his silence.
After awkward flirting and two months of dating, Jinki had broken up their relationship abruptly when he realised how Minho was longing for more than him. Someone who wasn't just pretending to be strong, someone who hadn't built up a world of lies just to be with the one he was attracted to. Minho deserved and desired someone who knew more about life than what Jinki read in books.
It was in his responsibility as a boyfriend to let Minho go.
Eavesdropping (Onew/Key)
Jinki had tried to move on. He had met new people, new friends and new love interests. But every time he was about to forget, his old lover, the one who had broken his heart to pieces, came back.
At first, Kibum used excuses such as forgotten belongings left at Jinki's house to crawl back to him. When he had all of his stuff back, Jinki naïvely thought he'd be able to go back to a normal, carefree life. Everything went fine for him for a while; some pretty girl had even asked him on a date. That was until Kibum came back to inform Jinki of how he had spent the night with one of his best friend.
Nothing angered Jinki more than disrespect and Kibum had crossed the line.
But as he listened at Kibum's door, Jinki could swear he heard the younger boy sob out his name.
Secret (Taemin/Jonghyun)
Taemin seemed outside of Jonghyun's World. The older man was always surrounded by a crowd of people. Taemin, on the other hand, liked to lie on his bed alone and think things through. It was in one of those moments that Taemin decided to tell Jonghyun what he had felt for so long.
He had even circled a date on his calendar; the first time he ever circled something that had to do with only one person.
Unfortunately, Taemin found himself trying to reach Jonghyun's cellphone all night. He wondered what he could possibly do on a Monday night; what could be more important than his promise to visit Taemin's apartment at the end of the day.
At 3am, Taemin's secret was still his own.
Crawling Away (Taemin/Onew)
They had nothing to be blamed for; Taemin was a sweet teenage boy while Jinki was a charming young man. Their beautiful relationship was based on Love and Faith. Each time they were together, they felt like flying high in the sky, the warmth of the sun and the gentle wind tickling their sensitive skin.
However, a series of unfortunate events made it difficult for them. They overcame each of them together, holding hands tightly. Everyone around them admired their bond and the way they could smile so brightly.
But then one day, Jinki fell from the sky and came back to earth. Taemin tried to follow; he wanted to get him back up. Once Taemin landed, he only ended up crawling away from the boy he had once loved so dearly.
Last Waltz (Jonghyun/Key)
Since his youngest age, Kibum had always believed in fairy tales and happy endings. The fact that he had found his boyfriend while he was crying in the dirty attic of his grandmother's house only made him hold onto his childhood's belief tighter.
Little did he know that Jonghyun was only digging a hole to burry the magic. The sparkly castle and the handsome prince slowly faded away as Kibum realised how nothing was right anymore. There was no dragon to fight, no sweet kiss to wake Kibum's true beauty, not even romantic waltzes under the starry sky.
Jonghyun was not a bad person, but he was not the kind of man Kibum was expecting. No one was, and Kibum wasn't sure he could take it.
Familiar Stranger (Taemin/Minho)
Taemin was still young and naïve when he was dragged into a bar by his older, crazier friends. He had fun dancing and chatting for a while, until he met a boy with the most mysterious smile Taemin had ever seen. He told him his name was Minho with a smirk.
Somehow, his first time in a bar turned out to be the night he lost his virginity to a stranger. He woke up the next day and could barely open his eyes on the gravity of the situation. The sound of a plate breaking made him turn and see a woman with both of her hands clasped against her mouth.
He hid under the covers; the woman was his aunt bringing breakfast to her son she could barely spend time with.
As he started to cry, Taemin vaguely remembered his mother and that same aunt warning him about talking to strangers.
Manipulation (Key/Onew)
Kibum knew he could be the perfect wife. He knew he could easily give Jinki everything he had ever dreamed of. He had the body, the time and the talent he needed to satisfy every of Jinki's desires. Sometimes, he could even admit that he had the love and the will to make Jinki happy.
But he could also be the most annoying person his boyfriend had ever met. Kibum had sheer pleasure in putting Jinki into the most embarrassing and impossible situations one could be in. And he always thought he could get out of Jinki's anger with one clever fluttering of his eyelashes.
Then the way Jinki looked at him one night, his eyes burning in anger, proved him wrong. The nicest person on earth had his limit and Kibum discovered too late that he had gone too far. Jinki was not going to let him play anymore.
Kibum was oblivious to the meaning of his words until pain overwhelmed his soul.
Patience (Jonghyun/Onew)
Jinki had always been very good to Jonghyun. He was always there for him, he always said the words Jonghyun wanted to hear, and he always did the right thing for both of them.
Jonghyun was nothing like him. He took Jinki for granted and didn't do much to keep the older man by his side. He even cheated a couple of times, thinking that even if Jinki learned his unfaithfulness he'd never leave.
That was until Jinki began to give up on Jonghyun. He had had enough of cherishing a one-sided love and not being acknowledged by his own boyfriend.
Even if Jonghyun could understand the reason, he found himself much more attached to Jinki than what he thought. So he started begging for a second change, swearing he could change.
"What do you want from me?" He'd ask.
And Jinki would just shrug and walk away, secretly waiting for Jonghyun to work it out on his own.
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I was listening to my 'sad' playlist when I wrote the drabbles. Here are the songs that 'inspired' me. (Some of them are old and some of them are recent and the story does not have the same meaning as the song!)
Losers: By the Way by Hinder
Promises: Don't Push Me by Sweetbox
Responsability: You're a God by Vertical Horizon
Eavesdropping: Nothing Good about Goodbye by Hinder
Secret: Alone by BECCA
Crawling Away: Even Angels Fall by Jessica Riddle
Last Waltz: Brick by Boring Brick by Paramore
Familiar Stranger: Don't Talk to Strangers by Hedley
Manipulation: Cuz I Can by Ana Johnsson
Patience: Whataya Want from Me by Adam Lambert
Thank you for reading!