Hope is around the corner - Part 15
TITLE: Hope is around the corner Part 15
AUTHOR: wemwems
GENRE: AU
PAIRINGS: 2min, OnKey, JongKey, Jongbeom
RATING: PG-13 to NC-17
SUMMARY: Lee Taemin isn't a normal 17 year old boy. The death of his family has given him a new insight to life, and he is on a mission to change the world. However, he didn't plan on falling in love with Choi Minho, his favourite Korean idol, who loves him more than life itself. But which is more important to him: Being with the one man who can give him a second chance of having a family, or his dream to make the world a better place? If only he could have both...
Minho POV
"Ke…Key…" I stutter, trying to organise my thoughts. "What happened?"
Key and I just stand there, staring at the empty room.
"Trying calling him again." Key tells me.
I take out my mobile and press his name, my hands shaking as I bring the phone to my ear. I count the number of rings - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… and then the ringing stops. I can hear breathing on the other side of the phone.
"Taemin! Taemin it's me, Minho! We're are you? Are you okay?"
I hear him breathing unevenly, but he's not saying anything. I start to think the worst. What if he's been kidnapped? What if the murderers are right there listening to this phonecall.
"Taemin you're scaring me!"
I hear him take a deep breath, and hear the faint sound of his lips opening.
"I'm sorry…"
"Sorry for what? Taemin!"
"Just… sorry I found you."
"What are you talking about? Where are you? I'm coming, I want to see you right now!"
"No Minho! I don't ever want to see you again. What kind of person are you?" he says, on the verge of crying. "I'm leaving!"
"Taem…"
And then he hangs up the phone.
"What happened?" Key asks me. "Minho are you okay?"
I don't say anything. I can't… I feel like Taemin took my voice away with his last words. I don't even know what to think. I feel like I've been paralysed.
Key's phone starts to ring, and I can't help but hope that maybe it's Taemin. But it's not. It's manager hyung. He wants us back right now.
Key takes me by the arm and guides me towards the car. "Minho, what did he say?" he asks as he helps me stumble in to the car.
"He told me he's leaving, and that he doesn't want to see me again." I tell him, my face completely tense, overwhelmed with emotions.
"What? What did you do Minho?"
I try to think back on the past week. He was completely fine this morning, and then suddenly he takes off. What happened between this morning and the rehearsal?
"It must have been…" I say, trying to gather my thoughts.
"Do you think it was something that manager hyung said?" Key suggests. "He looked really… I dunno… uncomfortable right before we went out for the Lucifer practice."
"It can't have been. What would manager hyung say? He wouldn't want to drive Taemin away…"
"Well maybe he wanted Taemin to do something he didn't want to do."
"But he wouldn't leave just for that… I mean, I…"
Then I wonder if it was the dancing issue. I know I forgot to tell him about it, but he wouldn't leave me just because they asked him to dance would he?
"I don't think it's this, but Taemin didn't know he had to dance…" I tell Key, hoping that he could use his almighty umma senses to help me figure this out.
"WWHHATTTTT?!!?!!? You didn't tell him?"
"I didn't think it was that big of a deal! I mean… it's just dancing."
"Don't you listen to anything he says? I was so worried about him agreeing to dance on stage, but after you told us he's happy about the concert I just figured that you had told him. How could you leave such a big thing like out?"
"But…" I try to understand what Key's getting at. "But it's just dancing!"
"But Taemin's not just a normal guy Minho! You dance on stage every day to entertain your fans, but Taemin is on a whole other level. He reaches people through his messages of hope! Don't you see how dancing would take that away from him?"
Key looks extremely angry at me, and I'm sure he wants to stand up and shout at me some more - thank goodness we're in a car.
"Wait, we don't even know if it's the dancing thing. It might be something else."
"Oh shut up Minho don't be so stupid!"
Key's mean when he's angry.
"Not only have you hurt the boy, ruined your chances with him but you also messed up the whole concert thing. Manger hyung is going to be so pissed!"
Ugh, was it really all because I didn't tell him he would have to dance? Why didn't I tell him? How stupid am I? We reach the recording site, and Key jumps out.
"Come on Minho! Let's go, they're waiting."
"Wait wait wait Key."
Key makes an annoyed tutting sounds at me and starts to run off.
"KEY! For fuck's sake just listen to me for a second!"
"WHAT!"
"Where do you think he'd be?"
"No Minho, you're not going to look for him. You're coming in RIGHT now!"
I give him a determined look, showing him that I'm not getting out the car so he might as well help me.
He lets out a big sigh. "Do I have to spell everything out for you? His whole apartment is empty! He's got nowhere to go. He's going home! Back to London. I won't be surprised if his plane's already left!"
"Thanks hyung!"
"I can't believe you're chasing him. We have a performance in 30 minutes!"
"Some things are more important hyung! To the airport please!" I tell the driver, and I can hear Key swearing at me as we drive off.
Jonghyun POV
Onew and I have been waiting with manager hyung for Key and Minho to come back for about 15 minutes now. And manager hyung looks pissed. Both of us stare at the ground while we wait. I haven't heard back from Jay since I texted him about 20 minutes ago. Finally we see Key running in, completely out of breath.
"Kibum! Why are you so late and where is Minho!" Manager hyung shouts.
"I'm sorry. We got stuck in traffic. And Minho…"
"Where is he?"
"I don't know. When I got out the car he was driving somewhere else."
"How could he do that…" Onew says, knowing that as the leader a lot of blame would fall on him.
I look at manager hyung's face, which is eerily calm.
"I will talk to Minho later. You three do the performance just like when he injured himself during your comeback okay?"
"Yes." The three of us say.
"And while all of you were gone, the staff and I discussed what is going to happen about the concert, and about the announcement if you don't find Taemin. And you haven't found him. However, we still believe SHINee needs a special announcement of some sort for the concert."
All of us look at him in anticipation of what the announcement will be.
"We can't release a statement about 2min as a couple anymore because he's run off. Another popular pairing that fans like is JongKey."
My jaw drops open.
"You mean… you mean me and Key?" I ask stupidly, although we all already know the answer.
"Yes, we'll be announcing that Jonghyun and Key are officially dating."
I look over at their faces. They both look like they're in utter shock.
"Onew! What do you think about it?" Manager hyung asks him.
Onew looks completely torn. But of course, as the leader he has no choice. We all know that SHINee has to come first over everything if we hope to succeed… well apart from Minho so it seems… the idiot.
"The fans, they want to see JongKey?" Onew asks.
"They're begging for JongKey. There's a youtube channel dedicated to it. We get most searches when there are 'Jongkey moments' on stage."
"Then… I guess we'll do it. You'll do it okay guys?"
Onew turns to us. I look at him, slightly shaking my head so manager hyung can't see, silently apologising to him.
"Okay…" I say reluctantly. If Onew hadn't have just told us to agree, there's no way I would. I mean, of course I want to be with Key, but not like this.
"Kibum?" Onew looks at Key, who looks back at him, tears in his eyes. "Kibum, we can do this. For the best of the group right?"
After a moment, Key nods his head. "Yes, for the good of the group."
"Excellent. I knew you boys would not let me down. Minho on the other hand…"
"I think we should quickly run through the choreography without him. Key you'll take his rap, Jjong you'll have to take his verse. Um, manager hyung can we…?" Onew cuts in.
"Yes… go on."
How did this day get screwed up? And what happened with Minho? Did he find Taemin? I'm pretty sure by now that it was Taemin who told Jay the truth… just as I was about to tell him myself. Man, Minho must have screwed up big time.
Taemin POV
I'm about to enter security. There's no turning back after this. I half expect to turn around and see Minho running in, trying to convince me to stay, but there's no sign of him. What am I saying? I don't want to see him. I just want to leave the experience of this whole trip behind.
While I'm giving my boarding pass to the man in front of me, I feel a hand on my shoulder pulling me back.
"Excuse me I was here fi…" I'm about to complain, when I see Minho staring down at me. "Minho!" I want to pull away from him, but I feel my body just letting him pull me out of the line. But I snap back in to it.
"Minho, leave me alone." I pull away from him, but he holds firmly on to my shoulder.
"No. Taemin just listen to me for a second."
I don't want to. I don't want to hear any more of his lies. But I don't have control over my body when it comes to him.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't tell you the whole truth about the concert. I didn't realise…"
"You didn't realise? Minho, I spent so much time telling you how I felt. Don't lie to me."
"Can't you just believe that I'm completely and utterly stupid? And that I didn't get it. And that I was too busy falling in love with you that I wasn't thinking straight?"
"STOP IT! Don't tell me you love me. How could you not know?"
"Not know what?"
"Not know that I would not want to dance at the concert. I spelt it out for you! I told you how happy I was that the audience would be listening to what I have to tell them. I told you!"
He looks disappointed in himself. He looks like he knows that he really screwed up.
"Look Taemin, I'm so sorry. But you have to believe that I didn't. I meant everything I said."
I want to believe him. I really do.
"Even if you're not lying, you obviously don't understand me. It wouldn't work. Plus you being an idol, plus just all the mess that we've gotten in to now… why don't we just move on?"
"I don't want to move on. Please just don't go back to London."
"No Minho, I'm going."
"You can't, I don't want it to end like this."
I let out a big sigh. I don't want it to end like this either. But I'm not about to just give up my plane ticket and leave with him.
"Okay Minho. I'm getting on the plane to London. But I'm not completely ending it. I have to get back home, but we can still talk when I get there."
"So you're leaving now?"
"Yeah, I'm sorry."
"And you'll be there for a month?"
"I do have to finish highschool…"
"So this is goodbye?"
"For now… maybe."
"I'm sorry for all of this Taemin. I didn't mean to hurt you. That's the last thing that I wanted."
"Well… I guess I should go now."
"You have to promise you'll talk to me when you get back to London. You have to call me. You have my number."
"I will."
And so we stand there for a second, not wanting to move. Out of nowhere, my body takes control of me and I fling myself at him, pulling him in to a tight hug. He immediately hugs me back with a sigh of relief.
"I'm gonna miss you Taemin. So much."
"Me too…" I admit.
He kisses me on the cheek, and then lightly on the nose, before planting a kiss right on my lips. We keep it sweet and press our lips together, while he strokes my cheek with his thumb.
After what seemed like such a short time, he pulls away.
"You have a flight to catch. You better run for it." he smiles at me.
"Bye Minho!"
"Bye Taemin." he slowly lets go of my hand and I proceed through to security. When I reach the end of security, my phone buzzes.
From: Minho
To: Taemin
Have a safe flight.
I love you.
I can't help but smile at the text, and a warm buzz travels throughout my body. I know that no matter how much I resist, I can't deny that he and I have something special, that I would be stupid to let go of.
From: Taemin
To: Minho
I love you too.
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A/N:Lalalalaaadidadadaaa... Happy birthday to crazy_rourou hope you have a great day <3
AUTHOR: wemwems
GENRE: AU
PAIRINGS: 2min, OnKey, JongKey, Jongbeom
RATING: PG-13 to NC-17
SUMMARY: Lee Taemin isn't a normal 17 year old boy. The death of his family has given him a new insight to life, and he is on a mission to change the world. However, he didn't plan on falling in love with Choi Minho, his favourite Korean idol, who loves him more than life itself. But which is more important to him: Being with the one man who can give him a second chance of having a family, or his dream to make the world a better place? If only he could have both...
Minho POV
"Ke…Key…" I stutter, trying to organise my thoughts. "What happened?"
Key and I just stand there, staring at the empty room.
"Trying calling him again." Key tells me.
I take out my mobile and press his name, my hands shaking as I bring the phone to my ear. I count the number of rings - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… and then the ringing stops. I can hear breathing on the other side of the phone.
"Taemin! Taemin it's me, Minho! We're are you? Are you okay?"
I hear him breathing unevenly, but he's not saying anything. I start to think the worst. What if he's been kidnapped? What if the murderers are right there listening to this phonecall.
"Taemin you're scaring me!"
I hear him take a deep breath, and hear the faint sound of his lips opening.
"I'm sorry…"
"Sorry for what? Taemin!"
"Just… sorry I found you."
"What are you talking about? Where are you? I'm coming, I want to see you right now!"
"No Minho! I don't ever want to see you again. What kind of person are you?" he says, on the verge of crying. "I'm leaving!"
"Taem…"
And then he hangs up the phone.
"What happened?" Key asks me. "Minho are you okay?"
I don't say anything. I can't… I feel like Taemin took my voice away with his last words. I don't even know what to think. I feel like I've been paralysed.
Key's phone starts to ring, and I can't help but hope that maybe it's Taemin. But it's not. It's manager hyung. He wants us back right now.
Key takes me by the arm and guides me towards the car. "Minho, what did he say?" he asks as he helps me stumble in to the car.
"He told me he's leaving, and that he doesn't want to see me again." I tell him, my face completely tense, overwhelmed with emotions.
"What? What did you do Minho?"
I try to think back on the past week. He was completely fine this morning, and then suddenly he takes off. What happened between this morning and the rehearsal?
"It must have been…" I say, trying to gather my thoughts.
"Do you think it was something that manager hyung said?" Key suggests. "He looked really… I dunno… uncomfortable right before we went out for the Lucifer practice."
"It can't have been. What would manager hyung say? He wouldn't want to drive Taemin away…"
"Well maybe he wanted Taemin to do something he didn't want to do."
"But he wouldn't leave just for that… I mean, I…"
Then I wonder if it was the dancing issue. I know I forgot to tell him about it, but he wouldn't leave me just because they asked him to dance would he?
"I don't think it's this, but Taemin didn't know he had to dance…" I tell Key, hoping that he could use his almighty umma senses to help me figure this out.
"WWHHATTTTT?!!?!!? You didn't tell him?"
"I didn't think it was that big of a deal! I mean… it's just dancing."
"Don't you listen to anything he says? I was so worried about him agreeing to dance on stage, but after you told us he's happy about the concert I just figured that you had told him. How could you leave such a big thing like out?"
"But…" I try to understand what Key's getting at. "But it's just dancing!"
"But Taemin's not just a normal guy Minho! You dance on stage every day to entertain your fans, but Taemin is on a whole other level. He reaches people through his messages of hope! Don't you see how dancing would take that away from him?"
Key looks extremely angry at me, and I'm sure he wants to stand up and shout at me some more - thank goodness we're in a car.
"Wait, we don't even know if it's the dancing thing. It might be something else."
"Oh shut up Minho don't be so stupid!"
Key's mean when he's angry.
"Not only have you hurt the boy, ruined your chances with him but you also messed up the whole concert thing. Manger hyung is going to be so pissed!"
Ugh, was it really all because I didn't tell him he would have to dance? Why didn't I tell him? How stupid am I? We reach the recording site, and Key jumps out.
"Come on Minho! Let's go, they're waiting."
"Wait wait wait Key."
Key makes an annoyed tutting sounds at me and starts to run off.
"KEY! For fuck's sake just listen to me for a second!"
"WHAT!"
"Where do you think he'd be?"
"No Minho, you're not going to look for him. You're coming in RIGHT now!"
I give him a determined look, showing him that I'm not getting out the car so he might as well help me.
He lets out a big sigh. "Do I have to spell everything out for you? His whole apartment is empty! He's got nowhere to go. He's going home! Back to London. I won't be surprised if his plane's already left!"
"Thanks hyung!"
"I can't believe you're chasing him. We have a performance in 30 minutes!"
"Some things are more important hyung! To the airport please!" I tell the driver, and I can hear Key swearing at me as we drive off.
Jonghyun POV
Onew and I have been waiting with manager hyung for Key and Minho to come back for about 15 minutes now. And manager hyung looks pissed. Both of us stare at the ground while we wait. I haven't heard back from Jay since I texted him about 20 minutes ago. Finally we see Key running in, completely out of breath.
"Kibum! Why are you so late and where is Minho!" Manager hyung shouts.
"I'm sorry. We got stuck in traffic. And Minho…"
"Where is he?"
"I don't know. When I got out the car he was driving somewhere else."
"How could he do that…" Onew says, knowing that as the leader a lot of blame would fall on him.
I look at manager hyung's face, which is eerily calm.
"I will talk to Minho later. You three do the performance just like when he injured himself during your comeback okay?"
"Yes." The three of us say.
"And while all of you were gone, the staff and I discussed what is going to happen about the concert, and about the announcement if you don't find Taemin. And you haven't found him. However, we still believe SHINee needs a special announcement of some sort for the concert."
All of us look at him in anticipation of what the announcement will be.
"We can't release a statement about 2min as a couple anymore because he's run off. Another popular pairing that fans like is JongKey."
My jaw drops open.
"You mean… you mean me and Key?" I ask stupidly, although we all already know the answer.
"Yes, we'll be announcing that Jonghyun and Key are officially dating."
I look over at their faces. They both look like they're in utter shock.
"Onew! What do you think about it?" Manager hyung asks him.
Onew looks completely torn. But of course, as the leader he has no choice. We all know that SHINee has to come first over everything if we hope to succeed… well apart from Minho so it seems… the idiot.
"The fans, they want to see JongKey?" Onew asks.
"They're begging for JongKey. There's a youtube channel dedicated to it. We get most searches when there are 'Jongkey moments' on stage."
"Then… I guess we'll do it. You'll do it okay guys?"
Onew turns to us. I look at him, slightly shaking my head so manager hyung can't see, silently apologising to him.
"Okay…" I say reluctantly. If Onew hadn't have just told us to agree, there's no way I would. I mean, of course I want to be with Key, but not like this.
"Kibum?" Onew looks at Key, who looks back at him, tears in his eyes. "Kibum, we can do this. For the best of the group right?"
After a moment, Key nods his head. "Yes, for the good of the group."
"Excellent. I knew you boys would not let me down. Minho on the other hand…"
"I think we should quickly run through the choreography without him. Key you'll take his rap, Jjong you'll have to take his verse. Um, manager hyung can we…?" Onew cuts in.
"Yes… go on."
How did this day get screwed up? And what happened with Minho? Did he find Taemin? I'm pretty sure by now that it was Taemin who told Jay the truth… just as I was about to tell him myself. Man, Minho must have screwed up big time.
Taemin POV
I'm about to enter security. There's no turning back after this. I half expect to turn around and see Minho running in, trying to convince me to stay, but there's no sign of him. What am I saying? I don't want to see him. I just want to leave the experience of this whole trip behind.
While I'm giving my boarding pass to the man in front of me, I feel a hand on my shoulder pulling me back.
"Excuse me I was here fi…" I'm about to complain, when I see Minho staring down at me. "Minho!" I want to pull away from him, but I feel my body just letting him pull me out of the line. But I snap back in to it.
"Minho, leave me alone." I pull away from him, but he holds firmly on to my shoulder.
"No. Taemin just listen to me for a second."
I don't want to. I don't want to hear any more of his lies. But I don't have control over my body when it comes to him.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't tell you the whole truth about the concert. I didn't realise…"
"You didn't realise? Minho, I spent so much time telling you how I felt. Don't lie to me."
"Can't you just believe that I'm completely and utterly stupid? And that I didn't get it. And that I was too busy falling in love with you that I wasn't thinking straight?"
"STOP IT! Don't tell me you love me. How could you not know?"
"Not know what?"
"Not know that I would not want to dance at the concert. I spelt it out for you! I told you how happy I was that the audience would be listening to what I have to tell them. I told you!"
He looks disappointed in himself. He looks like he knows that he really screwed up.
"Look Taemin, I'm so sorry. But you have to believe that I didn't. I meant everything I said."
I want to believe him. I really do.
"Even if you're not lying, you obviously don't understand me. It wouldn't work. Plus you being an idol, plus just all the mess that we've gotten in to now… why don't we just move on?"
"I don't want to move on. Please just don't go back to London."
"No Minho, I'm going."
"You can't, I don't want it to end like this."
I let out a big sigh. I don't want it to end like this either. But I'm not about to just give up my plane ticket and leave with him.
"Okay Minho. I'm getting on the plane to London. But I'm not completely ending it. I have to get back home, but we can still talk when I get there."
"So you're leaving now?"
"Yeah, I'm sorry."
"And you'll be there for a month?"
"I do have to finish highschool…"
"So this is goodbye?"
"For now… maybe."
"I'm sorry for all of this Taemin. I didn't mean to hurt you. That's the last thing that I wanted."
"Well… I guess I should go now."
"You have to promise you'll talk to me when you get back to London. You have to call me. You have my number."
"I will."
And so we stand there for a second, not wanting to move. Out of nowhere, my body takes control of me and I fling myself at him, pulling him in to a tight hug. He immediately hugs me back with a sigh of relief.
"I'm gonna miss you Taemin. So much."
"Me too…" I admit.
He kisses me on the cheek, and then lightly on the nose, before planting a kiss right on my lips. We keep it sweet and press our lips together, while he strokes my cheek with his thumb.
After what seemed like such a short time, he pulls away.
"You have a flight to catch. You better run for it." he smiles at me.
"Bye Minho!"
"Bye Taemin." he slowly lets go of my hand and I proceed through to security. When I reach the end of security, my phone buzzes.
From: Minho
To: Taemin
Have a safe flight.
I love you.
I can't help but smile at the text, and a warm buzz travels throughout my body. I know that no matter how much I resist, I can't deny that he and I have something special, that I would be stupid to let go of.
From: Taemin
To: Minho
I love you too.
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A/N:Lalalalaaadidadadaaa... Happy birthday to crazy_rourou hope you have a great day <3