MBLAQ Fic: A Christmas Proposal [ONESHOT]
It was just a few hours before Christmas… there were huge Christmas trees with lots of lights standing proudly on the street, Santa Clauses walking around town giving gifts to random people in the street, Christmas carols playing everywhere and piles of snow on top of everything that can be seen…
A girl wearing a long brown trench coat stood in the middle of the snow covered street… staring at two kids giggling in front of a candy store…the boy seemed to be excited about something while the girl beside him just smiled…
She placed her freezing hands inside her coat pockets and buried herself in her wool scarf before starting to walk away from the happy and busy streets. Her every step was heavy and tears slowly streaming down her face in contrast to the happy atmosphere all around her.
4 days ago
“Kerry!”
She turned and saw her best friend who was running full force with a grin on his face. He stopped in front of her and panted, holding his knees for support…
“Bang Cheolyong, why are you late… again?”
“It’s Mir… Mir!!!”
The girl glared and crossed her arms, ignoring the fact that her hands are ice cold… “Fine. Mir. Care to explain why you were late?”
Mir smiled sheepishly and scratched his head, “we were called in for a meeting by president-nim before the christmas holidays… I was planning to escape but manager hyung was guarding the door. I’m sorry… I’ll make it up to you, I promise”
Kerry sighed and placed her freezing hands back into the warm comforts of her coat and the boy instantly knew he was forgiven. He smiled and took one of the girl’s hands into his and started running, dragging the poor girl with him.
“Come on! There are a lot of things we need to do!”
Kerry looked at their linked hands and blushed… secretly thanking the fact that the scarf she was wearing covers half of her face else he would see how red she has gotten. Kerry wanted to ask where they were going or what they were going to do but her heart secretly wished for the giddy feeling to stay.
While Kerry’s heart and head was having an internal battle, Mir stopped in front of the park they used to play with when they were young. He pulled Kerry to the nearest bench, a serious expression on his face.
“Kerry… we’ve been best friends for some time and I know I can tell you everything…”
Kerry felt like her heart would be bustling out of her chest soon. She cleared her throat and lightly tapped on her best friend’s leg to continue. Mir smiled and softly said…
“Well…you see… I’m in love with this girl and I want to finally confess but I would need your help.”
Kerry thought she heard her heart shatter.
3 days ago
“Remind me again why you need to confess exactly on Christmas?”
Mir watched the falling snow as he took a sip of his coffee before answering, “cause its more romantic.”
Kerry chose to stay silent and continued drinking her hot choco. Her best friend finished his coffee with one big gulp and threw the cup to the waste bin. Kerry followed suit and threw the cup to the waste bin as well. Mir then removed some snow from his arms and stretched, “okay… we have the place sorted out and we bought lots of decorations already…”
Kerry glared at the smiling young man, “you mean… you bought lots of mistletoes…”
Mir laughed out loud and Kerry shook her head, “I gotta use the occasion to my advantage… right?”
“Whatever. So where are we going now?”
The young man stopped laughing and a soft smile now graced his face, “to the jewelry store… I need to buy her something.”
Kerry nodded and this time she thinks she heard her already shattered heart break… again.
2 days ago
“You’re going to cook for her?!”
Mir raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms, “yeah why?”
“You honestly have the guts to ask me why?!?!”
“But you look like you enjoy eating the food I cook everytime!”
Kerry pouted and murmured, “But that’s only cause I love you even though you suck at cooking…”
Mir tore his eyes off the cookbook and stared weirdly at his bestfriend, “did you say something?”
Kerry let out an awkward laugh, “I said its my duty as your best friend to eat the things you cook”
Yesterday
“What kind of flowers?”
Kerry sighed exasperatedly and fought the urge to whack her best friend on the head, “why do I have to decide about the flowers too? I’ve already picked out the venue, the food, even the gift you will give her!”
“But I don’t know anything about this!”
“Mir listen, I don’t think my personal choices would make any difference. You should be asking her or any of her close friends…”
Kerry looked up and came face to face with her bestfriend’s puppy dog look. She felt her heart sink a little more and she thought, “The hell… my heart has already been shattered anyway…”
“Fine! Choose white roses!”
Mir looked at the white roses and smiled, “white roses got it! I’ll talk to the florist so they can deliver the fresh flowers tomorrow… I’m so excited!”
“Mir…you’re happy right?”
“Of course! If everything goes according to my plan, the girl I love would be mine tomorrow! Uh by the way Kerry, you need to be there by 8 in the evening okay?”
Kerry raised an eyebrow and rubbed her cold arms, “Why?”
Mir removed his jacket and draped it over Kerry’s shoulders, “because I want you to… and you should have worn something warmer. You know you get cold easily…tsk”
“I don’t know, Mir… I-…”
Mir stomped his foot like a child having a tantrum and whined, “No! You will come! I want you to be there!”
Kerry sighed and nodded…
“I think I’m developing masochistic characteristics…”
Back to present
Kerry arrived at her apartment and removed her coat… she pushed the recorder to check on missed calls as a routine before plopping herself on the couch and propping her feet up.
The machine let out a loud beep before announcing, “33 new messages…”
“Kerry! Where are you? You’re late!”
“If this is revenge for all the times I’ve been late on our meet ups then I’m sorry… please come over.”
“Kerry, this is Yuki…. Can you please call that sheep bestfriend of yours before I go crazy? He’s been calling me if you are with me and Changmin is getting angry. Do something please… Anyway, I’ll call you properly later. Merry Christmas!”
“Ya Chucky! Why aren’t you answering your phone?! That best friend of yours is interrupting Jungmal and mine’s cuddling time! If you don’t stop him from bothering us, I’ll throw dirty socks on you tomorrow!”
“Kerry… I’m getting worried, could you please answer your phone? I’m not angry anymore… just, tell me where you are.”
Kerry hastily bounced off the couch and turned off the recorder, tears streaming down her face. She slumped on the floor and continued sobbing; all the events of the previous days had finally caught up with her. Her Mir…the boy she has loved for years is now with another girl… her first love is finally over.
*knock knock*
Kerry wiped the tears from her eyes with her arm and did not do anything to get up hoping that the person would take the hint and go away. Unfortunately for her, the person did not take any hints and continued rapping on her door…
“Open this door! If you don’t open this in 3 minutes, I’m breaking the door down!”
Muttering a string of curses, Kerry reluctantly trudged to the door. She can’t afford to have the door broken of her new apartment, not that she cannot afford it but because she doesn’t want to be kicked out because of an embarrassing scene.
Despite having bloodshot eyes due crying, Kerry tried to look as normal as she could… “What are you doing here? Aren’t you supposed to be at your place? Your girl might be waiting for you.”
“Actually, she ditched me… I’ve been waiting for her since 8 but she didn’t come.”
Kerry’s hands were shaking and all the emotions she had since 4 days ago came in full force… “So, you come running to me when you get ditched by that girl you want to confess to? How nice of you, Bang Cheolyong…”
Mir narrowed his eyes and he exhaled loudly, “let’s talk inside Kerry…”
Kerry was getting tired from all the emotional turmoil she had the past few days and seeing the object of her affections right in front of her is not helping at all, “No… I’m tired. Go on home… We’ll talk tomorrow.”
“But it’s no longer Christmas tomorrow…”
Kerry glanced at her wall clock and it read 12:01, she massaged her forehead and turned around to let her best friend in and plopped back on the couch. She was surprised when a bouquet of white roses was placed in front of her and she suddenly looked up.
“What’s this?”
Mir blushed and scratched his head while grinning sheepishly, “well… the girl that I was supposed to confess to didn’t show up on my place so I decided to come to her instead…”
Kerry was still gaping and Mir didn’t know what to do anymore, “I-I wanted to make sure… that you would like everything so I… I had to ask for your opinion even though I wasn’t sure if you love me too b-but… if you don’t feel the same, I understand and we can continue to be best friends again. I mean, I can’t promise that I will stop loving you but as long as I can stay beside you I’ll be fine with it. I don’t think I can love anyone as much as I love you and so I’ll try to…”
Kerry chuckled and placed a hand to cover Mir’s lips, “You talk too much. Now where’s my necklace?”
Mir rummaged his pockets and took out a red box, opening it for his best friend soon to be girlfriend. Kerry took the necklace from the box and attempted to put it on her but Mir held her hand, “I-uh I’ll put it on you…”
Kerry nodded blushing and turned around so Mir can place the necklace on her neck… “so um… what’s your answer?”
“I don’t think I heard any question, Mir…”
“Oh…” Mir finished putting the necklace on Kerry’s neck and she smiled, “it really is pretty…thank you.”
“So um… uh… Kerry… will you uh….”
Kerry waited patiently, hands playing with the pendant of the necklace… soon seconds became minutes and Mir was still fidgeting. Kerry could feel her patience running thin and she sighed…
Mir knew that Kerry was starting to lose patience so he took a deep breath and blurted, “I’vebeeninlovewithyousinceforeverpleaseagreetobemygirl”
Kerry blinked… “Um… I knew you can talk fast but I don’t think I got what you said…”
Another deep sigh and Mir tried again… “Kerry, I love you very much… please be my girl.”
“Finally! I love you too…”
Kerry ran to give a hug to his now boyfriend, Mir hugged back and was now grinning like crazy… “why didn’t you go to my place? I’ve even decorated it really nice.”
“I thought you were confessing to another girl…”
“Oh… but because you didn’t come, the decorations are all wasted…”
Kerry chuckled and Mir felt her warm breath on his neck, “Cheolyong… if you want a kiss just go ahead and say so, you don’t need a bunch of mistletoes…”
Mir smiled and moved so that their noses touch, “Merry Christmas girlfriend…”
“Merry Christmas boyfriend…”
And Mir closed the gap, brushing his lips over his beloved’s…
Outside Kerry’s door were four people standing, two peeking on the door while the other two stood behind them…
“Universal Food, I told you they’ll be okay. If we barge in now, they’ll be interrupted.”
“I was just worried Yuki! You can’t blame me…”
A tall guy tapped on Yuki’s shoulder, “let’s go… they need their privacy.”
Yuki nodded and took the outstretched hand of her boyfriend as Kimu slowly closed the door to Kerry’s apartment.
“Seriously, she needs to learn to lock her door…”
Jungmin slung a lazy arm over Kimu’s shoulder and smiled, “give her a break… she just had an emotional week.”
“I suppose so”
And the two couples started going to their destinations separately… leaving the new couple to bask in their found love.