MBLAQ fanfic: Falling Rain Chapter 9A
Chapter 9A: Separated not by heart
ByungHee looked at his bestfriend who was absentmindedly looking at the window while playing with his cousin’s former necklace on his friend’s neck. He sighed deeply and looked away… simply because he knew that whatever Seungho was feeling at the moment was the same with his.
“---- hyung….”
Byunghee elbowed the group’s leader sitting beside him and he flinched. SeungHo rubbed his injured side and gave Joon a small smile.
“Seungho hyung, are you all right?”
“As okay as I could be, I guess. “
“I’m sure noona would be all right.”
ByungHee proudly smiled, “Of course she would be… she is my dongsaeng after all. He Ran isn’t weak.”
SeungHo grinned at his bestfriend’s proud look when a voice from the back boomed, “sometimes I wonder how Eira noona became a close relative of ByungHee hyung… ah, maybe this is one of the world’s unexplainable wonders…”
“Ya! What are you babbling about?! You!”
Byunghee turned to hit the maknae who was grinning evilly at the back. Cheondoong immediately wrapped his arms around Mir while Joon used his body to cover the younger ones. Mir was laughing hysterically while still inside Cheondoong’s loose embrace while ByungHee was still trying to reach him somehow. SeungHo and the manager laughed at the youngest’s antic and SeungHo lightly patted ByungHee’s back as if to comfort him a bit.
“ByungHee, Mir does have a point so there’s no reason for you to be harsh to the kid.”
At that ByungHee quickly turned to the manager sitting in front, “Hyung!!! What are you trying to say?!”
SeungHo chuckled “Hyung-ah, don’t aggravate the situation… Guys, quit playing.”
“I was not playing, SeungHo. The little twerp started it!”
SeungHo’s smile stayed on his lips as he patted GO’s back “ByungHee, you are the older one…” ByungHee pouted and sat back down, Cheondoong and Joon both sat straight while Mir and MBLAQ’s manager sported large smiles.
SeungHo’s smile disappeared when he saw the smiles on Mir and their manager, “Mir… Manager-hyung… It’s not nice to gang up on ByungHee. He is as unsettled as I am about Eira if not more. Aggravating him when he already is feeling low will not help.”
Mir nodded and mumbled a soft “Mianhe hyung deul”
“Mian dongsaeng.ah…”
ByungHee sported a real smile, everyone aside from SeungHo and the drive was awed at ByungHee’s smile. They knew that ByungHee rarely smile as sincerely as he is doing then. He would smirk, grin, and give evil smiles or a small soft smile but not the bright sincere smile he was sporting right now.
“Thank you for the concern and just like SeungHo, I’m as okay as I can be given the circumstances. Besides, I’m sticking with my earlier statement… He Ran is not the type of girl who gives up without a fight. She wasn’t a weakling then and she will not start now.”
SeungHo nodded and everyone smiled at ByungHee whose face radiates with his pride and love for He Ran, his closest cousin/sister and “favorite dongsaeng”.
The touching moment was halted when the driver announced that they have arrived to their destination. The boys scrambled out of the van, not forgetting to wave to some fans who seemed to know they were arriving.
The boys wordlessly went to their respective rooms to change into comfortable clothes so they can start practice. Their manager went ahead so he can discuss some things with the choreographer and the coordi-noonas for the costumes the next day.
Soon, one by one the boys piled out of the room… Joon was the first followed by Mir, Cheondoong and ByungHee came out of their room and SeungHo emerged from his room just a few minutes after. Everyone noticed the necklace on SeungHo’s necklace and they all secretly smiled to themselves.
SeungHo breathed deeply and said in a serious voice, “Guys… we are not stopping until we get everything perfect. Am I clear?”
A chorus of “Yeah!” was heard in their dorms and SeungHo smiled to himself. He marched ahead of everyone gripping his cell with one hand and another absentmindedly playing with the pendant of his necklace. “I’m going to make you proud of me, Eira… I won’t let you down, I promise.”
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*Knock* *Knock*
“Come in, its open!”
Jungsu took a peek inside Eira’s room and found her listening to an MP4 player smiling to herself. Jungsu came in and closed the door softly behind him. He sat on Eira’s bed and patted her head.
“How’s my favorite patient doing?”
Eira took one of the buds off and smirked at Jungsu, “don’t go all professional Park mode on me Hyung. That’s so not you.”
Jungsu laughed “It isn’t? You know me well don’t you little one?”
“Of course Jungsu hyung. We grew up together… well I grew up and you got older. Kekeke…”
“Ya! I’m still your hyung! And you haven’t grown much taller anyway.”
”Hyung… I’m a girl, its okay for me to be a little short plus I still have room to grow…”
Jungsu glared and crossed his arms across his chest, “yeah yeah… but seriously, how are you?”
Eira sighed and turned off the player and placed it on her lap. “Between the two of us, you should know more than I do right? But since you asked nicely…the pain is still there. It’s not as often as before but I can feel the pain gripping my heart… Hyung, its getting worse isn’t it?”
“I… it’s…”
Eira chuckled and reached for Jungsu’s hand, “hyung… don’t beat yourself over this. We both know since we were young that I do not have much time. It was a miracle that I managed to stay with everyone until now. We have to be thankful.”
“He Ran, you are not allowed to give up until I give up first. You hear me? I became a doctor to cure you and I will. If I have to make a miracle happen then I will.”
Eira patted Jungsu’s hand and smiled, “I believe in you hyung. I always had and will always will.”
“Aish… I came here to comfort you not be comforted.”
Eira chuckled, “hyung its okay… I don’t think you get shorter because I comforted you”
“Ya! Why is it height issues again?”
“Sorry hyung…”
Jungsu “hmph-ed” and glared at Eira, when he looked down… he noticed the ring on his childhood friend’s hand. “He Ran, that’s…”
“Oh, the player? SeungHo’s first gift to me. Nice huh? He is so sweet.”
“Not that silly, I know about it. You almost made my ear bleed with the story of how you received that player and how SeungHo-ssi recorded all the songs in the playlist and that he is a genius with the piano. I think I can retell the story in case anyone asks. I was pertaining to that shiny band on your finger.”
”oh hehehe… Mianhe hyung… SeungHo gave this to me before he left earlier.” Eira excitedly raised her hand so Jungsu can take a better look at the ring, grinning proudly.
“It’s pretty. That boy do have taste, I’m impressed.”
“Of course he does hyung, he is my boyfriend.”
“Whatever you say dongsaeng, whatever you say…”
Eira stuck her tongue out at his Jungsu hyung who was chuckling. The door opened and Mrs. Choi came in followed by some nurses.
“He Ran, I’m back with your new medicines. Oh hi Jungsu dear…”
Jungsu stood and bowed politely to the Choi umma, “Hello noona”
“I’ve bought the medicines you asked me to. What are we going to do now?”
Jungsu slipped his serious professional mask once again and provided instructions to the nurses. Eira winced in pain once she felt the medicines passing through her dextrose straight to her blood stream. Jungsu patted Eira’s shoulder and offered a small smile.
Eira nodded and smiled at his childhood friend/older brother/doctor. Jungsu knew the meds would hurt a lot because the dosage was increased so he tried to divert her attention to something else.
“He Ran, do you ever change the songs on that playlist?”
Eira looked offended and glared at Jungsu, “of course hyung. I have other songs aside from SeungHo’s recorded heavenly voice and their group’s songs. I have some from DBSK, Bigbang, Shinee, 2NE1, Gummy and Super Junior”
“Ah Super Junior… that group is good. They have good looking people there too, especially their leader Leeteuk. “
“Hm, I like the maknae Kyuhyun more. That Leeteuk is old.”
“Ya! He’s not old! He's just as old as I am!”
Eira chuckled “anyway, no one is better than my SeungHo.”
“Tch… in the end, you still listen more to him even if you have other artists don’t you?”
Eira blushed and looked away, “so what? I like hearing his voice.”
“Yeah, yeah… I get that you are in love plus he is talented. By the way, where’s hyung?”
“Appa is in the company. He needs to fix something but he’ll be back in time for the operation tomorrow.”
Jungsu nodded and held on Eira’s hand as the last medicine was being put into the dextrose. Eira gritted her teeth and swore while gripping Jungsu’s hand hard.
“Choi He Ran, watch your words.”
Eira bit her lower lip in an attempt to relieve the pain, “sorry umma… Hyung, how many of these do you need to put in me? My arm is starting to feel numb”
“I’m sorry… that is the last one.”
“All right…”
“Just bear with it for a while. The pain will fade soon.”
Eira nodded and continued to bite her lip as the pain continued to rake from her arm to her entire body.
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I had to chop it in two cause it has gotten so long... For the disclaimer, again I do not own the boys... neither do Park Jungsu (cause he has the same name as Teukkie oppa) but I own Choi He Ran and her parents.