Chapter 15. He who wants a rose must respect the thorn (2/2)
Title: A truth without love
Parings: YunJae
Length: 15 (b)/?
Overall Rating: PG-13, NC-17 later on
Disclaimer: Nope ><
Genre: AU, Romance, Fluff, Angst,
Summary: True love will never fade unless it was all a lie. What happens when there’s no love in telling the truth? This is a story about two men who should have been together since the start or should have never met. Two different kinds of love and two different kinds of lives.... They met halfway and committed a crime that damned their lives.
“Oh my God! Yunho is cooking!” Junsu squeaked, bewildered, pointing his finger at the tall figure in front of the grill. And what an unforgivable crime Yunho cooking was for not in the blink of an eye, Changmin flung his body towards the hidden corner where his hyung attempted murder against his pork chops.
“Don’t worry I’m watching him” Yoochun chuckled amused with the frantic eyes the youngest greeted him with.
“I've got everything under control, Changmin-ah. Jaejoong told me to turn the veggies a bit before they got dark. I can do that” The young man said confidently, Yoochun seemed convinced, Changmin didn't step back. “I’m not that retarded, am I?”
“I don’t doubt your brains hyung. It's your pulse I’m not so sure about” He replied and even when Yoochun handed him a bottle of beer, he stayed behind Yunho like his second shadow. “You didn't season it did you? I remember that time when you were helping Su and you mistook the white vinegar with…”
“All right, all right. I’ll take it from here. Go away Min” Jaejoong suddenly materialized besides Yunho and gently wrapped his arms around the man's waist to remove the apron.
The CEO sighed, so skilled with business but he must be really helpless in the kitchen if none of his loved ones trusted him. He returned Jaejoong the tongs, but as he was about to move away, Jaejoong slithered a hand on his lower back and kept him still. “I didn’t mean you had to leave”
“What the hell are you doing? Use both hands! You're gonna burn my meat!!” Changmin cried hysterically, causing the cute couple to immediately break apart like water thrown at cats.
“I better get the champagne” Yunho and his wooden smile left to the kitchen.
“Leave them alone, Min. It's their day and you know they do much worse when you're not looking” It was Yoochun who pointed out the obvious as he sat down besides the younger one.
“I know that, hyung. It's just well don’t do it near the food”
“Minnie-ah, you know why Jae is so good at peeling sausages? Those hands that feed you every day you know, your hyungie's hands had been all over Yunho's co-“
“YOOCHUNAH!!! Come and help me with the drinks, would you?” It was Yunho who dragged the slender man away as he made his way into the apartment, and saved Changmin from some indigestion while at it.
“Why are you traumatizing the poor kid? He's traumatized enough and he hasn't eaten yet.”
“You kill my diversion. The poor kid can handle it, just check his laptop papa Yunho. He knows the dark side"
“Jae says Changmin is not sure over he wants a boy or a girl, Chun. He just… well he just wants food. So don’t gross him out”
"I think is pretty obvious what Min wants. He just wants a good cook, gender is secondary. He's an extremely realistic man, Yunho"
"He is, right?" The taller man chortled. "Hmmm should I worry about Jaejoong then?"
"You should worry about yourself, actually. Is your lovey-dovey time with Jae hyung distracting him from his nurturing duties with Changmin?" Yoochun joked although watching Yunho's shocked face, he knew it'd take his friend's hours of sleep for a couple of days. Yunho could be so naive. "Watch your back, hyung" He laughed and walked towards the perky young man he spotted humming in the corner of the kitchen, mixing drinks.
"Sunnie!" He beamed. "What’s cooking, dolphin?"
"I'm not cooking anything, Yoochun. I'm preparing myself a drink"
The slender man edged closer, his arms holding onto Junsu’s waist and he took a zip from the beverage he held in his hands. "It's good, but needs more booze baby. I can't even taste the alcohol"
"That's cause it doesn't have any. It's virgin pina colada, Yoochun. And why are you calling me baby?"
Yoochun burst out laughing and squeezed his friend on the sides. "Because you’re virginal like a baby. How come you won’t drink when it’s drinking night?"
"I just don't want to get drunk too early and mess up my new gags. I prepared some especially for this occasion"
"..."
"Yesterday I bumped into Sekine-san and we had a blast! He liked my new jokes. He said I was hilarious! Eu kyang kyang!"
"Junsu?" Yoochun called with a somber tone which didn't match the other’s face soaked in joy.
"What?"
"Would you hand me a cup please? I think I left one in the sink"
"Sure! You want some?" The photographer then turned around and walked to the end of the countertop. "There's no cups here... Yoochun?... Ahhhh!! What are you doing?"
Even if it took him a blink of an eye to push Yoochun and his giant bottle of rum liqueur away from his cocktail, it was no use. There was now a very inebriating pina colada with more than half a liter of alcohol in it.
"Oh my god Yoochun!"
"The bottle slipped from my hand! I swear!"
"Of course it did not. You want me to fail telling my jokes!" He glared at the older man, walked to the opposite edge and gave him his back.
"I'm sorry Junsu-yah! Come here"
"You're the worst!"
"Come here, baby"
"Are you crazy?"
"You don't want to be my baby?" Yoochun faked pain and devastation in his voice tone, his expression also very skilled in conveying pity, too much for a pure heart like Junsu’s to take.
"Why did you do that Yoochunnie? What about my jokes?" Junsu asked quietly and hugged his friend.
"Your jokes will fail eitherway, Sunnie" Yoochun laughed loud like a crazy person, but maintained the bear hug as tight as possible for the other not to run away from him and kick him in the balls.
"I hate you Yoochun!"
"I hate you too, duckbutt!"
And why hating each other so much, they were squeezed in each other’s arms with their faces so close they could almost merge into one, it beat Yunho's comprehension. He had gathered Jaejoong's special cups and one bottle of Dom Pérignon a while ago and before going back to the terrace, the pair’s peculiar interaction caught his attention. It was 10 minutes now that he had been staring at the couple, as if he were a bug on the window glass, worst than ignored and probably to be mash if found. Were those two having one of those obvious moments Jaejoong talked about so much?
The business man slowly and undetectably sneaked out of the kitchen to find his lover.
"What? Wait! What is it? Yunhmpphh" Those were Jaejoong’s unheard complains as his lover seized his wrist and covered his mouth, then pulled him towards the infamous pair. Changmin followed closely behind because how dare Yunho take Jaejoong away when his hyung was just arranging the last servings of food on the table so he could start digging.
Yunho stopped a step from the large glass door and peeked from the corner, he signaled the other two to do the same. There, they saw Yoochun and Junsu talking and snickering, stuck against each other, hugging as if there was a invisible cocoon woven around them.
"Why do you have such a wide forehead? Fix it, I don't like it. If you ever go bald, a road can be trace from here”
"Ow!"
"...to here" Junsu also flicked the back of Yoochun's head.
"Well, I was thinking of cutting my hair one of these days, really short you know. I like the perm, but needs maintenance” Yoochun told him nonchalantly.
“You do that! You don’t hide the problem Yoochun-ah, you face it. Shave your head and it might be more useful that way, we can use your forehead as a board. I can draw my soccer strategies on it”
“This forehead is not at your service. Not for your soccer practices ever!”
“How come you don’t like soccer Yoochun? You’re so weird!”
“I love soccer, but it’s you playing what’s not right. You might provoke an earthquake from where you land your butt” And so sweetly Yoochun expressed his love and jealousy to Junsu, the young man didn’t appreciate those sleazy teammates who preferred to chase his cute angel and feel his butt than chase the goddamn ball.
“Are you calling me fat?” Junsu tried to break free and hit Yoochun, but the invisible cocoon was just so tight.
“Not you, your butt and not fat, colossal. It gives me nightmares sometimes that it’ll keep on growing and will suck the entire Earth”
“Yah!!! Everybody loves my butt, Yoochun! I’m the best player in the charity league and I have a fanclub. You’re sore cause you have none, no butt, no fanclub. You are too weak to play, you look like a chicken, pale and bony chicken”
“Should we break them apart?” Yunho asked worriedly. “They have been like this for a while”
“Didn't you say Yoochun liked round butts?” Changmin inquired.
“Loves them! He'd make a monument for Junsu's” Yunho confirmed at once. “I don't know why he's so annoying right now, I won’t blame Junsu if he suddenly rips his head off. Though the chicken note must have hurt him. You see, Yoochun used to have this rooster haircut with when we’re teens, he seriously looked like a chicken.** We teased him so much”
“Well, Junsu doesn’t really know how to throw a punch, hyung. I wouldn’t worry. He's naturally unable. He just takes the bullying. That's why it's so funny to pester him. Hey! I wanna join them”
“You're not going anywhere” Jaejoong stopped him, blocking the entrance with his arm. “And you” He pointed his finger at Yunho. “…are not breaking them apart. We’re going back to set the table and serve the drinks and we are leaving them alone. Don’t be noisy, come on”
“But they are fighting!” Yunho insisted, he couldn’t agree to turn his face the other side.
“They are flirting” Jaejoong corrected, causing Changmin to groan and wail on the corner and Yunho to gasp and startle in the other corner. “You haven't noticed? Doesn't Yoochun talk about Junsu all the time?”
“… He does, but mostly he complains” Yunho supplied.
“Junsu is the same. They like each other. That’s why we're going to disappear right now, before they see us and we ruin their moment” He didn’t have to say more before his words proved themselves real to the two skeptical man and the prophecy was fullfilled. The next moment the trio turn to look, Yoochun and Junsu were very much engaged in a sweet, tender liplock.
“HOLY MOTHER OF DON-mmppffhh!”
Jaejoong had to tackle both Yunho and Changmin to the ground. “Shut up! Why do you want to ruin their moment? I’ve been waiting for this to happen ever since they met. Shut up!” He whispered, hands on their mouths.
“Hyungie~!” Changmin sniveled, hugged Jaejoong’s arm and curled around it.
“Changmin-ah, be happy for Su. You love Yoochun”
“But I'll have two couples spreading their poison around me now~!”
“It’s all good, Changmin-ah. You get to spend more time with us and we’ll give you as much food as you ask!” Yunho offered encouragingly, patting Changmin’s back, because Yunho had good intentions and always wished to conciliate opinions and solve problems, Jaejoong knew that, however he didn’t realize he was digging his own grave. And when Jaejoong tried to intervene, it was just too late.
“Really Yunho hyung? You’ll buy food for me?” Changmin gave Yunho his largest puppy eyes and for the first time since the he met the intelligent man, Yunho saw a cute angel glow, as purely as Junsu.
“Sure! Go ahead, you can start without us” And he pointed at the wooden table where their little banquet of grilled delicacies awaited.
As the young man stood up and made a race for his life towards those killing aromas, Jaejoong was on his feet the next heartbeat and running after him, because if he didn’t stop him, not only stupid Yunho, but Yoochun, Junsu and himself will be rightfully left with nothing more than a couple carrots and a sausage to dine each one. How Yunho, knowing Changmin for almost a year could not remember that he was not human and ate three times the amount of a normal grown up man?
When the older set some boundaries for their younger and left to nag Yunho for being so inanely manipulable, he found him by the same old corner, spying on the other men, getting too familiar with the bug position on the window.
"What are you doing, pervert? Let them be”
“I'm just checking they're still alive” Yunho defended.
“Of course they're. Those sparks are not from anger, it's love you blind geezer”
“But they're insulting each other just now. How come that's flirting? We don't do that, do we?”
"We're different couple Yunnie. We're the sensitive ones. We're serious couple, you correct me and I correct you, then we make out. Those two..." He observed the newborn pair of lovers. "They tease each other until one cries, probably Junsu and then make out"
Yunho frowned and pursued his lips to the side, not really convinced with Jaejoong's explanation.
"You know, we should tried it!" The photographer beamed.
"What? Fight?"
"Call it tease"
"Whatever it's called, I'm not doing it, Jaejoong" And he walked away, fast.
"It looks fun. Hear them? They're laughing"
"Yes, but we're not that type of couple. You just said it. We are boring couple"
"Who are you calling boring? Are you saying we can't laugh teasing each other?"
"I bet we can baby, but not before you send me to sleep in the couch all by myself. And today's our anniversary, I plan to make love and cuddle"
"I plan that to" Jaejoong blushed and pushed Yunho away playfully.
"Good boy. So no fighting, teasing or whatever OK?" But before he gave two steps of distance from the other, he heard that impossible puring he lack so much willpower to refuse.
"Yunnie-yah. Please? Why don't you love me?" Jaejoong cried, making that baby face with his lips protruded so unbearably adorable. His boyfriend was the real cause for global warming, he could melt the toughest ice. Yunho was at a lost, he groaned out of frustration, but immediately had his arms around the smaller man and hugged him so so tight as if he could squeeze the cuteness out of him.
"I'll start first all right?" Jaejoong squealed in excitement.
"Damn it" The CEO cursed himself.
"Yunho, your face is so small you remind me of the alien from MIB, the one that was inside the guy's head"
He laughed. "That's sort of cute. That alien was very squishy"
Jaejoong rolled his eyes. "Your turn"
"Umm, what is it that I have to do again?"
"You make fun of one of my flaws"
"No. I don't think that's a good idea"
"Do it Yunho!" Jaejoong pierced his nails on the man's arm.
"Oww! Aish! Jaejoong! Well, your nails are too long. Are you playing the guitar, they look like a witch's"
Jaejoong laughed. "Pretty good"
"Thank you"
"All right, hmmm. Oh! You're so hairy Yunho, I know I won’t need any extra blanket during winter. I’m serious, sometimes I wonder if it’s Fuzzy Lumpkins snoring besides me at night”
“Really? Oh well, I don't see anything wrong with a cozy coat of fur, Jaejoong. I'm a man and not a terribly vain one. I wouldn't complain about the extra cover at night, but a mirror poking my face all day. You always have that thing around you as if it was stiched to your hand"
"….Did you just say I'm vain, terribly vain?"
Shit. That was exactly what Yunho feared.
"What is so wrong with trying to look good? Who do you think I do it for?"
"I know, but I love who you are, I don't care how you look!"
"Do you think you'd have ever noticed me if I had Methuselah beard growing on my chin? You even called me pretty once Yunho and I didn't say shit”
“I didn’t. You hate it”
“At the beginnning, it was everything you told me, and I swallowed it. But I'm not pretty Yunho, I’m not female. I'm handsome and manly, but you're not with me cause of that, are you? It's cause if you close your eyes and grip my waist hard enough, I feel like a girl and you don't hate your guts for fucking a man"
Yunho became speechless. He felt beaten, his energy washed away. There had been very few times throughout his 27 years of life in which he felt as exhausted and powerless as he did right now. Who was Jaejoong talking to, really? Was it him or Yoo Jinho?
"I'm not him, Jaejoong. I'm Jung Yunho. I love a wonderful man. I’m gay and I’m not afraid to say it"
Tears made it through Jaejoong's eyes and escaped one after another. He knew that, Jung Yunho was not a coward, Jung Yunho respected him, truly loved him and he did not deserve those words. But why did Jaejoong continue to frustrate him, himself and everything the two acomplished together? They had overcome this, memories held no more sorrow and he had stopped hoarding guilt about them. Yet somehow it wasn't all completely healed, there was a crisp thorn which scratched and scratched on cicatriced tissue and made the scar bigger and ugglier.
"It's your fault" He spat bitterly. "I should have never met him. I should have met you. Why didn't you come back?" He sobbed. "You were there"
Yunho's legs staggered at that moment. His heart cracked so hard, Jaejoong had to hear it, but he swiftly wiped the tears off before his lover could see them.
"I don't control life. I just can't. I'm so sorry, Jaejoong"
"Then leave. You're meant to leave one day and you won't do shit! Leave already!"
"... Why are you doing this?"
"Just go!” Jaejoong bit his lips because he wanted to cry, he knew he'd cry so hard till he past out, till there was no more water in his body if Yunho ever left him, but he was angry, mostly at himself, so angry and felt so unworthy. "I don't want to see you again"
He heard the man's steps on the grass until they were completely mute. And just like that, in a matter of minutes, he pushed the love of his life away.
The bubble finally burst and to Jaejoong's surprise he was the one to pop it.
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And that’s sort of a cliffhanger right? I used to end chapters with cliffies. And just now I realized how much I missed my cliffies *bricked*
Well, the real drama begins here, I hope you enjoyed the rainbows and cotton candy clouds that uri YunJae provides us ^^, cause now I’ll make you bleed that happiness out, jk!! XD but fluff is no good from now on, I hope I can keep my word hehe.
Don't forget about part a, it's very important and friend-locked, let's be friends eh? :P
** Chun’s haircut from Five in the black tour.
The pic at the beginning is from Jae's real home in case you didn't know.
Parings: YunJae
Length: 15 (b)/?
Overall Rating: PG-13, NC-17 later on
Disclaimer: Nope ><
Genre: AU, Romance, Fluff, Angst,
Summary: True love will never fade unless it was all a lie. What happens when there’s no love in telling the truth? This is a story about two men who should have been together since the start or should have never met. Two different kinds of love and two different kinds of lives.... They met halfway and committed a crime that damned their lives.
“Oh my God! Yunho is cooking!” Junsu squeaked, bewildered, pointing his finger at the tall figure in front of the grill. And what an unforgivable crime Yunho cooking was for not in the blink of an eye, Changmin flung his body towards the hidden corner where his hyung attempted murder against his pork chops.
“Don’t worry I’m watching him” Yoochun chuckled amused with the frantic eyes the youngest greeted him with.
“I've got everything under control, Changmin-ah. Jaejoong told me to turn the veggies a bit before they got dark. I can do that” The young man said confidently, Yoochun seemed convinced, Changmin didn't step back. “I’m not that retarded, am I?”
“I don’t doubt your brains hyung. It's your pulse I’m not so sure about” He replied and even when Yoochun handed him a bottle of beer, he stayed behind Yunho like his second shadow. “You didn't season it did you? I remember that time when you were helping Su and you mistook the white vinegar with…”
“All right, all right. I’ll take it from here. Go away Min” Jaejoong suddenly materialized besides Yunho and gently wrapped his arms around the man's waist to remove the apron.
The CEO sighed, so skilled with business but he must be really helpless in the kitchen if none of his loved ones trusted him. He returned Jaejoong the tongs, but as he was about to move away, Jaejoong slithered a hand on his lower back and kept him still. “I didn’t mean you had to leave”
“What the hell are you doing? Use both hands! You're gonna burn my meat!!” Changmin cried hysterically, causing the cute couple to immediately break apart like water thrown at cats.
“I better get the champagne” Yunho and his wooden smile left to the kitchen.
“Leave them alone, Min. It's their day and you know they do much worse when you're not looking” It was Yoochun who pointed out the obvious as he sat down besides the younger one.
“I know that, hyung. It's just well don’t do it near the food”
“Minnie-ah, you know why Jae is so good at peeling sausages? Those hands that feed you every day you know, your hyungie's hands had been all over Yunho's co-“
“YOOCHUNAH!!! Come and help me with the drinks, would you?” It was Yunho who dragged the slender man away as he made his way into the apartment, and saved Changmin from some indigestion while at it.
“Why are you traumatizing the poor kid? He's traumatized enough and he hasn't eaten yet.”
“You kill my diversion. The poor kid can handle it, just check his laptop papa Yunho. He knows the dark side"
“Jae says Changmin is not sure over he wants a boy or a girl, Chun. He just… well he just wants food. So don’t gross him out”
"I think is pretty obvious what Min wants. He just wants a good cook, gender is secondary. He's an extremely realistic man, Yunho"
"He is, right?" The taller man chortled. "Hmmm should I worry about Jaejoong then?"
"You should worry about yourself, actually. Is your lovey-dovey time with Jae hyung distracting him from his nurturing duties with Changmin?" Yoochun joked although watching Yunho's shocked face, he knew it'd take his friend's hours of sleep for a couple of days. Yunho could be so naive. "Watch your back, hyung" He laughed and walked towards the perky young man he spotted humming in the corner of the kitchen, mixing drinks.
"Sunnie!" He beamed. "What’s cooking, dolphin?"
"I'm not cooking anything, Yoochun. I'm preparing myself a drink"
The slender man edged closer, his arms holding onto Junsu’s waist and he took a zip from the beverage he held in his hands. "It's good, but needs more booze baby. I can't even taste the alcohol"
"That's cause it doesn't have any. It's virgin pina colada, Yoochun. And why are you calling me baby?"
Yoochun burst out laughing and squeezed his friend on the sides. "Because you’re virginal like a baby. How come you won’t drink when it’s drinking night?"
"I just don't want to get drunk too early and mess up my new gags. I prepared some especially for this occasion"
"..."
"Yesterday I bumped into Sekine-san and we had a blast! He liked my new jokes. He said I was hilarious! Eu kyang kyang!"
"Junsu?" Yoochun called with a somber tone which didn't match the other’s face soaked in joy.
"What?"
"Would you hand me a cup please? I think I left one in the sink"
"Sure! You want some?" The photographer then turned around and walked to the end of the countertop. "There's no cups here... Yoochun?... Ahhhh!! What are you doing?"
Even if it took him a blink of an eye to push Yoochun and his giant bottle of rum liqueur away from his cocktail, it was no use. There was now a very inebriating pina colada with more than half a liter of alcohol in it.
"Oh my god Yoochun!"
"The bottle slipped from my hand! I swear!"
"Of course it did not. You want me to fail telling my jokes!" He glared at the older man, walked to the opposite edge and gave him his back.
"I'm sorry Junsu-yah! Come here"
"You're the worst!"
"Come here, baby"
"Are you crazy?"
"You don't want to be my baby?" Yoochun faked pain and devastation in his voice tone, his expression also very skilled in conveying pity, too much for a pure heart like Junsu’s to take.
"Why did you do that Yoochunnie? What about my jokes?" Junsu asked quietly and hugged his friend.
"Your jokes will fail eitherway, Sunnie" Yoochun laughed loud like a crazy person, but maintained the bear hug as tight as possible for the other not to run away from him and kick him in the balls.
"I hate you Yoochun!"
"I hate you too, duckbutt!"
And why hating each other so much, they were squeezed in each other’s arms with their faces so close they could almost merge into one, it beat Yunho's comprehension. He had gathered Jaejoong's special cups and one bottle of Dom Pérignon a while ago and before going back to the terrace, the pair’s peculiar interaction caught his attention. It was 10 minutes now that he had been staring at the couple, as if he were a bug on the window glass, worst than ignored and probably to be mash if found. Were those two having one of those obvious moments Jaejoong talked about so much?
The business man slowly and undetectably sneaked out of the kitchen to find his lover.
"What? Wait! What is it? Yunhmpphh" Those were Jaejoong’s unheard complains as his lover seized his wrist and covered his mouth, then pulled him towards the infamous pair. Changmin followed closely behind because how dare Yunho take Jaejoong away when his hyung was just arranging the last servings of food on the table so he could start digging.
Yunho stopped a step from the large glass door and peeked from the corner, he signaled the other two to do the same. There, they saw Yoochun and Junsu talking and snickering, stuck against each other, hugging as if there was a invisible cocoon woven around them.
"Why do you have such a wide forehead? Fix it, I don't like it. If you ever go bald, a road can be trace from here”
"Ow!"
"...to here" Junsu also flicked the back of Yoochun's head.
"Well, I was thinking of cutting my hair one of these days, really short you know. I like the perm, but needs maintenance” Yoochun told him nonchalantly.
“You do that! You don’t hide the problem Yoochun-ah, you face it. Shave your head and it might be more useful that way, we can use your forehead as a board. I can draw my soccer strategies on it”
“This forehead is not at your service. Not for your soccer practices ever!”
“How come you don’t like soccer Yoochun? You’re so weird!”
“I love soccer, but it’s you playing what’s not right. You might provoke an earthquake from where you land your butt” And so sweetly Yoochun expressed his love and jealousy to Junsu, the young man didn’t appreciate those sleazy teammates who preferred to chase his cute angel and feel his butt than chase the goddamn ball.
“Are you calling me fat?” Junsu tried to break free and hit Yoochun, but the invisible cocoon was just so tight.
“Not you, your butt and not fat, colossal. It gives me nightmares sometimes that it’ll keep on growing and will suck the entire Earth”
“Yah!!! Everybody loves my butt, Yoochun! I’m the best player in the charity league and I have a fanclub. You’re sore cause you have none, no butt, no fanclub. You are too weak to play, you look like a chicken, pale and bony chicken”
“Should we break them apart?” Yunho asked worriedly. “They have been like this for a while”
“Didn't you say Yoochun liked round butts?” Changmin inquired.
“Loves them! He'd make a monument for Junsu's” Yunho confirmed at once. “I don't know why he's so annoying right now, I won’t blame Junsu if he suddenly rips his head off. Though the chicken note must have hurt him. You see, Yoochun used to have this rooster haircut with when we’re teens, he seriously looked like a chicken.** We teased him so much”
“Well, Junsu doesn’t really know how to throw a punch, hyung. I wouldn’t worry. He's naturally unable. He just takes the bullying. That's why it's so funny to pester him. Hey! I wanna join them”
“You're not going anywhere” Jaejoong stopped him, blocking the entrance with his arm. “And you” He pointed his finger at Yunho. “…are not breaking them apart. We’re going back to set the table and serve the drinks and we are leaving them alone. Don’t be noisy, come on”
“But they are fighting!” Yunho insisted, he couldn’t agree to turn his face the other side.
“They are flirting” Jaejoong corrected, causing Changmin to groan and wail on the corner and Yunho to gasp and startle in the other corner. “You haven't noticed? Doesn't Yoochun talk about Junsu all the time?”
“… He does, but mostly he complains” Yunho supplied.
“Junsu is the same. They like each other. That’s why we're going to disappear right now, before they see us and we ruin their moment” He didn’t have to say more before his words proved themselves real to the two skeptical man and the prophecy was fullfilled. The next moment the trio turn to look, Yoochun and Junsu were very much engaged in a sweet, tender liplock.
“HOLY MOTHER OF DON-mmppffhh!”
Jaejoong had to tackle both Yunho and Changmin to the ground. “Shut up! Why do you want to ruin their moment? I’ve been waiting for this to happen ever since they met. Shut up!” He whispered, hands on their mouths.
“Hyungie~!” Changmin sniveled, hugged Jaejoong’s arm and curled around it.
“Changmin-ah, be happy for Su. You love Yoochun”
“But I'll have two couples spreading their poison around me now~!”
“It’s all good, Changmin-ah. You get to spend more time with us and we’ll give you as much food as you ask!” Yunho offered encouragingly, patting Changmin’s back, because Yunho had good intentions and always wished to conciliate opinions and solve problems, Jaejoong knew that, however he didn’t realize he was digging his own grave. And when Jaejoong tried to intervene, it was just too late.
“Really Yunho hyung? You’ll buy food for me?” Changmin gave Yunho his largest puppy eyes and for the first time since the he met the intelligent man, Yunho saw a cute angel glow, as purely as Junsu.
“Sure! Go ahead, you can start without us” And he pointed at the wooden table where their little banquet of grilled delicacies awaited.
As the young man stood up and made a race for his life towards those killing aromas, Jaejoong was on his feet the next heartbeat and running after him, because if he didn’t stop him, not only stupid Yunho, but Yoochun, Junsu and himself will be rightfully left with nothing more than a couple carrots and a sausage to dine each one. How Yunho, knowing Changmin for almost a year could not remember that he was not human and ate three times the amount of a normal grown up man?
When the older set some boundaries for their younger and left to nag Yunho for being so inanely manipulable, he found him by the same old corner, spying on the other men, getting too familiar with the bug position on the window.
"What are you doing, pervert? Let them be”
“I'm just checking they're still alive” Yunho defended.
“Of course they're. Those sparks are not from anger, it's love you blind geezer”
“But they're insulting each other just now. How come that's flirting? We don't do that, do we?”
"We're different couple Yunnie. We're the sensitive ones. We're serious couple, you correct me and I correct you, then we make out. Those two..." He observed the newborn pair of lovers. "They tease each other until one cries, probably Junsu and then make out"
Yunho frowned and pursued his lips to the side, not really convinced with Jaejoong's explanation.
"You know, we should tried it!" The photographer beamed.
"What? Fight?"
"Call it tease"
"Whatever it's called, I'm not doing it, Jaejoong" And he walked away, fast.
"It looks fun. Hear them? They're laughing"
"Yes, but we're not that type of couple. You just said it. We are boring couple"
"Who are you calling boring? Are you saying we can't laugh teasing each other?"
"I bet we can baby, but not before you send me to sleep in the couch all by myself. And today's our anniversary, I plan to make love and cuddle"
"I plan that to" Jaejoong blushed and pushed Yunho away playfully.
"Good boy. So no fighting, teasing or whatever OK?" But before he gave two steps of distance from the other, he heard that impossible puring he lack so much willpower to refuse.
"Yunnie-yah. Please? Why don't you love me?" Jaejoong cried, making that baby face with his lips protruded so unbearably adorable. His boyfriend was the real cause for global warming, he could melt the toughest ice. Yunho was at a lost, he groaned out of frustration, but immediately had his arms around the smaller man and hugged him so so tight as if he could squeeze the cuteness out of him.
"I'll start first all right?" Jaejoong squealed in excitement.
"Damn it" The CEO cursed himself.
"Yunho, your face is so small you remind me of the alien from MIB, the one that was inside the guy's head"
He laughed. "That's sort of cute. That alien was very squishy"
Jaejoong rolled his eyes. "Your turn"
"Umm, what is it that I have to do again?"
"You make fun of one of my flaws"
"No. I don't think that's a good idea"
"Do it Yunho!" Jaejoong pierced his nails on the man's arm.
"Oww! Aish! Jaejoong! Well, your nails are too long. Are you playing the guitar, they look like a witch's"
Jaejoong laughed. "Pretty good"
"Thank you"
"All right, hmmm. Oh! You're so hairy Yunho, I know I won’t need any extra blanket during winter. I’m serious, sometimes I wonder if it’s Fuzzy Lumpkins snoring besides me at night”
“Really? Oh well, I don't see anything wrong with a cozy coat of fur, Jaejoong. I'm a man and not a terribly vain one. I wouldn't complain about the extra cover at night, but a mirror poking my face all day. You always have that thing around you as if it was stiched to your hand"
"….Did you just say I'm vain, terribly vain?"
Shit. That was exactly what Yunho feared.
"What is so wrong with trying to look good? Who do you think I do it for?"
"I know, but I love who you are, I don't care how you look!"
"Do you think you'd have ever noticed me if I had Methuselah beard growing on my chin? You even called me pretty once Yunho and I didn't say shit”
“I didn’t. You hate it”
“At the beginnning, it was everything you told me, and I swallowed it. But I'm not pretty Yunho, I’m not female. I'm handsome and manly, but you're not with me cause of that, are you? It's cause if you close your eyes and grip my waist hard enough, I feel like a girl and you don't hate your guts for fucking a man"
Yunho became speechless. He felt beaten, his energy washed away. There had been very few times throughout his 27 years of life in which he felt as exhausted and powerless as he did right now. Who was Jaejoong talking to, really? Was it him or Yoo Jinho?
"I'm not him, Jaejoong. I'm Jung Yunho. I love a wonderful man. I’m gay and I’m not afraid to say it"
Tears made it through Jaejoong's eyes and escaped one after another. He knew that, Jung Yunho was not a coward, Jung Yunho respected him, truly loved him and he did not deserve those words. But why did Jaejoong continue to frustrate him, himself and everything the two acomplished together? They had overcome this, memories held no more sorrow and he had stopped hoarding guilt about them. Yet somehow it wasn't all completely healed, there was a crisp thorn which scratched and scratched on cicatriced tissue and made the scar bigger and ugglier.
"It's your fault" He spat bitterly. "I should have never met him. I should have met you. Why didn't you come back?" He sobbed. "You were there"
Yunho's legs staggered at that moment. His heart cracked so hard, Jaejoong had to hear it, but he swiftly wiped the tears off before his lover could see them.
"I don't control life. I just can't. I'm so sorry, Jaejoong"
"Then leave. You're meant to leave one day and you won't do shit! Leave already!"
"... Why are you doing this?"
"Just go!” Jaejoong bit his lips because he wanted to cry, he knew he'd cry so hard till he past out, till there was no more water in his body if Yunho ever left him, but he was angry, mostly at himself, so angry and felt so unworthy. "I don't want to see you again"
He heard the man's steps on the grass until they were completely mute. And just like that, in a matter of minutes, he pushed the love of his life away.
The bubble finally burst and to Jaejoong's surprise he was the one to pop it.
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And that’s sort of a cliffhanger right? I used to end chapters with cliffies. And just now I realized how much I missed my cliffies *bricked*
Well, the real drama begins here, I hope you enjoyed the rainbows and cotton candy clouds that uri YunJae provides us ^^, cause now I’ll make you bleed that happiness out, jk!! XD but fluff is no good from now on, I hope I can keep my word hehe.
Don't forget about part a, it's very important and friend-locked, let's be friends eh? :P
** Chun’s haircut from Five in the black tour.
The pic at the beginning is from Jae's real home in case you didn't know.