Sun orange dreams
Leaves, Key-centric, angst, 226 words
Leaves everywhere.
That is what Kibum sees. It is the middle of autumn and it is sunsets everywhere, shades of oranges, yellows and reds. It is also cold, very, he thinks as he rubs his hands together to create friction because he forgets a lot and forgets to bring a pair of gloves. Good thing there is a personally knitted scarf snuggled around his neck to keep him at least a little bit warmer.
He waits, and doesn't exactly remembers how early he arrived or how long it has been since he arrived because there are leaves everywhere and they are the color of both sunrise and sunsets. It is pretty to stare at but it is also sad, heartbreaking.
A soft beep.
Kibum's fingers, if not before, are now very numb and still cold to the bones. He's waiting and watching the leaves fall from the branches. He slightly feels his pocket and pulls out his phone and opens the message.
It is also not only him who forgets, forgets that he is waiting.
Light.
And leaves.
Everywhere.
That's all Kibum sees when he looks up. No familiar faces, no voices screaming his name and he does think that the sunset leaves are pretty but he knows he needs to go and that is one thing he does not forget.
He turns around to leave.
Pot of Gold, Kid!Onew/key, fluff, 460 words
Jinki is ten when he decides and sets off on a quest to find the end of the rainbow, to solve the myth of the pot of gold, to see leprechauns dancing in front of him with tippy-toe shoes and red beards and then ask him for the three wishes they gave away.
Well, he isn't exactly sure what he's gonna ask for. Maybe the new plastic sword his best friend, Jonghyun, has been excited about all week or a new Power Rangers cd for his little brother Taemin or even maybe a new pair of shoes for Minho, his neighbor who often played with him. He doesn't know but he does know that he needs to find a leprechaun today and not tomorrow because, also maybe something for his kind teacher because she's the one who shared this secret with him.
He's all caped and powdered (Thank you to his ever so supportive mom) when there is a knock on their door and he hears his mother's heels click all the way from the kitchen to the door and there's pleasant greetings exchanged and his mom is suddenly calling on him. He pouts, because he's just about to go on an adventure, but he obeys his mother's calls and goes to the door, expecting his mother to be asking him to do something but then there's another woman who looks exactly like his own (but a bit younger, it seems) and then there's also a kid clutching on the woman's floral skirt and the kid is actually cute, not like Taemin cute but still cuter than grumpy looking Minho.
He hears his mom introduce him to their visitors but all he sees is the shy kid in front of him and the first thing he says is, "Do you want to go golden pot hunting with me?" And he is rather excited than nervous when the kid doesn't react because he thinks of the so many things he can talk about with his new friend and he liked talking.
Their mothers are walking back to the kitchen now and Jinki is left with his new friend, still waiting for an answer. When he says an okay and takes his little hand and ten minutes later they're in the backyard, both very sweaty and he learns that Kibum is his name and that Kibum is very proud of knowing a lot about fairies, not leprechauns, though. So Jinki spends the rest of their time together talking all about the little dancing fellows and their secret stashes of gold coins and wishes before Kibum's mother and Kibum say goodbye, but he knows they'll be coming back tomorrow, because Kibum promises to tell him more about fairies.
He can't wait for tomorrow.
Cats to play, Jinki-centric, fluff, 598 words
Jinki has always liked animals. He likes dogs and cats the most. Big or small, furry or bald, he always find them cute but he's a little bit sad when he learns that his father is very much allergic to fur and so his parents ban every fur-coated animal from their place. That doesn't stop him from petting nice stray pets, though. He likes that spotted dog across the street most, he calls the dog Minho because Minho likes to jump around with his two front legs up and asks Jinki for food. Minho is a nice dog.
There is also this dog who comes around only once a week and maybe he's the best dog Jinki's ever known (aside from Minho), he's brown and has really pretty curls for fur and only if he wasn't stray will Jinki think of him as a dog from a rich family because this dog likes licking up his bowl of banana milk pretty clean and banana milk is expensive (Jinki tries to buy them every time he visits, though). He calls him Taemin, because he is cute and he has very adorable barking noises. When Jinki pets him and he leans in into Jinki's little hand, Jinki thinks that that is the cutest.
Then there is always Jonghyun, a small black dog with a short tail. He also has a very long nose and he barks like crazy whenever he sees Jinki walking with food. Jonghyun comes with Minho most of the time when they're not in a frenzy fight and Jinki thinks that they know he's a very lonely child and they come to play with him during weekends. Jonghyun is afraid of water and he also likes Jinki's old balls of socks.
But it is today that it is raining, and Jinki's running from school back to his home when he hears a heart-tearing cry from a hole and he thinks that the cry is something he's never heard before. He stops to check, not minding the harsh rain falling on his skin and finds that in the hole, there is something furry and crying. Jinki cradles him in his arms, and it is shivering. He makes it a goal to be home by five minutes.
Jinki learns later that the furry thing is a cat, his pink nose indicated so and the keenness of his eyes interested Jinki. He is black-coated and he makes it look like all cats are elegant. Jinki watches him shake his body dry, sprinkling rain water all over the place and Jinki's sure he'll get scolded later for bringing fur home but he is smiling now because the cat purrs and snakes his body around Jinki's legs, licking at his ankle.
He decides to call him Kibum, sharp and sophisticated Kibum.
He keeps him in a box and manages to hide him from his parents for a week before he is busted because there is black fur everywhere from Kibum's cleaning time but what surprises him is that his father doesn't burst out sneezing and he is able to keep Kibum with him (after so much pleading and crying), because Kibum is a cat and it's a wonder his father isn't allergic to cats.
He still plays with the dogs every weekends and often brings Kibum along, and he likes to think that with Kibum, they are this small family of five who understands each other.
Kibum licks his nose one night and he thinks that life with cats like Kibum (and dogs) is much more fun than boring catless peoples' lives.
Breathing Lullaby, Onew/key, fluff, 428 words
Kibum loves the way he feels in Jinki's arms.
It is warm, it is electryfing. It gives Kibum hope that everything will be better as it ends, that tomorrow's light and sun will always be brighter than today's skies, that there is no need for hatred because love is warmer, and it is free.
What is left free and lovely in the world right now?
He thinks as he, for the third time in a row this week, slips into Jinki's very warm bed, warmer than his own abandoned one.
His feet feel cold as soon as they hit the wooden floor, but he is sure that it will change after he is in Jinki's bed. He creates soft thumping sounds in the silent night as he makes his way toward Jinki, and he is anything but hesitant as he starts climbing the bed.
The cushion drowns him in and the white sheet pools beneath his body. Jinki is still, silent, sleeping but he still slips an arm under the weight his body anyway, putting his other arm over his body, draping it over Jinki's very warm side tucked under Jinki's own arm at his side.
Jinki doesn't stir, he only pulls Kibum closer, and as if he already saw it coming, he lets Kibum bury his head in the crook of his neck, pulling the blanket to cover them both from the very cold night.
Kibum is tickled by Jinki's nose snuggling the crown of his head, but he doesn't mind. Not at all, because sooner than he always expects, he falls asleep listening to the soft, steady breathing and heart beating of Jinki.
Because being in Jinki's arm feels fuller than when he hugs Taemin with his tiny bones, feels warmer than Jonghyun's tight hugs, and feels softer than Minho's stiff arms around him.
Because Taemin is too young to understand him, because Jonghyun is too active to listen to the silent cries of Kibum, because Minho never knows what to do when he sees Kibum falling.
Because Jinki's hugs always feel like real, always feel like his chains to reality, always feel like he understands. Jinki is always there to see him fall, but he is always there to catch him before he crashes.
But he does, he understands Kibum's lonely heart.
He understands Kibum's aches and problems and insecurities and flaws and -
Jinki closes in on him, fitting like a puzzle, molding his own body with his, and there is only room for breathing the same air.
He breathes a sleepy lullaby to Kibum.
✈ A/N: First post for June, really late! :-( School just started last Tuesday and I am afraid that this is the point where I post less, hahaha. Every year it is like this, no? I'm in 4th year and 4th year is a critical moment for me and I really, really need to do everything I can to make a remarkable end and beginning so yea. I'm cutting off my internet time and thus, lessening my time here but never fret for I have a handy-dandy notebook with me so I can write down any plunnies I get at all so once I go online, I'll just have to tweak it a bit and then type it down, yay. (Btw, Leaves is a product of that, lol)
Also, GUYS. My long lost twin and bb and real life best friend, dubuholic is finally back here at livejournal and she's been writing before (together with me in my old community, afterthismelody) and she's going to start writing again and I hope, hope you guys try to read her fics! Although she has none in her journal at the moment, she has good fics, you guys! Please give her a warm welcome, hehe. That said, we actually have a co-fic ready to be typed down, so yep yep. :-D
Oops! Her fic is out, and it's just a drabble, but guys, please do stop by and read it and perhaps even leave a comment? :-D I'll love you even more if you do! Thanks!