Battle of the Bulge 7
Battle Seven
A/N - Split into two parts. A fair warning to everyone reading. I editted it a little but it's just a rough once over sort of thing. So watch out for errors.
Luna drags Yesung by the wrist, her petite body tugging his much larger frame behind her as she pushes her way through the crowd. They’re all heading in the same direction, each and every student excitedly rushing to escape the open doors.
When Luna takes in that first whiff of cool Spring air, a smile bursts onto her lips and she squeals at the top of her lungs, drawing a numerous amount of shouts in return. Managing to bounce down each step without falling on his face, Yesung continues to be led by Luna as she flees school property as if wanting to get as far away from it as possible.
Blissfully content to let her enthusiasm wash over him, Yesung doesn’t complain, allowing himself to be hauled, dragged, tugged as Luna pleased.
Occasionally she would turn to look back at him and scream, “Spring break!”
At one point during this she misses a step and trips over something. Yesung uses the grip she has on his wrist to pull her toward him, preventing her from falling. She tumbles drunkenly into him, a goofy smile still on her face. Yesung rolls his eyes.
“Spring break!”
God, she was such a child.
He smiles nonetheless, “I’ve heard. Any plans?”
Of course she had plans. He had been listening to her prattle on about them days ago. Luna doesn’t seem to remember that she’s told him before and she immediately takes his question as an opening to ramble on about them once again.
“…movies every Wednesday, and my sister’s having a party for her 7th birthday and there’ll be a piñata and we’ll prank the shit out of her…”
Yesung is half listening to her, waving at anyone he recognizes as they pass him. He spots Kyuhyun heading in the direction of the gym and after a short internal battle with himself he holds up a finger at Luna. She pauses.
“Give me one second okay?” he pleads. His eyes must’ve flicked over to where Kyuhyun was because Luna follows the direction of his gaze, smiling knowingly when she sees Kyuhyun. Although the boy has his back to them he’s pretty easy to detect when you know what to look for.
“Fine. I’m going to see if Malojhi has anymore chapssalddeok” she rubs her hand greedily, grinning in anticipation.
Yesung raises an eyebrow at her, “She gave you 5 at lunch and you stole 2 off of Siwon’s tray”
Luna waves him off, her eyes scanning the crowd, “Go talk to Kyuhyun and let me handle the food. Call me when you’re ready”
Yesung has to do a fast walk before he manages to catch up to Kyuhyun’s long legged stride. He must admit that he is much smaller than what he originally started out being and the sweating issue is somewhat decreasing a bit, but it’s still a problem. When he reaches a close enough proximity he slows down and pats the sweat away, pocketing his handkerchief before calling out to Kyuhyun.
The other boy hears him and turns almost immediately,
“Hm, Yesung.” He says, pivoting around to meet Yesung half way. Yesung moves forward, closing some of the space but stopping at a friendly distance. “I would’ve assumed you and Luna would’ve been the first one out of here”
Small talk is good.
“Yeah, but I wanted to know if you were still holding gym sessions over the break?” The trainer had never really mentioned it and Yesung felt that it was a pretty valid question.
“Uh no, no, not really. But” he scratches the back of his neck, “Heechul will probably be having his own open session. You can just show up and work out with him. You’ll have to check him for the schedule though”
Yesung has to fight the pout that was slowly beginning to form.
“Sounds like a plan. Speaking of plans, do you have any for the break?” it’s none of his business but he figures if they’re going to be friends again then small talk and inquisitive questions are sort of necessary.
“Yes, actually” Kyuhyun doesn’t say much else and Yesung figures that the conversation has come to an end. Not wanting to look like a anymore like a desperate fool, he decides to cut his losses and bail out before this little chat turned awkward.
“Alright then. Have fun” he waves dorkily, grinning as if he had no care in the world. However, on the inside he was beating himself senseless because, oh my God could he be stupider. Who waves at someone when they’re still right in front of them?
The fuck?
He stops waving, his grin flopping into an awkward tilt of his lips as he tries to recover from that embarrassing gesture.
“Yeah, sure” Kyuhyun eases away from him, giving Yesung a look that clearly Said, ‘you’re acting weirder than usual’. Yesung sighs mentally. With the moment over Yesung turns away and half walks half jogs back over to where Luna had been. As he walks he decides to take out his cell phone figuring it would make him look cooler and more carefree.
He doesn’t bother to look back.
After calling Luna, he informs her of his location and she takes another 5 minutes before meeting up with him.
“I saved one for you” she extends a folded napkin toward him. He takes it politely, pulling back the tissue to reveal a small, rounded pink ball.
Yesung wants to ask ‘Just one?’ but he considers himself lucky that she hadn’t decided to just pack them all into her cheeks like a chipmunk.
“Is this all you have?” he asked, taking a small bite to savor the taste.
Luna, who had been looking behind her, turned slowly, her cheeks puffy and well stretched around two rounded treats. Yesung scoffed, glaring at her as he figured that she must’ve just stuffed two more of them into her mouth. She tried to grin around them and ended up looking rather scary, a bit of drool leaking over her bottom lip. At least she had decency to look sorry. Although he pretended to fold his arms, rolling his eyes at her greediness, he has already forgiven her.
“What did you want to talk to Kyuhyun about?”
“Hm? Oh, nothing, just about the sessions” he expects her to ask about how the conversation went but she instead focuses solely on the gym part of it.
“Seriously Yesung? This is spring break! We’re going to eat what we want when we want. And you my friend, are going to get laid. We are going to flaunt that new body everywhere and just lay you flat on a platter for all those hungry men out there…”
He walks past her, throwing a, “But how would I ever get their attention”
“Lingerie!”
Whirling back around to face her he tosses the folded napkin at her, “You’re such a whore sometimes” he laughs, Kyuhyun is already the last thing on his mind.
“What? Are you objecting to it? Well fine, we’ll just have to put you on that platter naked”
The first five days of Spring Break fall short of just what Luna had had in mind. She voices her disappointment clearly,
“This sucks”
They are in her backyard, its twelve minutes past 2 in the afternoon and the sweet blessing of a hot, radiant sun is being wasted on them. Yesung had his pants legs rolled up to his knee; his feet are bare as he splashes them unenthusiastically in the small kiddy pool. Luna has on a pokemon-ball bikini top and a ruffled above the knee flower patterned skirt. She was originally going to set up a much larger blow-up pool but the one she had ordered turned out to be the wrong one and instead of a family sized pool they ended up with the tiny bird bath thing that Yesung is currently soaking his feet in.
“Fucking hate Amazon now”
Apparently she had spoken to loudly, since her mother, who had been in the kitchen, heard her and promptly shouted, “LUNA!”
“Sorry mom!” Luna yells back, biting her bottom lip with shame.
When the moment had passed she leans in, whispering she mumbles to Yesung, “Still fucking hate Amazon”
The next day Yesung is thinking that he should probably attend Heechul’s gym class since his and Luna’s plans for the day were cancelled.
She had to babysit her siblings.
“Come over. We’ll lock them in the closet and make-out on the couch” she tells him over the phone. He can hear the childish ‘ewwww’ that must’ve come from Jessica, Luna’s 7 year old sister. Suddenly Jessica squeals, “I’m telling mommy” and while Yesung laughs, Luna says,
“She’s such a little tattle-tale”
Therefore with nothing else better to do he grudgingly decides to attend the gym session. He’s probably packed on one pound since the break started but it doesn’t bother him as much as it would’ve in the beginning. He’s decided that no matter how long it takes him to get most of the weight off he’s willing to keep going at it until he does. He was perfectly fine with his body before all his exercising and if it takes him a year or two to drop down to a suitable size then it’s no problem.
His friends, well the ones that matter, like him for who is and are very supportive. Along the way he has developed some resistance and he’s using it wisely when it comes to eating choices but he’s not letting it rule his thoughts.
In the end he realizes he had never checked with Heechul to find out what time the sessions would start and he assumes that Heechul’s lazy ass would probably have them in the afternoon.
His mother drops him off at school around 4 and he waves goodbye, promising to call when he’s ready to come home. The gate is unlocked so he takes it as a good sign, heading straight for the gym. He is gravely disappointed when he finds it locked from top to bottom, no sign of any lingering students.
Sighing he’s about to turn away when he spots someone running toward him. He recognizes the school janitor from the uniform and notices that the man is waving a device at him. As the janitor gets closer, Yesung can see that he is scowling and yelling, waving around a taser gun.
Fucking hell
Yesung raises his arms in surrender, shocked, his breaths coming rapidly as he waits for the man to lower the device.
Finally after a brief panic attack, Yesung gets off with a stern scolding. Yenny the Janitor informs him that Heechul’s classes run from 10 in the morning til noon. Yesung is thankful for the information and doesn’t waste time with small talk, exiting the school quickly soon after.
Not wanting to be selfish he decides not to call his mother. It’s been ten minutes since she dropped him so calling her back here would be a waste of her time. She has been working from home for the past three days because she had been running a slight fever some days before but is slowly beginning to become rejuvenated.
Therefore Yesung begins walking toward the nearest bus-stop.
It’s along this way that he is startled by the sound of a car horn honking right beside him. He jumps, his right hand flying over his racing heart. Yoona giggles, pressing the car horn again for good measure. She is driving a silver mini car with top down. She looks like a kid in a candy store.
“You like my new ride?” she asks excitedly, one of her hands pressing on the horn again. Yesung cannot hold back his small laugh at how utterly adorable she was being.
“New car huh? Sounds like your spring break is going better than anyone else I know” he pokes his tongue out at her, “What model is it?”
She looks thoughtful, “Um, I was, I was kind of too busy screaming to find out…but, wait, no, It’s ah, um, Nissan micra! Or micro? Micha? I don’t remember exactly but fuck all that, I GOT A CAR”
This time she’s yelling, as if she wanted all the world to know.
“I didn’t know you had your license?”
“There’s a lot of things you don’t know about me, sexy” she makes a show of winking at him flirtatiously. Although he knows it’s just her being a playful tease Yesung still flushes pink at being referred to as sexy.
“Whatever. Where are you heading?”
“Over to Changmin’s. We’re having a slumber party”
Yesung raises an eyebrow at her, “A slumber party? At Min’s house? That’s so…gay” he laughs, “Are you going to braid each other’s hair and talk about your boyfriends?”
Yoona tilts her head, pretending to think it over, she nods, “Yeah, pretty much”, Grinning, she adds, “It’s a total cock fest. There’s going to be like 6 guys and little ole me. Definitely gay”
“Why don’t you invite Luna then? She’s babysitting for a while but she should be off the hook by 8” he suggests.
“Yeah I asked and she said she’d se…”
Yesung’s cell rings demandingly and Yoona breaks off of what she was saying. He gives her an apologetic look, holding up one finger to indicate that he required a minute.
“It’s Luna” he informs her, then proceeds to answer the call. “Hey”
“Hey yourself. What’s up sugar plum, sweet bum?”
Yesung heard the telltale sign of Jessica’s ‘ewww!’ and ‘I’m telling mom!’.
“You really need to stop doing that to her. You’ll scar her mentally”
Luna huffs, “Yeah, yeah whatever. Anyways, the reason I called. Yoona invited me to a Slumber party thing at Changmin’s house, are you willing to come with us?”
“Actually, Yoona is with me right now”
Luna gasps, “That friend whore”
~~
In the end Yoona gives Yesung a ride to Luna’s house. Her parents had decided to return early, they had some sort of argument and were now angry at each other, and therefore with their presence in the house, Luna had no reason to be there anymore. Yesung doesn’t plan to sleep over, phoning his mom to tell her that he was spending most of the night with friends.
She had insisted to speak to one of them and he handed the phone to Luna. Saya had not been satisfied with that; however she trusted her son and Luna to be responsible.
“Be home by 11” she ordered.
Yesung had no choice but to agree.
Luna wasn’t planning on staying over either, so Yoona offered to drop them back home when they were ready. The girl was awfully excited to use her new vehicle anytime she could.
The drive to Changmin’s home is filled with laughter, crappy radio karaoke and talks about what interested them on television. Min’s house turns out to be just what he would’ve expected. Three stories tall, a nice plum color covering the exterior. There was a large, elegantly decorated posh front door with both a doorbell and a peep hole. The entire house was surrounded by well cut lawn and a large flower garden to the left side.
Even the welcome mat under their feet felt plushy and rich.
“It’s surprising that his welcome mat isn’t sewn out of US hundred dollar bills” Luna commented, obviously sensing the suffocating scent of money that filled the atmosphere around the house.
The door openly smoothly, “Well we were planning to have it sewn by unwilling child slaves but we found that all that money would probably look better as drapes” Min offered them a teasing grin, his surprise at seeing Yesung and Luna is brief and he welcomes them all in happily as if he had expected Yoona to invite them anyway.
Of course Kyuhyun was there. He was probably the first person Min had invited. Kyuhyun wasn’t looking at them, his gaze focused on something on the television so Yesung took the opportunity to study the man’s attire. He was sprawled on a large white sofa, his feet covered by blue socks and his hands folded and rested on his lower stomach. His jeans were dark red, almost maroon and fitted him like a second skin. Yesung snorts, the other man must be feeling really uncomfortable.
Kyuhyun hears the sound and without delay looks up just as Changmin yells, “Look who’s here!”
“I hope you guys don’t mind. I picked up a couple of strays on the way” Yoona jokes and Luna pretends to chase her. Another boy makes his presence known, his bright golden hair and a petite body being the first thing Yesung notices.
“Hey” the newcomer extends a hand, Yesung reaches out and shakes it, “Uh, I’m Ji Yong”
“Yesung”
Luna, who was still vibrating with laughter after her and Yoona’s little game of tag, suddenly stops laughing, all traces of amusement disappearing as she becomes quiet and a bit shy.
If Yesung hadn’t been paying attention to her he might’ve missed the absolute look of adoration that passed over her face just seconds before she snaps out of her daze and waves briefly at Ji Yong.
“Hi, I’m Luna” Now that Ji Yong’s focus is completely on her, Luna ducks behind Yesung pretending to look for something. Yesung stifles a giggle. He has never seen her react this way to anyone. Ji Yong is pretty attractive, but he’s not exactly Yesung’s type and is wearing bright pink baggy pants that are kind of off putting.
Ji Yong brushes back a couple of loose blonde strands that hang dangerously close to his eyes.
“Nice to meet you both” the boy tells them politely.
“Thanks for allowing us to crash the party” Yesung says mildly, drawing laughter from everyone in the room, except Kyuhyun.
“I’m surprised Yesung was able to fit inside of Yoona’s clown car” Kyuhyun comments smarmily, just to be an ass.
Before Yesung can answer, Ji Yong surprises him by saying, “At least Yoona has a car of her own. Didn’t your mom drop you off here?”
Kyuhyun promptly flips off Ji Yong then turns his attention back to the television. Yesung glances at the screen and sees that the other boy is watching one of the Transformers movies.
“Wow, another girl! This cock fest just got a lot more fucking interesting” a new voice announces. Yesung swings his gaze away from the television, his head turning in the direction of the voice.
A tall figure descends the last two stairs and Yesung feels his like his draw is barely hanging onto its hinges. The guy is hot.
“Gackt, can’t you at least try to be a little…not-yourself” Changmin scoffs.
“Ah you know you love me. It’s why you fuck around with my brother” the man, Gackt, walks over to the sofa, throwing himself carelessly onto Kyuhyun. The two wrestle around for the remote, Kyuhyun yelping in pain when Gackt begins to tickle him roughly.
“And the gayness begins” Ji Yong states, taking in the scene with a bored frown.
“The gayness began since last night, GD” This time Yesung recognizes the voice and is left staring with wide unbelieving eyes at Yunho, who is scantily dressed in a short pair of pink and green briefs and an over sized Madonna t-shirt. The man looks like he just had really good sex and was only now crawling out of bed.
“Morning” he greets them all with a wave as he bounces down the staircase. Changmin meets him at the bottom and they share a disgustingly long kiss.
Yesung nudges Luna, “You didn’t tell me they were back together” he whispers urgently, not taking his eyes off the couple, who were now speaking in low hushed voices to each other.
“I didn’t know” she shrugs, and they both glare at Yoona for withholding such information.
A loud fleshy smack catches Yesung’s attention and he catches the way Yunho smirks evilly over his shoulder at Changmin, who had apparently just smacked his ass.
“Would you please stop molesting my brother in front of me” Gackt demands, even though he is technically molesting Kyuhyun by keeping the boy pressed into the soft cushions with his body. “And Yunho, put some fucking pants on! God, at least try to cover the goods”
Ji Yong claps his hands once, drawing their attention, “I vote we start off with a movie” His tone is clearly saying ‘Let’s do something else other than make gay jokes’
Yesung agrees wholeheartedly.
~~
Changmin leads them into his parent’s private theatre and Yesung cannot help the way his eyes explore over every detail of the room. It consists of over 30 seats, all made from some kind of posh leathery material. Every seat has a cup holder and for a moment Yesung wants to ask if Changmin had any servants to bring them snacks.
His question is answered when Min suggests that they all get off their lazy asses and prepare something for themselves in the kitchen.
Luna and Yesung both get to prepare BLTs for themselves. Kyuhyun, who happens to be blending up something on the other side of the kitchen, cuts Yesung a disappointed look but the shorter boy refuses to acknowledge it. He goes to grab a soda from the fridge when Kyuhyun hands him a glass of some kind of fruit blended drink.
“I had some left over, so I figured we could share” the trainer says drily, holding up his own glass of the beverage.
It has a straw in it, so Yesung decides to take a sip before he comments. It turns out to be pretty tasty.
“Thanks.” He is still holding the BLT in a plate and has to fight the urge to move it behind his back and away from Kyuhyun’s pointed stare.
“No problem. I made it myself but you don’t have to worry about me poisoning yours”
Yesung chuckles briefly, “I would never assume you hated me enough to poison me. I’m not exactly that important”
Kyuhyun doesn’t answer, just nods twice before excusing himself.
The movie selection turns out to be Finding Nemo.
Yesung expects everyone to protest but is caught off guard by their willingness to watch it. Even Gackt grins like a school boy when he hears the news.
Someone is sniffling when Nemo’s mother dies and Yesung suspects it sounds like Changmin.
Half way through the movie, Changmin leaves the room and when he returns there are three other persons behind him.
They don’t introduce themselves, Min returns to his seat while the guests all plant themselves in seats of their own.
After the movie concludes, Yesung is given a large yogurt cereal bar by Luna.
“What’s this for?” he asks, but his hands are already opening the package.
Luna shrugs and she is also opening a snack package of her own.
“Min’s handing them out” she indicates to her left. Yesung looks up and sees Changmin handing out various snacks to the others behind him. The intro for a movie begins and Yesung brings his eyes back toward the screen.
“Another one?” he whispers to Luna, however he does not take his eyes off of the display.
Luna makes a happy noise in the back of her throat and doesn’t really answer him directly.
The movie happens to be the Korean film A moment to Remember. This time a larger amount of them are sniffling loudly while trying to be discreet about it. They watch ‘A tale of two sisters’, Yesung and Luna cling to each other but Yesung immediately pulls away from her when the credits start rolling. He needs to preserve what little is left of his manly image.
The three newcomers finally introduce themselves to Yesung and Luna when they all exit the theatre room. There is Kai, who is a tall, well built boy with killer eyes and pouty lips. He has a very fresh faced twink look about him but his height and frame makes that description irrelevant.
“Don’t be fooled by his babyface” Yunho warns them teasingly. Kai is Yunho’s best friend, a fact that is shown from the way the two share private jokes and purposefully pokes fun at each other. Gackt seems to prefer Kai over Changmin since the two seem to get along better than Gackt and Min do.
Next up is a short, pretty, fashionista by the name of Brenda. She has on several layers of stylish clothing and if she weren’t 100% Asian then she would have probably been a dumb blonde in another life.
Jo Kwon is a stingy, odd boy with an awkward smile that doesn’t reach his eyes and an apparent crush on Luna. He keeps stuttering embrassingly whenever he tries to speak to her, his jokes always seem to fall short o there punch-line but above all that he’s really a sweet guy who Yesung tries to strike up conversations with.
Everyone else is paired off in conversation. Yesung, Jo Kwon and Luna are chatting mindlessly about the movies and J.K practically eats up whatever attention Luna is giving him.
Yesung has to cover a knowing smirk every time he looks at them. Luna is slowly but surely liking the fact that J.K can’t keep his eyes off her and right now she’s just playing coy, twirling her hair and striking little poses that make J.K’s adam’s apple bounce.
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